The Ghanaian government has dissolved the governing council of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (Knust) following violent protests on Monday.

A seven-member interim committee has been appointed to manage the affairs of the university and directed to re-open the university within 14 days for academic work to resume.

The trouble started at Knust, which is in Ghana’s second largest city of Kumasi, last Friday night.

Eleven students were arrested by police after taking part in their usual end-of-week party, known as a jamboree, which the university authorities had recently banned.

Monday's planned peaceful protests turned violent resulting in the indefinite closure of the university on Tuesday.

The interim committee has been given three months to manage Knust's affairs and return it to normalcy.

There have been calls for the vice-chancellor of the university to be sacked, but authorities say he will remain in office until the interim committee decides otherwise.