The Director General of Social and National Security Trust (SSNIT) Dr. John Ofori-Tenkorang has admonished the youth to register and contribute towards their retirement at an early age. He told students at the University of Cape Coast during the maiden SSNIT INFO SHOP to interact with the next generation of contributors and share with them … Read more
Insecurity at UCC getting out of hand? SRC calls for govt intervention The Students Representative Council (SRC) of the University of Cape Coast is calling for the immediate intervention of government to beef up security in and around campus. Students are frequently attacked – sometimes even at gunpoint – where their gadgets and monies are … Read more
The Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Cape Coast (UCC) is asking the public to look out for tricksters parading as lawyers in society. Mr McDave E Kujo’s warning comes in the wake of the increasing number of persons arrested for posing as lawyers and duping innocent people. In October 2017, … Read more
The Founder of Entrepreneurship and Leadership Education Foundation (ELEF) and Technical Director of Morgan International Community School (MICS), Mr. Obed Danquah Morgan, has inaugurated the Board of Trustees for the Foundation in Accra on Wednesday March 28, 2018. As part of efforts to tackle issues of youth unemployment in the country and beyond, Morgan International … Read more
Senior lecturer at the Faculty of Law, University of Ghana, Professor Raymond Atuguba says it is absurd for judges and lawyers in Ghana to continue wearing collars, bibs, wigs, and gowns as dress code. He concurred with Christian Lawyers Fellowship that the dress code poses avoidable and preventable health conditions to legal practitioners. Prof. Atuguba … Read more
A professor at the University of Cape Coast has decried the state of tourism centres and facilities in the country, describing them as deathtraps rather than leisure centres. Professor Francis Eric Amuquandoh observed the poor nature of the roads leading to these places, poor maintenance of the facilities coupled with the neglect of ministries mandated … Read more
Dr. Elsie A. B. Effah Kaufmann, Ghana’s renowned quiz mistress, will be awarded The 2018 Golden Torch Award for International Academic Leadership. The award will take place at the 44th Annual National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) Conference on Saturday March 24th in Pittsburgh, USA. This was announced by Mr. Billy James Dega, Director of … Read more
The Graduate Students Association of Ghana (GRASAG) chapter at the University of Cape Coast is threatening to demonstrate by Friday if the Scholarship Secretariat fails to pay members their outstanding bursary and thesis grants for the 2016/2017 academic year. It said members and executives have exhausted all diplomatic engagements with the Secretariat, which it observed, … Read more
The flag of Ghana was lifted high when the country’s 18-member delegation to this year’s Harvard National Model United Nations (HNMUN) Summit in Boston, Massachusetts in the United States of America excelled after emerging winners in the Social Venture Challenge contest last month. The 64th Session of the HNMUN attracted 3000 student delegates from over … Read more
The issue of the Central Region teenage pregnancy has since remained worrisome, with the latest discovery being that girls now exchange sex for fish which they sell to make a living. According to a report by Graphic.com, some teenagers in the Central region are bartering sex for fish in some fishing communities in the region, … Read more
It’s no longer quite news that host of Asempa FM, Kwadwo Asare Baffuor Acheampong popularly known as KABA died on Saturday, 18th November, 2017 at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital after a very short illness. However, we are bringing you some of the developing stories following the sad event which you may not have heard. It … Read more
Talented Kidz 8 & Christian Morgan influenced my decision to pursue further studies in law, TV3’s broadcast journalist, Spencer K. B. Mensah has revealed. The inclusion of Christian Morgan in Talented Kidz 8 meant a lot more than an entertainment show, according to SpreadLove’s founder Spencer Kwabena Boateng Mensah. Spencer indicated that Christian and the … Read more
President Nana Akufo-Addo has inaugurated a nine-member Commission of Inquiry to see to the creation of at least five new regions. The Commission would be chaired by a retired Supreme Court judge, Justice S. A. Brobbey The country currently has 10 regions with the Greater Accra being the capital. The Commission of Inquiry are expected … Read more
SpreadLove Home & Abroad as part of its mandate to include Person’s with Disability(PWDs) in achieving the 17 Sustainable Development Goals has equipped 5 PWDs children to progress in education. They will as well be set up in a project dubbed ‘No One Shall Be Left Out’. The project, which was supported by the Danish … Read more
The Central Region, ranked as the second highest region with high prevalence of teenage pregnancy in the country, has started witnessing a decline in the number of cases, the Regional Department of Gender has revealed. A Ghana Health Service Report indicated that more than 13,000 teenage girls got pregnant in the region in 2015. At … Read more
Deputy Minister of Employment and Labour Relations, Bright Wireko-Brobby, has proposed a name change for disability schools in the country in order to prevent the stigma associated with the current names. He wants the current names like school for death and blind to be changed to School for Pupils with Special Needs, a name he … Read more
Inhabitants of Anlo beach in the Shama District of the Western Region want urgent intervention that would ensure their relocation to a safer place. The community of over 3,000 fisher folk has been heavily exposed to sea level rise, which had swallowed more than half of their asserts and continue to wreak havoc on them. … Read more
The University of Cape Coast (UCC) has held a send-off and long service ceremony for 73 workers who retired this year to recognise and acknowledge their long and meritorious services to the University. They were made up of teaching and non teaching staff comprising 27 junior and 31 senior staff, and 15 senior members. The … Read more
The Senior Minister, Yaw Osafo-Maafo, will Thursday night grace the 5th John Evans Atta Mills Commemorative Lecture to be held at the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (Gimpa). This year’s Lecture is under the theme ‘The Greening of Africa’s Development, Youth Employment and Agriculture. The Implications for Governance and Public Policy’. The event … Read more
Students of the St. Ambrose College of Education at Dormaa Akwamu in the Dormaa East District of the Brong Ahafo Region, are appealing to government and the Ministry of Education (MoE) as a matter of urgency, to attend to the school’s many plights to prevent it from collapse. They fear their tutors’ impending strike due … Read more