This year’s Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) on Monday commenced late at the Accra Academy Centre due to lateness of invigilators.
Madam Dora Dankwa Darko, Supervisor at the Accra Academy Center ‘A’ in an interview with…
Family Health International (FHI) together with the Ghana Network of Person Living with HIV/AIDS (NAP+ Ghana) have begun free condom and lubricant distribution in the Kumasi Metropolis and six other districts in the Ashanti region as part …
Five pregnancy cases and four absentees were recorded on Monday during the start of the Basic Education Certificate Examination at five centres in the Sekondi/Takoradi Metropolis.
The Fijai Senior High School accommodating 478 candid…
A total of 27,884 candidates made up of 17,068 males and 10,816 females in the Northern Region are sitting for this year’s Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) in 69 examination centres.
A total of 106 officials made up of …
Master Wahab Abudu Tahiru, a final year Science student of the Ghana Secondary Technical School (GSTS) got drowned at the “Last Hour” beach in Takoradi on Saturday.
The body according to the Headmaster of the school, Mr T. K. Mensah,…
Gifty Armah, a 29-year-old woman, died on the spot in a lorry accident, at CP, a settlement on the Elmina-Takoradi highway in the early hours of Sunday.
The Honda Civic Salon car was heading towards Cape Coast with the deceased and t…
A 13-year old Dali Emmanuel, an Ivorian refugee at the Ampain Refugee camp in the Ellembelle District died last Friday.
The Ellembelle District Director of Health, Madam Elizabeth Conney confirmed the boy’s death to the Ghana News A…
The Member of Parliament for Effutu Constituency, Mr Mike Hammah, has urged candidates taking the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) in Winneba, to desist from examination malpractices since that could lead to the cancellation …
Alhaji Issahaku Salia, Upper West Regional Minister, has on Monday visited some exam centers in the Wa Municipality to ensure that everything required to enhance the smooth takeoff of the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) were…
A total of 38,610 candidates including four blind and 33 deaf students are writing this year’s Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) in the Central Region, with 2,803 of the number coming from the Cape Coast Metropolis.
The …
The Minister of the Interior has on the advice of the Northern and Upper East Regional Security Councils respectively, and by Executive Instrument, renewed the curfews imposed on the Gushegu Township and Bawku Municipality and their immedi…
A total of 8449 Junior High School (JHS) students were registered by the Tema Metropolitan Education Directorate to sit for this year’s Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) which began on Monday.
The candidates started the …
The Director of Operations of Global Media Foundation, a non-governmental organisation (NGO), has advised Municipal and District Assemblies in the Brong Ahafo Region to place high premium on environmental sanitation to guard against the ou…
Four people who allegedly swindled a businessman of his GH¢124,000.00 under the pretext of supplying him with agro-chemicals have been placed in police custody.
They are Patrick Gyebi-Beatson, a technical officer of the Food and Agri…
The case of the two soldiers who have been accused of murdering Alhaji Issa Mobilla, former Northern Regional Chairman of Convention People’s Party (CPP), has now been put before a new judge, Mr Justice Mustapha Habib Logo.
The case …
A Senior Pastor of the Assemblies of God Church, the Reverend Alexander Darko, has advised Christian youth to avoid being drawn into songs that tend to promote profanity and corrupt the moral fibre of society.
He said they should rat…
The people of Teteman in the Jasikan District of the Volta Region on Saturday installed Mr Michael Wheeler, a British Philanthropist and Tourist, as Development Chief of the town.
Mr Wheeler who was given the title Nana Litela I, swo…
Pastor Yaw Osei-Owusu, Brong Ahafo Regional Overseer of Deeper Life Bible Church at the weekend advised Christians to avoid societal veneration of the dead and rather to use funerals to examine themselves and prepare for eternity.
“W…
Ghanaians have been advised not to allow secular scenes and sounds of merriment that have become associated with Easter in Ghana to becloud the spiritual significance of the occasion.
“As Christians, our reflections at Easter should …
The Northern Regional Council of the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) has urged major stakeholders in education to play their roles effectively towards resolving the fracas in the teachers’ front.
“We view the seemingly silen…
Some 16, 340 candidates in the Upper East Region have been presented for this year’s Basic Education Certificate Examinations (BECE) of which 8,557 are boys and 7,783 are girls.
The Gbeogo School for the Deaf is participating in the …
Mr Haruna Iddrisu, the Minister for Communications, has called on the National Communications Authority to sanction mobile telecommunications network operators in the Upper West Region for rendering low quality services to their subscriber…
Alhaji Issahaque Salia, the Upper West Regional Minister, has appealed to community members to prioritise their development needs and seek assistance from relevant agencies for their implementation.
They should also rekindle the spir…
Residents of Area One in Sunyani have appealed to the Municipal Assembly to remove the mountain of refuse near the Coronation Park to offset the outbreak of cholera in the regional capital.
The residents told the GNA that residents o…
Mr. Abu Kasanbata, the Nadowli District Chief Executive, has directed that henceforth no consultant should issue certificates to contractors who failed to bring along their Site Visitors Notebooks and Site Instruction Notebooks for vetting…
Vice President John Dramani Mahama on Tuesday said Ghana would collaborate with the Norwegian government to ensure effective management and use of revenue from oil and gas.
He said the Norwegian sense of equity and justice exhibited in…
Mr George Scott, Chief Director of Ministry of Environment Science and Technology (MEST) has said a sustainable socio-economic development could be achieved if the nation’s environmental resources were protected.
“We need all hands o…
The Ho Nurses Training College Board is investigating one of the College’s security officers for allegedly defrauding two prospective students of GHc4, 100 promising to get them admitted into the College.
Mr Vincent Hlor allegedl…
2,073 candidates from 64 basic schools registered to right the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE)at eight centers in the Kwahu West Municipality.
The candidates were made up of 1,091 boys and 982 girls but there were 7 abs…
GHATECO Primary School in Koforidua on Monday donated some items to the Children’s Ward of the St. Joseph Hospital at Koforidua.
The donation was in connection with the school’s 32nd Open and Graduation Day which would come off on Ap…
The Rev. Dr. Joseph Obiri Yeboah Mante, outgoing chairperson of the Akuapem Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana, has appealed to the media to concentrate on development issues rather than focusing on politics of insults and ethn…
The late arrival of materials on Monday delayed the start of examinations in the Adaklu-Anyigbe District on the first day of the Basic Education Certificate Examinations (BECE).
Candidates waited in the examination halls for almost a…
The Member of Parliament for Afram Plains North, Mr Emmanuel Aboagye Didieye, has appealed to the Ghana Education Service (GES) to post 200 newly trained teachers to the Afram Plains.
He said the GES should ensure that teachers are s…
The Mobile Maintenance Unit of the Ghana Highway Authority (GHA), has started rehabilitation works on the six kilometer Nkawkaw-Atibie road.
This follows several appeals by motorists, chiefs and the people of Kwahu to the government …
The 89th Presbytery Conference of the Ashanti Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana (PCG), has opened in Kumasi with a call on Ghanaian leaders to exercise circumspection in their utterances.
The Reverend Dr Kwabena Opuni-Frimpo…
The Revenue Protection Information Bureau at the weekend called on the President to probe the irregularities involved in the allocation of timber concessions and the export of the product, especially teak.
The bureau said there was …
An Optometrist has advised Ghanaians to go for regular eye check-ups to help improve their vision in the wake of eye-related diseases.
Dr Mahazu Zakaria of the Visionplus Eye Care Centre observed that most eye-related diseases such as ca…
Resource Link Foundation , A non-governmental organisation (NGO), has provided rain water harvesting facilities to four schools in the Wenchi Municipality of the Brong Ahafo Region at the cost of GH¢9,800.00
The schools are Wenchi Model…
The Saint Gabriel's Guild of Ga-Adangme Society of the Holy Rosary Catholic Church, Adenta on Sunday, donated assorted food items and detergents worth GH¢1,000 to the Frafraha Foster Home.
The items included two baskets of palm f…
The Chief of Bosome Akwamu in the Birim South District, has stressed the need for heads of academic institutions to provide visionary leadership, by being innovative to offer solutions to the problems confronting their schools.
Nana …
The Odotobiri Rural Bank (ORB) has provided an 80 KV power generator to the St. Peter’s Hospital at Jacobu to guarantee an uninterrupted power supply to the hospital.
The bank funded the installation of the generator at GH ¢ 2, 000…
Ann P Kalayil, who has roots in India's southern state Kerela is excited with the two firsts to her credit, being the first woman as well as the first Asian to head the General Services Administration (GSA) of the six-state Great Lakes Reg…
Indian northern state Jammu and Kashmir's High Court Bar Association President Mian Abdul Qayoom has been released after the state government revoked the orders of his detention under the Public Safety Act (PSA) last week.
Qayoom, w…
Gandhian Anna Hazare on Sunday said civil society activists were planning their next strategy to ensure a tough Lokpal Bill and that much more needed to be done to fight corruption in the country.
"We are planning our next strategy. N…
Six Indians were allowed to enter Sri Lankan waters "ignoring" immigration procedures to identify the body of an Indian fisherman, a media report has said.
They arrived to attend the identification and post mortem of the Indian fish…
A 107-year-old woman in India's capital Delhi may have become the world's oldest patient to have a partial hip replacement, and hopes to be walking again within a fortnight.
Lily Wauters, a 101-year-old British woman is recorded by …
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) Youth Wing on Monday urged candidates sitting the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) to desist from taking part in any malpractices during the examinations which began earlier in the d…
Victor Kwadwo Boafo, a driver’s mate charged with conspiring with a bank clerk to steal his master’s GH¢800 from his accounts at the Akim Bosome Rural Bank has turned prosecution witness against the bank clerk Patrick Coomson.
This w…
A 42-year-old farmer, Daniel Kwasi Asante, has been sentenced to 12 months in prison in hard labour for intentionally causing harm to two persons.
He pleaded guilty to both counts of harming Mr Daniel Asante and Miss Juliana Oforiwaa…
North Korean leader Kim Jong-il donated more than 165 million yen (US$1.94 million) in educational funds to pro-North Korea residents in Japan on the occasion of his late father's 99th birthday, the North's state media said Sunday.
The…