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Panel suggests renaming UDS after Rawlings

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  • Asembebadabi 10 years ago

    It will be well deserved and a shining example to future leaders philantropist.

  • Asembebadabi 10 years ago

    It will be well deserved and a shining example to future leaders and philantropist.

  • Nicholas J Bedzo 10 years ago

    This is a highest Honour done to JJ
    Rawlings for others to emulate.

  • MAHAMA MUST RESIGN 10 years ago

    Can't this Govt do something new?

  • MAHAMA MUST RESIGN 10 years ago

    There is something wrong with Govt.

  • Abongo 10 years ago

    You are a fool, the article is talking about JJ and not Mahama dam fool

  • william 10 years ago

    Bust, ok. Honorary doctorate, ok. Renaming? premature!!!One of our problems is talking too much, acting too emotionally and being less strategic in our approach to life and issues!!!

  • Human Worshipers 10 years ago

    Why should the national/public university university be named after a murderer? Was the school funded from his pocket or by funds from the nation's coffers? Ghanaians must stop from worshiping people. If that is the case let ...
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  • EFO KOKU 10 years ago

    Start naming the furniture, green grass(if there's any), school buses(if there's any) after Rawlings. And when he dies then you name the whole Tamale township together with the UDS after him. Oko Vanderpuye is good at this. C ...
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  • Nhyiraba-U.S.A 10 years ago

    Renaming a university after a murderer? We are really doomed. I pray my sister graduates before they call that school Jerry Rawlings University. This is a bad example for future generations. We are telling our children that i ...
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  • 4 Year Old 10 years ago

    Don't make that mistake.

  • Belzebub 10 years ago

    Naming UDS after Rawlings is not enough. I suggest the panel should name Ghana after him. The Republic of Rawlings is what will be befitting for this Royal Highness...

  • Kweku Boateng Jnr. 10 years ago

    No, it is a very bad idea. Rawlings is a coup maker, a systematic human rights violator, he sent the thousands into exile.
    Please Professors Haruna Yakubu, Zakariya, Abdula Salifu and co think and act as men of thought and ...
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  • OLD GOLD COAST BOY... 10 years ago

    As soon as the Progress Party comes back to power we will abolish ALL the fake names now being given to undeserved people.

    How can John Rawlings who murdered 7 repeat seven Generals and 3 Judges be honoured? He is a bl ...
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  • princewilly@ymail.com 10 years ago

    Foreign ministers sometimes find themselves in very difficult situations. Take the case of the Foreign Minister of Ghana. President Nkrumah told him that he wanted to change the name of Ghana to Nkrumah. The minister was aske ...
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  • Nima Old Soldier 10 years ago

    Renaming USD after Rawlings will not do anything. Better rename your fathers, mothers and villages including your dogs after the monster killer national wrecker Rawlings.

    Mmoooooaah! pepefour!!!

  • DR QUADRATIC 10 years ago

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  • Kofi 10 years ago

    Name the Cardiothoracic Centre after Frimpong Boateng. It is not only politicians who need to be recognized not especially those who come to power illegally.

  • Joe 10 years ago

    The fact that the university was established under the government of JJ does not mean he deserves to have the university named after him.

  • Nana Damoah - Accra 10 years ago

    For being the 2nd president who never opened any university let name k-poly after him

  • Nhyiraba-U.S.A 10 years ago

    If we are to rename all the stadia and high school built by Kufour after him, do you know how many he will get? What has John Mills and Mahama built?

  • mohammed 10 years ago

    What is stadium? we need cleanliness and knowledge to innovate. you can play soccer anywhere and still get the benefits.

  • Buwalay Ta 10 years ago

    We are growing as a nation. Baako too agreed to honor Jerry? We are making progress. I John Kuffour will equally agree

  • j gian 10 years ago

    if we keep on renaming our institutions it will never help us

  • JOHN PAZZO. 10 years ago

    OH YES I SO MUCH AGREE WITH THIS PROPOSAL AND THIS SHD BE DONE IN HIS LIFE TIME NOT WHEN HE PASSED ON AND THAT HONOUR WILL MEAN NOTHING TO HIS DEAD CARCASS. WE HV TO CELEBRATE SUCH SELFLESSNESS DISPLAYED AT THAT TIME WHEN THI ...
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  • WARD GDX - WE THE PEOPLE 10 years ago

    This mad man and crazy bozo destroyed Education in Ghana and it will be a gross mistake to name any educational institution after him.


    He educated his kids in the best universities outside Africa.


    We have too many ...
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  • mohammed 10 years ago

    Mr Gyamfi can think what ever he want. but, there is no denying fact that it was President Rawlings who created the Job for him. He could have been unemployed if Rawlings was that greedy. Rawlings is selfless and courageous. ...
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  • Kweku Boateng Jnr. 10 years ago

    Mohammed, Flt Lt Rawlings is NOT courageous. Ask Cpl Mathew Adabuga of One Recce, the soldier who picked up Rawlings drove him to GBC to read the speech that was written for the 1981 coup. The courageous Adabuga from Navro ...
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  • Kofi 10 years ago

    Ghanaians have very short memories. That's part of the problems we're facing today.

  • Harrison 10 years ago

    The day coup was announced, Adabuga was in Navrongo for holidays. He only got back to Accra when it was announced over the air that, all service men on vacation should report back to duty. He was not in Accra when the coup ...
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  • Kweku Boateng Jnr. 10 years ago

    Every single book, news reports on the coup and personal interviews shows it was Cpl Adabuga, Brimmah, Giwa and co who staged the coup with Rawlings. Go read the Truth Commission report. The master coup strategist was Sgt Ak ...
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  • ADONGO 10 years ago

    THIS REALLY LEAVES A BAD TASTE IN MY MOUTH.WELL EVEN ADOLF HITLER HAD ADMIRERS BUT NO INSTITUTION WAS NAMED AFTER HIM,who are these empty headed morons making this suggestion?RAWLINGS SHOULD BE TRIEDI IN COURT FOR CRIMES AGAI ...
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  • 4 Year Old 10 years ago

    When J.J did his coup, he was arrested and to be executed by firing squad when Boakye Djan, Akatapore and their men broke the Ussher Fort to free him. Had it not been these guys the coward J.J would have been executed.
    Whoe ...
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  • Akadu Mensema 10 years ago

    Rawlings closed down universities in Ghana in 1981-82, one whole year. His thugs raided the Legon campus raped students, beat up males, and stole belongings of students. In fact, his thugs occupied the campus!

  • Sam 10 years ago

    If it's OK go ahead and renamed. Why should he pass on before we honor him? This type of mentality should be discouraged. If the person deserves it why not now, so that he'll at least fell happy about his contributions toward ...
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  • Daddy Oscar 10 years ago

    I totally disagree with Dr Richard Amoako-Baah who says the school should be named after Mr Rawlings has passed on.Let this man feel happy now before he dies.Rename the school now and stop this type of primitive way of thinki ...
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  • NDEBUGRE 10 years ago

    Well done Ghana Black Stars, but we really have to do something about our defence before Brazil 2014. Our defence looks very shaky and will easily crumble against some teams at the world cup. The young boy who played the righ ...
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  • Harrison 10 years ago

    Please, do not try to politicize the new and fast growing institution. Please keep UDS out of politics.

  • CHANGE V/R 10 years ago

    WHO CARES,SO-LONG AS IT IS NOT IN AKAN AREA

  • sam 10 years ago

    I have always maintained the idea that the worst civilian government is better than the best military govt and that has always been true. List one nation under the sun that has done well under a military leadership ?. Rawling ...
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  • NAME IT AFTER SATAN 10 years ago

    UDS IS A HIGH-SCHOOL ANYWAY

  • SHAKARA 10 years ago

    NO WAY

  • ADONGO 10 years ago

    NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!HELL NO!NOT AFTER THIS MASS MURDERER!

  • BRO DAN- TRC 10 years ago

    BLESSED PEOPLE OF AFRICA, PRECIOUS PEOPLE OF THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD, INNOCENT PEOPLE OF GHANA, TO THE SUBJECT I SAY- "AMEN". SELAH. WHY? IT IS GOOD TO HONOUR -THE DEAD- BUT BETTER TO HONOUR -THE LIVING! BLESSED ONES OF THE ...
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  • ADONGO 10 years ago

    KWASEA!WHAT DO YOU SMOKE?

  • TRUTH 10 years ago

    They can name the Volta Region and even Oman Ghana after this bastard but it won't change anything. He will always be remembered as the nation's second wicked dictator who killed innocent Judges.

  • Natural Mystic 10 years ago

    Please we should not go there! We should not name a university or for that matter any thing after a living being. Ghana, concentrate on important issues

  • JOSEPH BOATENG 10 years ago

    Naming one of the nation's top universities after a clever thief and murderer? Think again, that would be a sad mistake.

  • KK 10 years ago

    OK bring it on! Let's name the Dansoman Estate after Gen IK Acheampong. The Ahinsa and Buokrom and Pankrono Estates. The Labone Estates and all the ones across the nation that the good Gen. built. Let's also name the IPS in A ...
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  • ONIPANUA 10 years ago

    it is a bad idea to name the school after any military government leader.military rules have not done anything good to the country and her people

  • MESSI 10 years ago

    Mr. D. C. Gyimah denied Mr. Rawlings the award in 2005, fine what prevented Mr. Atta Mills from awarding Rawlings for the past 4 years?

  • Jeff, UK 10 years ago

    Gyimah will be called a traitor by the NPP hawks if he comes forward with the truth. Everyone knows the source of the directive. Leave the poor man alone, he has already suffered enough. Don't destroy his chances, maybe when ...
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  • John, Alhasan 10 years ago

    Do you think that the greedy thief, Ali Baba Bokasa Kronfuor Kufuor would donate his $50,000 dollars award for development in any of our sectors as J.J Rawlings did for UDS? The answer is a big NO. Instead, the thief, Kufuor ...
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  • BUSINESS DEVELOPER 10 years ago

    I see no reasons why ghana?ans are so ?nterested ?n nam?ng a?rports ,motorways&un?vers?t?es after ?nd?v?duals ?nstead of the?r or?g?nal names.and why should we waste t?me to argue on th?s matter ?nstead of the core problems ? ...
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