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The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has released provisional results of candidates of the 2018 West African Senior School Certificate Examination for school candidates. Meanwhile the examinations body says it is withholding the entire results of some 26,434 candidates pending the conclusion of investigations into various cases of examination malpractice detected during and after the conduct of the examination. The Council in a statement signed by Mrs Agnes Teye-Cudjoe, Head of Public Affairs at the main headquaters, warned that the withheld results will be cancelled if found culpable, or released if otherwise. Below is the statement in full. RELEASE OF PROVISIONAL RESULTS FOR THE WEST AFRICAN SENIOR SCHOOL CERTIFICATE EXAMINATION (WASSCE) FOR SCHOOL CANDIDATES. 2018 The West African Examinations Council wishes to inform its numerous publics that it has released provisional results of candidates, who took the West African Senior School Certificate

The embattled Headmaster of Adumanu D/A Basic School in the Asikuma Odoben Brakwa District of the Central Region, Robert Sepey has admitted being the one in the widely circulating video unleashing his unbridled libido on his former student on a kitchen stool. He is reported to have confessed to a team of investigators constituted by the Ghana Education Service (GES) to look into his conduct following the leakage of the tape to determine if it is not in variance with the professional ethics of the service when he appeared before them. The District Director of Education, Isaac Godwin Kwasi Acquah-Arhin Directorate set up the two-member committee (CPC and Basic School coordinators) to probe into the matter leading to the Robert Sepey coming out from his hideout. In the interim, he has been relieved of his responsibilities as Headmaster pending the outcome of investigations into his conduct. The 4 minutes 16 seconds video which captured the headmaster and a f

The West African Examination Council has been ordered by an Accra High Court to release the results of 20 candidates whose papers were cancelled after the 2017 Basic Education Certification Examinations. The candidates had their results cancelled after WAEC claimed they had colluded to cheat during the exams. But, they then dragged examination council to court accusing it of breaching their fundamental human rights. The proprietor of the A to Z Preparatory JHS Godwin Aaron Monyotells JoyNews the cancellation of the paper dented the school’s reputation. source: http://www.adomonline.com

Fourteen out of 16 prostitutes who were put before an Accra District Court for soliciting for sex have prayed the Court to forgive them because they were would henceforth refrain from such acts. The sixteen includes 10 Nigerians, five Ghanaians and a Liberian. The fourteen accused pleaded guilty to the offence. The court drew their attention to the fact the act of soliciting was an offence against the laws of the country. It convicted the accused on their own plea and imposed a fine of GH 300 cedis each on them. The accused in default would serve a three-month jail term each. Two others who denied the charged were granted bail in the sum of GH 5,000 cedis with a surety each. Prosecution narrated that on Sunday 8 July, this year; the Police at Cantonments embarked on a swoop at Danquah Circle and Togo Embassy area and arrested 16 women engaging in soliciting. According to Prosecution, the swoop formed part of Police exercises aimed at getting rid of sus

Central Regional Chairman of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) is warning of another defeat in 2020 if they don’t elect hardworking executives who have the party at heart. Bernard Allotey Jacobs said almost all the executives who led the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to victory in 2016 have been retained and that is a huge threat to the NDC. The only way out, he noted is for NDC delegates to elect result oriented executives who can match the NPP squad boot-for-boot. “When I heard the results, I knew we are in trouble so we need Supermen to face NPP’s Captain Planet team” he stated in an interview on Atom News Sunday. At the end of the NPP’s National Delegates Conference in Koforidua, the following were elected. Elected Executives Results at a glance 1. Freddie Blay: Chairman (3,021 ) 2. Rita Talata Asobayiri:1st vice Chairperson ( 3,670) 3. F. F. Anto: 2nd Vice Chairperson (3,185 ) 4. Michael Omari-Wadie:3rd Vice Chairperson (3,028) 5.

Defeated Chairman hopeful of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Stephen Ayesu Ntim says his loyalty to the party is unshaken, even though he has not been successful for the fourth time in his attempt to serve the party in the capacity as national chairman. Freddie Worsemawu Blay beat Stephen Ntim by polling 3021 votes as against Ntim’s 2515 votes at Saturday’s national delegates conference in Koforidua. Dr Richard Amoako Baah polled 18 votes. “First of all I want to express my sincerest thanks to almighty God for making this day possible. I want to also thank the organisers for this conference and our distinguish delegates for doing what is expected of them,” Mr Ntim said whilst accepting the results of the elections. “It is rather unfortunate that I have to lose for the fourth time in my attempt to serve the party in the capacity of national chairman.” “However, once again it is victory for the New Patriotic Party, because we have succeeded in electing our ne

A Desperate attempt by a naive six-year-old girl to save her slippers worth GH¢4 from being taken away by flood has turned disastrous. The inexperienced toddler slipped and fell heavily into an open drainage system and she was quickly carried away by the raging water, resulting in her death. The unpleasant incident was said to have happened at Kwadaso in the newly created Kwadaso Municipality in the Ashanti Region on Thursday afternoon. The body of the young girl (name withheld) was later on retrieved and deposited at a morgue at a medical facility for autopsy. Information reaching DAILY GUIDE indicated that the body of the deceased was expected to be buried by the bereaved family latest by last Saturday. Kwaku Asanka aka ‘Mustapha’, an eyewitness, disclosed that the bereaved family is totally shattered, following the loss of the young and innocent girl. He said it was raining heavily at Kwadaso on that fateful Thursday afternoon and the six-year-old g

Founder and leader of Glorious Word Ministry, Rev. Isaac Owusu Bempah has threatened to burn Kwaku Bonsam together with his charms the next time he comments on any prophecy from him or another prophet. According to Rev Owusu Bempah, the fetish priest is powerless and is only deceiving Ghanaians with his utterances just to make a name for himself. The fetish priest in a video questioned why Rev Owusu Bempah didn’t do anything to avert the death of former vice president, Amissah-Arthur when it was revealed to him. “If God showed that the person is going to die why didn’t the same God tell you what to do to save the person’s life,” he fumed. Kwaku Bonsam who rained insults on prophets in the country expressed disappointment in them for riding on tragedies that befall public figures for fame. But reacting to his criticisms in an interview, Rev Owusu Bempah noted that the fetish priest should not interfere in things he doesn’t understand as he is ignorant abo

Senior Lecturer at the Department of Population and Health of the University of Cape Coast (UCC), Dr Kobina Esia-Donkor has called for a review of the country’s laws on the age of sexual consent in order to help address the menace of teenage pregnancies and also control the country’s growing population. According to the population expert, children who are of age 16 and having sexual affairs are law-abiding citizens since the country’s laws permit them. He explained that per the existing laws of the country, adolescents who are of age 16 can give consent to sex, adding that so far as the laws on sexual consent remained age 16, children who engage in sexual acts at such age have not violated any law. Dr Esia-Donkor was speaking at the opening of a two-day oversight workshop organised for the Parliamentary Select Committee on Population held at the Capital View Hotel in Koforidua in the Eastern Region. The workshop was to enable the members of the Population Caucus

52-year-old woman who is yet to be identified has drowned in a river at Begoro in the Eastern region. The incident occurred on Sunday, July 1, 2018. Information gathered by Starr News indicates that the deceased left home around 5:30 am to recover a debt from one of her debtors in the same vicinity but at the river bank. However, her body was found drowned in the river at about 6:30 am by a resident who went to fetch water. A joint rescue team of personnel from the Begoro Police Command and National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO) went to the scene to retrieve her lifeless body and has been deposited at the Begoro District Hospital. The District Director of NADMO in the Fanteakwa District, Rev. Acheampong Opoku Agyemang, told Starr News, no marks of foul play were noticed on the body during the preliminary examination but assured that further investigation is ongoing. He, however, admitted that the area where the incident occurred requires some s

Reigning champions Prempeh college have shrugged off loud mouths Accra Academy and Kumasi-based Islamic Senior High School (SHS) in their quest to defending the NSMQ title. The four-time champions took hold of the entire contest and dealt merciless blows on their contenders in Saturday evening’s quarterfinal contest. Accra Aca who had qualified for the quarterfinals by putting down Awudome SHS, Tsito SHS and St Hubert Minor Seminary, a seeded school, could not repeat the feat when it mattered most. The 'bleoo' boys lost their marbles as they watched the highly tipped favourites Kumasi warriors schooled them and city neighbours, Islamic SHS. Prempeh took advantage of the Round Two also known as the 'Speed Race', to flex their muscles and show their competition how Usain Bolt-like they can run. Add caption At a flashlight speed, Prempeh College opened a 25 points gap between them and the Kaneshie traffic light boys who could only accumul