300,000 graduates hunt for jobs

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  • USMAN 10 years ago

    And a dead goat. He can't create jobs.

  • KWAA 10 years ago

    At times I don't know whether the President is serious,or just wants to make a joke.For the President to tell the whole World that the level of income in Ghana has increased under his leadership seems to be an affront to the ...
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  • Kofi Konadu. Kumasi. 10 years ago

    Mahama is ineed a history graduate with certificate what of nana Addo who read law without certificate.

  • sid 10 years ago

    do u have certificate?U insult urself when u insult the elderly. ask yourself how someone could become attorney General without a certificate u might come from an irresponsible home to talk like that

  • Abrantie 10 years ago

    This Dr Abbey I suspect is past his retirement age and still blocking at least one job opening

  • DOWBIAH ROKO 10 years ago

    BUT HE IS JUST OCCUPING ONLY ONE PLACE CAN THAT ONE PLACE BE GIVEN TO ALL THE 300,000 GRADUATES.PLEASE ABRANTIE DON´T ANNOY PEOPLE WITH THIS HOLLOW COMMENTS BUT RATHER ADVISE MAHAMAH TO STOP BORROWING AND STEALING AND STOP F ...
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  • OMANBA 10 years ago

    Was Kuffuor able to create jobs?Rawlings ruled for almost twenty years and did nothing to create jobs.Absolutely nothing.

  • Akyena Brantuo 10 years ago

    No light at the end of the tunnel, with clueless himself in charge of affairs! He's at his wits end! Enough of the trial and error governance! Mahama must go!

  • Dr Akpanga 10 years ago

    This government must listen to wise counsel and refrain from tagging anyone with views that are contrary to theirs as 'opposition'. Dr Joe Abbey, if my memory serves me right, served in the Rawlings administration as a secret ...
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  • Jacob Mensah........0241153233 10 years ago

    awwww. .. ... sometimes I ask myself whether been a Ghanaian is a curse or blessing.... I'm unemployed graduate with heavy duty auto electrician, electronic technician and automotive air conditioning mechanics.......

  • SAMO JEWELLERY 10 years ago

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  • Kwasi Agyekum 10 years ago

    Spammers have no manners. A guy is lamenting his lack of a job and you are directly peddling "yellow n white wedding rings" to him. How does he pay for your dung? Haba!!

  • paa 10 years ago

    is educational system good for our present life style. our educational curricullum needs to review. there is creativity in it.

  • Mr. Brown 10 years ago

    Greetings,

    Please mail a letter to me stating your first name and last name, telephone number, email address and the major subject you graduated with a degree in and from which institution?

    Send your letter here:

    Mr ...
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  • zzz 10 years ago

    thief

  • BY BYE BUY.Toronto,Canada 10 years ago

    now

  • BY BYE BUY.Toronto,Canada 10 years ago

    retire them

  • Awal 10 years ago

    Please how did you get that calculation and numbers; can you justify that assumption?, my question is what profession do they have as graduates and what field of service are they qualified to fit in the job market,respect you ...
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  • Jojo 10 years ago

    OPAYIN DR ABBEY, IT IS TIME WE STOP THE BLAME GAME AND BE OBECTIVE IN OUR IRRATIONAL ECONOMIC ANALYSIS.

    WHAT PART DID YOU PLAY IN YOUR TIME OF SERVICE IN THE COUNTRY.

    THEORIES UPON THEORIES.

    IT IS NOT THE QUESTION OF ...
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  • Dessie 10 years ago

    most Ghanaians are capable of creating jobs for the youth;government allow cannot handle it

  • Kwame Kwetteh 10 years ago

    The graduates must be capable and employable. We could formally "export" graduates to more needy countries to work and develop appropriate funds repatriation programs so that the public purse is enriched by their work. Many c ...
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  • Azumah Nelson 10 years ago

    Fix the power problem

  • 2020 10 years ago

    retire kofi portufi 80 years old ex-convict so 19 years can get his position

  • John Coffee 10 years ago

    Get the youth into various forms of farming, especially those doing their national service

  • MR. KOFI 10 years ago

    Thank you John!

  • kwabena 10 years ago

    The employment situation in the world is changed now. Having a degree is not enough not just in a Ghana but everywhere. What one needs is, being innovative to create one's own job. For instance if you are an engineer rather t ...
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  • MR. KOFI 10 years ago

    THANK YOU!

  • Kwasi Agyekum 10 years ago

    Where does one get the seed money to start one's own Engineering firm? Would that what you wrote were that easy.

  • shalom 10 years ago

    The issue with unemployment and youth entrepreneurship is always misconceptualise. Politicians always want a quick fix while the victims even want an immediate fix. But the reality is that such knee jerk solutions can never ...
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  • MR. KOFI 10 years ago

    SCHOOL IS NOT FOR EVERYONE! THERE ARE TRADES,VOCATIONAL AND OTHERS. WE ALL CANNOT GO TO UNIVERSITY AND THEN EXPECT TO GET AN OFFICE JOB AND GET PAY FOR JUST SITTING THERE. STOP WAITING ON GOVERNMENT!!! DO SOMETHING FOR YOURSE ...
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  • OMANBA 10 years ago

    A good advice but how do they do things for themselves.Is it easy for them to access capital to establish their own businesses.And why allow for the establishment of so many universities when there are no jobs for graduates t ...
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  • OSAMAN BIN KARIM 10 years ago

    LISTEN TO THE OLD HACK! STILL THINKING THAT YOU GO TO UNIVERSITY TO SEEK EMPLOYMENT! HOW CAN SUCH PEOPLE CHANGE THE EDUCATION SYSTEM TO THAT WHICH PREPARES GRADUATES TO BE JOB-CREATORS INSTEAD OF JOB-SEEKERD!

  • Plasma Kote 10 years ago

    Get serious.

  • impromptus 10 years ago

    But cannot pay bills unless you belong to Onyidaho's NDC

  • impromptus 10 years ago

    Bad leaders bring bad omen

  • Nana Ba 10 years ago

    The only way this problem will come to an end is to change NDC that is all.

  • George Duah 10 years ago

    The problem on job creation in the country is cause by the government period. They are put in no money into the economy to make growth.This government do not know how to fix the economy for growth.

  • Napoleon,USA 10 years ago

    Ei Gh

  • Kwabena Ohemeng,london 10 years ago

    Ghanaians are paying a heavy price for the 1966 coup.The economic infrastructure laid by Osagyefo to industrialise the country was rudely cut short by the coup which brought the IMF and the World Bank which shockingly advised ...
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  • MR. KOFI 10 years ago

    Kwabena, that is the whole truth! Ghanaian's do not want to accept that truth so we are going to go in circles until a generation of Ghanaian's accept it.

  • Kwasi Agyekum 10 years ago

    Boss, how long shall we blame others for our self inflicted troubles? If we elect visionless leader after leader who can't dream beyond their pockets why dump the blame elsewhere.

    The IMF and the World Bank were in Korea a ...
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  • Kwadwo 10 years ago

    Kofi Konadu, how can someone read law and practised in Europe; to be precise United Kingdom and France without certificate? Can that be possible? Ghana is making mess of herself. Akuffo Addo studied law in UK, practised in bo ...
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  • Brobbsnet 10 years ago

    Woyome Stole $51 Million, Mahama and NDC Stole $1.25 Billion from Ghana OIL and Now This is just one more example of decay, smell and the vomit of Corruption under Mahama.!

  • Ekow Samuel-France 10 years ago

    WE EXPECTING THIS TO BE DONE BY THE GRACE OF GOD

  • Owusu Adomah 10 years ago

    The youths of Ghana need such an elderly person to speak the truth of the matter for us.The number of unemployed graduates keep on increasing every year and yet gov't is playing propaganda and politics with it, ,expecting we ...
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  • Wanderer 10 years ago

    If there is a lack of employers, people should also be educated on how to become succesfull entrepreneurs. Is that happening?