Michael Kenetey Kofi

WAEC SUED OVER PAPER LEAKAGE Story by Michael Kenetey A Civil Society Organisation, Africa Education Watch, has sued the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) over the publication of a list of contact details of examiners for the 2020 WASSCE on social media.  The organisation, in a suit filed at the Accra High Court yesterday argued that the conduct of WAEC can compromise the just ended 2020 WASSCE results.  In its statement of claim, the plaintiff argued that although WAEC has apologized and assured the public that what was leaked was not the final markers list, an SMS making the rounds suggests that the names on the leaked document have been invited to attend a coordination and conference marking of the 2020 WASSCE scripts.  This, according to Africa Education Watch, is an indictment on WAEC and raises credibility and integrity issues about the marking standards of the 2020 WASSCE.  The group is therefore praying the court to among other things order WAEC to hal...

Story by Michael Kenetey BECE KICK START IN KOFORIDUA. Junior High Schools (JHS) pupils in the country began their Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) today.  Our reporter in the Eastern Region visited three examination centres in the New Juaben North and South Municipalities namely Koforidua Senior Technical School, Ghana Senior High School, and Oyoko Methodist Senior High School to find out how the exams were going on.  As at 8:45am when our correspondent got to the Koforidua Secondary Technical School, pupils were fully prepared to take their first paper which was English Language.    According to the Supervisor at Koforidua SecTech centre, Nicholas Odame Gyane,  the centre is divided into A and B, with Centre A having twelve schools with Six Hundred and fifteen pupils, while Centre B is made up of thirteen schools with Two hundred and eighty-three candidates.  He added as of the time our correspondent got there, they had not encountered ...

 Story by Michael Kenetey  OVER 400 PEOPLE DIED OF STROKE IN THE EASTERN REGION. The New Juaben North Municipal Health Director, Nana Yaa Konadu has disclosed that over 400 and ten people died of Stroke, while 200 and 69 others died from hypertension in hospitals across the Eastern Region in 2019.  Speaking to the media in Koforidua to mark this year’s World Heart Day today/yesterday to highlight the devastating effects of Cardiovascular Diseases (CVD) and the need to prevent and Control Stroke, she said stroke related mortality in the region is on the high since 2017, stressing that reported cases of cardiovascular disease was more than six thousand cases reported.  She further stated that in 2018 the cases went up to more than seven thousand, 900 cases, while in 2019, over nine thousand cases were reported in the region.  On management and prevention of Cardiovascular Disease and Stroke, she said lifestyle modifications is the way to go to prevent and control ...