Tag Archives: SCHOOLS

Basic schools in Nyankpala have closed down following sporadic gunshots near the Nyankpala Chief’s Palace on Thursday, February 9, 2023, in the afternoon. A visit to some basic schools in the community on Friday morning saw classrooms locked and deserted. Some school children who did not hear about the closure …

  Story by: Evans Kweku Oboafi Junior (HARDROCK) The Chief Executive Officer of OYE Foundation and KGL Foundation Miss. Abigail Anani and her team have donated Textbooks and other relief items to Schools at Obawale in the Yilo Krobo municipality of Eastern Region. According to Nenebi AYERTEY of Rite fm, …

Togbe Afede XIV Togbe Afede XIV, the Agbogbomefia of the Asogli State and President of Asogli Traditional Area was given the name James Akpo at birth. He was born on 23 April 1957. He is a twin whose twin brother Philip died at an early age. The great chief was …

A journalist with Kumasi based first private radio station Otec, Nana Akwasi Acheampong well known in the media as Kanewu has called on Government and the education Ministry to support schools in the country especially private ones to get road worthy and durable school buses to ensure safety of children …

More than 40% of basic schools in Ghana do not have sanitation facilities, the Ghana Sanitation and Water Project has revealed. According to managers of the project, in a few cases where the facilities exist, they’re found in terrible shape. To meet the global SDG six target, Ghana needs to …

The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has asked 8,486 candidates in the 2022 West African Senior School Certificate Examinations (WASSCE), to pick their results from their various schools. These are students deemed to have either damaged school property or failed to return school property in their care. It was disclosed …

Rev. Renault Amofa Danquah of Asante Akyem Agogo Methodist Circuit has called on the Ghana Education Service (GES) to consider the ban it has placed on caning in school. Speaking to Adom News, Rev Danquah called on GES to review its “no-cane in school” policy as he said it will …

A pan by South Africa’s department of basic education to introduce unisex or gender-neutral toilets in schools has been opposed. A group of concerned citizens launched an online petition against the plan some citing its needlessness whiles others insist that doing so will bring about social ills. The petition, as …

Embattled Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta has observed that the minority in parliament, who have filed a motion of censure against him on seven grounds, one of which is that he unconstitutionally withdrew money from the consolidated fund toward the construction of the national cathedral, seem confused over the processes he …

The National Scince and Mathematic Quiz (#NSMQ) which started in 1994 has seen only a few schools emerge successful over the years. The most successful school in the history of the NSMQ is PRESEC Legon, which has won it 7 times more than any other school. A school must compete in district, …