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N’Adom Darko-Asare, a pupil of the DPS International School, Tema, has emerged winner of the 2022 Spelling Bee National competition. This was after she correctly spelled the word, “B-A-T-H-Y-P-E-L-A-G-I-C” in the championship round to become the champion. BATHYPELAGIC, a Greek word, relating to a deep – (also known as midnight …

Kennedy Agyapong, the Member of Parliament for Assin Central, has charged the Minister of Education to pay particular attention to the admission process of medical school students in the country. Kennedy Agyapong asserts that the process is fraught with nepotism and tribalism which prevent some deserving students from gaining admission. He said on …

Firefighters were called to a school in Cape Town on Saturday afternoon after a fire broke out in its storage room. The room at Chapel Street Primary in District 6 was gutted. “The storage room contained printing machines, garden equipment, old storage shelving and the gardener’s bedding and personal effects,” …

A swarm of bees interrupted an athletics day at a Western Cape school on Thursday. Three ambulances were sent to Liebenberg Primary in Malmesbury after a group of pupils were stung. “The Western Cape government’s health emergency medical services responded to an incident at Liebenberg Primary School in Malmesbury,” said …

A man, believed to be in his 50’s, has been allegedly beaten and dumped behind the Kasoa Odupong Kpehe school building in the Awutu Senya East Municipality of the Central Region. Reports indicate the man, yet to be identified, died shortly after he was found by some traders in the area. …

They were born in 1993 at a village in Yilo Kobo Municipality in the Eastern Region with a rare disorder of sexual differentiation that is; they have both female and male reproductive organs. Due to the condition of the twins, their parents were thrown into a state of confusion over …

While trying to dodge a hefty gridlock on the Kumasi-Accra road, a vehicle has knocked down two school children who were on the pedestrian lane on their way to school at Odumasi near Konongo in the Ashanti Region. The traffic congestion spanning over 2 kilometers was caused by a truck …

  Kumasi-based singer and rapper, Yaw Tog, has emerged winner of the best Hip-Hop Song of the Year at the 22nd Vodafone Ghana Music Awards with his popular song ‘Sore.’ The song which has been a jam for the most parts of 2020 shrugged off competition from Bosom Pyung’s “Ataa …

  Unlike some disabled children who would give up education and rather sit by roadsides to beg for alms, nine-year-old Agnes Mba from Dasabligo in the Upper East Region believes she can be a great person in future through education despite her condition. Agnes crawls 1.5 kilometres on her knees …

Tanzania has announced plans to allow pregnant schoolgirls to resume their education after birth, according to a new directive. Until now, secondary school dropouts were refused resumption of school after they went to give birth with government citing the negative moral impact of such girls on others. Leonard Akwilapo, a …