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All is set for 2022 GIJ homecoming

The 2022 edition of the annual Ghana Institute of Journalism (GIJ) alumni homecoming has been scheduled to take place from August 20. This year's event...

Education Minister lauds Appointed Time Printing Limited

The Minister of Education, Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum, has lauded Ghanaian printing company, Appointed Time Printing (ATP) Limited, following its production of the first...

Defence Minister begs striking teachers

Defence Minister, Dominic Nitiwul, has pleaded with worker unions to exercise patience with the government as it negotiates with the International Monetary Fund for...

Govt meeting with striking teacher unions ends inconclusively

A crunch meeting between the leadership of the four striking teacher labour unions and the government to resolve the impasse ended in a stalemate. The...

Pupils of Borae No2 displaced after heavy rainstorm

Pupils of Borae No. 2 in the Krachi Nchumuru district in the Oti region have been displaced after a heavy downpour. The rainstorm, which hit...

Meet the only Ghanaian who won gold medal in Russia [Photos]

Ghanaian-born Dr Morgan Gilbert Charles graduated with the highest achievement in Russia this year. The 27-year-old who completed the Ghana Armed Forces Senior High...

30 security and intelligence operatives graduate from IISS

Thirty (30) intelligence and security personnel have graduated from the Institute for Intelligence and Strategic Security (IISS). The participants, drawn from the Police Intelligence...

Teachers strike: GES sends important message to school heads

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has directed heads of Senior High Schools to ensure the safety and wellbeing of all students in their various...

Tax expert predicts which govt policy could be affected by IMF bailout

Tax expert, Dr Alex Ampaabeng, has predicted that government policies such as teachers and nurses trainee allowances could be affected as government goes to...

NUGS begs striking teachers

The National Union of Ghana Students (NUGS) has expressed its displeasure against the ongoing strike by some pre-tertiary teacher unions across the country. According to...

We saw NLC directive on social media – Striking teachers

JoyNews/AdomNews · Striking teachers calls bluff of NLC Striking Teacher Unions have called out the National Labour Commission (NLC) which has urged them to rescind...

Teachers strike: NLC gives govt 7 days to address concerns

The National Labour Commission (NLC) has urged striking Teacher Unions to rescind their decision to withdraw their service and return to post. The Teacher Unions...

Teachers strike: Schools will remain open – GES

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has directed Heads of Senior High Schools (SHS) through the Regional and District Directors to mobilise their Management teams...

Teacher unions declare indefinite strike

Four teacher unions have declared an indefinite nationwide strike – effective Monday, July 4 – over demands for the payment of the Cost of...

Anglogold Ashanti trains teachers in Obuasi on new curriculum

400 Junior High School teachers within the Obuasi Municipal and Obuasi East District have undergone training to prepare them adequately to adapt to the...

GES Director-General advises staff to prepare for retirement

The Director-General of the Ghana Education Service (GES), Prof. Kwasi Opoku-Amankwa, has counseled staff members to make proper retirement plans. He encouraged them not to...

Check out Minister of Education in a video exhibiting teaching prowess [Watch]

Minister of Education, Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum, has displayed his teaching ability at the Bosomtwe Girls Stem High School. Portraying a leadership example, the minister...

Provide COLA or face our wrath – GNAT tells govt

President of the Ghana National Association of Teachers, (GNAT), Rev Isaac Owusu has said the association is going by its June 30 deadline for...

LEC Group to kickstart National Youth Mentorship Summit 2022

LEC Group has partnered with Adom FM and TV, Asempa FM, Brandeis International Business School (USA), Regional Ministries, and Role Model Africa for the...

Workers should be able to afford a house when going on retirement – GNAT General Secretary

The General Secretary of the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT), Thomas Musah has called for attention into the income of all workers across...

NAGRAT threatens strike over unpaid allowances

The Greater Accra Regional Secretariat of the National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT) has served notice it will lay down its tools if the...

Islamic SHS protest: Teacher allegedly assaulted by police shares ordeal

A 40-year-old teacher has been recounting how he was allegedly battered by crowd-control Police during the protest by students of Islamic High School in Kumasi...

World Trade Centre, Accra announces partnership with Altkom Akademia to offer Professional Education in Africa

World Trade Centre Accra (WTC Accra) has partnered with Altkom Akademia to offer live professional education and capacity building programmes in West Africa over...

GIJ holds training for students on news reporting, editing

The skills and expertise needed to write on educational issues are important to all student journalists. This has been an interest of the School...

27 teachers sacked over fake appointment letters

Twenty-seven teachers in some basic schools in the North East Region have been dismissed by the Ghana Education Service (GES) for allegedly joining the...

NAGRAT threatens strike over unpaid allowance

The National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT) is threatening industrial action by the end of June if their cost-of-living allowance (COLA) is not addressed. The...

Samira Bawumia supports basic schools at Kasoa with books [Video]

https://youtu.be/CqvSTnqt7Hk The Samira Empowerment and Humanitarian Project has presented books to basic schools at Kasoa in the Awutu Senya East District of the Central Region. The...

Mampong Queenmother graduates from KNUST [Photos]

The Queen mother of Mampong Traditional Area, Nana Agyakoma Difie II, has graduated from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST). She was part...

Girl, 7, presents copy of her book to Asantehene [Photos]

A seven-year-old girl, Rachel Yram, has presented a copy of her book titled More Nice City to the Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II. This...

Covid-19: 245 cases recorded in 13 schools

The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has announced that 13 schools have so far recorded new cases of the coronavirus. This development has forced the...

Sad: Student in tears as parents ignore his graduation ceremony, says it is the saddest day of his life

While most parents would always make time to celebrate the education success of their kids, however busy their schedules are, it was not with...

Cement blocks used as chairs by Pechie Basic School pupils

Pupils of Pechie Basic School in the Krachi West Municipality of the Oti Region are forced to sit on cement blocks and on the...

Tamale Police Barracks School Headmaster indicted for alleged embezzlement of over ₵200k 

Joy News has sighted an audited report indicting the Headmaster of the Police Barracks KG/Primary and Junior High School in the Tamale Metropolis, Ibrahim...

Four more officers interdicted over Islamic SHS chaos

The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Dr George Akuffo Dampare, has interdicted four more officers for their roles in the disturbances at Islamic Senior High...

Islamic SHS incident: Defence and Interior Committee to submit report tomorrow

The Parliamentary select committee on Defence and Interior will present its report on the clash between the Police and students of Islamic Senior High...

Islamic SHS protest: I was assaulted and denied access to hospital – Teacher recounts

A 40-year-old teacher has been recounting how he was allegedly battered by crowd-control Police during the protest by students of Islamic High School in Kumasi...

Law students receive Lebanese Community Scholarship

Ten final-year students at the Ghana School of Law at Makola, have received scholarships from the Lebanese Community in Ghana for the 2021/22 academic...

Akufo-Addo commissions library in honour of his father

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has appealed to all Ghanaians to support his administrations drive to expand access to libraries across the country. This was...

Former GNPC boss sworn in as UPSA Chancellor

The immediate past Chief Executive of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC), Dr Kofi Kodua Sarpong, has been sworn in as the new Chancellor...

Aflao: Somewhere in Volta Region where pupils trek 4 kilometres to school

Pupils at Aflao Kofi Kofe and other small communities in the Afadjato South District of the Volta Region are compelled to travel over 4...