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        Parents and prospective senior high school students must not panic because all Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) candidates who qualified for SHS will be duly given placements, Deputy Minister of Education In-charge of Second Cycle Education, Dr Yaw Osei Adu Twum has promised. He has given the assurance that no student who has qualified for placement would be left behind. Already, Education Minister, Dr Mathew Opoku Prempeh, has assured parents and all qualified candidates that all the over 150,000 out of a total of 460,941 qualified BECE candidates who did not get placement in SHS, will definitely get placements in schools where vacancies exist. Already the Ghana Education Service (GES) has extended the window of placement by another 48 hours after it discovered that over 150,000 qualified candidates had still not been placed, 24 hours after the initial deadline expired. An initial 48-hour window given by the GES fell ...

The anti galamsey task force, Operation Vanguard, based in Eastern Region, has arrested 32 illegal small-scale miners at Okagya, near Kwabeng in the Atiwa District of the Eastern Region. The team retrieved 20 pumping machines, three water holes, one grease gun, one carpet, two head pans, one locally-manufactured riffle with three live cartridges. The suspects are Godwin Fianu 37,Yaw Forson 41, Fuseni Sulley 35, Ali Seidu 50, Zandia Akulogo 48, Akomea Boateng 37, Emmanuel Owusu 27, Tormenu Eric 27, Francis Poturphy 19, Muniru Fuseni 19, Camping Mohammed 29, Kwasi Ali 35 and Kofi Frimpong 46. The rest are Amartey Gideon 22, Haruna Idrissu 20, Charles Essuman 41, Samuel Yeboah 48, Kofi Agyei 46, Desmond Nana Agyeman 32, Kwadwo Nsiah 47, Kwabena Kwarteng 50,Kofi Agyeman 39, Ofori Kwame 42, Lawrence Boateng 28, Daniel Teye 32, Frank Mensah 44, Isaac Mensah 28, Yaw Amoateng 30, Kofi Osei 39, Naba Tia 27 and Aboagye Agyeman 37. The taskforce rounded up the suspects during ...

As a married woman and a mother of five, Ghanaian international soul, pop and jazz artiste, Stephanie Benson, has been under heavy criticisms for her sense of fashion which sees her revealing too much flesh. Her transparent outfit at this year’s Ghana Music Honours 2017 broke the unwritten rules of modesty and did not leave much to imagination. But the Good Feeling singer has asked her critics to keep their cool because her family is in full support of whatever she wears. “What I wear does not affect my role as a mother or a wife. I have a wonderful family who are in support of what I do. I mean they understand the kind of person I am and the fact that whatever I put out there in terms of costumes is because I am a performer. “They do not have a problem with my clothes so if the people I love are fine with that then I don’t think, it should be a big deal,” she told Showbiz in an interview. To prove that her children are proud of the kind of image she has creat...