Israel has frozen co-operation with the UN’s cultural agency, accusing it of denying Judaism’s connections to the religion’s holiest sites. Its education minister said a Unesco draft decision concerning Jerusalem “denies history and encourages terror”. It comes after the body approved a text which repeatedly used only the Islamic name for a hilltop complex which … Read more
South African police fired tear gas in clashes with students at the University of KwaZulu-Natal on Thursday and arsonists torched a building at another campus overnight as protests over tuition costs spread. The unrest erupted at a Johannesburg university three days ago after the government announced a rise of up to 8 percent in 2017 … Read more
As tensions are high in the country, we at ghanafuo.com will want to ease tensions with this ‘comical piece’. Ghana has 77 days to elections and with this number of days left, tensions are high with all Political parties stepping up their game and spreading the good word to the Ghanaian populace in order to … Read more
President John Dramani Mahama on Tuesday, September 13 gave a presentation on the NDC’s 2016 manifesto ahead of the elections. Some of these claims were fact-checked by The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA). According to the report, the president was found to have been mostly untruthful in his submissions on primary school enrollment rate, … Read more
A famous Zimbabwean sculptor has insisted his statue of Robert Mugabe was not intended to mock the president. It was widely criticised on social media as a caricature after it was unveiled at his official residence State House on Friday. Dominic Benhura told the state-run Herald newspaper that “honestly, no-one would abuse such an opportunity”. … Read more
By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr. She is arguably Ghana’s most famous English-language poet, playwright, essayist, novelist and educator. She is also one of the first of the then very few women to have graduated from the country’s flagship academy, the University of Ghana. Then also her brief flirtation with Ghanaian politics witnessed her being named to … Read more
By Tsikata & Dotse The appointment of (Professor) Abednego Feehi Okoe Amartey to the position of Vice-Chancellor of the University of Professional Studies, Accra (UPSA), is perhaps the most outrageous bastardization of Ghana’s university education since independence. In our view, no member of the UPSA University Council deserve to keep his/her job. For those who … Read more
The appointment of (Professor) Abednego Feehi Okoe Amartey to the position of Vice-Chancellor of the University of Professional Studies, Accra (UPSA), is perhaps the most outrageous bastardization of Ghana’s university education since independence. In our view, no member of the UPSA University Council deserve to keep his/her job. For those who do not know the … Read more
She is arguably Ghana’s most famous English-language poet, playwright, essayist, novelist and educator. She is also one of the first of the then very few women to have graduated from the country’s flagship academy, the University of Ghana. Then also her brief flirtation with Ghanaian politics witnessed her being named to the crucial portfolio of … Read more
Ekwow Spio-Garbrah (born 1953) is a citizen of Ghana and currently the CEO of The Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation (CTO) based in London. He is one of Africa’s pre-eminent civil servants, and an authority on mass communications who has held several high profile positions in the field. He is a former Minister of Communication of the … Read more
Harry Sawyerr is a former Ghanaian politician and quantity surveyor. Mr Sawyerr was appointed valuer for the Kumasi City Council in 1962 and a year later became the first African to be appointed Chief Federal Lands Officer for the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Before joining the city council, Mr Sawyerr had served in various capacities … Read more
International human rights advocacy group, Amnesty International, has backed calls for a presidential pardon for the jailed Montie FM panelists and host if they show genuine remorse for their actions. According to the group, the convicted men have every right to petition the President to exercise his prerogative of mercy and sanction their release from … Read more
International human rights advocacy group, Amnesty International, has backed calls for a presidential pardon for the jailed Montie FM panelists and host if they show genuine remorse for their actions. According to the group, the convicted men have every right to petition the President to exercise his prerogative of mercy and sanction their release from … Read more
The Director of Operation for the Progressive People’s Party (PPP), Nana Ofori Owusu has called for the dismissal of some high ranking officials of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) who signed a petition calling for the release of the three Montie FM contemnors. Alistair Nelson, Godwin Ako Gunn and Salifu Maase, alias Mugabe, were sentenced … Read more
The former Education Minister, Elizabeth Ohene has condemned supporters calling for the pardoning of three pro- government communicators jailed for contempt. Madam Ohene said hate speeches spewed by the jailed three cannot be categorized as freedom of speech. The two panelists Alistair Nelson and Godwin Ako Gunn and Montie FM host Salifu Maase need not … Read more
President Zuma announces embargo on fee increases for the 2016 academic year, but protesters view it as a “hollow” win. However, ror the thousands of students who gathered outside President Jacob Zuma’s Pretoria offices on Friday, there was no spontaneous outburst of celebration. There was hardly even an announcement of victory. It was to the … Read more
Prof. Jane Naana Opoku Agyemang, the current Minister of Education has stated that Ghana would very soon stop using English as a medium of instruction in schools. She attributed the failure of the educated working class to develop the country to the language used in teaching them in schools. The minister who was part of … Read more
Seventy per cent of candidates have not failed (Accra, GNA) – Prof Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang, the Education Minister, said it was not true that about 70 per cent of the 2014 West Africa Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) candidates failed. She said in 2013, the Ministry presented over 460,000 candidates from the four-year and three-year … Read more
Only 3.7 percent of Ghanaian students who wrote this year’s West African Examination Council (WAEC) examinations failed, the country’s Education Minister has said. This means 96.3 percent of the candidates passed. A total of 68,062 out of 242,162 students who sat for the final examination are eligible for admission to tertiary institutions. The figure represent … Read more
Authorities in Nigeria reported that classes in all public and private schools will be delayed by a month to put in place “preventive measures” against the Ebola virus, which has claimed five lives in Lagos. “All primary and secondary schools in private and public sectors are to remain closed until Monday, October 13,” Education Minister … Read more