The West Africa Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) scheduled for February will be delayed by a month, a Deputy Education Minister in charge of Basic and Secondary Education, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum, has disclosed. With effect from next year, candidates, he added, will be expected to sit for their examination in June. According to him, the move is to give ...

The Trades Ministry will today, Friday, January 12, 2018, appear at the ongoing Parliamentary probe investigating allegations of extortion during the recently held Ghana Excellency Business Awards (GEBA). The Ministry is alleged to have charged expatriates up to $100,000 for access to President Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo during the awards event. Although the Presidency has said the Trade Ministry did no ...

The Center for Progressive Governance (CenProG) received the announcement of the nomination of Martin Alamisi Amidu as Special Prosecutor with utmost shock and will like to call on Parliament to reject the president’s nominee because he is too bitter, vengeful and does not in any way reflect the independence of the office he will be holding in the event parliament ...

Coordinator of Projects at the One District-One Factory Secretariat, Gifty Ohene Konadu, has stated that government is not reneging on its promise to ensure the establishment of one factory in each district. According to her, some three agro-processing factories are ready for sod cutting. The factories are Amantin Agro Processing Plant, Asikess Ventures Limited and Adaklu Agro Processing Plant. Speaking ...

Self-acclaimed dancehall king of Ghana, Shatta Wale, is throwing a ‘crazy’ dance challenge to all his fans. The ‘Taking Over’ hit maker posted a video to his social media page in which he is captured displaying some ‘crazy’ dance moves on stage. He captioned the video: “#FreedomChallenge……… “This is a Funny Distin”.” Shatta Wale who is known in private life ...

A rare night meant to celebrate journalists who hail from or work in northern Ghana, and to discuss how the media could help develop the north, ended with an equally rare apology from world-class investigative journalist, Anas Aremeyaw Anas, to the relations of those exposed so far through his “name-shame-and-jail” undercover missions. “I know some of you are not happy ...

NEYMAR has been left out of the UEFA Team of the Year, with Chelsea star Eden Hazard selected instead. Almost 8.8million fans voted in this year’s poll to pick the UEFA Team of the Year, and the governing body has revealed some shock results. There is a record 12th appearance for Real Madrid ace Cristiano Ronaldo, with the Portuguese star ...

Popular TV and radio personality, Valentina Nana Agyeiwaa,popularly known has Afia Schwarzenegger, has viciously teased GBC over its decision to cancel plans to prosecute those who fail to pay their TV Licenses. In a recent video shared on her Instagram page, Afia Schwarzenegger has targeted government’s TV license tax yet again and expressed that Ghanaians are not willing to pay ...

Manchester United fans have been stung for £89 for tickets to the Sevilla away Champions League game. United have hit back in a move that somehow has won respect, making innocent Sevilla fans pay the same tariff for the game at Old Trafford. Given the sums involved in the ticket cost, United could have just paid the difference for United’s ...

Today in stupid man says stupid thing, a religious special. Speaking at Everton’s AGM, majority shareholder Farhad Moshiri told the assembled throng that Romelu Lukaku had rejected a new, better deal at Goodison Park because: he was on a pilgrimage in Africa or somewhere and he had a voodoo and he got the message that he needs to go to Chelsea. Obviously, he didn’t go to ...