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ATU admits over 14,000 new students
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THE Accra Technical University (ATU) has held a matriculation ceremony for 14,060 students, urging them to uphold academic integrity and innovation.
The ceremony on Saturday formally admitted 18,000 students while a total of 14, 060 registered for the academic year.
Addressing the matriculants, the Vice Chancellor of the University, Prof. Amevi Acakpovi, urged the students to build roots before seeking recognition, and master their fundamentals to ensure their growth.
Prof. Acakpovi, highlighted the university’s growth, citing a 23 per cent increase in student population, with a total of 36,199 students, including morning, evening, and weekend programmes.
He said matriculation was their official entrance into the academic community, granting those rights, responsibilities, and identity.
“We are shaping them, giving them a sense, making you a tool so that when you get out of here, you can serve the society in one capacity or the other,” he said.
The vice chancellor likened the university to a workshop where rough, unshaped metal was transformed into a refined product through heat, pressure, precision, and design.
He wished the students a warm welcome to the school, urging them to begin their journey with humility, determination, and purpose.
He said the students may feel the heat of assignments and the pressure of deadlines, but emphasised that it was through these challenges that they would be shaped and strengthened.
He urged them to allow themselves to be refined, so that by the time they graduate, they would not merely hold a certificate, but would have become refined individuals, equipped to serve purpose, saying that today marked the start of their new chapter.
By Linda Abrefi Wadie
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Deputy National Women Organiser of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mimi Duah, has openly declared her support for Mavis Hawa Koomson as the next National Women’s Organiser of the party.
In a statement endorsing Hawa Koomson’s candidature, Ms Duah outlined four key reasons why she believes the former MP and Minister of State is best placed to lead the party’s women’s wing.
According to her, Hawa Koomson is a motherly figure who rose from the grassroots and is widely noted for her forgiving nature and ability to foster unity.
“She is a true grassroots mother who easily forgives, fosters unity, provides guidance and arbitrates to ensure all aggrieved party women are brought on board to ensure a unified women’s wing,” she stated.
Ms Duah also pointed to Hawa Koomson’s vast experience, having served as a Constituency Women’s Organiser, Member of Parliament and Minister of State, noting that the experience positions her to provide effective leadership as National Women’s Organiser.
She further described Hawa Koomson as capable of making the women’s wing resourceful, through her extensive network and business contacts, to lobby for logistics, training and financial support for women organisers at all levels.
Lastly, she said the NPP as an opposition party needs fearless, bold and assertive leadership at the women’s front to inspire regional, constituency and polling station women organisers as the party reorganises towards the 2028 elections.
“We need a Women’s Organiser who has been tested, who is bold, who understands grassroots women, and who can lead us to victory in 2028. Hon. Mavis Hawa Koomson is that leader,” she stressed.
By Edem Mensah-Tsotorme
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Tourism, Culture and Creative Arts Minister inaugurates Ghana-Korea Heritage Project Steering Committee
Tourism, Culture and Creative Arts Minister, Abla Dzifa Gomashie, has inaugurated the Ghana-Korea Heritage Project Steering Committee to provide strategic oversight for a five-year programme focused on preserving Ghana’s heritage sites and strengthening their resilience to climate change.
The project will support climate-risk mapping, digital surveying and 3D modelling, joint research, capacity building, community engagement and modern monitoring technologies.
Korea is also providing specialised equipment, including drones, 3D scanners, digital microscopes, thermal imaging cameras and GPS survey instruments, to enhance Ghana’s capacity to scientifically assess, document and conserve heritage structures.
The partnership, which will run through 2030 and beyond, is expected to deepen Ghana-Korea cultural ties while promoting sustainable, technology-driven and climate-adaptive heritage management for future generations.
By Edem Mensah-Tsotorme
