UDS names Library after Rawlings

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Zoobie-Zoobie 12 years ago

corrupt and visionless after 20 years of leading Ghana to nowhere.

corrupt and visionless after 20 years of leading Ghana to nowhere.
Zoobie-Zoobie 12 years ago

donated some money to UDS and squandered 20 years of Ghana's life and became super rich.

donated some money to UDS and squandered 20 years of Ghana's life and became super rich.
Common Sense 12 years ago

Some people use this medium just to tarnish images of people especially those of different political views. You Zoobie or whatever shit you call yourself will come here and write any trash without brainstorming. In fact, you ...
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Some people use this medium just to tarnish images of people especially those of different political views. You Zoobie or whatever shit you call yourself will come here and write any trash without brainstorming. In fact, you should better look for some work and do than fucking up yourself here. This place is for reasonable people but not motherfuckers like you capital idiot.

Nkwasia sem kua.........
Law 12 years ago

don't think you have it FOOL

don't think you have it FOOL
Zoobie-Zoobie 12 years ago

You sound like a big fool. Did you complete JSS? Thanks to Rawlings for messing up Ghana's education system. The system now produces half-baked fools like you.

You sound like a big fool. Did you complete JSS? Thanks to Rawlings for messing up Ghana's education system. The system now produces half-baked fools like you.
Abongo 12 years ago

So you are a half baked fool too, because you are the most stupid contributer I ever met on this web site idiot

So you are a half baked fool too, because you are the most stupid contributer I ever met on this web site idiot
Ghana 1st 12 years ago

I am surely knows that President Dr.Rawlings did the Yeji-Kumasi road and some of Kumasi city streets roads were also asphalted by him, that is few I can mentioned.

I am surely knows that President Dr.Rawlings did the Yeji-Kumasi road and some of Kumasi city streets roads were also asphalted by him, that is few I can mentioned.
Puoyelli Ndamba. 12 years ago

THIS IS A BIG MISTAKE FOR RAWLINGS NAME TO GO DOWN HERE.

THIS IS A BIG MISTAKE FOR RAWLINGS NAME TO GO DOWN HERE.
Frank Agyena-Karikari 12 years ago

Theh Kutu demands recognition is sports asnd the est of School of Medicine at Tech too for his contribution there too.

Theh Kutu demands recognition is sports asnd the est of School of Medicine at Tech too for his contribution there too.
SGT ANANI FIADZOE 12 years ago

Why is NDC so timid? The university should properly be named after JJ! I am ashamed at the timidity of JM.

Just as timid was the good old Prof who failed to rename the Accra airport.

The fact is that NDC is the party ...
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Why is NDC so timid? The university should properly be named after JJ! I am ashamed at the timidity of JM.

Just as timid was the good old Prof who failed to rename the Accra airport.

The fact is that NDC is the party the masses love passionately. But sadly it lacks bold decisive leadership. We have been cursed with very weak, timid leadership and I think the problem is now at its worst.

Just imagine how Franklin Cudjoe ridiculed the president for appointing him to many public Boards!! What did the president hope to achieve by that action? Is the reward for this timid action not public ridicule? It is only weak leaders who try to buy his opponents' loyalty. And is it working: appointing NPP loud mouths as board members. the granting of financial assistance to Joy FM etc are not yielding any dividends?

It is sad that JDM will destroy NDC with all kinds of compromises.

Zoobie-Zoobie 12 years ago

Ghana is in a mess today because of 20 years of "nowhere" leadership by Rawlings.

Ghana is in a mess today because of 20 years of "nowhere" leadership by Rawlings.
Dumegah Prosper JNR 12 years ago

What is worth more than give praises where they are due???
Rawlings gave his own money with a vision to build the UDS!! Please give the name of Rawlings, the protagonist of the UDS to JJ!! Period! We are waiting!!

What is worth more than give praises where they are due???
Rawlings gave his own money with a vision to build the UDS!! Please give the name of Rawlings, the protagonist of the UDS to JJ!! Period! We are waiting!!
bam 12 years ago

YOU ARE RETARDED. AT LEAST HE DID NOT LOOT THE COUNTRY TO BUY A HOTEL NEAR HIS HOUSE

YOU ARE RETARDED. AT LEAST HE DID NOT LOOT THE COUNTRY TO BUY A HOTEL NEAR HIS HOUSE
kofi doh 12 years ago

you r talking trash...what do know about governance.Can u even manage your own home?

you r talking trash...what do know about governance.Can u even manage your own home?
Aban 12 years ago

Who cares if you name your school after a murderer and thief.

Who cares if you name your school after a murderer and thief.
Zoobie-Zoobie 12 years ago

What is the legacy of Rawlings? He came to mess up Ghana.

What is the legacy of Rawlings? He came to mess up Ghana.
con 12 years ago

monni dwuma bidi........ hahahahahahaha u dont have nothing to do.

monni dwuma bidi........ hahahahahahaha u dont have nothing to do.
Agyeman 12 years ago

Lol @ naming a library after a thug and killer.

Lol @ naming a library after a thug and killer.
NOKWARE 12 years ago

Jeolousy will kill you people,you can not compare kuffour with Rawlings.

Jeolousy will kill you people,you can not compare kuffour with Rawlings.
Zoobie-Zoobie 12 years ago

corrupt, visionless and self-seeking

corrupt, visionless and self-seeking

John d@gh.com 12 years ago

Rawlings establisged the university without providing a single structure
The buildings that you now see in the school were put up during Kuffours era with getfund monnies, even the library that u want to name after jj
Ghana ...
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Rawlings establisged the university without providing a single structure
The buildings that you now see in the school were put up during Kuffours era with getfund monnies, even the library that u want to name after jj
Ghanaians are Hippocrates and will do anything to be in bed with the ruling class
Law 12 years ago

Never hippocrates

Never hippocrates
Law 12 years ago

Never hippocrates

Never hippocrates
Meshack 12 years ago

Consequent upon a donation of US$50,000 to UDS, Jeremiah Rawlings John has received a Doctor of Letters Degree and now, a Library named after him...but my question is,what did Jerry John do for education in Ghana during his n ...
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Consequent upon a donation of US$50,000 to UDS, Jeremiah Rawlings John has received a Doctor of Letters Degree and now, a Library named after him...but my question is,what did Jerry John do for education in Ghana during his nineteen years as leader of this country? Is this an effort to put some letters after his name...considering the fact this guy does not even have an 'O' level Certificate? I find this gesture very petty.
Puoyelli Ndamba. 12 years ago

YOU'VE SAID ALL MESHACK. GOD BLESS YOU!!!

YOU'VE SAID ALL MESHACK. GOD BLESS YOU!!!
THE TRUTH 12 years ago

JJ has an O Level. If you have evidence of him forging his O level , Take him to court.
Writing shit on Ghanaweb will not help your cause!!!

Even some of the greatest Prime Ministers of the UK DID NOT even complete middl ...
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JJ has an O Level. If you have evidence of him forging his O level , Take him to court.
Writing shit on Ghanaweb will not help your cause!!!

Even some of the greatest Prime Ministers of the UK DID NOT even complete middle school, Winston Churchill and John Major.
Zoobie-Zoobie 12 years ago

corrupt, visionless and filthy rich

corrupt, visionless and filthy rich
KOJO DARKO, Indiana 12 years ago

Why you kissing ass? you can name the library after a DOG and the country stays the same. this guy and Wayome thems are supposed to be in jail. lawless country, FEAR, FEAR PEOPLE ONLY PEOPLE. only YOUR MOUTH

Why you kissing ass? you can name the library after a DOG and the country stays the same. this guy and Wayome thems are supposed to be in jail. lawless country, FEAR, FEAR PEOPLE ONLY PEOPLE. only YOUR MOUTH
Law 12 years ago

Tettey Quarshie Hospital in Akan area not
Tamale Hospital they will never see your good
intention

Tettey Quarshie Hospital in Akan area not
Tamale Hospital they will never see your good
intention
spy_jupiter 12 years ago

JJ is the best , after all.

JJ is the best , after all.

John 12 years ago

We are still waiting for more to be named

We are still waiting for more to be named
concern ghanian 12 years ago

A RIGHT THING TO DO

A RIGHT THING TO DO
Shamu 12 years ago

This will not be the last or first. Whatever that is name after Rawlings, will never be a waste. Rawlings is part of world example for good of mankind. Only jealousy ones will continue to claim he kill and what so ever. But, ...
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This will not be the last or first. Whatever that is name after Rawlings, will never be a waste. Rawlings is part of world example for good of mankind. Only jealousy ones will continue to claim he kill and what so ever. But, how many of them know Rawlings act was a saviour?
NAKED 12 years ago

The truth about what is really going on in Mali and with AFRICOM and NATO countries, especially France is a little bit like a geopolitical “Victoria’s Secret”—what you think you see is definitely not what you will get ...
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The truth about what is really going on in Mali and with AFRICOM and NATO countries, especially France is a little bit like a geopolitical “Victoria’s Secret”—what you think you see is definitely not what you will get.

We are being told repeatedly in recent months that something supposedly calling itself Al Qaeda—the organization officially charged by the US Government as responsible for pulverizing three towers of the World Trade Center and blowing a gaping hole in the side of the Pentagon on September 11, 2001—has regrouped.

According to the popular media account and statements of various NATO member country government officials, the original group of the late Osama bin Laden, holed up we are supposed to believe somewhere in the caves of Tora Bora in Afghanistan, has apparently adopted a modern business model and is handing out Al Qaeda official franchises in a style something like a ‘McDonalds of Terrorism,’ from Al Qaeda in Iraq to Libyan Islamic Fighting Group in Libya and now Al-Qaeda-in-the Islamic-Maghreb.

I’ve even heard reports that a new Al Qaeda “official” franchise has just been given, bizarre as it sounds, to something called DRCCAQ or Democratic Republic of Congo Christian (sic) Al Qaeda. [7] Now that’s a stretch which reminds one of an equally bizarre sect called Jews for Jesus created back in the hippie days of the Vietnam War era. Can it be that the architects of all these murky groups have so little imagination?

If we are to believe the official story, the group being blamed in Mali for most all the trouble is Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM for short). The murky AQIM itself is actually a product of several behind-the-scenes workings. Originally it was based in Algeria across the border from Mali and called itself the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC according to its French name).

In 2006 Al Qaeda’s head guru in absence of Osama bin Laden, Egyptian jihadist Ayman al-Zawahiri, publicly announced the granting to the Algerian GSPC the Al Qaeda franchise. The name was changed to Al-Qaeda-in-the Islamic-Mahgreb and Algerian counter-terror operations pushed them in the past two years over the desert border into northern Mali. AQIM reportedly is little more than a well-armed criminal band that gets its money from running South American cocaine from Africa into Europe, or from arms dealing and human trafficking. [8]

A year later, in 2007, the enterprising al-Zawahiri added another building block to his Al Qaeda chain of thugs when he officially announced the merger between the Libyan LIFG and al-Qaeda in the Islamic Mahgreb (AQIM).

The LIFG or Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, was formed by a Libyan-born jihadist named Abdelhakim Belhaj. Belhaj was trained by the CIA as part of the US-financed Mujahideen in Afghanistan during the 1980s alongside another CIA trainee then named Osama bin Laden. In essence, as the journalist Pepe Escobar notes, “for all practical purposes, since then, LIFG/AQIM have been one and the same – and Belhaj was/is its emir.” [9]

That becomes even more interesting when we find that Belhaj’s men – who, as Escobar writes, were at the forefront of a militia of Berbers from the mountains southwest of Tripoli, the so-called Tripoli Brigade—were trained in secret for two months by US Special Forces. [10]

LIFG played a key role in the US and French-backed toppling of Libya’s Qaddafi, turning Libya today into what one observer describes as the “world’s largest open air arms bazaar.” Those arms are reportedly flooding from Benghazi to Mali and other various hotspot targets of destabilization, including, according to what was suggested at the recent US Senate Foreign Relations testimony of outgoing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, by the boatload from Libya to Turkey where they were being channeled into the various foreign terrorist insurgents sent into Syria to fuel the destruction of Syria. [11]

Now what does this unusual conglomerate globalized terror organization, LIFG-GPSC-AQIM intend in Mali and beyond, and how does that suit AFRICOM and French aims?
SULTAN 12 years ago

SOONER OR LATER YOU WILL BLAMING NATO FOR CREATING BOKO HARAM.

SOONER OR LATER YOU WILL BLAMING NATO FOR CREATING BOKO HARAM.
Asobayere Mumuni 12 years ago

Please stop politicizing UDS else it will not help the isntitution

Please stop politicizing UDS else it will not help the isntitution
AHHH PEPEFUO GYIMIFUO 12 years ago

CURSE INSTITUTION

CURSE INSTITUTION
David Tamatey 12 years ago

As a matter of fact,the university should rather be named after Jerry Rawlings. Am not one of his admirers but he has done so much to bring this institution to where it is today.We know what happened when the greedy Kufour re ...
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As a matter of fact,the university should rather be named after Jerry Rawlings. Am not one of his admirers but he has done so much to bring this institution to where it is today.We know what happened when the greedy Kufour refused the University authorities to recognise him.If it is appropriate at this time, then it is equally good to name the University after him after all.We were in this country and for eight good years,Kufour did not build a single Univesity nor any techinical institution.What he did was to disorganise the new educational reform brought by the NDC,by unecessarily increasing the year without reasoning. The end results is what we have with us today.It is not too late.The Univesity should be named afte this man. Let´s leave politics out of this.He deserve it.
Koo Nimo 12 years ago

Dr J J Rawlings. Doctorate through the back door. He could not even pass his O levels. He envied academics

Dr J J Rawlings. Doctorate through the back door. He could not even pass his O levels. He envied academics
NANA USED BAWUMIA 12 years ago

Good move! JJ deserves it. He could have chosen to use the US$50000 to build a mansion back then. I know a former Ghanaian president who would have used the money to build a shopping mall or a hotel in Accra. Hahaahahaaaaaaa ...
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Good move! JJ deserves it. He could have chosen to use the US$50000 to build a mansion back then. I know a former Ghanaian president who would have used the money to build a shopping mall or a hotel in Accra. Hahaahahaaaaaaaaaaaaa! You know what I mean.
Kwame Opoku-Agyemang 12 years ago

After all the persecution of academicians, he desires to be called a doctor? Hmmm.....

After all the persecution of academicians, he desires to be called a doctor? Hmmm.....
Dumegah Prosper JNR 12 years ago

Are you people grateful at all??? He put up the whole University and not only the library!! Be a little more grateful than what you are showing up for!!!!!!!!!!!!
Give Rawlings name to the University development Studies!!!!! ...
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Are you people grateful at all??? He put up the whole University and not only the library!! Be a little more grateful than what you are showing up for!!!!!!!!!!!!
Give Rawlings name to the University development Studies!!!!!!
DODO 12 years ago

YOU DON'T MAKE SENSE HERE, BRO

YOU DON'T MAKE SENSE HERE, BRO
DONBOLI 12 years ago

Dr Abdulia Salifu has made the biggest mistake ever, Rawlings name with a Library is not only a shame to our education but the whole of UDS.
Rawlings cant read and has never tried to learn to do reference in any book. He was ...
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Dr Abdulia Salifu has made the biggest mistake ever, Rawlings name with a Library is not only a shame to our education but the whole of UDS.
Rawlings cant read and has never tried to learn to do reference in any book. He was push thru secondary school to join the army.
Rawlings is not a good example to our children when education is consent. The man who cant sit down in one olace for 10 mins is given a library his name.
The biggest mistake ever made by a clever man like Abdulia Salifu. Did Abdulia consult Dr Millar before naming an idiot Rawlings who mess up ghana education by pushing our children to have short education in our schools.
OGA yum yum 12 years ago

you can even name the whole mushroom school after him and nobody would care

you can even name the whole mushroom school after him and nobody would care
Akufo Addo will never be a Prez 12 years ago

Period

Period
Clueless Bawumia 12 years ago

We got ur back

We got ur back
Justice 12 years ago

Former president Rawlings deserve anything good just as any other past president of Ghana. Anybody who is wise should contribute sensibly for others to learn from them.Ghanaians should thank and appreciate former president Ra ...
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Former president Rawlings deserve anything good just as any other past president of Ghana. Anybody who is wise should contribute sensibly for others to learn from them.Ghanaians should thank and appreciate former president Rawlings for how he led the nation when he was in office, if not Ghana would have been in a very big mess on the continent Africa in terms of politics.
princewilly@ymail.com 12 years ago

A psychiatrist was conducting a group therapy session with four young mothers and their small children.
"You all have obsessions," he observed.
To the first mother, he said, "You are obsessed with eating.
You've even named ...
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A psychiatrist was conducting a group therapy session with four young mothers and their small children.
"You all have obsessions," he observed.
To the first mother, he said, "You are obsessed with eating.
You've even named your daughter Candy."
He turned to the second Mom. "Your obsession is money.
Again, it manifests itself in your child's name, Penny."
He turned to the third Mom. "Your obsession is alcohol.
Again, it manifests itself in your child's name, Brandy."
At this point, the fourth mother got up, took her little boy by the hand and whispered, "Come on, Dick, let's go."
Osei Yao 12 years ago

Academic institutions are making it acceptable for corruption to thrive. How did Rawlings become rich enough to donate $50,000 when he was paid in Cedis as President of Ghana? He must be made to declare the source of his "dol ...
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Academic institutions are making it acceptable for corruption to thrive. How did Rawlings become rich enough to donate $50,000 when he was paid in Cedis as President of Ghana? He must be made to declare the source of his "dollar" acquisition.
Yam Antobam, Bronx, New York 12 years ago

Mr. Ose Yao, did you read this news report all? The source of the money was stated clearly here. You can accuse Rawlings of anything you want, but please read because you respond. This knee-jerk reaction does you no good, ...
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Mr. Ose Yao, did you read this news report all? The source of the money was stated clearly here. You can accuse Rawlings of anything you want, but please read because you respond. This knee-jerk reaction does you no good, it only exposes your hyper-partisanship. This is the problem we have as a country. When we disagree with you, you do no good. On the other hand when we in agreement with you, your "shit" dose not smell.
TOGBE II 12 years ago

FOOLISH UNIVERSITY YO NAME FOOLISH RAWLINGS FOR THE STUPID SCHOOL RAWLINGS IS THR CANCER OF GHANA WHEN IS THIS PEPEFOR WILL LEARN

FOOLISH UNIVERSITY YO NAME FOOLISH RAWLINGS FOR THE STUPID SCHOOL RAWLINGS IS THR CANCER OF GHANA WHEN IS THIS PEPEFOR WILL LEARN
Fire 12 years ago

UDS is actually playing sycophancy. they should wake up and be objective to honor other people that have helped to build up the nation. They should give him the title of a Professor.

UDS is actually playing sycophancy. they should wake up and be objective to honor other people that have helped to build up the nation. They should give him the title of a Professor.

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