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West African Examination Council (WAEC) has released over 100 personal contacts of persons who promised to change results of candidates who failed their examination. Social media has been awashed with rumours that WAEC’s system had been hacked. However, the Head of WAEC’s office in Ghana, Rev. Sam Nii Ollenu, denied the reports, adding that some fraudsters have been arrested and ...

The Ankaful Psychiatric Hospital in the Central Region has threatened to discharge over one hundred patients, due to the lack of funds to run the facility. The Acting Clinical Coordinator of the Ankaful Psychiatric Hospital, Dr Emefa Dzide spoke about the distressing situation when members of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints made a donation to ...

The Majority in Parliament has charged the Ministry of Interior to as a matter of urgency institute measures to retrieve unlicensed weapons from individuals in the country. The call comes at a time when the country is witnessing a surge in gun violence which has resulted in the death of at least two police men in the last two months. ...

The Chief Executive Officer of the Minerals Commission, Dr. Toni Aubynn has been directed to proceed on leave by government, Starr News has gathered. It is, however, not clear who is likely to replace Dr. Aubynn at the commission. Mr. Aubynn broke the news to staff of the commission in a brief meeting Monday, August 21, 2017. Starr News has ...

The Danquah Institute says teachers should embrace the teaching license policy as it will add to best practices which will inure to the benefit of teachers and schools. A press release signed by the Executive Director, Dr Kingsley Nyarkoh, Monday said, The policy when implemented will give legitimacy to teachers, enhance their competencies and capabilities, and make the profession a ...

Medical doctors will from this year, apply for postings after their housemanship. That is according to the Director General of the Ghana Health Service, Dr Anthony Nsiah Asare. He described as worrying, doctors’ reluctance to accept postings to deprived areas after training. “If you want to work, you apply to the Region you would want to work. This year we’ve ...

The Ghana Health Service has announced that it will adopt a quota system in employing medical doctors and dentists in the country. According to the Director-General of the Service, Dr Anthony Nsiah Asare, the quota system will help check the practice where young doctors posted to rural areas reject such appointments. Ghana’s doctor to patient ratio currently stands at one ...

Angry residents from Nyinahin mostly youth in the the Atwima Mponua District of the Ashanti Region have prevented Engineers and Planners from depositing mining equipment at a bauxite concession in the area. Heavy duty equipments were being taken to the area with the view of prospecting and mining bauxite but the residents prevented the drivers of the vehicles belonging to ...

Pastor Mensa Otabil has said the collapse of Capital Bank, of which his church, International Central Gospel Church (ICGC), owned 3%, is a reprisal attack from the devil whose eye the church poked during its 2017 Greater Works summit in Accra. Greater Works is an annual spiritual event organized by ICGC which brings an array of internationally-renowned men of God ...

One of Ghana’s best-known Catholic priests, Msgr. Roger Aboteyuure, has asked Ghanaians searching for examples of “useless graduates” to look no further than successful degree holders who have turned their backs on their deprived hometowns. The widely travelled preacher, quite upset over the pitiable conditions in which some communities in the Upper East region have been caged for ages, is ...