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 … Read more
The Asutifi North District Assembly in the Brong Ahafo Region on Wednesday [22nd March, 2017], failed to elect a new Presiding Member to steer the affairs of the assembly after three rounds of voting. Two assembly members, Hon. Stephen Kofi Baah, the assemblyman for Manhyia Electoral Area, and Hon. Ebenezer Kwala Addo, an administrator of … Read more
A native of Bimbilla and a worker at Ecobank in Accra, Alhassan Haruna, has donated some hospital equipment to the Bimbilla District Hospital in the Nanumba North district of the Northern Region. Issahaku Ben Hussein, who presented the equipment on behalf of Alaskan Haruna, appealed to youth and other stakeholders in the area to emulate the … Read more
Final year students of Navrongo Senior High School (NAVASCO) in school the Upper East Region have been sent home by school authorities for refusing to eat their breakfast and threatening to cause mayhem. According to the District Director of Education for Kassena-Nankana Municipal assembly, Kye-eebo Anne, the final year students exhibited acts of indiscipline by … Read more
Final year students of Navrongo Senior High School(NAVASCO) in school the Upper East Region have been sent home by school authorities for refusing to eat their breakfast and threatening to cause mayhem. According to the District Director of Education for Kassena-Nankana Municipal assembly, Kye-eebo Anne, the final year students exhibited acts of indiscipline by threatening … Read more
The Member of Parliament, of Awutu Senya West Constituency, Hon. Nenyi George Andah, in collaboration with Junior Shapers Africa, the organizer of a monthly boys mentoring programme based in Accra, has rolled out the maiden edition of the Junior Boys Mentoring Clinic at The Pentecost Church General Assembly at Bawjiase. The Boys Empowerment Project is … Read more
The effigy of the late president of the third republic of Ghana and paramount Chief of Gwollu traditional area was at the weekend unveiled by the Gwollu Kuoro and the regional director of education at a colourful ceremony at the Gwollu Senior High School. The Parent Teacher Association (PTA) Chairman Alhaji Maada Ishmael tasked the … Read more
Some children at the Breman Jamera Methodist School in the Central region say they are unable to concentrate in school because they are being haunted by images of last week’s disaster which killed six of them. The children who returned to school on Monday say they are scared. Speaking to Joy News’ Justice Baidoo, one … Read more
Some children at the Breman Jamera Methodist School in the Central region say they are unable to concentrate in school because they are being haunted by images of last week’s disaster which killed six of them. The children who returned to school on Monday say they are scared. Speaking to Joy News’ Justice Baidoo, one … Read more
The landowners of the land on which the St. Joachim Junior High School was built in Kuyellingo in the Bongo District of the Upper East Region, are demanding GHC40,000 land compensation before the School can be populated with students. The six classroom block with offices and toilet facility completed in August 2016 and ready for use, … Read more
Barely a week after six pupils were killed in the Central Region by a collapse of school building, another disaster looms in the Eastern Region where pupils are now studying in a near collapsed school building. Pupils of Akyem Agyapomaa Methodist Primary School in the East Akim Municipality, particularly those in primary one to three, … Read more
Some new teachers transferred to the Soda D/A Junior High School in the Affram Plains South District of the Eastern region are living in a state of terror. The new teachers, who were transferred to the school to fill the vacuum created following the dismissal of 15 others, were welcomed on Friday with black magic … Read more
A legal practitioner has prayed an Accra Fast Track High Court (Tax and Financial) Division to compel Dr Kpessa White, a former National Service Scheme (NSS) boss to appear before it to testify. Mr Dennis Adjei Dwomoh, the counsel for Alhaji Alhassan Mohammed Imoro, a former NSS Executive Director, noted that the various adjournments had … Read more
Maame Krobo in the Affram plains south district of the Eastern region and their parents are expected to embark on peaceful protest today, Monday January 16, 2017 over attempts by headmistress to transfer 15 teachers. The headmistress is said to be adamant despite an intervention by the chiefs of the area and Parent Teacher Association … Read more
The Christian Council says the peace of the nation would be jeopardised if violent attacks and seizures of state institutions allegedly perpetrated by some youth of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) are not stopped. Council General Secretary, Reverend Dr Kwabena Opuni Frimpong said these reprisal attacks bleed the “wounds” suffered by some people following the … Read more
Despite a directive by the Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC) for voting to resume in Jaman North Constituency in the Brong Ahafo Region, there is no sign of such, 3news.com gathers. Officials of the Commission in the Jaman North District are said to be locked up in a meeting with the district security council. 3news.com gathers … Read more
Close to one thousand teachers and members of the Methodist church drawn from Bibiani and Awaso in the Western Region have benefitted from two separately organized free breast screening programs carried out by the medical outreach Team of Breast Care International, (BCI), Africa’s front line campaigner against the debilitating disease. The Bibiani and Awaso screenings, … Read more
One constituency which will be keenly contested by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the New Patriotic Party (NPP) parliamentary candidates in the December 7, 2016 general election in the Eastern Region is Asene-Manso-Akroso. Since the incumbent Member of Parliament (MP) for the constituency, Mr Yaw Owusu-Boateng, bowed out the NDC parliamentary candidate, Mr Richard … Read more
Chief of Kwafokrom in the Ahafo Ano North District of the Ashanti Region, Nana Offei Kwafo I, has decried the lack of social amenities coupled with poor road networks in the area. As a result of that, he said: “there was no need for us to vote in the upcoming elections.” Nana Kwafo was addressing … Read more
The St. Andrews’ Clinics For Children-Ghana (StACC-Ghana), a non-governmental organisation has held a two-day workshop for teachers in the Bongo District with the aim of improving health awareness in order to prevent parasitic diseases in the district. Teachers from twenty (20) schools were taken through the use of interactive flip charts and a board game … Read more