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There is a scramble across the country over senior high school placement as more than 36,000 Junior High School (JHS) graduates compete for limited space. At least 36,849 JHS graduates who took part in this year’s Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) missed placement to available SHSs. The Ghana Education Service (GES) had explained the students, representing 8 percent of the ...

Government has cancelled the mining lease awarded to Exton Cubic Group limited. The move follows investigations by the Lands and Natural Resources Ministry over controversy surrounding the deal. Exton cubic has been in the spot light for some weeks following agitations by the youth of Nynahini over a bauxite concession leased to the company by the previous government. The Environmental ...

The Interior Minister Ambrose Dery has ordered the Inspector General of Police (IGP) to immediately institute measures to bring to book a police officer accused of raping a 22-year-old lady. The 22-year-old who was allegedly raped by the Police officer identified as Corporal Edem Kelvin Sampson, with the Airport Police Division, is still seeking justice one year after the ghastly ...

Government has appealed to parents across the country to remain calm as it takes steps to ensure all BECE candidates duly qualified are placed in senior high schools. Many parents have complained about the placement exercise despite their children meeting the qualification criteria. Some of the students who had grades that qualifies them for their first choice schools were rather ...

Parents must not pay any fees demanded by heads of senior high schools since the government is taking care of all such expenses beginning this September as part of the Free SHS policy, Deputy Minister of Education Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum has said. “Students are not supposed to pay any fees”, he told journalists at a press conference on Monday, ...

Some lecturers of the University of Education, Winneba, are calling on the Campus branch of the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) to call off their strike action as it is affecting admissions at the school. The aggrieved lecturers argue that UTAG’s decision not to call off the strike is causing students to stay at home even though lectures are ...

Martin Amidu has claimed that former President John Mahama’s advice to Kenya’s opposition leader Raila Odinga following his defeat in the country’s election was cynical. Mr. Mahama advised aggrieved Odinga and his party to go to court for justice after they raised concerns over the results of the elections which declared victory for President Uhuru Kenyatta. Kenya’s Supreme Court has ...

Effective Today, September 4, 2017, all agencies at the country’s ports will use the paperless clearing process after a month of piloting. The move to start a paperless regime at the ports follows a directive from the Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia in May this year. According to the Vice President, this will curb corruption and reduce the turnaround time ...

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has announced the extension of the deadline for placement of BECE candidates in the various senior high schools in the country. The deadline for candidates to check their results and placement online expired on Saturday, however, the GES said it has extended the deadline following reports that many candidates have not been able to access ...

Former school prefect of Achimota School has left Ghana to marry his gay lover in the US. Stephen Kabutey Ofoi Ceasar’s bold decision follows moves by parliament to impose stricter laws against homosexuality in Ghana. The overall hatred against the gay community in Ghana has seen most of them crawl into the closet, living a secret life. But this scorching ...