President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo says infrastructure and other logistical challenges are not enough basis to condemn the free senior high school (SHS) policy. He said the government was assiduously tackling the challenges, and encouraged teachers and students to give off their best to ensure that the policy succeeded. President …

Minister of Education, Dr. Mathew Opoku Prempeh has stated that no teacher has any course to claim arrears in salaries and allowances under the Nana Akufo-Addo presidency. Speaking at the 70th Anniversary commemoration of the Prempeh College where he is an alumnus, Dr. Opoku Prempeh insisted, “between 2017 and now, …

In a horrific development, a Chivi man raped his employer’s sister as compensation for his outstanding wages which he was yet to receive. According to New Ziana, Solomon Chikono, (25), of Mavuto Village, Headman Watungwa, Chief Chivi, is alleged to have forced his way into the bedroom where the victim was …

Videoed in a room filled with Nazi memorabilia, this is the moment a Catholic priest snorted a line of cocaine at a party in his house on church grounds Father Stephen Crossan, 37, is said to have sniffed the class A drug through a £10 note at the end of …

Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro has accused Hollywood actor Leonardo DiCaprio of “giving money to set the Amazon on fire”. The president gave no evidence but in the past has accused NGOs critical of his policies of starting fires that ravaged the rainforest this year. Several arrests have been made amid …

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has announced that the Kumasi campus of the University of Education will become an autonomous institution under the name, University of Skills and Entrepreneurial Development. During a sod-cutting ceremony at the school for the construction of a Technical Examination Unit at the College of Technology …

The woman killed in Friday’s London Bridge attack has been named by police as Saskia Jones. The 23-year-old Cambridge University graduate, from Stratford-upon-Avon, was fatally stabbed alongside another ex-student, Jack Merritt. The boss of the venue where the attack began which killed the pair said “the building turned into a …

A movie theatre in the north-western US state of Washington had to be evacuated after it took delivery of a package of human urine. The package marked “highly contagious human substance” was delivered in error to the North Bend Theater, in the city of the same name on Friday evening. …

The London Bridge attack pushed law and order towards the top of the British political agenda on Saturday, with days to go before a snap election, after police said the assailant had previously been convicted of terrorism offenses but freed early from prison. Usman Khan, wearing a fake suicide vest …

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has called on Ghanaians not to give the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) mandate in the 2020 general elections to come and cancel the free SHS policy. Nana Akufo-Addo said the NDC wants to cancel the policy under the disguise of reviewing but reiterated …

A record overcrowding at the Accident and Emergency Centre (A&E) of the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra Saturday forced authorities to keep patients requiring emergency healthcare in ambulances for hours. Patients who arrived in ambulances from across the country with different trauma cases could not get beds at the A&E …

The man who carried out Friday’s stabbing attack at London Bridge was a former prisoner convicted of terrorism offences. The attacker, named by police as 28-year-old Usman Khan, was out of prison on licence at the time of the attack, in which a man and a woman were killed and …

The Public Health Unit of the Ghana Health Service (GHS) in the Upper East Region has engaged its counterparts from Togo and Burkina Faso in a cross-border meeting to share information on diseases of epidemic potential among the three countries. Dr Josephat Nyuzaghl, the Upper East Regional Deputy Director in …

Close to 7,000 caterers who cocked under the Ghana School Feeding Programme for the third term of the 2018/19 academic year have been paid, Gender, Children and Social Protection Minister, Mrs. Cynthia Morrison has confirmed. “So everyone is expected to receive payment today, [Thursday November 28] as has been confirmed …

Three men have been jailed for plotting a large-scale terror attack in busy areas of central Melbourne, Australia. The men, inspired by Islamic State (IS), had aimed to use machetes and explosives to maximise casualties during the Christmas period in 2016. It was one of the most substantial terror threats …

Percy Sackey is a teacher at the Obo Presby School in the Kwahu Hills. He uses music and dance to teach and motivate his pupils at the school. Joy News’ Justice Baidoo visited the school to learn more about the teacher’s unconventional methods of teaching. He says encouraging his students …

The Students’ Representative Council of University of Education Winneba, Kumasi and Mampong Campuses whose core mandate is to promote the general welfare and interest of students, coordinating the social, cultural, intellectual and recreational activities of the students in the University have appealed to the government of the day to give …

The Ghana AIDS Commission has announced a surge in the number of persons who are contracting HIV infections in Ghana. In a statement released to the Community through the churches, mosques and the media, ahead of World AIDS Day slated for December 1, 2019, the commission said 19,931 new HIV …

A law has been passed in Sudan dissolving the party of ousted former president Omar al-Bashir. Mr Bashir seized power in a 1989 coup and ruled for almost three decades, until he was overthrown by a protest movement in April. The country’s transitional authorities also repealed a public order law …

Turkey’s foreign minister has accused French President Emmanuel Macron of being a “sponsor of terrorism”, dismissing the French leader’s criticism of Turkey’s Syria offensive. Mevlut Cavusoglu told reporters that Mr Macron wanted to be the leader of Europe but was “wobbling”. Last month Mr Macron angered Turkey by hosting an …

A high court in Zambia has sentenced two men to 15 years in jail after they were caught having sex in 2017. Zambia is a conservative country and same-sex relationships are frowned upon and homosexual acts are illegal. The court heard that Japhet Chataba and Steven Samba booked themselves into …

China has warned the US it could take “firm counter-measures” if Washington continues to show support for pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong. The warning came after US President Donald Trump signed the Human Rights and Democracy Act into law. The act mandates an annual review, to check if Hong Kong …

The airline confirmed that BA 083 flight returned to Heathrow and was met by emergency services as a precaution measure after what it called “a minor technical issue.” In an mail sent to THISDAY, the airline said, “For your information, the aircraft experienced a minor technical issue and our pilots …

Robert Cudjoe, the immediate past Public Relations Officer for the Ministry of Health, has thrown a jab at Ghanaian unemployed nurses and midwives, labelling them as ungrateful beings. Responding to calls made by the Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association, urging government to recruit 40,000 nurses and midwives within the …

Old students of Dwamena Akenten Senior High School at Offinso in the Offinso South district of the Ashanti region has averted what could have been a sanitation crisis in the school with the building an ultra modern 20-seater toilet facility. The facility, which was at the cost of GHC70, 000, …

About 400 unemployed graduate teachers have appealed to the government and the Education Ministry to have them immediately posted. According to them, despite graduating from the various Colleges of Education, they are yet to be posted to the various senior high schools in the country. President of the coalition of …

Thirteen French soldiers have been killed in a helicopter collision during an operation against jihadists in Mali, the French president’s office says. President Emmanuel Macron expressed “deep sadness” over the biggest single loss of life for the French military since the 1980s. An investigation has begun into how the two …

A woman in India has given birth to “rare conjoined twins” who have two heads, one body, and three arms. Babita Ahirwar, 21, and husband Jaswant Singh, who got married less than two years ago, had been told they were expecting twins, but doctors realized something was wrong 34 weeks into the …

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has procured four hundred thousand (400,000) sets of questions and answer booklets from the West Africa Examination Council (WAEC) for distribution to the first batch of beneficiaries of the Free Senior High School policy preparing to write their final examination April next year. The exams …

The world has seen a few true geniuses over the course of time. Some of the most well-known brains are, of course, Isaac newton, Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking. Could a third emerge from today’s young generation of thinkers? Clearly, a good memory is important for children to learn and …