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, …
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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 …
Read More »[VIDEO]: Residents invoke curses on Tarkwa-Nsuaem MP, MCE over ‘sabotage’
Some irate residents of Dompim Pepesa in the Tarkwa-Nsuaem Municipality of the Western Region have ‘cursed’ the Member of Parliament (MP) for the area, Mr. George Mireku-Duker and the Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) Mr. Benjamin Kesse for the area. According to them, the MP and MCE prevented the NDC Parliamentary …
Read More »Eddie Nketiah’s father denies preventing his son from playing for Black Stars
Eddie Nketiah snr, the father of Arsenal striker, Eddie Nketiah, has denied media reports indicating that he is blocking his son’s desire to play for the Black Stars. Earlier in the week, one Vincent Owusu Appiah, who claimed to be Eddie’s uncle, revealed that the player’s father did not want …
Read More »Countryman Songo Exits Fire 4 Fire, Heads To Kumasi
Popular and controversial sports journalist Patrick Osei Agyeman, alias Countryman Songo is leaving Adom TV for Kumasi-based Nhyira FM, all under the Multimedia Group. This portal can extensively confirm that the ‘Fire for Fire’ host will be joining the new Nhyira Sports crew headed by Javier Clemente after Bright Kankam …
Read More »Rampaging SHS students to pay for damages; check out the amount [video]
After vandalizing school property in protest against sitting arrangements of 1.5 metres distancing in the examination hall, some 365 final year students of Nedewura Jakpa Senior High Technical School at Damongo are to pay dearly for their actions. A bill of not less than one thousand cedis is expected to …
Read More »Akufo-Addo Directs GES To Recall 14 Dismissed WASSCE Students
It has emerged that President Nana Addo Danquah Akufo-Addo has directed the Ghana Education Service(GES) to grant clemency to all the 14 final year students who have been dismissed, reportghana can report exclusively. This portal is reliably informed that President Akufo-Addo has taken notice of the decision by the Ghana …
Read More »Profile of Kotoko CEO Nana Yaw Amponsah
Ghana Premier League (GPL) side, Asante Kotoko has outdoored Football Administrator Nana Yaw Amponsah as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the club at the Sports Hotel in Kumasi on Friday, August 7. After many months of sealed lips, the club has finally unveiled the versatile administrator to lead the club to …
Read More »I will give Bole a football training pitch in the next NDC government – John Mahama
Former President John Dramani Mahama has promised to put up a football training pitch in his hometown of Bole in the Savannah region in the “next NDC government”. Speaking to the people of Bole during his son Sharaf Mahama’s Football training game with selected players in Bole on Wednesday 4th August 2020, …
Read More »Headteacher of Bright Senior High School released on bail
The proprietor of the Bright Senior High school at Kukurantumi in the Eastern Region has been granted self recognizance bail by the Akyem Tafo police command following his arrest this morning. Bright Amponsah was arrested by a team of police officers on Friday when he will be billed to address …
Read More »Free SHS has come to stay – Mahama
Former President John Mahama has urged Ghanaians to dismiss suggestions that he will cancel the free SHS policy if he wins the December polls. According to him, what he is against about the policy is its ‘poor’ implementation by the Akufo-Addo government – which initiated it. “Free SHS has come …
Read More »WASSCE violence: GES sacks 14 students
The Ghana Education Service has dismissed some 14 final year students who are believed to have caused chaos and destroyed properties in their respective schools in the wake of the ongoing West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE). The GES in a statement said the action is to serve as …
Read More »WASSCE: Bright SHS no longer examination centre – WAEC
The West Africa Examination Council (WAEC) has relocated its examination centre from the premises of Bright Senior High School to the Ofori Panin Senior High School following the student riot that occurred at the centre on Thursday. WAEC in a statement also noted it will not hesitate to sanction students …
Read More »Anger as Premier League snubs Jordan Ayew in Goal of the Season award
Followers of the Premier League are seething with rage after Jordan Ayew’s goal against West Ham was excluded from the list of Goal of the Season nominees. Ayew danced his way through three defenders before dinking the ball over the West Ham goalkeeper to score a goal which has been …
Read More »Akwaaba: Asante Kotoko outdoors Nana Yaw Amponsah as CEO [VIDEO]
Enterprising football administrator Nana Yaw Amponsah has officially been outdoored as the Chief Executive Officer of Kumasi Asante Kotoko. During in an event at the Sports Hotel in Kumasi, Kotoko’s recently-constituted board named the former Phar Rangers boss as the man who will be overseeing the implementation of their policies. Kotoko …
Read More »SAD: Beautiful KNUST Student Dies Shortly After Birthday Party . [PHOTOS]
Sad information Reaching our front desk indicates that an Engineering Student of the KNUST is dead after celebrating her birthday recently . Information from Reports The friend of Maame Ekua, whose party she attended said that she wasn’t too happy at the birthday party which was celebrated yesterday. We also …
Read More »Final year WASSCE candidate who insulted Akufo-Addo in viral video apologises
The final year student of Sekondi College in the Western Region who was seen in a viral video insulting President Nana Akufo-Addo after he failed to perform in a paper in the ongoing West African Secondary School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) has apologised to the President. The boy and his father …
Read More »Bright SHS proprietor arrested following attack on WASSCE invigilators
Citi News has gathered that the proprietor of Bright Senior High School at Kukurantumi in the Eastern Region has been picked up by police from the Eastern Regional command. The arrest follows allegations of assault by some students of the school on WASSCE invigilators upon his command. The students also attacked …
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