We were given stipends, fed 3 square meals daily at the university - Kofi Amoabeng recounts

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Dr Mumbi Seraki 6 months ago

Hello youth of Ghana. You can take your own life with medicine......for instance 10 paracetamol at once.........or combine medicine and akpeteshie or weedicide.

Hello youth of Ghana. You can take your own life with medicine......for instance 10 paracetamol at once.........or combine medicine and akpeteshie or weedicide.
Is that why your generation is full of thieves 6 months ago

May be it was a mistake. Now you peoplenwanr everything free, including stealing people's deposits. Like Aro Essien.

May be it was a mistake. Now you peoplenwanr everything free, including stealing people's deposits. Like Aro Essien.
don`t care !!! © 6 months ago

Please, the above gentleman, how Ghana benefits from him after Ghana invested so much in him! Rather them them turn their back on Ghana and loot her broad daylight...

Please, the above gentleman, how Ghana benefits from him after Ghana invested so much in him! Rather them them turn their back on Ghana and loot her broad daylight...
Napo 6 months ago

What was the size of the population at that time? Was there enough factories to employ graduates? Don't compare then and now to justify the freebies which the politicians are using selfishly for electoral votes but not the ra ...
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What was the size of the population at that time? Was there enough factories to employ graduates? Don't compare then and now to justify the freebies which the politicians are using selfishly for electoral votes but not the rapid development of the nation. We are a developing country for christ sake and let us grow our country together. What is all these freebies about? It creates lazy citizens. What is the sense in borrowing to burden the country and throw around free in the name of education, when there is no industries for the work force being graduated? Channel those monies to create industries so that the people can work and take care of their families. I thought JM was coming to do different thing but unfortunately the same that has failed is being applied since 1981!
Augustina Quayson 6 months ago

NAPO, please pleasenas a newly independent African country, there was the need to train Ghanaians to take over from the White British Colonialists. At that time we were poor so the scholarship for university stu ...
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NAPO, please pleasenas a newly independent African country, there was the need to train Ghanaians to take over from the White British Colonialists. At that time we were poor so the scholarship for university students.We ate free food three times a day with dessert .After dinner, we went to the coffee room for coffee served in coffee cups. There were steward boys who waited on us.Then we had free allowance. My generation called the allowance "16 million ".Students from the North also had extra free allowance. A lot of Ghanaians also had scholarships to study abroad, both in Western Europe and Eastern Europe. Please NAPO, President Nkrumah embarked on industrialization of this country. A lot of industries were established to offer employment to Ghanaians. He also established Workers brigades and the State Farms which produced food and ventured into large scale commercial farming. He also built the State Hotels .He built the State enterprises,.State Housing which built the Estates and State Transport Corporation were all established by President Nkrumah and they offered employment to Ghanaians
Nana 6 months ago

And so?
With all that Ghana no progression in the country, all the black man thing about is food and women.
Fools

And so?
With all that Ghana no progression in the country, all the black man thing about is food and women.
Fools
Kwam 6 months ago

So why after enjoying all these during your days, you guys on growing up decided to truncate this policy? If not wickedness? What can account for it?
I don't want to hear it not sustainable.
We have money to waste on use ...
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So why after enjoying all these during your days, you guys on growing up decided to truncate this policy? If not wickedness? What can account for it?
I don't want to hear it not sustainable.
We have money to waste on useless policies that never materialize. Let us be serious in this country, of other African countries have done it , why can't we in Ghana?
William Kojo Modey 6 months ago

All of these changed in the early 80s. We were still fed, but not in the lavish way you have expressed. Many of us from Akuafo Hall, Mensah-Sarbah Hall, and Legon Hall were feeding from the Central Cafeteria, and it was not l ...
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All of these changed in the early 80s. We were still fed, but not in the lavish way you have expressed. Many of us from Akuafo Hall, Mensah-Sarbah Hall, and Legon Hall were feeding from the Central Cafeteria, and it was not lavish, but we were fed. We still enjoyed free education too, so we thank God for all of that.
BBB 6 months ago

Yet your wicked generation came and mismanaged our resources and introduced greed into the system. Now students pay fees, feed and book hand outs from wicked lecturers who still will not leave our little girls to study in pea ...
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Yet your wicked generation came and mismanaged our resources and introduced greed into the system. Now students pay fees, feed and book hand outs from wicked lecturers who still will not leave our little girls to study in peace.
Stupidly 6 months ago

How many were you

How many were you
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AB 6 months ago

Very true. We tasted a bit of it in 1980 and things started slipping thereafter to what we have today.

Can we ever return to the good old days? We need all hands on deck with integrity to achieve that.

Very true. We tasted a bit of it in 1980 and things started slipping thereafter to what we have today.

Can we ever return to the good old days? We need all hands on deck with integrity to achieve that.
Ozymandias 6 months ago

At UCC, we were also given “ Teaching Practice Allowance “, plus money for transport to and from the school of our choices back to campus after the teaching practice. This was all possible simply because the student popul ...
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At UCC, we were also given “ Teaching Practice Allowance “, plus money for transport to and from the school of our choices back to campus after the teaching practice. This was all possible simply because the student population was comparatively smaller than as it exists now. Employers trooped to the universities to conduct interviews for potential candidates for positions available in their establishments. Students Population growth and explosion in the 1980s truncated the system, regretfully.
Reason 6 months ago

Most them turned around and plundered the country's wealth. Had they instead invested in GHANA'S future instead of their own selfish needs, Ghana would be better off today.

So, why should the youth of today not take back w ...
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Most them turned around and plundered the country's wealth. Had they instead invested in GHANA'S future instead of their own selfish needs, Ghana would be better off today.

So, why should the youth of today not take back what they were denied? Given that Ghanaians believe they are entitled to reparations for something that happened hundreds of years ago, why shouldn't kids feel entitled to reparations from those who reneged on their DUTY to improve Ghana 50-years ago?

Think about it.
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TRUTH 6 months ago

My father always annoys me with this information.

It is the same generation that have decided to sell everything won in 1957.

This is the reason free things are bad. You teach people to be lazy, easily swayed and manipu ...
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My father always annoys me with this information.

It is the same generation that have decided to sell everything won in 1957.

This is the reason free things are bad. You teach people to be lazy, easily swayed and manipulated at the least offer.
Amecole 6 months ago

Hmm, nostalgic thoughts about those days. I enjoyed same in 1973 at UG, but matter of fact l sit back and ponder whether those “privileges” spun the generational appetite for freebies and sense of entitlement(?).

Anoth ...
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Hmm, nostalgic thoughts about those days. I enjoyed same in 1973 at UG, but matter of fact l sit back and ponder whether those “privileges” spun the generational appetite for freebies and sense of entitlement(?).

Another point of note is that during the 1970s the population of Ghana and that of its students (more so tertiary students), were maneagable. Thus for accomodation, those in the old halls were sleeping one to a room, and in the new halls (ex Legon hall annexe, 2 students to a room).

Unfortunately due to our population “explosion” and tough economic times, the status quo of then, cannot be replicated now.
Carlos 6 months ago

Hmm,gone are the days

Hmm,gone are the days
Afia Schwarzenegger 6 months ago

That means Kofi Amoabeng is Mzbell’s grandfather’s senior at the university of Ghana . Eiiii child molester Kofi Amoabeng. Lol

That means Kofi Amoabeng is Mzbell’s grandfather’s senior at the university of Ghana . Eiiii child molester Kofi Amoabeng. Lol

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