2 w. ago Ashaiman SHS, Accra Wesley Girls shine at Speak Up 1.0 grand finale

Ashaiman Senior High School and Accra Wesley Girls Senior High School emerged among the standout performers at the grand finale of Speak Up 1.0, an interschool debate and public speaking competition organised by the Ghana Education Service (GES) with support from T-TEL and Speech Forces.

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2 w. ago Wesley Girls’ Old Girls reject claims of religious discrimination

The Wesley Girls’ High School Old Girls’ Association (OGA) has dismissed recent allegations of religious discrimination at the school, describing them as unfounded and inconsistent with the institution’s long-standing record of inclusivity.

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2 w. ago Legal challenge against Wesley Girls High School forces Ghana Supreme Court to define boundaries of religious liberty

The lawsuit against Wesley Girls Senior High School (SHS) in Ghana is a pivotal Supreme Court case. It challenges the boundaries of religious freedom and institutional rights under Ghana's 1992 Constitution. The central legal question is whether a school, founded on Christian principles by the Methodist Church and substantially state-funded, can restrict the religious practices of its minority Muslim students. This conflict occurs in a national context where 71.3% of the population is Christian and 19.9% is Muslim, highlighting the significance of minority accommodation.

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2 w. ago Christian Council of Ghana appeals to plaintiff in Wesley Girls’ case to seek amicable, out

The Christian Council of Ghana has called on Shafic Osman, the plaintiff in a high-profile legal dispute over religious expression in mission schools, to step away from the courtroom and pursue a peaceful, dialogue-based resolution.

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3 w. ago Let students worship freely – Nana Yaa Jantuah calls for religious tolerance at Wesley Girls

Senior presidential staffer, Nana Yaa Jantuah, has urged stakeholders to focus on tolerance and respect for worship amid the ongoing controversy over religious rights at Wesley Girls Senior High School. In an exclusive interview on the AM Show, she said students attending faith-based schools must adhere to school rules, but provisions should exist to allow them to practice their religion freely.

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3 w. ago Wesley Girls Brouhaha: Ghanaians should pause for reflections on religio

News Ghana, Latest Updates and Breaking News of Ghana, Prosper Kay, https://www.newsghana.com.gh/wesley-girls-brouhaha-ghanaians-should-pause-for-reflections-on-religio-political-illusions-jacob-osei-yeboah-writes/First and foremost, as a Christian, I was born and raised at yalewa Zongo, a typical Muslim dominant community in Kumasi within Zongo police station’s enclave. Multiparty/partisan democracy as I keep on asserting, is oxymoronic. It makes us lose our humanity, and we begin to believe in illusions under the matrix of control of neocolonialists […] News Ghana, Latest Updates and Breaking News of Ghana, Prosper Kay, https://www.newsghana.com.gh/wesley-girls-brouhaha-ghanaians-should-pause-for-reflections-on-religio-political-illusions-jacob-osei-yeboah-writes/

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4 w. ago ‘Wesley Girls asks students to spy on Muslim girls so they don’t pray’ – Interior Minister alleges

Interior Minister Muntaka Mubarak has raised concerns over what he describes as growing intolerance within both Christian and Muslim faith-based schools across the country. He cautioned that such practices risk deepening division and undermining Ghana’s longstanding culture of religious coexistence.

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4 w. ago Wesley Girls’ brouhaha can degenerate our society into something else – Interior Minister warns

Interior Minister Muntaka Mubarak has issued a stark warning over the ongoing controversy surrounding alleged restrictions on Muslim students at Wesley Girls’ High School.

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4 w. ago The Wesley Girls Controversy: Hijab, Fasting, and the Missionary Heritage

When news broke that some Muslim students at Wesley Girls (and by extension other Christian mission-founded schools) are claiming they have been barred from observing their religious obligations - wearing the hijab, fasting during Ramadan, or attending to Islamic rites, the uproar has forced Ghanaians to ask: how do we reconcile the religious identity of our historic mission schools with constitutional religious freedom?

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4 w. ago Wesley Girls Religious Rights Debate Intensifies Across Ghana

News Ghana, Latest Updates and Breaking News of Ghana, News Ghana, https://www.newsghana.com.gh/wesley-girls-religious-rights-debate-intensifies-across-ghana/The Wesley Girls Senior High School religious rights controversy has sparked a national conversation involving political leaders, religious figures, legal experts and educators as Ghana grapples with questions about religious freedom, mission school identity and constitutional obligations. The debate gained momentum after the Supreme Court on November 25 directed the school to respond within 14 […] News Ghana, Latest Updates and Breaking News of Ghana, News Ghana, https://www.newsghana.com.gh/wesley-girls-religious-rights-debate-intensifies-across-ghana/

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4 w. ago Why is President Mahama silent on Wesley Girls’ brouhaha?” – Egyapa Mercer asks

Former Sekondi MP, Andrew Egyapa Mercer, has questioned President John Mahama’s silence on the escalating controversy surrounding religious rights at Wesley Girls’ High School.

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4 w. ago Wesley Girls’ saga: Mission schools must not be weakened for their decades of investment – Prof. Bokpin

Economist and Finance Professor at the University of Ghana, Professor Godfred Bokpin, has urged the government and the public to approach current debates on religious rights in mission schools with caution, warning that any reforms must not erode the identity or long-standing investments made by these institutions.

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4 w. ago Wesley Girls’ case: Inusah Fuseini links current education tensions to colonial legacy

Former Tamale Central MP, Inusah Fuseini, has argued that longstanding educational disparities between religious groups in Ghana are rooted not in choice but in the country’s colonial history.

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