Ghana needs thinking graduates – Prez Mahama

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  • BEMN 12 years ago

    WE LACK COMMON SENSE IN GHANA

  • canny 12 years ago

    how many phd. holders do we have in ghana. but still the country is sicking. that shows schooling alone is not enough to built our country, we need people with common sense and thinking who knows what it takes to start someth ...
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  • POP 12 years ago

    WE NEED GUYS WITH COMMON SENSE NOW IN OUR OFFICES: BOOKLONG HOLDERS ARE MESSING UP WITH THEORY ALONE:

  • insight to the bone 12 years ago

    ndc is trying to make us all foolishly believe that this is all about partisan politics but in reality its a feudal system of governance based on tribalism and ethnic affiliation . there is no partisan politics rather anti Ak ...
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  • Asok 12 years ago

    Mahama is funny paa. You steal the country's resources for your family and cronies but you want others to think! Ghana Army shd wake up before Mahama steals again for his brother to pay the Merchant Bank debt use in purchasin ...
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  • Tyo 12 years ago

    Shame on to Kwaku Baako for taking bribe to defend and speak for Mahama and his brother. God will rain the same evil Kwaku Barko suffered in prison those days upon him again

  • GHFUO, be serious & change ur MENtali 12 years ago

    BLACKMAN CANT THINK

  • OLD SOLDIER 12 years ago

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  • crazy boy 12 years ago

    since i came to this world i have never been so saddened by such an imbecile and irresponsible comment by someone we call a president, really Ghana stand up ,is that so called rogue,thief ...
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  • ALHAJI KANO 12 years ago

    I THINK MAHAMAH DIDN´T SEE THIS SPEECH BEFORE IT WAS READ.I THINK FROM THE SPEECH WRITER TO THE ONE WHO READ ON HIS BEHALF.REALLY IF HE HAD A KNOWLEDGE BEFORE IT WAS READ,THEN WE ARE HAVING VERY STUPID PRESIDENT.UST HAS BEEN ...
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  • Oba Nyansani Baako Pe In Ghana! 12 years ago

    I can do better than many of our leaders in Ghana because I have power, knowledge and common sense also experience that is what Ghana needs. Mahama employed graduates who have not worked before and ha gave them ministeria pos ...
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  • CARDINAL 12 years ago

    Unfortunately, critical thinking is what this disgraceful and clueless Mahama masquerading as a President is lacking. He needs to assess himself if he has what it takes to rule a country. What a mistake and accidental Preside ...
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  • Kanawu 12 years ago

    This picture makes Mahama look like a Kusasi watchman, take it off.

  • MARCUS AMPADU 12 years ago

    Insulting the people we disagree with does not solve anything, Cardinal. In fact, it makes matters worse. For what I've learned at school and elsewhere, I picked up that critical thinking starts early in life. BECE and the ty ...
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  • DEAL 12 years ago

    FREE UTILITIES, FUELS, HOUSING,SUVS AND 10% PAY CUT IS INSULTING GHANAIAN ESPECIALLY POOR WHO LACK THE BASICS, SANITATION, WATER, EDUCATION, HOUSING, VERY SAD IN GHANA DEMOCRACY.

  • Paa Fitz 12 years ago

    The old British system of Chew Pour Pass & Forget is old and anachronistic. It is only good for preparing young minds. Once the students get to the Univ level, Creativity,Analytical and Continuous Assessment process ( like th ...
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  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 12 years ago

    You are right. We need to also reform our educ system that still puts emphasis on the 3 Rs.

  • CITIZEN ONE 12 years ago

    The problem with Ghana is simple, and it is the same problem Black Americans have. They live in an English speaking society, born and bred there over generations, yet they choose to create their own forced culture and languag ...
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  • Atsu Tsatsu 12 years ago

    They are not phd holders, they are "permanent head damage" people as thwir learning is not self-discovery but copied ideology of others.

    Our universities will not accept anyone with authentic non-western system of thought. ...
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  • MENSAH 12 years ago

    We have to know and celebrate,embrace,honour difference,because:
    ONE'S SIGNIFICANCE,IS NOT IN HIS SIMILARITY TO ANOTHER,BUT IN HIS POINT OF DISTINCTIVE DIFFERENCE FROM ANOTHER.
    Our leaders tend to copy by heart.They do not ...
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  • AKASI MARTHA NZEMA 12 years ago

    WHEN OUR MOTHER GHANA MOVED FROM FARMING AGE TO EDUCATIONAL AGE, WE STATED MOVING GRADUALLY TO INDUSTRIAL AGE, GRADUATES THEN, WERE MOVING THE COUNTRY FOREWARD WITH HARD THINKING IDEAS. BUT THE COUNTRY'S ENEMIES (MILITARY) ST ...
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  • Oba Nyansani Baako Pe In Ghana! 12 years ago

    Holy spirit will only work in us when we are totally commited to God and without holiness no man can see God that is what the Bible says.

  • QED. 12 years ago

    WE WOULD HAVE REACHED FAR AND HAVE MANY THINKING GRADUATES politicians if MAHAMA HAD NOT IMPOSED HIMSELF ON GHANAIANS BUT ALLOWED GHANAIANS TO USE THEIR common sense to elect CAPABLE PREZ. TO GOVERN THE COUNTRY. Pointless say ...
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  • MENSAH 12 years ago

    We need men of integrity,like you on this web always.

  • POP 12 years ago

    SEE GERMANY TODAY; MOST OF THEIR POLITICIANS ARE NOT GRADUATES BUT STILL THE COUNTRY IS MOVING PERFECT BECAUSE THE BELIEVE IN PRACTICAL KNOW HOW

  • Egya Blay 12 years ago

    Hi broth,I can confidently tell you that Germany is one of the European countries with highly educated politicians including their Chancellor-Angela Merkel who is holding PhD in Chemical Engineering.Google will give you a te ...
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  • MORON 12 years ago

    Egya, he said most not all like in ghana.

  • Egya Blay 12 years ago

    Great!I do understand him and thanks for your emphasis. Could you please change your name, my brother. Thanks.

  • MORON 12 years ago

    that is it

  • Atsu Tsatsu 12 years ago

    The system breeds followers and instruction takers not risk takers.
    So if one thinks outside the box one is regarded as malevolent. Unless we change the crop of educators, who perpetuate the same thinking how can we have cri ...
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  • MENSAH 12 years ago

    You are right,my brother.
    Ghana lacks men of wisdom,as long as, integrity is void in the system.
    THE FEAR OF THE LORD,IS THE BEGINNING OF WISDOM,BUT WE LACK THE FEAR OF THE LORD(INTEGRITY).
    And that WISDOM,IS THE PRINCIPAL ...
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  • LARYEAH 12 years ago

    GHANA NEEDS THINKING PRESIDENT!

  • Cookie 12 years ago

    Ghana need thinking president with good leadership

  • NANA 12 years ago

    JJ WENT COMMON AND SEE GHANA TODAY

  • GHANAS CANCER =ASHANTIS 12 years ago

    ASHANTIS SHOULD LEAVE MAHAMA ALONE HOW MANY JOBS DID GHANAS MOST CORRUPT PREZ K4 CREATE DURING HIS 8YEARS TENURE IN OFFICE.WHAT WAS THE OUTCOME OF K4S CASSAVA INITIATIVE?WAS K4 ABLE TO CREATE THE 1000 JOBS HE PROMISED ASHANTI ...
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  • Agbovi 12 years ago

    Mr. president,thank you for telling the truth at last.Ghana needs thinking graduates not your type.You must give back your degree to the University who graduated you.You dont deserve it.

  • Eagle eye 12 years ago

    oh another 6,708 more people going to stay home and try to chace non-existing job in the coutry
    if i was the president i will be ashame to even send someone to represent me at the graduation celemony why because, i cannot he ...
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  • KMAN 12 years ago

    GOES BOTH WAYS

  • GHANAS CANCER =ASHANTIS 12 years ago

    WHERE IS OSEI TUTUS HEAD ASHANTIS ?

  • nana 12 years ago

    RIGHT; ghana will never have like NKRUMAH again and mahatma u do not deserve to be a president of ghana but rather maybe in Burkina or Mali or Niger

  • kwame 12 years ago

    nan don't talk shit ok,burkina is supplying Ghana tomatoes with dry nature of their country, so stop this bullshit comparasion with countries abilities,very soon they will start exporting rice to Ghana

  • Repugnant. 12 years ago

    You are not on the level Sir! You may be thinking power is critical thinking which is not true. It is rather the ability to manifest ones intelligible intellect.

  • DONBOLI 12 years ago

    If a president cant thing straight how can student. If the govt and John Mahama thinks our student dont understand what they are thought, why not teach our students to understand what you teaching them.
    Its a shame John Maha ...
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  • Man 2 Man 12 years ago

    It begins at the top. When the president is not thinking, no one else is thinking.

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  • Yaw 12 years ago

    The level of corruption, the unsustainable borrowing over the last five years and above all the investment in unproductive ventures like Akomfem Socialism, Judgement debt and Atuguba-Vikyleak justice clearly shows that Ghana ...
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  • owusu 12 years ago

    we need a thinking President who makes wise decisions

  • Kofi Madingo 12 years ago

    The quality and critical thinkers are already in the system. The question is whether this potential is being taped. Easy to say than done. Ghanaians only have big mouths do not accept criticisms, believe in stupid and dangero ...
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  • BBC NEWS!!!!!!!!!! 12 years ago

    We need a thinking President Not a stupid One like u mahama.

  • Hamzah Abubakar 12 years ago

    Ghana needs a common sens prez not a thief

  • NON-ALIGNED 12 years ago

    Mr. President, empty speeches and delivering of laptops to schools is not the answer to our lack of critical thinking graduates. I hope you were on TIME………………to give the speech.

    Firstly, the basic problem we ha ...
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  • Emelia 12 years ago

    Right there. Our universities have failed us. They churn out non thinkers. Robots are able to think better than them. The key is improving our polytechnics. Hopefully next year, when our polytechnics graduates are awarded bac ...
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  • barima 12 years ago

    incompetent leaders , set good footsteps for the young generation to follow

  • royal 12 years ago

    Mr prez u mean graduate are useless.thank u for rendering as such.i wonder whether members of your govt are critical thinkers haha

  • kanga 12 years ago

    Ghana, needs common sense and thinking president, who think with his brain not is dick, as we now have. Mahama is good at making babies not making decisions, that why Ghana is stuck in the first gear.

  • COLLINS 12 years ago

    CHARITY BEGINS AT HOME SO WHAT ABOUT THE SHS 3 YEAR THING.INDEED IT IS NOT HELPING AT ALL

  • COMANDO 12 years ago

    ato achieve this goal u need to change the CJ first bk. she is currupt.and will never surport good things.

  • QED. 12 years ago

    Under his nose, modern challenges are crippling problems of economy, sanitation, unemployment, high cost of living and govt spending deficit crises of the country that GRADUATES POLITICIANS INCLUDING HIMSELF CAN NOT SOLVE THE ...
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  • VICKY LEE BENTON 12 years ago

    YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BE A GRADUATE TO BECOME A THINKER. IT IS THE ENTERPRENUERS WHO CREATE THINGS, THEY ARE THE BACKBONES OF EVERY COUNTRY.
    GHANA HAS A MINDSET THAT IF YOU BECOME A GRADUATE, THEN YOU ARE THE BEST IN SOCIETY, ...
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  • VICKY LEE BENTON 12 years ago

    REFRAIN FROM RELIGION & POLITICS, THEY ARE THE TWO MAJOR FORCES THAT HAS ROBBED YOUR SUCCESS IN LIFE, AND BY DOING SO, YOU WILL IGNITE THE LIGHT THAT GOD HAS PUTTING INTO YOU AS AN INDIVIDUAL TO FIND YOUR WAY IN LIFE.

  • Castro 12 years ago

    Is the President telling us that the
    Graduates in his team are not thinking.

  • SULE 12 years ago

    I presume he's also one of those graduates because he also went through the system and even for him, because of his privileged upbringing, he had the opportunity to acquire a little bit more knowledge outside the shores of Gh ...
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  • Kwaame 12 years ago

    Thank you very much. We are really fed up with the "fire-fighting" policies of our governments (PNDC, NDC and NPP). Without any drastic changes to national policies Ghana is doomed.

  • Kwaame 12 years ago

    Mr. President, Ghana needs thinking leaders to provide graduates with the big picture of where you guys want to lead the nation.

  • ASIEDU NKETIA 12 years ago

    Ghana needs a thinking president. Not one who will increase his pay by 100% and then, later a 10% pay-cut to fool those fools who voted for him. A president who will creat jobs for the youth, instead of planting trees in hot ...
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  • Joe 12 years ago

    Ghana with her UNMARKETABLE graduates everywhere

  • AKASI MARTHA NZEMA 12 years ago

    "HOLY SPIRIT" THE POWER OF GOD, HELP US TO THINK HARD THINKING TO BECOME INDUSTRIOUS NATION. AAAAAAAA AMEN.

  • wofa atta 12 years ago

    Ghana rather needs common sense leaders who can
    think and move the from this chopping create,loot and share ideas.

  • Yaw Agyeman 12 years ago

    Your ministers can't think May be that's why.

  • usa 12 years ago

    This is foolish talk. What is wrong with this criminal? You need common sense. Rubbish.

  • QED. 12 years ago

    MAHAMA taking picture in front of CNN Building says it all. HE IS NOT FIT FOR THE PURPOSE OF LEADING 24 MILLION PEOPLE.

    He has a low mentality, low aspiration, low imagination, low sense of priority, low self-esteem and l ...
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  • Kwame Angel 12 years ago

    Even more than thinking graduates, Ghana needs a thinking president and a thinking leadership, NOT hungry politicians who are there to make millions and leave.

  • KK 12 years ago

    We need thinking Presidents first before we can get thinking Graduates.

  • concern ghanian 12 years ago

    WE NEED THINKING LEADERS FIRST

  • Oba Nyansani Baako Pe In Ghana! 12 years ago

    Ghana does not need corrupt leader like you mahama. The whole world knew from the supreme court of Ghana that you are fake President to lead Ghana now. So, Mahama you are just deceiving your own self and that is the reason wh ...
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  • jetmoney 12 years ago

    Empty barrels makes most noise, let ur actions represents u not ur mouth man

  • nana kk 12 years ago

    GHANA NEEDS THINKING AND COMMON SENSE PRESIDENT AT THIS MOMENT.AS USUAL TALK CAN NOT PUT FOOD ON THE TABLE.

  • MAHAMA IS A DICK-HEAD 12 years ago

    TAANI-KWASIATOO

  • STUPID-PRESIDENT 12 years ago

    MAHAMAIS A JOKE

  • MOST STUPID PRESIDENT 12 years ago

    THIS TOILET CARRIER IS THE PRESIDENT ?

  • YOOMOBEGA 12 years ago

    Just like your idiotic father.

  • AKONFEM MAHANI 12 years ago

    OH MAHAMA NOT GOOD,VERY BAD,WHAT A SHAMEFUL,MAHAMA IS BIG FOOOL,

  • LIZ 12 years ago

    What your president was trying to say is that Ghana needs graduates who have the ability to use the Scientific Method of Problem Solving techniques to solve the country’s problems. The Scientific Method of Problem Solving ...
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  • Adwoa 12 years ago

    Critical thinking must start from the kindergaten so that these children will know how to rationalize and think through things. If critical thinking is supposed to be done at the university level then I am afraid it will be ...
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  • Shamu 12 years ago

    Mr. President, I agreed with you about critical thinking graduates. Do we really need thinking graduate or critical thinking people in Ghana? Beside that, don`t you believe we need critical thinking President, Parties, opposi ...
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  • charles koduah 12 years ago

    The president is right.The issue is not with our education system but rather with our culture as a whole.critical thinking starts very early in our infancy when you look at other advanced nations.we have a culture that doesn' ...
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  • Lawrence Agyenim-Boateng 12 years ago

    A total of 6,708 students just graduated. I wonder if there is going to be jobs for them? Mr. President, in my own small idear, I think if you could introduce an incentive programs to encourage our small scale businesses and ...
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  • ADABRAKA 12 years ago

    .....and Mahama isn't one.

  • Atuku 12 years ago

    Ghana needs right thinking presidents Not ladies panties remover presidents.

  • ASIEDU NKETIA 12 years ago

    100% pay raise - 10% pay cut. You do the maths as Bill Clinton will say. Ghanaians are not fools to be tricked into these cheap propaganda