Musician Kidi is currently trending on Twitter for abandoning a performance due to a malfunctioned microphone. The Artiste was due to perform on Saturday night as part of the University of Cape Coast (UCC) SRC week activities at the Casford field. However, upon mounting the stage and with students cheering him on while excitingly waiting […]
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UCC gives GH¢300,000 research grant to students
Fifty-seven postgraduate research students of the School of Graduate Studies, University of Cape Coast (UCC) have been awarded GHS 300,000 research grant to enable them produce timely and quality research work. Out of eighty-two (82) applications received by the School, fifty-seven (57) applicants – four (4) PhD and fifty-three (53) MPhil students – were chosen. […]
Dr. Ali-Gabass, two other inmates engaged by UCC as facilitators in prisons
The University of Cape Coast (UCC) has engaged three inmates of the Nsawam Medium Security Prison as facilitators for the university’s Distance Learning Programme at the prison. The inmates include Dr Sulley Ali-Gabass, a medical doctor. As facilitators, Dr Ali-Gabass, who, before his sentence, was a medical practitioner at the Effia Nkwanta Regional Hospital in […]
Fake certificates by Public Sector Employees: UCC and UEW leads-Audit Service reveals
The University of Cape Coast (UCC) and the University of Education Winneba (UEW) confirmed the highest number of fake and unverified certificates by public sector employees, MyNewsGh.com reports. According to the Ghana Audit Service Payroll Report, the University of Cape Coast confirmed 45 certificates as fake submitted by public sector workers for employment, and 2,986 […]
Details: See the re-opening date for UCC 2019/2020 Second semester
Authorities at the University of Cape Coast have announced a resumption of academic work for the second semester of the 2019/2020 academic year. The university, which has been closed for the past three weeks due to the coronavirus outbreak in the country, said in a statement Thursday that lectures will begin for all students from […]
Election 2020: UCC lecturer picks nomination forms to contest NPP primaries in Wa East
Economics lecturer, Macroeconomic consultant and Researcher at AfDB, Dr. Adama Yakubu has demonstrated his will to lead his people after he picked nomination forms to contest the forth coming NPP parliamentary primaries in the Wa east constituency of the upper west region. The late hours of Monday, 27th January 2020, witnessed the formal and cheerful […]
Academic activities halted at UCC as over-night rains flood campus and surroundings
Parts of the University of Cape Coast (UCC) and surrounding communities are flooded following an all-night downpour, causing early Wednesday morning academic work to be halted. The UCC Students’ Representative Council has asked students to stay safe indoors irrespective of their academic schedules. Flood waters are overflowing in hostels, roads and gutters in the university […]
UCC Introduces Bachelor of Arts Programme in Chinese
The University of Cape Coast as part of efforts to broaden its knowledge base has introduced the Bachelor of Arts programme in Chinese language and culture with its first batch of students admitted this year. This was announced by the Vice Chancellor of the University of Cape Coast, Prof Joseph Ghartey Ampiah, at the 3rd […]
27 year old UCC graduate arrested for killing his brother
The people of Gomoa Obuasi, a community in the Gomoa Central district in the Central Region were on Monday grappled with grief and shock when a 27-year-old graduate of University of Cape Coast (UCC), James Annan allegedly murdered his own brother around midday. Annan has been arrested by the Police while the body of his […]
Tribal bigotry is a major factor for Ghana’s backwardness, competence is sacrificed for tribe-UCC Don
A political analyst at the University of Cape Coast, Dr. Kingsley Adjei has lampooned those who are touting the ‘Volta Card’ after the opposition National Democratic Congress’ (NDC) national delegates conference, accusing them of being tribal bigots who only thrive when they practice same. ‘’We cannot play politics with tribalism, it won’t help the country. […]
It will be hell in Ghana if UCC turns Casford Hall into a mixed hall-Afenyo Markin warns
Ruling New Patriotic Party Member of Parliament for Effutu in the Central Region, Alexander Afenyo-Markin has warned Authorities of the University of Cape Coast (UCC) not to ever make an attempt to change Casely Hayford Hall, (Casford) which is a male hall into a mixed hall. “I hope that UCC will not attempt to make […]
UCC Masters degree certificate used in wrapping roasted plantain
A lady who in her quest to satisfy her hunger, bought roasted plantain and groundnuts (Kofi broke man) but lost her appetite when she uncovered the food and realised that the paper used in wrapping it was actually a certified true copy of a Master’s degree certificate. The certificate bearing the name of Nobert Ayamga […]