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The Ghana Education Service (GES) is unaware that at least 200 candidates sitting for this year’s Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) failed to sit for the exams on Monday, the PRO of the Service has stated. The candidates from four communities at Bindi South in the Bunpkurugu-Yunyoo District of the Northern region failed to sit the exams Monday June 5, ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has challenged African governments not to rely on the World Bank and other institutions to decide on the choices they have to make concerning policies and the funding of education on the continent. “We should not get into arguments with foreign agencies about our priorities. We must set our own priorities and we must accept ...

The Leader and Founder of the All People’s Congress (APR), Mr Hassan Ayariga, has asked President Akufo-Addo to concentrate his efforts first on strengthening security at home. “Instead of traveling outside the country, the President as commander in chief ought to concentrate his efforts first on strengthening security at home,” he stated. Sharing his thoughts on the governance process and ...

The Deputy Minister for Health, Tina Naa Ayeley Mensah, has commended Janet Opokua, a pregnant student who is sitting the 2017 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) at New Gbawe Experimental School near Accra for her confidence. “I am not happy that you are pregnant because our society abhors premarital sex among young boys and girls however my joy lies in ...

Six females were part of the thirty-four suspects who allegedly played various roles in the brutal killing of Major Maxwell Adam Mahama at Denkyira-Obuasi in the Central Region. The six females and twenty eight males were on Monday arraigned before an Accra Central Magistrate Court and were charged with the conspiracy to commit murder. The women are Felicia Sarbah, Perpetual ...

Two invigilators have been arrested in Bimbilla in the Northern Region for trying to help some of the candidates writing this year’s Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE). One of them, a female, was trying to assist a candidate with answers to some of the questions through her mobile phone. The other invigilator, a master of one of the Junior High ...

Maverick politician and New Patriotic Party (NPP) lawmaker for Assin Central Constituency, Kennedy Agyepong has admitted he has challenges defending the composition of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s cabinet. He said on Adom TV’s Morning Show “Badwam” on Tuesday that persons he expected would have been critical in the composition of cabinet were excluded a move he finds difficult in ...

The founder of the Ghana Freedom Party (GFP), Madam AKua Donkor was among political figures who visited the home of slain soldier, Captain Maxwell Adam Mahama to commiserate with the bereaved family. As required by all dignitaries, they were expected to sign the book of condolence that was placed at a location with the maverick politician and farmer also taking ...

Embraced by his earlier claim that the National Democratic Congress (NDC) government ordered the purchase of some 43 new vehicles a few days before leaving office at the behest of the new government, Dr. Clement Apaak is charting a new course, saying they were acting on behalf of the State. “Up until we handed over, we were still in charge; ...

Contrary to claims that he received $2 million which was used for a nationalistic project, emerging evidence indicate that that the former President of Ghana received $5 million. Managing Editor of the Al Hajj Newspaper, Alhaji Bature Iddrissu on TuesdayJune 6, 2017 disclosed that the founder of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Jerry John Rawlings received $5 million dollars from ...