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Parents not directed to buy prospectus items from specific vendors – GES clarifies

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has clarified that it has not sanctioned, instructed or directed parents and students to pay money or purchase prospectus...

Asuogyaman MP appeals for calm amid Gyakiti, Kamenaman/Pesse tensions

The Member of Parliament for Asuogyaman, Hon. Thomas Ampem Nyarko, has appealed for calm and restraint following recent exchanges involving the traditional leaders and...

48 grounded Aayalolo buses repaired and deployed across Accra

The Greater Accra Passenger Transport Executive (GAPTE) has expanded its operational fleet with the deployment of 48 repaired Aayalolo buses, in a move aimed...

Long queue at GNAT Hall as parents, BECE graduates seek SHS placement

Parents and prospective Senior High School (SHS) students are still facing long queues at the GNAT Hall in Accra as they seek solutions to...

There is no cause for alarm – NADMO assures as Weija Dam controlled spillage begins

Residents living downstream of the Weija Dam have been assured that there is no immediate threat following the controlled release of excess water from...

Pub owner, shop attendant sentenced for selling expired food, sanitary offences 

The Hohoe Magistrate Court has convicted a 31-year-old pub owner and her 19-year-old shop attendant for selling expired drinks, accumulating refuse behind the business premises, and selling food under insanitary conditions.  Christabel Afornorfe and Theodora Kornu,...

Downpour causes extensive damage to properties in Berekum Municipality  

A downpour that hit the Berekum Municipality in the Bono Region in the early hours of Tuesday caused extensive damage to properties and personal...

Ghana Water begins controlled spillage at Weija Dam, warns downstream communities

Ghana Water Ltd (GWL) has commenced controlled spillage at the Weija Dam following a significant rise in the water level caused by heavy rainfall...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

‘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...

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...