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Students of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) have clashed with security on campus during a march to protest claimed brutality unleashed on them last week. The protest march, which began peacefully at Peace Junction on Monday, has degenerated into chaos as the students fly stones at vehicles of security personnel, deployed to ensure peace. They have set property at the KNUST Security Secretariat ablaze, 3news.com’s Kwame Baffoe Agyekum reported on Monday. Security personnel had to run for their lives as the irate students appeared unstoppable, our correspondent said. The protesting students have left in their trail…

Policy think tank IMANI-Africa is calling on President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to give a “verbal assurance” for an investigation into the $178 million Kelni-GVG deal with government. It said “it will be shocking if the President proceeds to launch the Common Monitoring Platform”. There are reports President Akufo-Addo will launch the platform on Monday and IMANI says given its extensive exposé on the deal, the president should tread with caution by not following the lead of his ministers and “turn a blind eye”. “His is a government that promised to respect the rule of law and the sanctity of…

Students of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) are marching Monday morning from the Peace Junction to demonstrate against recent happenings in the school. Ahead of the march, the Students’ Representative Council (SRC) asked all students to boycott lectures. The march will see the presentation of a petition to authorities. A misunderstanding between students and the school’s security last week resulted in the arrest of some 11 students. One person is said to have been injured and receiving treatment at the hospital. The students accused the police of using tasers on them. Others said they were deliberately…

Saudi Arabia says that journalist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered, blaming a “rogue operation” for a killing that has sparked an international outcry. Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir told Fox News the act was a “tremendous mistake” and denied the powerful crown prince had ordered the killing. He was last seen entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on 2 October. The Saudis, under intense pressure to explain the journalist’s whereabouts, have offered conflicting accounts. They initially said he had left the building unharmed but on Friday admitted for the first time he was dead, saying that he was killed in a fight.…

Ghana’s Black Queens will begin their host-and-win campaign at the 2018 Africa Women Cup of Nations in Group A. Ghana will play Algeria on the opening day of the tournament on Saturday, November 17 while Mali engage Cameroon. The four countries were on Sunday drawn in Group A, to play at the Accra Sports Stadium. Ten-time champions Nigeria were seeded in Group B. The Super Falcons will begin the defence of their title a day after the opening day as they play the Banyana Banyana of South Africa. The two teams together with Zambia’s She-polopolo and Kenya’s Harambee Starlets, who…

The Director of the United Nations University Institute of Natural Resources (UNU-INRA), Dr. Fatima Denton, has called on governments of Africa to invest in Geographic Information System (GIS) including other geospatial technologies and be fully committed to building capacity of officials and different stakeholders in order to help detect and insulate countries from potential natural disasters. She averred that the GIS technology is a very powerful tool that is capable of processing data, which if harnessed effectively can go a long way to positively impact the management of natural resources including mitigating the harmful effects of climate change. “Some of…

Women whose left index and ring fingers are different lengths are more likely to be lesbians, a study suggests. Scientists measured the fingers of 18 pairs of female identical twins, where one was straight and the other gay. On average, the lesbians, but not the straight twins, had different sized index and ring fingers, typically a male trait, but only on the left hand. This may be the result of exposure to more testosterone in the womb, the University of Essex researchers said. The scientists also measured the fingers of 14 pairs of male identical twins, where one was straight…

More than 50 people have been killed and 200 hurt after a train ran into a crowd near Amritsar in India’s northern Punjab state, police told the BBC. The victims were standing on the railway tracks watching celebrations for the Hindu festival of Dusshera, eyewitnesses told BBC Punjabi. They did not hear the train approach as they watched a firecracker-filled effigy of the demon king Ravana burn. Officials said the priority now was to take the injured to local hospitals. Footage posted to social media showed the fast-travelling train hitting the crowd. The incident happened at about 18:30 local time…

The acting General Secretary of the People’s National Convention (PNC), Jacob Kwame Amoako, says the party has concluded its restructuring programme ahead of the 2020 elections. The PNC began its restructuring and reorganization in September, 2017 after setting up a three-member committee to develop an action plan for the exercise. Members of the committee were Mr Amoako, Emmanuel Wilson Jnr and David Apasera. Speaking with 3news.com on Friday, Mr Amoako explained that the party is set for a take-off after the process. “Basically, we’ve been underground trying to restructure the party, and we have gone round the whole country to…

A decision has been reached between Ghanaian clubs and the Normalisation Committee for no continental representation for 2019, 3news.com has gathered. The decision was reached on Friday when the Committee, which oversees all football activities, met the Ghana League Clubs Association (GHALCA). The decision implies that Ghana will not send clubs for the 2018/2019 CAF Champions League and the 2018/2019 Confederation Cup. All domestic competitive football activities were suspended in June after investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas released an exposé on corruption in Ghana football. The Ghana Football Association (GFA) and its president, Kwesi Nyantakyi, were hardly hit, leading to…