Kumasi Academy Deaths
Hundreds of mourners thronged three separate communities in the Ashanti Region yesterday to pay their last respects to three of the four students of Kumasi Academy (KUMACA) who died from meningitis...
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MPs Voice Concern Over Growing Meningitis Death Rate
Parliament on Thursday underlined urgent and pragmatic measures for effective check on Cerebral Spinal Meningitis (CSM) that has hit parts of the country. A number of people are reported dead from...
Parliament Expresses Concern Over Outbreak of CSM
Parliament on Thursday underlined urgent and pragmatic measures for effective check on Cerebral Spinal Meningitis (CSM) that has hit parts of the country. A number of people are reported dead from...
Kumasi Academy Shutdown After Meningitis Claims 4 Lives
Authorities of the Kumasi Academy Senior High School (KUMACAS) have suspended all school activities and sent all the students home. This decision by the authorities follows the death of some four...
UNICEF, USAID Donate To Support Inclusive Education
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), in collaboration with the United States Agency for Internaltional Development (USAID), has donated some devices and basic screening materials to...
Abolish BECE If SHS Is Now Free
A Lecturer with the University of Education Winneba Kumasi Campus, Yarhans Arthur is advocating for abolition of the system where students are mandated to write the Basic Education Certificate...
Kumasi Academy ‘mysterious’ Deaths Caused By Meningitis
The cause of the “mysterious” deaths of four students at the Kumasi Academy Senior High School at Asokore Mampong in the Ashanti Region has been found to be Meningitis. This was revealed after...
Kumasi Academy SHS Death Toll Now 4
The number of students from the Kumasi Academy SHS who have lost their lives over suspected food poisoning has risen to four. The latest casualty is a first year science student of the school whose...
Investigations Into ‘mysterious’ Kumasi Academy Deaths Begin
The Asokore Mampong Health Directorate has begun investigations into the mysterious deaths of three students of the Kumasi Academy in the Ashanti Region over the weekend. The three died in...
CHRAJ Must Probe Unsatisfactory Joe Ghartey Report
Strategic Thinkers Network (STRANEK), a policy think tank has stated that, the report submitted by the Joe Ghartey led Committee set up to probe the bribery allegation that hit the Appointments...
Ghana, Japan Sign $58.4m Grant Agreements For Road and Health Infrastructure
Ghana and Japan on Friday signed two grant agreements totalling $58.4 million, geared towards the improvement of international corridor roads and sector budget support to promote health service...
Strange Deaths Hit KUMACA
Students of Kumasi Academy (KUMACA) in the Ashanti Region have been asked to go home following disturbances on campus on Friday night, March 31, 2017, linked to the ‘mysterious deaths’ of three...
Education Ministry Freezes Award of Contracts To Expatriates
Government has announced that it will no longer award contracts to companies which are owned by foreigners home and abroad even if the employees are all Ghanaians under the Ministry of Education. It...
Calm Restored In KUMACA; Send Wards Back To School – GES To Parents
The Ashanti Regional Directorate of the Ghana Education Service (GES) has asked parents of students of Kumasi Academy Senior High School to send the wards back to school. There was commotion at the...
Ghana Conspicuously Missing In Top 10 Universities In Africa
No university in Ghana has been able to make it to the top 10 universities in Africa according to the latest rankings released by the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings The...
Over 100 Parents Storm Kumasi Academy Over ‘mysterious’ Deaths
Students of Kumasi Academy protested over reported death of two of their colleagues Police have been deployed to Kumasi Academy as anxious parents besiege the main gate of the school in a bid to take...
Parents Withdraw Wards From Kumasi Academy After ‘mysterious’ Deaths
Parents and guardians have already begun moving their children home temporarily after the mysterious deaths of three students of the Kumasi Academy Senior High school in Asokore Mampong in the...
Three Students Feared Dead At Kumasi Academy SHS
Some three students of the Kumasi Academy SHSdied at home after falling sick at school Over 200 worried parents stormed the Kumasi Academy Senior High School Friday night after their wards called...
I’ll Deliver Ruling On Bribery Report ‘in Due Course’ – Oquaye
A ruling on the report presented by the Joe Ghartey Committee which investigated the bribery allegation against Parliament’s Appointments Committee, will not be immediately declared, the Speaker of...
Railway Development To Create Local Employment
The Minister for Railways Development, Joe Ghartey, has told Parliament that the development of the railway sector will create local jobs, especially for the people living in the constituencies the...