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Diaspora Girls SHS in distress: Students learn under trees, attend classes in canteen amid severe infrastructure deficit
Students of Diaspora Girls’ Senior High School at Obodan in the Akuapem South Municipality of the Eastern Region are grappling with dire infrastructural challenges that continue to undermine teaching and learning, prompting urgent calls for intervention from the Ministry of Education and the Ghana Education Service (GE...
Parliament passes Maritime Offences Bill to combat piracy and strengthen maritime security
Parliament has passed the Maritime and Related Offences Bill, 2026, paving the way for a stronger legal framework to combat piracy, armed robbery at sea and other maritime crimes in Ghana’s territorial waters. The legislation criminalises piracy, armed robbery at sea and related offences while domesticating key provisi...
Where is the man who put us in debt?’– Majority Leader demands Ken Ofori-Atta’s return
Majority Leader Mahama Ayariga has called for former Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta to return to Ghana to account for what he described as the country’s worsening debt burden under the previous New Patriotic Party (NPP) administration. Contributing to the debate on the 2026 Mid-Year Fiscal Policy Review in Parliament...
Tarkwa youth warned against abusing painkillers
The President of the Society of Family Physicians of Ghana (SOFPOG), Dr Baaba Damoah, has cautioned young people in Tarkwa and its environs against the misuse of painkillers, warning that excessive or unsupervised use of pain-relief drugs can cause serious kidney damage and other adverse effects on the body. Speaking t...
GloMeF urges decisive approach to address galamsey
The Global Media Foundation, a human rights and media advocacy non-governmental organisation, has criticised the government, describing the nation’s efforts towards fighting illegal mining as indecisive.
Discipline in our schools: A national wake-up call
The recent spate of indiscipline in some of Ghana's schools has become too serious to ignore. Reports of students vandalising school property, assaulting teachers, bullying colleagues, engaging in examination malpractice, fighting, and other acts of misconduct have generated widespread concern among parents, educators...
Why Ghana’s geology conference could shape Africa’s next mining boom
As the global race for gold, lithium and other critical minerals intensifies, scientists are arguing that Africa’s greatest competitive advantage may lie not only beneath its soil, but in its ability to understand the geology that formed those resources in the first place. That was the central message from leading eart...
Russia allocates 120 scholarship slots for Ghanaian students for 2026/27 academic year
Russia has allocated 120 government scholarship places to Ghanaian students for the 2026/27 academic year as part of efforts to strengthen educational cooperation between the two countries.
Ghana TVET Service denies food shortage reports in schools
The Ghana TVET Service has dismissed reports suggesting food supply disruptions in Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) institutions, insisting that feeding arrangements remain stable and academic activities are proceeding without interruption. The Service assured the public that students in TVET inst...
End blackboard exams now — EduWatch demands dedicated funding for school assessments
Policy think tank Africa Education Watch has called for an immediate end to the practice of pupils writing examinations from blackboards in public basic schools, urging government to allocate dedicated funding for proper school-based assessments. The group is advocating the creation of a specific budget line by the Min...
Govt to recruit 50 Arabic teachers by end of July
The government has announced plans to recruit 50 Arabic teachers by the end of July as part of efforts to address the acute shortage of instructors in Islamic schools across the country. Minister for Education, Haruna Iddrisu, disclosed the plan during a meeting with a delegation from the Conference of Regional Chief I...
Energy Minister backs expansion of Sentuo Refinery
Minister for Energy and Green Transition, John Abdulai Jinapor, has described the delivery of Jubilee crude oil to Sentuo Oil Refinery for local processing as a landmark achievement that will deepen value addition, strengthen energy security, and accelerate Ghana’s industrialisation agenda. Speaking at Sentuo Oil Refin...