NEWS IN GHANA

The Food and Drug Authority(FDA) in attempt to combat fake drugs in the country together with some personnel from the Criminal Investigation Department(CID) Headquarters of Ghana Police Service have embarked on swoop last Friday afternoon which saw a total of 12 illegal drug peddlers arrested at the Ashiaman market. The swoop led by the Head of Drug Market Surveillance of the FDA, Mr Vigil Prah-Ashun who swung into action around 12:30 pm at some vital points of the Ashiaman market where the exercise was conducted and arrested twelve (12) illegal drug peddlers. According Mr Prah-Ashun, the swoop on Ashiaman market has become necessary upon intelligence gathered which suggested it has gradually been turned into a hotbed for illicit drug peddlers hence the need to clamp on them. “We work based on intelligence. For now the intelligence we’ve gathered is that there are a lot of such activities going on in Ashiaman that’s why we’ve decided to go to Ashiaman today”, he stressed.

Four (4) top universities in the country namely KNUST, UCC, UEW and GIMPA have been declared winners in preliminary stage of the keenly contested Kuapa Kokoo Inter-Tertiary School Debate which came down last Monday at the British Council Auditorium in Accra. The competition, an initiative of the Millennium Promise Alliance Ghana and Kuapa Kokoo Limited in recognition of the 25th Anniversary of the Kuapa Kokoo Farmers Union saw eight (8) top Universities battle for honors at the preliminary stage of the Green Ghana Lecture Series inter-tertiary institutions debate. The participating schools which include the University of Ghana, Legon, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), the University of Professional Studies, Accra (UPSA). Others schools are Accra Technical University, Christian Service University, Ashesi University and the University of Cape Coast (UCC) locked horns with each in a tough debate to