Very Rev Sam Nii Ollennu, Head of WAEC  The West African Examination Council, (WAEC) has cancelled the majority of papers of candidates who sat for this year’s West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WAEC) which were pending investigations. WAEC withheld the entire results of candidates presented by 185 out of 810 schools following widespread examination malpractices. Head of WAEC Ghana, Very Rev. Sam Nii Nmai Ollennu revealed this to Joy News’ Kwetey Nartey in an exclusive interview. He noted that after investigations of examination malpractices, sanctions such as cancellation of entire results and barring of schools from participating in any WAEC exams was applied. “In some of the cases, candidates were caught with prepared notes; others were impersonated which is criminal so they were handed over to the police for prosecution,” he added. Very Rev. Ollennu said 119 head teachers have also been made to sign a bond of good behaviour for assisting students to

A mild confusion ensued early this morning when the police from Tamale regional headquarters stormed the palace of a youth chief to take custody a vehicle that was allegedly used in stealing some six cattle. The Youth in Nyohani, a suburb within Tamale metropolis at the wee hours of today mounted a deadly chase on a Kia vehicle believed to be carrying cows stolen from a cowshed in a village near Tamale. The users of the vehicle upon sensing danger abandoned it at around the Abedi Pele roundabout and took to their heels into a nearby forest. The angry youth towed the vehicle with the stolen cattle to the palace of the youth chief. The incident attracted a thick crowd of passive spectators taking over the road to take pictures thus causing a slow in vehicular movement. The police who had the information drove to the Nyohani Zaachi palace to take charge of the case so as to commence investigations, however, the youth protested and succeeded in 'sacking' the police fr

Coalition of Concerned Teachers (CCT) and the National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT) are threatening to strike by the end of the month if government fails to pay all monies it owes the teachers. The decision, according to the group, follows government’s inability to meet a September 17 deadline to pay all outstanding debts it owed the teachers. The two teacher unions in August threatened to lay down their tools if the government failed to pay their allowances which have been in arrears for more than two years. President of the Coalition of Concerned Teachers, Emmanuel Opoku in an interview with Citi News said letters have been sent to the education ministry and its allied agencies notifying them about the groups’ decision. “Our ultimatum ended yesterday, as at yesterday we’ve not received any information from the Ministry of education or GES…today, we are sending a letter to Labour Commission, ministry of education and GES to inform them of our decision to decla

The Chief Executive Officer of Savannah Accelerated Developmen Authority (SADA), Charles Abugri has announced that, the SADA guinea fowls that flew to Ghana neighboring country Burkina Faso have started returning to Ghana. The guinea fowls last year flew to Burkina Faso after corruption allegations rocked the authority. Several media reports on SADA guinea fowl project managed by Asongtaba Cottage Industry were to the effect that the birds had flown outside Ghana for reasons best known to the birds alone. A visit by some journalists at the facility in the Bolgatanga in the upper east region saw a few of the guinea fowls and the management’s answer for the whereabouts of the rest was that they had flown out. But presenting SADA’s development plan at the national development planning commission public consultative forum in Tamale, SADA CEO assured Ghanaians that the guinea fowls have started returning to Ghana. ’I can announce that those guinea fowls are on their way back from

In line with the NDC government’s manifesto to expand equitable access to secondary education, the President made two key campaign commitments in the run-up to the 2012 elections: • To build 200 community day senior high schools. • To implement the 1992 constitutional obligation to make secondary education progressively free. The objective of the dual promise is to expand physical access, with a focus on under-served areas and provide demand-side incentives for people to enrol in secondary education. Two hundred schools The construction of the 200 schools commenced in March 2014 with sod-cutting by the President at Nyanoa in the Upper West Akyem District in the Eastern Region for the construction of the first 50 schools. In November 2014, he launched the Secondary Education Improvement Project (SEIP) in Kintampo, the second phase of the community day schools project to commence the construction of 23 additional schools with ancillary facilities, supported with funding su

Five Polytechnics in Ghana cannot be converted into technical universities for now as envisaged by the government. The institutions failed to meet the criteria required for the transformation. The Desk Officer for Universities and Polytechnics at the National Counsel for Tertiary Education of Ghana, Mr. Evan Kwabena Takyi disclosed this when a delegation from the German Academic Exchange Service visited  Koforidua Polytechnic. The visit was to access the school’s preparedness level to be transformed into a Technical University. Even though Mr. Takyi would not name these Polytechnics, he hinted that Koforidua Poly cannot be one. The institution did extremely well in the assessment, he noted. He said, government intend to remodel them after the German structures of Technical Universities and School of Applied Science to churn out graduates with employable and entrepreneurial skills. He added that, the visit by the German delegation is the first phase in the conversion process