The Executive Secretary of the National Labour Commission, Mr Ofosu Asamoah, has warned that striking members of the Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association (GRNMA) stand losing their salaries for the month of September as their strike is illegal. Mr Asamoah told Citi News that the GRNMA would be breaking …

A schoolgirl was allegedly gang-raped and killed by four migrants who dumped her on a building site and left her to die.   Desiree Mariottini, 16, from Cisterna di Latina, Italy, was found dead after being drugged and raped in the construction site in the district of San Lorenzo in October …

There are no Nurses at major hospitals in the Greater Accra Metropolis, the Ghana News Agency’s (GNA) investigation at the facilities on Monday has revealed. At the time of the visit, the GNA observed that only doctors were attending to patients, at facilities including; Accra Ridge hospital, Korle-Bu Teaching hospital …

Executive Director of Sexual Health Foundation, Dr. Samuel Amanamah, has revealed that about 50 per cent of men between the ages of 40 and 70 in Ghana are suffering from erectile dysfunction (ED). The causes, according to the consultant Urologist, attributed to people having diseases like diabetes and hypertension unknowingly. …

Striking members of the Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives association may face salary deductions for the month of September, the National Labour Commission (NLC) has warned. The Commission says this may become necessary because the group has defied a court injunction against the ongoing industrial action. Patients and relatives who …

Africa’s dancehall artiste Shatta Wale appears in Ghana Education Service creative art test book The book published by Alpha and Omega series for Primary 4 pupils features the “Melissa” hitmaker in it. Shatta Wale’s works which were captured under Lesson 4 of the book talk about a brief biography of …

The sexual assault case against the Sawla-Tuna-Kalba District National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) Manager has taken a new twist. According to Doreen Smith, the nurse in the Savannah region who alleged that Mr Sakara visited her duty post on July 8, at about 9:00 am under the guise of ‘Monitoring’ …

A teacher is currently in the grips of the law after he flogged one of his students to death for failing to answer his mathematics questions correctly. According to the source, the victim is a 10-year-old girl, identified by her surname Zhang, was a student at a primary school in …

The World Health Organization (WHO) has agreed rules for the testing of African herbal remedies to fight Covid-19. Sound science would be the sole basis for safe and effective traditional therapies to be adopted, it said. Any traditional remedies that are judged effective could be fast-tracked for large-scale manufacturing. Madagascar’s …

The Kassena-Nankana West District of the Upper East Region has recorded 43 pregnancies in the just ended West Africa Senior Schools Certificate Examination (WASSCE) and the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE). Also, while 15 student nursing mothers took part in the examination, out of the total of 1838 girls registered, …

A 12-year-old head Potter, Ms Sumaiya Ibrahim, has appealed to individuals and organisations for assistance when schools re-open in January 2021, after the COVID-19 pandemic forced her into Kayaye. The teenager, who is being raised by a single mother comes from Walewale in the North East region, but was obliged to migrate …

As a [young] adult, your body is wired to crave sexual release and the fact that your mind becomes tuned to celibacy does not mean your body will be. There will be times when it will be nearly impossible to keep the sexual urges under control. So when you find …

Director of Education for the Ghana Education Service in the Ahafo Region, Yaw Frimpong, has revealed that this year’s Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) has seen the highest rate of examination absenteeism in the region. He noted that, out of 11,054 candidates who registered for the 2020 BECE, 107 pupils …

A teen boy was waiting just for his Junior High School (JHS) girlfriend to finish with her Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) so he can propose marriage to her. According to the video making rounds on social media, the girl is a final year student of the Kwame Nkrumah University …

Some teachers helping in the conduct of this year’s Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) have been sanctioned by the West African Examinations Council (WAEC ) for taking either a Cedi or two Cedis from candidates sitting the exam and helping them to engage in multiple exam malpractices in the examination …

Madam Elizabeth Yamoah, a mother-of-four, was among the hundreds of thousands of candidates who completed the 2020 edition of the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) today, 18 September 2020. The 57-year-old woman, who said she was mocked at and ridiculed for attempting to get some education at her age, was …

The UK is “now seeing a second wave” of Covid-19, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said, adding, “It’s been inevitable we’d see it in this country.” Mr Johnson said he did not “want to go into bigger lockdown measures” but that tighter social distancing restrictions might be necessary. It is …

TikTok and WeChat will be banned from US app stores from Sunday, unless President Donald Trump agrees to a last-minute deal. The Department of Commerce said it would bar people in the US from downloading the messaging and video-sharing apps through any app store on any platform. The Trump administration …

The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has said eleven persons have been arrested over the leakage of the Mathematics paper of the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE). The paper leaked on Thursday, 17 September 2020. Pictures of the Mathematics paper which was scheduled to be have been written on Thursday …

Sammy Gyamfi, the National Communication Officer of the NDC says but for the E-blocks built by the erstwhile John Dramani Mahama administration, there would have been a “quadruple” track system in the Senior High Schools (SHS) with the introduction of the Free SHS policy. Gyamfi told Paul Adom-Otchere Thursday on Good Evening …

The Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association (GRNMA) has directed its members to withdraw their services from Monday, September 21. According to the Association, government has failed to improve their conditions of service for the over 82,000 members. President of the Association Perpetual Ofori Ampofo on Thursday, September 17 told …

A pupil of Kpandai SDA Junior High School, Ebenezer Waki, could not complete his Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) after he was involved in an accident Wednesday. The pupil, who is currently on admission at the Kpandai District Hospital, was injured after a motorbike collided with theirs and another bicycle. …

Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia on Monday, September 14, 2020 held discussions via zoom with Microsoft founder Bill Gates on Ghana’s progress on immunisation against the new circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2). The discussion according to Dr Bawumia also centred around the lessons from Ghana’s policy response to COVID-19 and the country’s digitisation …

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has announced applications for qualified trained teachers who completed the Colleges of Education in 2019. This was contained in a press statement released by the Ghana Education Service on Tuesday, September 15, 2020. According to a statement signed by the Director, Human Resource, Adjoa Van …

Sad news reaching the desk of My News Ghana has it that a Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) candidate, Richard Mensah, writing this year’s exam,  has died at Apremdo in the Western Region. Reports say that he died on Wednesday, September 16 2020 after writing his papers on Monday and …

The National Teaching Council (NTC) says there is no political pressure on it to suspend the teacher licensure examinations. The Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the National Teaching Council, Dennis Osei-Owusu, in a Citi News interview on the matter, said the exam was postponed to 1st and 2nd October due to changes …

The woefully inadequate examination centers in Kwahu Afram Plains South District of Eastern Region has forced hundreds of candidates in the ongoing BECE to spend nights in shabby classrooms in the district capital Tease. The Kwahu Afram Plains South District has only one WAEC approved Examination center -the  St.Fidelis Senior …

1FDK has been climbing all the top hills in the industry which is recently bringing his name to the stay. The singer has put out a number of hot songs out there and it doesn’t seize as the vibes keep coming so unexpectedly. Releasing his last project ‘We Go Win’ …

The National Accreditation Board (NAB) in Ghana has reiterated its call to all educational institutions and employers to refer all academic and professional qualifications to it for determination of their respective statuses before accepting them for any form of admission, employment or job progression. The call follows the continuous use …

The Chinese Government on Wednesday, presented its second batch of medical supplies, to the Ministry of Health, to support Ghana in the fight the COVID-19 pandemic. The supplies were made up of 20,000 N-95 protective face masks, 350,000 surgical masks, 10,000 disposable coverall, 15,000 each of medical googles, and disposable gloves and …