Atta Gad, a Junior High School (JHS) student of Dr. Saunders JHS school in Kintampo North Municipality of the Bono East Region has made an airplane that is able to move. Atta Gad whose dream is to fly an airplane has started showing his creativity by making an airplane from …

The Government has secured laptops to be distributed to teachers under the one-teacher-one-laptop policy. A letter signed by the Deputy Director-General of the Ghana Education Service, Anthony Boateng urged all regional directors to liaise with heads of Senior High Schools in their regions to provide them with a validated list …

Former Boko Haram fighters are seen in Meri, Cameroon, April 9, 2021. (Moki Edwin Kindzeka/VOA) Boko Haram Islamists killed five Cameroonian soldiers and a civilian in an attack in the far north of the country, the defense ministry said Tuesday. The attack took place on Monday night near the border …

  I was working as a journalist at Krugersdorp News when I started covering the Krugersdorp murders in 2016, when the first victim of The Appointment Murders, Anthony Scholefield, was found in his boot. At that point, it was just a very mysterious murder, especially in a town like Krugersdorp. …

In some good news, SA passed the 7-million mark for the number of vaccines administered. There were 194,891 jabs administered by 5pm on Wednesday, taking the national tally to 7,065,432. There were 520 Covid-19 related deaths recorded in SA in the past 24 hours, as well as 17,351 new infections. …

Residents of Mpasaaso Number 1, a farming community in the Ahafo Ano South West District of the Ashanti Region have bitterly lamented over how males and females within the community share the same ward at its main health facility. According to the worried residents, male and female patients who are …

Africa’s economy just like the rest of the world has continued to lag behind due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. Some currencies within the continent have also grown weaker compared to the US dollar or the pound. Poor living standards and a dwindling national economy have been the major contributing …

The Speaker of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Parliament, Mr Sidie Mohammed Tunis, has asked Ghana to be cautious in attempts to criminalize homosexuality in the country. He told TV3’s Komla Kluste in an interview on Tuesday July 27 that Ghana must be careful with this bill …

The University of Ghana Council has appointed Prof Nana Aba Appiah Amfo has been appointed to act as the Vice-Chancellor of the University. Prof Nana Aba Appiah Amfo’s acting tenure will begin on August 1, 2021. She is expected to act as the Vice-Chancellor until the time that the University …

The 16-year-old twin sisters who were impregnated by same boy in Cameroon, have given birth to two healthy boys. Ayisha Togina, who shared their story earlier, confirmed the latest development on Friday, July 23. Togina also said that they secured and furnished one room for the new mothers and their babies. “You have …

A monitoring operation unlike any other exists on Mauritania’s borders. Armed troops on the back of a dromedary patrol the sand dunes in a swinging and airy beat. Méharistes is the name given to them. The Mehari National Guard section of the armed forces dispatches camel-riding cops to meet with …

Around six million doses of the single-shot Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine will be delivered by the African Union to 27 African nations that have paid for the shipments through the end of August, an AU special envoy said on Thursday. AU coronavirus envoy Strive Masiyiwa said 18 countries are …

•President Akufo-Addo is presenting his 26th update on measures to combat Coronavirus in the country • The address comes at a time Ghana has passed the 100,000 caseload with deaths passing the 800 mark. • Experts have warned that a next wave could overwhelm the health systems President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is …

The authorities of the Achimota Preparatory School (APS) in Accra on Thursday petitioned Parliament to investigate what they described as unlawful take-over of the school by the Ghana Education Service (GES) and the Ministry of Education. The petition was tabled before the House on behalf of the board, management and …

• Some 7 persons have been convicted for impersonation • They were caught writing exams for people in the 2020 WASSCE exams • They are each supposed to pay fines while the students involved in it have been banned from writing the exams for the next three years Seven persons …

PBaba (not his real name), a patient at the Tamale Teaching hospital has accused two staff of the X-ray department of pulling a fast one on the hospital by receiving payments from patients instead of allowing them to do so at the official designated paying points dotted across the facility. …

Mr Mathias Tulasi, the Chief Executive Officer of Literacy Ambassadors Ghana (LAG), a non governmental literacy organisation, has lamented over the huge amount spent on printing new sets of ‘Pasco’ for SHS candidates and that the shambles bedeviling Free SHS will not be solved by ‘pasco’ for candidates.   Mr …

The African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights has delivered two Advisory Opinions on the Application of the principle of regional rotation in electing Members of the Bureau of the Pan African Parliament request for Advisory Opinion No. 001/2021. The other was an Advisory Opinion on the Right to participate …

• Deputy Minister for Education, Rev. John Ntim Fordjour has responded to some allegations regarding the purchase of past exam questions • He was reacting to suggestions made by Dr. Clement Apaak, MP for Builsa • He also provided documents to back his claims Deputy Education Minister, Rev. John Ntim Fordjour has responded …

The state has hit back at former president Jacob Zuma, saying his request for a one-week postponement of his fraud and corruption trial should not be granted. Zuma is scheduled to appear in the Pietermaritzburg high court on Monday, where he was set to present a “special plea” that he …

Music star, Davido has visited Obama DMW’s grave in Epe area of Lagos state with other members of his crew. Recall that the Obama who was a member of the singer’s crew, died and was buried according to Islamic rites while the singer was in the United States. Davido who …

Police in the South African city of Durban fire rubber bullets, tear gas, and stun grenades at alleged looters to prevent the people from stealing what’s left at a warehouse – which stores a large quantity of alcohol. The warehouse was initially looted of its stock during the week of …

Twenty South African teenagers have built their own plane and are flying it from Cape Town to Cairo. With the support of U-Dream Global, an NGO, the teenagers built different parts of the plane including the fuselage and the horizontal and vertical stabilisers. BBC Africa’s children’s programme BBC What’s New went …

Unrest in South Africa has claimed 212 lives, the government said on Friday, a sharp jump from the 117 deaths announced the previous day. Government minister Khumbudzo Ntshavheni told a news conference most of the new fatalities had occurred in the southeastern province of KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) province, the epicenter of …

The Department of Agro-Enterprise Development of the Ho Technical University (HTU) has broken new grounds in the re-engineering of baobab seedlings domestically for multiplication in a stress-free manner. Dr Kenneth Fafa Egbadzor, the Principal Investigator of the research, said the team had broken fresh grounds towards making the cultivation of …

For 20-year-old Emmanuel Oduro doing odd jobs to fund his education is the best alternative. He started paying tuition after passing the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE), worked as a labourer at a brick kiln and as a cleaner at a bank in Kumasi, the Ashanti Regional capital. …

Popular Nigerian televangelist Prophet T.B Joshua was exactly a week ago buried in Lagos after a week of funeral rites at his Synagogue, Church of All Nations (SCOAN) in the Ikotun area of Lagos. One distinctive attraction at the funeral was the clear view casket in which the Philanthropist was …

Ills at the Taifa Polyclinic in Accra have been exposed in a follow-up story after the Pay or Die documentary that uncovered rot in service delivery to pregnant women in Ghana’s public hospitals. It has emerged that expectant mothers, who are supposed to benefit from the government’s free Maternal Healthcare Programme under …

Leading a comfortable life in South Africa’s coastal city of Durban, John – not his real name – risks running out of food for the first time ever following the mass looting and burning of supermarkets and shops after protests over the imprisonment of former President Jacob Zuma spiralled out …

Some are calling events over the last week democratic South Africa’s “darkest hour”. Is it more than a spontaneous triggering of anger brought about by the jailing of former President Jacob Zuma? Many analysts say it is and that there is a “third force” sympathetic to the former president at …