GENERAL NEWS

The Director-General of the Ghana Education Service (GES), Professor Kwasi Opoku-Amankwa, has hinted that this year’s senior high schools (SHS) placement will be released on Sunday, February 21, Those who will be placed include public and public schools graduates, as well as other re-entrants, wrote the Basic Education Certificate Examination …

Chief Executive of the Ghana Railway Development Authority (GRDA), Richard Dombo has died. Sources say he succumbed to Covid-19 complications on Wednesday, February 17, 2021. Mr Dombo has reportedly had a brief stint with health issues since he contracted the novel coronavirus in January 2021. He has not returned to …

The minister-designate for Gender, Children and Social Protection, Sarah Adwoa Safo, has indicated her plans to bring some ‘rebranding’ to witches camps around the country.   She said that while there have been several attempts at abolishing such camps and disallowing such practices across the country, all attempts in the …

The Bolgatanga Technical Institute in the Upper East Region has on Wednesday, 17 February 2021, been shut down. This follows a clash between two student groups of the school on Tuesday night. The situation which got out of hand by Wednesday morning, led to the destruction of school property. Some …

Ms Chantelle Kudjawu has denied ever having an amorous relationship with National Security Minister-designate Albert Kan-Dapaah. In a defamation suit against Mrs Gloria Arhin, the estranged wife of Mr Eugene Arhin, the Acting Communication Director at the Presidency, Ms Kudjawu, who is a wife and mother-of-three, said a leaked video …

The novel coronavirus has claimed 13 more lives bringing the death toll to 555. According to the Ghana Health Service (GHS), 656 new cases recorded as of February 12, 2021 have sent the number of active cases to 7,850. 28 patients are in critical condition while 85 others are in …

Fire has destroyed an orphanage at Yamah, a village within Walewale in the West Mamprugu district of the North East Region. There are reports that the orphanage known as Yamah Orphanage and recreational centre serves as home for about 45 people. It was built by a philanthropist to support needy …

The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has issued a notice to all regional directors of health and chief executive officers of the various teaching hospitals about the re-emergence of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in West Africa.   Seven cases of the viral disease were confirmed in Guinea on Sunday, February 14. …

  Ghana’s capital Accra has been rated as one of the safest cities around the world by the Australian government, the Australian High Commissioner to Ghana Gregory Andrews has said. Speaking in an interview with Nana Yaa Mensah on The Asaase Breakfast Show, Andrews said he chose to work in Ghana because of the country’s …