Meet the 'amazing' Ghanaian science gurus 'shattering ceilings' at NASA

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  • Last Respect 8 months ago

    Slaving for USA, whiles daming Ghana. Thier intellects only make America great. Useless to Ghana.

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  • Apraku 8 months ago

    Stop hyping Ghana on the net. Ghana has no hope,come to Ghana and see our environment, the Ghanaian can't even obey a simple traffic light rules, he must by guided etra by a policeman, there are even places in Accra without s ...
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  • FRANKIE 8 months ago

    They're Americans, pure and simple, straight talk! Of what direct benefit are they to Ghana? Maybe their scientific exploits will somehow benefit us indirectly. Even Dr. Trebi Ollennu, who is a cousin of my better half is out ...
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  • Give Us Barabas 8 months ago

    Massa stop lying. He's related to your better half or better quarter so what? Trebi Ollenu is very visible in Ghana. Check his projects with some Ghanaian youth as well as his encounters with Regent University of Science and ...
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  • Give Us Barabas 8 months ago

    https://mobile.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/business/Use-phones-to-boost-economic-development-Dr-Trebi-Ollennu-urges-youth-483574

  • Give Us Barabas 8 months ago

    https://www.modernghana.com/news/163733/focus-on-science-tech-kufuor.amp

  • Klaase Klose Marfhen 8 months ago

    @Frankie. Dr. Trebi Ashitey Ollenu is my one-year senior at GHANA SECONDARY TECHNICAL SCHOOL TAKORADI (GSTS, The GIANTS) and not Ghana Secondary Koforidua. Please if you are his brother-in-law as you claim, know your fact wel ...
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  • FRANKIE 8 months ago

    A genuine mistake. Ghana Sechtech, Takoradi. I have no reason to lie.

  • Kwaku 8 months ago

    Master they are not seeing him in the family but they are seeing you everytime so it's ok.

  • Don 8 months ago

    If it is good out there, Ghana is proud but coke home and all they want is your money and after that treat you like an alien.

  • NO ACHIEVEMENT FROM IRAN, KUWAIT, SAUDI ARABIA 8 months ago

    Look at how Ghanaians are easier to showcase achievements from Europe, America and the Whiteman. Nothing to boast of from Turkey, Lebanon and Syria. We keep insulting the those who uplift us but don’t dare say where the pro ...
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  • Former Dining Hall Prefect 8 months ago

    They work at NASA, but they haven't shattered any ceiling.

  • Captain 8 months ago

    Apreku, are you suggesting, the misbehior of some uncultured Ghanaians should be the reasons why those achieving result should not be praised? Are you a parent? Is that the way you are raising your family?
    Pity.

  • ST Ghfuo: KWAME NKRUMAH INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT 8 months ago

    WHO DO YOU BLAME? THE PEOPLE OR THE LEADERS? IF YOU HAVE WAYWARD KIDS DO YOU BLAME THE KIDS OR THE PARENTS? TO WHICH A DUMB GHANAIAN ASKED...ARE THE PEOPLE OF GH KIDS? WELL THEY ARE NOT. THATS WHY THEY QUEUED TO VOTE FOR A LE ...
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  • ST Ghfuo: KWAME NKRUMAH INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT 8 months ago

    SO THE LEADER THAT THE PPL OF GH VOTED FOR CANT TAP INTO THESE BRAINS TO CREATE A SILICON VALLED IN GH? KNUST IS IN KUMASI. ASHESI UNIVERSITY. CREATE A SILICON VALEY, A TECH HUB AROUND THE UNIVERSITY N THIS WILL GRDUALLY BRIN ...
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  • Kumi 8 months ago

    So, Apraku, if umderstandably you feel so bad about the conditions in Ghana, what have you yourself done about it? Or perhaps your fake anguish is just a screen to relieve you of the guilt of turning your back on your own peo ...
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  • Nzulu 8 months ago

    I agree.
    Of what good news is this to Ghana?
    Ot does not reduce the price of kenkey and fish.

  • Jah Sikanr 8 months ago

    a lot more good than you think brother! there is more to life than just thinking of food, Stop being kenkey minded

  • Mr. Ibu 8 months ago

    They are even copying and modifying what the white man has done already. No black person has been able to alter our current understanding of science apart what have been discovered before. They also get enough funding to be a ...
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  • Taami 8 months ago

    Likewise, I am not impressed at all. These freaks are merely modern day slaves and house-niggers in a country where black people are a shamefully oppressed and endangered species, for personal selfish comforts. I remind them ...
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  • Africawatch 8 months ago

    Exactly!! Racist Trump doesn't even acknowledge their pivotal roles in America's space industry.They work for America not Ghana.

  • Ghanaians by name, American by commitment 8 months ago

    Why do you continue to regard these people as Ghanaians? They are in an enviroment that allows them to thrive. There are more intelligent professors in Ghana suffering quietly in an obnoxious system where MPs after 4 years ta ...
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  • Nii 8 months ago

    Why are those intelligent Professors silent ?Their colleagues have been joining those Greedy Criminal Politicians what impact have they made?Prof Kwamena Ahwoi,Tony Aidoo,Wereko Brobbey etc etc

  • The Spear 8 months ago

    In 1979, Ghana had more Ph. Ds than a country like Denmark and was doing very bad while Denmark was a quasi rich country with only poultry!

    Kwame Nkrumah was the only visionary who thought ahead of Ghana's future but under ...
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  • Ruthan 8 months ago

    Donald Trump shd deport all of them back to Ghana including all highly trained Africans,Indians,Pakistani, Russians, Venezuelans etc.That will show he mean well to the rest of the World.He shd not be selective.

  • Fortunate 8 months ago

    Stupid talk. He's only deporting illegal immigrants. Now, tell me which of the above mentioned men are illegals?

  • Ghana not Nigeria 8 months ago

    Of what benefit are they to Ghanaians and readers here. Rubbish

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  • Nyatefetor 8 months ago

    What are we celebrating if such talents have not gotten together to set a up a foundation or seek NASA to sponsor some infatuations in education of more Ghanaians for their succession and expansion of Ghanaian influence on Sp ...
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  • JJ KUFFOUR AKUFO ADDO 8 months ago

    I thought ghanaweb was going to focus on exposing the politicians behind the galamsey, but rather wasting time on these gentlemen who sleep and dream America.

  • Dead Akronfo Adoonothing is gone 8 months ago

    Good point

  • Maputo. 8 months ago

    Congratulations

  • Osaman 8 months ago

    What is our benefit as Ghanaians from these achievements ?.......Nothing!!!

  • Kkk 8 months ago

    Traitors

  • Don 8 months ago

    I hope one day they will not be treated like Prof. Frimpong Boateng

  • Kwadwo 8 months ago

    They should just look beyond their noses to find out what America does to people like them ie, Afrifa, Danquah, Busia, Harley, Kotoka, Sadam Hussein, Mobutu etc after they have finished using them.

  • Wisefolk 8 months ago

    Hope we'll not be here one day only to be told these are fake credentials.

  • Prof Damoah et al have done a lot for Ghana!! Just keep mute if u don’t know 8 months ago

    Prof Damoah , paved the way for Ghana to be considered Satellite launched country. For those who do not know, He has installed instruments (Koforidua, Navrongo) that collect climatic data in Ghana each day for various resear ...
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  • Greed 8 months ago

    They wouldn't have achieved anything if they had stayed in Ghana. We have a lot of them here but no government support

  • Sokode 8 months ago

    Education without money generation wealth passed down is useless. You may have all the education but without money the impact on your community and country will be just you , India first started with mercantile wealth passed ...
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  • PATRIOT. 8 months ago

    SADLY ISAIAH BLANKSON PASSED AWAY IN 2021.

  • Anloga Boozin floored Buokrom Budo 8 months ago

    Stupid journalist. Tell us the year they finished SHS. Bawumia is planning to jump at the Robotics and says he is the one who brought it to Ghana. Ofui

  • reglh 8 months ago

    I just read that Dr Isaiah Blankson died in 2121. He is reported to be the first African man to obtain a doctorate degree in Aerospace engineering.

  • PATRIOT. 8 months ago

    IT'S IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT HE WAS A PRODUCT OF MFANTSIPIM.

  • Zakarakis 8 months ago

    African diaspora so called intellectuals are really stupid. They will not do knowledge transfer to their motherland like the Chinese. Of what value is for Ghanaian scientists to be at NASA when Ghana cannot even launch a sate ...
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  • The Spear 8 months ago

    The Chinese are smart. Ghanaians are not. Watch what's happening actually in the country. This will never happen in China.

  • Educational system producing thieves 8 months ago

    I hope they use their brains to help their motherland to develop ----

  • Dastun 8 months ago

    How can they when the judgmental attitude of Ghanaians will chase them away. Just look at these comments. You don't even accept them as Ghanaians anymore. Besides, did they build NASA, they are employees. Do we have an equiva ...
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  • Obama 8 months ago

    How many Nigerians are working at NASA?

  • Rikuss 1 8 months ago

    I really love this guys. They have made Ghana proud in the global space race. Oh mother Ghana when would they be given the chance to make a scientific move in Ghana to develop the solar power and energy industry in the countr ...
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  • joetex 8 months ago

    Please get your facts right DR Isaiah Blankson died about a year or too ago.

  • Silk 8 months ago

    Stunning!

    And some shallow minded opportunist social media newbies unrepentantly continue to poison the minds of ambitious young folks that PhDs are worthless, just because they took shortcuts to attain some foreign 'passp ...
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  • Dzekpo 8 months ago

    NASA is most deceitful organisation on planet earth. They faked the moon landing. The earth is flat, we live on a geocentric stationary earth. But they've lying that it's spherical and spinning at 1000 mph, while revolving at ...
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  • Senga 8 months ago

    HOW ARE THEY BENEFITING GHANA AS A COUNTRY?

  • Duka daya 8 months ago

    Does that put food on tables in Ghana.

  • Kobla Tetteh 8 months ago

    Cockroaches, mice, house flies, mosquitoes etc think only about food and sex. Human beings are lifted with large brains to think, dream, imagine and explore the complexities of life including art, music, science, technology ...
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  • Dan 8 months ago

    I had to come to comment section what good is this useless information if they are not bringing all this knowledge back to Ghana black people we are our own worse ene6

  • Kobla Tetteh 8 months ago

    The world you live in is now intertwined than you think. No one does anything in isolation anymore. MTN, Vodafone and the platform that you are writing your comment on are not Ghanaian creations. Your phone that you typed you ...
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  • Oti yaw 8 months ago

    Give us a break! What better education is Ghana given a part from preventing great minds from achieving their goals. Let those people tell you their story and you will know that they would have probably be useless in Ghana ha ...
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  • Bigi 8 months ago

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  • WHAT A FUNNY COUNTRY 8 months ago

    IF THEY HAD COME TO CONTEST ELECTIONS, WE WILL BE TELLING THEM TO RENOUNCE THEIR US CITIZENSHIPS. THEY ARE NO LONGER GHANAIANS. WE ALWAYS HAPPY TO TALK ABOUT AFRICANS MAKING IT OUTSIDE THE CONTINENT WHILE WE ARE KILLING THEM ...
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  • francis 8 months ago

    THEY ARE ALL USELESS AS THEY HAVE IGNORE THEIR OWN COUNTRY GHANAWEB STOP SHOWING PICTURES AND STORY ABOUT PEOPLE NOT THINKING OF DEVELOPING THEIR OWN COUNTRY THANKS BUT ONLY WANT TO MAKE NAMES FOR THEMSELVES.

  • Bakogone Tiblisi Honest VIEWS 99% Ignorance 99% poverty 8 months ago

    Ghana leaders must provide quality education to bring valued results like trains and GDP growth of x2 in 10 years time.

    Quality education and practical training.
    Not half baked exams education.

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  • Champagne 8 months ago

    All these guys may be janitors at NASA but see how this lazy writer is yorbing all of us even dragging ghana inside. Chaii we suffered paaaaaa.

  • Daniel Jagri 8 months ago

    They should come together and form their school of technology in Ghana to help in coming generations.

  • Tintempa 8 months ago

    Even this the politicians want to come and lie for Christ sake this is science where facts speak

  • KOFI 8 months ago

    We are quick to claim credit for people's achievements and personal effort. However, we do not nurture talents. We don't prioritise youth development. Assuming they have not left the shore of this country, they will not have ...
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  • Odoi 8 months ago

    They are supporting the American economy and no benefits for African. Trump has stop all aid support to Africa. The black man is always seen as unproductive and non entity but look at these black Africans proving otherwise.

  • Ozone layer 8 months ago

    Our most imbecile president John Dramani Mahama told galamseyers to destroy our waters and forests to prospect for gold and he will borrow $2 billion dollars to reclaim the land and not to support research. This super imbecil ...
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  • …. 8 months ago

    Thank God they are not in Ghana,like the silly politicians would use politics to kill some of the dreams.

  • Project 8 months ago

    Except they can't make a mark on their own country. The black man and the African is a shit hole and needless race

  • Kwame 8 months ago

    That Ghanaian and African knowledge and skills is being used by the US and her allies to enslave Ghanaians and Africans.

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  • Simon 8 months ago

    More grace to make Ghana proud