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The Juaso police have launched a massive manhunt for a farmer alleged to have murdered another person at Sekyerekrom, a farming community near Komeso, in the Asante-Akim Municipality. Kwaku Afriyie is said to have hit the head of the deceased with an object, during a heated argument over an undisclosed amount of missing money, leading to his death. Deputy Superintendent ...

Final year SHS students will henceforth write the West African Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) in April. Speaking today [Tuesday] at a seminar for journalists, Head of the West African Examination Council (WAEC), Rev. Samuel Ollennu said the move will guarantee that the nine terms allocated to teaching and learning in second cycle schools are fully exhausted by students ...

Leader of the Concerned Law Students, Kenn Addor Donkor, has said the mass failure recorded in the final bar exams at the Ghana Law School is a testament to the calls for the abolishment of the entrance examination used in selecting students for admission. For him, the entrance examination has “failed to establish that it is a pristine source of ...

The Accra Regional Police Command has announced a temporary closure of some roads in the capital as leaders in the sub-region arrive for the 5th Economic Community of West African States’ (ECOWAS) Presidential Task-force meeting on the attainment of a single currency by 2020. Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari, Ivorian leader Alhassane Ouattara, and the President of Niger, Issoufou Mahamadou, are ...

World-acclaimed Ghanaian Mathematician Professor Francis Allotey will be given a state burial on Friday, February 23, 2018. The burial will take place at the Forecourt of the State House, a statement from the Ministry of Information announced. Professor Allotey died on November 2, 2017. “The good Professor is a state asset who gained an international reputation that will impact on ...

The Student’s Representative Council [SRC] of the Ghana School of Law, has called for the school’s Independent Examinations Board to be scrapped, describing it as a threat to legal education in Ghana, after only 91 of the over 500 students passed the May exams in 2017. Protocol dictates that these students re-sit the exams, but the SRC has demanded that ...

The immediate Former Vice Chancellor of the University of Ghana, Professor Ernest Aryeetey is saddened by what he describes as a deliberate attempt by the new managers of the institution not to give him a fair hearing as regards some allegations leveled against him. According to him, there have been several reports by the University on some major projects his ...

Prophet Nigel Gaise, the man of God who prophesied the death of the late dancehall musician, Ebony Reigns has dared the latter’s family over their threat to sue him for defaming the award-winning songstress. The prophet who’s the Founder and leader of the True Fire Prophetic Ministry (TFPWM) emphatically stated that Ebony was going to be killed in an accident ...

A total of 206 law students are to repeat the entire course after failing the final Bar exams at the Ghana School of Law. Another 177 students have been referred in one or two papers, Myjoyonline.com has learnt. Out of 474 students who sat for the 2017-2018 final exams, only 91 students were deemed to have passed and will be ...

The acting Chief Executive Officer of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Dr Felix Anyah, has called for government’s intervention to resolve the high cost of power the hospital is faced with. He indicated that the hospital paid GH¢1.2 million every month for only operational power and stressed that that was not sustainable, considering its monthly income. “We are making huge ...