‘Tackling floods is a challenge of knowledge, technology’

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The mask 8 years ago

It has been said that many lecturers lack teaching methodologies. What should be the minimum requirement in recruiting lecturers into a tertiary institution? Is it a masters degree or a PhD with a course in education??

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It has been said that many lecturers lack teaching methodologies. What should be the minimum requirement in recruiting lecturers into a tertiary institution? Is it a masters degree or a PhD with a course in education??

Professors in tertiary institutions must read GES directives. There are many important and useful GES directives which would help them.

GES banned all forms of corporal punishment in Educational institutions but there are reports that some tertiary institutions are still carrying out this practice. Asking students to kneel down and so on.

Lecturers in tertiary institutions must recognize the fact that students in these institution are adults.
Mahmoud 8 years ago

What tribalist trash! How old were you in 1969? Busia’s government in terms of structured and sustainable national development is still one of the best in the annals of Ghana’s troubled history. Of course people like you ...
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What tribalist trash! How old were you in 1969? Busia’s government in terms of structured and sustainable national development is still one of the best in the annals of Ghana’s troubled history. Of course people like you will never see any good thing in anything any Akan does in Ghana.

1. Busia’s Rural Development agenda has never been equaled and it will take someone with courage and foresight to come anywhere close to it. It was Busia’s government that extended pipe-borne water to most villages in Ghana, including some really wretched ones in the Volta Region. That is what led to the elimination of guinea worm (which was causing annual havoc in most parts of the country), in Ghana.

2. His government also wiped out cholera, which is now causing havoc in our national capital.

3. The construction of polyclinics, district hospitals and health posts was meant to free Korle Bu and Okomfo Anokye Hospitals for research, teaching and the treatment of more serious cases.

4. Mass-scale feeder road construction began with Busia, and I witnessed it at Akatsi, Sogakope, Hohoe, Ho Dome, Ho Banque, and many other places, even in the Volta Region.

5. Busia’s cottage industry programme would have created employment avenues in most rural districts in Ghana, to curtail the now unbearable and uncontrollable urbanisation with names like Sodom and Gomorah, Agege, etc, with the resultant “ghetoisation” in almost every town in Ghana.

6. Ever heard of Odorkor/Dansoman Housing Estate development, with replicas in all the regional capitals, Adeweso at Koforidua, Low Cost at Winneba, etc? It was Busia’s idea.

7. How about the major sewerage and drainage system in Accra, which would have connected all homes to a central sewerage system? The remnants of the abandoned trenches are still around.

8. Your reference to education is really dishonest and illiterate. Up until 1969, about 60% of the lecturers in the three original universities of Ghana were foreigners. Their emoluments were paid in dollars. Their families were entitled to at least one paid holiday a year. It was Busia who began the “Ghanainisation” of university lecturers. Everyone who graduated with a first class or second class upper was sent away through Ghana government, Commonwealth or specially arranged American scholarships, to pursue MScs and PhDs and return to Ghana, to lecture. Had the idiot Acheampong not derailed that policy, Ghana’s universities would have been among the leading universities of the world. Many of those who were trained under that scheme are now professors in major universities of the world. Quite a number of those who returned to Ghana have been vice chancellors and some are deans!

9. In 1970, all three universities together had an intake of less than 13,000 students, but the state was still struggling to give everyone free education. Can you imagine what the situation would be today, with 30 or 40,000, when 50% of the state’s treasury is looted and shared among a handful of families? Busia’s loan scheme opened the doors to people like you who were not so bright, but still could go to university, on a loan and pay later, which is what pertains everywhere in the world. What is wrong with that?

10. The JSS system that was botched by your murderer tribesman was meant to transform Ghana’s education policy and make it relevant to national development with vocational s and technical schools and more polytechnics. It began with pilot schools at Kinbu in Accra and others in Kumasi, Takoradi, Cape Coast, and other regional capitals. Their products were to be monitored over a seven year period as teachers were gradually upgraded or specialised, to take over the primary and middle schools. Can you think of any country in Africa that has such a system?

11. Did you ever hear of “two rabbits=equal to one cow in one year?” It was a programme of rabbit rearing, which took off in many parts of Ghana like a storm. It was meant to supplement our low protein intake as a nation. If your low life compatriot Newlove Mammatah had not mismanaged the programme as your lot usually does, it would be changing lives in Ghana today. It was under that programme that poultry farming ballooned in the Central and Ashanti Regions only to be destroyed by your armed tribesman.

12. The Aliens’ Compliance Order enabled many Ghanaians to go into trading in every corner of Ghana. See how the Chinese now control everything in Ghana, including the trade in “buronyi weewu.” The Nigerians are back with a vengeance, buying everything in sight, with cash! And so are the Lebanese. Under the programme, long-standing foreign resident were supposed to regularize their stay. Like the Asians in Uganda, because they used their status to smuggle diamonds and hard currencies out of Ghana, they did not bother. Do you really fault a leader of a bankrupt nation for trying to safeguard local commerce, in order to better the lot of his people?

13. Appollo 568? Hahaaa Have you heard about the rot in the NSS today? It is the same with the civil service. That was what Busia was trying to curb. After Kotoka and Harley filled the civil and public services with every middle school drop-out from the Volta Region, they were as over-bloated as the clueless Mahama has done today. Anybody who takes over in 2017 will have to trim down the public purse, if our overlords the IMF do not do it now.

Come on buddy, if you really hold a PhD in something worthwhile, there are records in the archives that you can research and educate yourself about Ghana, instead of just swallowing the socialist nonsense hook, line and sinker
Good day!
True Nkrumahist 8 years ago

Sir, you may be very brilliant, albeit a genius but don't be that downright arrogant and insulting. Which PhD is more worthwhile than the other? I think you should learn to appreciate and respect efforts other people make as ...
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Sir, you may be very brilliant, albeit a genius but don't be that downright arrogant and insulting. Which PhD is more worthwhile than the other? I think you should learn to appreciate and respect efforts other people make as long as they did not 'buy' their PhDs. Granted, Dr. Busia may have had a good and elaborate plan for the nation after receiving power on a 'silver plate' from Afrifa, Ankra, Kotoka, etc. who, in a bloody coup removed Dr. Kwame Nkrumah from power but suffered a similar fate, though not as bloody, from Achampong. However, Dr. Busia abandoned and allowed most of the projects of Dr. Nkrumah to rot because they were supported by Eastern European countries - Dr. Busia wanted help from his 'Western Friends' and not from some 'Socialist State'. The nation is suffering as a result of that. It is interesting how 'you people' embellish your "achievements" and disregard everything else from others. You are such a brilliant person - what did you and President Kuffour do during the 8 years you were in power - 'school-feeding program', NHIS, signing our gold and diamond deposits away for a 10% share when Kwame Nkrumah was receiving 49%, declaring the Jubilee Oil-field as your accomplishment even though the find was made during Kwame Nkrumah's time (though not exploited due to disagreements with the Ivory Coast, which have surfaced again today), and all in 8 years? Please educate me, what else have you done? Chill, 'brother'.
Jakes 8 years ago

Eiiiiiiiiiii Mr Kufour we miss u nd Ur big thinkers like Nana Ado

Eiiiiiiiiiii Mr Kufour we miss u nd Ur big thinkers like Nana Ado
Concerned 8 years ago

All ndc collaborators are not to be trusted. Anyone who works for the ndc cannot be trusted. The agenda 2020 people trying to sabotage the Nana agenda should not be grouped together with Nana for they are sly, cunning, demoni ...
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All ndc collaborators are not to be trusted. Anyone who works for the ndc cannot be trusted. The agenda 2020 people trying to sabotage the Nana agenda should not be grouped together with Nana for they are sly, cunning, demonic people who will give you sweeties to ensnare you. Don't be like a child and fall in their trap
Collins Abeberese 8 years ago

Building on water ways is very expensive and Ghanaians can not afford such resources at this time.

Building on water ways is very expensive and Ghanaians can not afford such resources at this time.
Isaac London 8 years ago

Listen to the word of a leader .Full of wisdom and maturity. This is the type of leadership Ghana need not any clueless individual calling himself a President.

Listen to the word of a leader .Full of wisdom and maturity. This is the type of leadership Ghana need not any clueless individual calling himself a President.
Abena 8 years ago

If I may asked, wasn't Kufuor in a leadership position years back? What did he do to help the situation.

If I may asked, wasn't Kufuor in a leadership position years back? What did he do to help the situation.
Vic 8 years ago

Why won't he say that bcos he has also built on waterway

Why won't he say that bcos he has also built on waterway
Yebopower 8 years ago

All Ghanaian politicians have failed.Fine.Moving forward,bring in the Isrealis,British or Americans .Pay them to do the job.After all they possess the knowledge and technology.Stop declaring state of mourning.Start declaring ...
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All Ghanaian politicians have failed.Fine.Moving forward,bring in the Isrealis,British or Americans .Pay them to do the job.After all they possess the knowledge and technology.Stop declaring state of mourning.Start declaring state of emergencies and develop standard Disaster management of capable people ,equipment and resources.Ghana needs a serious leader to make this happen.
Tweebii-tweebii 8 years ago

Gud-ideal-bt-Mr-formal-president-what-happened-during-ur-time-in-office-for-8good-yrs-infact-stop-blaming-current-president-u-shld-rather-be-blame-for-duin-nothing-abt-it.

Gud-ideal-bt-Mr-formal-president-what-happened-during-ur-time-in-office-for-8good-yrs-infact-stop-blaming-current-president-u-shld-rather-be-blame-for-duin-nothing-abt-it.
James Martin 8 years ago

How long has PNDC,NDC being in power?

How long has PNDC,NDC being in power?
Dessie 8 years ago

Move beyond the past ;think about now;those revolution era is over..think about now

Move beyond the past ;think about now;those revolution era is over..think about now
Nana Antwi 8 years ago

Thinking technology at his advanced age to alter the course of water permanently whilst far younger leaders are talking and doing more demolition to allow the water to flow along its "natural" waterways, unregulated.

Thinking technology at his advanced age to alter the course of water permanently whilst far younger leaders are talking and doing more demolition to allow the water to flow along its "natural" waterways, unregulated.
Michael K. Tettevi 8 years ago

It is good obtaining building permits before starting to put up structures in order to avoid flooding, et cetera.

It is good obtaining building permits before starting to put up structures in order to avoid flooding, et cetera.
TEE 8 years ago

MAHAMA HAS ONLY DEAD GOAT SYNDROME

MAHAMA HAS ONLY DEAD GOAT SYNDROME
TEE 8 years ago

MAHAMA IS A DANGEROUS CROOKED. A BIG THIEF, NO MERCY FOR MOTHER GHANA, MAHAMA THE NTANI PEPENI USELESS CLUELESS INCOMPETENT THIEG MAN PERIOD

MAHAMA IS A DANGEROUS CROOKED. A BIG THIEF, NO MERCY FOR MOTHER GHANA, MAHAMA THE NTANI PEPENI USELESS CLUELESS INCOMPETENT THIEG MAN PERIOD
Nii Adjetey Lomo 8 years ago

Anyone who may come out in support of what former president Kuffuor has said, should consider him/herself as stupid, lunatic and scherzo phrenic as the former president.He knew all these things when he was in power, and did ...
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Anyone who may come out in support of what former president Kuffuor has said, should consider him/herself as stupid, lunatic and scherzo phrenic as the former president.He knew all these things when he was in power, and did about that? Virtually nothing.Now that he is out, he is indirectly talking politics to Ghanaians
Manu 8 years ago

The stats prove that Kuffour was able to halt the flooding when he was in power. NDC have refused to plan. The Accra gutters are choked.

The stats prove that Kuffour was able to halt the flooding when he was in power. NDC have refused to plan. The Accra gutters are choked.
James Martin 8 years ago

Listen to what Kuffour is saying,a very useful advice

Listen to what Kuffour is saying,a very useful advice
dagale 8 years ago

And what did kuffour do about the floods in his tenure of office? kuffour, mahatma, Nanak Addo they all sound the same with their empty talk. Ghanaians need practical and concrete solutions and not the empty vague talk.

And what did kuffour do about the floods in his tenure of office? kuffour, mahatma, Nanak Addo they all sound the same with their empty talk. Ghanaians need practical and concrete solutions and not the empty vague talk.
Yaw boadu 8 years ago

Why kufour didn't tackle the flood with that technology and knowledge on his term? Or he was president of Togo?

Why kufour didn't tackle the flood with that technology and knowledge on his term? Or he was president of Togo?
Dessie 8 years ago

If proper drainage system and adequate levies are put in place.. I don't see any challenges behind tackling flooding..here we have goveremt and past government who has no idea of solving the nation's issue

If proper drainage system and adequate levies are put in place.. I don't see any challenges behind tackling flooding..here we have goveremt and past government who has no idea of solving the nation's issue
JR 8 years ago

We are still doing a lot of talking. I don't see any thing being done. Oh Ghana!

We are still doing a lot of talking. I don't see any thing being done. Oh Ghana!
Ghana must know 8 years ago

President Mahama recently said Kwame Nkrumah Circle will be tourists attraction. What is happening now. Ghanaians WAKE UP.

President Mahama recently said Kwame Nkrumah Circle will be tourists attraction. What is happening now. Ghanaians WAKE UP.
2016 8 years ago

When incompetence rules and is glorified and again underpinned by lack of thinking and a focus on thievery, then you know you are on a very, very dangerous path of a failed state. That is what is being observed under that e d ...
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When incompetence rules and is glorified and again underpinned by lack of thinking and a focus on thievery, then you know you are on a very, very dangerous path of a failed state. That is what is being observed under that e dey bee k3k3 screaming joke.
Has the NDC gov't exhibited any capacity for national development? Almost 30years of PNDC/NDC administration combined, Ghana is worse off than some of it's contemporaries who went through civil wars and strife and had to start from a very negative environment, with fewer resources than Ghana has ever had. In our situation as new resources such as oil and gas revenues come on-stream, the descent into the abyss and the doldrums has taken on an unrestrained life of it's own, with Ghana exhibiting all the trappings of a failed state under this Mahama-led NDC gov't.
That is failed leadership and clearly the Mahama NDC gov't lacks the capacity and the ability to govern and need to be fired massively in 2016.
SKWABBY, UK 8 years ago

IS IT THAT EASY FIRING PEOPLE BOTH NDC, NPP STILL NO DIFFERENCE FROM EACH OTHER AND I BELIEVE EX PREZ HAS SPOKEN WISDOM INSTEAD OF THE BUGA BUGA ATTITUDE THE PRESENT NPP CROP HAVE GOT THEY SHOULD LEARN FROM HIM RATHER ...
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IS IT THAT EASY FIRING PEOPLE BOTH NDC, NPP STILL NO DIFFERENCE FROM EACH OTHER AND I BELIEVE EX PREZ HAS SPOKEN WISDOM INSTEAD OF THE BUGA BUGA ATTITUDE THE PRESENT NPP CROP HAVE GOT THEY SHOULD LEARN FROM HIM RATHER THAN CALLING HIM BAMES BECAUSE SOME THINK THEY HAVE SMALL MONEY
Michael K. Tettevi 8 years ago

In recent years, while the Accra plains had been lying unoccupied, past governments could have developed this large tract of land into a new capital city like Abuja in Nigeria.

In recent years, while the Accra plains had been lying unoccupied, past governments could have developed this large tract of land into a new capital city like Abuja in Nigeria.
Victor Hugo 8 years ago

For Oko Vanderpuje, there's nothing like technology; the solution is demolition, just as Hitler's solution to the Jewish problem in Europe was extermination! 6 million Jews were exterminated.
Okoh,how many buildings have you ...
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For Oko Vanderpuje, there's nothing like technology; the solution is demolition, just as Hitler's solution to the Jewish problem in Europe was extermination! 6 million Jews were exterminated.
Okoh,how many buildings have you demolished so far?

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