If the public are not prepared to pay for using a private property all in the name of politics. The University authorities have every right to block access to the roads. We shouldn't have a major road passing through Universi ... read full comment
If the public are not prepared to pay for using a private property all in the name of politics. The University authorities have every right to block access to the roads. We shouldn't have a major road passing through University campus like that. It is absolutely not conducive for studies
Johnny USA 10 years ago
WE WILL BREAK THAT BLOCKADE.THIEVES PROFS.
WE WILL BREAK THAT BLOCKADE.THIEVES PROFS.
GHANAMAN 10 years ago
Their actions are an affront to the rule of law and common sense.
They are trying every means to top up their salaries. Corrupt lecturers.
Their actions are an affront to the rule of law and common sense.
They are trying every means to top up their salaries. Corrupt lecturers.
ZoRRo 10 years ago
The government cannot sit idle whilst the University builds roads for the public. Secondly it is necessary to maintain the serene stmosphere at the University. Kudos to the univerity authorities.
The government cannot sit idle whilst the University builds roads for the public. Secondly it is necessary to maintain the serene stmosphere at the University. Kudos to the univerity authorities.
Ghfuo, change ur thinking 10 years ago
Ug is not a private property.so why charge tolls? U can charge tolls for.ppl to.come to ur home or use a highway u have built with private funds, but not ug bcos it is a public university. Crass beings in power! Go and charge ... read full comment
Ug is not a private property.so why charge tolls? U can charge tolls for.ppl to.come to ur home or use a highway u have built with private funds, but not ug bcos it is a public university. Crass beings in power! Go and charge tolls to shit at labadi
dan 10 years ago
AND THEIR ATTEMPT TO ERRCT TOLLS TO RIPP OFF GHANA FALKS
AND THEIR ATTEMPT TO ERRCT TOLLS TO RIPP OFF GHANA FALKS
John,Tema 10 years ago
I like the University authorities they've proven they are truly intelligent,if the govt is not prepared to develop the only premier University then they are right in preventing it being being run down.
I like the University authorities they've proven they are truly intelligent,if the govt is not prepared to develop the only premier University then they are right in preventing it being being run down.
KENKEY BOY 10 years ago
IGNORANT PEOPLE. THIS POLICY OF STICKERS BEFORE ENTRY INTO LEGON, HAS BEEN THERE SINCE THE 1960s AND 1970s. YOU COULDN'T CAMPUS EASILY THOSE DAYS, AS YOU ARE DOING NOW. ASK YOUR FATHERS AND GRANDPARENTS ...
IGNORANT PEOPLE. THIS POLICY OF STICKERS BEFORE ENTRY INTO LEGON, HAS BEEN THERE SINCE THE 1960s AND 1970s. YOU COULDN'T CAMPUS EASILY THOSE DAYS, AS YOU ARE DOING NOW. ASK YOUR FATHERS AND GRANDPARENTS ...
P Otu 10 years ago
TRUE, SO MANY IGNORAMUS HERE. IT WAS THERE IN THE 90'S AS WELL. YOU COULDN'T LET THE TAXI U PICK DRIVE YOU THROUGH CAMPUS AFTER 10PM THOSE DAYS. THE SECURITY AT THE GATE WONT ALLOW AND YOU COME DOWN TO DO THE REST TO YOUR HAL ... read full comment
TRUE, SO MANY IGNORAMUS HERE. IT WAS THERE IN THE 90'S AS WELL. YOU COULDN'T LET THE TAXI U PICK DRIVE YOU THROUGH CAMPUS AFTER 10PM THOSE DAYS. THE SECURITY AT THE GATE WONT ALLOW AND YOU COME DOWN TO DO THE REST TO YOUR HALL BY FOOT AND THE MOST PAINFUL PART IS WHERE U HAVE YOUR CATCH BY YOUR SIDE.
soo 10 years ago
What do you mean a private property? Since when did U/G become a private property? Which private individual set up U/G? has the U/G paid government and ghanain taxpayers for the money used in setting up the school? What about ... read full comment
What do you mean a private property? Since when did U/G become a private property? Which private individual set up U/G? has the U/G paid government and ghanain taxpayers for the money used in setting up the school? What about the goodwill?Which individual created that one?
have you considered that academic fees paid by parents include user fees for facilities ? Do uou expect a parent living at Greenhill to drive round to Okponglo just to convey items to the son or daughter in school ? Now, do you expect parents of university primary pupils to purchase stickers at a huge fee simply because their wards attend university primary ? Eiiii!!!!
KENKEY BOY 10 years ago
nonsensical write up ...
nonsensical write up ...
Ghana 4 Ghanaians 10 years ago
The University shd stop this shameful & lame excuse. When they were collecting the tolls they cld live with that inconvenience of the heavy vehicular movement on their campus. By the with their current status as "Private" pro ... read full comment
The University shd stop this shameful & lame excuse. When they were collecting the tolls they cld live with that inconvenience of the heavy vehicular movement on their campus. By the with their current status as "Private" property, are they expecting the Gov. of Ghana to settle the so called loan they contracted for the roads?
Ibrahim basiru 10 years ago
I really welcomed the decisions of the premier University of Ghana to block all access roads to the public. What the national security coordinator did was an insult to the general public and also of course disrespect to our e ... read full comment
I really welcomed the decisions of the premier University of Ghana to block all access roads to the public. What the national security coordinator did was an insult to the general public and also of course disrespect to our embryonic democracy.
Kwame Angel 10 years ago
Don't forget Legon is a public property. Several years ago, Legon was near Accra. Today, Leon is inside Accra. Everyone, and every institution, should pay its price for the population explosion.
Don't forget Legon is a public property. Several years ago, Legon was near Accra. Today, Leon is inside Accra. Everyone, and every institution, should pay its price for the population explosion.
Kofi 10 years ago
Parliament house is public property. Can you just go there? What about the Flagstaff House?
Parliament house is public property. Can you just go there? What about the Flagstaff House?
Ghfuo, change ur thinking 10 years ago
Yes, school kids go there all the time, but u need permission and booking way in advance bcos these places are institutions that run the nation. Very busy!
Yes, school kids go there all the time, but u need permission and booking way in advance bcos these places are institutions that run the nation. Very busy!
GAbaa 10 years ago
IN THE GOOD OLD UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, WE PAY TO PARK OUR CARS ON CAMPUS AND FOR USAGE OF THE ROADS. ACCESS IS NOT FOR THE PUBLIC USE EITHER
IN THE GOOD OLD UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, WE PAY TO PARK OUR CARS ON CAMPUS AND FOR USAGE OF THE ROADS. ACCESS IS NOT FOR THE PUBLIC USE EITHER
GHFUO, be serious & change ur MENtali 10 years ago
BUILD ON CAMPUS PAID PARKING SPOTS....
THIS IS A GOOD DIRECTIVE. LEAVE THE GH GOVT ALONE N STOP DISTURBING MAHAMA WITH PETTY MONIES TO FIX ROADS...
ACRA..KUMASI ROAD SEF NEEDS HELP...
BUILD ON CAMPUS PAID PARKING SPOTS....
THIS IS A GOOD DIRECTIVE. LEAVE THE GH GOVT ALONE N STOP DISTURBING MAHAMA WITH PETTY MONIES TO FIX ROADS...
ACRA..KUMASI ROAD SEF NEEDS HELP...
apia 10 years ago
MAY BE THE BEST FOR EFFICIENT LAND USE.
MAY BE THE BEST FOR EFFICIENT LAND USE.
GHFUO, be serious & change ur MENtali 10 years ago
A RECENT Free exchange column looked at how online education might affect higher education. Elite institutions should be fine, we wrote, ... read full comment
A RECENT Free exchange column looked at how online education might affect higher education. Elite institutions should be fine, we wrote, because they product they offer is completely different from the standardised, distance education that MOOCs offer. Unless, that is, they begin offering their own course material online at low prices, in the process breaking their business model. What is that model? Stanford economist Caroline Hoxby has one answer:
Elite institutions face very different circumstances, Ms Hoxby reckons. They operate like venture-capital firms, offering subsidised, labour-intensive education to highly qualified students. They aim to cultivate a sense of belonging and gratitude in students in order to recoup their investment decades later in the form of donations from successful alumni.Ironically, these universities may have threatened their own business model by embracing MOOCs. Online courses break the personal link between students and university and, if offered cheaply to outsiders, may make regular graduates feel more like chumps than the chosen few. For top schools, the best bet may simply be to preserve their exclusivity.
The past 24 hours have provided an excellent illustration of both sides of that model. First, NPR's Planet Money reports:
In 1984, it cost $10,000 a year to go to Duke University. Today, it's $60,000 a year. "It's staggering," says Duke freshman Max Duncan, "especially considering that for four years."But according to Jim Roberts, executive vice provost at Duke, that's actually a discount. "We're investing on average about $90,000 in the education of each student," he says. Roberts is not alone in making the claim. In fact, it's one most elite research institutions point to when asked about rising tuition.
And then there is this:
A Harvard alumnus who started trading stock options from his dorm room is donating at least $125 million to support financial aid for Harvard College undergraduates, the university planned to announce Thursday.It is Harvard’s largest-ever gift specifically devoted to financial aid. The donation, from billionaire hedge fund manager Kenneth Griffin, founder of Citadel, will boost a financial aid program that is already the envy of other colleges.With $15 million more that Griffin is giving, which may go to aid or to other undergraduate priorities, his is also the biggest donation in Harvard College’s history.In addition, $10 million will be donated to endow a professorship at Harvard Business School, for a total of $150 million.
This is the business. No student at an elite university pays the full cost of her education and most pay a small fraction. This system is sustainable because a few members of each class will become phenomenally wealthy and, out of some sense of obligation, will return a share of their fortune to the university.
Now as Matt Yglesias notes, a gift to Harvard is an odd way to spend one's money. Harvard just plum doesn't need the money. Its endowment is around $32 billion, 50% larger than Yale's and five times larger than that of the University of California system. If it never received another gift it could probably fund itself indefinitely off the financial returns to its wealth. For lesser elite schools like Duke, with an endowment of "only" $6 billion, donations remain a critical part of the business, especially given the zero-sum nature of a lot of the competition among elite universities. Here's Planey Money again:
[T]he biggest category of costs is faculty, at $21,000 per year per undergraduate student.Jennifer West is a professor of bioengineering and materials science with a long list of publications, awards, and titles. To hire West away from Rice University, money wasn't enough. She came with an entourage. "I moved a whole entire research group with me so I had to move a lot of people and then we had to move a lot of our equipment and rebuild our lab," she says, "They actually sent architects to Rice who looked at our lab facilities there, then used that information to go back and design the facility that would work for us at Duke."And West is not alone. Duke pays what it calls "start-up costs" for a lot of professors, particularly in the sciences.
Elite universities need big war-chests to attract and retain the top professors and to build top facilities, since those are the sorts of things that seem to attract top students. If the donations aren't materialising then the best assets will get picked off, the university will sink to the second tier, and it might even find itself competing with vastly cheaper higher-education options.
That might well end up being a good thing, from a social welfare perspective. In the meantime Mr Griffin's gift looks like a good occasion to revisit the sense of giving tax-advantaged status to charitable donations to phenomenally rich universities.
SUNKWA 10 years ago
THIS RUSHED RESPONSE TO THE REJECTION THE 'TOLLING PROJECT' DOES NO CREDIT TO LEGON AUTHORITIES. IT IS EASY TO SENSE THE PECUNIARY INSTINCTS UNDERLYING THE DIRECTIVE; AND THAT IS WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE CURRENT LEADERSHIP AT L ... read full comment
THIS RUSHED RESPONSE TO THE REJECTION THE 'TOLLING PROJECT' DOES NO CREDIT TO LEGON AUTHORITIES. IT IS EASY TO SENSE THE PECUNIARY INSTINCTS UNDERLYING THE DIRECTIVE; AND THAT IS WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE CURRENT LEADERSHIP AT LEGON. THEY DON'T GET IT: PLACE IS MEANT TO BE ALL ABOUT KNOWLEDGE AND PURSUIT OF EXCELLENCE, NOT ABOUT MONEY!!
Ben 10 years ago
I concur with your comment. The Univerity authorities are just being emotional about issues and people like this cannot be serious problem solvers. This cannot of attitude describes the backward African elitism. The world is ... read full comment
I concur with your comment. The Univerity authorities are just being emotional about issues and people like this cannot be serious problem solvers. This cannot of attitude describes the backward African elitism. The world is moving forward, new problems are emerging which requires new thinking not those stacked in their elitism doing things by emotions.
ZoRRo 10 years ago
It's not about money, it's about maintenance which is lacking in our culture. If all use the road where will the money come from to maintain it ?
It's not about money, it's about maintenance which is lacking in our culture. If all use the road where will the money come from to maintain it ?
T.T 10 years ago
U are a joker,now you know,because your illegal toll was stopped,this is how u want to pay back.it won't work.shame,idiot.
U are a joker,now you know,because your illegal toll was stopped,this is how u want to pay back.it won't work.shame,idiot.
T.T 10 years ago
U are a joker,now you know,because your illegal toll was stopped,this is how u want to pay back.it won't work.shame,idiot.
U are a joker,now you know,because your illegal toll was stopped,this is how u want to pay back.it won't work.shame,idiot.
UNCLE K 10 years ago
I HAVE LIVED IN THE US FOR 40 YRS AND TO THE BEST OF MY KNOWLEDGE NONE OF ALL THE INSTUTIONS CHARGE TOLLS.SO MY QUESTION IS WHO IS IN CHARGE HERE?THE GOVERNMENT GIVES DIRECTIVE TO THE U OF G AND THEY SNUB THE GOVT.BY THE WA ... read full comment
I HAVE LIVED IN THE US FOR 40 YRS AND TO THE BEST OF MY KNOWLEDGE NONE OF ALL THE INSTUTIONS CHARGE TOLLS.SO MY QUESTION IS WHO IS IN CHARGE HERE?THE GOVERNMENT GIVES DIRECTIVE TO THE U OF G AND THEY SNUB THE GOVT.BY THE WAY ISNT LEGON A PUBLIC INSTUTION.WITH THE HIGH FEES THE STUDENTS PAY ISNT THAT THE ADMINSTRTION USE TO MAINTAIN THE SCHOOL?
Baaba 10 years ago
I was just thinking about that. There is NEVER a gate to any of those Universities in the US. My almer mater, George Washington University, is spread across several city blocks with open traffic in and out. It is a 1000 tim ... read full comment
I was just thinking about that. There is NEVER a gate to any of those Universities in the US. My almer mater, George Washington University, is spread across several city blocks with open traffic in and out. It is a 1000 times more productive than some of these soi disant premier academic institutions. Give me a break. The Government should withhold all funds it gives this useless institution of higher unlearning. This is the same school that is producing the lingerie thieves?
Fiifi 10 years ago
Baaba you are right.
Baaba you are right.
Pussy-licker 10 years ago
Is that your George Washington's spelling of Alma mater?
Is that your George Washington's spelling of Alma mater?
KIA 10 years ago
My ALMA MATER, a college of a prestigious university in the UK, once reconstructed a major road and tolled it to recover its investment. Even now, all cars entering an important street linking many of the colleges of that uni ... read full comment
My ALMA MATER, a college of a prestigious university in the UK, once reconstructed a major road and tolled it to recover its investment. Even now, all cars entering an important street linking many of the colleges of that university ought to have been pre-approved.
And parking, even for students who own cars, is NOT FREE. This includes parking on the premises of your own college house. Parking is FREE ONLY FOR BICYCLES. Because of such deliberate punitive measures, most students and PROFESSORS use bicycles. And owning a bicycle there is considered so "cool" because it shows you're smart about your finances and the environment.
Sometimes, you need punitive measures to alter behaviour and unproductive social values.
Question:
Now that the Government of Ghana has promised to take up the bill for the rehabilitation of the Legon roads, who do you think is going to ultimately pay for it? The Ghanaian taxpayer, including the people in the village who don't use the Legon roads. Is this the "smart" policy?
ZoRRo 10 years ago
Thanks for sharing this piece. Our problem is that the Ghanaian does not want to change and accept ideas that have been successfully adopted in other places and are working to create efficiency. Every idea is seen as: for mon ... read full comment
Thanks for sharing this piece. Our problem is that the Ghanaian does not want to change and accept ideas that have been successfully adopted in other places and are working to create efficiency. Every idea is seen as: for money, tribal or political. The toll booth was a good idea for the University to raise funds to continue to maintain the roads, taking advantage of its unique location between two separated areas. The govt should have helped establish a monitoring system to ensure that the money is well accounted for; instead of getting up at the middle of the night and demolishing the toll booths -- that's barbaric.
KENKEY BOY 10 years ago
WWW
WWW
P Otu 10 years ago
WE ARE BUILDING OUR INSTITUTIONS. IF THE INSTITUTION KNOWS IT'S RIGHT IN WHAT IT'S DOING IT SNUBS THE GOVERNMENT. WE MAKE GOVERNMENTS MINI GODS. THE INSTITUTIONS MUST BE STRONG AND NEVER WAVER WHEN THEY ARE ON TRACK.
WE ARE BUILDING OUR INSTITUTIONS. IF THE INSTITUTION KNOWS IT'S RIGHT IN WHAT IT'S DOING IT SNUBS THE GOVERNMENT. WE MAKE GOVERNMENTS MINI GODS. THE INSTITUTIONS MUST BE STRONG AND NEVER WAVER WHEN THEY ARE ON TRACK.
George 10 years ago
After failing to get tolls how can you convince the general public that the closure is not ill- motive
After failing to get tolls how can you convince the general public that the closure is not ill- motive
John 10 years ago
This is not new at all. It has always been like this....
This is not new at all. It has always been like this....
Phil 10 years ago
If the toll system did not work, then plan B is to get frequent users of the university routes to apply for user permits so that the university can service the loan it contracted. Wise idea, but it is so glaring...that there ... read full comment
If the toll system did not work, then plan B is to get frequent users of the university routes to apply for user permits so that the university can service the loan it contracted. Wise idea, but it is so glaring...that there are so many ways of killing a cat. You either whack it on the head with a hammer or put it in a sack and drown it
Honestman 10 years ago
Didn't authorities of the UG know that the university campus needed serene atmosphere for teaching and learning when they allowed unlimited access in return for cash (toll)? And these people call themselves the academia! God, ... read full comment
Didn't authorities of the UG know that the university campus needed serene atmosphere for teaching and learning when they allowed unlimited access in return for cash (toll)? And these people call themselves the academia! God, deliver them
GENERAL DeGAULE 10 years ago
"It is important to note that University of Ghana has always been and remains private property even though it is publicly owned."
if commercial traffic use the roads as a thoroughfare and short cut, then there is a case to ... read full comment
"It is important to note that University of Ghana has always been and remains private property even though it is publicly owned."
if commercial traffic use the roads as a thoroughfare and short cut, then there is a case to be made. But the University is a small town that relies on services from the general public. Workers, staff and students have to be ferried to the campus. The public may have business of one kind or another to transact on the campus, even the right to visit the campus. The University community benefits from the trade that is carried on on the campus.
The University cannot assume retrospective taxation status. Some world renown Universities are actually integral part of City centers. Edinburgh, Durham come to mind. And traffic has not diminished their excellent status.
AHMED YACOB 10 years ago
The university has solved the problem. Case closed. Even if the government pays the 2.3 million dollars, they should still close the gates. Utter nonsense. How dare you go and demolish someones structures like a thief in the ... read full comment
The university has solved the problem. Case closed. Even if the government pays the 2.3 million dollars, they should still close the gates. Utter nonsense. How dare you go and demolish someones structures like a thief in the middle of the night!
GENERAL DeGAULE 10 years ago
The Registrar concedes that it is a publicly owned private property, so it is not someone else's property. It a state or people owned property and the transient administration cannot abrogate unto themselves the authority to ... read full comment
The Registrar concedes that it is a publicly owned private property, so it is not someone else's property. It a state or people owned property and the transient administration cannot abrogate unto themselves the authority to close roads or tax people for using the roads.
Jojoe 10 years ago
'University of Ghana has always been and remains private property even though it is publicly owned'Oh Legon, how can you live in a public property and claim privacy.You can't blow hot and cold at the same time.
'University of Ghana has always been and remains private property even though it is publicly owned'Oh Legon, how can you live in a public property and claim privacy.You can't blow hot and cold at the same time.
Koo Nimo 10 years ago
When the Tetteh Quarshie and Adenta Road is completed, it will ease the pressure on Legon roads. So the government should work hard at the major roads to ease the congestion on Legon Campus roads.
When the Tetteh Quarshie and Adenta Road is completed, it will ease the pressure on Legon roads. So the government should work hard at the major roads to ease the congestion on Legon Campus roads.
Fiifi 10 years ago
You only realised that he University cannot support academic work with the needed environment when 16,000 vehicles travel through its Legon campus every day, when you were not allowed to collect the tolls you had wanted to. H ... read full comment
You only realised that he University cannot support academic work with the needed environment when 16,000 vehicles travel through its Legon campus every day, when you were not allowed to collect the tolls you had wanted to. Hypocrites!!! And I thought you were educated. When you embark on such cheap and class 1 politics it becomes an indictment on your academic qualifications, common sense and integrity. Find a more prudent and matured way of letting the government pay for their financial obligations but not this one. Hypocrites.
MICHAEL 10 years ago
Does it then means about GHC 16,000 was collected daily during the days the tolls were collected? I do not doubt it though because my checks reveal each of the young people collecting the tolls attended to about 1000 cars dai ... read full comment
Does it then means about GHC 16,000 was collected daily during the days the tolls were collected? I do not doubt it though because my checks reveal each of the young people collecting the tolls attended to about 1000 cars daily.Then how much was gotten before the gates were flunged opened and who accounts for it?
Peter 10 years ago
"The object is to re-establish and maintain a serene atmosphere that is conducive to academic work, including teaching and research,” the statement issued by the Registrar of the University, Mercy Haizel-Ashia, noted."
T ... read full comment
"The object is to re-establish and maintain a serene atmosphere that is conducive to academic work, including teaching and research,” the statement issued by the Registrar of the University, Mercy Haizel-Ashia, noted."
Too late. That is the proposal that should have been forwarded to parliament for approval. You were in such haste to collect tolls that you forgot you needed 'serene atmosphere'
It doesn't take much to infer dishonesty from your stand, in view of recent developments!
Boye 10 years ago
How does allowing cars passing through the university in the first place going to affect teaching, learning and research? is it because you toll them it is okay?
You close the Access and the govt woun't pay the so called d ... read full comment
How does allowing cars passing through the university in the first place going to affect teaching, learning and research? is it because you toll them it is okay?
You close the Access and the govt woun't pay the so called debt you incurred for the road construction.
Araba 10 years ago
What a smart way to outwit the government. Will the money for stickers go into government chest? How can a public institution be privately own?
What a smart way to outwit the government. Will the money for stickers go into government chest? How can a public institution be privately own?
Onipa Bone 10 years ago
Can they stop Gbevlo from entering from the main gate and exiting from Achimota?
Can they stop Gbevlo from entering from the main gate and exiting from Achimota?
Kodwo 10 years ago
Now Gbevlo, go and open this one too and see what will happen. CRAZY MAN who is power drunk.
Now Gbevlo, go and open this one too and see what will happen. CRAZY MAN who is power drunk.
Kwame Angel 10 years ago
How is this directive consistent with opening all access roads to the public and charging them fees. Has Legon seized to be a public property?
How is this directive consistent with opening all access roads to the public and charging them fees. Has Legon seized to be a public property?
James Okine 10 years ago
The University of Ghana is .....private property but publicly owned indeed!!! Mother Ghana, you're tired!
The University of Ghana is .....private property but publicly owned indeed!!! Mother Ghana, you're tired!
OSABERIMA 10 years ago
Is Legon public or private University? Even YALE campus, the public drive through it.
Is Legon public or private University? Even YALE campus, the public drive through it.
Ghfuo, change ur thinking 10 years ago
Block them for good!
Block them for good!
ADONGO 10 years ago
GOOD JOB.WHEN I WAS IN LEGON IN THE 70s THIS TRAFFIC NIGHTMARE WAS NOT THERE.WHAT HAPPENED?INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT SHOULD PARALLEL POPULATION EXPLOSION
GOOD JOB.WHEN I WAS IN LEGON IN THE 70s THIS TRAFFIC NIGHTMARE WAS NOT THERE.WHAT HAPPENED?INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT SHOULD PARALLEL POPULATION EXPLOSION
GBEZE 10 years ago
The idea to give “UG Sticker” to vehicles approved to use the access road through the university is crazy. Will they fit silencers on the exhaust of those vehicles? Even if only 10 vehicles are approved and one among them ... read full comment
The idea to give “UG Sticker” to vehicles approved to use the access road through the university is crazy. Will they fit silencers on the exhaust of those vehicles? Even if only 10 vehicles are approved and one among them is noisy would that not still create nuisance. They must as well block the airways above the university to stop aircraft from flying above. Shame unto the University chiefs. tsweah! 'Shuttle service very soon for whom?' They must know that the phrase 'very soon' is reserved for politicians. It means it will never happen. They must stop this and allow free movement of vehicles or close the roads to everyone including themselves.
Kumapem 10 years ago
This is a meaningful step taken by the University to maintain its academic serenity it deserves. Good job!
This is a meaningful step taken by the University to maintain its academic serenity it deserves. Good job!
AHMED YACOB 10 years ago
The university has shown that there are so many ways of killing a cat. I am saying it again, it was so unnecessary for Gbevlo Lartey to unilaterally demolish the toll booths. All he or who ever was responsible had to do was t ... read full comment
The university has shown that there are so many ways of killing a cat. I am saying it again, it was so unnecessary for Gbevlo Lartey to unilaterally demolish the toll booths. All he or who ever was responsible had to do was to go to the university and reason with them and if that failed go to the courts. NO. Typical stupidity, they demolish a structure in the middle of the night. Has Gbemi-Lartey not realised that those days are gone???
Whatever 10 years ago
Is Legon doing this with the permission from the ministry of education? How can you allow public university to walk the path of isolation? What the heck is going on. Who wields executive power in this country for crying out l ... read full comment
Is Legon doing this with the permission from the ministry of education? How can you allow public university to walk the path of isolation? What the heck is going on. Who wields executive power in this country for crying out loud?
KOFI 10 years ago
SMALL MINDS THINK ALIKE, IN THIS AGE WHEN UNIVERSITIES AROUND THE WORLD ARE DEVELOPING INTO BIG COMMUNITIES LEGON IS BEHAVING LIKE A SECONDARY SCHOOL
IS LEGON SAYING THEY NOW OWN ROADS.
GOVERNMENT SHOULD ALSO CLOSE THE (O ... read full comment
SMALL MINDS THINK ALIKE, IN THIS AGE WHEN UNIVERSITIES AROUND THE WORLD ARE DEVELOPING INTO BIG COMMUNITIES LEGON IS BEHAVING LIKE A SECONDARY SCHOOL
IS LEGON SAYING THEY NOW OWN ROADS.
GOVERNMENT SHOULD ALSO CLOSE THE (Okponglo Junction in to legon)TO TRAFFIC SO LEGON KNOWS THEY CANNOT BE AN ISLAND.
If the public are not prepared to pay for using a private property all in the name of politics. The University authorities have every right to block access to the roads. We shouldn't have a major road passing through Universi ...
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WE WILL BREAK THAT BLOCKADE.THIEVES PROFS.
Their actions are an affront to the rule of law and common sense.
They are trying every means to top up their salaries. Corrupt lecturers.
The government cannot sit idle whilst the University builds roads for the public. Secondly it is necessary to maintain the serene stmosphere at the University. Kudos to the univerity authorities.
Ug is not a private property.so why charge tolls? U can charge tolls for.ppl to.come to ur home or use a highway u have built with private funds, but not ug bcos it is a public university. Crass beings in power! Go and charge ...
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AND THEIR ATTEMPT TO ERRCT TOLLS TO RIPP OFF GHANA FALKS
I like the University authorities they've proven they are truly intelligent,if the govt is not prepared to develop the only premier University then they are right in preventing it being being run down.
IGNORANT PEOPLE. THIS POLICY OF STICKERS BEFORE ENTRY INTO LEGON, HAS BEEN THERE SINCE THE 1960s AND 1970s. YOU COULDN'T CAMPUS EASILY THOSE DAYS, AS YOU ARE DOING NOW. ASK YOUR FATHERS AND GRANDPARENTS ...
TRUE, SO MANY IGNORAMUS HERE. IT WAS THERE IN THE 90'S AS WELL. YOU COULDN'T LET THE TAXI U PICK DRIVE YOU THROUGH CAMPUS AFTER 10PM THOSE DAYS. THE SECURITY AT THE GATE WONT ALLOW AND YOU COME DOWN TO DO THE REST TO YOUR HAL ...
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What do you mean a private property? Since when did U/G become a private property? Which private individual set up U/G? has the U/G paid government and ghanain taxpayers for the money used in setting up the school? What about ...
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nonsensical write up ...
The University shd stop this shameful & lame excuse. When they were collecting the tolls they cld live with that inconvenience of the heavy vehicular movement on their campus. By the with their current status as "Private" pro ...
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I really welcomed the decisions of the premier University of Ghana to block all access roads to the public. What the national security coordinator did was an insult to the general public and also of course disrespect to our e ...
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Don't forget Legon is a public property. Several years ago, Legon was near Accra. Today, Leon is inside Accra. Everyone, and every institution, should pay its price for the population explosion.
Parliament house is public property. Can you just go there? What about the Flagstaff House?
Yes, school kids go there all the time, but u need permission and booking way in advance bcos these places are institutions that run the nation. Very busy!
IN THE GOOD OLD UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, WE PAY TO PARK OUR CARS ON CAMPUS AND FOR USAGE OF THE ROADS. ACCESS IS NOT FOR THE PUBLIC USE EITHER
BUILD ON CAMPUS PAID PARKING SPOTS....
THIS IS A GOOD DIRECTIVE. LEAVE THE GH GOVT ALONE N STOP DISTURBING MAHAMA WITH PETTY MONIES TO FIX ROADS...
ACRA..KUMASI ROAD SEF NEEDS HELP...
MAY BE THE BEST FOR EFFICIENT LAND USE.
LEGON'S EXIT STRATEGY!
www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2024/02/higher-education
A RECENT Free exchange column looked at how online education might affect higher education. Elite institutions should be fine, we wrote, ...
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THIS RUSHED RESPONSE TO THE REJECTION THE 'TOLLING PROJECT' DOES NO CREDIT TO LEGON AUTHORITIES. IT IS EASY TO SENSE THE PECUNIARY INSTINCTS UNDERLYING THE DIRECTIVE; AND THAT IS WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE CURRENT LEADERSHIP AT L ...
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I concur with your comment. The Univerity authorities are just being emotional about issues and people like this cannot be serious problem solvers. This cannot of attitude describes the backward African elitism. The world is ...
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It's not about money, it's about maintenance which is lacking in our culture. If all use the road where will the money come from to maintain it ?
U are a joker,now you know,because your illegal toll was stopped,this is how u want to pay back.it won't work.shame,idiot.
U are a joker,now you know,because your illegal toll was stopped,this is how u want to pay back.it won't work.shame,idiot.
I HAVE LIVED IN THE US FOR 40 YRS AND TO THE BEST OF MY KNOWLEDGE NONE OF ALL THE INSTUTIONS CHARGE TOLLS.SO MY QUESTION IS WHO IS IN CHARGE HERE?THE GOVERNMENT GIVES DIRECTIVE TO THE U OF G AND THEY SNUB THE GOVT.BY THE WA ...
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I was just thinking about that. There is NEVER a gate to any of those Universities in the US. My almer mater, George Washington University, is spread across several city blocks with open traffic in and out. It is a 1000 tim ...
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Baaba you are right.
Is that your George Washington's spelling of Alma mater?
My ALMA MATER, a college of a prestigious university in the UK, once reconstructed a major road and tolled it to recover its investment. Even now, all cars entering an important street linking many of the colleges of that uni ...
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Thanks for sharing this piece. Our problem is that the Ghanaian does not want to change and accept ideas that have been successfully adopted in other places and are working to create efficiency. Every idea is seen as: for mon ...
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WWW
WE ARE BUILDING OUR INSTITUTIONS. IF THE INSTITUTION KNOWS IT'S RIGHT IN WHAT IT'S DOING IT SNUBS THE GOVERNMENT. WE MAKE GOVERNMENTS MINI GODS. THE INSTITUTIONS MUST BE STRONG AND NEVER WAVER WHEN THEY ARE ON TRACK.
After failing to get tolls how can you convince the general public that the closure is not ill- motive
This is not new at all. It has always been like this....
If the toll system did not work, then plan B is to get frequent users of the university routes to apply for user permits so that the university can service the loan it contracted. Wise idea, but it is so glaring...that there ...
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Didn't authorities of the UG know that the university campus needed serene atmosphere for teaching and learning when they allowed unlimited access in return for cash (toll)? And these people call themselves the academia! God, ...
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"It is important to note that University of Ghana has always been and remains private property even though it is publicly owned."
if commercial traffic use the roads as a thoroughfare and short cut, then there is a case to ...
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The university has solved the problem. Case closed. Even if the government pays the 2.3 million dollars, they should still close the gates. Utter nonsense. How dare you go and demolish someones structures like a thief in the ...
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The Registrar concedes that it is a publicly owned private property, so it is not someone else's property. It a state or people owned property and the transient administration cannot abrogate unto themselves the authority to ...
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'University of Ghana has always been and remains private property even though it is publicly owned'Oh Legon, how can you live in a public property and claim privacy.You can't blow hot and cold at the same time.
When the Tetteh Quarshie and Adenta Road is completed, it will ease the pressure on Legon roads. So the government should work hard at the major roads to ease the congestion on Legon Campus roads.
You only realised that he University cannot support academic work with the needed environment when 16,000 vehicles travel through its Legon campus every day, when you were not allowed to collect the tolls you had wanted to. H ...
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Does it then means about GHC 16,000 was collected daily during the days the tolls were collected? I do not doubt it though because my checks reveal each of the young people collecting the tolls attended to about 1000 cars dai ...
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"The object is to re-establish and maintain a serene atmosphere that is conducive to academic work, including teaching and research,” the statement issued by the Registrar of the University, Mercy Haizel-Ashia, noted."
T ...
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How does allowing cars passing through the university in the first place going to affect teaching, learning and research? is it because you toll them it is okay?
You close the Access and the govt woun't pay the so called d ...
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What a smart way to outwit the government. Will the money for stickers go into government chest? How can a public institution be privately own?
Can they stop Gbevlo from entering from the main gate and exiting from Achimota?
Now Gbevlo, go and open this one too and see what will happen. CRAZY MAN who is power drunk.
How is this directive consistent with opening all access roads to the public and charging them fees. Has Legon seized to be a public property?
The University of Ghana is .....private property but publicly owned indeed!!! Mother Ghana, you're tired!
Is Legon public or private University? Even YALE campus, the public drive through it.
Block them for good!
GOOD JOB.WHEN I WAS IN LEGON IN THE 70s THIS TRAFFIC NIGHTMARE WAS NOT THERE.WHAT HAPPENED?INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT SHOULD PARALLEL POPULATION EXPLOSION
The idea to give “UG Sticker” to vehicles approved to use the access road through the university is crazy. Will they fit silencers on the exhaust of those vehicles? Even if only 10 vehicles are approved and one among them ...
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This is a meaningful step taken by the University to maintain its academic serenity it deserves. Good job!
The university has shown that there are so many ways of killing a cat. I am saying it again, it was so unnecessary for Gbevlo Lartey to unilaterally demolish the toll booths. All he or who ever was responsible had to do was t ...
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Is Legon doing this with the permission from the ministry of education? How can you allow public university to walk the path of isolation? What the heck is going on. Who wields executive power in this country for crying out l ...
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SMALL MINDS THINK ALIKE, IN THIS AGE WHEN UNIVERSITIES AROUND THE WORLD ARE DEVELOPING INTO BIG COMMUNITIES LEGON IS BEHAVING LIKE A SECONDARY SCHOOL
IS LEGON SAYING THEY NOW OWN ROADS.
GOVERNMENT SHOULD ALSO CLOSE THE (O ...
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Wrong to shut routes to public