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Professor Obiri Danso and Dr Evans-Anfom, Vice-Chancellor and second Vice-Chancellor of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) respectively, have resigned. The two dropped their resignation letters few minutes after ordering the University to shutdown indefinitely. The resignation of the Vice-Chancellors is as result of their inability to calm students during a violent demonstration. In a 14-page resignation letter dropped at the school’s administration, the Chancellors apologised to Ghanaians for what happened and pleaded with the Controller and Accountant General Department to pay them their salaries at the end of the month. President Akufo Addo’s niece, Olivia Akufo, has been tipped by the presidency to replace the Vice Chancellor. Source: Todayinformer.com The post BREAKING: VC of KNUST resigns appeared first on Star Media Ghana .

Mahama paid $300,000 for Gitmo It is turning out that the previous National Democratic Congress (NDC) government was paid over $300,000 for accepting to host the two alleged hardcore terrorists from Yemen who were deported from the United States Naval Base of Guantanamo Bay on the orders of former US President Barack Obama and his government. The amount was meant for the upkeep of the two alleged Al-Qaeda terrorists: Mahmud Umar Muhammad Bin Atef and Khalid Muhammad Salih Al-Dhuby as they stay in Ghana. However, it has now been made clear that the amount paid was to cover the two for only two years and that any subsequent debt incurred over their upkeep (after the two years) is going to be borne by the Ghanaian taxpayer. Then President John Mahama had said that the two Al-Qaeda fighters were brought into the country on ‘compassionate grounds.’ But the lack of transparency in the whole deal has triggered another round of heated political debate over the NDC’s handling of the matter ...

Members of TESCON Commended by Npp B/A regional Youth Organizer Hopefully. Mr Shadrach Abrefa Mensah, the aspiring regional Youth Organizer for Brong Ahafo has made a release to commend the peniors of the party’s Tertiary wing thus, Tertiary Students Confederacy(TESCON). RELEASING AS FOLLOWS…. “JOIN TESCON TO LEARN THE IDEOLOGIES AND PHILOSOPHIES OF OUR NOBLE PARTY …A RELEASE BY MR SHADRACH ABREFA MENSAH” I wish to commend the pioneers of the party’s Tertiary wing thus Tertiary students Confederacy (TESCON)and describe the conctribution of the association as immense and instrumental in the party’s structures. On the 18 years of the inception of the association in the year 2000, I wish to note that the likes of Hon. Asenso Boachie , Hon. Abu Jinapor, Hon. Nana Boachie, Mr Alfred Ofori Annye, Myself and our likes who were members of the TESCON justify that the association has been able breed great transformational young political leaders who have strengthened the party’s youth base ...