Seventy members of staff including 20 Senior Members, 31 Senior Staff and 19 Junior Staff respectively have retired from active service of the University for the year 2016.
The University of Cape Coast has held a thanksgiving service as part of the 49th Congregation, which saw four thousand nine hundred and ninety-one (4,991) students graduate from the University.
These are students from the College of Humanities and Legal Studies, College of Agricultural and Natural Sciences, College of Health and Allied Sciences and the College of Education.
The thanksgiving service, held under the auspices of the Chaplaincy Board of the University, was on the theme:"It is the Lord's Doing".
The Vice- Chancellor, Prof D. D. Kuupole, has inaugurated a Performance Laboratory to facilitate the activities of the Department of Music and Dance of the College of Humanities and Legal Studies. Hitherto, students at the Department had their music and dancing performances at their Departmental building, which also houses the departments of African Studies and Communication Studies.
The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cape Coast, Prof. Domwini Dabire Kuupole, has admonished alumni of the University to be the ‘eastern star’ and lead developing partners to the University to bring opportunities to both students, staff and the university at large.
The chiefs and people of Jumapo in the New Juabeng Municipality in the Eastern Region went into celebration when the sod was cut for commencement of a Regional Study Centre for the College of Distance Education (CoDE) at Jumapo. CoDE over the years has been holding its programmes from rented premises since commencement of the programme in the region. The Provost of the College, Prof. Isaac Galyuon speaking at mini durbar before the sod was cut at Jumapo, described the event as “Another occasion for celebration”.
The Vice-Chancellor, Prof. D. D. Kuupole has called on banks in the country to provide flexible start-up capital for people who venture into aqua culture business to help alleviate poverty and also augment the protein needs of the country.
The Vice-Chancellor made this remark when he closed a five-day course designed to train people in the production of tilapia and aquaculture business at the Ainoo-Ansah Farms at Okyereko near Winneba in the Central Region.
A Kenyan Law Scholar, Prof. Patrick Loch Lumumba has stated that Africa is the only continent that is referred to by European and American commentators as Anglophone, Francophone and Lusophone.
This according to him was because the former colonisers still see them as their territories. “These descriptions underline the unspoken truth that in the minds of the colonizers their erstwhile ‘fiefdoms’ are still their little backwater territories to be guided and cajoled as circumstances may justify”, he noted.
“Africa cannot grow until it deals with corrupt leaders and corruption. Corruption is one of the things that have held Africa back”.
A distinguished Kenyan Professor of Public Law, Prof. P. L. O. said this when he delivered the second of the three-day 11th Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Lecture at the University. Prof. Lumumba said the first thing African leaders do on assumption of political power is primitive accumulation of wealth so much so that they do not even know where such property and wealth are.
“Africa cannot grow until it deals with corrupt leaders and corruption. Corruption is one of the things that have held Africa back”.
A distinguished Kenyan Professor of Public Law, Prof. P. L. O. said this when he delivered the second of the three-day 11th Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Lecture at the University. Prof. Lumumba said the first thing African leaders do on assumption of political power is primitive accumulation of wealth so much so that they do not even know where such property and wealth are.
An eminent Professor of Public Law from Kenya, Prof. Patrick Loch Otieno Lumumba, says until the day Africa achieves political reawakening, the continent cannot not occupy its rightful place in the world.
“Africa will rise in her splendor: it will only do so if we can identify the right things and do them right, we can rise”.