Suspected terrorists arrested by National Security

Officials of the National Security have arrested 33 suspects believed to have links with terrorist organizations in Burkina Faso and Mali at Nambahala, in the Savelugu Municipality. JoyNews reporter, Illiasu Tanko, reported that, the suspects were all airlifted to Accra over the weekend. He noted that, the National Security claims it has evidence indicating that five […]

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Pay Private Sch Teachers Allowance for Continuous Professional Development – NCOPST Boss

Private Schools must give Teachers allowance for Continuous Professional Development (CPD). The Executive Director of the National Council of Private School Teachers (NCOPST) has called on all private schools to pay private school teacher allowances toward their Continuous Professional Development Trainings. According to NCOPST Director, Ackon K. James the Continuous Professional Development is a mandatory […]

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One Teacher One Laptop: Arrangement, Distribution and Payment

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has issued a press release dated 9th September 2021 to update teachers and the general public on the details of the One Teacher One Laptop initiative. Arrangement The GES has stated the the initiative was actually conceived by the teacher unions at the pre-tertiary level, namely Ghana National Association of […]

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World Literacy Day 2021: Ghana’s 79% literacy rate laudable – WVI

Technical Programs Manager of World Vision International (WVI), Andrew Ofosu Denkyi, says it is laudable that the literacy rate in Ghana increased to 79 per cent in 2018. He said it is a good thing for national development. He is however of the view that “there is more work to be done to increase the […]

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International “collabos” make more money for artistes on music stores – Kweku Darlington

Rising music sensation Kweku Darlington says a vital way Ghanaian artistes can make more money from their music and stay competitive is by getting more international features. Ghana’s music has not been too vibrant on the world and African music market due to lesser collaborations with international acts which does not help promote our music […]

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Consider teachers as essential workers – 16 local groups of Ho District GNAT says

Heads of 16 local groups of the Ho District of the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT), has called for teachers to be considered as an essential workforce and accorded the needed support. Mathias Tulasi, a co-convener who spoke on behalf of the groups at a press conference held in Ho, said despite indispensable essence, […]

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SIM card re-registration: All you need to know

With the sim re-registration exercise set to take place from next month October 1, 2021, Communications and Digitilisation Minister has already spelled out a number of modalities for the exercise which will last for six months ending March 31, 2022. The re-registration exercise according to government is expected to curb the incidents of fraud, monitor […]

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Basic School teachers cannot use certain Bachelor Degrees for upgrading — GES

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has said that teachers at the basic schools who went for their studies to upgrade themselves in programs that does not relate to subjects at the Basic School level cannot get upgrading. In other words, such certificates cannot be used for upgrading. An exclusive report by EducationGhana’s Ellis Ferdinand indicates […]

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