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2023 School Placement: 372,780 candidates placed; 165, 619 to do self-placement

Out of the 547, 329 candidates who sat for the 2022 Basic Education Certificate Examinations (BECE), a total of 538,399 qualified for this year’s Computerised School Selection Placement (CSSPS) in Senior High and Technical and Vocational Schools. A total of 372,780 students, representing 69.24 per cent of the qualified students …

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PHOTOS: Students of Yilo Krobo SHS sleep outside due to lack dormitories

  Students of Yilo Krobo Senior High School in the Eastern Region sleep outside due to lack of dormitories. The situation is very worrying and calls for immediate action. The current Wooden structure in the school, housing the students was constructed in 1972. It supposed to accommodates 70 students but …

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Group petitions GRA to chase Okudzeto Ablakwa over ‘unpaid taxes

A governance accountability group, The Movement For Justice – Ghana, has petitioned the Registrar of Companies and the Commissioner-General of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) to investigate Hon. Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa over allegations of an unregistered company and unpaid taxes. In details sighted by The Pokuase Mail, the Group, among others, …

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I can’t continue to take the blame while you hide in the shadows – Akufo-Addo to state-owned institutions

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is reported to have chastised the heads of state-owned institutions whose agencies are non-performing. According to a report by The Chronicle newspaper, the president said that he and his ministerial appointees are always blamed for the bad performance of the economy while heads of state entities, who …

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Cultists kidnap pastor’s wife, gang-rape her to death for allegedly gossiping about them

A bereaved Nigerian pastor is calling on the country’s law enforcement agencies to help him get justice for his wife who was kidnapped, gang-raped and killed. According to Pastor Lawyer Steward in Rivers, the cultists accused his now-deceased wife, Chigbewejim Steward of gossiping about them. The unfortunate incident occurred at Abarikpo …

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Property owners to start paying property tax

Property owners in the country have been encouraged to start paying property rate with the birth of the Unified Property Rate Platform. According to vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, one of the problems Ghana has faced in the area of revenue generation since independence is that only about nine per …

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NDC primaries: Ten ‘young’ MP aspirants to watch

  The opposition National Democratic Congress has slated its parliamentary primaries on May 13, 2023. Many new entrants are lacing their boots to contest for slots in the various constituencies to enter parliament in 2025 on the ticket of the party. While some are targeting seats in orphan constituencies with no sitting …

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Tullow drags Ghana gov’t to int’l arbitration in London over $387m disputed tax

Tullow Oil plc (Tullow) has announced that Tullow Ghana Limited (TGL) has filed requests for arbitration with the International Chamber of Commerce in London in respect of two disputed tax assessments received from the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA). The assessments relate to the disallowance of loan interest deductions for the …

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No player deserves to go through my experience at Kotoko – Felix Annan

Former goalkeeper of Asante Kotoko, Felix Annan claims no player deserves to endure his painful experience at the club. Felix Annan who was the captain and the first-choice goalkeeper for the Porcupine Warriors, was relegated to the bench after getting married in the middle of the 2019/20 season. Annan parted ways with Kotoko after …

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I do not feel bad as a father – Yaa Jackson’s father jumps to her defence

Jackson Bentum, the father of Yaa Jackson, stated in a recent interview with Graphic Showbiz that he finds nothing wrong with his daughter’s sense of style and that being in the entertainment world has made her a target for haters and trolls. “My daughter is not a bad girl like people …

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