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Kofi Amoabeng meets Mahama over matters of national interest

Businessman and former UT Bank Chief Executive Officer, Prince Kofi Amoabeng, has paid a visit to President John Dramani Mahama at his private residence...

Collins Owusu Amankwah accuses Mahama of setting up Haruna Iddrisu over CSSPS crisis

Former Member of Parliament for Manhyia North, Collins Owusu Amankwah, has accused President John Dramani Mahama of deliberately assigning Education Minister Haruna Iddrisu to...

All 6,300 GES staff recruited in 2024 have been paid – Finance Ministry

The Ministry of Finance says all 6,300 Ghana Education Service (GES) staff recruited in 2024 without financial clearance have been paid their salaries and...

Ashanti GJA launches 2025 regional media awards to celebrate excellence in journalism

The Ashanti regional chapter of the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) has officially launched the Ashanti Media Excellence Awards in Kumasi. The awards program is dedicated...

IEAG engages GMA fact-finding team on Tema port congestion

The Executive Secretary of the Importers and Exporters Association of Ghana (IEAG), Samson Asaki Awingobit, on Tuesday, 8 September 2026, welcomed a fact-finding team...

CSSPS 2026: The Joy, tears and struggle behind Ghana’s school placement system

21 years on, Ghana’s school placement system is still testing the patience of parents and studentsAt 10 p.m. on September 4, 2026, thousands of...

It is not our responsibility to change schools – CSSPS tells parents

Officials of the Computerised School Selection and Placement System (CSSPS) have told parents seeking to have the senior high school placements of their wards...

GES sets up help desk to resolve outstanding salary arrears for teachers

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has established a dedicated Help Desk at its headquarters to assist teachers with unresolved concerns over outstanding salary arrears. The...

Selection of schools after BECE results a backward approach – Abuakwa South MP

Member of Parliament for Abuakwa South, Dr Kingsley Agyemang, has described the government’s decision to allow students to select senior high schools after the...

AMA to commission new multi-purpose abattoir in Accra

The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) is set to commission a new multi-purpose abattoir in the coming days as part of efforts to improve meat...

Akwaboa chiefs decry health and economic impact of deplorable roads in the area

Traditional authorities at Akwaboa in the Atwima Nwabiagya North District of the Ashanti Region say they have become targets of insults and public ridicule...

GNFS responds to fire incidents at Anyinam and Akyem Asafo

The Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) has responded to two separate fire incidents at Anyinam and Akyem Asafo in the Eastern Region, with no...

No bed syndrome: NAS trains officers on new digital system to help ambulances find available hospital beds

The National Ambulance Service (NAS) is training its Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs) to use a new digital referral system designed to help them identify...

President Mahama appoints Abdul-Baasit Aziz-Bamba as Acting Director-General of Value for Money Office

President John Dramani Mahama has appointed Dr. Abdul-Baasit Aziz-Bamba as Acting Director-General of the Value for Money Office. According to a statement from the Presidency...

SHS placement: Why a student with aggregate 14 can get into a school while one with 7 misses out

Thousands of parents and their wards have trooped to the resolution centres across the country since Monday, September 7, 2026, seeking solutions to challenges...

UCC sends important notice to WASSCE students

The University of Cape Coast (UCC) has reminded applicants awaiting their 2026 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) results that its admission application...

Ashanti NPP Youth Wing petitions BNI over Owusu Bempah’s allegations against Ayew Afriye

The Ashanti Regional Youth Wing of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has petitioned the National Security Secretariat, the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) and...

Dennis Miracles Aboagye calls for release of Efya Royal, questions police detention over video

Aspiring National Communications Director for New Patriotic Party , Dennis Miracles Aboagye has called on the Ghana Police Service to release social media personality...

Eduwatch analyst urges urgent review of CSSPS algorithm over placement challenges

Education Research and Policy Analyst, Divine Kpe, has called on the Ministry of Education to urgently review and improve the algorithm underpinning the Computerized...

Adu-Boahene trial: Defence given until September 25 to file no-case submission

The Accra High Court has given counsel for former National Signals Bureau (NSB) Director-General, Kwabena Adu-Boahene, until September 25 to file a submission of...

NPP Chairmanship race: Wontumi’s campaign team throws support behind John Boadu

The campaign of former Ashanti Regional New Patriotic Party(NPP) Chairman Bernard Antwi Boasiako, popularly known as Chairman Wontumi, has thrown its weight behind John...

NPP defends rural telephony record, demands status report from government

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has rejected claims that previous governments failed to make significant investments in expanding telecommunications services to rural and underserved...

Former Education Minister proposes measures to ease SHS placement pressure

Former Education Minister and Bosomtwe MP, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum, has called for a deliberate national strategy to create more high-performing Category A senior...

One year, 70 years of impact: KATH hails Ghana Medical Trust Fund as GH¢4m medical equipment boost arrives

The Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) has paid a glowing tribute to the Ghana Medical Trust Fund (GMTF), declaring that the Trust Fund’s impact...

SHS placement: JHS leaver assigned School for the Deaf despite no impairment (Video)

A parent has raised concerns over the 2026 Computerised School Selection and Placement System (CSSPS) after his ward was assigned to the Mampong Akwapim...

Zoomlion intensifies public health protection activities in Sefwi Wiawso

Zoomlion Ghana Limited has intensified efforts to protect public health in the Western North Region with a two-day disinfection and disinfestation exercise at selected...

Pragyia rider jailed three months for biting Community Police Assistant

A 24-year-old tricycle (Pragyia) rider has been jailed for three months by the Nkawie Circuit Court in the Atwima Nwabiagya South Municipality of the...

SHS placement: Why Education Ministry, GES and CSSPS have a lot of work to do – IFEST boss

The Executive Director of the Institute for Education Studies (IFEST), Dr Peter Anti, has called for greater transparency and public education on Ghana’s Senior...

Citizen sues Supreme Court to compel Mahama to appoint former Chief Justice to Council of State

A Ghanaian citizen, Samuel Bryan Buabeng, has filed a suit at the Supreme Court seeking an order compelling President John Dramani Mahama to appoint...

Evacuate to forestall any eventuality – GWL urges Weija residents ahead of spillage

The Ghana Water Limited (GWL) has urged residents living in unauthorised areas along the course of the Weija River to evacuate immediately ahead of...

Lands Ministry engages Asutifi North stakeholders on responsible mining initiative

The Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources has engaged key stakeholders in the Asutifi North District of the Ahafo Region on plans to introduce...

Foreign Ministry repatriates Barosky from UK, provides reintegration support

Foreign Affairs Minister Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has confirmed the repatriation of a Ghanaian musician Barosky from Manchester in the United Kingdom. In a Facebook post,...

‘We must identify, block the pipeline’ – Dr. Adutwum on galamsey crisis

Former Education Minister and Bosomtwe MP, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum, has called for a broader approach to tackling illegal mining, insisting that efforts must...

‘NPP should stop being hypocritical’ – Nukpenu fires over demand for evacuation cost

A member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Anthony Nukpenu, has urged the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to allow the Auditor-General to scrutinise the...

It is a delicate policy – Dr. Adutwum on use of mother tongue as medium of instruction in schools

Former Education Minister and Member of Parliament for Bosomtwe, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum, has described the use of mother tongue as a language of...

NPP demands school placements for 54,985 BECE candidates, options for 183,233 WASSCE graduates

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) is calling on the government to urgently provide concrete educational opportunities for two groups of students it says are...

Over 30K classrooms without teachers – Adutwum says as he questions 7,000 recruitment clearance

Former Education Minister and Bosomtwe MP, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum, has raised concerns over what he describes as a widening teacher shortage in Ghana’s...

Parents, JHS leavers converge at Kumasi Resolution Centre over SHS placement challenges

Parents and candidates grappling with challenges under the Computerised School Selection and Placement System (CSSPS) have trooped to the resolution centre at KTI Hall...

NPP demands urgent action amidst SHS placement, WASSCE concerns

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has called on the government to urgently find concrete educational opportunities for 54,985 BECE candidates who were not initially...

Court rejects Mustapha Abdul-Hamid’s adjournment plea, orders trial to resume on Wednesday

The Accra High Court has rejected an open-court plea by lead counsel for former Chief Executive Officer of the National Petroleum Authority (NPA), Mustapha...