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The Ministry of Education says the double-track system will not be implemented this year as first-year Senior High School students report to school today, Monday, April 4, 2022. The double-track system was introduced in 2018 to reduce congestion in schools and create room to accommodate the projected increase in enrolment …

There was drama at the Effiankwanta Regional Hospital mortuary in the Western Region where about four well-built men presented someone who was not dead to be put in the morgue. A mortuary attendant, Eric Yamoah, told Nhyiraba Paa Kwesi Simpson on Connect FM’s Omanbapa morning show they were at the …

Vice President of Imani Africa, Bright Simons, has painted a picture of how heads of state-owned agencies in Ghana are being overpaid. In a tweet shared on April 3, 2022, Simons indicated that Ghana’s last state-owned carrier, Ghana International Airlines, which had only one aeroplane before it collapsed in 2010 …

The National Chief Imam, Sheikh Usmanu Nuhu Sharubutu has formally declared April 3, 2022, as the start date for this year’s Ramadan fast. In a statement broadcast live on online TV platform, Sharubutu TV, the Imam addressed the Muslim faithful by stating a number of Islamic texts on the relationship …

Dozens of people have been feared killed after a one-storey building collapsed in Taraba State. SaharaReporters learnt that the building, which is under construction, was reduced to the ground on Friday with several workers stuck in the rubble. An eyewitness who does not want his name mentioned, said the building …

Scores of students have been left injured following a clash during an inter-school gala competition at Sehwi Kwasikrom. This year’scompetition in the Amoaya circuit in the Bodi District of the Western North region did not end peacefully as some youth from the host community, Sehwi Kwasikrom, engaged in a fight …

Parliament approved the second reading of the Electronic Transactions Levy, albeit without the final participation of the minority side, who staged a walkout right before the question was put before the house. The Minister for Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta, on Tuesday, March 29, 2022, moved a motion in parliament asking the house …

From all indications, Ghanaians have missed former President John Dramani Mahama dearly; his humility, finely tuned instincts and matchless achievements keep him well ahead of the others. And I am going to prove it by outlining some of his achievements just in 3 years. Remember almost a year of his …

The Senya Bereku Traditional Council has outdoored a University of Ghana Business School graduate as the new chief of Bonsuoku, a suburb of Senya Beraku in the Central region. The newly installed chief, Nenyi Kweku Kwei VI is known in private life as Seth Entsi Essuon. At a colourful event …

Deputy General Secretary of the ruling New Patriotic Party, lawyer Nana Obiri Boahen, has blamed the leadership of the opposition National Democratic Congress for the woes of embattled Assin North Member of Parliament, James Gyekye Quayson. According to lawyer Obiri Boahen, some members of the NDC, prior to Gyekye Quayson’s election as parliamentary candidate, …