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Three public universities renamed as Parliament approves amendment bills

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  • Apo 8 hours ago

    Good decision

  • Sly 7 hours ago

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

  • Dr Mumbi Seraki 7 hours 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 5 hours 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 4 hours ago

    Very good correction.

  • Karikakchar 3 hours ago

    Politrickcians!

  • Thank you 3 hours ago

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

  • TAKE OR PAY DEMON 38 minutes ago

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

  • Kwaku 9 minutes ago

    I hope lessons have been learnt.

  • John,Tema 7 hours 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 4 hours 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 hour 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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  • Asante 7 hours 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 4 hours ago

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

  • Philla philla 4 hours ago

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

  • judamujata 1 hour ago

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

  • AB 4 hours 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 3 hours 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.

  • Kelvin Taylor NDC propaganda secretary. 7 hours 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 5 hours 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 7 hours 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 7 hours 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 hour ago

    OLUWAAA F3 WO FEEEEEN

  • Nii 7 hours ago

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

  • Cynthia 7 hours ago

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

  • Nii 7 hours 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 6 hours ago

    U Soo stupid

  • judamujata 1 hour ago

    BONANZA BANZA

  • Maame 5 hours ago

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

  • Kwasi 1 hour ago

    You and who? Useless git.

  • You lost ut 5 hours ago

    Good idea

  • Obibini 6 hours 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 5 hours ago

    Why is it a good decision?

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  • TAKE OR PAY DEMON 43 minutes 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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  • Apo 8 hours 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 7 hours 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 7 hours 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 6 hours 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.

  • KO 7 hours ago

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

  • Nzema K 7 hours ago

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

  • Nana 7 hours 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 7 hours 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 7 hours 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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  • Say it loud 7 hours ago

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

  • Kwa 7 hours ago

    Knust will be changed to UST then

  • Joe 7 hours 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 2 hours ago

    Your wisdom is deep, Man.

  • Kwabena 7 hours 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 7 hours ago

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

  • On your mark 7 hours ago

    The only thing they know best, chekai

  • Korbla 7 hours ago

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

  • God is watching 7 hours ago

    Much a do about nothing

  • KO 7 hours ago

    What about Kwame Nkrumah? Resetting indeed.

  • Let The Parrot Parrot 7 hours 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 3 hours ago

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

  • Otabil 7 hours ago

    JM, change Prempeh International AirPort to Kumasi International Airport.

  • Francis Mccarthy 7 hours 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 6 hours ago

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

  • Nyansa 6 hours ago

    President Mahama is just a stupid idiot

  • Kweku 6 hours 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 6 hours 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 6 hours 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 6 hours 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 6 hours ago

    We shouldn't forget Ho Technical University

  • Nobody knows Tomorrow 5 hours 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 5 hours ago

    This government is doing well, the remaining is on point

  • Kwabena Gyam 5 hours 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 5 hours 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 5 hours ago

    24 hour economic models at work. Bees at work mmooaa

  • quophie 5 hours 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 4 hours 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 5 hours 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 5 hours 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 5 hours 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 5 hours 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 4 hours ago

    Also change the Tamale airport name back to original

  • ODS-USA 4 hours 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 3 hours ago

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

  • NANA TRUMU TRUMU ADDO 4 hours ago

    NPP NKWASEAFO. THEY NEVER BUILD BUT CHANGED NAMES OF COLLEGES

  • Kwame 2 hours 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 2 hours ago

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

  • Wakkuffo Waddo 2 hours ago

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

  • ROGUE LAWYER 2 hours 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 2 hours ago

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

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  • Ben 2 hours ago

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

  • Good 40 minutes ago

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

  • Francis Boateng 7 minutes 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 36 seconds 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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