Senior Housemaster of the Presbyterian Boys Senior High School at Legon in Accra (Presec-Legon) has denied reports of a flu attack at the school. He has urged the public to remain calm. Mr Kofi Yesu said there was no cause for alarm because although school authorities have received reports from …

Rev Prof. Afful-Broni, the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Education, Winneba has found himself in fresh trouble as pressure has begun to mount on the University Council to remove him. This because the Member of Parliament for the Effutu constituency in the Central Region, Alexander Kwamena Afenyo-Markin, has written to …

Some 30 students of the Presbyterian Boy’s Secondary School (PRESEC) at Legon in Accra have been quarantined by health officials. This is after some students reported to the school’s clinic complaining of headaches and general weakness. There are claims that the development is another case of a Flu outbreak but …

The Minority in Parliament has alleged that the double-track system being implemented by the Education Ministry has caused a lot of teenage pregnancies among female students nationwide. According to the Minority, over 1400 female students have been impregnated since the double-track system was implemented in September 2018. The NDC MPs …

US Democrats have made gains in state elections, in what is being seen as a blow to President Donald Trump. Democrat Andy Beshear claimed victory in Kentucky’s governor vote, after a tight race in the conservative-leaning state. Meanwhile, Democrats seized full control of the legislature in Virginia for the first …

President Nana Akufo-Addo has reiterated that he has no regrets whatsoever for implementing the Free Senior High School (SHS) programme despite the huge cost involved. According to him, it is better to invest the country’s scarce revenues in the future generations than for a few politicians to mismanage them. He …

A 12-year-old General Science student of the Akatsi Senior High Technical School in the Akatsi South District of the Volta Region has paid glowing tribute to the Free Senior High School policy, saying, but for the policy, he might have been fishing on the Volta lake. Master Gadausu Emmanuel who …

The US has begun the process of withdrawing from the Paris Agreement, notifying the UN of its intention to leave, as other countries expressed regret and disappointment at the move. The notification begins a one-year process of exiting the global climate change accord, culminating the day after the 2020 US …

Germany IS set to consider the importation of trained nurses from Ghana to help in the provision of proper healthcare in that country. Dietnar Brockes, Chairman of the Committee for European and International Affairs, State Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia, Federal State of Germany, made the disclosure in Kumasi when he …

The National Teaching Council (NTC) says Ghana will be able to fully export professional teachers to countries where their services are needed after the teacher licensure exam certificate takes full shape. In November last year, the Ministry of Education, disclosed that Ghana had begun processes to export trained teachers to …

Teacher Unions of the country have called for the immediate suspension of the policy for the payment of GH¢200.00 each by the In-Service Teachers to secure Teacher Professional Licences. They also requested that the payment of GH¢100.00 Renewal Fees of the licence for every two years should be deferred. They …

The sister of former Islamic State group (IS) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been captured in northern Syria, Turkish officials say. The 65-year-old, named as Rasmiya Awad, was detained in a raid on Monday near the town of Azaz, officials said. Turkish officials, cited by multiple media outlets, said the …

The government of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is expected to provide some medical camps in Ghana. The Ambassador of Pakistan to Ghana, Major General Waqar Ahmad Kingravi (RTD), made this known on Tuesday, 29 October 2019, in Accra, when he paid a courtesy call on Ghana’s Minister of Foreign …

The US military has published the first footage of the raid in northern Syria that resulted in the death of the leader of the Islamic State (IS) group. Grainy video showed troops firing at militants on the ground as they flew towards the compound where Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was hiding …

The violent demonstration that hit the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) campus in October last year, leading to the destruction of properties worth several millions of cedis, is now history, but the fallout has now become a herculean task the security agencies and the university authorities have …

A Ghanaian student studying in the Liaoning Shihua University, China, has reportedly died from injuries sustained as he attempted to scale over his school’s wall after arriving late from town. The student, identified as Joseph Amoako, is reported to have gone out with friends and returned drunk. As school regulations …

A 21-year-old Indian woman has allegedly killed herself because of constant harassment by her husband over her “dark complexion”, police said. Police in Rajasthan state registered a case against the woman’s husband after her father complained that he was responsible for her death. Police told BBC Hindi that no arrests …

Former Vice President Joe Biden was denied communion Sunday at a Catholic church in South Carolina over his support for abortion rights. Father Robert Morey, the pastor at Saint Anthony Catholic Church in Florence, told the Florence Morning News that he had denied Biden communion because “any public figure who …

Militants from the Somalia-based Islamist group al-Shabab raided a police station in Kenya’s north-eastern region of Wajir, the Daily Nation newspaper reports. The militants attacked Dadajabula police station in Wajir South in the early hours of Wednesday with heavy artillery, including rocket-propelled grenades, the newspaper reports. A local government official …

Former Vice President Joe Biden was denied communion Sunday at a Catholic church in South Carolina over his support for abortion rights. Father Robert Morey, the pastor at Saint Anthony Catholic Church in Florence, told the Florence Morning News that he had denied Biden communion because “any public figure who …

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has announced that pupils in primary school will not attend school on today, October 30, as the day has been set aside for the Continuous Professional Development (CPD) of teachers. The GES says the CPD has been adopted into the academic calendar to allow teachers …

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has announced that pupils in primary school will not attend school on today, October 30, as the day has been set aside for the Continuous Professional Development (CPD) of teachers. The GES says the CPD has been adopted into the academic calendar to allow teachers …

A federal judge has temporarily blocked an abortion ban in Alabama that would criminalise the procedure at any stage of a pregnancy in most cases. Abortion rights groups sued the state after Republican lawmakers approved the bill in May, but both sides expected the law to be blocked in federal …

Okyenhene, Osagyefo Amoatia Ofori Panin II, has launched the Asona Family Educational Foundation and Scholarship to assist members of the Asona clan to get a good tertiary education. At a durbar of all the Asona Chiefs in Ghana at Kyebi, Osagyefo Amoatia Ofori Panin II said the fund seeks to …

The US House of Representatives plans to take its first formal vote this week on the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the vote “sets forth due process rights for the President and his Counsel”. The president and his allies have argued the lack of …

The University of Ghana is looking into the allegations against staff in a BBC investigation, which found teachers harassing would-be students. The “Sex for Grades” documentary showed university lecturers at both the University of Ghana and the University of Lagos propositioning female reporters who were posing as students. Ghanaian activist …

Boris Johnson will try for a fourth time to secure an early general election, after MPs rejected his plan. The PM will now ask MPs to approve a 12 December election through a one-page bill – which needs the support of fewer MPs than his last attempt. But No 10 …

US officials said Monday that the body of Islamic State group chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was buried at sea as fresh details surfaced about the US special forces operation that led to his death over the weekend. Syrian Kurds claimed to be a key source of the intelligence that led …

An estimated 1.5 million more people in California are set to lose power on Tuesday as a utility firm tries to stop damaged cables triggering wildfires. Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) already faces an investigation by regulators after cutting supplies to 970,000 homes and businesses. It announced that another 650,000 …

Former President John Dramani Mahama has commended President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo for completing the Adaklu Senior High School at Adaklu-Waya in the Adaklu District of the Volta region. He said education remained the key to opening up societies for rapid development and praised the government highly for finishing construction …