The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) and Incas Diagnostics, a diagnostic company in Kumasi have developed and are optimising Rapid Diagnostic Tests (RDT) for COVID-19 testing. This significant contribution towards the fight against COVID-19, will augment the current COVID-19 testing regime in the country. The development of the RDT is in line […]
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Final year student of KNUST electrocuted in her bathroom
A final year student of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology has reportedly been electrocuted in her bathroom. Bernice Akyeama Baah, who was studying Metallurgical Engineering according to BestNewsGH.com sources, died on the night of Wednesday, March 18, 2020. Bernice who lived in an apartment at Ayeduase within the KNUST enclave was said […]
President Akufo-Addo encourages Pitch winners to create jobs
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has challenged winners of the second edition of the Presidential Pitch to be instruments of job creation in their entrepreneurial endeavours. He emphasised that at the heart of government’s agenda to groom young entrepreneurs through such awards is to create avenues for people to grow businesses that would not only […]
We will ‘finish’ you politically-Conti Hall Alumni to Napo
Members of the Alumni Association of Unity Hall also known as Continental Hall of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) have vowed to end the political ambitions of Education Minister Dr Mathew Opoku Prempeh (Napo). According to the group, Dr Prempeh who is an alumnus has betrayed the oath he took to […]
Executive Council of Katanga Hall calls for calm
The Executive Council of Katanga has called for calm promising that concrete and pragmatic steps are being taken to arrive at decisions that will be in the best interest of all fellows. It therefore appealed to all Fellows to act cautiously and with maximum care as they await the final decision of the Chancellor, His […]
Ghana invents sanitary pads with banana and plantain fibre-President gifts inventors GH¢40,000 of personal money
A team of two female students from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) – Matilda Asantewaa Sampong and Emilee Otoo Quayson, yesterday emerged the winner of season II of the Presidential Pitch and took home a GH¢60,000 investment package. In addition, they were given GH¢40,000 personal donation by President Nana Addo Dankwa […]
Shocker as man flies to KNUST to surprise his girlfriend on her graduation only to meet her real boyfriend
A young man has shared a rather unfortunate story on social media about how his friend found out his girlfriend has been cheating on him for almost two years. According to the guy who shared the story on Twitter, his friend traveled all the way to Kumasi to surprise his girlfriend on her graduation only […]
Opinion: introduction of new public holidays is an attempt to rewrite history-Dr. Richard Tia, KNUST.
Uh huh, now that I am back to base, can someone kindly bring me up to speed with what I have been hearing about a new bill being laid before parliament to alter public holidays in Ghana. I hear the president wants to make August 4 and January 7 statutory public holidays to be called […]
Just in: UTAG, GAUA, SSA and TEWU thanks gov’t for resolution of KNUST wahala
The various labour unions at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) have thanked government for its show of levelheadedness and enormous magnanimity in resolving the KNUS matters and thereby restoring the University back to normalcy. The KNUST branch of the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG), the Teachers and Educational Workers Union […]
If Maritime Authority has been asked to resolve their issues, KNUST can also resolve its own issues-TEWU KNUST
‘’We are all Ghanaians and no one is superior to the other. We all saw what happened with the Ghana Maritime Authority saga. They have been given the leeway to resolve their own issues, why can’t we be given the same treatment?’’ those are the words of the chairman of the Kwame Nkrumah University of […]
New KNUST Council: no old guards will be allowed, school to reopen on Thursday 8th November 2018
Government has taken a firm stance on who should be on the new governing council of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) and it has made it clear that no old member of the council will accepted into the new one. A statement from the Ministry of Information detailing an update on […]
KNUST saga: New Council to be constituted today, school likely to reopen before 8th November-PRO
Assistant Registrar at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kwame Yeboah has confirmed that the chancellor of the University, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II is on course to meeting the timeline given to him by government to constitute a new governing council for the school. According to him, the new council will be outdoored […]