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 …
Read More »Nigeria: 30 pupils missing in latest attack on a school
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 …
Read More »Fella Makafui heads to law school next year
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 …
Read More »Stop punishing children for speaking vernacular in school
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 …
Read More »Teachers express shock over how kids in primary schools are proposing love to themselves
The world has gotten to a stage where children are experimenting everything including proposing love to themselves in their various schools. What makes the development quite worrying and disturbing is that many of these children are not even in their adolescent stages yet, they can be found in the lower/upper …
Read More »VIDEO: I was authorised to smoke in secondary school – Tsatsu Tsikata
Tsatsu Tsikata has disclosed the two things that shielded him from bullying at Mfantsipim Secondary School. Tsatsu got into the school a ‘tiny young man’ at age nine with a reputation of being a brilliantly intelligent guy. Tsatsu says his size protected him from bullying as the seniors always felt …
Read More »Teachers boycott class as unknown persons “shit bomb” School
Teachers of King of Glory Presbyterian Basic School in Bonya a suburb of New Juaben South Municipality of the Eastern Region have boycotted academic work following the “shit bombing “of the school by unknown persons Monday morning. The perpetrators used human feces to smear the doors and windows of the …
Read More »LEKMA cluster of schools shut down temporarily as police chase students who assaulted a teacher
Public schools within the Ledzorkuku Krowor Municipal Assembly have all been shut down temporarily to make way for police investigations after some students reportedly assaulted a teacher. According to some students of the affected schools they were asked to return home when they reported yesterday and today by officials. This …
Read More »Schoolchildren starved as DCE sacks school feeding caterer for fmr. MP’s wife
The acting District Chief Executive (DCE) of the Bawku West District, Victoria Ayamba, is reported to have unilaterally sacked an accredited Ghana School Feeding Programme (GSFP) caterer and reallocated her contract to the wife of a former Member of Parliament (MP) for Zebilla, Grace Fuseini Adongo. About 600 children went …
Read More »PHOTOS: Fire guts Sunyani Municipal primary school
Fire has destroyed portions of the Sunyani Municipal Primary School on Sunday in the Bono Region. The fire according to sources started around 4 p.m. It took fire personnel from the Bono Regional Branch of the Ghana National Fire Service about an hour to bring the fire under control. Three …
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