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The University of Ghana has been slapped by United States Federal Court with $165 million judgement debt for wrongly terminating the Africa Integras Contract in 2018. This was after Global insurer Chubb Ltd. asked a New York federal judge to confirm a $165 million arbitration award against the Unive
The newly constituted Council of the University of Ghana has decided to appoint Professor Nana Aba Appiah Amfo as Acting Vice Chancellor until a substantive VC is appointed. Until this new appointment, Prof Nana Aba Appiah Amfo was the Pro-Vice Chancellor in charge of Academic and Student Affairs (A
The Senior Staff Association of the Universities of Ghana (SSA-UoG) has called the bluff of the National Labour Commission (NLC) in their recent statement directed at the group demanding them to call off their nationwide strike. In a letter copied to 3FM news, the national labour commission ordered
A professor at the University of Ghana, Emmanuel Debrah has dismissed claims that the poll survey that was released by the Political science department of the University of Ghana (UG) was at the behest of any political party. He said the findings reflected what is actually happening on the grounds a
The Alliance for Social Equity and Public Accountability (ASEPA) has said the Political Science lecturers at the University of Ghana who released the opinion survey on the impending elections in Ghana that put the New Patriotic Party (NPP) ahead of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) engaged in a
The Director of Research and Elections of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Mr Evans Nimako has said the governing party will not be complacent ahead of the December 7 elections following the survey released by the Political Science Department of the University of Ghana which puts the NPP ahead of the N
A survey conducted by the Political Science Department of the University of Ghana ahead of the December 7 elections has revealed that the number of Ghanaians who believe in the manifesto document of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) far outweigh those who believe in the document of the main op
The dream of every graduate is to get a white collar job after university but when such dreams do not materialize, what happens? When Claudia Ama Buatsin (@amabuatsin) got fed up with job hunting, she eventually learnt how to bake and is now running one of thriving businesses in Accra, Cookies and C
One of the lecturers who redefined the teaching of Science in University of Ghana goes on retirement this year. J. P. Adjimani was until his retirement a Senior Lecturer at the Biochemistry Department of University of Ghana. He will be remembered as one of the few who broke the barrier between lectu
The University of Ghana (UG) branch of the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) has noted that the Public University Bill (PUB) introduced by this government threatens higher education and democracy in Ghana. In April 2019, the government of Ghana through the Ministry of Education introdu
Police have begun investigations into the suspected murder of Professor Emmanuel Yaw Benneh of the University of Ghana Law Faculty. Prof Benneh is said to have been murdered at his Adjiriganor residence in East Legon after his mutilated body was found on Saturday morning. His legs and arms were tied
The University of Ghana, Legon has announced that it will hold a maiden virtual congregation on Thursday, July 30. The ceremony will be for final year undergraduate students of the School of Law and students who took supplementary examinations at the University of Ghana Schools of Medicine and Denti
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has assured the country’s university community that all support will be given by government in ensuring that the intended reopening from Monday, June 15 is successful. “And if it succeeds and it works, then the country will be reassured that we will step up the
African universities have been charged to design programmes capable of producing critical thinkers and innovators to manage the continent’s natural resources for development. Professor Chris Gordon, a former Director of the Institute of Environment and Sanitation Studies, University of Ghana who cha
A Senior Lecturer at the University of Ghana has advocated the return to the basics in finding a solution to the menace of sexual harassment in schools. According to Dr Samuel Nkumbaan, recommending books like ‘Courtesy for Boys & Girls’ can help reduce the menace among students. “We are so fast to
The CEO of Africa Integras, Andrea Pizziconi has denied accusing the Vice Chancellor of the University of Ghana, Prof. Ebenezer Oduro-Owusu, of sexually harassing her. In the wake of the explosive documentary on “sex for grades” by the BBC which included Ghana’s premier university, Pizziconi shared
A Deputy Gender, Children and Social Protection Minister, Freda Prempeh, has advised female students to stop trooping into the offices of lecturers for favours. She equally condemned lecturers who take advantage of their students who come to them for help. “If the ladies did not present themselves b
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 Un
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 Un
Law Faculties at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), University of Ghana (UG) and University of Cape Coast (UCC) are respectively ranked 5th, 11th and 14th among 20 English teams that participated in the African Moot 2019 organized by the Centre for Human Rights. A total
