The issue of the Central Region teenage pregnancy has since remained worrisome, with the latest discovery being that girls now exchange sex for fish which they sell to make a living. According to a report by Graphic.com, some teenagers in the Central region are bartering sex for fish in some fishing communities in the region, … Read more
Thirty-nine (39) basic school girls have been impregnated in the Wa East District of the Upper West Region in the first half of 2017, as against 28 within the same period in 2016. Mr. Evans Kpebah, Wa East District Director of Education, disclosed this during the “Let Girls Learn; End Child Marriage Campaign” launched at … Read more
Thirty-nine (39) basic school girls have been impregnated in the Wa East District of the Upper West Region in the first half of 2017, as against 28 within the same period in 2016. Mr. Evans Kpebah, Wa East District Director of Education, disclosed this during the “Let Girls Learn; End Child Marriage Campaign” launched at … Read more
Pressure is mounting on the West African Examination Council (WAEC), following its refusal to allow some 200 candidates to rewrite two papers they could not write during the just ended Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) at Bunkpurugu in the Northern Region. An advocacy group, Child Rights International, which has written to WAEC to allow the … Read more
The ICT tutor of Assin Asamankese D/A Primary School in the Assin South District of the Central Region, Augustine Kusi has incurred the wrath of the District Director of the Ghana Education Service (GES) Mrs Sally Nelly Colman who claimed his conduct has disgraced the school and the district as a whole. A viral video … Read more
A very determined teenager, who did not want to truncate her schooling due to pregnancy, managed to finish with the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) paper, in the on-going Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) before giving birth moments later on Wednesday. The 17-year-old gave birth to a bouncy baby boy at exactly 1:30 pm on … Read more
The Member of Parliament for Ofoase-Ayirebi Constituency in the Eastern Region, has urged BECE candidates to pay attention to detail and understand questions before attempting to answer them. He gave the advice when he toured the Akyemansa District on Monday morning with the District Chief Executive of the area, Paul Asamoah, and the District Director of … Read more
The bad nature of roads in the Afigya-Kwabre District is hampering quality healthcare delivery to the people in the area. Madam Anna Ofori, the District Director of Health Services, said this was making it difficult to promptly respond to emergency cases, resulting in many preventable deaths. Speaking to the Ghana News Agency (GNA) at Ankaase … Read more
The West African Examination Council (WAEC), has said it will not schedule new examination sittings for candidates of Bunkpurugu in the Northern Region, who could not take part in the first Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) paper. “They would have to use the February 2018 window for re-sitters because once it is gone, you can’t go … Read more
The Akrofuom Teachers’ Co-Operative Credit Union continues to show strong performance, posting a net surplus of GH¢151,848.02, last year. This represented an increase of GH¢32,761.64 over the previous year’s figure of GH¢119,086.38. Mr. Jonathan Kwaku Acquaye, the Chairman of the Union, who announced this said its total assets hit GH¢2,842,968.40 from the 2015 total of … Read more
The Member of Parliament for Ofoase-Ayirebi, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, has donated 1,500 mathematical sets to be distributed to all final year students in junior high schools in his constituency. He donated the items as part of his educational interventions, and the items are intended to aid candidates as they prepare to take the Basic Education Certificate … Read more
they were only told to go home on Tuesday as their classrooms were filled with faeces. he Sewia D/A 1 Primary School in the Bosomtwe district of the Ashanti Region has been closed down by the Ghana Education Service (GES) due to the use of the school’s classrooms as a place of convenience by some … Read more
The Ajumako-Enyan-Essiam (AEE) District Director for Right to Information Coalition (RTI), King Ralph Osei Agyeman has emphatically stated that most beneficiaries under the LEAP are party affiliates or foot soldiers of the National Democratic Congress (NDC). According to him, their checks from representatives from some of the LEAP communities in the country led to the … Read more
The Attorney General has prayed an Accra High Court for more time to file its defence in a case involving a dismissed district director of the National Service Scheme. (NSS) Madam Afua Abam from the AG’s office said they needed more time to go through the the writ so as to respond. The district director, … Read more
The Ghana Health Service has begun investigations into a scandal that has rocked the Juaso Government Hospital in the Ashanti Region, involving the alleged bloating of the cost of construction of a mortuary, The Chronicle has gathered. The cost of the uncompleted mortuary, which this paper understands is being funded from Internally Generated Funds (IGF), … Read more
The Akatsi District Director of Education, Joseph Yoga, has cautioned male teachers in the area against using their female students to satisfy their sexual desires. Mr. Yoga bemoaned the increasing cases of teachers engaged in amorous relationships with their female pupils. Ghanaians fume as Otiko tells girls not to attract rapists with short skirts The … Read more
The Akatsi District Director of Education, Joseph Yoga, has cautioned male teachers in the area against using their female students to satisfy their sexual desires. Mr. Yoga bemoaned the increasing cases of teachers engaged in amorous relationships with their female pupils. The menace, he said, is not only affecting the academic performance in schools and … Read more
The Biakoye District Assembly has failed to meet its revenue target of GH¢40,572.00 for the first quarter of this year, 2017. Alhaji Zaidu Tamimu, the District Coordinating Director who disclosed this at the Assembly’s Fifth Ordinary General Meeting said the Assembly generated only GH¢20,282.00, half of the estimated revenue target. He said the shortfall was … Read more
The bursar of Salaga Senior High School (SHS) Mr. Baran Nathaniel has assaulted a chemistry teacher of the school identified as one Mensah Stephen. According to an eye witness, the victim went to the bursar to request for money to buy some laboratory equipment and other items required for this year’s West African Secondary School … Read more
The District Director of Education for the Nanumba North and South districts, Madam Margaret Zaato, has expressed worry about the effects of recurring chieftaincy disputes on the people in the area particularly students. She said the recent flare-up in tensions, which forced schools to close down traumatized the pupils and students, thus she called on … Read more