ADEPA JOSEPH (AGENDA)

According to  wikipedia.org  cognition is the mental action or process of  aquiring knowledge  and understanding through, experience and the senses. Cognition involves many aspects of intellectual functioning and processes which i am going to discuss about four of them which are very necessary for any successful student.         Memory      Memory is the basic form of cognitive skill that every human being must possess in order to live successfully, various forms of memory functions exist such as Long term memory , Short term memory, Rote memory , Sequential memory, Receptive memory etc. Memory is very essential for every student as it is where everything is stored, imagine your videographer just taking the video without recording at your wedding; disaster right? yes this is how it will be for a student without strong memory.                 Logical reasoning and critical th...

                                                                      A total of  517,311 candidates from various private and public Junior High Schools took this year's Basic Education Certificate Examination. In a press realease signed  by Mrs Agnes Teye-Cudjoe  the head of Public affairs of the West African Examination Council on Thursday August 29, 2019,  A total of 173 candidates had some of their results canceled  for carrying foreign materials to the exam hall while 19 candidates had their entire results canceled for bringing mobile phones to the exam hall. The council has also with-hold 2,497 subjects results for alerged malpractices pending conclusion of investigation.                             ...

University of Ghana in a recent release on its website has published a new residential fees for the 2019/2020 academic year with a 5% increase in that of 2017/2018 academic year for the traditional  halls  after weeks of deliberation and consultation by authorities and pressures from students of the university of Ghana on how much to pay as residential fees. Residents in the fully university owned (traditional halls) which includes; Mensah sarbah hall, Commonwealth hall, Volta hall, Legon hall, and Akuafo halls are to pay 853 cedis instead of 812 cedis that was paid the previouse years, this shows a slight increment of about 41 cedis representing 5%  on what was being charged before. Residents in the diaspora halls i.e Dr Hilla Liman hall, Elizabeth sey hall, Jean Nelson ackah hall and Alexanda Kwapong halls are to pay 1,790 cedis. source: universnewsroom.com

Her ladyship Justice Sophia Adinyira; a. Justice of the supreme court of Ghana has stated that the methods used by Anas Aremeyaw Anas and his tiger eye private investors in investigating corruption is problematic. The judge made the statement at university of Ghana during her interaction with some students. Justice Sophia Adinyira is a supreme court judge who has sat on various landmark cases including the 2012 presidential election petition filed by the then losing candidate Nana Addo Dankwah Akufo Addo and the new patriotic party. The judge was supposed to deliver a lecture at an alumni lectures organized by Mensah Sarbah hall of the university of Ghana which was postponed for poor attendance. In an interaction with some few students present, a student asked the judge to give her opinion on the methods used by the investigative journalist Anas  Aremeyaw Anas  in investigating individuals especially public officials. Without wasting much time the judge set the re...