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Keypha: I love this my country Nigeria, our doctor treat them without USA drug, shame to Ghana they too hide anything that happen in there country, ebola dey ghana but they are hiding it, that why there doctor tell m true to stop hiding ebola victims, 9ja too much.

I must say you are really obsessed with Ghana!!!

yetunsbay: owk naw see ur life.I can deduce why average Ghanaian on nairaland think awkward

whatever

iconize: Trash!

More from an azontoghost.

You're a tragedy!

I have no other option than to FORGIVE you

iconize: Shut up you lazy dancer!

Go and dance for the public in Kumasi and be paid with a plate of banku as usual.

no amount of insults from you will make me throw my dignity to the dogs and exchange words with you...Continue doing what you are good at

vicadex07: Okay

#igbomustgo

Are you happy now

nay. and am still wondering why some people like posting unnecessary stuffs :-

vicadex07: Ibos are definitely going to shoot themselves in the foot with this their recent outrageous demands. If it so happens that Nigeria breaks up come 2015, they will really have themselves to blame.

All this their senseless chest beating will get them nowhere. Ghana tried it and they were booted out...#ghanamustgo

why are you so obsessed with Ghana

rawpadgin: even if na my papa be President. NO!

oh don't say that...abi your mama and papa born u inside Nigeria.

people of Nigeria,can you do this to your bodies?
As for me,I can't ooo

overhypedsteve: wow thank God you cant believe it.
http://www.proforcedefence.com/
see for yourself.

I see,keep it Up!!

overhypedsteve: but please permit me to send a very strong message to the mofo's
people keep saying Innoson of Nigeria. They seem to forget the fact that innoson is not the only one building cars in naija. We also have a world renowned privately owned defence industry. Google #Proforce. Yes we ve been building, battle tanks, UAV, APC and patron vehicles for use by our armed forces and private individuals, they just got a contract from an unspecified African country to build several number of apc for them. And they have an MOU with DICON. I ll make a believer out of this people today.

with no hard feeling,what makes you think these fotos were even shot on 9ja land?

overhypedsteve: ok. Because of your non hostile approach today. I ll use this space to advocate for ghanian cars.

hehehe..your effort would be appreciated...
But pls never pen my name in ur imaginary Book Of Bashers

theplanmaker: Ghana =broke nation

my bro,is that the only thing u see about GHANA oh Lord of mercy!!!

overhypedsteve: I ve always waited for thread like this. This space will be judiciously used by me with the aid of visual authority and links (where the need arise) to prove to the world and Africa that Ghana seeks for attention that the world has so wickedly denied it. Please sit and relax. Don't leave the thread. Call Nitrogen, call azontofool, call all the hordes of ghanian minions that ve now infested our forum with news of ghanian failure. Tell them to have their sit. Cus i am coming. I ll be back. I overhypedsteve will be back.

hope am not the one you referred to as "azontofool"... even if it is so, I FORGIVE you....!!

suwailad: Liars, they just buy the parts from south korea, then assembled it in ghana. They can't compete with Innoson.

are you still hating, following ur inconsequential ego

yetunsbay: agreed...............but wait o what is Ghana?

Ghana is your colonial master..are you okay now

Vig86: Ghana to me is just a country too timid to face reality. Ghanians love it when other countries are facing hard time. They want to appear holy and flawless as a nation to please their masters. My state in Nigeria is more developed than Ghana.

so

JD test-driving!

another photo

that's cool

Next year will mark a major milestone in the celebration
of Ramadan in Ghana, as the ten million dollar
sponsored ultra modern national mosque complex at
Kanda, Accra will be commissioned.
Under the instrumentality of President Dramani Mahama
and the Turkish government, the world class edifice,
being sponsored by Turkish Hudai Foundation, according
contractors will be ready for use early next year.
With three entrances, the 33 metres high mosque which
will accommodate about 10,000 worshippers, will replace
an old central mosque that was pulled down at Mokola
following a demolition exercise some years back. It will
also house a school complex, residence for the National
Chief Imam and a spacious car park.
The new central mosque will also have a clinic, an
administration block, an auditorium and a conference
centre.
So far, three out the four minarets the mosque is
expected to have, have been erected, with the last one
under construction.
In an interview with The Finder newspaper, a member
of the construction technical committee and General
Secretary of Council of Muslim Cheifs, Alhaji Billy
Bramah said that all the walls around the mosque
would be covered with special marble form Turkey while
the domes would be covered with lead metal sheets.
He disclosed that parts of the roofing materials have
arrived in the country recently from Turkey, and they
would soon be used to cover the domes, adding that the
floor of the mosque would be covered with carpets.
According to The Finder newspaper report, Alhaji
Bramah said out of the $10million voted for the
complex, between $5.5 million and $6million would be
spent on the mosque while the rest would be used to
construct one Teacher Training College, a Senior High
School (SHS), and two administrative blocks, one to serve
as office of the National Chief Imam.
He said the Teacher Training College was to compliment
government’s efforts aimed at producing enough
teachers to close the current deficit.
Partners implementing the project are Office of the
National Chief Imam, Presidency of Religious Affairs of
the Republic of Turkey, Human Development
International (HUDAI) and Ghana Friendship and
Solidarity Association (GANADER), a Turkish Non-
Governmental Organizations.
Alhaji Billy Bramah added that the Turkish experts
working on the project are also transferring technical
know-how to their Ghanaian counterparts.
Source: Al-Hajj

NITROGENN: GOD go punish your entire useless family .You will meet your untimely death soon.Boko haram go eradicate ur family soon.GOD GO PUNISH UR entire GENERATION TO COME.You go die unexpectedly.FOOLISH STUPID FOOL FROM USELESS FAMILY.ALL YOUR USELESS FAMILY MEMBERS WILL DIE SOON.KWASIA GYIMII.UGLY CHARCOAL-LIKE STINKING FOOLS.BOKO HARAM GO KILL ALL THE FOOLISH PEOPLE IN THAT COUNTRY LEAVING ONLY CHRISTIANS.APE FROM A WHOR.E MUMU mum N DOG DAD.USELESS APE...

MUMUGERIANS ARE DAMN UGLY, SCARY N BURNT CHARCOAL-LIKE FOOLS...........ugly things.

Nitro,the "curses" you have invoked on your neighbor is too much and very serious. Remember this is just a public forum and not all people and their posts must be taken to the heart. kae s3 sasa bonsam doesnt care even If you are joking with your words. Pls reverse your mouth sha!!

President John Dramani Mahama has stated that the
government is not on a desperate adventure for
financial support from the International Monetary Fund
(IMF).
However, he said, if the discussion to be entered into
with the Fund resulted in any money, the government
would welcome it.
“If it comes with money, that is fine,” President Mahama
said in an interview with Bloomberg TV Africa in
Washington.
In his first public comment on the IMF issue, the
President explained that the support the government
was seeking from the IMF centred on a discussion and a
programme the government was looking at.
Ghana has decided to enter into discussions with the
Bretton Woods Institution to support her home-grown
economic recovery programme.
Some critics see the move as going for a bailout, but
government ministers have persistently denied that.
Ghana is going through one of its most difficult
economic times in its 57-year-old history, with the
national currency plummeting about 40 per cent against
the dollar this year.
President Mahama expressed the hope that the IMF's
assistance would help build investor confidence in the
country.
“If having a closer relationship with the IMF will give
that confidence to our partners to be able to work
together to achieve that, we are happy to do that,” he
said.
President Mahama said the government was getting
ready to sell $1.5 billion in Eurobonds by the end of
August this year.
He said the decision to move the nation from a lower
middle-income to a middle-income country was on
course.
The IMF has, in a response to the government’s request,
declared its readiness to help Ghana overcome its
economic challenges.
A statement from the Fund said the institution would
send a team to Ghana in early September to begin the
discussion with the Ghanaian authorities.
Ghana is the second country in sub-Saharan Africa to
move to the IMF for assistance this year.
The first was Zambia, which in June, this year, sought
talks with the Fund.
Source: graphic.com.gh

WHAT HAPPENED TO GHANA …AND LESSONS FOR
NIGERIA
It did not help matters that Ghana did not treat her
neighbors such as Nigerians kindly during their years of
abundance. I recalled all the obstacles the Ghanaian
government put along the way to dissuade potential
Nigerian investors. I'm sure now they wish they hadn't
done so, but again, the damage is done, for I can't see
those Nigerians rushing out to rescue Ghana from
herself.
Not so long ago Ghana was the poster child of everything
that could go right about sub-Saharan Africa, and this
wasn't anything new, the country has always been
ahead of the pack. In spite of the works for agitation of
independence by people like Herbert Macaulay and
Nnamdi Azikiwe both of Nigeria, Ghana managed under
Nkuruma to obtain her independence from Britain in
1957, three years ahead of Nigeria and most other
African countries. In recent years, Ghana became the
place to be in Africa. Their economy was booming, the
country was stable with successive peaceful and
transparent democratic successions. They had steady
light, low inflation, and new offshore oil discoveries that
portends vast riches. Ghana became the number one
destination for black Americans and Jamaicans for
resettlement and for investment. Even Nigerians began
flooding the streets of Ghana for business and leisure,
while many more simply sent off their children to
schools there.
In the past few days, however, Ghanaians have taken to
the streets in protest about the state of their economy,
rising inflation, and the declining value of their local
currency. The Ghanaian President, John Muhama,
recently indicated that Ghana is about to seek financial
bailout from the IMF. Isn't it amazing how times have
changed for Ghana, and rather suddenly because just a
couple of years ago Ghana was still recognized as the
shining example of stability in West Africa. Only last year
the country celebrated ten years of uninterrupted power
supply, something most Nigerians can only dream
about. About six months ago I heard of the first signs
that all was not well with Ghana's economy. At first I
thought it might be just a minor hiccup, perhaps a small
or rather soft landing of an overheated economy, or
maybe that it was only an unfounded rumor without
any merit. Unfortunately everything I heard turned out
to be true, and even worse.
I have since wondered what happened to Ghana, how
could a well-managed economy with seemingly less
corruption than their Nigerian neighbors suddenly take a
nose dive? The answer is still blowing in the wind, but
there are a few pointers that might lead us to where the
problem began. First, sometime ago Ghana decided to
revalue their currency, the cedi. Their central bank
applied a reverse split that ultimately brought the
formerly weak currency to par with the US dollar. For
example, if one had one million cedi in the bank, after
the reverse split the person may now end up with a
thousand cedi, but that cedi will have the same
purchasing parity with the US dollar. I recalled
publishing an article in the US when Ghana did this,
warning them that they are embarking on a never-
ending slippery slope. At the time I sighted countries like
Mexico that have tried doing this with their Peso and
how they have revisited that valuation more than once.
In 2007 Nigeria's Central Bank Governor, Chukwuma
Soludo attempted a similar revaluation of the Naira, and
I published an article (Go East, to China, young man) in
which I cautioned against that move. I reposted that
same article in March last year, cautioning Sanusi.
Fortunately for Nigeria, but for political reasons, the
Yar'adua's government stopped Soludo from carrying on
the revaluation. I believe that Ghana has revalued their
currency more than once since the first time, and
currently the cedi has lost 50% of its value this year
alone, making it the worst performing currency in the
world so far in 2014. As the cedi depreciates, so does
the cost of buying products from overseas, which is
passed on to the consumers and consequently inflation
in Ghana has now topped 15% this year. As mentioned
Ghana celebrated ten years of uninterrupted power
supply last year. It was as if Nigeria, which has failed to
achieve even a day of uninterrupted power supply,
decided to rain in on their parade. Nigeria supplies most
of the gas used to power the electric plants in Ghana,
and lately as Nigeria experienced stoppages due to gas
pipeline vandalism, their supply to Ghana was finally
affected. And suddenly Ghana began to experience
rolling blackouts and just downright power failures that
sometimes lasts for weeks in some neighborhood. Well, I
say to them, welcome to the Nigerian world.
Surely lack of power must have accounted for significant
drops in manufacturing and other business activities,
especially for people that have grown accustomed to
steady power supply through the years, and some might
have failed to make necessary provisions for alternative
source of power as most Nigerians do. But the major
measurable source of decline is about the price of gold.
Gold represents about 45% of Ghana's export, and gold
prices have declined in recent times, undoubtedly
affecting that nation's income. Cocoa has equally been
on the decline though Ghana has significantly reduced
their dependency on cocoa export since it was the
dominant foreign exchange earner for them back in the
fifties and sixties. Apparently overreliance on one
product as it is with gold in this case has come to bite
Ghana harder than they expect. As bad as it is for
Ghana that gold represents 45% of their export, can you
now imagine what could happen to Nigeria if and when
oil prices crash as oil represents well over 90% of our
export revenue. The potential outcome is simply
unfathomable yet no one in Nigeria's government has
taken out time to think seriously about its potentially
devastating effects.
A few years back Ghana discovered oil in their offshore
waters and they have spent quite a bit of money to
develop those oil wells. Their planning on what to do
with the oil revenue was more structured and acclaimed
to be something of a forward thinking approach. But in
the end, the amount of oil being tapped have falling far
short of expectation. Amid all these shortages here and
there, the government of Ghana has become highly
stretched, and are now desperately struggling to make
up for these shortfalls, but it appears that the damage
has been done, and anything short of a major bailout
would mean doom for the country. Ghana has come a
long way; in 2007 it became the first country in sub-
Saharan Africa other than South Africa to issue
international bonds. Today, it's unlikely that issuing
more international bonds would be part of the solution
as those international investors are now fleeing in
droves. It did not help matters that Ghana did not treat
her neighbors such as Nigerians kindly during their years
of abundance. I recalled all the obstacles the Ghanaian
government put along the way to dissuade potential
Nigerian investors. I'm sure now they wish they hadn't
done so, but again, the damage is done, for I can't see
those Nigerians rushing out to rescue Ghana from
herself.
The bottom line is that Ghana is not quite Nigeria. The
economy of Lagos and Akwa Ibom combined is greater
than that of Ghana, and its population is under 30
million. But there are lessons here for Nigeria. If this
can happen to Ghana it surely can happen to Nigeria.
Our over reliance on oil for export revenue is one thing
that makes Nigeria overexposed to the risk of price
fluctuations or worse a crash in price. Our inability to
provide constant power supply continues to be a drain
on the cost of doing business in Nigeria. Our cost of
supporting the Naira is unaffordable to this economy,
and I have written about this issue before. There is no
doubt that corruption has played some role on what is
going on in Ghana, I am certain that we have far
greater corruption in Nigeria. And finally, we must
always keep our doors open, this is America's best kept
secret. Open doors means a constant flow of hungry
immigrants that are willing to work harder than the
otherwise settled population. We have repeatedly
flaunted how Nigeria is growing at 7% annually, it is no
longer true. Last year, Nigeria's economy grew at just
under 6% but I am sure that your political leaders won't
tell you this. And finally, as the Champaign begins to
flow in Abuja and across most state capitals in
anticipation of next year's election, I hope we still keep
our eyes on the ball…on the economy of Nigeria before
we suddenly hear stories as it is happening in Ghana
today.
Michael Nnebe is a former Wall Street Investment
Banker and the Author of several novels, including;
Every Dream Has A Price, Riverside Park, Blood
Covenant, Gloomy Shadows, Passing wishes, Prime
Suspect, and others.
Source: Michael, Nnebe

Reports reaching Adom News indicate that scores of Ghanaians
are being killed by the day in Libya by rebels who
allegedly target black people in that country.
Some of the Ghanaians stranded in the conflict have
made several SOS calls to staff of Adom FM reporting
how their colleagues were being killed in bomb attacks
on vehicles carting mainly dark-skinned people.
According to them, several countries have come in and
evacuated their nationals but hundreds of Ghanaians
are stranded in military camps and other locations in
that country because their frantic calls for help have not
been heeded.
They are therefore pleading with President John Mahama
to send a rescue mission to go evacuate them from
Libya to Ghana.
They claim they are unable to reach the Ghanaian
Embassy in Tripoli for help and they are also unable to
get out of their safe havens because the rebels target
black people.
One victim, who mentioned his name as Koku Kingsley,
told Adom News “in my estimation more than 300
Ghanaians have been killed so far and over 250 of us
are now in a Military Camp at Tripoli waiting for Ghana
government to come take us home to Ghana.”
He said the Libyan military officers took them in but
they do not have any supplies in terms of clothes, food
or anything, so they are really in a difficult situation in
the camp.
Kingsley, who claimed to be a car tyre dealer in Tripoli,
said he witnessed a colleague of his die in a bomb
attack, and one other colleague of his left him to go get
his brother, but he has since not heard from him as his
phone lines are not going through.
One other victim called Godfred Konadu, aka Big Fredo
said he is trapped in his house at Zintan in Tripoli
because he is unable to go to work, and the shops
around where he lives are all empty because “the shop
owners have moved out the food and items into their
homes for their personal use.”
“We are not able to move around and meet each other
as Ghanaians because there is no gas and petrol so we
only communicate on phone,” he said in a Whatsapp
message to Adom News.
Big Fredo, who said he is a native of Suma Ahenkro in
the Jaman North District said the situation is precarious,
adding that “I can’t say exactly how many Ghanaians
have been killed where I am but I know two friends of
mine used to work in a factory which was recently
bombed and we have since not seen or heard from
them.”
These SOS calls from Ghanaians in Libya started trickling
in for more than a week now, but it is not clear what
Ghana government has been doing about it, as more
Ghanaians report living in precarious conditions in that
country.
Source: Adom News

Fit2Rule: I once heard that Ghanaians are the worst mathematicians in the world. Now it's confirmed! Assuming we ignore your country's inability to conduct a reliable census. Going by your figure. Let's look at wealth distribution. Ghana $14,000,000,000 for 24,000,000 gives $583.33. Nigeria $500,000,000,000 for 200,000,000 gives $2,500. The difference is $1916.67. Do you need further explanation dollop head?

now best mathematician in the world,reason well and make this comparison...!!! with respect to your post, Ghana's wealth distribution in 2008 was $583.33 as against Nigeria's own of $2500 in 2014...now tell me, of the two,which is better

M4gunners: No instead they should increase it.We learn by trying.2010 , Ghana was only Africa Team that made it to round of 16, but this year Nigeria and Algeria., Who knows what will happen in next World Cup.

gbam!!!

masseratti: point is we don't produce 36% period.

I know right. my post was intended for the person who made that incorrect claim but I misquoted...Lolx

masseratti: like seriously? If we produce 36% what are Ghana,ivory coast,indonesia,cameroon producing,we are no 5 or at best 4th

assuming Ghana produces 37%, what about the ivory coast the world"s #1.....break things down man!!!

God bless Apostle!!!