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University teachers to withdraw services on April 2

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  • THE TRUTH 11 years ago

    Great!strike is now the only way to get our president to meet our demands!... God save the country!!!

  • OLD SOLDIER 11 years ago

    The NDC would have to explain to Ghanaians how a dead man came to author and sign a letter!

    The opening paragraph states, “I came to serve; I have finished my time here on earth and have moved on to everlasting rest and ...
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  • June 11 years ago

    OMG, everybody is striking. What a shameful administration! How can the government owe these teachers since last year but has no problem giving themselves pay raise, including rent allowances. What a bunch of greedy & selfish ...
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  • Onipa, USA 11 years ago

    This is the result of weak leadership, irrespective of party. Ghana currently needs a nationalistic and autocratic leader who will stand firm in face of difficulties or pressure from any group of persons even if they come fro ...
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  • Cold Thunder 11 years ago

    The problem is simply the lack of quality and visionary leadership.
    Note, that the courses content of the universities is supposed to be directed by a national development policy which is prescribed to be formulated by our g ...
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  • Tunkumaruu 11 years ago

    Every worker will strike because decision makers increased their salaries and justified it. Government now has the issue of salary differentials to deal with. As a competent government, I am sure they took all factors into co ...
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  • Phil 11 years ago

    If people claim that the strike actions are politically manipulated, then i guess the political party behind these strike actions MUST be very powerful, hence, should rather manage the economy because it has the support of t ...
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  • Cold Thunder 11 years ago

    Great thoughts, my friend

  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 11 years ago

    Hmmm, I told you so. Very soon the nurses will also start. The best thing Mahama can do is cut salaries and bonuses of MPs and other appointees as well as that of himself and the VP. With such a good example, agitations for h ...
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  • baba 11 years ago

    YOUR SUGGESTION MAKES SENSE. NONETHELESS, THIS IS JUST POLITICS. ITS A WAY THE PUBLIC WANTS TO SHOW ITS DISAPPROVAL OF THE MA"DUMBER" ADMINISTRATION. SERIOUSLY RESIGNING WILL BE THE BEST THING TO DO..

    GOD BLESS GHANA !

  • TRUE TALK 11 years ago

    This time around these "Book Long" lecturers should stand firm and not succumb to any sweet talk from any politician. This government is full of GREEDY BASTARDS INDEED. Look at the salaries useless MP's are taking home. Polit ...
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  • Kojo T 11 years ago

    How do we expect any plans to work when we are on strike and everything is adhoc

  • DKB 11 years ago

    I thought you would have said your usual nonsense. "They are all NPP".

  • ghanalover 11 years ago

    As lecturers you are the laziest workers in Ghana. You asked for book allowance how many of you have bought a single book with this amount Govt should not give them the book allowance but rather let them get invoices for book ...
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  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 11 years ago

    You are sure this can work? Office workers to teach university students? Why not National Service people and other non teaching staff? Mahama should get to the root cause of these strikes and solve the problems once and for a ...
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  • TRUE TALK 11 years ago

    Frank, do not even argue with ghanalover. I have a sneaking suspicion that he is an MP or a deputy minister. Yep!!. These are the kinds of IDIOTS ruling us now. So they talk RUBBISH. Save your breath Frank.

  • Kusiland INC. 11 years ago

    "Light travels faster than sound"...Till a man talks(sound), you would not know he just replicates a lunatic prisoner despite his neatness(light) preferably.
    This platform is for the wisened not a stupid greedy lazy person ...
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  • RED-SOKOT-GUDARI 11 years ago

    I think the teachers should be allowed to resume their strike action because their griviances are not going to be met soon. if politicians earn so much and spends so much, sleep in free light and drive cars with free petrol w ...
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  • KojoT 11 years ago

    There has not been any significant increase in the country's revenue in the last quarter, yet we have 45 new MP's to pay. We have nearly 90 ministers and deputy ministers to pay. 45 new District Chief Executives and their sta ...
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  • izayyyyyyyyy 11 years ago

    we need the old salary structure, period

  • jb 11 years ago

    THE MP'S ALLOWANCE ALONE IS MORE THAN PHD LECTURER'S PAY....HOW MANY MP'S AND HOW MANY MINISTER'S....?

  • KINGSBY 11 years ago

    THEY CAN GO TO HELL.IT'S POLITICS AS USUAL. WHAT ARE THEY TEACHING THE STUDENTS AFTER ALL WHO ARE NOT MARKETABLE ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD. THEY MUST BE ASHAMED OF THEMSELVES.

  • Kofi 11 years ago

    Hmm Kingsby, are you out of your damn mind?

  • sam 11 years ago

    these lectures have studied well to deserve better salary than what is giving to the likes of okojeto ablakwa and co.MPS get huge amount of money for various reasons whiles the learned and dedicated lecturers and teachers get ...
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  • Kokofu 11 years ago

    TUC should be warming up to also organize mass strike against mal-administration and serious mismanagement by Jon Mahama

  • Jimakpl3 11 years ago

    With the looting of coffers coupled with over-sized ministers taking very much improved incentives, why is the barking dog, Jato Rawlings silent?

  • Kofi 11 years ago

    Those who talk about political motivation should find out whether the non-payment of the salary arrears is politically-motivated. What has the executive and parliament done to deserve the gargantuan pay raise they gave themse ...
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  • AKASI MARTHA ARIZONA USA 11 years ago

    WHEN SLAVE TRADE WAS ABOLISHED IN AMERICA, THEY STATED TO BUILD PRISONS.WHY? WHITE MAN KNEW FREEDOM FOR BLACKMAN WILL TURN INTO CORUPTION,STEALING AND STRIK UPON STRIKS. PRISON IS THERE FOR THE ENEMY OF THE NATION. USE IT MR ...
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  • Frank Reigner Keleve, Adenta- Accra 11 years ago

    mahama, l think what all ghanaian workers are saying is that all revenue and loans should be used to pay salaries. therefore you cannot do any development again. Ghanians look at this and see: the total salary for a beginning ...
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  • KING TWAALA 11 years ago

    THE GOVERNMENT MUST STAND FIRM TO CHALLENGE SOME OF THESE STRIKES.THIS PARTICULAR ONE COMING FROM UTAG LOOKS QUITE SUSPICIOUS CONSIDERING THE DATE OF APRIL,2ND. STOP THEM AND CLOSE DOWN SCHOOLS FOR A YEAR. AFTER ALL WHERE ARE ...
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  • KING TWAALA 11 years ago

    TernmentHE GOVERNMENT MUST TAKE A BOLD STEPS TO RESIST UTAG DEMAND. WE ARE ALL CITIZENS AND UNDERSTAND WHAT IS GRADUALLY GOING ON. WHAT A HELL ARE SOME OF US WANTS TO DO TO DISTRUPT PEACE IN GHANA. LET THEM STAY HOME, CLOSE ...
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  • Ato 11 years ago

    Have you heard of the saying "Look before you leap"? first undertand what is going on before you start saying things. UTAG is NOT asking for salary increase from Govt as you may be thinking. If someone give you a job contract ...
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  • bob 11 years ago

    Have you considered how much the useless MP's, dept ministers and ministers taking? look at the difference between their salaries and the lectures. Only in Ghana that middle class people evening receive more than the learned ...
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  • KWAME SUGAR 11 years ago

    Just a bunch of greedy bastards....

  • Benji 11 years ago

    Until politicians will to ti ghing their belts strike actions will ne ver stop in this country.

  • Ketasco Headmaster 11 years ago

    Strike upon strike. Strike actions are like the bush fire; sparked by fire ripples from burning grass and exploding fruits and burning trees. It is not easy to stop strike actions when they freshly start with everybody seemin ...
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  • SUNY USA 11 years ago

    I DO NOT THINK LECTURES ARE DOING ENOUGH IN TERM OF PUBLICATIONS TO CLAMOUR FOR SALARY INCREASE. IAM A GHANAIAN DOING MY PHD AND I KNOW HOW HARDWORKING MY COLLEAGUES ARE HERE-THEY PUBLISH OR THEY PERISH

  • ok 11 years ago

    @SUNY, sou justify the huge salaries the MPs who have virtually no qualification nearer to the lectures to be ok. what developmt have those mps and those at the various ministries brought to the nation? is it how lectures are ...
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  • Nii Ansah 11 years ago

    The Lecturers can also go and stand for MP's and is not the people of Ghana who elected them at the various constituencies? For your information, there are MP's who are qualified just like the lecturers!

  • Kwadwo 11 years ago

    The professors should get theirs if government can spend 15 million on a 200 guinea fowl project

  • dan 11 years ago

    refusing to pay workers for their services from 2012. Does this make sense to anyone?? Mahama is creating more jobs for his boys with fat salaries, fat cars, fat allowances, fat manstions, fat wives and girlfrieds and for th ...
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  • alfa-alfa 11 years ago

    LIKE EVERYTHING GHANAIAN, ISSUES BOIL AND BUBBLE OVER WITH SCALDING HEAT. IMMEDIATELY GOVERNMENT CONSOLES THE PEOPLE THAT "WE ARE LOOKING INTO IT", THEY FREEZE LIKE THE BALLS OF A GOAT IN THE WILDERNESS OF ALASKA.

    HOW MANY ...
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  • Adoa Mesreyami 11 years ago

    When you graduate from a university riddled stikes, Aluta etc, and try to seek higher learning abroad, the credibility of the instituition is at stake. If you cannot make a living on the salary you have negotiated, find somet ...
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  • Ato 11 years ago

    and that is where you are wrong. UTAG is not asking for salary increment. It is the very salary they negotiated with govt and both parties agreed on that they are trying to get. Govt has refused to pay that agreed salary sinc ...
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  • Patrick Afful,tutor 11 years ago

    sometimes I feel very sad to be a Ghanaian,b'cos some few pple are enjoying while majority are suffering.God save Ghana

  • Abena Anna 11 years ago

    ask and ask again! its very serious . lets just hope that the president does something soon.

  • Kweku 11 years ago

    let the professors pay full rent for their luxury housing, recruit talente Ghanaians abrad willing to fill in, nana Akuffo Addo would have solved this.

  • Ato 11 years ago

    luxury housing?? are you for real? university housing for lecturers are low cost housing in states which make them unappealing. as a fact most of the professors you are mentioning are living in their own houses not govt's whi ...
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  • Alex 11 years ago

    As a sign of respect and concern for the public sector workers, the president must cut his salary by 30% and so as the MPs and Ministers. That will appease people and ensure fairness and equity. Workers are not fools.

  • Morree uds 11 years ago

    Gov't must consider the financial resource available and act accordingly. I believe that debt must be paid.

  • APEEE TOOOO 11 years ago

    If the government deemed it necessary to pay all that was due POTAG because they made noise whiles UTAG behaved gently and as such being taken for granted then the president need to sit up. The amount to be paid to UTAG is no ...
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  • James. 11 years ago

    Gahanains should blame themselves for all this shit going on, no lights eventhough we sell electricity to other countries, no water but numerous water reservours, no payment for professional workers but politicians have every ...
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