University of Cape Coast

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Meet 25-year-old Faridat Rashid, a graduate of the University of Cape Coast with a bachelor's degree in accounting and finance.

She moved to Accra last year for her national service because she believed opportunities abounded in the national capital.

She worked as an account officer, prospecting for clients at a private company that had assured her of immediate employment after national service.

This is due to the fact that the Bank of Ghana argues that it has several tools at its disposal to try and stabilize the situation.

Well, joining me on Zoom, Senior Finance Lecturer at the University of Cape Coast Business School, Professor Seyam Kawa.

Good afternoon to you.

Explain to us a bit more what is driving the renewed pressure on the Ghana city at this point, and should Ghanaians be concerned about the pace of depreciation? You're muted.

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So what powered the 4.7% growth? Of the overall growth, services contributed nearly 62%, industry about 30%, and agriculture close to 5%, with net taxes accounting for the rest.

That was the government statistician joining me on Zoom, Associate Finance Professor at the University of Cape Coast Business School, Professor Seyam Kawa.

Good afternoon to you.

The services sector remains the main driver of growth, contributing 61.7% of the expansion witnessed in April.

In business, researchers, regulators and civil society leaders have called for stronger community participation, tighter enforcement of environmental regulations and better ocean data systems, cautioning that pollution, coastal erosion and depleted fish stocks threaten the livelihoods of thousands of people along Ghana's coastline.

The call came from the Ghana Ocean Dialogue, held under the theme Shaping a Blue Economy, organized by Merging Climate Frontiers and the Ghana Marine Climate Innovation Hub in partnership with the University of Cape Coast.

The dialogue brought together researchers, policy experts, environmental regulators, civil society leaders and youth advocates to discuss how Ghana can protect its marine space while tapping the ocean's economic potential.

From the poor cities of Tema and Takrade to fishing communities in the central and Voto region, the sea driver traits feed families and shape coastal culture.

However, many beaches are now littered with plastic, retreating under erosion and recording dwindling fish catchers.

Delivering a solidarity message, Professor Simon Marewa, Provost of College of Humanities and Legal Studies at University of Cape Coast noted, than much of the plastic wash ashore along ghana's coast does not come from beach goers but from communities far inland participants also pointed to illegal small-scale mining which discharges heavy metals and salt into rivers that empty into the sea as well as the use of banned chemicals the dialogue proposed a framework for a sustainable ocean economy built on five pillars blue wealth blue health and Blue Knowledge, Blue Finance and Blue Equity.

On behalf of the Center for Coastal Management, Dr. Dorothy Lukabi said Ghana's ocean future depends on deliberate action and a full implementation of ocean policies aimed at a resilient blue economy by 2035.

She called for stronger institutional coordination, public accountability, and evidence-based decision-making, as well as the protection of natural coastal defenses.

But final year sometimes it's the same It's not

like I'm not studying though I used to see University of constant

confusion

There are some questions that will come The question is difficult but the marks are high The easy ones the marks are low So you think you've learnt but remember now

not do you think that we are looking down on these jobs

no no we are not looking down on the job the relationship with it you see with this no I asked him, is this the career path that you want to be on? He said, no.

Why is he in school? He is in school to study marketing for four years in University of Cape Coast.

That is one of the most difficult institutions you can get a degree from.

He was doing practicals with the transport planning.

But listen, if he was using the transport planning practical, he was using it to organize parties to bring boys and girls from Cape Coast University, Ligon, Tech, and I don't know whether all this UPSA had come.

There was no UPSA those days.

But Ligon, KVAS, and other places, and take all of them, boys, like boys, with erections.