We can all scour the internet for crime stories, even for the most safest country on earth, but the fact remains...

Nigeria is one of the most fucckified country to be born in -- aside from Afghanistan.

Da greatest tragedy ever to happen to my mankind is to have nigerians littered on da surface of dis earth. Dis a tragedy dat will never repeat it self in the next world. Suck on diz

Cocaine valued at 29.9 million dollars burnt

Accra, Nov. 17, GNA - Four hundred and sixteen (416) kilogrammes of cocaine seized by the Police at Ataabadze Junction, near Cape Coast two years ago, was on Wednesday burnt into ashes in Accra following a court order.

The Fast Track High Court order came after the drug had been tendere= d in evidence by Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Bernard Ananga, t= he investigator. Soon after the cocaine with the street value of 29.9 million dollars= , hidden among cow hide, had been tendered in evidence, the prosecutor, Chi= ef State Attorney Ms Valerie Amate, prayed the court that it should be destroyed.

The court therefore ordered that the destruction should take place behind the Independence Square in the presence of the officials of the Gh= ana Standards Board, security agencies, the Registrar of the Court, the prosecution and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). A clerk of the court is expected to furnish the court with a report on the destruction. Four persons arrested in connection with the drugs have been charged with conspiracy to commit crime and possessing narcotic drug without lawf= ul authority.

Samuel Agoe Mills Robertson, a 49-year old auto mechanic and driver, last year pleaded guilty to the charges and was sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment by the court. Charles Lartey, one of four accused persons, was admitted to bail in the sum of GH¢50,000 with a surety and to be reporting to the Police tw= ice in a week.

Derrick Armah Kwarteng, a 49-year old contractor and David Agyemfra, alias Chuku Owura, a 30-year old herbalist, have since been on remand. The facts are that on June 28, 2008, Kwarteng contracted Robertson t= o cart cocaine from Asankraguaa in the Western Region to Accra for a fee of=

40,000 dollars and he agreed. The prosecution said Robertson therefore recruited two people, Agyem= fra and Mike Eben, as escort for the drug. On that same day, Robertson used h= is Toyota Saloon car with registration number GW 31 Z and conveyed Agyemfra and Eben to Asankraguaa where they met Kwarteng at a hotel. Kwarteng also handed over a four-wheel drive vehicle with registrati= on number GR 1204 Y loaded with travelling bags each containing 20 slabs totalling 380 slabs of suspected cocaine to Robertson and his escorts. Robertson drove the consignment with Agyemfra and Eben, who were on board= , as security to Takoradi where they stayed overnight. The prosecution said the Cape Coast Highway Police Patrol team intercepted the vehicle, which had on board Robertson, Kwarteng and Agyemfra. However, Agyemfra and Eben escaped into the bush but the policearrested Robertson. When a search was conducted it was found that the travelling bags contained 20 slabs each of whitish powdery substance suspected to be cocaine.

The prosecution said during police interrogation Robertson offered t= he Police 6,000 dollars in order to free him. Robertson therefore called Lar= tey who was in Accra to bring the amount but as soon as he arrived the Police arrested him. Agyemfra and Kwarteng were spotted in a saloon car near the Police Station where Robertson was and they were also arrested. Robertson further told the Police that the drug belonged to Kwarteng= but he has denied it.

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Abrantie: We can all scour the internet for crime stories, even from the most safest country on earth, but the fact remains...


Nigeria is one of the most fucckified country in the world.

hahahahahahahaha stupid negro....the whole world think americana are messed up, that they are stupiid and full of bad people... yet the whole world wanna be like the americans...

africans thinks nigeria is messed up.. yet u wanna be like us ... u copy everything we do... u come to our forum to talk shiit.... u watch our movies, listen to our music .....and u still want me to believe we are fuccked .... aint that stupiid



It really suck to be a ghanaian

Ghana's health sector ranked 2nd most corrupt

A report by the World Bank called "Quiet Corruption" has revealed that 95 per cent of resources allocated to the health sector in Ghana was diverted into the pockets of individuals.

Ghana is second to Chad in terms of the most corrupt when it comes to managing resources in the health sector in Africa.

“Quiet Corruption” is an annual Africa Development Indicators report that revealed that the problem of corruption goes beyond bribes and graft and affects health, education, and agriculture sectors on the continent.

The 2010 report painted a gloomy picture of Ghana’s health sector alleging that officials are failing to deliver government goods and services to the ordinary people they are aimed at.

The sordid situation has saddened the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ). The commission said it has begun developing vigorous programmes to change the attitude of Ghanaians when it comes to corruption.

Speaking on the Citi Breakfast Show on Wednesday, deputy Commissioner of CHRAJ, Richard Quayson, indicated that the commission’s upcoming conference on integrity is a step towards addressing the issue of corruption in the country.

According to him, “because we are not committed to the systems we have put in place, we do not make it work and that also allows people to now begin to see the individuals so that they can get their corrupt practices recognised in the system. ”

“You speak to some institutions and the first impression that they give you is that what you are bringing up is ideal, but it will not work in Ghana.

"In other words they are saying that it should not work so if even you try to introduce it they would make sure that they frustrate the system so that it does not work,” Quayson noted.

CHRAJ said prosecuting people found to be corrupt will not address the situation totally until a vigorous educational campaign is carried out.

“Mindset also has behavioral attitude which has to do with corruption as well and our approach is not just improving the system or getting the system right, but also about the individuals or the people in the society, working on the people to change their attitude,” he added.

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Abrantie....... Afghanistan is a better country compare to dat God forsaken country.

U guys should know dat corruption is a disease which has been the main problem in nigeria and it has beeen passed fr generation to generation,it can never be stop no mata hw hard they try it in the blood of most nigerians.imagine a country were ministers,governors are lootin government fund and they are allow to go scot free yet notin is been done about it,even the nigeria drug law enforcement agency is now corrupt,most drug barrons when arrested are leta released and allow to go scot free,what a useless nation,were people do tings the way dey feel like and go scot free and notin is been done about it,nigerians can never be corrupt free it a caused they have inherited long ago.most of nigerians in europe are into cocaine biz cos the felt it the fast way to acquire wealth they don't want to work but they want quick money dat why most of dem end in jail.it a pity same bad blood dey inheritEd @work.

rampant lover: Da greatest tragedy ever to happen to my mankind is to have nigerians littered on da surface of dis earth. Dis a tragedy dat will never repeat it self in the next world. Suck on diz

yet ur we deported fugly as.sholes like you back your shittty country (in ghana must go) .... ur ladies wanna marry our guys to break the jinx of ugliness in every ghanaian gene.... oooppps was it last week yeaone nelson was ranting becos iyanyan dumped her shit face for someone prettier
ooops that hurt


It really suck to be a ghanaian

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hahahahahahahaha stupid negro....the whole world think americana are messed up, that they are stupiid and full of bad people... yet the whole world wanna be like the americans...

africans thinks nigeria is messed up.. yet u wanna be like us ... u copy everything we do... u come to our forum to talk shiit.... u watch our movies, listen to our music .....and u still want me to believe we are fuccked .... aint that stupiid



It really suck to be a ghanaian

Ouch!!

Why Ghana’s Economy Is Behind That Of Haiti’s

“Ghana is a typical example of the world’s worst-managed economies: It’s a country that shouldn’t be poor, but it is. The West African nation’s gross domestic product per capita fell 9% last year to $621, ranking it 154th out of 184 countries tracked by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), below resource-impoverished Haiti. With a $3 billion trade deficit last year and $4.9 billion in external debt, Ghana is struggling to pay its bills even as it sits on some of the world’s biggest reserves of gold and bauxite, as well as considerable amounts of offshore oil, which is being developed by Anadarko Petroleum and others....”(Ghanaweb - Wednesday, 9 June 2010).
This is the sobering snap-shot of the state of affairs of Ghana today - 53 years after being the first African country south of the Sahara to gain independence. Do we still have to be boastful of that accolade when the report says that we are below Haiti - a resource-poor country that is perennially devastated by natural disasters?
The report is a serious indictment on all the people who have held political power in Ghana since 6th March 1957. The harshest indictment however is reserved for the late I K Acheampong and Jerry John Rawlings whose disastrous combined 27 years rule actually destroyed the social fabric and the economy of Ghana. These were people whose educational and professional training could never have remotely made them candidates for any national leadership – but shot themselves into power, thinking that with guns and bullying, Ghana would become like any of the developed countries we know. What is most distressing is that the person who ruled Ghana longest and therefore on whose shoulder much of the blame for the sordid picture painted by the IMF should be placed, Rawlings - is still arrogantly parading himself as the best leader Ghana has ever had. As a paranoid and megalomaniac he still foolishly believes that other than him, no person is fit to rule Ghana. The down-trodden citizens of Ghana including the woman in front of the shack whose picture accompanied the IMF report should march to him to demand real accountability – and ask why they should be worse off than Haitians.
Much has been written about why we are still poor in spite of the fact that we sit on “massive” gold and bauxite reserves and now have billions of barrels of oil under our sea. This article will reinforce some of the reasons that have already been expounded in the past. I will as also try to provide some suggestions on how we can break off the chain of poverty.
The first major cause of our deplorable state of affairs is simply that we have, since independence, been unfortunate to be ruled by mediocre leaders. Some of these leaders had very little understanding of how to run a government - because of their very poor educational standards. Acheampong, attended only a commercial school to learn, in those days, book-keeping, typing, short-hand and perhaps commerce. Rawlings who has ruled Ghana the longest time, another self-imposed leader, even failed his GCE “O” levels at Achimota College. Who in his right senses could have given these two men managerial positions in his enterprise? Military training which they received is not geared towards the management of a modern economy – it’s about how to defeat the enemy in the battlefield. Who therefore doubts that the malaise, poverty and despondency we see around today in Ghana is not the result of the disastrous intervention in our national affairs by these two men?
Not even Kwame Nkrumah, a highly educated man could provide the vision and strategic leadership the country required to transform Ghana into a world-class country at the time we gained independence. By saying so, I am bench-marking him against the likes of Mahathir Mohamed of Malaysia, Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore and the two leaders of South Korea (Park Chung-Hee and later Chun Doo-Hwan). His management of Ghana’s economy was not up to scratch by any standard. The socialist policy he adopted was a complete failure. How could he have transformed Ghana’s economy into a world-class economy when he appointed misfits - half-educated and illiterate men and women to strategic positions in his government? This is where the problems of Ghana started.
I will excuse Prof K A Busia and Dr Hilla Limann’s brief rules which were abruptly interrupted by military opportunists.
Kufour came to meet a run-down economy at the beginning of 2001. For example 9,000 cedis was exchanged for $1, interest rate was above 40% etc. He did quite well to stabilize it but unfortunately he could not bring about the transformation Ghana required to put us on the path to become an industrial and economically viable country. At the time he was leaving office the fundamentals of our economy had not changed - the country was still exporting raw cocoa and timber logs, farmers were using cutlasses to make farms, we were still importing rice from Thailand and biscuits from Sri Lanka; the bucket latrine system was what the majority of Ghanaians living especially in the big towns and cities used; clean piped water was still a dream for majority of Ghanaians; the educational system was churning out illiterates and half-literates from the JSS and SSS system into non-existent job market. Certainly he had the opportunity to set the pace for a complete transformation of the Ghanaian economy during his eight-year rule but sadly he lost focus, especially during his second term.
And Atta Mills? From the little we have seen about him, 18 months after assuming office, certainly he not the strategic and visionary leader Ghanaians were yearning for after Kufour. He seems to have been so much overwhelmed by the gargantuan problems facing Ghanaians that he is still confused as to where to start and where to end. It is certain that by the time he leaves the scene, the squalor we saw in the photo accompanying the IMF report will still be there, if not worse. Under Atta Mills Ghanaians must not hope that their lots will be bettered in any way – even if the oil money starts flowing into the economy.
If Ghanaians are looking for answers as to why their standard of living today is below that of Haiti, they must not look far – our leaders since independence have been mediocre or at best, inept especially the military adventurists.
The second major cause, a direct consequence of our mediocre leaders, lies in the poor development of our human capital - as a nation - since independence. Countries like Japan, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, Malaysia, India and Brazil (my model 20th Century countries) are thousands of years ahead of us in terms of economic development because they placed serious emphasis on developing their human capital to meet their national needs. Through sound and relevant educational systems they produced the right people to power their economies and so Korea for example has home-grown world class companies like Samsung, Kia, Hyundai etc that are producing world-class electronic goods and vehicles for world consumption. India’s motor manufacturing companies like Tata and Mahindra are making good inroads into the world market. Brazil leads the world in the bio-fuel technology. The economies of these countries are growing in leaps and bounds because their educational systems are producing the right calibre of personnel required by their industries and society at large.
The countries mentioned above and indeed all economically advanced countries have shown that no country can attain economic greatness if its population remains largely illiterate or semi-literate and the emphasis in its primary and secondary education is to produce people with the ability to read and write, and at the universities, to produce graduates with degrees in the humanities.
I stand to be corrected but I dare say that since independence in 1957, no conscious effort has been made at national level by any government to link the needs of commerce, industry and technology with our educational system – from kindergarten to university. We have not been able to produce the cadre of professionals and scientists the country requires to propel the economy to greater heights. The few top mathematicians and scientists we produce leave the country or end up in the classroom - not in the research and development laboratories of companies.
Ghana, rather sadly, for nearly twenty-seven years had the misfortune of being ruled by small-minded military opportunists - Acheampong and Rawlings. Because of their own poor educational backgrounds they saw academic achievement as source of irritation or threat to their regimes. Acheampong, for the best part of his six and a half years rule, was at war with university students especially when opposition to his union government idea gathered momentum. Rawlings found it fit to close our Universities for more than one academic year, disrupting the universities’ programmes and admission of new students.
I must also mention the fact that during the regimes of both Acheampong and Rawlings many fine minds the country could have utilized in its development were hounded out into exile. These Ghanaians who fled from the country – medical doctors, physicists, bio-chemists, engineers, computer scientists, accountants etc are now helping the economies of their adopted countries – the US, Canada, UK, Germany, Australia, South Africa etc to advance further whilst Ghana retrogresses.
The third major cause of our poverty is the fact that since the overthrow of Kwame Nkrumah, there has never been any serious national planning – to determine the future needs of the country and how to achieve them. I will still link this factor to the mediocre leadership Ghana has had in the past. The evidence of this is the fact that very little has changed in the country since independence - we have the same road network (still narrow and pot-holed). There are no proper sewerage and drainage systems in our cities and towns. We have the same colonial railway lines which have all now decayed. Our state buildings including hospitals, schools, courts, ministries etc are in serious state of disrepair. Our educational system is dysfunctional. Our population growth is one of the highest in the world. We have an unacceptably high infant and maternal mortality rate. Our energy supply is erratic etc. These are all evidence that the country never planned in the past.
The 1992 Constitution of Ghana calls for the establishment of a National Development Planning Commission (NDPC) (Section 86). Can the NDPC (if it has been established) put into the public domain, the national plan it has developed since the Constitution came into effect? The public has an interest in knowing what plans have been developed for Ghana say for the future. How has the NDPC been monitoring and evaluating the performance of those charged with the execution of the plans? I will not be surprised if after one and a half years in power the current government of Prof Mills has not yet developed a national plan - just as his predecessors, perhaps, failed to do. And let me state emphatically that parties’ manifestos are not plans but mere policy outlines. A plan consists of goals or objectives to be achieved, what will be achieved, what the measures of achievement are (indicators), the resources required to achieve them and how achievement or non-achievement will be monitored and measured.
Yes it’s true that Ghana has enormous resources - some yet to be tapped, including the oil reserves but the key to our transformation from our current state of hopelessness to prosperity does not lie with politicking, deception or short-term planning but the nation looking beyond twenty five from now and asking: Will we have enough energy to power our industries, offices and homes? Will our roads and railways be adequate and in good condition to move people and goods? Will our colleges and universities be able to produce the right calibre of people to man all the various aspects of our 21st Century economy? Will our population growth be sustainable? Will our cities be able to cope with large influx of people? These are some of the issues that should be occupying our minds now and which should be incorporated into our national development plan.
Had such serious and hard thinking exercise been done in the early 80’s and a national development plan drawn up and executed with determination, Ghana would be a different country by now. We would not be bench-marked against Haiti but perhaps against Malaysia, South Korea or Singapore – countries that have per capita income of more than $15,000.

The fourth major cause of our misery is simply that as a nation, we seem not to know the priorities on which to spend our scarce resources. It’s mind-boggling that a small country like Ghana, with over 60% of its citizens living below the poverty line, could once have close to 90 ministers and deputy ministers in government. What do our many ministers, and deputy ministers do? Prof Mills promised Ghanaians that he will have a lean government but he now has more than 70 ministers and deputy ministers. Think about the resources this battalion of politicians consume monthly and you will understand why Ghana is poor. Was it worth it that in the midst of the hopelessness we see all around us, the country could spend $50 million or so to celebrate our 50th independence anniversary?
The last major cause of our poverty is the unattractiveness of Ghana as an investment destination. Whoever says Ghana is attractive to investors is living in a fool’s paradise. We may be able to attract some mining and oil companies but we cannot attract world-class companies like Hewlett Packard, Microsoft, Samsung, Daimler Benz, Hitachi, and Sony etc to establish manufacturing plants in Ghana. The reasons are not far-fetched:
1. Our environment especially Accra, the capital city is a major deterrence. The city looks clumsy with buildings put up everywhere – apparently with no planning. And who wants to come and live in filth and die from malaria? Again who wants to live in a city where it will take you four hours or more to travel from one part of it to the other due to traffic congestion?

2. We do not have the critical mass of qualified people in Ghana who can be employed by the companies named above should they decide to establish plants in Ghana. Few people in Ghana are graduating in Information, Communication and Technology (ICT). Our pathetic JSS/SSS system and universities are not producing the scientists and mathematicians we require for our national economic and technological development.

3. The endemic culture of bribe-taking that has permeated the entire Ghanaian society is a big disincentive to the growth of business and foreign investment - the catalyst for economic growth. Now no public service in Ghana is rendered for free. Everywhere employees expect to be given something for services they render. People who come into the country to do genuine business find such practice unacceptable and nauseating.

4. Many of our laws are archaic and do not provide the right legislative environment to attract big foreign businesses. An example is our Companies Act of 1963 and company registration procedure. They urgently need reform.
How do we get our economy out from the woods and climb above Haiti?
Ghana requires a visionary, bold, intelligent, educated and disciplined leader. Those who are aspiring to be elected as president must examine themselves and their conscience thoroughly to see if they meet the standards of leadership qualities set by people like Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore or Mahathir Mohammed of Malaysia or Chun Doo Hwan of South Korea. I have chosen these people as my bench-mark leaders because they started from the scratch the same time Ghana won its independence from the British.
We do not now need a president who is going to fan the rivalry between the NPP and the NDC or a president who is going to spend all his/her energy pursuing his/her political enemies and getting them thrown into prison. The problems facing Ghana are enormous and we require a level-headed, disciplined and visionary leader to put us on the right track. The era of small-minded and mediocre leaders has ended.
The electorate must reject any aspiring leader who will be exploiting their predicament by making wild and impossible promises just for votes. Ghana has had enough of those “promises” leaders including the liberating, redeeming and revolutionary military adventurists. The aspiring leaders must come out with plans and strategies on how within the four or eight-year mandate, they can make us overtake Haiti in the short-term and equal Singapore in the long-term. Ghanaians must then look at how feasible and realistic the plans are and vote for the leader who they trust has the qualities to execute the plans. The politics of criticism and promises should end with Prof Atta Mills.
I propose that in the final year of the present government, that is 2012, the NDPC must convene a national planning conference to draw up a sixteen-year national strategic developmental plan for the next four successive governments. The Commission may invite experts including those outside the country to participate in the conference. The blue-print national development plan developed, covering every aspect of our society and economy will then become the national manifesto for all the political parties. After all, all the political parties in Ghana have a common understanding of the fundamental problems facing the country. In their campaign, they will have to convince Ghanaians about the strategies they will employ to achieve the goals and objectives of the first four years of the plan.

The key to transforming the economy of is for Ghanaians to elect a visionary, disciplined and well-educated leader. Fortunately we have such people both - inside and outside Ghana. The next leader of Ghana must not be afraid to call in some our best brains that are leading and managing complex organizations in other countries to help. The problems facing Ghana are not unsurmountable. With the right leader, we shall soon count ourselves among the best countries in the world.

PK BOATENG

The writer is a fellow of both the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants and the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators. He is a consultant on corporate strategy and public finance management. Personal comments on the article can be sent to him via his e-mail address: pkboateng@gmail.com

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GHANA Man Chews Baby Girl

Sefwi Asawinso, a farming community in the Sefwi Wiawso District of the Western Region, was yesterday thrown into a state of shock when news broke that a 40-year-old teacher had allegedly eaten his one-month-old baby girl.

Nathaniel Nsetor, a teacher at Dokukrom Junior High School near Sefwi Juaboso, 'chewed' little Yaa Ohenewaa, leading to her death.

Timothy Bassah, Sefwi Asawinso District Police commander, who confirmed the story to DAILY GUIDE, noted that the suspect was in police custody pending further investigations.

He said that Nsetor hailed from the Volta Region and had married Vida Nimako, a native of Sefwi Brafo near Asawinso, for over 20 years and were blessed with five children.

Because of his work, the suspect and the wife were not staying together but Nsetor visited the wife almost every weekend at Sefwi Brafo.

ASP Bassah noted that over the weekend, the suspect travelled from Dokukrom to Sefwi Brafo to visit the wife and the one-month-old baby girl.

According to the district police commander, on Monday at about 12:30am, while Nsetor, the wife and the baby girl were sleeping, the suspect woke up and began to behave abnormally by shouting and praying on top of his voice so the wife became alarmed and went to call her mother who was also staying in the same house.

The police officer said while the wife was returning, she met the suspect carrying the one-month-old baby girl in his arms and when the wife insisted that Nsetor hands over the baby to her, the suspect started beating the wife and ran with the baby towards a nearby bush.

He said Vida shouted for help so people came around and as they chased the suspect for the baby, they could see Nsetor chewing the face of the baby girl like a cannibal, with the little girl crying.

He disclosed that the “cannibal” began chewing the baby girl from the nose, then the ears, the forehead and the eyelid.

The district police commander indicated that when the people managed to arrest the teacher, they realized that the baby girl, who was still in his arms, was dead. They then handed over the suspect to the police.

He pointed out that the deceased had been deposited at the morgue of the St. John of God Hospital at Sefwi Asafo.

From Emmanuel Opoku, Takoradi

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Hahahaha funny, very funny. let's be real here. which country sucks.... the one that has been ruled by robbers, kidnappers, terrorists, ritualists, oil thieves, election riggers. the one ( oil-rich) that one can't even provide electricity to its impoverished citizenry.., the one that leads in everything negative.... from child mortality,high illiteracy, poor nutrition,widespread poverty, low life expectancy (52 years!)and the one that is regarded as the headquarters of fraud and conmen in the world

Compare that with a country with one of the fastest growing economies, vibrant and credible democracy, an African football powerhouse-the only african country to have reached the q-final of the last world cup, hosted in south africa. a country that has produced some of the world's most respected leaders.

Hehehehehe I can imagine your frustration being tethered to an eternally phucked up country like nigeria. when was the last time you heard any good news about your dustbin, rubbish country. just check out the front page of NL....

Okonjo Iweala's Mother kidnapped
Ojukwu's Secret Daughter in kaduna
Commercial Bus Drivers who sedate and Rob Victims
London-bound Nigerians Caught with wraps of Cocaine
The Horros of Being a Drug Addict

...just a few of those phenomenal headlines that define the absurdity of the nigerian state and people. Fvckin apes

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if nigeria is hell hole .... then ghana will be dungeon of fire... stupiid cu.nt

jeeeezzzzz

It really suck to be a ghanaian

Accra second worst city in the world?

Accra has been listed as one of the worst cities in the world on a travellers' website
The capital of Ghana was number two on a list compiled by Lonely Planet, based on feedback from its website users.
Crime-hit Detroit, Michigan, topped the poll ahead of Accra, which was described as " Ugly, chaotic, sprawling and completely indifferent to its waterfront location.".

"To think Accra is worse than war-torn Kabul, in Afghanistan, and cities with slums in India, is just a joke."

Seoul in South Korea was third followed by Los Angeles, US and Wolverhampton, England.
Introducing Accra (on /www.lonelyplanet.com)
With its back mostly turned to the Gulf of Guinea, taking little advantage of its waterfront location, Accra crawls up and over a modern landscape, gobbling up real estate and producing a chaotic low-rise skyline. Originally a scattering of villages controlled by Ga chiefs, today it’s a sprawling city that extends eastwards almost 25km to the neighbouring city of Tema. Its congested and pockmarked pavements; baking streets that in the midday heat can make a block feel like a kilometre; shanty towns and genteel leafy suburbia; chop bars and gourmet restaurants; hiplife and highlife; all combine to make Accra at once exhausting and exhilarating.

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Ghanaian With Arms and Ammunition Arrested in Lagos

Lagos — Men of the Nigerian Customs Service have arrested a Ghanaian with arms and ammunitions in Lagos.The suspect who is a middle-aged man was arrested with the assorted dangerous imports, including a pistol, explosives, several rounds of live ammunitions and different firearm handling kits.

The suspect, Kwaku Antwi-Boasiako was nabbed at his residence, Road 27 D5B, Victoria Garden City, Lagos, following a tip off.

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chiboy1928: U guys should know dat corruption is a disease which has been the main problem in nigeria and it has beeen passed fr generation to generation,it can never be stop no mata hw hard they try it in the blood of most nigerians.imagine a country were ministers,governors are lootin government fund and they are allow to go scot free yet notin is been done about it,even the nigeria drug law enforcement agency is now corrupt,most drug barrons when arrested are leta released and allow to go scot free,what a useless nation,were people do tings the way dey feel like and go scot free and notin is been done about it,nigerians can never be corrupt free it a caused they have inherited long ago.most of nigerians in europe are into cocaine biz cos the felt it the fast way to acquire wealth they don't want to work but they want quick money dat why most of dem end in jail.it a pity same bad blood dey inheritEd @work.

despite all the rants u posted .... u ugly mofos still wannabe us.... nigeria (yahoo yahoo) dropped drastically ... yet ghanaians started their own sakawa simply nigerian did it.... u ugly mofos just wanna be us good and bad.... why? inferiority complex dey worry every ghanaians... they cant think straight without thinking about what will Nigerians do first..... it seems every ghanaian has their brain in the anus ewwwww


It really suck to be a ghanaian

a maggo-t with a brain of a one-month old baby. arrant igbo dog! what do you expect from a vulture-eating devil?

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[s]Why Ghana’s Economy Is Behind That Of Haiti’s

“Ghana is a typical example of the world’s worst-managed economies: It’s a country that shouldn’t be poor, but it is. The West African nation’s gross domestic product per capita fell 9% last year to $621, ranking it 154th out of 184 countries tracked by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), below resource-impoverished Haiti. With a $3 billion trade deficit last year and $4.9 billion in external debt, Ghana is struggling to pay its bills even as it sits on some of the world’s biggest reserves of gold and bauxite, as well as considerable amounts of offshore oil, which is being developed by Anadarko Petroleum and others....”(Ghanaweb - Wednesday, 9 June 2010).
This is the sobering snap-shot of the state of affairs of Ghana today - 53 years after being the first African country south of the Sahara to gain independence. Do we still have to be boastful of that accolade when the report says that we are below Haiti - a resource-poor country that is perennially devastated by natural disasters?
The report is a serious indictment on all the people who have held political power in Ghana since 6th March 1957. The harshest indictment however is reserved for the late I K Acheampong and Jerry John Rawlings whose disastrous combined 27 years rule actually destroyed the social fabric and the economy of Ghana. These were people whose educational and professional training could never have remotely made them candidates for any national leadership – but shot themselves into power, thinking that with guns and bullying, Ghana would become like any of the developed countries we know. What is most distressing is that the person who ruled Ghana longest and therefore on whose shoulder much of the blame for the sordid picture painted by the IMF should be placed, Rawlings - is still arrogantly parading himself as the best leader Ghana has ever had. As a paranoid and megalomaniac he still foolishly believes that other than him, no person is fit to rule Ghana. The down-trodden citizens of Ghana including the woman in front of the shack whose picture accompanied the IMF report should march to him to demand real accountability – and ask why they should be worse off than Haitians.
Much has been written about why we are still poor in spite of the fact that we sit on “massive” gold and bauxite reserves and now have billions of barrels of oil under our sea. This article will reinforce some of the reasons that have already been expounded in the past. I will as also try to provide some suggestions on how we can break off the chain of poverty.
The first major cause of our deplorable state of affairs is simply that we have, since independence, been unfortunate to be ruled by mediocre leaders. Some of these leaders had very little understanding of how to run a government - because of their very poor educational standards. Acheampong, attended only a commercial school to learn, in those days, book-keeping, typing, short-hand and perhaps commerce. Rawlings who has ruled Ghana the longest time, another self-imposed leader, even failed his GCE “O” levels at Achimota College. Who in his right senses could have given these two men managerial positions in his enterprise? Military training which they received is not geared towards the management of a modern economy – it’s about how to defeat the enemy in the battlefield. Who therefore doubts that the malaise, poverty and despondency we see around today in Ghana is not the result of the disastrous intervention in our national affairs by these two men?
Not even Kwame Nkrumah, a highly educated man could provide the vision and strategic leadership the country required to transform Ghana into a world-class country at the time we gained independence. By saying so, I am bench-marking him against the likes of Mahathir Mohamed of Malaysia, Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore and the two leaders of South Korea (Park Chung-Hee and later Chun Doo-Hwan). His management of Ghana’s economy was not up to scratch by any standard. The socialist policy he adopted was a complete failure. How could he have transformed Ghana’s economy into a world-class economy when he appointed misfits - half-educated and illiterate men and women to strategic positions in his government? This is where the problems of Ghana started.
I will excuse Prof K A Busia and Dr Hilla Limann’s brief rules which were abruptly interrupted by military opportunists.
Kufour came to meet a run-down economy at the beginning of 2001. For example 9,000 cedis was exchanged for $1, interest rate was above 40% etc. He did quite well to stabilize it but unfortunately he could not bring about the transformation Ghana required to put us on the path to become an industrial and economically viable country. At the time he was leaving office the fundamentals of our economy had not changed - the country was still exporting raw cocoa and timber logs, farmers were using cutlasses to make farms, we were still importing rice from Thailand and biscuits from Sri Lanka; the bucket latrine system was what the majority of Ghanaians living especially in the big towns and cities used; clean piped water was still a dream for majority of Ghanaians; the educational system was churning out illiterates and half-literates from the JSS and SSS system into non-existent job market. Certainly he had the opportunity to set the pace for a complete transformation of the Ghanaian economy during his eight-year rule but sadly he lost focus, especially during his second term.
And Atta Mills? From the little we have seen about him, 18 months after assuming office, certainly he not the strategic and visionary leader Ghanaians were yearning for after Kufour. He seems to have been so much overwhelmed by the gargantuan problems facing Ghanaians that he is still confused as to where to start and where to end. It is certain that by the time he leaves the scene, the squalor we saw in the photo accompanying the IMF report will still be there, if not worse. Under Atta Mills Ghanaians must not hope that their lots will be bettered in any way – even if the oil money starts flowing into the economy.
If Ghanaians are looking for answers as to why their standard of living today is below that of Haiti, they must not look far – our leaders since independence have been mediocre or at best, inept especially the military adventurists.
The second major cause, a direct consequence of our mediocre leaders, lies in the poor development of our human capital - as a nation - since independence. Countries like Japan, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, Malaysia, India and Brazil (my model 20th Century countries) are thousands of years ahead of us in terms of economic development because they placed serious emphasis on developing their human capital to meet their national needs. Through sound and relevant educational systems they produced the right people to power their economies and so Korea for example has home-grown world class companies like Samsung, Kia, Hyundai etc that are producing world-class electronic goods and vehicles for world consumption. India’s motor manufacturing companies like Tata and Mahindra are making good inroads into the world market. Brazil leads the world in the bio-fuel technology. The economies of these countries are growing in leaps and bounds because their educational systems are producing the right calibre of personnel required by their industries and society at large.
The countries mentioned above and indeed all economically advanced countries have shown that no country can attain economic greatness if its population remains largely illiterate or semi-literate and the emphasis in its primary and secondary education is to produce people with the ability to read and write, and at the universities, to produce graduates with degrees in the humanities.
I stand to be corrected but I dare say that since independence in 1957, no conscious effort has been made at national level by any government to link the needs of commerce, industry and technology with our educational system – from kindergarten to university. We have not been able to produce the cadre of professionals and scientists the country requires to propel the economy to greater heights. The few top mathematicians and scientists we produce leave the country or end up in the classroom - not in the research and development laboratories of companies.
Ghana, rather sadly, for nearly twenty-seven years had the misfortune of being ruled by small-minded military opportunists - Acheampong and Rawlings. Because of their own poor educational backgrounds they saw academic achievement as source of irritation or threat to their regimes. Acheampong, for the best part of his six and a half years rule, was at war with university students especially when opposition to his union government idea gathered momentum. Rawlings found it fit to close our Universities for more than one academic year, disrupting the universities’ programmes and admission of new students.
I must also mention the fact that during the regimes of both Acheampong and Rawlings many fine minds the country could have utilized in its development were hounded out into exile. These Ghanaians who fled from the country – medical doctors, physicists, bio-chemists, engineers, computer scientists, accountants etc are now helping the economies of their adopted countries – the US, Canada, UK, Germany, Australia, South Africa etc to advance further whilst Ghana retrogresses.
The third major cause of our poverty is the fact that since the overthrow of Kwame Nkrumah, there has never been any serious national planning – to determine the future needs of the country and how to achieve them. I will still link this factor to the mediocre leadership Ghana has had in the past. The evidence of this is the fact that very little has changed in the country since independence - we have the same road network (still narrow and pot-holed). There are no proper sewerage and drainage systems in our cities and towns. We have the same colonial railway lines which have all now decayed. Our state buildings including hospitals, schools, courts, ministries etc are in serious state of disrepair. Our educational system is dysfunctional. Our population growth is one of the highest in the world. We have an unacceptably high infant and maternal mortality rate. Our energy supply is erratic etc. These are all evidence that the country never planned in the past.
The 1992 Constitution of Ghana calls for the establishment of a National Development Planning Commission (NDPC) (Section 86). Can the NDPC (if it has been established) put into the public domain, the national plan it has developed since the Constitution came into effect? The public has an interest in knowing what plans have been developed for Ghana say for the future. How has the NDPC been monitoring and evaluating the performance of those charged with the execution of the plans? I will not be surprised if after one and a half years in power the current government of Prof Mills has not yet developed a national plan - just as his predecessors, perhaps, failed to do. And let me state emphatically that parties’ manifestos are not plans but mere policy outlines. A plan consists of goals or objectives to be achieved, what will be achieved, what the measures of achievement are (indicators), the resources required to achieve them and how achievement or non-achievement will be monitored and measured.
Yes it’s true that Ghana has enormous resources - some yet to be tapped, including the oil reserves but the key to our transformation from our current state of hopelessness to prosperity does not lie with politicking, deception or short-term planning but the nation looking beyond twenty five from now and asking: Will we have enough energy to power our industries, offices and homes? Will our roads and railways be adequate and in good condition to move people and goods? Will our colleges and universities be able to produce the right calibre of people to man all the various aspects of our 21st Century economy? Will our population growth be sustainable? Will our cities be able to cope with large influx of people? These are some of the issues that should be occupying our minds now and which should be incorporated into our national development plan.
Had such serious and hard thinking exercise been done in the early 80’s and a national development plan drawn up and executed with determination, Ghana would be a different country by now. We would not be bench-marked against Haiti but perhaps against Malaysia, South Korea or Singapore – countries that have per capita income of more than $15,000.

The fourth major cause of our misery is simply that as a nation, we seem not to know the priorities on which to spend our scarce resources. It’s mind-boggling that a small country like Ghana, with over 60% of its citizens living below the poverty line, could once have close to 90 ministers and deputy ministers in government. What do our many ministers, and deputy ministers do? Prof Mills promised Ghanaians that he will have a lean government but he now has more than 70 ministers and deputy ministers. Think about the resources this battalion of politicians consume monthly and you will understand why Ghana is poor. Was it worth it that in the midst of the hopelessness we see all around us, the country could spend $50 million or so to celebrate our 50th independence anniversary?
The last major cause of our poverty is the unattractiveness of Ghana as an investment destination. Whoever says Ghana is attractive to investors is living in a fool’s paradise. We may be able to attract some mining and oil companies but we cannot attract world-class companies like Hewlett Packard, Microsoft, Samsung, Daimler Benz, Hitachi, and Sony etc to establish manufacturing plants in Ghana. The reasons are not far-fetched:
1. Our environment especially Accra, the capital city is a major deterrence. The city looks clumsy with buildings put up everywhere – apparently with no planning. And who wants to come and live in filth and die from malaria? Again who wants to live in a city where it will take you four hours or more to travel from one part of it to the other due to traffic congestion?

2. We do not have the critical mass of qualified people in Ghana who can be employed by the companies named above should they decide to establish plants in Ghana. Few people in Ghana are graduating in Information, Communication and Technology (ICT). Our pathetic JSS/SSS system and universities are not producing the scientists and mathematicians we require for our national economic and technological development.

3. The endemic culture of bribe-taking that has permeated the entire Ghanaian society is a big disincentive to the growth of business and foreign investment - the catalyst for economic growth. Now no public service in Ghana is rendered for free. Everywhere employees expect to be given something for services they render. People who come into the country to do genuine business find such practice unacceptable and nauseating.

4. Many of our laws are archaic and do not provide the right legislative environment to attract big foreign businesses. An example is our Companies Act of 1963 and company registration procedure. They urgently need reform.
How do we get our economy out from the woods and climb above Haiti?
Ghana requires a visionary, bold, intelligent, educated and disciplined leader. Those who are aspiring to be elected as president must examine themselves and their conscience thoroughly to see if they meet the standards of leadership qualities set by people like Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore or Mahathir Mohammed of Malaysia or Chun Doo Hwan of South Korea. I have chosen these people as my bench-mark leaders because they started from the scratch the same time Ghana won its independence from the British.
We do not now need a president who is going to fan the rivalry between the NPP and the NDC or a president who is going to spend all his/her energy pursuing his/her political enemies and getting them thrown into prison. The problems facing Ghana are enormous and we require a level-headed, disciplined and visionary leader to put us on the right track. The era of small-minded and mediocre leaders has ended.
The electorate must reject any aspiring leader who will be exploiting their predicament by making wild and impossible promises just for votes. Ghana has had enough of those “promises” leaders including the liberating, redeeming and revolutionary military adventurists. The aspiring leaders must come out with plans and strategies on how within the four or eight-year mandate, they can make us overtake Haiti in the short-term and equal Singapore in the long-term. Ghanaians must then look at how feasible and realistic the plans are and vote for the leader who they trust has the qualities to execute the plans. The politics of criticism and promises should end with Prof Atta Mills.
I propose that in the final year of the present government, that is 2012, the NDPC must convene a national planning conference to draw up a sixteen-year national strategic developmental plan for the next four successive governments. The Commission may invite experts including those outside the country to participate in the conference. The blue-print national development plan developed, covering every aspect of our society and economy will then become the national manifesto for all the political parties. After all, all the political parties in Ghana have a common understanding of the fundamental problems facing the country. In their campaign, they will have to convince Ghanaians about the strategies they will employ to achieve the goals and objectives of the first four years of the plan.

The key to transforming the economy of is for Ghanaians to elect a visionary, disciplined and well-educated leader. Fortunately we have such people both - inside and outside Ghana. The next leader of Ghana must not be afraid to call in some our best brains that are leading and managing complex organizations in other countries to help. The problems facing Ghana are not unsurmountable. With the right leader, we shall soon count ourselves among the best countries in the world.

PK BOATENG

The writer is a fellow of both the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants and the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators. He is a consultant on corporate strategy and public finance management. Personal comments on the article can be sent to him via his e-mail address: pkboateng@gmail.com

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Abrantie:
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A-B-S-O-L-U-T-E......... B-U-L-L-S-H-I-T ! ! ! [/size]

The truth hurts, abi ?

PetroDolla:
Hahahaha funny, very funny. let's be real here. which country sucks.... the one that has been ruled by robbers, kidnappers, terrorists, ritualists, oil thieves, election riggers. the one ( oil-rich) that one can't even provide electricity to its impoverished citizenry.., the one that leads in everything negative.... from child mortality,high illiteracy, poor nutrition,widespread poverty, low life expectancy (52 years!)and the one that is regarded as the headquarters of fraud and conmen in the world

Compare that with a country with one of the fastest growing economies, vibrant and credible democracy, an African football powerhouse-the only african country to have reached the q-final of the last world cup, hosted in south africa. a country that has produced some of the world's most respected leaders.

so how does all these rants change the fact that nigeria is still ahead of u ugly ghanaian mofos in everyway? (talk of GDP, entertainment, education, recognition, good and bad) we are far ahead of u ugly shitface.... the whole ghana gdp is not even up to lagos gdp.WTF... are u gonna attend to every news posted by rick ross

accra rated the 2nd most shiitty city in the world



It really suck to be a ghanaian

Rick Ross... Lol u r trying hard to impress but no matter how many articles you bring up, ur hell hole is not better than Ghana. Ur country is worthless n pathetic n no amount of ur rantings will convince any1. Finish hard batty bwoy

rampant lover: Abrantie....... Afghanistan is a better country compare to dat God forsaken country.

hey gayhead... ur lover lover petrocedis is waitin for u to mess up his anus in the room with ur ugly 2 inches dic.k

Red-Light:


yet ur we deported fugly as.sholes like you back your shittty country (in ghana must go) .... ur ladies wanna marry our guys to break the jinx of ugliness in every ghanaian gene.... oooppps was it last week yeaone nelson was ranting becos iyanyan dumped her shit face for someone prettier
ooops that hurt


It really suck to be a ghanaian

hahahah this is definately not a good time to be a nigerian. the apes are getting their stvpid, criminally-minded arses deported from Malawi, Botwana, south africa, britain, benin, niger, Ghana, US, Togo..... or being attacked everywhere... hahaha the most despised apes ever in the history of mankind.

complete nuisance they are-how sane the world will be without these lazy, bombastic criminals .....................

rampant lover: Rick Ross... Lol u r trying hard to impress but no matter how many articles you bring up, ur hell hole is not better than Ghana. Ur country is worthless n pathetic n no amount of ur rantings will convince any1. Finish hard batty bwoy

truth hurt huh? ( u dont wanna accept the fact that ur country is a big shittt that all its citizens needs plastic sugery) .... deal with it uglly shitthead its ur country man ....full of fugly criminals


It really suck to be a ghanaian

Abrantie:


We are on Nairaland because a million ugly Nigerians are camped out in our small country and we'd like to know why.

Nah. We just own a considerable chunk of your economy. Lazy bums .

ocelot2006:

Nah. We just own a considerable chunk of your economy. Lazy bums .

how much of the 85 billion do you own!! none of it!!!

You ugly dumb bums!

yeye dey smell o jare.

this confirmed GAY, and official spokesman for nigerian apes on nairaland is openly soliciting for male sex partners! very disguting- just like everything about you nigerians. you apes disgust me. no wonder your country is the nastiest, most phucked up shi-thole ever on earth and of course the most phucked up people in the whole world!

Red-Light:

hey gayhead... ur lover lover petrocedis is waitin for u to mess up his anus in the room with ur ugly 2 inches dic.k

Abrantie: We can all scour the internet for crime stories, even for the most safest country on earth, but the fact remains...

Nigeria is one of the most fucckified country to be born in -- aside from Afghanistan.

Its even worse than afghanistan!

PetroDolla:

hahahah this is definately not a good time to be a nigerian. the apes are getting their stvpid, criminally-minded arses deported from Malawi, Botwana, south africa, britain, benin, niger, Ghana, US, Togo..... or being attacked everywhere... hahaha the most despised apes ever in the history of mankind.

complete nuisance they are-how sane the world will be without these lazy, bombastic criminals .....................

is that the reason why average ghanaians copy everything we do....
is that the reason why average ghanaians needs plastic sugery to modify his/her ugly face
is that the reason why average ghanaians export ugliness to the world
is that the reason why average ghanaians are criminals
is that the reason why average ghanaians sells pof pof and chin chin all over lagos street, picking pocket, robbing people, before they were deported by great man buhari to their shiithole country
is that the reason why average ghanaians accra was rated 2nd worst city in the world
is that the reason why average ghanaians doesnt have self esteem?

It really really really suck to be a ghanaian

We r having a peaceful elections n u savages r surprise. Well ders a difference b/n humans (GH) and animals( Nigerians). Will rather luv to live the life of a Dog than a Nigerian.

SmoothLIFE:

how much of the 85 billion do you own!! none of it!!!

You ugly dumb bums!

don't worry.
When the investors leave,ghana will be talking of deficit.

ocelot2006:

Nah. We just own a considerable chunk of your economy. Lazy bums .

how much of your own generator-powered economy do you own?

you own ' a considerable chunk of your economy' because you have 4,5 nigerian banks operating in Ghana out of more than 200 conventional and non-conventional banks, or one nigerian telecoms company means you 'have a considerable chunk of your economy?'

what do you expect from a deluded lunatic? a vulture-eating goat who looks for relevance in the face of worldwide disgust with his kind

Animals n Savages, that's nigerians for u.