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Jasmine Baroudi is hopeless in an array of desolate shots. Imagine being immobile for hours on end without any possibility of relief…well that is what happens to Jasmine Baroudi’s character in the upcoming movie, The Cell. In the first released set pictures, movie lovers get to see the actress in character – a woman tied up and tortured for past mistakes. The upcoming movie captures the final moments of a medical professional caught up in a revenge web that quickly escalates to a life-and-death situation. The story focuses on how easily it is to tip from sanity to insanity as…

The Technical Universities Teachers’ Association of Ghana (TUTAG) has declared an indefinite strike, with immediate effect. This is “to press home our demand on government to implement the conditions of service of public universities for staff of technical universities”. The action was declared on Monday, October 7 by TUTAG President Dr Solomon Keelson. According to TUTAG, although polytechnics were converted into technical universities as far back as 2016, government has failed to put measures in place to enable their lecturers enjoy benefits received by university teachers. Dr Keelson stated that despite a directive from the Finance Ministry to the Controller…

Ninety-five percent of candidates who sat for the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE)  this year have been successfully placed under the Computerized School Selection Placement System (CSSPS). These candidates were placed under the automatic placement system, self-placement and protocols from the schools. According to the Head of Communications at the Free SHS Secretariat, Josberta Gyan Kwakye, who disclosed this on Onua FM’s Yen Sempa, the remaining 5% of students yet to be placed will have the opportunity to do self-placement to ensure they are captured by the CSSPS. She said 519,000 candidates wrote this year’s BECE, but not all were…

Ninety-five percent of candidates who sat for the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE)  this year have been successfully placed under the Computerized School Selection Placement System (CSSPS). These candidates were placed under the automatic placement system, self-placement and protocols from the schools. According to the Head of Communications at the Free SHS Secretariat, Josberta Gyan Kwakye, who disclosed this on Onua FM’s Yen Sempa, the remaining 5% of students yet to be placed will have the opportunity to do self-placement to ensure they are captured by the CSSPS. She said 519,000 candidates wrote this year’s BECE, but not all were…

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has called on the top hierarchy of the Ghana Police Service to investigate the circumstances that led to the excessive use of force against demonstrating law students on Monday, October 7. The ruling party says this will help bring to book officers who are found to have acted unprofessionally in order “to forestall future occurrence of this regrettable incident”. Monday’s demonstration by law students seeking reforms to legal education in the country ended abruptly as police fired tear gas, hot water as well as gunshots to disperse them. About 13 of the protesters were arrested…

The National Association of Law Students is calling on the Inspector General of Police and the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) to investigate brutalities meted out on some of its members who were demonstrating on Monday, October 7. Some law students embarked on a demonstration to protest against the mass failure of students seeking to enter the Ghana School of Law as well as demanding reforms in legal education. While marching to the Jubilee House to petition the president, police fired rubber bullets as well as water cannons and tear gas at the protesting students, leaving some…

Source: 3news.com | Ghana

The University of Ghana (UG) has interdicted two of its senior lecturers implicated in the explosive ‘sex for grade’ scandal in West African universities. Prof. Ransford Gyampo and Dr. Paul Kwame Butakor were caught on tape allegedly propositioning and sexually harassing undercover journalists who posed as students of the University of Ghana. Prof Gyampo cited in #SexForGrades exposé asking for kiss “…the Business and Executive Committee of the University has taken a decision to interdict Prof. Ransford Gyampo and Dr. Paul Kwame Butakor, the two lecturers featured in the documentary to allow for further investigations into the matter” a statement issued Tuesday…

At least 11 female students of the Fumbisi Senior High School in the Builsa South District of the Upper East region have reportedly collapsed on campus after seeing ghost. The school has subsequently been closed down on Monday, 3news.com has gathered. The DCE for Builsa South, Daniel Gariba confirmed the closure in a telephone interview with 3news.com’s Upper East regional correspondent, Tanko Mohammed Rabiu on Monday. He said the decision to close down the school was to forestall any unforeseen mayhem as students’ agitation grows over reported “witchcraft” activities in the school. A frightened female student was reported to have…

The Accra Regional Police Command says it has released all the 13 persons who were arrested on 7th October, 2019 for embarking on an “illegal demonstration”. They were part of a group numbering about 300, largely students who failed the entrance exams to the Ghana School of Law. The students besieged the entrance to the law school, sat down in the middle of the road, which the police said prevented a free flow of traffic. The demonstrators later continued to the Attorney General’s Department where the police said prevented a Deputy Minister of Justice, Godfred Dame from exiting the premises.…