Author: Krobea

The University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) has hinted of embarking on an indefinite strike in the face of administrative wrangling at the University of Education, Winneba (UEW). According to the country’s lecturers, what is happening at UEW is an attack on academic freedom and that “must be resisted”. Already, lecturers at the Central Region university are on strike. READ: UEW lecturers strike indefinitely after court ordered removal of VC, CFO A Winneba High Court in July ordered the reconstitution of the governing council of the University of Education, Winneba, calling the stay in office by the then Vice Chancellor…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Tuesday paid a brief visit to the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari. Addressing a press conference after the visit, President Akufo-Addo noted that “all of us have been very anxious about his (President Buhari) well-being, and it was very good news to hear that he had returned. We are Africans, and it meant that I had to come and see things for myself.” President Akufo-Addo added that “I am very delighted to see that he has come back, and is very vigorous, and, as always, very engaged in the issues…

Opposition MPs in Kenya have boycotted the opening of the new parliament to protest against President Uhuru Kenyatta’s decision to address it after a court annulled his election win. They say that parliament should not have been convened until after the election re-run slated for 17 October. The MPs instead joined opposition leader Raila Odinga for a campaign rally in the capital, Nairobi. Mr Kenyatta said he still had the power to convene parliament. “The set term of a president is embedded until a new one is sworn in as per the constitution,” he told lawmakers. “I want to assure…

The United Nations has imposed a fresh round of sanctions on North Korea after its sixth and largest nuclear test. The measures restrict oil imports and ban textile exports – an attempt to starve the North of fuel and income for its weapons programmes. The US had originally proposed harsher sanctions including a total ban on oil imports. Pyongyang said it “categorically rejected” what it called an “illegal” resolution. North Korea’s ambassador to the UN, Han Tae Song, told a conference in Geneva: “The forthcoming measures by DPRK [the Democratic Republic of Korea] will make the US suffer the greatest…

Seventy-five brilliant but needy tertiary students in the Assin South Constituency of the Central Region have benefited from a scholarship package that will cater for part of their tuition fees and academic research for the 2017/2018 academic year. The package was instituted by the Member of Parliament (MP) for Assin South Constituency, Reverend John Ntim Fordjour. The beneficiary students are in the first, second, third and fourth years in universities, technical universities, colleges of education, nursing training colleges and other tertiary institutions across the country. The scholarship scheme of GH¢30,000 was instituted by MP Reverend Ntim Fordjour to reduce the…

The Member of Parliament for Assin South Constituency in the Central Region, Rev. John Ntim Fordjour, says the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) does not have the moral right to criticize the Free Senior High School policy of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government. The MP said “if any group of people would want to critique it, NDC should refrain from it because they kicked against it and today they have made a U-turn that they started free education”. “You said you are going to do free progressive [education] but we are saying we can do it now and they…

While Hurricane Irma keeps sweeping through the states of the USA, Hurricane Marriage is also speedily sweeping through Media General, especially TV3. For two consecutive weeks, staff of the media group have had their Saturdays booked as the weddings would not stop. On the 2nd of September 2017, Assignment Editor and one of TV3’s senior journalists, Thomas Adotei Pappoe, tied the knot with his heart throb Jessica Aklerh Dosoo, a former staff of TV3. The two law students trended on social media with their beautiful and well-organised white-themed wedding, held at the Arakan Mess at Burma Camp. Exactly a week…

One major talking point in 2008 when the free secondary education debate cranked up was the availability of facilities to get the policy smooth and running. I remember the campaign days of that year when the National Democratic Congress (NDC) talked quality instead of quantity. The debate continued into the 2016 electioneering campaign. And it was the same mantra for NDC – Quality education first! And indeed when the NDC government led by John Dramani Mahama launched its version of free education in 2015, it made it clear that it was going to be progressive. Mr Mahama even went to…

The group stage of the UEFA Champions League can drag but it takes nothing away from its endearing appeal and this year there is a lot to look forward to. Real Madrid will be looking to win a third straight title after becoming the first side to successfully defend it last season. There will be many curious observers keen to see whether Paris Saint Germain’s heavy investment in Neymar and Kylian Mbappe will translate to success against Europe’s big boys. And English clubs will hope their wealth and mass appeal finally reflects in European dominance again. There are five English…

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