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Clergyman urges students to take lessons seriously

He said the situation where some students resorted to consulting occults and other means to pass examinations, did not augur well for them, and in the end ruined their lives. Overseer Kwabia gave the advice when the church held special prayers for students who are taking this year’s Basic Education Certificate Examinations (BECE) in Accra… Read More »

WAEC tightens security of BECE examination materials

The examination conducting body had introduced security mail bags with tag numbers, a padlock and three keys that would be kept by three persons at different strategic locations. Mr Patrick Sumailar Wayoe, Sekondi Controller of WAEC, told the Ghana News Agency in an interview that the security measures were taken to curb occasional leakage of… Read More »

Association calls for government’s investment in Tailoring

Nana Osei Baffoe Dickson, Ashanti Regional Chairman of the Ghana National Tailors and Dressmakers Association (GNTDA), said the industry which currently employs not less than 50, 000 people, had not yet been developed to acceptable standards. “The Chinese and other foreigners are gradually taking over the industry, as they have more sophisticated machines and technical… Read More »

Nkrumahism, The Can Of Worms I Opened – Capitalism IV

Feature Article of Friday, 17 July 2015 Columnist: Baidoo, Philip Kobina 2015-07-17 There is an Akan proverb, which literally states that wisdom is not the monopoly of any single man. Since human beings are fallible we do make mistakes all the time, and it happens a lot in the private sector. However, when it happens… Read More »

15 year old stroke patient sits for BECE

The girl, who has been suffering from a stroke condition for the past one month, did not heed the advice of her doctors not to sit for the exams and showed up at the exams centre at the Tema Senior High School. All efforts from Mrs Bossman Adotevi, the Headmistress of the First Baptist School,… Read More »

Ransford Gyampo Is Only Partly Right

Feature Article of Saturday, 18 July 2015 Columnist: Okoampa-Ahoofe, Kwame 2015-07-18 By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D. Garden City, New York July 12, 2015 E-mail: [email protected] He makes quite a sound argument that Mrs. Charlotte Kesson-Smith Osei ought not to have been transferred by President John Mahama from the National Commission On Civic Education (NCCE) to… Read More »

6,990 candidates write BECE in Tema

Forty-seven public schools in the Metropolis, registered 3,494 candidates, whilst the remaining 3,496candidates were from 109 private schools. Mr Azeriya G. Ayeriga, the Tema Metropolitan Education Directorate’s Public Relations Officer, told the Ghana News Agency that 25 centres were being used for the one-week examination, which started on Monday, with English Language and Religious and… Read More »

Take a stand for the liver

Feature Article of Saturday, 18 July 2015 Columnist: Essel, Kojo Cobba 2015-07-18 “Viral Hepatitis can be prevented. It’s up to all of us to act.” – www.worldhepatitisday.org Hepatitis is a disease of the liver that may occur with little or no symptoms initially but if persists may have disastrous consequences. Many of us have heard… Read More »

No Matilda, Your Government Is Hopelessly Incompetent!

Feature Article of Saturday, 18 July 2015 Columnist: Okoampa-Ahoofe, Kwame 2015-07-18 By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D. Garden City, New York July 15, 2015 E-mail: [email protected] They thought they could easily and cheaply get away with throwing one-size-fits-all uniforms and patent-leather sandals at our elementary schoolchildren. But what they actually ended up doing was to flagrantly… Read More »

About 253 pupils begin BECE exams at Odorgonno SHS

Mr Emmanuel Karfo, the Supervisor for the Examination Centre, said all the 253 pupils, who registered to take their papers at the centre were present. He said the Centre has so far recorded no incidence, and that, a girl, who reported with a stomach ache before the English Paper 2, was given first aid, which… Read More »