Why Lincoln University cancelled Mahama's honorary doctorate ceremony

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  • Kwame Angel 1 day ago

    Rot! Is the Embassy setting its own standards for the University? Complete that process and wait for reassessment.

  • Trumu Addo 1 day ago

    Akufo TrumuTrumu Addo. Nana LGBTQ…… Addo

  • GHANA 1 day ago

    CERTIFICATE OR NO CERTIFICATE PRESIDENT MAHAMA WILL ALLOW GUY RIGHT IN GHANA:
    YOU CAN HAVE YOUR USELESS TRUMU TRUMU CERTIFICATE:

  • WAMBADILLO 23 hours ago

    Ghanafuo. This was the very easy way that our KYEBI NAUGHTY CHIMPANZEE & GYIMIFUORHENE (AKUFFO ADDO), and his special trumu-trumu operator (Napo Prempeh) were baited with a staggering $12 million dollars by these foreign HOMO ...
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  • Abu 23 hours ago

    Mahama should just resign and go back to school to earn a doctorate degree. Begging for awards would only bring him shame like he’s experiencing now.

  • Borga 23 hours ago

    So what happens to Mahaliar’s speech that he’s been writing for two weeks now? Mahaliar ay3 mbobo.

  • PRINCE KWASI ADADE (OFIE P33) 23 hours ago

    IT WAS CANCELLED BECAUSE MAHAMA SAID IT IS AN OFFENSE TO ACCEPT A HONORARY DOCTORATE WHILST STILL A SITTING PRESIDENT!!!
    MAHAMA RIDICULED NANA ADDO THE SHOW BOY ON THIS ISSUE. MAY GOD FORGIVE NDC FOR ALL THEIR CRIMES AGAINS ...
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  • PRINCE KWASI ADADE (OFIE P33) 22 hours ago

    NDC PROPAGANDA HAS BACKFIRED ON THEM BIG TIME!!!!!!!
    GHANA HAS GOT NO VICE PRESIDENT NOW!! IT IS CLEAR!!!!
    GOD BLESS THE DIGITAL BAWUMIA!!!!!!
    BAWUMIA IS ALL WE HAVE!!! GOD BLESS HIM!!!!!!!!!
    THE 24-HR ECONOMY PROMISE WAS ...
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  • Karikakchar 22 hours ago

    I still don't get it. If JM is not awarded because of his start on this lgbtqxyznonesense then he has my VOTE.

  • Kwadwo 15 hours ago

    Lincoln Universitys awkward diplomatic bungling of this matter has only served to raise even higher, the public profile of President Mahama, globally. They have served President Mahama well by letting him and all sensible bla ...
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  • Name 22 hours ago

    Ofui, did he beg for it?

  • Shove It 20 hours ago

    They can take their award and shove it where it belong. They can’t force their agenda on countries

  • Agboglimate Wolefiatem Zuborborm 19 hours ago

    Who is that speaking for the embassy? Who needs their honorary degree before ruling Ghana? They can go to hell with their degree

  • P Djamgbe 19 hours ago

    The embassy shouldn't be saying that the anti LGBT Bill is not a reflection of any individual's position, the embassy must not water down Mahama individual opinion on LGBT issues because of some fake degrees from the West, th ...
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  • Yaw 9 hours ago

    Am at a loss for words when it comes to these things. We sit in our parliament and denigrate everything western when it suits our political games such as LGBT and the rest and yet troop to the west to receive such , in my vie ...
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  • Dr Mumbi Seraki 19 hours ago

    Hello youth of Ghana. ..You can take your own life with medicine......for instance 15 paracetamol at once. Or combine medicine and akpeteshie ...or weedicide.

  • The Motherland 5 hours ago

    MUMBI SERAKI the escapee from Pantang hospital has reppeared to showcase his sick mentality

  • Npp 22 hours ago

    NPP MPS AND GABBY WERE BEHIND THIS. BUT WE DO NOT WANT ANYTHING THAT WILL DRAW HOD ANGER ON OUR LANDS. THE SHOULD TAKE THEIR SODOM N GOMORRAH AWARD. NKWASIAFUO. NPP GO FOR IT. SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF HOMOSEXUALS

  • Tony 17 hours ago

    They are doing this so that their hardened criminal/armed robber Ken Ofori Atta can use it as a defense not to come to Ghana because the President is anti lgbtq++. We shouldn’t forget that he says he is a gay. Akukora bɔne

  • Joe 21 hours ago

    This is very uncouth language. Out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.

  • TWEAA DC 23 hours ago

    JOHN FORD AIRBUS DRUNKMANI GOING ROUND THE WORLD IN SUCH OF DEGREES....TWEAA.

  • Opanyinbon 23 hours ago

    Drunkard like your useless and imbecile parents! Odwanba! Asshole like you!

  • Stephen Donkor, New York. 22 hours ago

    @ OPANYIN. ANIMGUASIE AKWABA OOO!
    I LAUGH ENTER BOLE BAMBOI KVIP!

    THE CHAMELEON JOHN MAHAMA HAS BEEN PAID BACK DEARLY FOR DENYING HIS TIES WITH ANDREW SALOMON AND OTHER GAY - PALS AND ACTIVISTS IN THE US! !

    YOU DO M ...
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  • Name 17 hours ago

    You this man again?

    After the 38% loss poured ice-cold water on you, you went mental for almost a year and now you're back with you mmoas3m?
    If you bring that your nonsense on Prez Mahama again, I bet you'll leave this fo ...
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  • WAMBADILLO 23 hours ago

    This was the very easy way that our KYEBI NAUGHTY CHIMPANZEE & GYIMIFUORHENE (AKUFFO ADDO), and his special trumu-trumu operator (Napo Prempeh) were baited with a staggering $12 million dollars by these foreign HOMOSEXUAL KIN ...
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  • Janet Oduro 21 hours ago

    In search not such.

  • POURFENDEUR DE LA CORRUPTION/ANTI CORRUPTION 21 hours ago

    The university of Lincoln realized John DrugMani Mahaliar is not trustworthy. He is a criminal. He has apportion all the Ghana gold to his brother, Ibrahim Mahama. That's state capture. This is the true AGYAPADI3

  • Concerned Citizen: IT IS MORE THAN NECESSSARY 20 hours ago

    IT IS INDEED, MORE THAN NECESSARY TO PROTECT AND PRESERVED, OUR TRADITION AND CULTURE FROM THE GENERATION TO GENERATION, AND FOR EVER AND EVER: WITH THE REGARDS OF RESPECTIONG THE MOTHER GHANA: IN ADDITION, GHANA IS ONE OF TH ...
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  • Co2 17 hours ago

    Are you not ashamed of yourself

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  • Kojo Yankee 23 hours ago

    Even well earned doctorates don’t do anything for Afrika! They just create paper tigers and dreamers, bookonomists, bookosophers, bookonsultants,bookofficials and even bookoharam. If not science, technology,engineering and ...
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  • Chris 20 hours ago

    The president must not fall for this kind things. What does he need this honorary degree for. After all he can't use the Dr title, according to GTEC. I think he must be careful when people come around with such offers.

  • iSay 1 day ago

    Akufo Addo would have accepted this if he was the President. Trumu Trumu Addo

  • GHANA 1 day ago

    PRESIDENT MAHAMA IS NOT AKUFO ADDO - TO DO EVERYTHING FOR HIS PERSONAL GAIN

  • Kramai 23 hours ago

    Badge of honor !

  • 2PK 1 day ago

    They should hold on to their useless honorary degree. It will be dignifying for President Mahama to promote polygamy (a natural phenomenon, which is demonized by thise same evil people) than to promote or accept homosexuality ...
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  • Kwaku 1 day ago

    Stand firm!

    This one deɛ I support Mahama. Better be straight without the degree. You are already honoured for standing firm.

  • Nii Odoi 19 hours ago

    Ghana has no LGBTQ+ problem. NDC has made it a problem. In opposition, they went around day and night promoting a bill for an issue many people were indifferent about or hardly heard of. That promotion made people aware of t ...
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  • PO 18 hours ago

    Sensible and beautiful summation
    Everything I read is insults and also no resolution to the problem
    Well written
    No insult
    Problem at hand
    Solution suggestion
    Nobody will read this but rather make it contentious

  • Osei Kwabena 1 day ago

    Please President Mahama, deal with the problems and youth unemployment in Ghana, and stop traveling around the globe for honors. Why are Africa presidents so greedy? Shame to our Africa leaders.

  • Castro 1 day ago

    Nana Addo God is great!!! He has done it again. Karma at work again. Any bad thing Mahama said about Nana Addo has come back to bite Mahama.
    Mahama don’t worry just come back home.

  • Dr Haru 1 day ago

    Hmmm, “eneguase kesi na akawu”. You think collecting PhD’s just left and right will make you ‘a knowledgeable person. Apiitor. You will never get a PhD, I mean the proper one which calls for sweat and hard work. Come ...
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  • Kalimba Mozambo 1 day ago

    What is all these honorary degrees for? I don't get it.

  • TWEAA DC 1 day ago

    TWEAA...GO AND BRIBE THEM...BECAUSE JOHN FORD AIRBUS DRUNKMANI IS AN EXPERT IN BRIBERY SCANDALS....OR GO AND BUY A DEGREE FROM ANOTHER UNIVERSITY WHICH ARE PLENTY IN AMERICA...TWEAA.

  • Peterh 23 hours ago

    The University can go to hell

  • Peeeeeeeee 23 hours ago

    yr honour and shove it up yr ass

  • Kwame K 23 hours ago

    What is honourable about a doctorate from an University that supports a perverted sexual lifestyle that even animals do not engage in.

  • Nyamebak 23 hours ago

    WAMBADILLO,You are a very STUPID,IDIOT AND FOOLISH MAN in the world. What does that got to do with Nana Addo,people like you will never prosper in life because of HATRED. Your parents are not Ghanaians but came from neighbour ...
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  • Naa 22 hours ago

    Bawumia has made his mouth like a dog shitting on an asphalt road. Ready to wash his anus at Abu Dhabi

  • Zakarakis 22 hours ago

    Lincoln University on its own volition wanted to award an honorary degree to President Mahama he DID NOT BEG FOR. If Lincoln University decides otherwise, it is its own KETTLE OF FISH. No need to split hairs. Ghanaian culture ...
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  • Jackie 22 hours ago

    I don't understand the embassy at all. Why are they even regretful. Of what benefit is this degree. Will it solve Ghana's problems for which we voted for JM, without which he would not be known anywhere? Get busy with things ...
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  • Name 22 hours ago

    What does he need that crap doctorate for in the first place?

    And why should the university attach conditions to the award

    Nkwasea s3m ara kwa !!

  • DEEVINITY 22 hours ago

    Why does the embassy's response sound as though the President's very existence and dignity depends on a Lincoln honorary degree??

    They should wave the matter away and get on with some productive work. If I were in their po ...
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  • Johnn 22 hours ago

    This is just a form of subtle coercion to convince the president to accept trumu trumu in the society and not to make a law against it. How is that honorary degree going to help the president improve his performance in govern ...
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  • FACT 22 hours ago

    THE EXPLANATION DOES NOT FIT THE REASON OF " UNFORESEEN CIRCUMSTANCES".
    The President has not as yet signed the Bill on LGBTQ. Why the fuss? Ghana does not have any stand-alone law on LGBTQ.
    It goes without saying that al ...
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  • Ker 22 hours ago

    He doesn't need it for anything. They should eat it up

  • Yaa 21 hours ago

    Haha. Karma is indeed a bitch!

  • Stephen Donkor, New York. 21 hours ago

    ANIMGUASIE AKWABA OOO!
    I LAUGH ENTER BOLE BAMBOI KVIP!

    THE CHAMELEON JOHN MAHAMA HAS BEEN PAID BACK DEARLY FOR DENYING HIS TIES WITH ANDREW SALOMON AND OTHER GAY - PALS AND ACTIVISTS IN THE US! !

    YOU DO ME, I DO YOU!
    ...
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  • TDicaca 21 hours ago

    Lies galore. Lincoln university just realized that the ‘. Odwanfunu’ is brain dead and does not deserve such an honor. Simple!!!

  • Gyasi 21 hours ago

    Good name Is better Riches, Let the Lincoln F****D ** with their devil Inhuman degree,as the presidente of Ghana doesn't need any homosexual degree

  • I thank God it's mahama... Bawumai and nana would have promised to get this doctorate 21 hours ago

    Next they will delay and never sign this..

    This tells us what we are dealing with and theote reason he has to complete the signage on this issue... Nail it for us for once and life time..

    I applaud Mahama for his stance ...
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  • Kwame Peter 21 hours ago

    Canon Akuffo-Addo,stay blessed sir.

  • Kanawu 21 hours ago

    I agree with them 100%.
    The western world should punish Ghana if we pass any laws harming gay people.

    They send their kids to countries where gay marriage is legal yet they complain about it

  • Joe 21 hours ago

    Does mahama really need this honorary degree?
    Secondly why is the embassy at this stage distancing the president from the bill currently in parli. He had previous aid he supports it and will sign if passed by parliament. It ...
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  • Haaba 21 hours ago

    Certificate for trumu di3 de333! they can have that, after all what?

  • Kwame 21 hours ago

    Discriminate and you will be discriminated. A taste of your own medicine. Well done Lincoln University. Ghana is welcoming and open country proud of its human rights record. The proposed homophobic bill is full of hatred for ...
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  • Nana 20 hours ago

    This woes of this bill has just began... bigger disappointment are on the way

  • No pain no gain 20 hours ago

    Mahama forget their award it's of no use. Just stay true to yourself

  • John 20 hours ago

    Disrespect of the highest order. President Mahama should walk away and never accept any honorary Doctorate from that university again. This university is attempting to play politics by blackmail in thus case using a weak meth ...
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  • Passah Samuel (Smiles) 20 hours ago

    See these people. After all their wickedness on our African continent centuries ago,they still wants to enslave us emotionally.
    Fire burns them all.
    God bless GHANA and Africa.

  • Asonaba asiedu 20 hours ago

    This has. got racist connotations. How can such a big institution like that say they didn't do proper due diligence beforehand. Would they do that if it were to be a white head of state,? If they do come back to offer it , t ...
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  • KYB 20 hours ago

    I thought he was saying Nana Akuffo Addo has committed a crime as president by receiving a donorary doctorate, so why is he doing the same now also as president. God has exposed him for his hypocrisy.

  • Nii Odoi 20 hours ago

    The South Korea University should withdraw Mahama's Honorary Doctorate.

  • Kwame 20 hours ago

    Why are we behaving as if the honour will feed President Mahama or Ghanaians. I am disappointed in our embassy

  • Eno Biriwah 20 hours ago

    The real reason for the cancellation is the AFRICA REPARATIONS push. The anti-gay demo or protest was just cosmetic.

  • Zakarakis 20 hours ago

    Please, the Lincoln University must be told that President Mahama is NOT BEGGING FOR AN HONORARY DOCTORATE degree. Promoting Ghanaian family values shall continue to be upheld.

  • Paa Rasta 19 hours ago

    YOU STAY THERE AND WRITE NONSENSE, .LGBTQ IS HERE TO STAY IN GHANA, WE BETTER ACCEPT IT NOW AND MOVE FOWARD OR WE WILL SUFFER.

  • Onipaba 20 hours ago

    Lincoln University later on realised that Mahamma is childish and infantile after interacting with him.He sometimes behaves and acts like a child or an infant.He is easily swayed by any whims and caprices

  • Azoongo 19 hours ago

    See this fool talking nonsense. If u don't have anytin to say beta keep quiet mr. Idoit. If it were to be u wat will u do?

  • Paul 20 hours ago

    Such foolishness from a low grade university. If you failed to do diligence on the President's stance on LGBT nonsense it only tellsbhow weak you are as an academic institution because a few stroke on the keyboard could have ...
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  • Ggg 19 hours ago

    We don't want it,mahama better than that shit hole award

  • Paa Rasta 19 hours ago

    Why DO WE AS A SMALL COUNTRY PICK UP BIG FIGHTS THAT WE CANT WIN ?THIS LGBTQ ISSUE IS AN EXAMPLE. WE SIMPLY CANT WIN, THE TYPE OF DEMOCRACY WE ARE PRACTICING , ALLOWS PEOPLE TO CHOOSE THEIR PARTNERS . THE MUSLIMS IN GHAN ...
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  • Nana K 19 hours ago

    Lincoln University can go to hell!
    They need John Mahama to prop up their image!

  • Alex 19 hours ago

    Someone alleges the letter came from Ghana.

  • Tex 19 hours ago

    What a PUNCH

  • Pathetic foool 19 hours ago

    the university and let them take their fucking award. It is these liberals who have produced Trump

  • Pathetic foool 19 hours ago

    the...

  • Che 19 hours ago

    Some big donors of Lincoln University stepped in at the last-minute to embarrass Mahama.

  • May 19 hours ago

    Keep your Babylon doctorate.

  • Kofi Acquah 18 hours ago

    They can choose to give the Gay Lords Naada and cohorts.

  • Islamic Republic of Ghana 18 hours ago

    Qur'an 9:5
    "Whenever you get the chance Kill Christians, Allah hate unbelievers"

  • DEEVINITY 18 hours ago

    When you play with dogs and allow them indoors, they tend to lick your face and If you pretend to be a hound, you 'll be taken hare-hunting.

    Big lesson learnt. Know which PR button to push and WHEN to push it.

    You do n ...
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  • Dzool 18 hours ago

    He should go to Moscow or Cuba for honors degree
    These hypocrites they will be lambasting that is where they go for medical treatment and also educate their kids in the west. Best example is Rawlings he sent poor kids to Cu ...
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  • James 18 hours ago

    And what does this whole degree do for Ghana and Mahama? They should take their degree and shove it in their LGBTQ asses. Idiots

  • Kojo 18 hours ago

    who cares run thecountry mahama no one is impress with degrees

  • Citizen vigilante 18 hours ago

    Does Mahama need the Honorary Doctorate Degree to produce tomatoes for Ghanaians ? NO. To hell with the evil LGBTQ practitioners and sponsors. Enough with the bogus foreign policies and interference, let our presidents across ...
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  • May. 18 hours ago

    Ah! And to think these back door guys want to honor our dear president. Tell them in Ghana, we value worth (not wealth) more than degrees.

  • Bretuoba Kofi Frimpong Boateng 18 hours ago

    Please Mr President, come back and continue with our resetting and building of the Ghana we want. You don’t need that funny hat on top of your head. To the average Ghanaian, it means little. Ghanaians are crying for jobs an ...
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  • Agropa 17 hours ago

    Nonsense. What has honorary degree got to do with personal standing in society? We should stop receiving these so called honor degrees. The world knows the standing of Mahama in international affairs and needs not any honor d ...
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  • Lord peppers 17 hours ago

    So what will that mumu certificate achieve for a whole president??? Why are u these politicians so stupid and greedy for all these certs??

  • Yaw 16 hours ago

    It is not the English that you write that will change minds.

  • Mm 16 hours ago

    When u lobby for an unearned PhD as a sitting president. This is what happens to u.

  • King deed 15 hours ago

    High time our leaders respect themselves. Will any American president ever travel all the way to a university in Ghana for a honorary degree? What value will it add to our presidency to be 'embarrassed' this way? African lead ...
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  • Rita 12 hours ago

    Who cares about your useless award ? My President is too clean for that dirty award, shove it down your ass.go to HELL Lincoln University

  • Pelicles. 11 hours ago

    So, John Mahama feels proud to receive such "Honors" while he was against Nana Addo doing same as president?

  • Agya Ntow 11 hours ago

    What is Lincoln if we have KWAME NKRUMAH University and University of Ghana.....?

  • Free Radical 11 hours ago

    Lincoln university cancelled Mahama honorary doctorate ceremony because they have acknowledged that Mahama is a liar,corrupt and a greedy thief and doesn’t deserve such honour to get a degree in corruption lying and stealin ...
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  • Shuna 7 hours ago

    Honorary abi? He didn't beg for it and will never beg for such a useless honour.

  • Joe 7 hours ago

    You don't have anything to say

  • Aziz 7 hours ago

    Good move, he doesn’t deserve it

  • Mubarik B. 7 hours ago

    In this case let them keep their certificate, such a certificate is not an honour it's a humiliation. His excellency JDM does not need it, certificate from Lincoln University or not, won't reduce his honour.

  • Free Radical 5 hours ago

    Honorary or no honorary president John Dramani Mahama is still Dr liar, deceiver and a thief.

  • Okubi 6 hours ago

    Oh, you’re the corrupt one. You really think you can speak ill of the great one and simply imitate him? All the theft that has been going on has been recognized, and appropriate action is now being taken as you can see. Th ...
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  • Suma 5 hours ago

    Real values working. No compromise great, President Mahama. Credentials will not shape your way of thinking. Ride on . Go has your back, but not human honour.

  • Ephraim 2 hours ago

    Again, this exposes the shameful and pretentious Western democratic ethos! What can a single individual under a democratic dispensation do to change a draft legislative proposal before it's parliament?
    Pls take your honoury ...
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