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UK trained students sue Ghana School of Law
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UK trained students sue Ghana School of Law
{sidebar id=10 align=right}Some students who trained in the United Kingdom (UK) as lawyers have sued the Ghana School of Law over what they term a move to change the admission rules for people who qualified externally.
The students, who have petitioned the General Legal Council, said it was important to get the court involved to ensure the injustice in the process was corrected.
Speaking on Citi FM’s Eyewitness News, the spokesperson for the group, Nana Ottu Turkson explained that “the legal professions act that sets up legal education and how it should be regulated states specifically how foreign qualified lawyers and specifically foreign qualified lawyers who are citizens of Ghana should be upgraded.”
According to him, they do not believe that the advert in the newspaper was made according to law because “the legal professions act indicates that it is required that any such thing shall be done by legislative instrument which is signed by the minister.”
He continued that they (students) were "shocked that the Law School or the General Legal Council would actually use these laws, which are their real laws, to actually cover what they do and the courses that we are supposed to do."
He narrated that the newspaper advert indicated that they needed tutelage before they could practice in Ghana, an extension of the course for a year and an increment of the courses involved.
According to him, however, this is a requirement that “they cannot attain.”
He explained that the group was not challenging the rights or the ability of the Ghana School of Law to change laws, but that “if the laws must be changed, they must be changed as the laws prescribes” and secondly, “if any startle organization is making a change to the law, that law must take into account the people within the catchment.”
He lamented that the newspaper advert which was published at the beginning of last year, did not give anybody the chance to adjust, thus the need for a change in the rules.
Source: citifmnline.com
No commentsBoy-Girl Prostitute Nabbed
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Boy-Girl Prostitute Nabbed
22 June 2013
SEVENTEEN-YEAR-old Michael Afranie alias Kofi, who allegedly posed as a female prostitute around the Biggies Spot at Community 7 in Tema, is in the grips of the police.
Kofi is currently assisting the Tema Community 1 District Police Command in investigations after he was exposed by some prostitutes at the port city.
According to acting District Police Commander, Chief Superintendent Victor Amedeker, the suspect was brought to the station by some people who had rescued him from a mob attack after he was found to have dressed like a woman to deceive men who were interested in the services of prostitutes According to the police, the 17-yearold would be charged with impersonation after investigations.
{sidebar id=10 align=right}Narrating his version of events at the police station, Kofi claimed he was gay and that he was introduced into the act by a friend when they were in basic school in Kumasi.
He failed to disclose the exact number of men he had had sex with but nodded his head in agreement when DAILY GUIDE asked if they were more than 100.
Kofi, who was spotted in a mini skirt, vest, black ladies’ jacket and a pair of ladies sandals and spoke in a tone similar to that of a lady, said that he relocated from Kumasi to Tema on the advice of his two gay friends. He mentioned their names as Lovelace and Emma.
He said he arrived in Tema on June 10, 2013, and added that they resided and operated around the Community 1 Market at night.
He said one of his friends, whose name he refused to mention, had been taken ill and sent back to Kumasi.
Kofi said his mother is aware that he is gay and added that the least they charged in the sex trade was GH¢25.
He added that they occasionally received GH¢100 for sleeping with other men.
He claimed on June 19, 2013, one of the female prostitutes accosted him and proposed to be his friend, which he readily accepted.
“This lady asked me to join her and some of her friends at a table and asked if I cared for a drink. I politely turned her offer down and continued to sit there with them when suddenly this same lady expressed desire in sucking my breast.
Realizing that I might be found I flatly turned that too down and told her that I did not engage in such acts.
“The lady forcefully squeezed my breasts and as soon as she realized that I was not a woman she raised the alarm which drew the attention of her friends and some other persons present at the spot,” he claimed.
He said the lady used her shoes to hit him in the face before he was whisked away by some people who later handed him over to the police.
Kofi further claimed that a man approached him in the same area he was arrested and he had sex with him after offering GH¢50.
He said, “I dressed like a lady because I did not want the prostitutes to report me to the police that I am gay. My friends told me that the prostitutes will not take it kindly if they found out my true identity. I am told that they will also see me as someone who wants to take away some of their clients.”
A search in his ladies’ bag revealed three wrappers of condoms, three lipglosses, two deodorant-spray, a comb and four wrist beads.
In an effort to confirm that he is indeed gay, Michael removed his pant, bent down and showed his wide anus to this paper.
FROM Razak Mardorgyz Abubakar & Vincent Kubi, Tema
Students Eat Faeces At Legon Daily, Says Vice-Chancellor
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Students Eat Faeces At Legon Daily, Says Vice-Chancellor
Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ghana, Professor Ernest Aryeetey has disclosed that foods prepared on campus contain “faecal matter”, and there is therefore the need to put effective measures in place to protect the lives of students.
Speaking at a students’ durbar on campus Sunday, the Vice-Chancellor said research conducted by the Noguchi Memorial Institute, as well as reports of some graduate studies, shows that food eaten by the university’s students on daily basis are prepared in unhygienic conditions and pose serious health hazard.
“We don’t have to wait for some of our students to die of cholera or other infections as we have seen people dying through accidents, Noguchi and some graduate students, they have done various tests on water used to prepare the food… and you want to know the result… it contains faecal matter,” Prof Aryeetey told the well attended durbar of students and authorities of the two new halls named after Dr. Hilla Limann, President of the Third Republic, and Prof Alexander Kwapong, a former Vice-Chancellor of the university.
The durbar, dubbed ‘Vice-Chancellor’s Interaction with Students’, is the second to be held as part of measures to educate the students on new policies and programmes being undertaken by the university.
Prof Aryeetey announced that beginning from next academic year, the university will roll out ‘Meal Plans’, which will ensure that students of the university are given decent meals in their halls.
‘You will eat breakfast and lunch in your halls and still pay for it at a price which is almost the same as the one you buy from the Night Market. You don’t need to worry about hygiene. There will be zero faecal matter.”
According to the Vice-Chancellor, Level 100 students will have to sign on to the new plan.
“They will select their menu; sometimes it could be a buffet. We will not force any of the continuing students to sign onto the plan, but it will be difficult for students to cook in their rooms,” he emphasized.
Prof Aryeetey noted that the meal plan was not new; it was a return to the original plan of the university.
“The university was built from very quality materials. The infrastructure is the best in Africa. If you look at the canteens at Sarbah Hall, it is very nicely built. We want to return to them for what they were made for,” he said.
Source: The Finder
Africa's youth impatient for generation change
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Africa's youth impatient for generation change
27 March 2013
In North Africa, young people's frustrations drove them to topple their leaders. There has been no youth-driven revolt in sub-Saharan Africa, but the frustration is no less palpable.
When Mkhuleko Hlengwa arrived in Cape Town, South Africa, for the opening of parliament in February, the 25-year-old made heads turn. The youngest member of parliament was sporting a red bow tie, matching red footwear and a black suit. He had a button on his lapel that read "No to rape." His message was clear. 'I'm young, full of self-confidence and am going to focus on the things that are important to young people.'
As one of 18 deputies from the conservative Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP), Hlengwa faces formidable political opponents, the ruling African National Conference (ANC), who have 264 of the 400 seats, a comfortable majority. Hlengwa says his youth is not an issue with the IFP.
"They've got a clear understanding that it is not really much about age, but about the work that needs to be done," he told DW.
Hlengwa wants to see young South Africans playing an active role in the life of their country and holding their rulers accountable for their actions. Combating violence against women is a priority. There were 64,000 reported cases of rape in South Africa in 2012. The real figure, human rights organizations say, is probably far higher.
Invest in recreation and sport
Fighting unemployment and improving education are also important for the young deputy. If youth unemployment remains stubbornly high – it currently stands at 50 percent, double the national average – then Hlengwa is convinced South Africa will find itself on difficult terrain, like one of its neighbors.
"Zimabwe is a case in point where human rights are down-trodden and the country has collapsed," he said . "South Africa is headed in that direction as long as it does not take the problems and the expressions of young people seriously."
Hlengwa believes the state should not only be investing in education and health, but also in recreation and sport. "Young people can only contribute to the South African economy, if the conditions are right," he said
Sick of corruption
Yusuf Kiranda from Uganda shares such views. The 31-year-old works in Kampala for the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, a German organization which seeks to promote democracy and civil society. Kiranda is supporting a group of young Ugandan managers who are trying to develop alternative solutions to the country's present political problems. Youth unemployment is also the biggest issue in Uganda, Kiranda told DW. The future looks bleak for young people and the government is doing nothing to rectify this.
"The youth continue to be disgusted by the pervasive corruption in the public sector. Funds that are initially allocated for programs – among them those which are suppose to empower the youth - are squandered and misappropriated," Kiranda said.
He added that no action is taken by the government to ensure that those responsible for stealing public funds are reprimanded or face the consequences.
"So the frustration is no job, conditions are bad now, but there is nothing that is being done that could make conditions better" is how Kiranda describes the predicament of young people in Uganda.
Not around during liberation
Kiranda and other young people like him are fed up with hearing their rulers blame the colonial era for the inadequacies of the education system. That is so far back in the past that it is no longer a valid excuse for the absence of reform, they say. The education system should be overhauled so it can offer young people proper training for the world of work, Kiranda believes.
Africa has a young population. Two thirds of Africans south of the Sahara are under 25, yet the needs of young people are not given priority. In Uganda, there are youth quotas for representation in the local and national assemblies, but their impact on political life appears minimal.
"Even when the young people try to speak out they are not being listened to and they are always reminded of the fact that they were not there when the liberation movement was taking place," he said.
Kiranda complains that older politicians don't understand that young people don't simply want to talk about the future, they want to help shape the present, here and now.
John Kufuor qualifies as an "older politician." The 74-year-old former Ghanaian president insists young people are gaining influence in political life in his country. Age is no longer the barrier it once was.
"If you come to the parliament of Ghana now you will find a parliament of 275 members," he told DW. "I believe that over 50 percent must be under the age of 40, 45. Many young people now are given ascendancy. Africa is changing very fast, it is opening up," he said.
Kufuor believes young Africans like Mkhuleko Hlengwa or Yusuf Kiranda will drive that change. They will not easily be silenced. According to Hlengwa, the older generation must do their jobs better in future, or "they will have to take their leave."
Date 27.03.2013
Author Thomas Mösch / mc
Source: Deutsche Welle
Massive failure in BECE at Lambussie-Karni District
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Massive failure in BECE at Lambussie-Karni District
The Lambussie-Karni District in the Upper West Region has recorded a massive 74.5 percent failure in the 2012 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) raising several concerns among all stakeholders.
Out of a total of 427 candidates comprising 274 boys and 153 girls that sat for the 2012 BECE in the District only 25.5% passed with the rest failing to make it to the next level.
Mr Clement Benin, the Lambussie-Karni District Chief Executive (DCE), said this during the celebration of the annual “Mifele” (new grain) Festival of the chiefs and people of the Lambussie Traditional Area.
The DCE expressed worry about the situation called for a concerted effort among all stakeholders in the educational sector in order to reverse the unfortunate situation.
Mr Benin said the Assembly had started implementing measures to address the unfortunate situation saying the Assembly held a forum which he chaired last week to examine the situation and find a way forward.
He called for the support and cooperation of traditional rulers to help address the challenges confronting the education sector in the District and appealed to student to eschew all negative tendencies that could affect their performance and jeopardise their academic career.
From: GNA