POLITICS

It’s impossible to pay assembly members – Alima Mahama to Mahama

The Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, Hajia Alima Mahama, has challenged NDC flagbearer John Mahama over his promise to pay monthly allowances to Assembly Members. Mr. Mahama while addressing a meeting with the Ghana Association of Assembly Members (GAAM) at his office in Accra, observed that not only …

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Arrested teacher interdicted for dictating answers to students during WASSCE

A teacher [name withheld] in one of the Senior High Schools in the Eastern region has been interdicted for dictating answers to students in the ongoing West African Senior Secondary School Certificate Examinations(WASSCE). According to the Director-General of the Ghana Education Service, Professor Kwasi Opoku-Amankwa, the police is conducting further …

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NDC to cancel teacher’s licensure examination

The Deputy Eastern Regional Youth Organizer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Mr Richard Nyarko said if the NDC wins the 2020 elections, they will cancel the teacher’s licensure examination. He explained that the party did not see the licensure examination as necessary as it reduced the number of qualified …

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Listen: 2020 campaign songs for NDC and NPP emerge

Since Ghana’s return to multiparty democracy in 1992, election cycles in the country have been heralded and accentuated by campaign songs which extol the virtues of their sponsors or emphasize the achievements and their suitability for political office. The right kind of song, with the right message at the right …

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Educational Workers Connect Cautions WAEC

“It is said that Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful”. Educational Workers Connect, once again congratulates all the stakeholders who are putting their shoulders to the wheel to ensure that this year’s WASSCE is malpractice free. We, however, wish to caution …

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Election 2020: I won’t contest – Nduom

The founder of the Progressive People’s Party (PPP), Dr Papa Kwesi Nduom, has said he will not run for president in this year’s general elections, the Daily Graphic has reported. A couple of weeks ago, the PPP announced to all members and the general public that the party is ready for …

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President, Asantehene congratulate KNUST’s first female Vice-Chancellor

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, have congratulated Professor Mrs.Rita Akosua Dickson on her investiture as the 11th Vice-Chancellor of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST). The newly-invested Vice-Chancellor is the first female to occupy that prestigious position in the history of Ghana’s foremost …

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Another protest hits EC as Registration Supervisors cry over payment

Supervisors and Deputy Supervisors of the ongoing nationwide voters registration exercise are aggrieved over some treatments being meted out to them by the Electoral Commission (EC) as regards payment for their services. According to the Supervisors who are being engaged for three months, the EC has been unfair in respect …

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Afia Schwarzenegger ‘joins’ NPP; declares #4more4Nana

Controversial comedienne, Afia Schwarzenegger has endorsed the second term of President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. According to her, the future of Ghanaian children is at stake and needs to be given the needed care and therefore there is the need for Ghanaians to add another four more years to that …

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Student Getting Ready as WASSCE starts today

This year’s West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) will commence on Monday, August 3, with a total of 375,737 candidates in over 796 examination centres across the country. According to registrations data, 187,574 of the candidates are males and 188,163, females. The Ashanti region had the highest number of …

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2020 Polls: No big rallies for political parties – Akufo-Addo

The President of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has hinted that campaigns leading up to Election 2020 will be direct and devoid of large gatherings like it used to be in previous elections. According to him, 2020 has been difficult but politicians will have to adapt to the changing trends to meet …

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[VIDEO]: Asiedu Nketia clashes with soldiers over voters registration

The General Secretary of the opposition NDC party, Johnson Asiedu Nketia has clashed with military personnel stationed at Banda in the Bono Region over the soldiers’ refusal to allow some residents to register in the ongoing voters’ registration exercise. In a video available to Kasapafmonline.com, the NDC Scribe is seen angrily exchanging …

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Double Track system in SHSs will end before 2024 – Akufo-Addo

The President of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has hinted that the Double Track system currently been used at the Senior High School(SHS) level will end when his second term in office ends. Senior High School students under the Free SHS policy are practising the semester-based system where students are …

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