A Senior Lecturer at the University of Ghana Business School Dr. Kobby Mensah says President Akufo-Addo has eroded his incorruptibility tag with his proceed on leave directive to the Auditor-General. According to him, the President can no longer convince the citizenry during campaigning that he is incorruptible. It comes after …
Read More »UG students call for identity of colleague who tested positive for coronavirus
Some students of the University of Ghana are asking for the name of their colleague who tested positive for the novel coronavirus. The students believe that this will help other persons who may have come into contact with the infected student to subject themselves to the necessary screenings. They believe …
Read More »UG SRC President risks impeachment for ‘blowing’ over GHS 66,000
The General Assembly (GA) of the University of Ghana, has given the President of the Students Representative Council (SRC), Isaac Agyemang seven days to account for GH¢ 66,138 of students’ dues that have been withdrawn without approval. Proceedings on the floor of the General Assembly last Friday grinded to a …
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 »UG Vice-Chancellor is misogynistic – Andrea Pizziconi backtracks
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Africa Integras, Andrea Pizziconi, has backtracked on her earlier accusation which suggested that the Vice-Chancellor (VC) of University of Ghana (UG), Professor Ebenezer Oduro-Owusu, sexually harassed her. According to her, the Professor never harassed nor did she ever say in her earlier tweet that …
Read More »University of Ghana lecturers sacked over ‘sex-for-grades’ – Dean of Students
The Dean of Student Affairs of the University of Ghana, Professor Godfred Alufar Bokpin, has said the institution frowns on ‘sex-for-grades’, a reason it has in the last three years dismissed lecturers who have been found guilty in that regard. Prof. Bokpin in an interview with GhanaWeb on the heels …
Read More »I’m so happy, best news ever – Victim happy over Gyampo, Butakor ‘sex for grades’ ordeal
A victim of sexual harassment, Ms Gloria Adona, has described the BBC’s undercover documentary which captured two University of Ghana lecturers, Prof Ransford Gyampo and Dr Paul Kwame Butakor, allegedly sexually harassing a female reporter who posed as a student, as the “best news” she has heard ever. Ms Adona …
Read More »Vandals threaten to stage ‘intellectual walk’ over UG accommodation challenges
Students of the University of Ghana’s Commonwealth Hall have threatened to embark on an intellectual walk should government fail to take action on their demands on issues of accommodation in the university. Addressing the press on the perennial accommodation challenges facing the University, the JCR President of the hall, Prince …
Read More »University of Ghana interdicts Ransford Gyampo, Paul Butakor
Professor Ransford Gyampo and Professor Paul Kwame Butakor have been interdicted by the University of Ghana following the BBC’s “Sex for Grades” documentary. A press statement copied to Ghanaweb states that two lecturers will be invited by the Anti-Sexual Harassment Committee for investigations. “Given that commitment, the Business and Executive …
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