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A total of 25 pregnant teenagers were recorded among the female candidates sitting for the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) at the Ajumako Enyan Essiam District in the Central Region. In all, 2783 candidates are sitting for the exams that started on Monday 15th November 2021 in the District, 1451 are female and 1331-male. Out of the total number of ...

Pollster and Managing Editor of the Daily Dispatch Newspaper, Ben Ephson the former first lady, Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings may not bring any exceptional differences to the NDC if she rejoins. According to him, despite the fact that politics is about numbers considering Nana Konadu’s impact after her breakaway there will be no major impact if she rejoins the party her ...

The Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, has stated that the Police Administration cannot arrest the Member of Parliament (MP) for Madina, Francis Xavier Sosu after they approved the Madina demonstration. Addressing the Speaker’s Breakfast Forum in Kumasi on Monday, 15th November, 2021, Mr. Bagbin described the attempts by the Police to arrest the MP as obstruction of his duties as ...

A 23-year-old old barber Kwame Amponsah has been jailed 114 years by the Mpraeso Circuit Court for allegedly sodomizing 12 Schoolboys at Atawase, a suburb of Nkawkaw in the Kwahu West Municipal Assembly. Speaking to Agoo News, the head of Kwahu West Social Welfare department Victor Fayi, said on the 5th of November 2021, officers went to the field after ...

Former Minister of Transport under the NDC administration Dzifa Aku Attivor has died. She is reported to have died in the early hours of Tuesday, 16 November 2021 after a short illness. She was 65. Source: Classfmonline.com Share on: WhatsApp

There are currently about 34 African countries on the World Bank and IMF’s heavily indebted countries’ list, according to data obtained by Business Insider Africa. Among these heavily indebted poor countries are Ghana, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros Islands, Democratic Republic of Congo and Republic of Congo. Others include Ivory Coast, Eritrea, Ethiopia, ...

A survey by the Bureau of Public Safety has revealed about 56% of Ghanaians have confidence in the leadership of Dr. George Akuffo-Dampare as Inspector General of Police. Some 59% of the citizenry also say they have seen some significant improvement in the conduct of the Police since Dr. Dampare assumed office. “While we acknowledge that a 100th Day measure ...

The International Moneatry Fund (IMF) has said the global recovery continues, but momentum has weakened, hobbled by the pandemic. The IMF added that risks to economic prospects have increased, and policy trade-offs have become more complex. The fault lines opened up by COVID-19 are looking more persistent—near-term divergences are expected to leave lasting imprints on medium-term performance. Vaccine access and ...

Commercial drivers who ply the Oyarifa-Abokobi road to various parts of the Greater Accra Region have embarked on a sit-down strike over the poor state of that road. According to the protesting drivers, plying the road has left many of them sick with waist pains while they expend their income on maintenance of their vehicles. They have, therefore, served notice ...

Two hundred and fifty selected journalists are set to benefit from a Media Capacity Enhancement Programme (MCEP) annually paid for by the Ministry of Information. The Ministry of Information which announced this at the launch of the programme in Accra on Sunday November 14, 2021, said the programme is expected to provide continuous in-service training for media personnel drawn from ...