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The kindergarten section of the Jacob Wilson Sey basic school at Bakaano in Cape Coast has been closed down by the National Disaster Management Organisation due to the dilapidated nature of the classroom building. Assessment by officials of NADMO has revealed the building, which has become a deathtrap, is unfit for habitation as the walls and floor of the classrooms have developed cracks while a part of the roof has been ripped off. The building is said to have been constructed 70 years ago, and has not seen any major renovation work. Parts of the concrete ceiling occasionally fall off but…

The headmaster of Wenchi Senior High School, Foster Boateng has revealed that the visit to the Kintampo Waterfalls was not part of the initially agreed field trip by students of the school which ended in a disaster. About 15 students of the school died and several others sustained injuries when disaster struck while they were having fun with other revelers at the Kintampo Waterfalls on Sunday. According to the headmaster, the students were given approval by the school authorities to embark on a two-day educational trip to the three northern regions. He also got approval from the Municipal Director of…

Multiple award-winning Ghanaian artiste and philanthropist, Okyeame Kwame, has received a United States Presidential Volunteer Service Award for an outstanding humanitarian effort. The award was pinned on him on Sunday 19th March, 2017 in Ohio by USA’s immediate Ex-President Barack Obama, in recognition of the artistes’s Hepatitis B campaign in Ghana. The Presidential Service Award, the highest civilian honour, is granted to US citizens and permanent residents for their voluntary community service towards development. Starting in 2009, Okyeame Kwame has in partnership with MDS-Lancet Laboratories spearheaded and funded the screening, vaccination, sensitisation of over 7,000 beneficiaries against the deadly Hepatitis…

TV and radio personality Kofi Okyere Darko popularly known as KOD says comments made by ace broadcaster Kwesi Kyei Darkwa (KKD) a year ago which suggested, he [KOD] begged him not to mention his name in a rape case are totally untrue. KKD disclosed in an interview on the Delay Show in August 2016, that Kofi Okyere Darko (KOD), was with him at the African Regent Hotel the night he was alleged to have raped a young lady, but went on his knees to beg him not to mention his name. KOD however, in an interview on Tonight with Nii…

Officials have released statistics of the number of people who perished and those injured in the Kintampo Waterfalls disaster caused by a late Sunday afternoon rainstorm. A total of 18 people have been confirmed dead by the Kintampo Municipal Hospital where the bodies and the injured were rushed to by the rescue team. Trees atop the fall were swept to the ground by the rainstorm killing some revelers who were swimming at the time The dead comprise 12 boys and six girls, of which 15 are from the Wenchi Methodist Senior High School who made a stopover at the waterfalls…

A Kumasi-based prophet who is purported to have predicted Sunday afternoon Kintampo Waterfall disaster, has revealed to  Onua Fm morning show ‘Yen Nsem Pa’ that there are several grave calamities looming over the country which he said could only be averted by work of national prayer and fasting. Prophet Oduro Gyebi who is also affectionately called by his followers as Eagle Prophet said the looming disasters are targeted at the youth and something must be done urgently to prevent “that tragedy” Reports of Prophet Gyebi’s prophecy on Kintampo Waterfall disaster hit the mainstream media in the early hours of Monday. The prophet…

Former President Mahama has asked Ghanaians to pray for the speedy recovery of the scores of people who were injured in Sunday’s disaster at the Kintampo Waterfalls in the Brong Ahafo Region that caused 18 lives. In a Facebook message Monday to commiserate with the families who lost relatives in the tragic accident, the President Mahama said “Let’s also ask the almighty God to heal the injured and receive the souls of the departed into his kingdom. “I am keeping the families of the Kintampo falls victims in mind and praying for them. Please comfort their families and pray for…

Watchers of Ghana’s political dispensation can’t but agree that the media’s role and influence serve as a clear gauge of the strides we have made. Chairman Rawlings didn’t open up to the media so we have in our history a period of what is called the Culture of silence. Ghanaians were made to ‘see no evil, hear no evil and were forbidden from speaking any evil’. As they say, all the men, including those in the media had turned into women. (Please tell the gender advocates not to misconstrue this).  When Chairman Rawlings became President Rawlings from January 7, 1993…

A civil society group, Right Alliance-Ghana, has described as needles and unnecessary, several of the 110 ministers and deputies appointed by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. It said though the appointments are within the powers of the President, a lot of them are “needless duplication of the roles and functions of others,” noting the large size of the Akufo-Addo government be a wasteful drain on the public purse. The appointment of 110 minister to form the Akufo-Addo government has received a flak from Ghanaians across the political divide, and attempts by the government to justify such appointments have failed. There…