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Three public universities renamed as Parliament approves amendment bills

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  • Apo 1 month ago

    Good decision

  • Sly 1 month ago

    The only credit to Mahama government since taken office. Nothing to show again.

  • Dr Mumbi Seraki 1 month ago

    Hello youth of Ghana. You can take your own life with medicine......for instance 15 paracetamol at once. Or combine medicine and akpeteshie or weedicide.

  • FRANKIE 1 month ago

    Good one there! But point of correction! The universities in question were not established in 2019 as the article sought to portray. They were "RENAMED" in 2019 and that is what has been reversed.

  • Eric Ofosuhene 1 month ago

    Very good correction.

  • Karikakchar 1 month ago

    Politrickcians!

  • Thank you 1 month ago

    Enough of all that naming state institutions after people. We were fed up with all that nonsense.

  • TAKE OR PAY DEMON 1 month ago

    NDC and propaganda. Your crrection has exposed you as a liar. The universities' councils were sworn in in May 2020 by Napo.

  • Kwaku 1 month ago

    I hope lessons have been learnt.

  • John,Tema 1 month ago

    Some of these unwise decisions only divide the society the more giving room for another violent upheaval. Do not be surprised that many Ghanaians will welcome that bloody change targeting those who benefited from Jun 4th 1979 ...
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  • Eric Ofosuhene 1 month ago

    So Mr. Accra, or was it Tema? Sorry.
    If the idea is "idiotic" of Mahama, wasn't it senseless for Akuffo Addo to change the names and replace them with his now useless and decapitated party stalwarts for institutions he didn ...
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  • EBBY 1 month ago

    Changing KNUST to just University of Kumasi is just a matter of time. We will see what happens when power eventually changes hands. NDC has started a process that won’t stop until the total eradication of names from all pub ...
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  • ST GHFUO: Ghana, nation with foolish leaders 1 month ago

    Build your own university and stop changing university names. If s publicly funded university is built in tema..call it university of tema..only a privately funded university should be named after the individual who invested ...
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  • Asante 1 month ago

    How would a blind npp foot soldier like you see anything good about mahama government. The international communities are even praising him,no wonder you have remained only 87 in Parliament and even has set be be reduce again

  • TSITSURU 1 month ago

    Akuffo monkey adui addo was the most stupid man ever. Gbemelawo.

  • Philla philla 1 month ago

    You jealous ayigwe julc is an idiot of incomprehensible magnitude, psychotic bastard

  • judamujata 1 month ago

    Oyezo.................e millionx

  • AB 1 month ago

    Open your eyes. We need to move forward. Any Government after JM needs to inherit a solid platform and he is trying to build that.

    Improving the credentials of your party is what is important.

  • Starboy 1 month ago

    This conman will continue to play with your minds, and before you say jack, he has stolen and alot from the country. John Airbus Mahama now even travel to Ho in a hire private Jet and Ghanaians are quiet.

  • ST GHFUO: Ghana, nation with foolish leaders 1 month ago

    Fool you want a prsident to take trotro to volta region? A dumb that do you have any respect for the Presidency? Even if the president is a dog or a monkey you must spend state resources to guarantee their absolute comfort an ...
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  • Real liability to the party 1 month ago

    Very silly

  • Kelvin Taylor NDC propaganda secretary. 1 month ago

    IS THIS THE "24 HOURS ECONOMY" WE WERE PROMISED???. AFTER A WHOLE YEAR IN OFFICE. SHAMELESS PEOPLE, CLEARLY NDC PROPAGANDA LEADERSHIP IS SIMPLY A SCAM SYNDICATE. IS THIS THE BUILDING THE GHANA WE WANT. CLUELESS AND VISIONL ...
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  • Maame 1 month ago

    Did you comment when your government which dud not add a single institution changed the names of existing universities to their past party leaders?. Thanks to divine intervention the university of Ghana would have been given ...
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  • Kwame Sefer 1 month ago

    NPP never build a university but always naming their past men after those universities. A president build university and you divide them into 5 separated universities and you think , you have done well. NAPO thinking saaaa.

  • Oluwafemi 1 month ago

    Hopeless, useless, aimless, and brainless Akuffo Addo! He and his criminal Akyem Sakawa Mafia Team... (led by kromfuorhene Ken Ofori-Atta), only know how to steal our monies to go and hide in foreign countries, instead of usi ...
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  • judamujata 1 month ago

    OLUWAAA F3 WO FEEEEEN

  • Nii 1 month ago

    Yes. Please change the airport to Accra international airport. The criminal traitor called Kotoka must be confined to infamy

  • Cynthia 1 month ago

    Let’s maintain kotoka and change Prempeh International Airport to : KUMASI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT.. Bring back the republic day instead of founders day.

  • Nii 1 month ago

    We will one day Delete the name John Dramani Mahama from our records as our former President. Such a Corrupt Dirty Visionless person's name don't have to be in our history books for children to read.

  • Bonanza 1 month ago

    U Soo stupid

  • judamujata 1 month ago

    BONANZA BANZA

  • Maame 1 month ago

    The best after Nkrumah. Even aimless Akuffo Addo was president .

  • Kwasi 1 month ago

    You and who? Useless git.

  • You lost ut 1 month ago

    Good idea

  • Obibini 1 month ago

    Long overdue, I support the name change of the Kotoka International Airport to either Accra or Kwame Nkrumah International Airport. Case close.

  • Aku Dzane 1 month ago

    Why is it a good decision?

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  • TAKE OR PAY DEMON 1 month ago

    Rubish. Instead of resourcing C.K.T-UTAS, your are merely changing the name. A university campus where students compete with goats and donkeys for space is not fit for purpose. The inner roads are untarred and some secomdary ...
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  • Newself 1 month ago

    Akufo Addo could have tarred and named the roads after his former party bigwigs Instead of renaming the institutions.

  • Apo 1 month ago

    NDC is more national in its approach than NPP, how do you name public universities, after party elders and even wanted to add Legon? It was one of the very lows of addo d.

  • Kwaku Tee 1 month ago

    Hateful decisions that do not bring social cohesion. One day Ibrahim Mahama will also be Appiah- Menkanise .For a political party that came out of a violent Coup Detat, you don't always have to remind the victims.

  • Kwame 1 month ago

    You are a big fooooooooooooool. Those NPP bigmen stood against independence now and were part of those who wrote to the queen in England to delay the indepence as Ghana was not ready. How can they be heroes today for universi ...
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  • Nobody worked against Ghana’s independence 1 month ago

    Our rush to independence was what let to Nkrumah’s downfall as president. We needed a union government to start with; party politics is filled with hatred and was not the best political system the new nation needed.

  • Newself 1 month ago

    Learn the true history of Ghana. Nkrumah's downfall as well as Ghana's was caused by elements of the UP committing treason against the state of Ghana by supporting America and its CIA to remove him through a coup. Nation wrec ...
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  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 1 month ago

    How can Kwame Nkrumah be the Founder of Ghana when the struggle and the fight for the Independence of Ghana had already been started even before the days of J.B Danquah and he was only invited by Arko Adjei and the other Big ...
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  • KO 1 month ago

    Then let's change KNUST too. It's only fair. Because he also was a politician.

  • Nzema K 1 month ago

    They're even lucky to have maintained certain aspects of the renaming by the npp

  • Nana 1 month ago

    The brains of NDC Followers are just like that of Cows or Pigs, they don't have any memory. During late Prof Atta Mills/John Mahama regime, most streets & roads were renamed. They only use pro -NDC Followers names, bcoz of th ...
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  • Kwame 1 month ago

    Let it be soooo. Those daya when thieves claim what is not for them but insist we let go because of forgiveness is gone.

  • Kusi Ba 1 month ago

    These higher institutions name changes depending on current government should stop. There is no global trend in higher institutions name changes and the reasons given are as hollow as the hollow word is. KNUST vs UST changes ...
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  • Newself 1 month ago

    After they shamelessly named the schools after only their party people? And imagine that Akufo Addo wanted to name Legon after the treasonous Danquah JB.

  • Say it loud 1 month ago

    Me love this. We now have UTAS, USTED, and UBIDS.

  • Kwa 1 month ago

    Knust will be changed to UST then

  • Joe 1 month ago

    Name the roads, streets, halls after your heroes but let the overarching names of public institutions reflect wgat they teach. The names were too long and had no international content.

  • Mahama Ba 1 month ago

    Your wisdom is deep, Man.

  • Kwabena 1 month ago

    Ghana is full of universities and yet, we are not making any breakthrough in our development efforts. For example, we are unable to do simple things like construct roads despite all the civil engineers trained over the years. ...
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  • Kwame Nkrumah 1 month ago

    Good job! I support this call! This gives it an international reputation and recognition!!!

  • On your mark 1 month ago

    The only thing they know best, chekai

  • Korbla 1 month ago

    Good move. Akuffo Addo thought Ghana belongs to him and his Akyem Mafia

  • God is watching 1 month ago

    Much a do about nothing

  • KO 1 month ago

    What about Kwame Nkrumah? Resetting indeed.

  • Let The Parrot Parrot 1 month ago

    Who established the KNUST? The one who initiated it deserves to be the eponym of it. Even the one who established USD didn't name it after himself. Is only patriots from one political party qualified as names of our state ins ...
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  • Kwabena Gyamfi 1 month ago

    KNUST was not established by Nkrumah.
    It was established by Asantehene, Agyeman Prempeh II. It was then called Kumasi College of Technology.

  • Otabil 1 month ago

    JM, change Prempeh International AirPort to Kumasi International Airport.

  • Francis Mccarthy 1 month ago

    GOOD NATIONALISTIC MOVE. AT A TIME, NANA ADDO TAUGHT GHANA WILL BE THEIR "AKYEM PERSONAL FAMILY PROPERTY". SHAME ON NANA ADDO. THE NPP BEFORE THE ELECTIONS, TAUGHT THE BILLIONS STOLEN AND THE MILITARY, JUDICIAL, POLICE AND TH ...
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  • Kweku 1 month ago

    There's too much political interference in our public universities in Ghana.

  • Nyansa 1 month ago

    President Mahama is just a stupid idiot

  • Kweku 1 month ago

    Akuffo Addo wanted to rename the University of Ghana after his uncle J. B. Danquah because Akuffo Addo was the president of Ghana.

  • Sul 1 month ago

    I DIDN'T WASTE MY VOTE ON NDC..... THIS IS THE MAIN REASON WHY I VOTED FOR THE NDC.
    THOSE STUPIDITY MUST STOP

  • Tunji Babatope 1 month ago

    Are these moves not blind hypocrisy
    The name is not what makes a University but the academic output in a long run.
    What about our long standing Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
    This move is just to dish ...
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  • No Mercy 1 month ago

    Ghana University's are Useless.Useless institute, like NDC Party.Universitys which cannot make any Research.Up to date Ghana University's has create anything.After attending Long Studies.There is no Job for You, Ghana is a lo ...
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  • Lord Lugard 1 month ago

    We shouldn't forget Ho Technical University

  • Nobody knows Tomorrow 1 month ago

    Go to Kenya there is university named after Jumbo Kenyatta, Go Nigeria there is university named after Namdi Azikiwe ect, these president are all peers of Dr Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana so naming university after Dr Kwame Nkrumah ...
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  • Bazz 1 month ago

    This government is doing well, the remaining is on point

  • Kwabena Gyam 1 month ago

    How much of the taxpayers money is involved in the change? Could that not be used to improve the conditions in the institutions? When is politics of vindictiveness come to an end?

  • Northern Boy 1 month ago

    Anything akufo ado stinks. Self glorification leads one to nowhere. Let the people see your worth and recognise you as such. But akufo ado's if-they-won't -award-you-award-yourself approach to glory and fame will always lead ...
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  • Yusif 1 month ago

    24 hour economic models at work. Bees at work mmooaa

  • quophie 1 month ago

    Will renaming add any new values to the universities? I don't understand why we do this to ourselves as Ghanaians. Why do we always want to undo everything a previous government has done? It's a shame and we must stop this.

  • UNP 1 month ago

    Shut up. When your npp was renaming these universities after Npp founders did you criticize or complain? These names are only reverse

  • Martin Kreisler 1 month ago

    The ammendment seeks to:
    1. Remove personal names.
    2.Reflect the geographical identity of the universities.
    3.Strengthen stakeholder engagement and public appeal.
    4. Position the universities more broadly within the natio ...
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  • Kwam 1 month ago

    These are some of stupid decisions taken my the NPP - led Nana Addo government. Naming public entities institutions after his part faithfuls who didn't contribute nothing to the state

  • John 1 month ago

    Alright. Go ahead and change that of KNUST if you have the muscles!
    NDC's aim is to undo whatever the previous administration did. Period!

  • Kwam 1 month ago

    These are some of stupid decisions taken by the NPP - led Nana Addo government. Naming public entities institutions after his party faithfuls who didn't contribute nothing to the state.

  • WR Nagumo 1 month ago

    Also change the Tamale airport name back to original

  • ODS-USA 1 month ago

    This useless and clueless NDC government always harvest where they have not sowed. They never change in shape or in character, always changing names and renaming everything that they can set eyes on. Who should give birth to ...
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  • Eric Ofosuhene 1 month ago

    Idiot, who built the university which your president named after C. K. Tedam? Open your eyes blind party fanatic.

  • NANA TRUMU TRUMU ADDO 1 month ago

    NPP NKWASEAFO. THEY NEVER BUILD BUT CHANGED NAMES OF COLLEGES

  • Kwame 1 month ago

    This is one of the reasons why I will vote for the NDC. What is the significance of idiots and fools like Dombo and Tedam in Ghana? Danquah Busia Dombo tradition and so what? Nonsense bomb throwing tradition. Bravo 1st July ...
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  • KOA 1 month ago

    Don’t they have anything better to do? How does this help grow the economy? Unbelievable.

  • Wakkuffo Waddo 1 month ago

    "How not to govern a country" by Wakkuffo Waddo.

  • ROGUE LAWYER 1 month ago

    it must not end only on the universities or schools alone,
    the changes must be applied to every government property in the country
    name the facility to it location to boost the fibres of the country.
    we must promote th ...
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  • Kung-ibeu 1 month ago

    Good things are happening, hope is back to the Ghanaian people

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  • Ben 1 month ago

    Far better and appreciate. They were like name of private primary schools

  • Good 1 month ago

    KNUST SHOULD ALSO BE NAME UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY. PERIOD.

  • Francis Boateng 1 month ago

    President Mahama should think of how to create jobs for the teeming youth who graduate from the public universities in the country instead of changing names by Acts of Parliament which can be amended when he.is no more ...
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  • ST GHFUO: Ghana, nation with foolish leaders 1 month ago

    Foolish leaders in parliament why can't you name.the universities after the cities they are in..these are all public universities built with taxpayers monies..if the university is situated in navrongi call it university of na ...
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  • Great move by Government 1 month ago

    And which white man knows about Navrongo?

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  • Kojois 1 month ago

    They should change ust immediately. I rest my case

  • New Invisible Forces 1 month ago

    They will not change any UST. Kwasea. Go to court

  • KB 1 month ago

    Dirty Politics, Tweaa. Establish yours and name them. Skin pain

  • Moh 1 month ago

    Well done

  • Bias refree 1 month ago

    Mahama de33, gyimie saaaaa, Mahama is foolish paaa o. Changing the names will solve the country's economy woes. Ad3n Africa mpanyinfo) Agyimi sein? Mmmoas3m sein.

  • Tinkrwan 1 month ago

    Mahama will always fool around m

  • Kofi 1 month ago

    Why all these universities?It's nonsense for a country like Ghana which has Unemployed University Association to have such universities. Ghana needs technical schools with hands on training to help the youth. I am in favor of ...
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  • WHAT ABOUT BUSIA UNIVERSITY? - Ghanani 1 month ago

    What about Busia University? Change the name without any further delay. Busia was a CIA agent and a terrorist. He even tried to stop the Gold Coast gaining independence from the British.

  • Alhaj Kalou 1 month ago

    Then KNUST equally need to be renamed because someone name is attached to it.

  • Vanguard 1 month ago

    This is a good move. Nobody should ever try to politicize Universities again like Akuffo-Addo. I'm glad the resetting is happening during his lifetime.