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Student Activities
“STUDENT POWER” is a recognised force the world over. Governments of the world have acknowledged the need to mobilise the...
Background To The University Close-down
The announcement by the government that the three universities of Ghana should be closed down following student demonstration came as...
Closing Down The Universities
Following simultaneous demonstrations by students in the three universities of the country, the government ordered a closure of all the...
- 1974
- Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
- National Redemption Council
- nationwide student demonstrations
- U. G. Demonstration
Statement By The Government On The...
On the 15th February, 1974, a Committee of Enquiry was appointed to investigate the circumstances leading to the recent demonstrations...
- 1974
- Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
- military brutality
- National Union of Ghana Students (N.U.G.S.)
- Student Demonstrations
LSNA Statement On The ‘Legon Observer’
…Following the cessation of the “Legon Observer the Legon Society on National Affairs on October 3, 1974 issued a public...
Special Statement On The “Legon Observer”
On Monday, 22nd July, 1974, the following letter was delivered by hand to Professor K, A. B. Jones-Quartey at his...
The Economics Of University Education
The modern world is influenced to an ever-increasing extent by the application of scientific knowledge. There is therefore a correspondly...
Acheampong And The Students
In a speech to student representatives in Parliament House Col. Acheampong appealed for “student power” to be directed towards solving...
University Students Discuss Future
INTRODUCTION WHEN soon after the coup of the 24th of February the National Liberation Council announced it was going to...
Student Demonstrations
Strikes, demonstrations and other minor social upheavals are overt evidence of a malfunctioning of the institutional safety valves which normally...
The Students’ Loan Scheme
The national debate still continues as to whether or not students who qualify for admission to our Universities should pay...
Campus Demands
It is rather paradoxical that at the time, when the Prime Minister has been appealing to both students and tutors...
Student Power Of Sorts
AT THE time of going to press there appears to be no solution to the conflict between the students and...
Ghana Students And Police Clash At...
ACCRA, Ghana, Oct. 23 Nearly a hundred riot policemen armed with tear — gas equipment and wielding billy clubs clashed...
Legon Students Demonstrate
By Felix Amanfu Protest note sent to U.K envoy More than 500 students of the University of Ghana, Legon, yesterday...
Legon Dons To Pay N₵200 For...
By E. A. Boateng The Chief Justice, Mr Justice E. Akufo-Addo, presiding over an Accra High Court imposed a fine...
Two More Cars Burnt: Who Burnt...
Fellow Ghanaians: There is a calculated and vicious effort by the MILITARY INTELLIGENCE (M.I.) THE PRESS and THE MASS MEDIA...
1997 Soweto Anniversary
REMINDER COMRADES, On the 1st Anniversary of the Soweto uprising against tyranny, oppression, and human indignities, by the apartheid police...
Wanted — Democracy In Our Universities
By M. Obeng-Wiafe Cape Coast ‘Varsity Perhaps the only people who abhor a democratic way of life are those people...
Varsity Students Protest Against Removal Orders
By OGBEIDE MIKE AND S. S. APPIAH A section of the final year students of the University of Ghana, Legon,...
Nkrumah On The sidelines
THE Swiss Press Review and News Report, published in Berne, Switserland reported some strange goings-on- in Eastern Germany, where it...
Portrait of Nkrumah as Dictator
There is no escaping Kwame Nkrumah in Ghana today. Ghanaian stamps bear his portrait. At night his name flickers...
Ghana To Purge Schools
LAGOS, Nigeria, Feb. 7-The Ghanaian Government publicly committed itself today to a “ruthless” purge of the universities. Informed reports reaching...
Students Vow to Work for Plan’s...
The student body of the University College of Cape Coast has expressed its “heartfelt gratitude” to Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah...
Party Library For Schools
Party reading rooms provided with socialist literature are to be opened in all educational institutions in the country, Defence Minister...
Academic Freedom Is No Licence For...
The excellent editorial, “OUR UNIVERSITIES IN THE NEW ERA”, in the Ghanaian Times of March 16 discusses the issue of...
Students Ready For D–Plan
The National Union of Ghana Students has congratulated Dr Kwame Nkrumah on the successful launching of the Development Plan. In...
Be With The Masses – Varsity...
The academic distinction which Ghanaian University graduates achieve on the successful completion of their courses, should not be allowed to...
Our Universities In The New Era
The award of its own degrees for the first time last Saturday marked a very important chapter in the history...
Education Problems in Ghana
This is the third and final installment of the text of a speech delivered by the Attorney-General, Mr. B. E....
Varsity Boys Clamour To Join Party
Legon, Thursday “A Political union of Africa is possible, for the continent is compact enough for the establishment of a...
KWAME: MAKE VARSITY AFRICA’S LEARNING BASE
Kumasi, Sunday Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah expressed his belief that the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, would...
- 1964
- Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
- Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah
- University College of Cape Coast
Focus on The Peoples Universities
The official inauguration of a branch of the Party at the University of Ghana, Legon this week, marked a new,...
We Need Educated and Honest Youth
“WE need men to build socialism. And women too. The Party and the nation need dedicated and selfless men to...
Students Must educate The Masses
Hello Children! A branch of our great, dynamic Party, to which all our parents and guardians belong, has been formally...
The People’s Universities
The Ghanaian Times Wednesday, September 16, 1964 The University of Ghana and Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology re-open ...
Varsity boys must serve the people
Legon, Sunday The party was tonight described as the Nation’s political platform for the realisation of the people’s just objectives,...
