Author: Krobea

Twenty-five candidates of the Akropong School for the Blind in the Eastern Region have had their concerns met as they have been placed under the Computerized School Selection and Placement System (CSSPS) after a month. Onua FM’s Yen Sempa on Thursday, October 2 reported that barely one month after the Ghana Education Service (GES) began the process for the placement of students who passed their Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) into Senior High Schools (SHS), the 25 candidates of the Akropong School for the Blind in the Eastern Region were yet to placed. CSSPS: 25 Akropong School for the Blind students…

The flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Dramani Mahama, says his party will continue to promote greater academic freedom in the universities, promising that disturbances on the campuses of the University of Education, Winneba, and the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) will never occur under his administration. He has therefore cautioned government against its actions, claiming they are affecting cordial engagements among lecturers and also management members, and ultimately affecting teaching and learning. Speaking during a meeting with the National Executives of the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG), the former President maintained that government…

Students of law, particularly those who sat the entrance examinations of the Ghana School of Law, are protesting in Accra over the recently recorded mass failure. Under the auspices of the Students Representative Council (SRC) of the School, the demonstration is to demand immediate reforms to legal education in Ghana. Other law students from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) and the University of Cape Coast (UCC) have joined the protest march, which began at the main campus of the School in Makola. They are heading to the presidency, Jubilee House, to present a petition to the…

Saudi Arabia has said it is working on removing Sudan from the United States’ list of state sponsors of terrorism. The announcement was made in a tweet by Saudi Arabia’s foreign affairs ministry following a meeting in Riyadh between King Salman and the leader of Sudan’s Transitional Military Council (TMC), Lt Gen Abdel Fattah Abdelrahman Burhan, and Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok. The kingdom also said it would “establish ambitious investment projects” in Sudan and “improve existing projects”. In exchange, Sudan offered to “support the kingdom in international forums”. Inclusion on the US list of state sponsors of terrorism makes Sudan…

Academic institutions in West Africa have increasingly been facing allegations of sexual harassment by lecturers. This type of abuse is said to be endemic, but it’s almost never proven. After gathering dozens of testimonies, BBC Africa Eye sent undercover journalists posing as students inside the University of Lagos and the University of Ghana. Female reporters were sexually harassed, propositioned and put under pressure by senior lecturers at the institutions – all the while wearing secret cameras. Reporter Kiki Mordi, who knows first-hand how devastating sexual harassment can be, reveals what happens behind closed doors at some of the region’s most…

Law students are marching on Monday in passionate calls for reforms to legal education in Ghana. This comes in the wake of mass failures recorded after entrance examinations. The march is set to begin at the main campus of the Ghana School of Law and end at the Jubilee House, where a petition will be presented to the president. The petition will demand an immediate scrapping of entrance exams and allow other law faculties and accredited institutions to run the professional law course. The students are also demanding an abolition of the Repeat Policy to allow students to resit any…

The Minority in Parliament says it will resist any attempt by the Nana Addo-led government “to force down the throat of Ghanaians lesbianism and gayism”. Speaking rather sternly at a news conference in Parliament, Monday, Minority Leader Haruna Idrisu said the gay community are actively behind the much talked about Comprehensive Sexuality Education suspected to have been enshrined in the country’s new curriculum for basic schools. “The move to introduce the CSE is desperately championed by the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender community (LGBT), pay masters of the Nana Akufo-Addo NPP government. We will join well-meaning Ghanaians who respect and…

Ghana’s 4 X 100m relay teams at the ongoing IAAF World Athletics Championships in Doha failed to make it to the final of their respective events. The only positive is that the men’s and women’s team clocked their season’s best times. The women were the first to take to the track with Flings Owusu-Agyapong starting it all for the team. But their performance saw them finish last, failing to make Saturday’s finals. The quartet of Flings, Gemma Acheampong, Persis William-Mensah and Hor Halutie had a reaction time of 0.143 and finished in 43.62s, only better than Brazil, who were disqualified.…

Disqualified GFA presidential hopeful Wilfred Kwaku Osei Palmer has served notice he will appeal the decision by the elections committee to disqualify him. The committee, acted by the Normalisation Committee, on Friday announced the qualified and disqualified candidates for the various elections. The Tema Youth FC bank roller was among three candidates disqualified with reasons not made known. One disqualified from GFA presidential elections A few hours later, the former chairman of the Black Stars Management Committee said the committee cited a breach of Article 33(5) of the GFA General Regulations to disqualify him. A decision by the Ethics Committee…

Ghana’s Black Queens were on Friday held to a goalless drawn game by Kenya’s Harambee Starlets in the first leg of the 2020 Olympic Games qualifiers. The match played at the Accra Stadium saw the Queens miss a number of opportunities including hitting the woodwork in the dying minutes of the game. Playing in front of a few spectators, the Queens failed to replicate the performance that saw them beat Gabon 5-0 on aggregate in the previous round of qualifiers. The second leg is scheduled to be played on Tuesday, October 8 in Nairobi. Mercy Quarcoo’s side is expected to…