A building under construction on the Sagnarigu City Campus of the University for Development Studies (UDS) has caved in. The Saturday accident happened during a rainstorm. There were no casualties. The collapse of the six-storey structure is the third building accident in a week. Two separate 3-storey buldings collapsed days …
Read More »Military storms UDS City campus in Tamale after NEDCo staff held hostage for disconnection over GHS 447,000 debt
Armed military personnel on Thursday intervened in a standoff between staff of Northern Electricity Distribution Company (NEDCo) and some management of the University for Development Studies City Campus in Tamale. This occurred when personnel from the Northern Electricity Distribution Company disconnected the University over failure to settle years of debt, …
Read More »UDS: SSA, GAUA, TEWU on indefinite strike
The Executive Councils of the Senior Staff Association (SSA)-UoG, Ghana Association of University Administrators (GAUA) and the Teachers Educational and Workers’ Union (TEWU) at the University for Development Studies (UDS) have declared an indefinite industrial strike. The strike, which is against management of the UDS takes effect today, Wednesday, 10 …
Read More »UDS Senior staff declare strike May 12 over administrative rules
The strike according to the association follows the refusal of management of the university to implement recommendations of the GTEC The Senior Staff Association of the University for Development Studies (UDS) has issued a notice ofan intended indefinite strike against the managers of the university from Thursday, 12 May 2022. …
Read More »Over 11,000 students refuse admission to UDS
Out of the 16,763 applications offered by the University for Development Studies (UDS) to applicants to study various undergraduate programs in the 2020-2021 academic year, only 5,518 honoured the admission to study in the university. This was disclosed by the Vice-Chancellor of the UDS, Professor Gabriel Ayum Teye at the …
Read More »Nana Konadu shows happiness as Akufo-Addo announces UDS renaming after her husband
The President of Ghana Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has announced that the University for Development Studies, Tamale will be named after Jerry John Rawlings to honour his memory as Mrs Rawlings clapped. Rawlings while alive rejected an offer for the University which he supported to establish be named after him because he had a …
Read More »Akufo-Addo Insists On Renaming UDS After Rawlings Despite His Rejection
Despite his previous rejection, President Akufo-Addo has re-proposed the renaming of the University for Development Studies (UDS) after late former President Jerry John Rawlings. Former President Rawlings declined an earlier offer from the Akufo-Addo government for the university to be named after him when the proposal was made in 2017. …
Read More »Rejected Student by KNUST and UG now Graduates as a Medical Doctor from UDS Medical School
Senior Dr. Douglas Antwi was born in a community called Chine in the Bibiani Anhwiaso Bekwai District and come from Edwinase- Kokofu. He grew up in Sefwi Surano, a village in the mining area of the Bibiani Anhwiaso Bekwai District, where he had his primary school education at Sefwi Surano …
Read More »List of student loan defaulters from UG, UDS, UCC, KNUST, others published by SLTF
The Board and Management of Student Loan Trust Fund (SLTF) has taken a decision to release the full list of defaulters of the Government of Ghana Student Loan Trust Fund scheme before going to court to retrieve the money, MyNewsGh.com has learnt. The list which captures defaulters as far back …
Read More »UDS appeals for completion of projects
The Vice Chancellor of the University for Development Studies (UDS), Professor Gabriel Ayum Teye, has appealed for the early completion of ongoing infrastructural projects in the university to ensure the smooth take-off of the Wa and Navrongo campuses as autonomous universities. He noted that the completion of ongoing projects would …
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