Erratic power supply crippling academic work

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TT Sam 9 years ago

Theoritical graduates . Did they grow any crop at the university . The school should build storage facilities to store corn. Buy canning machines to can vegetables . What type of wk are these theoretical graduates going to do ...
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Theoritical graduates . Did they grow any crop at the university . The school should build storage facilities to store corn. Buy canning machines to can vegetables . What type of wk are these theoretical graduates going to do ?
Paisley 9 years ago

Everybody and their Grand mother is giving
MAHAMA MONEY.STILL NO LIGHTS IN THE COUNTRY.
SO HE RUNS HIS HOUSEHOLD ON GENERATOR ?

Everybody and their Grand mother is giving
MAHAMA MONEY.STILL NO LIGHTS IN THE COUNTRY.
SO HE RUNS HIS HOUSEHOLD ON GENERATOR ?
Jenna 9 years ago

The leadership has different power lines.
Therefore no light off for them.

The leadership has different power lines.
Therefore no light off for them.
kwasi 9 years ago

WHEN WILL THIS LOSER GO HOME

WHEN WILL THIS LOSER GO HOME
DABENDA 9 years ago

WHY ON EARTH DO WE SUPPLY POWER TO NEIGHBOURING COUNTRIE AT A TIME WE NEED THE POWER FOR OUR DEVELOPMENT?
DOES IT MAKE SENSE TO ABANDON OUR UNIVERSITIES FOR FOREIGN EXCHANGE?

WHY ON EARTH DO WE SUPPLY POWER TO NEIGHBOURING COUNTRIE AT A TIME WE NEED THE POWER FOR OUR DEVELOPMENT?
DOES IT MAKE SENSE TO ABANDON OUR UNIVERSITIES FOR FOREIGN EXCHANGE?
KATINGA 9 years ago

I am amazed schools too are complaining. Just switch to biogas. You have many students to give you their toilet for free and this is all you need most for a biogas plant to run. Thee government must be smart and support all ...
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I am amazed schools too are complaining. Just switch to biogas. You have many students to give you their toilet for free and this is all you need most for a biogas plant to run. Thee government must be smart and support all tertiary institutions to switch from electricity to renewable energy by 2018 in order to free the expensive and scarce power badly needed to power industry. This is what is called VISION.
ZABS BOY 9 years ago

Useless professor asking the government to act quickly to tackle the challenge and improve things. elsewhere, universities are known for their innovations, creativity and invention, but universities in Ghana are just produci ...
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Useless professor asking the government to act quickly to tackle the challenge and improve things. elsewhere, universities are known for their innovations, creativity and invention, but universities in Ghana are just producing graduates.
agbesi francis 9 years ago

GHANA'S PARLIAMENT:------------
The Minority Leader Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu says a whopping amount of $23 billion cannot be accounted for by the NDC government from 2009 till date. The amount forms a large chunk of a $27 bill ...
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GHANA'S PARLIAMENT:------------
The Minority Leader Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu says a whopping amount of $23 billion cannot be accounted for by the NDC government from 2009 till date. The amount forms a large chunk of a $27 billion loan contracted by the Mills and Mahama government for purposes of infrastructural development.

The Suame MP made the revelation on the floor of Parliament Wednesday, to wind up the debate on the 2015 Budget Statement.

According to him, the NDC administration has since 2009 borrowed over $27 billion, an amount which did not include oil proceeds and government revenues. Unfortunately, he added, 90 percent of the money had gone into recurrent expenditure.

"In the 2015 budget the Minister of Finance has enumerated a number of signature projects that have been financed by these borrowings since 2009…the total expenditure of which come to $3.5 billion out of the $27 billion borrowed. So where is the rest of the money?" he demanded.

"How do you account for the $23.5 billion, Mr. Minister?" he demanded further. He hinted the minority will haul the Minister of Finance before the House to answer to Ghanaians what the unaccounted amount was used for.
Abeeku Mensah 9 years ago

Some 3-months ago we saw, read or heard of the death of some university students at Cape Vars stemming from cholera. A dysentery issue that in this day and age should not be an issue at any post secondary institution in Gha ...
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Some 3-months ago we saw, read or heard of the death of some university students at Cape Vars stemming from cholera. A dysentery issue that in this day and age should not be an issue at any post secondary institution in Ghana if lectures and department heads were well endowed with wisdom and foresight instead of mere classroom earned credentials without linkages to realities of implied application. Cape Vars campus sits on a forest location with some of its land still unplanned and undeveloped. It does not take much electricity to create a community base mulching factory that will facilitate a fruit and vegetable farms on campus that is managed and worked by students, faculty and staff. This would ensure students get healthy, properly handled harvest that could minimize the unsanitary products and produce sold around campus by some in the Cape Coast area. This is just an application of basic agricultural and horticultural know how which needs no continued and uninterrupted electricity but use of campus trash to generate compost as substitute for fertilizer.
There are other practical uses of mans own activities and waste generated thereof that our universities choose to ignore because it has been far too easy to blame the lack of foresight and innovative skills on the absences of ideals. Get up and act as leaders and lecturers of our youth and prepare them for a more difficult and competitive era that is coming and stop the excuses. At no time in Ghana's 50+years did the nation have adequate electricity and or all the tools needed by institutions and yet those who knew how to fish with worms to get more fish for consumption did just that; there is no room for tired excuses.
Boateng 9 years ago

That profesor is a sorry something. Is he just politicking? No ideas to impart into the kids? No inovations? What are they training the kids to become?

That profesor is a sorry something. Is he just politicking? No ideas to impart into the kids? No inovations? What are they training the kids to become?
yaw opoku 9 years ago

bogus institution over the yrs u hv trained wiked nd visonless leader to rule us u are repening the fruits of yur awards

bogus institution over the yrs u hv trained wiked nd visonless leader to rule us u are repening the fruits of yur awards
Prof. Sharp 9 years ago

Where was this man during the period 1982/83. We were using lantern during that period in the university during the power crisis. If hr was a lecturer in Ghana what was he using at home. As VC he should think about alternativ ...
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Where was this man during the period 1982/83. We were using lantern during that period in the university during the power crisis. If hr was a lecturer in Ghana what was he using at home. As VC he should think about alternatives as his predecessors did. He shouldn't be making any noise. He is not serious and must resign. He is a disgrace. He must pay the teaching practice supervision allowance to teachers before making the noise. We are quick to creatisize but slow do do what is within our domain.
JB Kyekyrebonsam 9 years ago

At least at the then UST, there were no power cuts.

I do not remember having used a lantern just one day at Tech. In fact, I never had one, let alone using it.

At least at the then UST, there were no power cuts.

I do not remember having used a lantern just one day at Tech. In fact, I never had one, let alone using it.
Pascalini 9 years ago

Prof please buy a stand-by generator from your internally generated funds. Please be proactive and stop complaining. Amen.

Prof please buy a stand-by generator from your internally generated funds. Please be proactive and stop complaining. Amen.
Ugly Akufo Addo 9 years ago

Just look at Akufo Addo very stupid n useless

Just look at Akufo Addo very stupid n useless
JH New York 9 years ago

I wonder what this Prof would say if the University was a manufacturing concern/industry.
Again,I suspect some imbalance here.How many Teachers in that category go on retirement each year as against these 8000 + graduates fr ...
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I wonder what this Prof would say if the University was a manufacturing concern/industry.
Again,I suspect some imbalance here.How many Teachers in that category go on retirement each year as against these 8000 + graduates from Winneba University alone,not to talk about those from other Universities .Is there any corresponding national plans of employment opportunities ? Anyway.
What I have personally observed is that,Ghana leadership knowing how Parents are concerned about Education of their Children,capitalizes on Education to confuse the Citizenry.
That was exactly Mahama's Education policy switch from nowhere as announced by Hon Ablakwa.aka Sharp Teeth.Ghanaians should opened their minds and eyes wide get all of the tricks of those clueless politicians.
JH New York 9 years ago

...wide to get all the tricks...

...wide to get all the tricks...
The mask 9 years ago

VRA, ECG and other power producers in the country must charge electricity in kilowatt hours. How much is 1 kilowatt hour of electricity??

It is said that while some districts pay high electricity tariffs others pay next to ...
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VRA, ECG and other power producers in the country must charge electricity in kilowatt hours. How much is 1 kilowatt hour of electricity??

It is said that while some districts pay high electricity tariffs others pay next to nothing. It is also said that within the same neighborhoods in the Accra/Tema Megapolis tariffs vary from house to house.
JB Kyekyrebonsam 9 years ago

The mask, there is one and only one power producer in Ghana and that is the VRA.

GRIDCO is responsible for the distribution and ECG is responsible for marketing.

All the same, I support you on the grounds that the ECG m ...
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The mask, there is one and only one power producer in Ghana and that is the VRA.

GRIDCO is responsible for the distribution and ECG is responsible for marketing.

All the same, I support you on the grounds that the ECG must publish the rate (how many Cedis per kWh)so that everybody can roughly calculate how much they have to pay at the end of the month.

In Germany for instance, we pay between 0,20 Euro/kWh and 0,3 Euro/kWh (depending on part of the day) so that at the end of the month on can approximately know how much they have to pay.

Also when customers know the rate, they can fight any incorrect bills.
MARCUS AMPADU 9 years ago

But JB Kyrebonsam, isn't it true that Germany has multiple sources of producing energy; including renewable sources of energy.

I seriously think that we should pressure the new Power minister to likewise create multiple s ...
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But JB Kyrebonsam, isn't it true that Germany has multiple sources of producing energy; including renewable sources of energy.

I seriously think that we should pressure the new Power minister to likewise create multiple sources of energy like Germany and the rest of the sane world.

It doesn't make sense to rely on one or two power producer, with a population of over 25 million. Quite embarrassing!
JB Kyekyrebonsam 9 years ago

Germany has multiple sources of producing energy. Below is the breakdown for power generation in 2013:

Coal: 44.8%
Nuclear: 15%
Natural Gas: 10.7%
Renewable Energy: 24.5%
Others: 4%

Breakdown of the renewable energy ...
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Germany has multiple sources of producing energy. Below is the breakdown for power generation in 2013:

Coal: 44.8%
Nuclear: 15%
Natural Gas: 10.7%
Renewable Energy: 24.5%
Others: 4%

Breakdown of the renewable energy:
Win: 8.2%
Hydro: 3.3%
Biogas: 6.7%
Solar: 4.9%
MARCUS AMPADU 9 years ago

Thank You, JB.
Can you pass this on to Dr. Kwabena Donkor, the new Minister of Power?

Thank You, JB.
Can you pass this on to Dr. Kwabena Donkor, the new Minister of Power?
Muscatela 9 years ago

When you despise Vocational and Technical Education & Training this is the mess you will find yourself in.Let's wake up, the world is leaving us behind.

When you despise Vocational and Technical Education & Training this is the mess you will find yourself in.Let's wake up, the world is leaving us behind.
baba 9 years ago

Academic institutions should develop biogas from the fecal stuff from the 1000s of students.

Academic institutions should develop biogas from the fecal stuff from the 1000s of students.
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Adjei Koti 9 years ago

Instead of waiting and blaming govt. these book professors will not think of generating money for the universities' needs with inventions.

Instead of waiting and blaming govt. these book professors will not think of generating money for the universities' needs with inventions.
Amadu 9 years ago

Our Universities are WORTHLESS. The so called professors teach using 'ancient' books written by foreigners, and the profs themselves don't understand what they are teaching. Its all THEORIES that don't work in Ghana, because ...
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Our Universities are WORTHLESS. The so called professors teach using 'ancient' books written by foreigners, and the profs themselves don't understand what they are teaching. Its all THEORIES that don't work in Ghana, because our local professors and teachers cannot write anything new. Nevertheless, i thought universities were supposed to be centers of research and development. What have they done about these erratic power supply besides teaching Shakespeare?
Boateng 9 years ago

Dr. Asabre-Ameyaw and his folks should plan and do something as an institution and stop complaining! Can they not have a power plant in their institution to generate power for emergency situations?

Shame on you guys!

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Dr. Asabre-Ameyaw and his folks should plan and do something as an institution and stop complaining! Can they not have a power plant in their institution to generate power for emergency situations?

Shame on you guys!

All you guys do is complain and chop money!
MARCUS AMPADU 9 years ago

Minuah Boateng, it is time we do something about our lack of clear cut energy policy.

Minuah Boateng, it is time we do something about our lack of clear cut energy policy.
Adama d'Gharty 9 years ago

I imagine someone from the ruling Government, most probably a senior official from the ministry of Education would consider, and understand the awful damage being caused by the recent random interruption of power supply to mo ...
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I imagine someone from the ruling Government, most probably a senior official from the ministry of Education would consider, and understand the awful damage being caused by the recent random interruption of power supply to most academic institutions in this country. This undesirable play with energy supply to the various learning institutions must be reduced or stopped to improve the students. chances of earning better degrees. The quality of degrees earned by students today in these institutions would help determine the future of this nation. It is therefore imperative for our ruling governments to look after these students so they can achieve their ends without unnecessary, interruptible power supply to those academies of learning in the country.
Ezek 9 years ago

NDC people listern to what the prof is saying if u dnt think abt ghanaian, hope dis will sound well in your ears.

NDC people listern to what the prof is saying if u dnt think abt ghanaian, hope dis will sound well in your ears.
MARCUS AMPADU 9 years ago

Dear Prof. Akwasi Asabre-Ameyaw, my candid advice for you and your recent graduates is to stop complaining and do something about the rampant erratic power supply crippling academic work, and start using the research and inno ...
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Dear Prof. Akwasi Asabre-Ameyaw, my candid advice for you and your recent graduates is to stop complaining and do something about the rampant erratic power supply crippling academic work, and start using the research and innovation funds to look into how EUW could generate its own electricity by tapping into renewable sources of energy,

Just remember that necessity happened to be the mother of invention.

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