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Editorial: Phoney Honorary Degrees

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  • The mask 9 years ago

    There are many fields where Ghana lacks the needed expertise. To solve this problem the government of Ghana has over the decades made scholarships available for the needed human resource to be trained abroad. In some cases so ...
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  • SGT ANANI FIADZOE 9 years ago

    How Pastor Wengam cherishes being called "Dr" Wengam!!! How many people know he got the degree from a backstreet theological seminary?

    Even worse is "Dr" Otabil!!! He bought it from a street preacher! And he uses SDA scrip ...
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  • Zoobie-Zoobie 9 years ago

    too many fake doctors in Ghana. Every fool is a doctor!!!

  • Dr. Kwabena Adjei 9 years ago

    DaySpring Christian University is in Ghana only for the business of conferring bogus honorary degrees on morons like Kofi Portuphy. It has become an annual thing, so very soon every Tom, Dick and Kofi with little bit of cash ...
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  • Zoobie-Zoobie 9 years ago

    they want cheap titles

  • Zoobie-Zoobie 9 years ago

    and the cabinet is full of fakes

  • Ajit Babu 9 years ago

    Africans are useless people. Honorary degrees just seem to boost their sunken self esteem and inflated egos. What kind of fraudulent and phony humans are these? Pathetic!

  • Quyanor 9 years ago

    Give a Ghanaian a fake & bogus degree and he/she will wipe your arse till he/she dies if she/he is rich them you have got a pension till he/she dies and with women free sex. Most of Mahama colleagues hid behind Late Atta Mill ...
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  • Ant 9 years ago

    They've become so cheap, even our zongos are awash with fake PhDs! Just imagine, after spending all his life in the zongo & never stepping into a classroom in his life, the chief imam now refers to himself as "Dr" Usman Nuhu ...
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  • koffi parker 9 years ago

    Just check it out its everywhere everyone needs some form of title NANA,Okatakyie,Dasebre,Prophet,Right Rev.Dr. ............

  • JESSE BERKLEY 9 years ago

    LET US PUT THEIR NAMES ON A LIST AND EXPOSE THEIR PROPER EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS AND BACKGROUNDS OR LAST KNOWN SCHOOL. IF YOU KNOW ANYONE WITH A FAKE/HONORARY DOCTORATE SEND THE NAME TO GHANAWEB. I WILL START IT HERE TODAY ...
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  • Zoobie-Zoobie 9 years ago

    Dapaah, the former minister has a doctorate (honorary) paid for (??)

    Duncan has one too (honorary) paid for (??)

  • Graduate 9 years ago

    Talking about phoney degrees, do not forget about the many 'Professors' who have sprung up from nowhere these past two decades! We now have enough professors to go round we probably will have professors heading second cycle i ...
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  • osei yaw - london 9 years ago

    This arcle is not written in plain English; eyesore to read

    - was it written by America's infamous dimwit PhD Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, or there is another him about in Ghana?

    Osei Wusu-Khanin/osei yaw - london

  • Ajit Babu 9 years ago

    What type of English can you write, FOOL?

  • osei yaw - london 9 years ago

    Poor Ajit Babu, is that all you can say

    - haven't you got sufficient English vocabulary to say more?

    Osei Wusu-Khanin/osei yaw - london

  • Ossify, USA 9 years ago

    This tragedy began with Mr. Spio Garbrah running away with a fake title.

  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 9 years ago

    What about Kwame Nkrumah? What PhD did he hold and in what subject? Someone should educate me on that.

  • Kenkey Warriors!! 9 years ago

    The loud mouth thieving mayor of Accra bought his too.

  • onipanua 9 years ago

    60 private universities in Ghana? I just can't believe this.And they are awarding so many first classes etc to boost their images and help their students get jobs.And where are the jobs for them to do?

  • Kenkey Warriors!! 9 years ago

    Even his dumbness AA got one.

  • Rastafara"I" 9 years ago

    The universities in Ghana awarding these degrees do not deserve to recognized anyway,,phony universities

  • USMAN 9 years ago

    Read this:"...Exploiting our penchant for such high flaunting appellations, which these institutions hardly heard of in their own countries, have constantly bestowed the useless and worthless titles to people who can pay for ...
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  • OB 9 years ago

    'DR' Nana Atakora of Atlanta bought his phoney degree too.

  • From Deegbe 9 years ago

    USA gave us good institutions like Harvard. It also harbours hundreds of degree-for-sale institutions like DAYSPRING .... whatever.
    They offered me one for cash, I told them even if they pay me, I would not take it.
    Then th ...
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