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The Executive Director of the Africa Education Watch, Kofi Asare, says the West African Examinations Council (WAEC), needs a regulator. He said the regulator would help to standardise the Council’s operations and ensure that it delivered as expected to produce “true and learned students.” Mr Asare said that had become necessary because WAEC set its questions, marked by itself, and ...

President Akufo-Addo has finally released his list of deputy ministers, subject to approval by Parliament. According to a statement from the presidency, the list was submitted to the Speaker of Parliament today. In all, there are 39 deputy ministers appointed under 24 portfolios. The ministries of Trade, Local Government and Energy have three deputy minister-nominees. The list had been highly ...

Dr Selassie Adom, a Psychiatrist at the Pantang Hospital on Tuesday said beating a child as punishment for wrong doing does not correct the behavior. She said beating a child rather teaches the child to be violent, cautioning caregivers to find alternative ways of correcting unwanted behavior other than beating. Dr Adom was responding to a question by a participant ...

The Environmental Justice Foundation says the government of Ghana loses between US$14 million and 23 million annually in the trawl sector. The Foundation attributes the revenue losses to low licence fees in the sector as well as poor punitive regime for fisheries-related infringements. This was contained in a research that showed that nine out of every 10 fishing trawlers operating ...

Twitter announced Monday the recruitment of a team of eleven people in Ghana, with the intention of making the West African country its headquarters for the continent. “Today, in line with our growth strategy, we are pleased to announce that we are building a team in Ghana,” the company announced in a statement. “We need to further immerse ourselves in ...

The Office of the Chief Imam of the Nsawam – Adoagyiri  Municipal Assembly in the Eastern Region, in collaboration with graduates of  Azhar University,  on Saturday, April 10, 2021, held a day’s convening for over forty  Imams within the Municipality.  The Forum, held on the theme. ‘Dedicate Your Energy in Seeking Allah’s Trust,’ was meant to empower participants to properly disseminate ...

The management of the Ghana Education Service (GES) has announced that all schools will break for the Easter holidays. In a press release signed by Head of Public Relations, Cassandra Twum Ampofo, the GES informed staff, parents, students and the general public that the break will take effect from April 1 to April 6, adding that “Academic work will commence ...

The Minister for Lands and Natural Resource, Mr Samuel Abu Jinapor has directed the Forestry Commission (FC) to move in and flash out individuals and entities engaged in mining in Ghana’s forest reserves without permits. While instructing that fresh permits must not be issued, Mr Jinapor emphasized the need to protect the country’s forest reserves. “Forest reserves are what they ...

The United Nations Secretary-General has strongly condemned Wednesday’s attack on a boarding school in north-central Nigeria, in which one student was killed and several students, as well as relatives and staff, abducted.  According to reports, gunmen stormed the Government Science College Kagara, in the Niger state of Nigeria, at around 2 am (local time). Many students are also said to ...

Adam Bonaa, a security expert has cast doubts on the effectiveness of the Vigilantism law to deal with the menace in the country. The law which was passed in 2019 to deal with political vigilante groups and clamp down on acts of vigilantism in the country came on the back of the violence that rocked the Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election. ...