The West Africa Examination Council (WAEC) says the impending Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE), scheduled for July 2024, faces possible cancellation due to severe funding challenges. The council has expressed grave concerns about the...
The West Africa Examination Council (WAEC) says the impending Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE), scheduled for July 2024, faces possible cancellation due to severe funding challenges. The council has expressed grave concerns about the government’s failure to release critical funds needed for the preparation and administration of the exams....
Reports in various sections of the media suggest that a Free SHS bill will be presented to Parliament. This move is part of Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s administration’s way of regulating and sustaining the free senior high school policy This comes in the wake of fears of a possible...
Over 30 students from Ajumako Afransi Technical and Vocational Institute in the Central Region have been hospitalized following a suspected case of food poisoning. The students began experiencing severe stomach pains, nausea, and vomiting shortly after consuming a meal of Waakye and stew during lunch on Tuesday, June 11,...
As a media and public relations practitioner, and a student of communication studies, I feel sad and ashamed when I see an image or video of a dead body published or displayed on social media. It is generally considered unprofessional and unethical to expose a dead body in a...
The Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC) has announced an upward review of water and electricity tariffs for the third quarter of 2024. The new tariffs, which take effect July 1, 2024, will push water up by 5.16 per cent for all customer classes while electricity will jump by 3.45...
A Takoradi Circuit Court has remanded into police custody two students from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) for agreeing and acting together with a common purpose to commit crime, to wit ‘sextortion’. They are Jerome Enyam, aged 19, resident of Fijai, and Ebenezer Adam, aged...
Utilizing social media, a woman by the name of Adejoke Lasisi has accused a school owner of escaping the nation with money intended for the NECO and WAEC test fees of her children. Some parents had to borrow money to pay for these exams, and Lasisi said in her...
A suspected robbery attack targeting students of the University of Energy and Natural Resources (UENR) in Sunyani on Tuesday has resulted in the death of one student. The incident happened around 7p.m. near Boffourkrom in the Sunyani West Municipality on Tuesday. Several students were injured. The injured students have...
Dr Dennis Addo is by all indications an accomplished man. He is the founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Claron Hospital and co-founder of Bisa, an international award-winning health app. His hospital, located on a quiet street in the affluent Airport Residential area in Accra, caters for...
A headmaster of Church of Christ Senior High School(SHS) in the Western Region, Mr Justice Kojo Abekah Prah has come under criticism for describing a former student of his, Isaac Kwaku Essien, as “very disrespectful and ungrateful” and one he cannot vouch for in a testimonial. The headmaster, in...