The strike by members of the Civil and Local Government Staff Association, Ghana (CLOGSAG), in demand for the payment of their neutrality allowances continues this week. CLOGSAG laid down their tools on Thursday April 21, 2022, following the inability of government to pay the allowance as agreed upon in January …
Read More »Level 200 KNUST student murdered for demanding monies owed him by a friend
A level 200 student of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) has been murdered at Sewua in the Ashanti Region. Nana Gyamfi is said to have been murdered by his friend Emmanuel Boateng after he demanded monies owed him. Emmanuel who is a very good friend of …
Read More »Retract insensitive comments – KNUST PRO ‘fired’
Joshua Opey, General Secretary of the National Union of Ghana Students (NUGS), has called on the University Relations Officer of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Dr. Daniel Norris Bekoe, to withdraw his comments about students deferred by the institution. According to Joshua Opey, the comments of …
Read More »Gov’t begins disbursement of ¢67M to Colleges of Education for feeding trainees
The Chairman of the Conference of Principals of Colleges of Education (PRINCOF), Dr. Emmanuel Nyamekye has confirmed that some colleges have begun receiving their cheques for their feeding grants as announced by the government. Government through the Education Ministry on Wednesday, April 20, announced that some GH¢ 67 million have …
Read More »KNUST reinstates over 3,550 of the 6,000 deferred students
The management of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) has disclosed that it has reinstated over 3,550 of the 6,000 students whose programmes were deferred due to their inability to pay 70 percent of their fees. According to the authorities, the students who have been reinstated made …
Read More »Tears as teacher, 36, perishes in ghastly accident
Sylvia Etornam Gbormita, a teacher at the Border Basic School at Aflao in the Ketu South Municipality of the Volta Region, has died in what many has described as a freak road accident. Etornam, as she was popularly called, died on Friday, April 8, 2022, in an accident that left …
Read More »Deferred students have a month to pay fees – KNUST
The Management of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) has once again extended the deadline for payment of fees for deferred students by a month. According to the Institution, the decision follows a meeting with the Minister for Education, Yaw Adutwum and other stakeholders held today April 22, …
Read More »Turn students with aggregate 25 into 1st class if you you’re best – Dr. Adutwum tells PRESEC, Wesley Girls
The Education Minister Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum has said Grade A Senior High Schools including Presbyterian Boys Secondary School (PRESEC Legon) and Wesley Girls’ Senior High School in Cape Coast must be willing to accept students with aggregate 20 or 25 and make them first class students. He said the …
Read More »GIJ graduation chaos: Graduands demonstrate, family members run for shelter
The Ghana Institute of Journalism (GIJ) on Thursday, April 21, 2022, organized the 15th congregation for its graduating students. The graduands protested the institution’s management’s poor planning of the ceremony when the rain forced them to vacate the durbar. The fresh students who were also scheduled for lectures got disappointed …
Read More »Teacher trainees directed to feed themselves starting May 8
The National Conference of Principals of Colleges of Education – Ghana (PRINCOF) has directed that teacher trainees start to fund their own feeding from May 8. This directive is in response to the inability of Colleges of Education to make payments for food items supplied to them. According to PRINCOF, …
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