The National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT) has disclosed that 38 teachers at Obuasi Senior High Technical School were targeted for transfer after speaking out about sexual misconduct allegations involving the school’s headmaster, Zakaria Abdulai. NAGRAT President Jacob Anaba said the teachers were directed to leave the school in September 2026, following the emergence of allegations reportedly dating back to 2025. Speaking on Citi Prime News on Tuesday, October 20, Mr Anaba said the directive was communicated through the assistant headmaster, who indicated that it had come from the District Director. He added that no reasons were given for the…
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The Ghana Education Service (GES) has directed the Ashanti Regional Director of Education, Dr William Amankrah Appiah, and the Obuasi Municipal Director of Education, Mr Kwamena Owusu-Nketiah, to step aside with immediate effect as investigations continue into sexual misconduct allegations involving the headmaster of Obuasi Senior High Technical School (SHTS), Mr Zakaria Abdulai. In a statement issued on Tuesday, October 20, 2026, GES said the decision was intended to ensure that the ongoing investigation proceeds without interference or any perception of interference. The two directors have been instructed to hand over their offices and all state property in their possession…
The recently published exposé by investigative journalist, Manasseh Azure Awuni, has uncovered further details surrounding allegations of sexual misconduct against the headmaster of Obuasi Senior High Technical School (SHTS), Zakaria Abdulai, including an account by the school’s housemistress and the intervention of the Obuasi East Municipal Chief Executive (MCE), William Kofi Adjaho, popularly known as Biggy. According to Manasseh, who led the investigation, allegations against Abdulai began emerging within a month of his appointment in April 2025. A secret audio recording intercepted during the investigation reportedly captured the housemistress, Stephanie Adjoa Yeboah, recounting an incident in which the MCE went…
Nigerian media personality Kiki Osinbajo has challenged men who believe women must submit to them simply because they are men, insisting that marriage does not give husbands authority over every woman they encounter. Kiki criticised arguments suggesting that women should automatically defer to men regardless of their relationship with them. She was particularly displeased with a podcast discussion in which a young man reportedly argued that a woman should respect a man in a disagreement simply because he is male. Kiki questioned the reasoning behind such expectations, making it clear that she did not believe marriage or gender entitled men…
The Ghana Gold Board earned more foreign exchange in September than the entire country spent on imports in an average month this year, figures from the Board and the Bank of Ghana show, underlining how heavily the economy and the cedi have come to rely on a single state agency and a single metal. GoldBod generated US$1.871 billion from its trade in gold from small-scale miners in September, well above its monthly target of US$1.4 billion. By comparison, Ghana’s merchandise imports totaled US$13.58 billion in the first eight months of 2026, an average of about US$1.70 billion a month, according…
Ghanaian forward Mohammed Kudus has suffered a fresh injury after appearing to pick up a knock during Tottenham Hotspur’s 3-1 victory over Coventry City on October 19, 2026. The Black Stars attacker was seen limping towards the end of the encounter, raising concerns about his fitness and his availability for Ghana’s upcoming Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) qualifiers. Kudus featured on the right wing for Tottenham and delivered an impressive performance, using his pace, dribbling ability and movement to trouble Coventry’s defence. The Ghanaian played a key role in the opening goal, collecting the ball near the centre circle in…
Ofoase-Ayirebi MP Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has demanded a detailed account of the GH¢650 billion he says Parliament approved through two budgets for the government’s economic programmes before it seeks additional funding for its proposed $10 billion “new economy” initiative. The Ranking Member on Parliament’s Economy and Development Committee said the government had yet to properly account for the jobs and other results delivered by its existing programmes, including the 24-hour economy, poultry development and the one million coders initiative. Speaking about the proposal, Oppong Nkrumah said the government must first show Ghanaians what it had achieved with the resources already…
The National Charmian of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), John Boadu, has said he has produced more than 1,000 Members of Parliament in the party. According to him, his efforts were not motivated by personal gains but by his desire to see the party win elections. “I have produced over 1,000 MPs, and I have not even sat in any of their cars before. What personal gains have I got? None,” he said in an interview on Lawson TV monitored by GhanaWeb on October 20, 2026. According to him, some of the MPs he had helped politically even later turned…
The trial of Safina Mohammed Adizatu, popularly known as Safina Diamond, who is accused of murdering her Canadian-based boyfriend, Frank Kofi Osei, is expected to begin on January 12, 2027, with the prosecution set to call its first witness before an Accra High Court. The state is expected to present nine witnesses in the case, which dates back to July 2022, when the 37-year-old Ghanaian resident in Canada was found dead at Ashaley Botwe in Accra. Safina, a former Level 100 Biological Science student at the University of Ghana, Legon, has pleaded not guilty to the murder charge before a…
An angry woman caused drama on live television after allegedly slapping another woman she accused of being pregnant for her husband. The incident occurred during an episode of Oyerepa Afutuo, where the two women were engaged in a heated exchange over their alleged relationship with the same man. A snippet of the programme, sighted by GhanaWeb, showed the women trading words before the aggrieved woman, who accused her rival of being pregnant for her husband, suddenly slapped her across the face. The host of the programme immediately called for the police to be invited to arrest the woman over the…