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21 Apr

Boost For Rice Production As Asian African Consortium & University Of Cape Coast Sign MoU

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The Asian African Consortium (AAC), a subsidiary of Jospong Group of Companies has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the University of Cape Coast (UCC) to undertake research to boost rice, maize and soya production in the country. The objectives of this partnership are to identify common areas of collaboration to address the overall mandate of the parties, develop a plan for collaborative operations and detail the scope and principles of engagement between the parties, while aiming at achieving food efficiency in the country. The CEO of the AAC, Mrs. Adelaide Araba Siaw Agyepong, at the signing ceremony in Accra…

31 Mar

St. Peters Old Boy Sweeps 16 Out Of 22 Awards At UCC Medical School Graduation

wontumionlineNewsNathaniel Codjoe, UCC

Nathaniel Codjoe was the toast of the audience at the University of Cape Coast's graduation ceremony on March 30 emerging the best student from his class. He certainly earned the plaudits that came his way after sweeping 16 out of 22 awards that were available. GhanaWeb checks shows that Dr. Codjoe is an old student of St Peter's Secondary School, Nkwatia-Kwahu. Social media users have been celebrating the rare feat that he put up with old students of St. Peters specifically claiming special bragging rights. "Once again he is a Perscoba! Send your kids to good schools ooo, yooooo..," one…

10 Feb

UCC Lecturer Receives $30k Google Research Grant For Artificial Intelligence

wontumionlineNewsDr. Stephen Moore, UCC, University of Cape Coast

A lecturer at the Department of Mathematics at the University of Cape Coast has received a Google research grant of $30,000 to continue research in Artificial Intelligence (AI). The award was granted to Dr Stephen Moore, who is also a co-founder of Ghana Natural Language Processing (Ghana NLP), to accelerate research in natural language processing (NLP) in low-resource languages in Ghana and Africa. Natural Language Processing is a branch of Artificial Intelligence (AI) that is focused on how computers can process languages as humans do. Since 2020, Dr Moore and his colleagues at Ghana NLP have been developing tools for…

28 Jan

Accommodation For Freshmen: Survival Of The Fittest At Legon – UCC, KNUST Get It Right

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An opportunity to have university education is supposed to be an exciting moment but for many freshmen, that could also be a moment of frustration and anxiety, as they are thrust into a worrying situation even before they settle down to the new phase of life. This is because, like the biblical son of man, some of them would have nowhere to lay their heads while on campus. Gaining admission to any of the public universities in may be easier these days, but having accommodation as part of the admission arrangement is not. In recent times, improved performances from students…

11 Oct

KiDi Apologises To Fans In UCC After Walking Off Stage

wontumionlineShowbizKidi, UCC

Musician KiDi has apologised to his fans at the University of Cape Coast (UCC) for his inability to perform during their school’s SRC week activities because of a technical challenge. In a post on his Instagram, the ‘Touch It’ hitmaker stated that he looked forward to entertaining students at the event but he could not make that happen with a faulty system. “Sorry UCC, I waited for 3 hours for the problem to be solved, I really wanted to give you guys a show, I couldn’t do that with a dysfunctional sound system. Thank you for the love still,” KiDi…

10 Oct

Kidi Walks Off Stage During Performance At UCC Over Poor Sound System

wontumionlineShowbizKidi, Kidi performs at UCC SRC wek, UCC

Faulty systems were the order of the day at the University of Cape Coast SRC week as musician KiDi abandoned his performance due to a malfunctioning microphone. Sugar daddy is currently trending on Twitter for walking off the stage during his performance last night. 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 for his performance, the microphone malfunctioned. In a viral tweet, KiDi could be seen testing the microphone…

20 Sep

‘I Couldn’t Attend UCC Because They Were Charging International Students In Dollars’ – Patoranking

wontumionlineShowbizPatoranking, UCC

Multiple-award-winning Nigerian singer, Patrick Nnaemeka Okorie, known by the stage name, Patoranking, has revealed the reason he couldn’t further his tertiary education in Ghana. Although he gained admission to the University of Cape Coast, the Alubarika hitmaker couldn’t advance because the fees for international students like himself, were paid in dollars. “Back then at the University of Cape Coast, international students were charged in dollars,” Patoranking recounted in an interview with Andy Dosty on Daybreak Hitz on Hitz FM. But the singer did not know that the currency and the quoted figure for the fees were going to have an impact on his enrolment in the school and his…