THE planned reopening of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) yesterday has been put on hold. This follows the continuous stand-off between government and labour unions over the composition of the governing council as the unions are accusing the government of undue interference. Government’s action, according to the unions, “is setting a bad precedent” and urged it [...] The post Date

Regional Advisory Information and Network Systems (RAINS) in collaboration with Hope for Children, has donated school uniforms and teaching and learning materials to schools at Selinvoya and Loagri-Kukua in the Northern Region. The donation, funded by DFID, was part of their effort to help improve the quality of education in the community and contribute towards the Community Action and Support [...] The post RAINS

Professor Ebenezer Oduro Owusu, the Vice-Chancellor (VC) of the University of Ghana (UG) has urged the Catholic University College of Ghana (CUCG) to promote quality research to enhance its visibility and relevance in Ghana and beyond. Prof. Owusu was speaking at the University’s 17th Congregation and 26th Matriculation joint ceremonies at Fiapre in the Sunyani West District of the Brong-Ahafo Region [...] The post ‘Catholic

The Pope of the Orthodox Church and Patriarch of Alexandria and all of Africa, His Beatitude Theodoros II on Saturday inaugurated a computer lab for the St Peter’s Orthodox Business College in Larteh. The computer laboratory fitted with about 30 computers was aimed at helping the students and the community at large to study and conduct research on their field [...] The post Orthodox Pope inaugurates

About 20,100 marginalised Ghanaian girls from six regions in the country have benefited from an international funded programme to improve their lives through education. The targeted groups between the ages of 10 to 19 have not attended school or drop out of school. The Strategic Approaches to Girls Education (STAGE) project initiated by World Education International (WEI), a private voluntary [...] The post Govt

The Executive Director of the Centre for Democratic Development (CDD), Professor Kwesi Prempeh, has asked for a more united, committed and louder call for the removal of corrupt officials to compel the government to take swift action.   “If the calls for action from ordinary Ghanaians and non-political actors are united, louder, massive and committed than that of political activists, the government will be [...] The post CDD:

A former Dean of the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) Law School, Kofi Abotsi, has observed that Parliament has over the years failed the citizenry due to its inability to keep the executive arm of government accountable.   He accused the legislature of being more concerned about protecting partisan and executive interest rather than that of the [...] The post Parliament

The Yendi Municipal Assembly in the Northern Region has held a town hall meeting to outline the performance of government and aspirations of the people. It was the second in a series of meetings to be organised in the municipality and also a means for people in authority at the local and national levels to interact with the citizenry, while [...] The post Yendi Assembly holds town hall meeting

Kwesi Jonah, a Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Democratic Governance (IDEG), has suggested to the government to set up a District Development Fund (DDF) and an Urban Development Grant (UDG) to sustain local assemblies under the proposed local governance reforms. He explained that that was necessary because donors in the local governance sector were folding up, hence the need for [...] The post IDEG:

The Greater Accra and Eastern Regions are to be the biggest beneficiary of the One- District-One-Factory initiative as they currently have a total of 36 projects at various stages of implementation. The Greater Accra Region has 22 while the Eastern Region has 14 projects, all underway. This figure is almost double as the second and fourth largest beneficiaries of the [...] The post ‘G/A,

Emeritus Professor Kwame Ninsin of the Department of Political Science, University of Ghana, has underscored every citizen deserve to enjoy equal privileges, respect and rights in order to sustain democratic development. “Equals rights, privileges and respect for every citizen irrespective of social status will recalibrate human development to improve the lives of the citizenry,” he noted. Prof Ninsin made the [...] The post Citizenry

Counting of votes from a presidential poll was underway in Madagascar early yesterday with former leader Andry Rajoelina commanding a slim lead in early results from a small number of polling stations. Preliminary results from the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) released early yesterday from about a hundred polling stations out of more than twenty four thousand showed Rajoelina ahead of [...] The post Ex-leader

Students kidnapped from a boarding school in Cameroon’s restive North-West region have been reunited with their parents amid joyful scenes. The 78 boys and girls and three others were seized early on Monday in the region’s capital, Bamenda. A driver was also freed, but the principal and a teacher are still being held. The government and English-speaking separatists have accused [...] The post Freed

Hundreds of buffaloes have drowned in a river on the border between Botswana and Namibia. Early investigations suggest the herd was being chased by lions and ran into the river, say Botswana authorities. A local lodge owner told the BBC that it looks like the buffaloes then got stuck because the bank on the other side of the river was [...] The post Hundreds of buffaloes drown ‘fleeing

MEMBERS of Parliament (MP) with a common voice have called for amicable solution to the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) impasse, for academic life to resume.   According to the lawmakers, the stand-off at the KNUST was not in the interest of both students and management of the university, hence the need to reach a common ground [...] The post MPs call

The Ashaiman Police on Tuesday gunned down a robber, Ibrahim Shaban, 26, in a shootout.   Shaban, who was released from jail (where he was being held for murder and robbery) about a month ago through the justice for all programme, had embarked on another robbery, when the incident occurred.   Briefing journalists yesterday about the incident, the Tema Regional [...] The post Ashaiman police