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The Ghana Education Service (GES) has  warned headteachers of basic schools across the country against charging examination fees and that they are  free to the questions on chalkboards.  The directive was issued by the office the Deputy Director-General of GES to the various directorate of education across the country. Per the directive, which are to be strictly complied with: No penny should be collected from any Pupil or Parent as fees for the various set of Examination” Headteachers are at liberty to write Examinations Questions on the Chalkboard” Headteachers who have contracted Examination Consortiums should as a matter of urgency…

Sister of Janet Bandu, the lady who went missing together with musician Castro, has said their father has passed on due to the grief of losing his daughter. Five years ago on July 6, 2014, news broke that musician Castro and Janet Bandu had gone missing while jet skiing in Ada. The two had gone to Ada in the company of Black Stars striker Asamoah Gyan and other friends for a getaway. Following the disappearance of Janet and Castro, a joint rescue team made up of the Marine Division of the Ghana Police Service, local divers and other security forces…

Sister of Janet Bandu, the lady who went missing together with musician Castro, has said their father has passed on due to the grief of losing his daughter. Five years ago on July 6, 2014, news broke that musician Castro and Janet Bandu had gone missing while jet skiing in Ada. The two had gone to Ada in the company of Black Stars striker Asamoah Gyan and other friends for a getaway. Following the disappearance of Janet and Castro, a joint rescue team made up of the Marine Division of the Ghana Police Service, local divers and other security forces…

The Parliamentary Service Board (PBS) is locked up in a crunch meeting in Accra to decide whether to drop the proposed construction of a 450-seater new parliamentary chamber that has stoked controversy in the country. “We are expecting that the results will be a hold on activities until such a time when it becomes appropriate, if at all, to continue on the project,” Director of Public Affairs of Parliament Ms Kate Addo told our correspondent Komla Klutse Monday. A design of the proposed building was unveiled two weeks ago and a sod cutting ceremony was scheduled for the last week…

Media conglomerate, the Media General Group, will on Tuesday hold a special thought leadership forum in Accra to tease out the causes of the recent wanton abuse and threats of journalists in Ghana. Though Ghana has been touted for its fairly liberal and democratic credentials, recent arbitrary arrests, unlawful detentions, assault and threat of harm among other common forms of abuse inflicted on journalists has given cause for people to question the country’s record. The unresolved assassination of journalist Ahmed Suale, the beating up of journalists from the Graphic Communication Group, Multimedia Group and Atinka Group by police officers, the…

Nine Municipal and District Assemblies have with immediate effect been banned from engaging in the retail, haulage and distribution of subsidised fertilisers for government’s Planting for Food and Jobs programme. They are Bawku Municipal, Bawku West, Garu District, Pusiga and Tempane Districts in the Upper East Region, Chereponi in the Northern Region and Saboba District in the North East Region. The rest are Sissala East and West districts of the Upper West Region. The decision to ban the nine districts was taken last week on the back of constant reports of infractions, misappropriations and alleged smuggling of the government’s subsidized fertilisers to neighbouring countries.…

Nine Municipal and District Assemblies have with immediate effect been banned from engaging in the retail, haulage and distribution of subsidised fertilisers for government’s Planting for Food and Jobs programme. They are Bawku Municipal, Bawku West, Garu District, Pusiga and Tempane Districts in the Upper East Region, Chereponi in the Northern Region and Saboba District in the North East Region. The rest are Sissala East and West districts of the Upper West Region. The decision to ban the nine districts was taken last week on the back of constant reports of infractions, misappropriations and alleged smuggling of the government’s subsidized fertilisers to neighbouring countries.…

Police in the Ashanti Region are claiming a middle-aged man arrested in Kumasi over alleged careless driving has jumped out of a moving police vehicle to his death. The man, who is yet to be identified, was being driven to the Tafo Pankrono Police Station Sunday morning in the said police vehicle when he allegedly jumped out in a bid to escape. He was pronounced dead on arrival at the Tafo Government Hospital, the police said in a statement issued Monday morning. “The man jumped out from the vehicle trying to escape from the police but fell down in the…

Greece’s new centre-right prime minister has vowed the country will “proudly raise its head again”. After New Democracy’s landslide victory on Sunday, Kyriakos Mitsotakis said he would not fail to “honour the hopes” of the Greek people. The win comes four years after Alexis Tsipras’s leftist Syriza party swept to power promising an end to austerity. But voters began to turn on Syriza after it accepted tough fiscal measures in return for an international bailout. Unemployment and a shrinking economy further damaged support. In the election, Mr Tsipras’s Syriza came second, with just 31.53% of the vote so far, according…

Seven years after his 101st minute goal consigned Tunisia out of the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) jointly hosted by Gabon/Equatorial Guinea, Black Stars skipper, Andre Ayew, has predicted an end of the road for the north African side when they clash in the Round 16 game at the Ismailia Stadium today, July 8. “Tunisia will fall in Ismailia on Monday,” said 30-year-old Ayew who leads Ghana to another epoch clash in search of their seventh win over the Carthage Eagles at the continent’s most prestigious football competition. “Football is not only about tactics, it is also about being…