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AfriqueDuZuid:
South Africa has 27

It's not quantity of unis that matters

Don't expect him to understand

rvp20182:
Learn to manage your time. No everyone is in your time zone.

Sorry I dont have time to spend on Lunatics

I only spend it on sensible and important people because I dont have much of it


Since you are bored, I suggest you throw a changaa party with your fellow mau maus

rvp20182:
Nkrumah screwed your economy, he couldnt pay army, and they overthrow him.
Kenya is a unique success story, that due to it's prudent economic management, avoided military rule and survived many problems in those era.
Ghana from 1960 through to 1990s - had average growth rate 2 percent - I think. It was HOPELESS. And yet it had minerals - gold, diamond, bauxite, etc.

Now move to Kenya - Kenya early realized the importance of having the right economic policy - we choose what we called Africa socialisms - this was market economy based on capitalism with cooperative movement.

And what was the results - Kenya grew from 1963 to 1982/64 - global crisis - at average of nearly 7 percent gdp growth rate. In fact by 1975 our finance minister - had been named Times Newspaper as Man of the Year.

We were going hammer to hammer with South Asians tigers...like Singapore, Taiwan, etc.

But by mid 1980s - we realize - our biggest mistake - we were also the fastest growing in population. Our women were averaging 8-10 kids.

We embarked on population and family planning....we got into major problems in 90s...but recovered from 2003.

Okay have a good night while reading to learn more about Nkrumah

Imma spend my time having good vibes with my sweet babe than waste it on a lunatic

rvp20182:
He is celebrated in Africa, rightly so, for his anti-colonial fight and pan-Africanism; but Ghana themselves know why they had to expel him and he died in exile. He collapsed the economy, forced military rule on Ghana for 30yrs and etc through his misplaced priorities..Ghana is yet to fully recover.

Not everything is mutually exclusive. His early heroic feats were later undone by taking the wrong turn economically.

Mugabe is celebrated as hero for the same reason - but to his fellow Zim - he is a villain - a guy who eventually screwed their economy.

In Ghana, He is well-loved and celebrated

Ghana economy was doing well for almost 10 good years after he left, the CIA forced military rule on Ghana..

Nkrumah never took a wrong turn ...

Nkrumah ambitious plans which were all financially sound made Ghana a fertile ground for the import of foreign workers because there was an abundance of work.. And a lot of Ghanaians were lifted out of poverty

Can you tell me when, in the economic life of Kenya, that it was this successful ?

Abohboy:
Then why did IMF intervention destroy Nigeria's economy and currency? If their interventions are helpful and needed?

Dont expect a sensible answer for this

obaaderemi:
Syntax Error all the way as answers?

obaaderemi:
Wait a bit, brother.
Why are the Ghanaians here not defending Nkrumah the way you are doing? Probably, he isn't fondly remembered in Ghana today.

He is

Nkrumah dont really need defending, his great works speaks for him...
This Kenyan think Nkrumah thinks like his myopic leaders who only think about their stomach...

Nkrumah is celebrated as the greatest African even by Kenyans themselves.
All the stooges in Kenya, that he call leaders, all celebrate Nkrumah.

So just allow the Kenyan Lunatic who hasn't read wide to keep posting his usual nonsense

This is how Kenyans think and that is why they are mostly poor
#below

rvp20182:
There is no kenyan university I know of that is one campus - leave alone one building.
For example UON
https://a.uonbi.ac.ke/content/university-nairobi-campuses

Good you did ( I KNOW)
We all know about your knowledge of things

rvp20182:
Which university is one building. I just showed you part of Main Campus. University of Nairobi has 8 campus plus many satellite. Big universities in kenya have 80k student enrollment. We did the acreage - you lost.

Stick to Ghana - we have South Africans here to showcase their country.

that's funny

90 % of unis in Kenya are 1 building unis

Yes we did the acreage and most Kenyan unis couldn't match up to most unis in Ghana, in both size and infrastructure

Shhh and go to bed

I think Lokoja has that in mind

Gwagwalada is an upcoming community, you shouldn't expect them to be think about mass transit.
The has to be real economic vALUE there in order to cause a mass exodus from other communities

Abohboy:
Lokoja could be so beautiful with minimal development just develop the waterfront and provide proper drainage then ensure proper security and Lokoja would already start bringing in more visitors and tourists even other places like Onitsha, Lagos and Asaba would benefit greatly from such and in terms of gwagwalada not much is being done to develop the town which is something i'm really scared about no plans for light rail, roads, drainage or mass social housing projects or at least market regeneration I hope we can such projects very soon.

Newly developed POKUASI Communities looking all beautiful


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqHORrEihy4


The communities driving Ghana's huge cement consumption

rvp20182:
You're not a south african - why would I be hurt - yet I know South Africa is ahead of kenya - by far - at least 3-4 times ahead.

UON has 8 campus - that is just the main campus - plus many satellite campus.
And there are many universities in kenya

Number of universities in Kenya 2013-2019. As of 2019, Kenya counted 63 universities, increasing from 61 in 2017. Compared to 2013, the number of higher education institutions increased by some 20 percent. In the 2019-2020 academic year, Kenya had approximately 509,4 thousand students pursuing a university degree

And let move back to Ghana - from Capetown?

There are fifteen (15) national public universities in Ghana - That is why you're running to South Africa.

The University of Education in Ghana has 10 campuses, yet it is still a beautiful uni..


I think we all know that, Ghanaian unis are bigger than 3 kenyan unis combined... So, kenyan 1 building unis cant compare...

Anyway, this is not a comparison between Kenya and SA... There is nothing to compare.

I admired the serene campus, just like most Ghanaian uni campuses and you are hurt that it's not kenya...

rvp20182:
Mad cow? What is nasty about this? UON ranks highly in almost every index out there. And you have to run to Cape Town to show case a university - all you in Ghana is COLONIAL building.

Seem the campus in Cape Town is Oppressing you


UON, is that one too a uni?

Funny enough, 95% of the campus in Ghana that you are referring to, was built post-colonial era

You seem hurt that I posted a South African Uni and not some nasty out of place and shame uni from kenya..

It should be obvious to you by now, that I dont fancy nasty things from kenya

rvp20182:
Nearly Every kenya univerisity has 20 floors plus buildings like this

The University of Nairobi Main Campus - all those beautiful buildings. Show us your little Ghana

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfWDOq3Nfdc

you call this nasty thing a uni?

No wonder you guys produce trash

rvp20182:
Why hasnt ghana used it's minerals like south africa did to build a modern country?

we have and that is why our country is modern .....

Why hasn't Kenya used it minerals to get it people our of poverty and build a modern country?

what a beautiful campus



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijIZy67UPhA

Laughable as hell

rvp20182:
Kenya secondary transition now at nearly 100 percent - a first in Africa - gov is now hunting for kids in slums - who may be too poor to afford - and awarding scholarship. This 4th year where 100 percent transition has been achieved. About 1.1M kids sat for primary exams - and transition to secondary schools.

Africa's Top 10 most beautiful universities

According to THE

rvp20182:
1/4 of debt you cannot repay. I am glad kenya did not get ensnared by Tullow like Ghana. Oil is gone. We are doing well in renewable. Already top 10 in Geothermal. That is where we need to focus.

Oil is the past - the future is renewable energy.

we owe no debt in gas supply to Nigeria


All of that is old and has fully been pay once supply has been made as permitted by the supply contract

3 months in arrears is permitted



This is not kenya where all your generation and distributers are making huge losses, year after year and hugely debt ridden

That explains why your national grid cant even supply 2000mw of electricity


Those who keep screaming that the future is renewable are already running back to oil

Just look at Germany and you will know why


Read it for yourself

https://chicago.suntimes.com/2021/2/2/22262311/renewable-energy-green-power-solar-wind-fossil-fuels-petroleum-letters-editor

GNPC together with Ghanaian billionaires are working to acquire various LNG vessels, gas, oil and chemical tankers for Ghana


We are talking additional billions of dollars investment into the energy sector

VLCCs are expensive

rvp20182:
Coal is cheapest - by far - of any power source. If you have coal like South Africa, China or US - and you dont care about enviroment.
Next would be hydro.
When you stop importing gas from Nigeria and soon Ivory coast...talk about it being cheap.

See how confused you are




3/4th of all the gas consumed by Ghana comes from Ghana oil fields which are pumping huge gas...

Our failure to consume all the gas we produce has already cause All the large oil companies to pull out of Kenya .... which has left kenyatta with no option but to used buckets to fetch his country oil, since Kenya cant afford the technology

rvp20182:
Mad cow. Search Excess Capacity Ghana

And you'll get such results

Govt pays $937.5m to 3 IPPs for 4 years’ excess capacity charge

Lessons to be learnt from Ghana’s excess electricity shamble

Those were not excess capacity charge, those were charges for them running their power plants which were mostly utilised to sure available capacity in order to meet peak demand..

For political reasons, the current gov't refers to it as excess in order to make their none investment in the power sector look justified


The technocrats are already warning the govt on it propaganda which is discouraging investment into the sector

It takes 3 years to build a thermal plant

Hydro is the cheapest to build and we have built several of them and it is cost...


Thermal unit are very expensive, just 200 to 300MW thermal unit can cost you up to half a billion dollars while 1 to 2 billion dollars hydro dam can provide 2000 plus megawatts if you have the water resources...


understood now?

rvp20182:
Hydro is cheapest to run - but building is very expensive and time consuming. Piping gas is not the same with civil work needed for a dam. The last time you attempted in 60s to build volta - your country became broke for 20yrs.

Once hydro has been built - then it's cheap - because water cost nothing.

Thermal plants are easy to build - just buy a turbine - and pipe the gas. But you have to pay for gas - and Nigeria were last bitterly complaining you cannot pay for it.

Thermal plants is like a GENERATOR that you buy from a shop. It not expensive. But you have to buy diesel or gas daily.

To run - Coal is cheapest - followed by hydro. To build - thermal plant can be delivered within a week.

Coal has mostly been phased out

no one wants it

Ghana rejected a 1000MW coal plant in favour of gas-fired thermal plants because we have enough gas to last us a 100 years which we receive at no cost

rvp20182:
You spend nothing. Mahama mortgaged your country to IMF and annually force you to spend 1B dollars on "air". You basically signed a take or pay and invited IPPS to build thermal plants. That kenya did like 30yrs ago.

Now annually you're paying 1B dollars for turbines that don't turn. So you're unable to take power - so you pay. Excess charge of 1B dollars is almost 1/3 of oil revenues flashed down the Altantic

That is why current gov is trying to clean up Mahama mess

sorry kiddo

we dont do that mortgage nonsense that happens I'm poor countries like Kenya... here

All turbines in Ghana are being used

and there is nothing like excess charge

Even a small thermal unit cost over half a billion dollars to build

rvp20182:
On the contrary - thermal plants are actually the cheapest - and most preferred shortcut for lazy countries like Ghana. Countries like kenya committed to renewable energy spend a lot more.

Table 5.1: Typical capital and operating costs for power plants. Note that these costs do not include subsidies, incentives, or any "social costs" (e.g., air or water emissions)
Technology Capital Cost ($/kW) Operating Cost ($/kWh)
Coal-fired combustion turbine $500 — $1,000 0.02 — 0.04
Natural gas combustion turbine $400 — $800 0.04 — 0.10
Coal gasification combined-cycle (IGCC) $1,000 — $1,500 0.04 — 0.08
Natural gas combined-cycle $600 — $1,200 0.04 — 0.10
Wind turbine (includes offshore wind) $1,200 — $5,000 Less than 0.01
Nuclear $1,200 — $5,000 0.02 — 0.05
Photovoltaic Solar $4,500 and up Less than 0.01
Hydroelectric $1,200 — $5,000 Less than 0.01

you are mad

Hydro is the cheapest source of electricity


Im referring to the cost of putting up a power plant, thermal units are very expensive

vaxx:
The Npp might really build it cus they really want to cross the number "" 8"" and they know northern region is always a problem to that.

the flyover in Tamali will soon be completed as well. i wish they also continue the abandoned work on the airport.

They are still working on the airport

rvp20182:
Ethiopia is building upto 15,000 GWH per annum Grand Renaissance Dam for 5B dollars. Tanzania building 2,000MW hydro generating 5,000 gwh for 3B dollars. Uganda recently completed 650Mw for 2B dollars.

So how can Ghana 5000Mw installed capacity be 50B dollars. Stop throwing figures carelessly

Dont be a little crazy than usual. Even if we include transmission assets - at best - it would be 10-20B dollars.

Kenya the last 10yrs has made huge investment - and it only spend 8B dollars in the electricity sector

Hydro is always cost effective to build cause it is cheap when you have the water resources

Thermal units are very expensive assets, they come with pipeline layings for fuel ..

And that is why I said, kenya cannot affor to make the kind of investments weve made in the power sector....

while kenya used 10 years to invest 8 billion dollars, Ghana invested 18 billion dollars in 3 years....to acquire assets

That is more than 2 times kenya 10years spending

vankelvin:
The Dam they promised to build in the North how far ?

I heard work has started but the main purpose of that dam is Irrigation, fresh water supply and not power generation

That is why the power component is very small

Akuffo Addo has sabotaged the energy sector for 5 years now, He's only now trying to release his hand small....

I dont know if he did it for power play in order to negotiate other deals for the country

rvp20182:
Throwing careless numbers as always. Nobody take you seriously outside of Ghana.

The accept that were built between 2014 to 2016 alone is worth over 18 billion dollars

how much do you think the existing ones are worth?

Or they didn't teach you valuation in kenya?

vankelvin:
Reality has catch up with them.

My only regret is when I travelled from Kumasi to Accra only to vote for such useless President we have today... I regret my 2016 decision.


All talk, no action.

I was expecting the excess to last us up to 2024 but that wont be possible especially considering the fact that this year alone, demand will jump by 400MW which is 10% of current demand..

By next year, we will have to be building new power plants

You are still talking about losses when you are reading that it was sold directly to customers and which they received?



Lunatic and stupidity is your problem..... you can even make it 2000 GWh and Kenya will still not catch up

Our energy sector is worth over 50 billion dollars

rvp20182:
4 679 - sold directly to customers - assuming the same system losses - we are talking another 3,000 to 8,000 - total of 11,000 GWH eventually sold...after all the systemic losses

This is why it's important for you to understand these stuff - so you do not think Ghana consume 5000MW - it barely[b] 2000MW[/b]

https://www.vra.com/resources/annual_reports/2019%20VRA%20Annual%20Report.pdf

Also, the quantity of electricity sold to
deregulated customers, which attracts relatively
better margins, increased by 55.8 percent from
3,003GWh in 2018 to [b]4,679[/b]GWh in 2019.
This includes sales to SONABEL over the new
Bolgatanga-Ouagadougou 330 kV transmission
line, which increased from 222GWh in 2018 to
576GWh in 2019, representing an increase of
297GWh - or 135 percent. Additionally, sales
to CEB also increased by 102 percent, from
385GWh in 2018 to 777GWh in 2019. The
quantity of energy sold to regulated customers
also increased by 11 percent (687GWh) from
6,022GWh in 2018 to 6709GWh in 2019.