What is said about values in education often talks about a list of the desirable values in students that a school should promote. There is a phrases like “these are the values to be taught”, and “values need to be inculcated”, but little is said about how these values actually develop and change within individuals, [...]

As the vote totals slowly trickle in, the race for Kenya’s presidency is still too close to call. With about 80 percent of the votes tallied, Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta maintains a small lead, but may not have enough votes to avoid a run-off

Senior Prophet David Ayisi, Founder and Spiritual Head of the Revelation Preachers Church International at Dome Pillar Two in Accra has appealed to political parties contesting the December 2012 presidential election results to accept the verdict of the Supreme Court

President John Dramani Mahama has hinted that names of all nominated Deputy Ministers would be released for vetting and approval by Parliament by the end of this week

Failed New Patriotic Party’s Parliamentary hopeful for the Adentan constituency of Accra, Frances Essiam has declared her resolve never to return to the National Democratic Congress, the party she once served as a National Women’s Organiser

An official of Kenya’s Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) has expressed hope that the group will announce the final results of the presidential election Friday. The constitution gives Kenya’s electoral body seven days to release results of an election

The immediate past Minister for Education, Mr Lee Ocran has urged Ghanaians to cultivate the culture of maintenance of buildings to prolong their life span. Mr Ocran gave the advice when he inaugurated the rehabilitated Catholic Primary and Junior High School building at Half Assini

Ms Jane Kwapong, Eastern Regional Director of the Department of Gender, Children and Social Protection, has expressed worry about sexual harassment women face at home and the workplaces as they go about their daily routines

Over 2,000 Ghanaian seafarers working with European Shipping Companies across the world are due to lose their jobs and be repatriated to Ghana due to government’s failure to ratify the International Maritime Labor Convention (MLC 2006

The government has provided education infrastructures and materials to promote education in the Gomoa West District during the last four years. The District chief Executive, Mr Theophilus Aidoo Mensah, made this known at a parade of school children to mark the 56th Anniversary celebration of Ghana’s Independence at Apam

The acceptance of Ghc 800.00 for a new KIA taxi cab by two vehicle merchants nudged the supposed buyer to seek help to bundle the suspected car snatchers to the Aflao Police Station

Dr Edward Omani Boamah, the Minister of Communications, has said the government would make ICT one of the key drivers of national development and that the diffusion and transfer of technology would take centre stage in the national development agenda

Sellas Tetteh has named a 21-man squad for the Africa Youth Championship (AYC) billed for Algeria later this month. The Black Satellites will be hoping to ride on Tetteh’s experience at the youth competition which he won in 2009 before conquering the world at the FIFA U-20 World Cup held in Egypt to mark the continents’ first gold in that category

Ghana is a notable absentee at the maiden African Youth Athletics Championship scheduled for March 27-31 in Warri, Delta State, Nigeria

The Feed My Lambs Global Ministries International, a religious organisation based in the U.S, has donated footwear and clothing to two children’s institutions in Accra. They are Osu Children’s Home and Dzorwulu Special School. They received bundles of pyjamas, bed-sheets, shoes, canvases, shorts and jackets worth about $3,500

Konkombas and Bimoba opinion leaders in the Northern Region on Friday played down media reports that there was an ethnic conflict between the two ethnic groups. They said as one people no one could draw a wedge between them to achieve their parochial interest at the expense of the development in the area

Mr. Bede Ziedeng, the Upper West Regional Minister, has appealed to traditional rulers to help educate farmers to accept modern agricultural practices being offered them by the government through the Savannah Agricultural Development Authority (SADA