The Minister for Transport, Joseph Nikpe Bukari, has announced that the government will soon introduce timelines for removing broken-down vehicles from the roads, alongside new powers for the National Road Safety Authority (NRSA) to take unsafe vehicles off the road. Speaking in a radio interview with Accra-based Citi FM on Thursday [October 2, 2025], Mr Bukari said […]
A devastating mining pit collapse at Kasotie in the Atwima Mponua District of the Ashanti Region has claimed at least five lives, leaving several others injured. The incident occurred on October 1, 2025, at about 4:30 p.m., when an abandoned mining pit caved in, trapping between 16 and 20 people engaged in illegal mining operations. […]
The Ghana Education Service (GES) has removed the Assistant Headmaster in charge of Academic of the KNUST Senior High School in Kumasi from office following the circulation of a video on social media allegedly showing him in a compromising position with a female student. In a statement issued in Accra on Monday, September 29, 2025, […]
The Narcotics Control Commission (NACOC) says marijuana is now being packaged as tea bags and smuggled into senior high school campuses, a development it describes as a new method targeting young people. According to the Deputy Director-General of NACOC, Alexander Twum-Barimah, a form one student in a senior high school in the Eastern Region was […]
The University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG), University of Cape Coast (UCC) chapter, has given the Ghana Tertiary Education Commission (GTEC) a strict 48-hour deadline to withdraw its recent sanctions against the university. The ultimatum, issued by UTAG-UCC Secretary Dr Isaac Boabeng, comes in response to GTEC’s decision to suspend all government-related support and services […]
This afternoon, the Teachers and Educational Workers Union of the Trade Union Congress (TEWU-TUC) intensified its industrial action over poor conditions of service. The union has directed members to remain at home until the government meets their demands. On Friday, September 19, 2025, the union withdrew its services across all technical and public universities, the […]
Thousands of parents and students have thronged the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) Hall in Accra, transforming the national resolution centre into a scene of anxious queues and frustrated appeals following the release of the 2025 Senior High School (SHS) placement results. The rush comes as a staggering 107,509 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) […]
Up to 483,800 candidates who sat the 2025 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) have been successfully placed into senior high schools (SHSs), senior high technical schools (SHTS), and technical and vocational institutions (TVIs). The number represents 82 per cent of the 590,309 candidates who qualify for placement out of the 603,328 students who took the […]
The Tema-Mpakadan Railway line will be open on October 1, Joseph Bukari Nikpe, the Transport Minister, has disclosed. He said the train, which was involved in an accident during a test drive on the Tema-Mpakadan Railway in 2024, had been repaired, stating that a test run of the Tema-Mpakadan Railway was carried out on September […]
The Teachers and Educational Workers’ Union (TEWU) of TUC (Ghana) has declared an indefinite nationwide strike effective Friday, September 19, 2025. The Union is accusing the government of ignoring the plight of non-teaching staff in the country’s education sector. In a statement signed by General Secretary King James Azortibah, TEWU directed all its members—including staff […]
The Ministry of Education has advised parents and guardians not to pay money to anyone who promises to secure a senior high school (SHS) placement for their children or wards under the Computerised School Selection and Placement System (CSSPS). “Placement is free. Do not pay money to anyone who claims he/she can help you with […]
The Office of the Auditor-General has recovered GH¢10 million from individuals who were paid salaries they were not entitled to, remitting the funds into the Consolidated Fund at the Bank of Ghana. The recoveries, made voluntarily by those implicated, come amid an ongoing special audit into unearned salaries, a practice that has long drained public […]
