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The Ghana National Union of Technical Students (GNUTS) have through a press release call on government through the Ministry of Education (MoE) and the National Council for Tertiary Education (NCTE) to as a matter of urgency, expedite action on migrating Technical University lecturers onto the pay structure and the conditions of services enjoyed by their counterparts in traditional public Universities in the Country. PRESS RELEASE IS AS FOLLOWS It would be recalled that Polytechnics in Ghana were converted to Technical Universities in September, 2016 by the erstwhile John Dramani Mahama’s administration following the Technical University Act, 2016(Act 922) to enhance Technical education in Ghana but it is interesting to note that since the conversion of these Polytechnics to Technical Universities, the system is faced with numerous challenges ranging from inadequate infrastructure, poor existing lecture halls and theatres, lack of motivation to Technical Universities lecturers and oth...

  The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has told investors and business leaders from the United Kingdom that Ghana is the ideal place in the West African Region, and on the Continent, to invest and conduct business. According to President Akufo-Addo, “Ghana is a haven of peace, security and stability, a country where the principles of democratic accountability are now firmly entrenched in its body politic, and where the separation of powers is real, to promote accountable governance.” Delivering the keynote address at the 2nd edition of the UK-Ghana Investment Summit, organized by the UK-Ghana Chamber of Commerce, on Tuesday, 17th April, 2018, President Akufo-Addo told the gathering that his government is keen on establishing a business-friendly economy to attract foreign direct investments to exploit Ghana’s great potential on mutually satisfactory terms. Stressing that investments are protected in fact and in law in Ghana, the President assured that “the...