In an interview with Bola Ray on Starr Chat, Archbishop Nicolas Duncan Williams said he didn't have a smooth childhood including visit to many traditional shrines.  He indicated that he used to hear a lot of voices which he believed were a contention of the forces of ‘light and darkness’. He said that on that fateful night on which he lost his fingers, he heard some voices in his head.  He continued to say that the voices instructed him to light a candle and hold his fingers in the flame. The Man of God said that he obliged to the voice of the spirit thinking it was one of the sacrifices required to see him become successful.  When his fingers turned into ashes and the pain became unbearable, he screamed out alerting his siblings who rushed to the scene and took him to the hospital for medical assistance.   He was on admission at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital for months after the ‘ordeal’. The action led to the loss of his fingers. He indicat...

The time is here again. Anxious Junior High School leavers who are done with Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) are ready to check their Senior High School placement. The Mfantsipims, the Adiscos, the Gey Heys and co. All the best! You can check the SHS placement from the comfort of your phones. A total of 424, 092 candidates representing 92 per cent, who qualified have been posted to the various senior high schools across the country under the Computerised School Selection Placement System (CSSPS). From 8:00am today, candidates can log onto  www.myjhsresult.net  to know their SHS postings, a statement issued by the Ghana Education Service and signed by its acting Director General, Prof Kwasi Opoku-Amankwa said. Candidates who find any difficulty with their placement are advised to contact their Junior High Schools or the District/Regional Education Directorate for rectification.

Minister of Defence Mr Dominic Nitiwul has revealed that 10,000 national service personnel would be selected to embark on six months of military training as part of their national service next year. According to him, officials of the National Service Scheme (NSS) have already written to the military to inform them about the exercise. Mr Nitiwul made the revelation when he spoke to the media after appearing before the Public Account Committee (PAC) over the 2015 Auditor General’s Report. The PAC is currently holding public sittings on the Report of the Auditor General for the Public Accounts of Ghana for the year ended 31st December, 2015. Mr Nitiwul also stated that the law to allow service personnel to do military training already existed. He explained that the National Service Act allows service personnel to do two years of national service and six months of military training. He said the reason why for a long time the country could not undertake this programme was as a result of la...

The West African Examinations Council has released provisional results of the 2017 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) written in June. A statement issued by Waec on Monday said subject results of 1,298 candidates have been withheld while investigations are carried out. It said the Item Differentia Profile (IDP) software was used to detect cheating in the objective tests. Check it here

Bank of Ghana revokes UT Bank & Capital Bank licenses. GCB Bank to take over the two distressed entities. Says depositors need not panic. BoG approved a transaction that transfers all deposits & selected assets of UT Bank Ltd and Capital Bank Ltd to GCB Bank Ltd This action became necessary due to severe impairment of their capital The main offices and branches of UT Bank and Capital Bank will be under the control of GCB bank & will be opened at 1pm today.

Controversial Ghanaian actress Afia Schwarzenegger has been arrested for fraud according to a report on GhanaCelebrities . Afia is reported to have been arrested for defrauding Kiki Banson, singer Becca’s former manager. The actress is being held at the Nima Police Station, the report by GhanaCelebrities.com claims and has been charged with fraud, threatening, assault and insulting behaviour. Afia Schwarzenegger is married to Lawrence Abrokwah and has three children (two boys and a girl). via GhanaCelebrities

Aboagye Gyedu, a Deputy Health Minister, has said the quota allocated to public and private nursing training schools is an attempt to increase the quality of training and it has nothing to do with the payment of trainee allowances. Mr. Gyedu insisted that the quota put in place is to ensure and improvement of the quality of nurses. “We want to ensure that the training environment is optimum so that you come out with the best knowledge and skill that you need to serve our people.” Mr. Gyedu also stressed that “it has nothing to do with the payment of allowances that we promised our people.” Congestion is a major problem in these schools and in consultation with the Health Infrastructure Regulatory Authority and the Nurses and Midwifery Council, the government came up with this solution to the problem “What the nursing training colleges do is that, if you give them a quota, they exceed it. We are trying to be very firm, that this time around. In order to decongest the nursing and mid...

29 Ghanaians who recently accepted Jesus Christ as their Lord and Saviour have returned their SSCE/WASSCE results slips to the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) after they had confessed cheating in the examination. According to them, cheating in examination hall is a sin noting that as born again Christians they have decided to tender in their certificates in other to be forgiven by God. The examination body in a statement released after its 62nd National Examination Committee meeting recently, stated that the 29 certificates returned by the born again Christians were among the examination council’s results issued 32 and 33years ago respectively. They further disclosed that there were others which includes three that sat for the examinations in 2000, 2004, 2008, two each in 1992 and 2003 while one certificate each was returned by born again Christians who sat for the examination in 1984, 1985, 2001, 2002, 2005, 2006 and 2012. However, four certificates each were also retu...

The University of Cape Coast SMS on the 10th of August 2017 will hold a White Coat Ceremony to mark the transition of level 400 students from the study of preclinical to clinical health sciences. The White Coat ceremony, a ritual in medical school that involves a formal robbing of students in a doctor’s traditional wear, the white coat, will be the seventh to be organised by the UCCSMS, the first and only Medical School in Ghana that holds the ceremony. They are expected to take the medical students’ oath which reads in part that they will practice medicine to the highest standards of conduct and seek what is best for their patients without allowing greed or stinginess to corrupt them  8th  White Coat Ceremony Date: Thursday,10th August, 2017 Time: 9:00 Am Venue: School of Medical Sciences Auditorium

The Bank of Ghana (BoG) has sent a cautionary statement to the general public of Ghana not to deposit any money with Menzgold Company Limited, an investment company, because it has not been licensed. According to By ClassfmOnline.com,  Dr Johnson Asiamah ( A Deputy Governor of the Bank  ) appearing before the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Parliament on Tuesday August 8, 2017 noted that Ghanaians who defy this caution do that at their own risk. This warning comes on the heels of the yet to be settled infamous DKM and Jesta motors financial scandal where scores of traders were defrauded in some parts of the country. Dr Asiamah told the committee: “Only last week we caused a publication in the newspapers about Menzgold to the effect that we have not licensed them to accept deposits, because, to accept deposits, you will need a license from the Bank of Ghana. We have not licensed them and hence if you go ahead to do any business with them, it is at your own risk.” He add...

Ghanaian actress Juliet Ibrahim and her Nigerian boyfriend Iceberg Slim just made their relationship official. Juliet shared a lovely picture on her Instagram page wishing him a happy birthday. “A Joyous Birthday to the One that has taught me how to Love unconditionally and so effortlessly… I wish you God’s blessings in abundance, prosperity, long life, good health, everything positive life has in store for you, success in all your endeavours and above all; I pray for God’s protection as we embark on this journey together… Happy one year anniversary to us as well… @iamicebergslim” They got two sets of matching tattoos, one of which are single hearts on their inner-wrist. The couple also had a little impromptu photo shoot, see all the photos below, courtesy BellaNaija.

Bawku Central MP Mahama Ayariga has immediate plans of going to court if public universities do not use the proper channels and seek Parliamentary approval for fees they charge. This came as a result of university authorities instructing students to pay what The MP described as “illegal” fees. The University Students Association of Ghana early on made a statement informing all students of public tertiary institutions not to pay their recently increased fees for the 2017/2018 academic year until Parliament approves the increase. Mr. Ayariga, who is now in opposition after his party, the NDC suffered a terrible defeat in the 2016 general elections said “it is important for Parliament to exercise oversight because with public universities government financing is going into them and so if you are charging fees we need to know exactly what the fees are for.” “By law…all public institutions that are rendering service and charging for the service will have to bring their fees and charges to ...

Peter Mac Manu a lead member of Democratic Union of Africa (DUA) International Observers to Kenya’s General Elections to be held next week Tuesday, has been deported three days to the elections. Mr. Mac Manu arrived in Ghana on Saturday morning after he was refused entry into the country by security officers.