Archive for stories on education within the Ghanaian Muslim community.

Sakafia Islamic Senior High School Wins the 2025 Zayed Sustainability Prize

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates—Sakafia Islamic Senior High School, located in Kumasi, Ghana, has been named winner of the 2025 Zayed Sustainability Prize in the Global High Schools—Sub-Saharan Africa category.

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Muslim lawyer challenges religious policies of Wesley Girls SHS at Supreme Court

A private legal practitioner, Shafic Osman has filed a suit against Wesley Girls Senior High School challenging the school’s policies that has allegedly discriminated against female Muslim students for many

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Ghanaian contestant places first at maiden African Hadith competition

Accra: Muhammad Kamal, a Ghanaian contestant at the maiden edition of the Mohammed VI Foundation for African Oulema (Scholars) Noble Prophetic Hadith competition, has been declared a category winner.  The

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Ghana Muslim Mission dedicates 64th national conference to TVET and STEM education

Accra: The Ghana Muslim Mission (GMM) has dedicated its 64th annual national conference to the promotion of Technical Vocational Education Training (TVET) and Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) in

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Language expert advocates review of Arabic pedagogy in Ghanaian schools

Kumasi: Dr. Adam Umar Yebila, an Arabic language expert, has called on stakeholders to review the processes and procedures for teaching and learning the Arabic language in Ghanaian schools. He

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Quba wins football tourney at 2024 inter-madrasa games

Accra: Quba, an Islamic school located at Nima, a suburb of Accra, has emerged as the winner of a football competition involving 20 madrasas (Islamic schools) in the Greater Accra

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Peace Dawah Media raise over GHS 500,000 for Islamic school for the blind project

Accra : Peace Dawah Media, a not-for-profit organisation, has raised an amount of GH₵524,013.98 as of June 2024 for the construction of a one-story, 8-unit classroom block as part of

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Imam advocates use of mosques as learning centres for students

Accra: Sheikh Mohammed Salman, the Imam of Madina West in the Madina Constituency of the Greater Accra region, has urged Muslim students within the Zango communities to consider mosques as

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Bawumia, Mahama promise to establish Islamic colleges of education

Accra: The flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, has become the latest flagbearer of a political party to promise the establishment of Islamic Colleges of Education

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Muslim pupil fails to overturn school prayer ban in UK Court

London: A Muslim pupil in the United Kingdom has lost a court challenge against a top London school’s ban on prayer rituals in a case about freedom of religion in

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