Tag Archives: AS

N/R: Schools deserted as strike by Teacher Unions take effect

Some pupils in the Northern Regional capital, Tamale have appealed to government and striking teachers in the country to resolve their differences quickly to prevent a catastrophe in the upcoming Basic Education Certificate Examination, BECE. Already, performance in the BECE in the Region has been a major source of worry …

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Kumasi: Public schools turned into playing ground as teachers strike begin to bite

Learning was paralysed in public schools Tuesday after teachers proceeded with their planned strike across the country to demands for the payment of Cost of Living Allowance (COLA). When the OTEC FM News crew visited public schools in Kumasi metropolis in the Ashanti Region, pupils turned their classrooms into playing grounds as while others were …

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NSS personnel, senior students ‘take charge’ as teachers strike bites hard

A visit to selected basic and second cycle schools in the Ashanti region by GBCNews showed a mixed reaction of the interested parties to the strike action declared by labour unions at the pre-tertiary educational level. While a greater majority of teachers were complying with the industrial action with only …

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Recent photo of Nollywood veteran Olu Jacobs goes viral as he turns 80

As preparations are in top gear for the 80th birthday celebration of legendary Nigerian actor, Olu Jacobs, some Nollywood actors have started to pour encomiums on him. The veteran actor will turn 80 on July 11. Several actors, on Monday, took to their Instagram pages to celebrate Olu Jacobs with …

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A mother’s struggle to feed six children as prices soar

Some families in Kenya are eating just once a day, or not at all, because of rising food prices, writes the BBC’s Catherine Byaruhanga in Nairobi. Early in the morning, I find Florence Kambua hunched over, digging through the dump site outside her front door to collect plastic, glass, clothes …

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Ibn Chambas withdraws as ECOWAS envoy to Guinea

Special Envoy of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to Guinea, Dr. Mohamed Ibn Chambas has communicated his intention to withdraw as a mediator to the West African State. Guinea, whose junta has refused an ECOWAS mediator announced a 36-month transition period and has conditioned any dialogue towards …

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VIDEO: Empress Gifty stranded at the New York airport, as airline misplaces her luggage

Multiple award-winning Ghanaian gospel songstress, Empress Gifty, also known as Mrs Gifty Adorye has disclosed that her luggage has been misplaced after boarding Turkish airline to her travel destination in New York. Speaking in a recorded live video on Facebook, the outspoken songstress indicated that just one luggage of she …

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Scores of students displaced as fire ravages Kwahu Ridge SHS

Hundreds of female students of the Kwahu Ridge Senior High School at Obo in the Kwahu South District of the Eastern Region have been displaced after fire gutted the girls dormitory. The fire occurred Wednesday June 29, 2022 around 11:20am. The fire destroyed mattresses ,beds , trunks ,uniforms of students …

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VIDEO: How police officers run for their lives as protestors vandalised police bus

An intense clash between Arise Ghana protestors and the Ghana Police Service has seen a police service bus vandalised by the protestors. The clash was a result of the insistence of the protestors to use a route contrary to the one ordered by a High Court on Monday. An Accra …

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