Category Archives: News

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: Ransford Gyampo Is Only Partly Right »

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: 6,990 candidates write BECE in Tema »

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: No Matilda, Your Government Is Hopelessly Incompetent! »

No Chalk for Classrooms in Ghana?

Feature Article of Saturday, 18 July 2015 Columnist: Eyiah, Joseph Kingsley 2015-07-18 Asks Joe Kingsley Eyiah, OCT, Brookview MS, Toronto-Canada The recent remark by the 2nd Lady of Ghana, Mrs Matilda Amissah-Arthur at Kukurantumi Presbyterian Primary School regarding supply of chalk to schools in Ghana has exposed the Ghana Education Service (GES) ‘big time’! No… Read More: No Chalk for Classrooms in Ghana? »

We can’t fight EBOLA with Substance Abuse, the Ignorance is too much

Feature Article of Saturday, 18 July 2015 Columnist: Ibrahim, Abdallah Malcolm 2015-07-18 Quite frankly, the word ignorance is not in itself derogatory, and it certainly is not a denigrating word either. It could best be described as one’s state of knowledge about something at a point in time. It cannot be a perpetual label to… Read More: We can’t fight EBOLA with Substance Abuse, the Ignorance is… »