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A parent of a student of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) who narrowly escaped death before a violent demonstration on campus has condemned the student’s action. The petrified father, who wants to remain anonymous, said it was just by God’s grace that his daughter and 15 other girls in the Kantaga Hall escaped being burnt to death in an act suspected to be arson allegedly perpetrated by students. According to him, one of the girls, who was asleep when the fire started, had parts of her hair burnt. “The authorities took them to the hospital where they were treated, given medication and discharged,” he told Evans Mensah on the Ghana Connect programme, Friday. The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology has been closed down indefinitely, following violent protests on Monday. The decision was taken after a meeting between school authorities and the Ashanti Regional Security Council (REGSEC). The Regional Minister, Simon Osei-Mensah addressing ...

Ghanaians who believed the Akufo-Addo government will reduce the public debt by not borrowing money in the same way his predecessors did, may have their hopes dashed. This is because President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has said his government will keep borrowing money to put up projects he described as “assets” to pay back those loans. He said every country borrows money for projects and Ghana is not an exception. “We will borrow money; everybody borrows money. The United States of America is one of the biggest debtors in the world. So borrowing money is not necessarily a betrayal of the concept of independence. The key for us in borrowing money is that we borrow money to create assets that will allow us to pay the money back. That is the key…If we borrow the money and use it properly it is an asset for us in expanding our economy and infrastructure,” he added. The president was speaking at an entrepreneurship forum in Nigeria on Thursday organised by the Tony Elumelo Foundation....