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St. Peter’s Senior High School in the Eastern Region, has won the 2018 National Science and Maths Quiz competition. The Nkwatia-based school pipped West Africa SHS to the title by a single point after trailing through the first four rounds. At the end of the contest, St. Peter’s SHS had 45 points, West Africa SHS had 44 points whilst Adisadel ...

The Ghana Education Service (GES), has sacked four teachers of the Ejisuman Senior High School in the Ashanti Region for sexually assaulting some students. In March 2018, some nine teachers of the school were interdicted, after they allegedly abusing some female students. Over a dozen of the students who testified said they were sexually abused in various forms. Speaking to ...

The People of Akropong in the Eastern Region woke up on Sunday 1st July, 2018 to find that the car of Nana Nketiaa Obuo II, Akuapem Queenmother, had been burnt by miscreants in the wee hours of Sunday. Gangs operating in the community have been blamed for the attack on the Queenmother’s car, which occurred a day after she celebrated ...

Former First Lady, Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings, has dared some residents of Adoagyir, Akwamu, Owuraku and Ntoaso in the Eastern Region, to go to court if they strongly believe that she has unlawfully taken over their lands. Residents in these communities on Wednesday, 5 July 2018 took to the street to demonstrate against Mrs Rawlings claiming she had illegally given out ...

A former Chief of Staff has scoffed at former President Jerry Rawlings’ mantra of probity and accountability saying the founder of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) did not live the virtues. Kwadwo Mpiani who served in the Kufuor regime said the former president when he was accused of taking a $5 million gift from former Nigerian president, Sani Abacha, was ...

The battle for supremacy among some of Ghana’s High Schools reaches a crescendo as the finals of this year’s National Science and Maths Quiz takes place today. St Peters’ SHS, Adisadel College and WASS compete for the bragging rights as champions of Science and Mathematics in Ghana in this year’s final competition being held at the National Theater. In the ...

Profesor of Political Science, Ransford Gyampo, has criticised the timing of a controversial donation by one of the key contenders in the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Chairmanship race. Prof Gyampo says although Freddie Blay’s ongoing process to procure 275 buses for the party is “not a big deal,” the gesture could well be construed as vote-buying because the delivery of ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo of Ghana has arrived in South Africa and will be hosted by President Cyril Ramaphosa on Thursday. A statement from the South African Presidency said Akufo-Addo’s state visit aims to strengthen the already good political, economic and social relations that South Africa and Ghana enjoy, which were formalised at the advent of democracy in South ...

Despite defiling his biological daughter and committing incest, both of which are both punishable offences by the laws of the country, a man has offered to make the girl at the centre of controversy his second wife. He has subsequently held discussions with close family members to allow him to marry her daughter or will kill the girl if the ...

President Akufo-Addo has ordered the Energy Minister Boakye Agyarko to dissolve the governing board of the Ghana Cylinder Manufacturing Company Limited. The directive comes on the back of a frosty relationship between the Chief Executive of GCMCL Frances Essiam and the Board after the latter ordered her to step aside. Madam Essiam was ordered by the board to step aside ...