POLITICS

UG lecturers will be sanctioned over PUB presser – UTAG

The University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) says it will sanction the University of Ghana Branch of the association for holding a press conference on the Public Universities Bill without approval. According to the umbrella union of the university lecturers, the leadership of the Legon branch of UTAG has been …

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EC Explains GH¢100,000 Filing Fee For Presidential Aspirants

The Director of Electoral Services at the Electoral Commission, Dr. Serebour Quaicoe has said charges for filing Presidential and Parliamentary nomination forms are just a deposit and said some may get their money back after the election. He said any presidential candidate who obtains at least 25 percent of the …

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Two Pregnant BECE Candidates Rushed To Health Center in Eastern Region

Two Pregnant Candidates sitting the ongoing Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) in Kwahu Afram Plains South were on Monday rushed to Maame Krobo Health Center. Whereas one was treated and discharged a few minutes the other was transferred to Donkorkrom Presbyterian Hospital after she was diagnosed with spontaneous delivery. About …

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Stop The Monicracy – APC Communications Officer Slams EC

The National Communications Officer of All People’s Congress (APC), Mr. Francis Ansah Tawiah has urged the Jean Mensah led Electoral Commission to stop the MONICRACY and reduce the election 2020 presidential candidates filing fee of GHC100,000.   “We, in APC wants the EC to engage the political parties and reduce …

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‘Still Sakawa boys’ – Asiedu Nketia jabs NPP over Agyapa deal

General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress, Johnson Asiedu Nketia has taken a swipe at the government over the controversial Agyapa deal. Speaking at a town hall meeting in Kumasi, the Ashanti Region, General Mosquito as he is popularly known, after describing the deal as a bad one for the country used an …

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Korle-Bu mortuary man in trouble

The Mortuary Workers Association of Ghana is threatening to deal with a Cameroonian- Ghana based mortuary worker at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital. According to the group, the man, identified as Shakar Lukas, is a ‘goro’ mortuary man who is only defaming the occupation. Speaking on Adom FM’s Social Discussion Segment, ‘Y’asem Nie’, …

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Teacher Licensure Exams not suspended – Gov’t

The Education Ministry has denied claims that the teacher licensure examination has been suspended. There were claims that the alleged suspension of the exams was triggered by a promise by the opposition National Democratic Congress to cancel it if they win power in December. But the Ministry in a statement …

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Effiduase-Asokore Cons: Best Wishes to BECE Candidates – MP

This is to wish all Students writing this year’s Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) most especially to the candidates in Effiduase-Asokore Constituency the very best of luck as they commence their exams today.   In Effiduase-Asokore Constituency, our district education directorate managed to arrest the download decline in pass rate, …

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Two pregnant girls, nursing mother sit for BECE in Sissala East

Two pregnant girls including; a nursing mother are participating in the 2020 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) in the Sissala East Municipality of the Upper West Region. The nursing mother who delivered only a day to the examination displayed high level of determination when she managed to join her colleagues …

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NDC wails over 100% increment in presidential filing fees; says it’s very disappointing

The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has described the decision by the Electoral Commission (EC) to increase presidential filing fees for the 2020 general election to GHC100,000 as disappointing and a deliberate attempt to exclude some people from contesting. “It is rather disappointing that rather the Electoral Commission is not being sensitive to the very institution …

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Meet the 60-year-old JHS woman writing the 2020 BECE

Final year Junior High School students across the country started their final exams today. The Basic Education Certificate Examination started today amongst JHS 3 students across Ghana. The examination which will last for a week kick started on Monday September 14 with the English paper.   At the Agona Odoben …

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UTAG makes U-turn on intended book and research allowance strike

The University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) has suspended its intended strike. The strike was supposed to help the university teachers demand the payment of their book and research allowance. According to the Association, the government has shown the needed commitment to pay the allowance for the 2019/2020 academic year, …

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Some 600 NDC members defect to NPP in Krachi East

About 600 members of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Krachi East Constituency of the Oti Region have defected to the New Patriotic Party, barely three months to the general elections. The defectors mainly youth activists of the party are said to be dissatisfied with the former President …

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26-year-old lotto forecaster gives interesting reason for writing BECE

A 26-year-old lotto forecaster has joined the over 530,000 Junior High School pupils nationwide to partake in the ongoing Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE). Isaac Arthur, a pupil of Juaboso School ‘A’, after successfully writing his English Language paper, spoke to Adom News on his motivation to sit for the first paper …

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South Africans debating on NPP manifesto — Yayra Koku

The 2020 manifesto for the governing New Patriotic Party is being debated on in South Africa instead of Ghana, an outspoken member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Yayra Koku has said. The NDC activist in a post on Facebook claimed that the NPP manifesto has no popularity in the country because the party …

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Akufo-Addo ‘thinking out of the box’ – Kufuor

Former President John Agyekum Kufuor says Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s achievements so far during his three and a half years presidency is something he will describe as “thinking out of the box”. According to him, even though the four-year period is too short for any government, if you look at Akufo-Addo’s infrastructure development, …

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Over 500,000 students begin 2020 BECE today

ore than 500,000 final-year junior high school students will today, Monday, 14 September 2020, begin sitting their week-long Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE).   The 2020 edition will end on Friday, 18 September 2020 at all designated examination centres throughout the country.   Figures from the West African Examination Council …

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Read: BECE timetable out!

This year’s Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) will commence tomorrow, Monday, September 14, 2020, and end on Friday, September 18, 2020. Below is the final timetable which, according to the West African Examination Council, was amended in July 2020: Adomonline

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Brigitte Dzogbenuku outdoored as PPP flagbearer

Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom’s running mate in the 2016 general elections, Brigitte Dzogbenuku, has been outdoored as the party’s 2020 flagbearer ahead of the December 7 polls. Speaking at the ceremony, she said: “We have been so disappointed and disempowered repeatedly with each subsequent election that we have lost hope …

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Mahama ‘attacks’ US government over climate change

Former President of Ghana, John Dramani Mahama, says the withdrawal of the United States from the Paris Agreement on climate change mitigation is a threat to the ‘whole planet and the US itself’. His criticism follows an ‘unprecedented’ wildfires raging across the western United States. It has emerged that the wildfires …

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‘Okada’ riders need better jobs — Wontumi

Ashanti Regional Chairman of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr. Bernard Antwi Bosiako, has made known his position on the legalisation of commercial operation of motorbikes, popularly known as Okada. According to Chairman Wontumi, as he is affectionately called, the Okada riders can better be positioned by the Akufo-Addo led government …

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