Ras Mubarak, Member of Parliament (MP) for Kumbungu, has appealed to Parliament and political parties in Ghana to adopt the gender quota system in favour of females to increase women representation in the Legislature. According to him, Ghana can learn from the examples of Rwanda, which has the highest number of female Members of Parliament (MPs) in the world. The …

Nine candidates, three males and six females failed to report for the 2019 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) at the Twene Amanfo Senior High/Technical School (TASTECH) cluster of examination centers in Sunyani. The examination supervisors could however not assign reasons for the candidates not turning up when the Ghana News Agency (GNA) visited the ‘TASTECH A’, ‘TASTECH B’ ‘TASTECH C’ …

Four pregnant girls are taking part in this year’s Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) in the Tarkwa-Nsueam Municipality of the Western Region as against thirteen in 2018. Seventeen candidates, made up of ten girls and seven boys did not show up for the examination. On the issue of absenteeism, 16 out of the total figure recorded were dropouts while one …