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The Ghana Education Service (GES) says the self-placement portal for the Senior High School placement is up and functioning properly after a hitch which caused the portal to be down. There has been issues with the placement system for the past few days, leaving many students dissatisfied with their schools while others are unable to access the portal for self-placement. Hundreds of parents thronged the placement help centre at the Black Star Square in Accra with their wards Monday morning to have their issues resolved, but there was no official readily available to engage them. [Video] One collapses as scores…

Disaster is looming at Sofokrom in the Sekondi/Takoradi metropolis as waste management companies in the area have indiscriminately been discharging solid and liquid waste at an abandoned landfill site. The only landfill which serves the entire metropolis, is currently overly full but waste management companies keep discharging waste there, triggering fears of potential health hazard in the area. Contractors managing the site are said to have abandoned the landfill site due to nonpayment. These came to light when a joint parliamentary select committee toured the region to inspect the sanitary conditions of landfill sites in the country on the back…

Thousands of parents and junior high school (JHS) graduates have thronged the help centre of the Computerised School Selection and Placement System (CSSPS) at the Black Star Square over the 2019 senior high schools selection. Most of the parents are dissatisfied with the schools in which their wards have been placed while a few are yet to self-place their kids in the System. “My ward had a day school at Asante Akyem Dwaso,” a single mum resident in Accra told TV3’s Wendy Laryea. “I can’t let her go to Asante Akyem Dwaso because I am based here in Accra and…

The winners of the 2019 edition of the National Science & Maths Quiz (NSMQ), St. Augustine’s College last month enjoyed a trip to remember when they embarked on a 10-day all-expenses-paid educational tour to Nairobi and Dubai. This was part of their grand prize for winning the prestigious high school competition. The team that embarked on the tour comprised the three contestants of St. Augustine’s College: Joseph Maino Afful, Anthony Papa Eliason and Jimmy Stephen Newton; their coach, Isaac Adomako; the Quiz Mistress, Dr. Elsie Effah Kaufmann; Mr. Stephen Yankey and Ms. Philomena Ewuakye, staff of Primetime, producers of the…

The body of a man suspected to have been murdered, has been found floating in water in a marshy area at Kobilmahigu, a suburb of Tamale. The body was recovered by the Police Saturday with the man’s hands and legs tied to his back. Assembly man for the area, Iddrisu Mohammed Mustapha, suspected the yet-to-be identified man might have drowned in last Thursday’s downpour which caused flooding in parts of the metropolis. He said they saw a human being floating on the surface of running water around Amin Bamba mosque. “A report was made to the chief of the area…

Eight persons have crashed to death in a road accident at Tuobodom in the Bono East Region. Six died on the spot while two others were pronounced dead at the Holy Family Hospital at Techiman. A Mercedes Benz cargo truck registered AS 9554-G, which was from Techiman towards Kintampo was said to have lost control and fell on the opposite lane, causing an oncoming fully loaded taxi to crash into it at about 2:30 p.m. Friday. Driver of the Kia Sephia taxi registered BA 1356-P, was said to have tried to prevent a collision but was unsuccessful. Occupants of both…

Police are trying to recover a toilet made entirely from 18-carat-gold said to be worth around $6 million that was stolen Saturday morning from Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire, England, the stately home where former prime minister Winston Churchill was born. The fully functioning toilet was installed as part of an exhibition by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan titled “Victory is Not an Option,” which only opened to the public on Thursday. The palace remained shut for the rest of the day Saturday, a spokesperson said on Twitter. Dominic Hare, CEO of Blenheim Palace, said that the artwork, titled “America,” is valued…

Police are trying to recover a toilet made entirely from 18-carat-gold said to be worth around $6 million that was stolen Saturday morning from Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire, England, the stately home where former prime minister Winston Churchill was born. The fully functioning toilet was installed as part of an exhibition by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan titled “Victory is Not an Option,” which only opened to the public on Thursday. The palace remained shut for the rest of the day Saturday, a spokesperson said on Twitter. Dominic Hare, CEO of Blenheim Palace, said that the artwork, titled “America,” is valued…

Former president John Dramani Mahama has said he was not persuaded in any way by any individual to concede defeat after the 2016 elections. The former president’s denial follows a comment made by Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II at the UN High-Level Forum that he convinced John Mahama to concede defeat in 2016 to avoid any chaos in the country. In a statement signed by his Chief of Staff Julius Debrah, Mr Mahama was at no point convinced to conceded defeat and that he took the decision to congratulate then candidate Akufo-Addo solely on his own. “As former Chief of…

A 15-year-old Junior High School (JHS) graduate has committed suicide by hanging at Agona Asafo in the Agona East District of the Central region for not getting his school of choice. Master Isaac Arhin, affectionately called Yaw completed Junior High School(JHS) in Tema and obtained aggregate 20 but the computer selection School Placement system(CSSPS) placed him at Kwahu Tafo in the Eastern region. The deceased, according to the family spokesperson selected school in the Central region but instead he was placed far away in Eastern region, but the family complained of no money to purchase few items to enable him…