[ads1] Barring any last-minute hitches, this year’s schools placement will be out on Sunday, February 21, the Director-General of the Ghana Education Service (GES), Professor Kwasi Opoku-Amankwa, has hinted. The placement will cover candidates, both school and private, who wrote the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) in 2020, as well as other re-entrants. In all, about 525,000 qualified BECE candidates will be seeking placement into 721 senior high, technical and vocational schools of their choices which have declared about 535,000 vacancies. Enough places Prof. Opoku-Amankwa told the Daily Graphic that the GES had worked closely with the West African Examinations…
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[ads1] Ghanaian rapper Edem has reacted to the fracas between ace media personality Andy Dosty and fast rising rapper Okese 1. The two had social media buzzing when Andy Dosty sacked Okese 1 from the studios of Hit FM for arriving late for interview.[ads2] Andy Dosty sacked Okese 1 out of his studio a few minutes after the interview started after Andy Dosty lost his cool on the basis that the rapper was rude to him after arriving late for the interview. Since the incident, many have reacted to the issue with Edem claiming the brouhaha was planned to promote…
[ads1] Owners of properties listed among those of Director of Communications at the Presidency, Eugene Arhin have started showing up and denying his links to them. In a divorce petition which has since gone viral, the wife of Eugene Arhin, Gloria Arhin listed a number of properties her husband has acquired for himself in the span of four years. Among other things, she indicated that her husband had acquired 32 apartments, 5 houses, a barbering shop, and a number of companies and businesses which his wife failed to or ignored to list in her writ or didn’t know about. However,…
[ads1] Wife of Eugene Arhin, the Communications Director at the Presidency, has filed a suit at the Matrimonial Division of the Accra High Court against him for, among others, committing adultery. Gloria Assan Arhin filed the suit on Wednesday, February 10. In her statement of writ, the marriage hit the rocks shortly after Mr Arhin’s appointment as Director of Communications at the Office of the President despite them having had three children since 2012.[ads2] “The Respondent shortly after his appointment as the Director of Communications started behaving in very unusual ways towards the Petitioner and the Children and continued on…
[ads1] More than 450 doctors and dentists have tested positive for the novel COVID-19 which broke out in the country on March 12, last year, the Ghana Medical Association (GMA) has said. Seven out of the affected people have died, some are in health facilities receiving treatment, while others have totally recovered from the disease. The development has impacted the work of the over 7,000 membership of the GMA working across the 16 regions of the country.[ads2] The General Secretary of the GMA, Dr Justice Duffu Yankson, who made this known in Accra yesterday, underscored the need for the public…
[ads1] Sportscaster, Dennis Owuoahene Acheampong has parted ways with media conglomerate EIB Networks. The famous sports broadcaster has resigned from EIB subsidiary in the Eastern Region Agoo FM.[ads2] According to Mediafillagh, Owuoahene Acheampong tendered in his resignation letter to the management of Agoo FM on Monday, February 8, 2021. As to the reason behind his resignation, the top sportscaster has not made it known yet.[ads3] Before his resignation, Dennis Owuoahene Acheampong was the head of sports for Agoo FM and double as the sports show host. He becomes the latest broadcaster to quit EIB Networks after the likes of Giovanni…
[ads1] Six men are in the custody of the Amasaman Police in the Greater Accra Region for allegedly assaulting some policemen on patrol duty in the environs of Amasaman and Pokuase. They were part of a mob who assaulted the law enforcement officers at Sapeiman Faase, near Amasaman, in the Ga West Municipality. Their names were given by the police as Phillip Klevor Kokou, John Tetteh, Daniel Lavor, Wisdom Selassie, Ofori Daniel and Peter Klutse. They have been charged with obstruction and assault of public officers.[ads2] The attack Briefing the Daily Graphic, the Public Relations Officer of the Accra Regional…
[ads1] Supreme Court will on Thursday 11 February 2021 determine whether or not the chairperson of the Electoral Commission, Jean Mensa, should be cross-examined in the Election 2020 petition hearing. It will be recalled that on Monday, lawyer for the EC, Justin Amenuvor, served notice that he will not be calling any witnesses because the petitioner in the view of the EC, has not put up any evidence that has been challenged or defended by the 1st respondent (EC) in the case.[ads2] According to him, he based his decision on Order 36, Rule 4(3) of CI 47, which states that; “Where…
[ads1] The former Deputy General Secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr Samuel Koku Anyidoho has been suspended from the party pending the hearing and final determination of petitions against his conduct in the party. According to a letter signed by the General Secretary of the NDC, Johnson Asiedu Nketia, two separate petitions from two registered members of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) have lodged an official complaint against the conduct of Koku Anyidoho which in their view is a breach of the party’s disciplinary code for its members as contained in the NDC Constitution.[ads2] In the copy…
[ads1] The Executive Director of the GNPC Foundation, Dr. Dominic Eduah, today, led the technical handing over of a new 6-unit classroom block to Sekondi College in the Western Region. At a short ceremony, Dr. Eduah noted that the facility, like the many others funded by his outfit, is an investment in Ghana’s youth and future. “This is not a cosmetic gesture to tick off on our CSR to-do list. It is an intervention that seeks to improve teaching and learning and thus, empower the next generation,” he said.[ads2] He charged the school’s authority to exercise a proper maintenance culture…