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OAU Announce Resumption Date for 2014/2015 Session

OAU Announce Resumption Date for 2014/2015 Session The Management of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, wishes to inform all staff and students of the University that the resumption date from the mid-semester break has been approved. All students are to resume for the continuation of the Harmattan Semester 2014/2015 Session on Tuesday, 21st July, 2015.  

Beware of Fraudsters! FG warns Scholarship, Admission Applicants

Beware of Fraudsters! FG warns Scholarship, Admission Applicants The Federal Government has warned applicants to be wary of the activities of some fraudsters who parade themselves as staff of the Federal Scholarship Board in order to defraud unsuspecting candidates, parents and scholars. According to the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Education, Dr. MacJohnNwaobila, who made the… Read More: Beware of Fraudsters! FG warns Scholarship, Admission Applicants »

East Ayawaso MP donates exams materials to candidates

The MP also donated 100 bags of cement to victims of the Wednesday, June 3 floods along the Nima drains.      The Mathematical sets intended to aid candidates of the Basic Education Certificate Examination in all junior high schools, was presented on behalf of the MP by Alhaji Williams Olabodi, Constituency Chairman of the National Democratic… Read More: East Ayawaso MP donates exams materials to candidates »

Minister encourages BECE candidates to do well

Tamale, June 15, GNA – Alhaji A.B.A Fuseini, Deputy Northern Regional Minister, has encouraged candidates writing this year’s Basic Education Certificate Examinations (BECE) to remain confident and approach the examinations with determination to enable them come out with flying colours. Alhaji Fuseini gave the encouragement when he toured some examination centres, including Vittin Senior High… Read More: Minister encourages BECE candidates to do well »

University launches programme to unearth talents of SHS students

The High School Creative Challenge is an event organized by the Innovation Laboratory, a research initiative at the CUCG, aimed at helping to discover and develop creative arts talents in students. Mr. Edward Atwum Anane, the CUCG Coordinator for the programme told the Ghana News Agency in an interview in Sunyani that the event created  … Read More: University launches programme to unearth talents of SHS students »

Clergyman urges students to take lessons seriously

He said the situation where some students resorted to consulting occults and other means to pass examinations, did not augur well for them, and in the end ruined their lives. Overseer Kwabia gave the advice when the church held special prayers for students who are taking this year’s Basic Education Certificate Examinations (BECE) in Accra… Read More: Clergyman urges students to take lessons seriously »

WAEC tightens security of BECE examination materials

The examination conducting body had introduced security mail bags with tag numbers, a padlock and three keys that would be kept by three persons at different strategic locations. Mr Patrick Sumailar Wayoe, Sekondi Controller of WAEC, told the Ghana News Agency in an interview that the security measures were taken to curb occasional leakage of… Read More: WAEC tightens security of BECE examination materials »

Association calls for government’s investment in Tailoring

Nana Osei Baffoe Dickson, Ashanti Regional Chairman of the Ghana National Tailors and Dressmakers Association (GNTDA), said the industry which currently employs not less than 50, 000 people, had not yet been developed to acceptable standards. “The Chinese and other foreigners are gradually taking over the industry, as they have more sophisticated machines and technical… Read More: Association calls for government’s investment in Tailoring »

Nkrumahism, The Can Of Worms I Opened – Capitalism IV

Feature Article of Friday, 17 July 2015 Columnist: Baidoo, Philip Kobina 2015-07-17 There is an Akan proverb, which literally states that wisdom is not the monopoly of any single man. Since human beings are fallible we do make mistakes all the time, and it happens a lot in the private sector. However, when it happens… Read More: Nkrumahism, The Can Of Worms I Opened – Capitalism IV »