The Ghana Education Service (GES) has released the 2024/25 academic calendar for basic schools and Senior High Schools (SHS). The academic year begins on Wednesday, October 30, 2024, for all SHS, whereas, the current first-year students in transitional calendar schools will end their 2023/24 academic year on Monday, October 28, 2024, and be promoted to…
The University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) has announced that it will not call off its industrial action According to the union, doing so at this stage would be ‘premature and counterproductive.’UTAG in a press statement issued on Tuesday, October 15 explained that the strike remains its primary tool to maintain pressure on the government…
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration has issued a stern warning to Ghanaian applicants regarding the submission of forged or falsified documents for visa processing. The Ministry reports that several individuals, either knowingly or unknowingly, have been presenting such documents for authentication. In a statement released on Monday, the Ministry emphasized that the…
Telecel Ghana is marking its annual CARE Month this October to celebrate loyal customers and recognise the contributions of frontline employees, in line with the theme for this year’s international Customer Service Week celebration – Going Above & Beyond: Connecting through CARE. Telecel’s CARE Month kicks off on 7th October with an exciting array of…
The Volta Regional Youth Wing of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has issued a stern warning to the University of Health and Allied Sciences (UHAS), urging the institution to cancel its proposed honorary doctorate for President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. The group has threatened to organize sustained demonstrations against the university if the proposed honour…
Former UN Senior Governance Advisor Prof Baffour Agyemang-Duah has expressed shock that the government believed it could dismiss the concerns of organised labour. He stated that underestimating the strength of the “sleeping giant in organised labour” was surprising, especially given the significant implications of tampering with the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) fund,…
BY: ALHASSAN SINDON WIAYUKA Hon.Amidu Chinnia Issahaku,Member of Parliament for Sissala East constituency on Sunday 7th July 2024 donated 1,260 mathematical sets and 2,520 pens to the Municipal Director of Education to support the 1,258 BECE candidates in Sissala East. Each candidate will receive one mathematical set and two pens. “As the future leaders, we…
The Upper West Regional Controller of the West Africa Examination Council (WAEC), Mr. Donald Tuor, has announced that 14,066 candidates in the region will be taking the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) this year. Of this number, 7,428 are girls and 6,638 are boys. The examination is scheduled to take place from July 8 to…
By Araphat Dimah|Radford 107.5FM The Paramount Chief of the Tumu Traditional Area, Kuoru Richard Babini Kanton VI has passionately called on government to revive the Tumu Cotton Ginnery. During a grand durbar to climax the 2024 Paarigbiele Festival held today, March 23, 2024, Kuoru Richard Babini Kanton VI has underscored the significance of reviving the…
The Electoral Commission (EC) will receive nominations of Candidates for this year’s presidential and parliamentary elections from September 9 to 13 in a major countdown to the climax of the political season. This will be followed by the balloting for positions on the presidential ballot paper on September 23, 2024, and the parliamentary balloting on…
