₦airaland Forum

Is Gold Coast not part of the GN group?
Gold Coast was collapsed by the finance minister himself, in order to ease competition for his Data Bank.
Today Data Bank one of the largest assert management companies.

The case is in court and both BOG and SEC are finding it difficult to justify closing them down.

Heritage was justified
Some radio stations in this country actually deserved to be closed down, they only stoke hate.

XYZ was one of my best radio station. Is it still closed?

I support anyone who will end galamsey completely

Menzgold was a scam that involves top-level people in this govt

vankelvin:
Gold Coast Investment is justifiable abi?
A company that had been in operations for over 26 years without any trouble? An investment company which Government even owes up till date?

Heritage Bank?

Radio stations?

Local Mining companies?

There was no sense in collapsing Menzgold.
The company was doing well, any visionary leader would proffer solutions that will not affect citizens. Now most of their customers are poor sake of how Government handled the Menzgold issue.

vankelvin:
Time will tell.
Their wicked thoughts is what is making them hung unto power but the law of karma will deal with them.

No sensible Government will target local businesses. A Government that is bent on collapsing companies owned by Ghanaians "Why?" because those companies belong to people from a different party?
He just want to make them financially unstable?

How many companies have this useless Government collapsed so far?

With the exception of Unibank and it affiliate and GN bank and it affiliates , all the others were justifiably collapsed.

They were lactogen companies milking the country dry

Appisko:
So this government have mange to sabotage
Ibrahim mahama refuse to give him license to operate his cement factory

I didn't hear about that

All i know is, his factory is still under construction and part of the facility is already producing

I also know that he is receiving gov't help to acquire the Cardinal Gold up north

Abohboy:
I don’t care about what it says it can treat, it obviously won’t work the point is most countries have this herbal cures for random things

You have no idea how greatly those herbal medicines work in treating those things they advertise to treat.

They work so well for Ghana Health Service to incorporate them into treatment policies for patient care

Abohboy:
The point is not about the name of the herbs, but the fact that they are claiming the herbs can cure something that it can’t, if you go to Ghana you will find a herb concoction that will say cures cancer, hypoglycaemia, diabetes, death, high blood pressure etc.

which targets health and offer solutions that prevent those things or manage them.

what has herbal medicine got to do with catching big men for romance purposes?

Abohboy:
What are you even talking about, suffering and smiling posted a picture of some herbal concoction which said miracle treatment and I replied saying you could find it in any and almost all west African countries because there are herbalist who are also scammers, what do big men have to do with this

Read the caption on the label of the thing you are calling herbal medicine

New 500 million dollars Empire Cement plant under construction at Weija, under 1D1F.

Abohboy:
Why are you talking about governors and senators that doesn’t matter, the ultimate point is you find these miracle herbs in most if not all west African countries if you went to a village or a traditional healer you would find such

what has herbal medicine got to do with catching big men ?

Abohboy:
You would find it in Ghana as well, a simple search would help but it’s clear your an illiterate like your best friend

Ghanaians are not that stupid

you won't find such nonsense here, secondly, we don't have governors and senators

vankelvin:
Just30 Odeshie

“We have practically lost a semester because the academic calendar usually starts from August to the end of July, but now the school will be reopening in January. So, that requires some sort of alteration to the calendar and due to Covid-19, it might not be prudent to have all the students on campus within that same period.”

“The arrangement for the undergraduate program is that final year students and first-year students will come in first and when they are done then year two and year 3 students come next,” he stated

He added that they made these arrangements in order for the majority of students to be able to benefit from the school’s digital infrastructure as well as ease density on the campus.

vankelvin:
Please the University that have been facing accomodations challenges over the years is University of Ghana sake of how their system runs and also because of their neighborhood.

If they decide to handle their accommodation system just as how the other Uni's do then their students will suffer. Hatso/East/West and campus private hostels are too expensive unlike their traditional Hostels

[ Today you can get 1 in a room and 2 in a room as long as you can afford to pay and 4 in a room.
] 1 and 2 in a room comes at a cost.
4 in a room is bae

SRC in other Universities are not complaining because of their IN-OUT-OUT-IN/OUT accommodation system but University of Ghana was planned to take IN-IN-IN-IN so their SRC has been pressurering their administration to fix the problem.
So many projects have stalled for years sake of contractual disaggreements and sometimes Governments actions.

Then choose your uni wisely

vankelvin:
He is not a Professor
Rather he is a member of the Conventions Peoples Party and a private legal practitioner,
Mr. Gyantuah

Professor Gyampo is the one BBC did their nonsense video on

when universities get crowded, the first compliant you will hear will come from SRC presidents.

Today you can get 1 in a room and 2 in a room as long as you can afford to pay and 4 in a room.


Those days in the 2000s when universities used to be crowded, there were 8 people in a room.

vankelvin:
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Just30 ooo daabida

In the past, Colleges of Education were running 3year Diploma courses. First and second years were the ones staying on campus whilst final year students stayed outside for their off-campus teaching practice till completion.

The Government rolled out a new program in all these training Colleges in 2018. Per the new program all Education colleges run 4year Degree courses, level 100/200/300 are supposed to stay on campus then they will go for off-campus teaching practice in level 400.

Any sensible Government would have pre-empt and expanded all training Colleges to absorb the future extra batch of students but these low thinking Government sat aloof "two years" without building a hut in any of the training Colleges.

Government had no plans for employing more Lecturers hence this nonsense double track

124 lazy Ministers

so far, you've not mentioned any uni that is running double track.

So, per your write up, there are only 3 years stream of students on colleges of education campuses, there are no level 400 students so your crowding complains is neither here nor there.

Only those admitted from 2018 onwards will attend for 4 years for a degree program in education.

Which was a brilliant policy as well as the licensing exams for teachers

vankelvin:
Tune into GHOne

Professor Gyantuah is talking about University Double track. It seems you are the only one that See's differently. He repeated all my points on why the Universities are double tracking

who is prof gyantuah ?

I only know 9f Gyampo

vankelvin:
I don't understand you?
Why are you refusing to accept "the fact that Double track is still in the system"?

To you "the deliberate attempt to delay the admission process of the SHS 1 into school this month? and

"level 100+400 learning in school whilst level 200+300 study online at home to the middle of the semester then they interchange the two batches is not double track to you?

Back to the UG case.
It's not every student that would want to stay on campus but the University is supposed to provide accommodation that will meet the growing population/demand of the school, this is not rocket science. How do you expect many students to rent around Legon neighborhood? (Very expensive neighborhood) .

My points again,

-- The current SHS campuses can't contain all the students at a go.

-- Public Universities are now choked sake of the Government's inability to complete most of their infrastructural projects that could have contain the high number of the first year students (Free SHS students in mind)

--Goverments inability to employ more Lecturers into the Public Tertiary institutions is also a cause to this shift system. Now the "Lecturer-to-Students ratio" has widened hence the shift system (Most especially Colleges of Education)

guy, a uni running online programs for it students does not make it a double track system.
Even Harvard is not allowing their final year students to sit at home.
It is completely illogical for any uni to let it final year students to sit at home.


Are you trying to say, Covid was a deliberate attempt to keep schools from admitting freshers?


Level 400 and 100s have a lot of stuffs to do on campus at this point, that cannot be done online. Level 200 and 300 dont have those problems. That is why they will complete their semester online.
What kind of inter changing do you keep referring to?
When level 200 and 300 are allowed on campus, they wont be inter changing anyone other group of students, they will just be joining their colleagues on campus.

No university provides enough accommodation for all it students and Legon is not an exception.
Staying in a private hostel in North Legon is not that expensive as you think. Most of them, the cost sums up to the same amount you will pay for hostel facility on campus.


Have you not realised that students population is finally dropping back to normal levels in SHS?
That's to tell you that the current infrastructure of SHS can contain students and there is no need to double track, hence the cancellation. Infrastructure have also increased in shs around the country.
As we speak, Accra Aca currently have empty classroom blocks.

No public uni is choked, govt is not the one that provide infrastructure on uni campuses but the Uni board based on their IGF. Mahama weaned off all unis from govt finances. The unis can borrow based on their own balance sheets and when they default, the debt becomes govt debt.

The unis are not spending much on any infrastructure and personnel because there's no need for that currently.
Student increase is not significant enough to warrant it.

Colleges of education are being flooded because of government stipend and nothing else. That does not mean, there need to be additional spending on infrastructure in that area.
That allowance shit need to be cancelled
It makes no sense to be paying students for studying.

There was no crowding at colleges of education and student teachers were receiving quality training until the nonsense Allowance came back.
Suddenly, everyone wants to train as a teacher

vankelvin:
Just30 answer me,

Will all year batches(SHS 1,2,3) go to school at a go?

Or will some stay home whilst others stay on campus?

there are only SHS 2 and 3 students in the system. There is not even a single SHS 1 student at any school, so your question have no basis.

Those currently in SHS are all going to school this month.

You see what i was saying, the academic calender has completely shifted?

WASSCE to be written in September/October and BECE in November.
Meaning, student will enter high school in March, possibly.
Basic schools are shifting unto the Semester system.

https://citinewsroom.com/2021/01/wassce-to-be-written-in-september-october-bece-in-november-ges/

vankelvin:


So how do you understand "Double track"?

Per your logic,
Half of the student body learning on campus up to the middle of the semester, then the other half will come and do half semester on campus is not Double track?

I give up.

The truth is the Public institutions are choked, there aren't enough space for all students.
Last year you saw what happened at UG? So this is their way of swerving the problem of accommodation instead of solving it.

vankelvin:


So how do you understand "Double track"?

Per your logic,
Half of the student body learning on campus up to the middle of the semester, then the other half will come and do half semester on campus is not Double track?

I give up.

The truth is the Public institutions are choked, there aren't enough space for all students.
Last year you saw what happened at UG? So this is their way of swerving the problem of accommodation instead of solving it.

just no that online learning is not double tracking.

Once you know that, you will know what double tracking is.

All students are already learning online final year students will go on campus for their exams and first years will be allowed to familiarize with campus and have in person learning.

Other continuing students will continue with online learning for the rest of the semester.
They might go back to in person learning as soon as we stop recording new cases.

This is called phased opening.

As we speak, my other siblings who are studying abroad are sitting home doing online learning because trump sent them to their home countries to do their learning online.


All tertiary schools have enough space for students, their only problem is with providing accommodation on campus for all of them which is not even possible for most unis around the world.

Most Unis have more than enough accommodation space for freshers while they allow continuing students who don't get on campus accommodation to sort themselves out with private hostels outside campus.

UG has 80,000 students and will never be able to provide on campus accommodation for everyone. But freshers will always get accommodation on campus.
Private hostel facilities are in abundance for students outside campus.

Too bad because of court cases, their new campus hostel facilities are stagnant.

vankelvin:
Masa, stop being economical with the truth.

What do you understand by "Double track".

The underlying factor is " some SHS students will stay in the house whilst others will be on campus", if this is not double track to you then you might want to do more research on what is meant by "double-track".

About Tertiary institutions.
You said it's only Legon? Sorry Legon is not the only university double tracking.

Level 100 and 400 students will go to campus whilst levels 200 and 300 stays in the house for online studies. Later levels 200 and 300 will go to campus and levels 100 and 400 will go home and continue studies online.


Do you know about the Training Colleges?

1st and 2nd years will resume next week.
1)-- 2nd year students will spend 6 weeks on campus, go home and continue studies online. They will write their examination Online.

2)-- 3rd year students will have their lectures online for 6 weeks, go to campus and join 1st years till the end of the semester.

All the other Tertiary institutions have their "programmed shift systems" for the semester.

If this is not Double-track then tell me what it is.

This is happening because of "Lack of space in the Public institutions" from SHS to Tertiary institutions.

Government couldn't envisage this happing before implementing the Free SHS policy??

I'm not being economical with any truth, the fact that you are pissed with the govt does not mean you must not be objectively reasonable.

In any case, govt have no control on the running of universities at the moment.

No SHS student is staying at home, all SHS students will be on campus in this month.
New admissions will happen in March for SHS1.

That is not double tracking.


For universities, I have siblings in both UCC, UPSA and KNUST
All their students will be going to school within this month.

Polytechnics have decided to allow in person learning for for freshers and final years to come familiarize with campus and prepare for their final examinations respectively.
For other continuing students, they will do online learning per their school policy.

Even Legon is not double tracking because they decided to run the remainder of their academic calendar void of in person contact. But for the changes in covid trajectory, they've decided to allow final years to be on campus for their exams and also use the opportunity to admit freshers and allow them to familiarize with campus.

Everyone is still schooling, whether online or in person.

All schools have enough space to accommodate every student, online learning is happening cos of COVID and that is not a shift system.

vankelvin:
It seems most of you easily buy into the propaganda of this lazy Government?

Who asked them to delay the admission process for SHS 1 students?

Here is the trick.

1)--- They are delaying the admission process for SHS 1 students because SHS 3 students will be completing very soon.

2)--- SHS 2 and 3 students are resuming this month. From March, SHS 2 students will go home for SHS 1 to join SHS 3 students on campus.

3)--- SHS 3 students will complete around May/June/July then SHS 2 students will resume.

This is the most stupid Government decision in the history of Ghana. Low thinkers in the helm of affairs.
All the excuse they give now is CORONA CORONA CORONA

They should fix the "Double track problem" and stop this knee-jerk reactions.

Now they've brought double track to the Tertiary level as well.

Its not propaganda, you can educate yourself on what the double track was.

During it implementation, no single year group had it entire group on campus.

You forgot schools had to be close for a year

2. March 10th both SHS 2 and 1 will be on campus, they will both vacate for the Easter and come back to meet SHS 3 people still on campus writing their WASSCE.



No one has introduced double track at tertiary level.

All Unis are opening between today to the 10th.

Legon is saying they are smarter than all the other unis so they will only allow 1st years and final years on campus while other continuing students do online learning

vankelvin:
It has not ended bro

SHS 2 and 3 will go to school on the 18th of this month excluding SHS 1 students.

SHS 1 will go on the 10th of March.

Double track has not stopped

have you asked yourself why SHS1 will have to go to school in March?


Mind you, the are only SHS 2 and 3 students in the system.
New admission for SHS 1 have not been done by schools, all because of Corona.

From the look of things, new admissions for SHS will be shifting from September to March in the short run until the system can adjust

vankelvin:
JICA

not just JICA

Their businesses are making huge investments all over the world

tylann:
BTW Russia and Japan which is more influential

I will say Japan is, if we are only considering investment

vankelvin:
No, it's still there.
This Government is a propagandist Government, don't fall for their jokes.

No double track for "SHS 1" students does not mean SHS 2 and 3 students wouldn't have double track? Or they are in different schools?

Such a vision-less and a lazy Government.
They should fix the problem and stop lying to the public.

actually, it has ended.

And all tracks of students will be going to school this January.

@vankelvin

Double Track system has come to an end, just like I said, a few days ago.

POKUASI2:
I think you're bored or just stupid because if you really took your time to take those pictures which I guess is a bad road to you, then I think you have a problem.
This roads are far better than almost all the roads I've been on in Ghana here

something is wrong with your head

2021 and you are still astro projecting Nigeria failures on Ghana.

Pokuasi Interchange, Associated Highways and community road improvement works coming along smoothly


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTJ4yByAMew&list=LL&index=2

Ghana Eastern Corridor is a National Road N2 that starts at Tema Interchange and ends in Kalungugu, the northeastern border with Burkina Faso, a distance of 695,6 km. The route was designed as a commercial north-south corridor, providing a shorter access to the port of Tema and improving integration between the upper east, north and Volta regions of Ghana as well as between Ghana and Burkina Faso, including Mali and Niger.


Project still ongoing


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riRfyDI3bFk&feature=emb_logo

Vlain:
Forget it Afccfta is useless.it will never be fruitful cos it's controlled by the whites.it will wind up even more useless than the ECOWAS trade bloc. Cheers.


Happy new year to everyone one on this thread.both friends and foes come to think of it do I have any friend here nah I don't think so

There is nothing to control with AfCFTA

You can take a class on trade

Abohboy:
I doubt Morocco will get involved Morocco has been quite hostile towards Africa for a while I doubt they’ll be willing to properly implement it, they’ll likely not open up their borders.

Morocco is already trading in huge volumes with other African countries

North African countries that will benefit are Morocco, Egypt (if it finally decides to trade with Africa), Algeria

Abohboy:
How will Nigeria not benefit from Afctfa is anyone is to benefit from it in west Africa it will be Nigeria and Ghana these will be the main beneficiaries by region Nigeria and Ghana, Kenya and Ethiopia, South Africa and Mozambique, North Africa I’m not really sure. But ultimately Nigeria accounts for a lot of manufacturing and industries in west Africa, and with the increasing agricultural produce and refining of all these produce the only thing that would stop us from benefiting is if they ban our produce.


Our steel, aluminum, yams, cocoa, bananas, oranges, strawberries, tomatoes etc, will spread across Africa, if we could just get consist power. With the AFCTFA companies would want to come into Nigeria and Ghana, especially Nigeria because of its large population and influence they will be able to use it as an export hub. But our government failed to build effective transport corridors until that happens we can’t fully benefit but we will still get something out of it.

Tema motorway 2 billion dollars expansion project begins

DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF ACCRA – TEMA MOTORWAY AND EXTENSIONS PROJECT (ATMP) 27.7KM

The Freeway will retain it Concrete surfacing with an additional 3 lanes dual carriage Asphatic overlay highway.

The will be 5 new interchanges and 14 pedestrian bridges. Tetteh Quarshie interchange to be redesigned to eliminate current conjections.