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Tamale Police Barracks School Headmaster indicted for alleged embezzlement of over ₵200k 

Joy News has sighted an audited report indicting the Headmaster of the Police Barracks KG/Primary and Junior High School in the Tamale Metropolis, Ibrahim...

Four more officers interdicted over Islamic SHS chaos

The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Dr George Akuffo Dampare, has interdicted four more officers for their roles in the disturbances at Islamic Senior High...

Islamic SHS incident: Defence and Interior Committee to submit report tomorrow

The Parliamentary select committee on Defence and Interior will present its report on the clash between the Police and students of Islamic Senior High...

Islamic SHS protest: I was assaulted and denied access to hospital – Teacher recounts

A 40-year-old teacher has been recounting how he was allegedly battered by crowd-control Police during the protest by students of Islamic High School in Kumasi...

Law students receive Lebanese Community Scholarship

Ten final-year students at the Ghana School of Law at Makola, have received scholarships from the Lebanese Community in Ghana for the 2021/22 academic...

Akufo-Addo commissions library in honour of his father

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has appealed to all Ghanaians to support his administrations drive to expand access to libraries across the country. This was...

Former GNPC boss sworn in as UPSA Chancellor

The immediate past Chief Executive of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC), Dr Kofi Kodua Sarpong, has been sworn in as the new Chancellor...

Aflao: Somewhere in Volta Region where pupils trek 4 kilometres to school

Pupils at Aflao Kofi Kofe and other small communities in the Afadjato South District of the Volta Region are compelled to travel over 4...

All 38 casualties in Islamic SHS incident discharged

All the 16 remaining students who were hospitalised after the Police brutality at the Islamic Senior High School on Monday, have been discharged. According to...

Temporary speed ramps installed in front of Islamic SHS

The Police administration and the Urban Roads Department have put anchor ropes on a section of the Abrepo Junction-Barekese road to reduce speeding and...

NUGS to probe Kumasi Islamic SHS chaos

The National Union of Ghana Students (NUGS) has announced it is setting up a five-member independent committee of inquiry to investigate the riot at...

Education Ministry investigates Kumasi Islamic SHS chaos

The Ministry of Education has launched investigations into Monday’s chaos on the campus of Islamic Senior High School in Kumasi. At least 30 students of...

Kumasi Islamic SHS demo: Top regional officer removed, 2 others interdicted

The Ghana Police Service has admitted that a better approach to tackling the riot at Kumasi Islamic Senior High School (SHS) could have been...

IGP to visit Kumasi for first-hand assessment of riots at Islamic SHS

The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Dr George Akuffo Dampare, is paying a visit to the Islamic Senior High School in Kumasi to get first-hand...

Ofoase SHS matron arrested for allegedly stealing foodstuff

The police have taken into custody a matron who worked at Ofoase Senior High Technical School (OSHTS), which is located in the Atwima Kwanwoma...

Video: Snakes invade St Paul’s SHS, 2 students bitten

https://youtu.be/vt0q1howHf4 Students of St Paul's Senior High School ( SHS) at Kwawu Asakraka in the Kwawu South Municipality of the Eastern Region are currently on...

Sunyani SHS suspends 7 female students for smoking shisha

The Authorities of the Sunyani Senior High School (SHS) in the Bono Region have suspended seven female students for engaging in gangster activities with...

Bawku conflict: We feel unsafe going home after vacation – UDS students

Some students of the University for Development Studies (UDS) have appealed to feuding factions in the area to make peace and resolve their differences...

GNAPS to sue govt over 30% priority placement into Category ‘A’ schools

Leadership of the Ghana National Association of Private Schools (GNAPS) is preparing to sue government over what they described as discriminatory and uneven distribution...

Bawumia launches ‘No Guarantor’ student loan policy

The Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, on Wednesday launched the 'No Guarantor' Student Loan Policy at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology...

GES sends strong message to BECE, WASSCE candidates

The Ghana Education Service (GES) says it has been reliably informed that some Junior and Senior High School final year students have consistently refused...

Govt’s digitisation agenda has made SLTF’s ‘No Guarantor’ policy possible – Agyei Yeboah

The Chief Executive of the Students Loan Trust Fund, Nana Kwaku Adjei Yeboah, has attributed the SLTF’s ability to implement the “No guarantor” policy...

Library Authority inaugurates new youth centres

The Ghana Library Authority (GhLA) has inaugurated 10 Youth Engagement Centres in eight regions in the country to develop the digital and entrepreneurial skills...

End delays in student loan disbursement – NUGS President

The President of the National Union of Ghana Students, Dennis Appiah Larbi-Ampofo has urged government to ensure that the Students Loan Trust Fund (SLTF)...

ITU commends Ghana for Girls in ICT Programme

Ms. Doreen Bogdan-Martin, Director of the International Telecommunication Union’s (ITU’s), Telecommunication Development Bureau (BDT), on Monday, commended Ghana’s exploits in the Girls in ICT...

School sued over alleged negligence after allegedly serving pupil banku

A private school at Oyarifa in Accra, Gracefield School Limited, has been put before court over alleged negligence that risked the health of a...

Boafri S.D.A basic school pupils forced to turn their laps into table to write

The pupils of Boafri S.D.A basic school in the Krachi Nchumuru district in the Oti Region are compelled to turn their laps into table...

Teacher Union fumes at govt over neglect

A teacher union, All Teachers Alliance Ghana (ATAG), says the government is not being fair to newly trained teachers posted to various service stations...

60 Minutes Prayer Ministry supports Akropong School for the Blind

60 Minutes, a prayer ministry of the New Life Presbyterian Church of Ghana, Lapaz, as part of its annual camp dubbed, 'Jesus Camp', has...

Student allegedly dies while writing exams

A Level 200 Student of the Akenten Appiah Minka University of Skills Training and Entrepreneurial Development in the Ashanti Region collapsed and died while...

No teacher trainee has impregnated 24 students, 4 teachers, headmistress -GES

Authorities of the Ghana Education Service in Asokore Mampong in the Ashanti Region have rejected claims by a news portal that a teacher-trainee, posted...

Prof Lydia Aziato appointed Vice Chancellor of UHAS

Professor Lydia Aziato, the first full professor within the nursing profession in Ghana has been appointed as the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Health and...

Why the Ahwoi brothers were suspended from Prempeh College

A former Minister of Food and Agriculture, Kwesi Ahwoi, has opened up on how he and his elder brother, Ato Ahwoi were suspended from...

MTN Ghana launches Bright Scholarship Reloaded

MTN Ghana Foundation has launched the 25th anniversary edition of its Bright Scholarship scheme in Accra. Dubbed: 'Reloaded', it will offer 300 scholarships to needy...

CENDLOS holds first national digital and distance learning conference in Ghana

The Centre for National Distance Learning and Open Schooling (CENDLOS) is organising the first-ever National Digital and Distance Learning Conference (NDDLC) from the 6th...

Gov’t to cut sod for 32 TVET centres to boost industrialisation

The government is set to cut sod for the first phase of the construction of 32 state-of-the-art Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET)...

13 govt officials sponsored by Japan to pursue PHD programme

Thirteen Ghanaian government officials have been selected to pursue graduate studies in Japan this year, as part of a scholarship programme sponsored by the...

World Bank grant: $1.2m goes to deprived schools – Education Minister

The Minister of Education, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum, has said the $1.2 million World Bank grant for digital literacy will be channelled into resourcing...

We confirmed training of teachers before releasing money to Education Ministry – World Bank

The World Bank says it verified that the Ministry of Education trained teachers before releasing funds under the Ghana Accountability for Learning Outcomes Project...

Education Minister visits Sakafia Islamic Senior High School

Education Minister, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum, has paid an unannounced visit to Sakafia Islamic Senior High School, located at Asokore Mampong. This is the second...