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  “Our public schools have always tolerated religious rights. Achimota allowed Major Boakye Gyan to practice his “ancestral worshipping religion”, says Professor Stephen Kwaku Asare a.k.a Kwaku Azar. Major Boakye Gyan, a former student of Achimota, was a former military officer and a member of those who spearheaded the June …

A 19-year-old dreadlocked student, who has been denied admission at Osei Kyeretwie Senior High School (OKESS) in the Ashanti Region, says he is considering quitting school for good. It seems the level of stigmatization and frustration meted to students with dreadlocks at the various senior high schools is at an …

The Ghana Education Service(GES) has directed the headmistress of Achimota School to admit the two teenage students whose admissions were withdrawn because of their dreadlocks. This comes after an intensive and sustained online campaign barely 48 hours in protest against the decision of the Achimota school authorities. A former Member …

A beleaguered father has called out one of Ghana’s elite secondary schools, Achimota over what he describes as ‘gross human right violation’ after the institution allegedly refused his ward admission. Raswad Menkrabea while sharing his ordeal on Facebook alleged that authorities of Achimota School rejected his dreadlocked son with claims …

First-year Senior High School (SHS) students Thursday reported to school to begin the 2021/22 academic year. A visit by the Ghana News Agency (GNA) to the St Thomas Aquinas SHS and Accra High School saw the ‘freshers’ going through the registration process. Mr Paul K. Amoasi Baidoo, the Headmaster of …

The management of the Ghana School of Law has directed the President of the Students Representative Council (SRC) of the school Philemon Laar to resign after he failed an exam. The School of Law in a statement said Mr. Laar cannot continue to hold himself out as President of SRC …

Emmanuel Agomeda, the 14-year old who left home to hustle in Accra after his stepmother denied him food has finally started school. After his first encounter with SVTV Africa, SVTV Africa Foundation secured a place for Emmanuel to stay in Accra with his aunt. Currently, the foundation together with benefactors …

Thirty pupils are missing and many others were injured after armed men attacked a school in northern Nigeria, an official said on Friday. The Kaduna State Commissioner for International Security and Home Affairs, Samuel Aruwan, said in a statement that the Federal College of Forestry Mechanization was attacked on Thursday …

There is indeed no limit to what a woman can do, and that is the case of actress Fella Makafui who has hinted she will be heading for law school next year. With acting, entrepreneurship, music composing, social media influencing and the fulltime parenting job out of the way, Fella …

The Dean at the Faculty of Ghanaian Languages of the University of Education Winneba, Professor Charles Owu-Ewie says it is unjust to prohibit children from speaking vernacular in schools. Speaking at a virtual symposium on the role of the mother tongue in improving literacy in Ghana on 3fm 92.7, the …