The Minister for Education Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh has attacked the erstwhile Mahama administration accusing it of failing to purchase a single textbook for students throughout the eight period. In a special dispensation granted by the Speaker of Parliament for Ministers to make statements about their sectors, the Education Minister argued that …
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GFA Executive Council set to meet Today on vacant technical director position
The Executive Council of the Ghana Football Association (GFA) is set to meet on Wednesday, August 12, 2020, to discuss issues relating to the appointment of a technical director. The top position at the country’s football governing body has become vacant for the past few months following the exit of Coach Francis …
Read More »GFA Executive Council set to meet on vacant technical director position
The Executive Council of the Ghana Football Association (GFA) is set to meet on Wednesday, August 12, 2020, to discuss issues relating to the appointment of a technical director. The top position at the country’s football governing body has become vacant for the past few months following the exit of Coach Francis …
Read More »Free Nyantakyi movement gathers momentum
Kwesi Nyantakyi’s GFA empire might have been toppled by the Number12 documentary but the loyalty he enjoyed from some of his subjects certainly remains intact. These loyals of Nyantakyi have now come together to start a campaign to have the government drop its prosecution of the former GFA boss. A …
Read More »The blind man with Ghana’s sports history at his fingertips
“I’m very proud of how God has made me. I’m very grateful because though I’m blind I can do a lot of things. If your eyes are functioning and you do something, it is normal but what you do with your disability is what we can call miracle”. The words …
Read More »Playing a Zonal League will help in player marketing – Fatau Dauda
Ghana international, Fataw Dauda, is of the view that playing the Ghana Premier League on a zonal basis will be of greater help in marketing players as all matches are set to be televised. The Ghana Football Association has proposed a date in October for football restart pending the approval …
Read More »Bright Addae Foundation Customize Gloves To Generate Revenue To Support It’s Operations – Dickson Boadi
The Bright Addae Foundation owned by the former U-20 world cup winner Bright Addae, as part of been able to cater for the needy in the society. The foundation owner has customized goalkeeper’s gloves as a way to support the operations of the Foundation. Speaking to the administrator of the …
Read More »WASSCE: Bright SHS proprietor charged amid calls to shutdown school
Owner of Bright Senior High School (SHS) at Akyem Kukurantumi in the Eastern Region is set to be arraigned before a court following the disturbances that erupted in the school during the ongoing West Africa School Certificate Examination (WASSCE). Mr. Bright Amponsah has been charged with abetment of crime to …
Read More »WASSCE: GES gives dismissed students a second chance
The Ghana Education Service (GES) has reviewed its decision to dismiss 14 final year Senior High School students for their misconduct and indiscipline acts in the ongoing WASSCE. This comes after the President of the Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo called on the GES to reconsider its decision and give …
Read More »Otumfuo warns New Kotoko C.E.O of impersonations and calls for unity
It was colourful and historic on Friday at Sports Hotel, Kumasi as Asante Kotoko unveiled Nana Yaw Amponsah as it’s new CEO. The event saw a family-like atmosphere of people who have Kotoko blood in them coming in high spirits for the occasion. Past management members, old footballers, past board members and …
Read More »UCC: Students To Report On September 1 To Complete Academic Year
Students of the University of Cape Coast are to report to campus on September 1. The Directorate Of Academic Affairs of the University of Cape Coast through a public notice has called for the resumption of academic activities. The resumption will be in batches as level 100 students who are …
Read More »Exclusive: How GFA plans to resume Ghana Premier League in October
The Ghana Football Association has concluded plans for the resumption of football with the Ghana Premier League set to kick off October 9. Dubbed “Football against COVID”, the plan will see a return of football behind closed doors after almost a six months break. The elaborate and well-thought-out plan which …
Read More »Akyem-Abuakwa Traditional Council calls for immediate closure of Bright SHS
It is the well-considered opinion of the Akyem Abuakwa Traditional Council to hold up to its responsibility in relation to the affairs of the Bright Senior High School situated at Kukurantumi in the Abuakwa North District of the Eastern Region. Particular emphasis is the conduct over the past decade of …
Read More »Former Black Stars player, now drug addict receives support
A section of Ghanaians have donated sums of money to SVTV Africa Foundation, in support of Richard Anderson, the former Black Stars and Accra Hearts of Oak player, now a drug addict. Richard Anderson, in a previous interview on SVTV Africa, narrated how as a player, his Nigerian fellow influenced him into drugs. Anderson …
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Dismissed Students To Undergo Professional Counseling…
Read More »WASSCE riots: Corporal punishment must be reintroduced – GNAT
The Ghana Education Service must think of reintroducing corporal punishment to instill discipline in most schools across the country, President of the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) Phillipa Larson has stated. Speaking on Morning Starr, Madam Larson said the behaviour of some candidates in the ongoing West African Senior …
Read More »GES Has Power To Suspend Candidates – WAEC
The Ghana Education Service (GES) has the power to suspend candidates who fail to abide by the rules and regulations in the ongoing examinations, the West African Examination Council has said. In backing the Ghana Education Service’s decision to suspend 14 students who caused mayhem in their senior high schools, …
Read More »Football family shows up at late Opoku Afriyie’s one-week memorial
The football industry was heavily represented at the one-week memorial ceremony of the late Opoku Afriyie, a former striker of the senior national team, the Black Stars. The ceremony took place on Saturday, August 8, 2020 at his residence at Kotei, a suburb of Kumasi. President of the Ghana Football …
Read More »Ridge hospital suspends two staff for administrative malpractice
The Greater Accra Regional Hospital, Ridge has suspended two of its staff members for engaging in administrative malpractices. The officers were caught by BBC investigative team “Africa Eye” engaging in the sale of Personal Protective Equipment’s (PPEs) belonging to a private individual within the premises of the Hospital. According to their statement, …
Read More »Security man injured after a fight with SHS final year student dies
The 50-year-old security man of the Northern School of Business, Mba Wulana, who was injured after a scuffle with a final year student has passed on. This comes less than a month after a 22-year-old student of the school, Sadat Yussif, allegedly pushed the security man, who then fell on …
Read More »WASSCE: 14 rioting students deserve a second chance – Akufo-Addo to GES
President Akufo-Addo has appealed to the Ghana Education Service to reconsider the decision to ban some 14 students from writing the ongoing WASSCE following their involvement in the recent chaos in their schools. In a statement Sunday, the President directed the Education Minister to intervene in order to ensure that …
Read More »GES apologises for a ‘big’ mistake
The Ghana Education Service (GES) on Friday, August 7, 2020, issued a press release to dismiss some 14 students for engaging in acts of indiscipline as well as interdicting three teachers for their alleged roles in some of the reported cases. The affected students, per their dismissal letters, are barred …
Read More »Top 10 sexiest Ghanaian footballers
The first thing that often strikes people about footballers is their talent which brings them invariable wealth and fame. But footballers are more than just a group of men or women who make money and fame from chasing after a rounded a leather material. Just as they commit time and …
Read More »Comparison of Kotoko to NPP and NDC has no empirical evidence – Maurice Quansah
The vice president of Sports Writers Association Ghana (SWAG), has revealed that Nana Yaw Amponsah’s comparison of the Kumasi-based club to political parties in size has no data backing it. Amponsah, after his official confirmation as CEO of Kotoko, boldly stated that the club is bigger than the two political …
Read More »Kotoko bigger than NPP, NDC, says new Kotoko CEO
New Asante Kotoko, Nana Yaw Amponsah, claims the Ghana Premier League side is bigger than any political party in the country. The 2019 Ghana Football Association presidential candidate was unveiled by the new Board of Directors on Friday at the Sports Hotel in Kumasi. Mr Amponsah has been awarded a three-year deal …
Read More »Juventus appoint Andrea Pirlo to replace Maurizio Sarri
Juventus have appointed Andrea Pirlo as the manager to replace the sacked Maurizio Sarri, a week after hiring the former midfielder as Under-23 boss. The Italian giants sacked Sarri after just one season despite winning Serie A following the club’s Champions League last-16 defeat by Lyon on Friday. Pirlo, 41, has signed …
Read More »Champions League: Juventus sack Sarri over failure
Italian side Juventus have sacked its manager, Maurizio Sarri following their Champions League exit at the hands of France’s Lyon. Even though Juventus beat Lyon by 2-1 on Friday 7 August 2020, both teams had 2 aggregate points on the league table at the Round of 16 stage of the UEFA Champions league. Juventus failed to …
Read More »Schools not reopening Sept. — Education Ministry
The Ministry of Education says there are no immediate plans to reopen schools from next month for full academic activities. Consequently, it has called on the public to ignore reports to that effect. “The ministry will like to state categorically that aside from final-year students who are in school, the …
Read More »Break WAEC’s monopoly to force them to be efficient – Africa Education Watch
The government is being urged to introduce alternative public education examination bodies to break the monopoly currently enjoyed by the West African Examination Council (WAEC). According to the Executive Director of the Africa Education Watch, Kofi Asare, this will force the West African examination body to sit up and act …
Read More »Beating of invigilators, journalist, arrest of headmaster: The inside story
Bright Amponsah, the proprietor of Bright Senior High School at Kukurantumi in the Eastern region has reportedly been picked up by police from the Eastern Regional command. The arrest follows allegations of assault by some students of the school on West Africa Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) invigilators upon his alleged command …
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