A maths-skills gap among Ghanaian pupils is getting a direct challenge from an academic contest that just pulled in 22-plus schools from the Northern Sector.
2026 Perfect Series contest overview
Perfect Star Media runs the competition nationwide.
Pastor Philip Sarpong created and heads the initiative.
Over 22 Northern Sector schools signed up this round.
Auditions kicked off at Kumasi Anglican Senior High School.
Maths struggles are driving the mission
Strong English and Science scores contrast with a maths weakness.
Sarpong called the maths performance gap genuinely worrying.
Rote-learning culture is a core target for disruption.
Critical thinking and practical problem-solving get prioritized.
Competition structure and expansion...
Ghana's Volta Region scored a glowing endorsement from India's outgoing envoy, who compared its eco-tourism potential to Kerala's globally famous appeal.
Gupta's love affair with the Volta Region
Shri Manish Gupta named it his favorite Ghanaian destination.
Climbing Mount Afadjato on a rainy day was a personal highlight.
Gupta drew direct comparisons to Kerala in India.
Structured hiking needs a premium-product upgrade, he argued.
Volta Region's eco-tourism assets
Mount Afadjato tops out at roughly 885 metres.
Wli Falls holds the title of West Africa's tallest waterfall.
Over 300 butterfly species inhabit the forest trails.
Paragliding and eco-lodge investments are under discussion.
Western Region gets a shoutout
Nzulezu's stilt...
A conditional ceasefire pledge from Tehran landed after retaliatory strikes rattled Gulf states and grounded flights across the region.
Iran's conditional halt on neighbor strikes
President Masoud Pezeshkian confirmed the interim council's decision.
Neighboring countries stay safe unless attacks are launched from their soil.
Pezeshkian framed it as a de-escalation move publicly.
Gulf states hit in retaliatory wave
Iran lobbed missiles and drones at the UAE, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia.
Coordinated U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iranian targets triggered that response.
Dubai International Airport temporarily shut down operations.
Airspace closures disrupted major international flight routes.
Regional security is on high alert
Gulf governments...
Identity-driven conflicts got a pointed rebuke at State House Entebbe as Museveni hosted the Muslim community for an Iftar dinner.
Museveni pushes global justice message
President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni championed a two-state solution.
His remarks targeted identity-based political friction worldwide.
Museveni privately lobbied Middle Eastern leaders for dialogue.
Wealthy nations got told to bankroll poorer regions.
Uganda's sectarian history revisited
Museveni traced instability back to 1962 religious-line politics.
Fragile alliances from that era crumbled into conflict.
Rejecting tribal and ethnic division built lasting stability.
Economic cooperation got framed as the real prosperity engine.
Alupo and Among weigh in
Vice...
Humanitarian operations in Kordofan are grinding to a halt as drone strikes hammer hospitals and supply routes linking key Sudanese cities.
Kordofan violence is spiraling fast
Dilling General Hospital took a drone hit this week.
At least four patients died in that strike.
El Obeid endured five straight days of attacks.
Homes and medical facilities got wrecked repeatedly.
Aid access is shrinking drastically
Stéphane Dujarric flagged tightening humanitarian corridors.
The Kosti-to-El Obeid road faces growing threats.
Commercial supply chains are buckling under disruptions.
Dujarric pushed all sides to respect civilian protections.
Sudan's broader catastrophe persists
Fighting between SAF and RSF kicked off in April 2023.
Famine risk...
A Shs21 million bag snatch flopped spectacularly in Najeera after cops stationed nearby collared the suspect on the spot.
Botched robbery in Najeera
Wagaba Hussen, 27, allegedly swiped a bank withdrawal bag.
Nakawomne Deborah had pulled Shs21 million from Ntinda.
Officers nabbed Hussen right beside a police station.
His motorcycle-riding accomplice bolted through traffic.
Recovery and detention status
Police got every shilling of the Shs21 million back.
Hussen sits locked up at Najeera Police Station.
Investigators are chasing down the escaped rider.
Stolen auto-parts raid in Kampala
Six suspects got busted in the Kisekka area.
Jinja Road Police Station officers ran the operation.
Seized items covered grills, mirrors, and number...
A nationwide health-training exam covering 100,272 candidates just wrapped in Uganda, and certificate-level trainees absolutely smashed it at 95.8%.
Second national TVET assessment scale
Uganda Health Professions Assessment Board tested 100,272 trainees.
Exams spanned 215 accredited sites in total.
Continuing candidates hit 81,230 this round.
Final-semester trainees numbered 19,042.
Certificate-level pass rates
Some 13,089 of 13,665 certificate candidates passed.
Distinction-level results clocked in at 17.6%.
Credit grades covered a whopping 73.2%.
Only 215 trainees bombed the cutoff.
Diploma-level pass rates
Around 4,469 of 5,377 diploma candidates cleared.
The distinction sat at a slim 3.5%.
Credit-level grades landed at 67%...
A village photographer's hidden life story surfaced years after his death, revealing 12 wives and 47 children that nobody in the community fully knew about.
Memories of Love Returned premieres in Kampala
The documentary debuted at Century Cinemax in Acacia Mall.
Ntare Mwine produced the film about photographer Aloysious Kibaate.
Their 2002 meeting in Mbirizi happened after a car breakdown.
Kibaate handed over tens of thousands of negatives for safekeeping.
Decades of community history get digitized
Mwine shipped the negatives to the US for preservation.
Kibaate had photographed weddings, funerals, and daily life for years.
A 2021 exhibition in Mbirizi reunited families with lost images.
Muguzi Lubyayi's son saw his late father's...
A 415-vote parliamentary win is Anita Among's rebuttal to anyone calling her an accidental Speaker, and she is already eyeing the 12th Parliament.
Among fires back at Norbert Mao's jab
Speaker Anita Among rejected the accidental Speaker label.
Mao previously argued that unforeseen circumstances elevated her.
Among took office in 2022 after Jacob Oulanyah's death.
She insists 415 MPs legitimized her through a proper vote.
Eyes locked on the 12th Parliament
Among declared, she will retain the speakership next term.
Thomas Tayebwa stays on as her Deputy Speaker pick.
President Museveni and the NRM already endorsed both candidates.
Political positioning is intensifying ahead of the transition.
Women's Day push targets sanitary-pad...
