St Sark opposes reported plans to introduce Chinese, Arabic in basic schools

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  • AGBELI KUMORDZI8 16 hours ago

    Those barbaric arabs who enslaved our African people and castrated them why and how we free Africa generation will learn Arabic French and Chinese languages is zNo No
    We shall campaign seriously against tho ...
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  • Ruthan 16 hours ago

    Experts have told us kids with a strong foundation in their mother tongue find it easier learning a 2nd language. I hope what Haruna said was just a joke

  • Efo Juju 15 hours ago

    Harunah's child will not be among the people who will graduate in Chinese or Arabic.

  • Kwame 10 hours ago

    Experts also teach that language serve as medium for people to preserve their religions and spread their faith. The schemers of this plan know this too. We pray that this government will live up expectation to help Ghana pres ...
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  • Solomon Pobee 13 hours ago

    It's absolutely nonsense. These small boys such as Haruna Iddrisu don't have anything to lose.

  • Shai 9 hours ago

    The English did the same, we should dump English and adopt one of our own. They all not good. We should be using our own by now. Naturally in Ghana, Twi is in the driving sir. Why not? Twi is closer to me than all those forei ...
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  • Efo Juju 8 hours ago

    How will chemistry or engineering be taught in Twi?

  • Knowledge 6 hours ago

    Can you tell me how capacitors, diode, resistors, atoms, neutrons, evaporators are called in twi? Even the Chinese and the Japanese are still studying the English language

  • Supercrap 5 hours ago

    Shai, you need to broaden your mind and your horizon. Forget Twi, it wouldn't take you and I any where but in Ghana. Learn Chinese, English, and French. Twi ? No !

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  • THIEF OF BAGDAD 15 hours ago

    Look at this stupid mahama appointee Idrusu mahama he does not think of intruducing any technology to the schools than forein launguage Black men are still suffering mentally what are you going to do with Chinese language use ...
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  • TK 14 hours ago

    This is what myopic and those who doesn't think far into the future will definitely say against the learning of Arabic and Chinese in Ghana.

  • Ofosuhene 14 hours ago

    Are the Arab’s and the Chinese learning our local language,this is not myopic or whatever that u think it is,it’s about preserving our identity,our culture and the dignity of Ghanaian community,what does French language w ...
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  • AKP 8 hours ago

    Do you know the number of people who have gain employment by learning French.

  • Knowledge 6 hours ago

    Stop being foolish extremist, we simply do not want Arabic for our kids, they just want to propagate that killer characteristics in our schools. Stop it now.

  • Vote Ndc out immediately 5 hours ago

    Are you normal? I suggest you go see psychiatrist early. What do we need communist language for? How can communist country ask democratic Ghana to learn communist language? Hasn't China stopped English learning and teaching i ...
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  • Greedy Souls 14 hours ago

    Osofo you are right. Haruna is hallucinating but so are the scamming occultic one man churches.

    Ghana needs, peace and safety to grow.

  • Nyameye 14 hours ago

    I have been following the Education Minister. He is not fit for that position.

  • AGBELI KUMORDZI8 12 hours ago

    Can your father the cocoa farmer do his job

  • Mandela 14 hours ago

    It is beyond useless. This is what we get from recycled Parliamentarians making decisions for this country. Everlasting MPs who think they know it all, and eventually claiming Presidency. We are denied fresh political blood, ...
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  • Dadebo 13 hours ago

    Yes useless we are still planting yams with hoes today

  • AMB 13 hours ago

    These languages are being taught in the Universities. It’s better to prepare children interested interested I these languages before they get to the University.

  • Kwaku 12 hours ago

    It seems that some people cannot make a distinction between facilitating a few hundred nationals to master a different language: - German, Russian, Hindi, etc. and a national programme that requires the learning of multiple l ...
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  • NART 12 hours ago

    IF IT'S TRUE THEN I THINK HON HARUNA WOULD BE ENDING HIS POLITICAL CAREER EARLIER.

  • Against 12 hours ago

    Our public space is polluted with too many loud mouthed idiots.

  • KWASI IN EUROPE 12 hours ago

    Are the Arabs learning Twi?

  • OSAFO KANTANKA 11 hours ago

    What is the “THINKING “ behind the introduction of ARABIC language in our schools? I can understand the probable Potential in the CHINESE language due to their TECHNOLOGICAL “ADVANCEMENT”. It is imperative because ...
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  • Maame Abenah 11 hours ago

    The minister of education must find a better one, this one stinks. Chinese and Arabic languages studies must never be forced down to our children. All languages could be available to students at higher institutions if they ch ...
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  • Kwame 10 hours ago

    Thank you, man of God. We also need other Christian leaders to stand up before they set up all the foundations that will later turn Ghana into something else. The minds of our kids are not yet developed for this. They can eas ...
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  • GOLDEN 9 hours ago

    GHANAIANS SHOULD LEARN OUR LOCAL LANGUAGES TO UNITE US,WITH OUR RICH CULTURAL HERITAGE,PERIOD!!!!!!!DO THE CHINESE OR ARABS WANT TO LEARN OUR LOCAL LANGUAGES?????????? STOP THIS UNNECCESSARY IDEA OF INTRODUCING CHINESE AND AR ...
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  • Shai 9 hours ago

    The average child in Ghana grow up with at least four languages. Adding another will a burden and impede their development.

  • AWAL 8 hours ago

    Eii are we serious as a nation ghana,der is noo job for,JHS,SHS and universities yet we are strugling to add more for who,people stop letting ur childs into schooling der is no grownup leadershp in the gorvenance it hurts im ...
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  • Ghana government is nonsense entity 5 hours ago

    It is not useless but rather stupidity and animalistic form of thinking. Ndc government borrowed everything Chinese. They even went to nonsense china begging Chinese to become Ghanaians...they borrow everything Chinese now th ...
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  • Vote Ndc out immediately 5 hours ago

    Bastard Ndc and Ghana. So does the nonsense educational minister want to be told all these? Communist country telling democratic Ghana to learn their communist language. How? They the Chinese are wise by stopping English educ ...
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  • Supercrap 5 hours ago

    Why is it useless? The world is getting smaller, and we need to broaden our horizons. Ghanaians are very small minded people. It is always good to learn a different language. Forget Twi, you don't need education to learn ...
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  • Kobby 1 hour ago

    AFTER THIS, WHAT NEXT??
    PROBABLY ALL CHURCHES WOULD BE FORCED TO USE THE QURAN ALONG SIDE THE HOLY BIBLE !!!!

  • ENOUGH IS ENOUGH 1 hour ago

    ENGLISH IS THE WORLD LANGUAGE.

    EVERYONE WANTS TO SPEAK ENGLISH!

    I was taught in English by Spanish. And he said, everyone wants to speak English.

    So, French countries are learning English, Germans, etc also.

    This ...
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  • ENOUGH IS ENOUGH 1 hour ago

    NPP, be alert. Haruna is making Bawumia unpopular by these acts of his.

    People will say, if Haruna (a minister) can do this, what will Bawumia do?

    So NPP should fight this well. As for Haruna, he can't presume to contes ...
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  • KS 37 minutes ago

    It is so interesting that in Ghana any minister of education unilaterally can change our educational systems on his own . This trend has been going on under both the NPP and NDC governments. Why should one person decide what ...
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