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GES teachers declare indefinite strike from Monday Sept 12

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  • Otanii ba 7 years ago

    Mahama in trouble galore.With this mess NDC wants to win by 60 percent fools.Mahama does not fit for 2nd term

  • OLD SOLDIER 7 years ago

    Author:- ROSEMARY .....
    Prof MARTEY please don't mention any names because GHANAIANS ARE not worth dying for...... Let the Ndc thieves continue to destroy Ghana paaaaaaa thru sada gyeeda bus rebranding thievery...... Dubiou ...
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  • Gaisey 7 years ago

    What is the sticker about? Simple English please . Am not highly educated.

  • Vinss 7 years ago

    MAHAMA PRESIDENCY IS A BIG MESS BECS MOST APPOINTEES.ARE NOT QUALIFIED TO BE THERE.HE WAS GOOD BEING VICE AND SAYING YESER YESER MASTER SO IS THE TRUTH.

  • Nana Kuffuor, Abeka 7 years ago

    I don't know what Indistrial relations policy we have in Ghana. In Europe, if it is an illegal strike, the leaders would be jailed and the strikers forfeit their salary.

  • Ken 7 years ago

    Where in Europe?

  • Adrah Moses 7 years ago

    Don't exhibit your stupidity here due to your party affliation. When the bill for converting all the training colleges were passed.All colleges of education became tertiary education just like the polytechnics and universitie ...
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  • scudet 7 years ago

    Its unfair to behave in this way pls b in dialogue with the authorities rather than resort to demonstration, but caution to those who ar insulting their leaders for a political gimmick

  • Frank Bobie(U.S.A) 7 years ago

    Do you know how many times there has been dialogue? don't say something you don't know!!

  • Kwaku Mawunyo 7 years ago

    learn to construct simple phrases, 'a round peg in a square peg' indeed!


    only fools like you follow the NPP, unless being, we would match you ppl boot for boot!

  • Yeboah Francis 7 years ago

    please calm down. he only expressed his opinion.you are free to agree or disagree with him."only fools like you follow the NPP" is too harsh.please lets learn to be tolerant

  • Adrah Moses 7 years ago

    Boot for boot?
    Apuu, with what, how many followers of ndc can construct simple sentences. A party that has less than thousand intellectuals and you are saying boot for boot. Asem oo

  • oboy 7 years ago

    Is true Nana will make Ghanaian cry ,cry and cry

  • Nii Nortey(New York) 7 years ago

    Otanii ba, I surely will describe you as a rectangular peg in a circle.
    You and your teachers are waiting your time. I will suggest these teachers should resign. We have had enough of these foolishness.

  • Ayambila 7 years ago

    Foolish leader who thinks of money and money alone! Go alone we are not part, nap cohort

  • Papa 7 years ago

    Stupid fool! I dont blame u. U have enough share of the booty.If u ve worked for 8 years without the correct pay u will surely complain. The Strike ends after correct placements PERIOD

  • Frank Adjei 7 years ago

    Sometimes it saddens to see ignorance people comment about issues as if they don't read. It would have been better to keep quite than to make such childish statement. I wonder whether the so called Nii Nortey is a child or ad ...
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  • Ellis 7 years ago

    You are rather fool. You can't spell wasting and you are here insulting a teacher. You are an idiot.

  • Kwadwo Anane 7 years ago

    Since when did u start d negotiations, 2012. U've waited till now that u want 2 embark on strike. Pls don't hide behind d npp to do what u're doing. We're tired of u. Posterity will consequently judge u of ur actions against ...
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  • Nana 7 years ago

    DO YOU KNOW THE NUMBER OF MEETINGS WE HAVE ENGAGE WITH YOUR GOVERNMENT? WE WENT ON STRIKE IN 2013 AND YOUR GOVERNMENT PLEADED WITH US AND WE SUPPENDED THE STRIKE WITH THE HOPE THAT THEY WILL IMPLEMENT THE LAW! DONT BRING POLI ...
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  • scudet 7 years ago

    Its better to find another job and stop the unnecessary complain

  • Papa 7 years ago

    Do u know when we were supposed to b migrated?
    Do u know how many meetings CETAG leaders have had with authorities? Do u know how many times okujato and his cleque hve come up with dates all to no manifestation? Massa educat ...
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  • Inusah 7 years ago

    please be inform that all the colleges are not in one region or belong to one tribe. we are fighting for what we are due. most of these colleges are here in the Volta region. we are tutors with dignity, please spare us with y ...
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  • kingteye 7 years ago

    And u think more than 4years is not enough for the issue to be addressed? Sometimes I find difficult to understand the way some of u think or use ur brains! U not one of them so definitely u won't make sense here. Respect the ...
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  • one ghana 7 years ago

    these people went on strike in 2013. I was in college by then they did not start talking all of a sudden. Is because of this migration of colleges of education to tertiary status why the took off the students allowance.

  • Frank Bobie(U.S.A) 7 years ago

    Kwadwo don't say that someone is hiding behind a particular party and doing something NO!I have been a teacher in Ghana before I travelled outside to further my education.this has been there for a longtime but with this rulin ...
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  • ATM 7 years ago

    Government should sack them all, after all, they're many unemployed teachers wanting to be employed.

  • Nana 7 years ago

    You dead goat father cannot sack any of us! Try to find out about the issue instead of jumping the gun!

  • Asanteniiba Pokuaa 7 years ago

    And you think those unemployed teachers will teach under this circumstance, going into negotiations with your employer close to four years without results,and when this employer announces a vacancy,because you are unemployed ...
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  • El 7 years ago

    Anyway, that is your opinion. You what do you do for a living? NONSENSICAL being.

  • Eric 7 years ago

    ATM They want to make it better for those who will com

  • KING DAVID 7 years ago

    Holalaaaa, this is time and the language our leaders understand. Now when they embark on strike, you would hear all kinds of name calling. Let's meet and negotiate and it comes to nothing positive. To add pain to injury, you ...
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  • Euless. Cape Town 7 years ago

    They are never at their post. They travel outside the country to visit their kids in foreign schools and their staff say they are busy.

  • THE CRUSADER 7 years ago

    Waaa! Obatan prof hee Mrs says Ghana sukuu?w/o koo sukuu free bonto.Okaninba paa,Asanteni abasriwa paa ONYAME ahumo.You supervised the pad payment whereas kid screep on the baredirty floor to write,are you not shamed to profh ...
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  • Gaisey 7 years ago

    That woman with nasty hair should come out and explain all this

  • Nana 7 years ago

    We are all in support!!

  • Odikro 7 years ago

    I am not a big fan of strikes but it appears that is the only way this thieves can be woken up to think.

  • Aruba james 7 years ago

    Massa don't say what you don't know, do you know the laxity with which the government using to migrate the colleges of education teachers. who told you that NPP is masterminding our strike? We in the colleges of education ...
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  • craig ulm, Germany 7 years ago

    GOVERNMENT WORKERS GOING ON STRIKE.............WHAT AT ALL DO THESE SO CALLED TUTORS CONTRIBUTE TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF GHANA. ..........YET STILL A CHUNK OF GHANA GOVERNMENT REVENUE IS USED TO PAY THEIR SALARIES. ..........RES ...
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  • Nana 7 years ago

    Please let look at the merits of the issue before commenting! You cannot be wise than the teachers who brought you to your current status! Give respect to the profession which has ensured we become better people in society. Y ...
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  • Papa 7 years ago

    I dont blame u. Stupid!

  • craig ulm, Germany 7 years ago

    YOU CAN SPEW INSULT AT ME THE WHOLE DAY. ........FOR ALL THAT I CARE............POTAG.......
    UTAG........CLOSAG.............AND YOU COLLEGE TEACHERS. ..........JUST ADD UP TO THE BUNCH OF GHANA'S NUMEROUS PROBLEMS. ......... ...
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  • El 7 years ago

    Highly disappointed, do you know the issue at stake? i guess NO but here you are just displaying your ignorance and what have you done in the development of mother Ghana. Abrab) nny3 b)na anka wote Germany, if you are really ...
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  • Charles 7 years ago

    I'm an NDC member in Berekum. I fully support the strike action for the government is becoming adament

  • kofi 7 years ago

    Since 2012, yes if those governments have followed their own timelines to resolve this issue, I don't think we would have been talking about strike today. I am in full support of our ever sacrificing college of education tuto ...
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  • kwabena 7 years ago

    You can implement 1 akua donkor 2 pajeros,1 chief 1 car.but u can't pay teachers. U claim u cancelled alawa bcus u av allevated training college to tertially level, so de teachers must be paid a tertially salary, y r u not pa ...
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  • Papa 7 years ago

    Pls the author shd come again! Colleges of Education not GES.
    How can they b asked to b awarding diploma for over 8 yrs and u still pay them as class one teachers!
    STRIKE is e way out!

  • El 7 years ago

    You, what do you do?
    i can see that you are just talking nonsense. think twice before you write, if you don't know something you ask or you educate yourself by reading further. You don't say things because you at liberty.

  • BORDOHLITY 7 years ago

    We are not GES TEACHERS but Colleges of Education Tutors...... CETAG...... THE CAPTION SHOULD.... CETAG TUTORS across the 38 Colleges of Education on STRIKE........THIS NDC GOVERNMENT IS HEARTLESS.

  • Davidt 7 years ago

    You will not blackmail the govt. why not just go and vote for your NPP to migrate you

  • Papa 7 years ago

    Mahama says bc COEs are tertiary, No allawance! So pay COE teachers are tertiary. We ve waited for too long. Strike is the only language a dead goat understands!

  • adamu 7 years ago

    U can look at it from your political point of view. The teachers involved come from various locations in this country and so how is it possible that the entire leadership accross the country is npp. Use your head its not mean ...
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  • Richard 7 years ago

    No body is blackmailing this government, they are not doing the right thing so keep quiet

  • Ad33 Mununkum 7 years ago

    Nana,Papa,Frank Adjei and all supporters,please don't waist your time and breath on myopic people like Nii Nortey and craig ulm.Is that what happens in Germany and America? Why have they run away from their so-called beloved ...
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  • kwame 7 years ago

    'Lack of knowledge my people perish' Find out more abt the issue so that you can make wise conclusion.

  • kofi 7 years ago

    VOTE NPP FOR NEEDS. HE BETTER WANT TO LOSE THAN TO PAY WHISLT THEY LOOT.

  • kyankyanpillaa 7 years ago

    more fire Mahamas time is up.

  • samuel azumah 7 years ago

    the group responsible for these teachers should go to court and fight their case.as a ghanaian,i therefore invoke my right to protect the state,any worker that goes on strike must not be paid.

  • wisetalk 7 years ago

    ghana is in a mess that the only solution is to burn it into ashes for différents folks to ressetle.hardworking people are suffering while lazy and fools becomes rich over night

  • Adams Kipo 7 years ago

    The hypocrisy of this government is just too much. You claimed to have cancelled teacher trainees allowance because Colleges of Education are now tertiary institutions and that tertiary students do not take students allowanc ...
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  • musah 7 years ago

    You are right go ahead

  • Abi@Northaneshie 7 years ago

    I solely support this strike this government has taken workers for granted and its election year 13th September school will reopen they need to get every pesewa to work. .... we not playing I'm a Strong NDC member.......

  • KWASHIE ADJAH 7 years ago

    ENOUGH IS ENOUGH OF INCOMPETENCE, LIES AND DECEIPT. THE ONLY LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDS IS OPPOSITION. WHEN THEY ARE VOTED OUT OUT AND HAVE NO GOVERNMENT MONEY TO STILL IS WHEN THE NDC LEARNS A LESSON. VOTE THESE NDC THUGS, THIEVES ...
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  • TRUTH 7 years ago

    YOU FOOOLISH TEACHERS SHOULD HAVE TRIKE LONG TIME FOR YOUR BENEFITS. THE GOVT HAS TAKEN YOU FOR GRANTED FOR A LONG TIME. WHY BECAUSE IT KNOWS HOW FOOLISH YOU ALL ARE. YOU FOOLS WILL ALL DRINK APKETESHIE AND DIE POOR. YOU CA ...
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  • Richard 7 years ago

    This government is senseless. The right thing must be done and am in support of the strike. Vote this thieves out or else we all will perish

  • Markonikov 7 years ago

    Pls Mr President don't mind dem,, dis very tutors advocate e cancellation of teacher trainee alaw now der want ders it won't happen bad tutors, selfish ppl.

  • Charles 7 years ago

    Never argue with a fool otherwise people will never know your importance. This useless foot soldiers with no certificates must not be entertained.

  • fati latifa 7 years ago

    over to you teachers , vote the NDC out, they have nothing to offer.

  • buzzy 7 years ago

    Thank you Mr President for taking off teacher trainee allowance. These idiots want to collapse the country with strike. I wish all the board members could be sacked.

  • Luze 7 years ago

    Go ahead.

  • rastaman 7 years ago

    the teacher's are not serious i will urge president to sack all of them if they fail to appear in the reopening day this teachers collaborated with the ges to scrape the allowance so that they will receive increment in their ...
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  • Hylyta 7 years ago

    it's high time teachers in this country be given adequate attention.

  • Ghana ba pa 7 years ago

    ohhhh ghana look at where are now jm and ndc 8years Ghana has turn backwards

  • Frank Adjei 7 years ago

    Ignorance is a very big disease, I sometimes wonder if those commenting blindly use their stomach instead of their head. Is only in Ghana that intellect are not valued. Go and sack them because you are being paid by your insu ...
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  • Yaw Mensah 7 years ago

    For their choice of words, we shall know the political party they belong to. Intellectuals will not use such language on a bigger platform like this.all those insulting the teachers should be ashamed of themselves.

  • ISAIAH OPOKU 7 years ago

    3Y3 ZU 3Y3 ZA FOR YOU. I LOVE WHEN GHANAIANS ARE SUFFERING UNDER NDC.
    GHANAIANS TAKE THEIR VOTE AS JOKE.
    GO AND VOTE NDC AGAIN AND KEEP SUFFERING. A MESSAGE TO ALL GHANAIANS VOTING ON THE 7 DECEMBER.HAHAHAHA

  • JOHN 7 years ago

    LET NANA ADDO WIN AND PLUNG THIS COUNTRY INTO CHAOS. IN 4 YRS, GHANAIANS WILL CRY FOR NDC TO COME BACK. NANA ADDO RULE WILL BE SO INTERESTING

  • kuuso 7 years ago

    more fire

  • polo loco 7 years ago

    hmmmm

  • Angosaotome,Osu Christianstuborg Citi 7 years ago

    Who tol you all the teachers at GES are NPP members.You are a stupid idiot for your statement. Even NDC members are the poorest people in ghana and they suffer the most under your incompetent NDC government. Idiot!!!

  • Twaala 7 years ago

    Good approach but bad timing.Waiting as far back 2012 till election time before embarking on strike is very disturbing and highly suspicious. You may deny my point but very factual.

  • Kofi GH 7 years ago

    if u are dealing with dead gaots what do u expecte hmmmmmm but u are saying is true

  • Kofi GH 7 years ago

    hmmmmmmmmm asemoooo election time is here u have to take ur Cake because u won't after .hahaha GHANA dey paaaaaaaaaa hmmmmmm

  • Twaala 7 years ago

    Good approach but bad timing. Waiting as far back 2012 till election time before embarking on a strike is very disturbing and highly suspicious. You may deny my point but very factual.

  • papa 7 years ago

    A very important issue to be solved not political talks.boyz are matured now

  • BMI 7 years ago

    They should not mine you, because ur action was selfish interest, you agitated very strongly for the removal of this trainees allowance.

  • Snr Noble 7 years ago

    The students have been taken off the student allowance because they are now tertiary students, why can't the tutors/lecturers be treated as such. I think they should unite and fight this course because they have a case

  • Obiba Broke 7 years ago

    If Npp is behind all the good decisions being made in Ghana, then what is Ndc doing as government, They must get the hell out and disappear for good

  • Alhassan Bugala 7 years ago

    Teachers deserve better they should proceed on their strike.

  • Amoakwa Titus 7 years ago

    Why NDC?

  • Roman Cheacter 7 years ago

    They are not serious at all. Who told them that college of education is a full tertiary institution? These teachers should go back and fight for the freedom and rights of the trainee teachers under their care as full institut ...
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  • Adams Kipo 7 years ago

    Hahaha. You have just displayed your ignorance. Just because UCC conducts colleges of education examination that make them non tertiary institutions? WoW!

  • Nantwi, BSEd,MSEd(ece),MSEd(sas) 7 years ago

    I guess I will teach in New York forever.

  • The miloboy.Garu_Akara 7 years ago

    Gov't should not listen to them because they helped gov't in scrapping off the allowance and now demanding for huge salaries. Gov't should not listen to them.

  • HALID from Northern region ZABZUGU 7 years ago

    Government of Ghana should do something to teachers before it is too late.
    The president should salute teachers for their work done.

  • caesar 7 years ago

    except that u don't no there was strike on this same issue in 2014.So don't tag them opportunists.

  • Ice cool 7 years ago

    Please let's vote this stupid and corrupt useless president John mahama out for a better future.

  • Sir K 7 years ago

    Wen u supported the cancellation of trainees allowance just for selfish pursuit wanting an upgrade...u see now?...Next time think about your brother before u act selfishly

  • Atigi Lambert 7 years ago

    Some of the comments am reading are not 'palatable' and what is shocking is that those writing the comments seems to be teachers of our incoming teacher. There is a name Nana, he needs to grow-up.

  • Slyster 7 years ago

    Mahama toaso!! Yesooo!! He will toaso!! alright. He is useless, hopless, senseless, clueless,shameless,and most of all a thieving idiot. We shall see come december 7th. Useless man.

  • Hamdann 7 years ago

    Mahama is collapsing education in the ghana n destruction of the economy. So he doesn't leadership.

  • Kwaku Amankwah 7 years ago

    Prosperity will judge those who will accuse the teachers going on strike.

  • kwame ben 7 years ago

    After this SSS tutors will follow bec teschers in this glorified training colleges called College of Education. Are no better and teach nothing more spectacular than those in the Snr High Schs...Then all post Sec institution ...
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  • Jul 7 years ago

    Am not proud of this women out all becus her image is so back ward , like expired face , not attractive & looks like she lives in her own bubbly . Not s fun of her skills are so bad & obviously has no balls . She is ugly , go ...
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  • kwame ben 7 years ago

    Some .of you argue as if Nana Akuffu Addo is coming from a different planent and will have solutions to all our problems.Was it not the NPP which ceased our (trs) Salaries in 2007?These are National policies..Theres no diff ...
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  • Jo 7 years ago

    The woman should sort her hair out , use better skin tested creams to tone her completion , wear brighter colours & wear make up as a lady , a minister of state image is so import . She needs loads of advise on her out look . ...
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  • Ali Mahama 7 years ago

    Mahama and NDC Criminals have no respect for Teachers Simplicità. Look at how they are treating the Trainee Teachers over their Allawañce.GHANA will never Grow under Mahama Corrupt Administration, Wait for Better things un ...
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  • samnartus7 7 years ago

    Can our media people educate themselves at least to give good information to the public. GES is not going on strike. Why do you guys in the media behave like illiterate and empty intellectuals. Have checked the caption well.

  • Kwame 7 years ago

    This Prof koraa what innovation did she bring into our education system for the four years she has been in office?

  • Say it Loud 7 years ago

    I fully support these guys because the work of the teacher is enormous especially at that level where they have supervise students' project. Providing classrooms alone is not enough to improve upon our educational sector.

  • prosper 7 years ago

    When people works with the private sector, they put their all in, but when with they government, their perception changes. Is good to demand for your arrears, but is it best to go on a strike which directly affects the future ...
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  • OTCHERE 7 years ago

    It is so unfortunate that some people think that without education their children and wards could survive because of politics and the deceiving politicians. Look at those the politicians use as foot soldiers. They are mostly ...
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  • Victor 7 years ago

    Are teachers in Colleges of Education under the GES ? If not, why refer to them as GES teachers ?We need not only be literate, we must as well be educated.