The Acting Director of the Ghana Education Service, Charles Aheto Tsegah has revealed that it is not automatic that all students who graduate from the Senior High School (SHS) would make to the university. According to him students participate in the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) for diverse reasons and they must be ...
The former General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie has predicted a landslide victory for Nana Akufo Addo in the party’s upcoming delegates’ congress. Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie also known as Sir John believes Nana Addo will get 90 percent of the total votes that will be cast on Sunday. Speaking at ...
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has released a notice of poll for the Special Electoral College (SEC) to choose five out of seven presidential aspirants in accordance with its constitution.According to the notice, the shortlisting vote will take place throughout the 10 regions on Sunday, August 31, 2014 from 8:00 a.m to 3:00 p.m.The seven, ...
Rlg Institute of Technology has deepened its collaboration with government to widen the teaching and learning of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in basic schools across the country. With emphasis on rural schools, Rlg is training and providing free laptops to teachers in deprived communities. In the Northern Region, Rlg provided 3,609 laptops to the ...
The Ashanti Regional Secretary of the New Patriotic Party, Sam Pyne says Ghanaians should disregard, what he calls, the unfortunate ethnic comments by the Member of Parliament for Assin Central, Kennedy Agyapong.  Mr. Agyapong is alleged to have said on some Accra-based radio stations, that Asantes are sabotaging one of the leading contenders for ...
Authorities of Ghana’s leading maize production consortium, Masara N’ Arziki have served notice of withdrawing their services if the various district assemblies in their operational zones do not stop over taxing their members. They are unhappy with the exorbitant taxes levied on Masara N’ Arziki members farm produce per bag especially in the Sissala West ...
Some 480 Nigerian soldiers have fled into Cameroon following fierce fighting with Boko Haram militants, Cameroon’s army has said. Army spokesman Lt Col Didier Badjek said the soldiers had been disarmed and were now being accommodated in schools. Clashes are said to be continuing in the border town of Gamboru Ngala. Boko Haram on Sunday ...
Pope Francis is backing an inter-religious soccer match that will gather greats from around the globe and is aimed at promoting peace and raising money for at-risk kids. Former Argentina great Javier Zanetti, who spent 19 seasons with Inter before retiring, said the idea for the Sept. 1 match at the Olympic Stadium in Rome ...
The Sole Commissioner of the Judgement Debt Commission, Mr Justice Yaw Apau, has blamed the country’s development woes on heads of public institutions and the elite in society. He said the apathetic attitude and conduct of such people in positions of influence were endemic in all spheres of national life, “sinking the country – from ...
A Catholic priest and tutor at the Saint Victor Major Seminary at Malshegu in the Tamale Metropolis, Reverend Father Kelvin Abakisi has committed suicide by hanging himself. According to the Public Relations Officer of the Northern Regional Police Command, Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Ebenezer Tetteh, the body of the 31-year old priest was on ...
Africa Center for Energy Policy, ACEP is urging government to investigate the claim that the Saltpond Offshore Producing Company (Oil Rig) is shipping more crude out of the country than it is producing. The wholly Ghanaian owned oil firm operating in the country is reported to be under investigation by authorities in Washington, US for allegedly ...
The Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) has warned defaulting employers in Techiman, Brong Ahafo Region to pay up their contributions or face sanctions. This measure, according to authorities at SSNIT, is in accordance with the National Pension Act 2008 (Act 766). Authorities hope to use this exercise recoup lost funds  for investment in ...
The Ashanti Regional Police Command says it is treating the shooting incident, involving a Kapital radio morning show host, as an armed robbery case. According to the Police, intelligence gathered so far suggests the incident was a pure armed robbery case and not a targeted attack. “Our investigations have directed us to believe that it ...
Participants at the fourth edition of the Tamale Barcamp Ghana have condemned the sex scandal which went viral on social media networks. They however cautioned against any attempt to use that isolated phenomenon to hastily generalize that Tamale has lost its trademark as the beacon of Islam in Ghana. The event which was organized by ...
The list of the best twenty (20) entries in this year’s Citi FM Write-Away Contest has been announced. The 20 finalists will be interviewed by a judging panel on Saturday August 30 at the premises of Citi FM. The top ten will be selected from the top 20 from which the best three will be ...
Slamson Ghana Limited is to resume the treatment of liquid waste in Accra. The company ceased operations following challenges with the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA). However, Slamson’s Managing Director, Sampson Shaibu has indicated his outfit has received concrete assurances from the AMA and the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development. “…they have assured that ...
The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has explained that out of the 242,162 candidates who sat for the May/June 2014 West Africa Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE), only 7,442, representing 3.07 per cent, failed in all the subjects they wrote. “According to the interpretation of grades for the examination, F9 is a fail. Thus, those ...
Ghanaian workers in the oil and gas industry are among the least paid in the world. This is according to a report compiled by oil and gas recruitment experts, Hays Oil and Gas, and industry researchers, Oil and Gas Job Search. The report which focused on the 2013 average annual salaries in the global oil ...
A five-year old nursery two pupil fell into a septic tank last Friday and died at Amanfrom near Amasaman in the Ga West Municipality in the Greater Accra Region. The body of Miwell Ansomah, a pupil of Sunflower School, has since been removed from the septic tank (popularly known as manhole) which is still under ...
The recent infamous missing baby saga at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in Kumasi has triggered some major reforms and enhanced protocol at the hospital. The hospital has also set up a new six-bed intensive care unit at the Obstetrics and Gynaecology Directorate to help manage complicated cases. Again, the hospital has renewed its ...
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