{"id":670184,"date":"2019-08-02T08:26:57","date_gmt":"2019-08-02T08:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div>\n<p>Parliament has passed the University for Business and Integrated Development Studies Bill 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The main contention before approval of the Bill was the proposed name of the institution which is S.D. Dombo University of Business and Int"},"modified":"2019-08-02T08:26:57","modified_gmt":"2019-08-02T08:26:57","slug":"wa-uds-campus-renamed-s-d-dombo-university-of-business-and-integrated-development-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/08\/02\/wa-uds-campus-renamed-s-d-dombo-university-of-business-and-integrated-development-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"Wa UDS campus renamed S.D. Dombo University of Business and Integrated Development Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Parliament has passed the University for Business and Integrated Development Studies Bill 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The main contention before approval of the Bill was the proposed name of the institution which is S.D. Dombo University of Business and Integrated Development Studies.<\/p>\n<p>But members on the Majority side of Parliament had their way after a vote on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The passage of the Bill will transform the existing campus of Univesity of Development Studies (UDS) campus in Wa into a fully-fledged university.<\/p>\n<p>The Wa and Navorongo campuses of UDS were recently made autonomous through an Executive Instrument.<\/p>\n<p>The campus was separated from UDS in 2002 as the Faculty of Integrated Development Studies to give easy access to people in the Upper West Region to tertiary education.<\/p>\n<p>The university\u2019s new name is after Simon Diedong Dombo, who was a Ghanaian politician, teacher and king who belonged to the United Party (UP) tradition, of which the New Patriotic Party has its roots.<\/p>\n<p>Simon Dombo was a Member of Parliament during the First Republic of Ghana.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-538380\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Dombo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1068\" height=\"724\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>He was also one of the founders of the Northern People\u2019s Party that subsequently merged with the United Party after a ban on parties formed along ethnic lines.<\/p>\n<p>During the Second Republic, he served under the governing Progress Party as Minister for Health and then Minister for Interior.<\/p>\n<p>He died on March 19, 1998.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parliament has passed the University for Business and Integrated Development Studies Bill 2018. 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