The International Students Recruitment Officer of the University of Ghana, Accra, Mr. Emmanuel Yaw Dankwa has debunked the report by a blog, Barristerng.com that 60 percent of the student population in the university are Nigerians.
Speaking to journalists at the weekend, Mr. Dankwa disclosed that the blogger was not part of the media at the meeting with the Consul-General of Ghana, Mrs. Samata Gifty Bukari in Lagos.
Officials of the university who are in Nigeria to get new students for the university for the new admission year had a meeting with the media in which the blogger was not part.
Dankwa said the university was surprised that a medium not part of the meeting with the Consul-General of Ghana published such a baseless statistics.
Barristerng.com had published the report with headline, “60% of students of University of Ghana are Nigerians – Official”.
According to him, Nigeria students only form highest number of the international students’ population in the university.
The report said that despite the decreased admission numbers in the past five years, Nigerians constituted 60 per cent of students in the university.
According to him, “Nigeria students do not form 60 percent of our total students population they only form the highest number of our international students population.”
He added that though globally the international students’ numbers have reduced significantly over the past five years all over the world, with COVID-19, with economic hardship, with other forms of disasters.
“But despite this, Ghana has good number of international students and out of this number majority of these, I will say are from Nigeria especially in our university, we have majority of our foreign students coming from Nigeria.
Statistics from the university, Ghanaians form 98.99 percent of total students’ population while foreign students form 1.01 percent. And of the 1.01 percent foreign students’ population, Nigerians are the highest.
The university therefore urged stakeholders and the general public to disregard any report stating otherwise from the university statistics.
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