The Ministry of Education has directed the Ghana Education Service (GES) to put in place the right measures to ensure that the practice of teachers engaging pupils in any form of child labour becomes a thing of the past. A Deputy Minister of Education, Rev. John Ntim Fordjour, who gave the directive, said he was […]
Dr Wilberforce Aggrey, the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) lecturer, who is currently in police custody following a new evidence allegedly linking him to the disappearance of his wife, Rhodaline Amoah-Darko has been denied bail by the Kumasi High Court. Dr Aggrey was last Friday (November 12) remanded in police custody by the […]
A slum community located in a prime area along the Spintex Road in Accra has been pulled down in a landmark demolition exercise carried out by the Tema West Municipal Assembly (TWMA). Officials said the area was notorious for child prostitution and drug peddling, among other nefarious activities. The exercise followed what the assembly said […]
Security persons of the West African Examinations Council (WAEC), in collaboration with the National Security, have arrested 11 teachers and a headteacher over alleged malpractice in the 2021 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) which took off throughout the country yesterday. The 12 were picked up at two examination centres in the Offinso Municipality in the […]
The Headmaster of the St Charles Lwanga Junior High School (JHS) in Saboba in the Northern Region, who was arrested in connection with the drowning of nine students of the school, was arraigned in Tamale Monday on a charge of manslaughter. The Headmaster, Mr Emmanuel Chinja, 43, was arrested last Saturday and kept in police custody to […]
Former Minister of Transport under the erstwhile Mahama administration, Dzifa Aku Attivor, has died. Family sources said she passed on in Accra in the early hours of Tuesday, November 16, 2021 after a short illness. She was 65-years-old. She was appointed as Minister of Transport in February 2013 by President John Dramani Mahama and resigned in […]
A total of 571,894 candidates from 18,028 schools will sit this year’s Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) across the country, starting today. The five-day examination will be written in 2,158 centres under the supervision of 2,158 supervisors and 1,853 assistant supervisors. Statistics Two hundred and eighty-seven thousand, six hundred and five of them are males […]
The Headmaster of the St Charles Lwanga Junior High School (JHS) in Saboba in the Northern Region, who has been arrested in connection with the drowning of nine students of the school, will be arraigned in Tamale today on a charge of manslaughter. The Headmaster, Mr Emmanuel Chinja, 43, was arrested last Saturday and kept […]
About 99 per cent of the trees planted in forest zones during the maiden Green Ghana project on June 11, this year are surviving. According to the Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources, its initial assessment of the performance of the trees in the forest zones had shown that almost all the trees were doing […]
The Labour Division of the High Court in Accra has set November 25 this year to give its ruling on whether it will allow Lighthouse Chapel International to amend its statement of defence in a suit filed by six former pastors against the Church. The court presided over by Justice Ananda Juliana Aikins, fixed the […]
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has not reneged on his pledge to protect the public purse, the Director of Communications at the Presidency, Mr Eugene Arhin, has asserted. He said the transformation that had taken place in all aspects of national life in nearly five years, as epitomised in the success story of the free […]
The trial of the 10 persons accused of plotting to overthrow the government was at a standstill on Tuesday when counsel for one of the accused told the court that his client was unwell. He notified the court of a two-day excuse duty issued by a medical doctor for his client to rest. At the court […]
