The economy of Ghana saw a 3.2% growth in the second quarter of 2023 according to provisional data from the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS). When seasonally adjusted, the real GDP increased by 0.7 percent in the second quarter of 2023, a 0.1 percentage point lower than what was recorded in the first quarter of 2022. Provisional real quarterly gross domestic ...
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) has held an interactive engagement with affiliated Ministry of Health Training Institutions to discuss issues on new top-up programmes and other matters affecting the Health training institutions on the 14th of August 2023 at the College of Health Sciences Board Room. Chairing the meeting, Professor Christian Agyare, the Provost of the College ...
The 2022/23 Students’ Representative Council (SRC) of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, has commissioned a bus shelter at the Ahinsan Gate, a project valued at Ninety Thousand Ghana Cedis (GH₵90,000). Additionally, they also donated One Hundred and Fifty (150) class-room chairs to support students’ learning at the Ulzen Block. Master Frank Owusu, President, 2022/23 Students’ Representative Council (SRC) ...
The Responsible AI Lab (RAIL), in partnership with the Department of Telecommunication Engineering, KNUST and JP Morgan Chase & Co’s AI Research Team, held a technical workshop on AI research initiatives in Africa on Monday, 4 September 2023, at the RWESCK Auditorium. The workshop sought to build interaction between AI experts in KNUST and the AI research team from JP ...
The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, together with the Technical University of Munich (TUM) SEED Centre, have hosted the 2023 Annual Symposium under the theme ‘Sustainable, Energies, Entrepreneurship and Development.’ The Symposium seeks to provide a platform for participating universities to share ideas on the current research activities in their living laboratories on sustainable and affordable ...
The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, has hosted the 32nd edition of the Christof Heyns African Human Rights Moot Court Competition. The competition, focusing on human rights issues, featured a hypothetical case centred on the theme, “The Africa We Want: Combating Discrimination, Climate Change, and Corruption.” Key topics included corruption, sexual minority rights, and harmful environmental ...
In fulfilment of their commitment to donate fifty (50) laptop computers annually for a period of four (4) years towards the Vice-Chancellor’s initiative, ‘Support One Needy Student with One Laptop (SONSOL) Project,’ the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Consolidated Bank Ghana Limited (CBG), Mr. Daniel Wilson Addo together with a delegation from CBG presented this year’s support of fifty ...
The College of Health Sciences (CHS) at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi has commissioned a 30-kilowatt solar panel system worth Sixty-Thousand Dollars ($60,000) at the KNUST School of Medicine and Dentistry (KSMD). The solar panel system was executed by the African Forum for Research and Education in Health (AFREhealth), and designed by Starsight, a Renewable ...
The Public Financial Management Act (2016) requires every finance minister to present a fiscal review (of the budget and the economy) to Parliament every July. The current finance minister, however, has steadily degraded the exercise into a comical display of incoherent biblical quotations, completely disregarding the ‘koko’ and ‘koosey’ issues that matter most to Ghanaians. He was at it again ...