realnas:
We use to have the tape at home, Samuel doe was killed in a very brutal way. The most painful part of the whole affair was he was snatched right under the nose of a Ghanaian general who who was leading the ecomog mission back then, it was immediately after this incident that Ibn ordered the removal of the Ghanaian general and ordered general dogon yaro to take over, Nigerian aircraft and warships started bombarding Monrovia. Those were the days ....

lol. that's what they want you to hear, but if you must know .. the Ghanaian man did what they told him to do. so did the Nigerian. they were all receiving orders from the powers that be. USA and Western Europe was calling the shots

hi makydebbie, how have u been?

TrumpDonald2:


Yea..Cos am still wondering why he didn't shoot despite the fact that he knew his life was at stake. 2shots in d air would have been enough to disperse them. I wonder the kind of soldiers in Ghana's military. Trust Naija soldier, 3 body for dey ground.

if a people resort to jungle Justice or what so ever . the military and security bodies that part of the defence frame work are supposed to set an example and it's not by committing another jungle Justice in the name of Justice. and that's what the Ghana army did. showing maturity for others to follow which is hard to see from an African view point. despite the fact that they're agreived.. I just say i respect sense of unity displayed by Ghanaians. joining hands with the army man. considering that people don't like the authorities. the law will take its place and the those found guilty are doomed. there is not tow ways

anupchan:
My friends mother had severe pain because of kidney stones. She took a spoon of apple cider vinegar with some water. She got relief in 20-30 minutes flat. She used braggs apple cider vinegar. Hope this is useful to you.

you have a point on the cos apple cider vinegar is know to help cure Varicocele in the veins... one of the major problem in Africa is out lifestyle habit. majority of the food is carbohydrate and People hardly it fruits. there needs to be a overhaul of Life style to ensure a balance.

sugarbelly:
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see all the photos and video of him enjoying inside different private jets SEE PHOTOS & VIDEO


bossnation shuld be among dem ladies enjoying private jet w/ him

hushpuppi swaging gone wrong

this is plain stupidity. you have done credit card scams so much that you think our invisible. you a card that's not yours for legit transaction. how stupid. some people are so poor that all they have is money.

freshest4live:
Vice president, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia is seeking to strengthen ties between Ghana and Nigeria and he did just that by meeting a powerful delegation of top Nigerian businessmen and women at the Flagstaff house.

The purpose of the visit was to explore the business and investment opportunities of both countries so as to increase free-border trade.

Nigeria has always remained a main partner in Ghana’s West African growth mainly due to the economic and cultural ties of both countries.

Top on the agenda was the reformation of the port system in Ghana “that would make it the leading ones in West Africa”.

“We tried very hard to get Nigerian banks to Ghana and it has really benefited Ghana a lot. We don’t have a fear of opening up. We can learn a lot from each other,” Bawumia revealed.

Earlier, the former president, John Mahama encouraged the Nigerian government to stay resolved in becoming the economic power of West Africa.

ok. what's your point?

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dovelike:
Mine was when my parents stopped me from traveling. I hardly cry but recently, I found out that when you cry, you feel better afterwards and think more clearly than when you hold it up inside. It just eats away at you.
Just don't let people see you cry, thats all. It is very normal .

you are matured

Nonybb:
What is this common Ghanaian doing in Nigeria all the time. Assuming that Ghanaians are not full of common peasants he could have as well gone to meet the Ghanaian richest man and leave Dangote alone

your talk is off point and also that's Accra

you need this bruh

IamAirforce1:
She really miss me badly


But I don't go back to my vormit.

lol .. Deadz

LePrezident:


I do not think you will be restricted to receivING any amount considering that they also make money from your transactions on the card. And you surely have to verify your identity and you are good to go. Also, in case you are having difficulties with your PIN, you can contact them directly through your online Payoneer account.

thanks a mill

LePrezident:


You have to go to an ATM that is compatible with MasterCard; Payoneer is based on MasterCard . The card came with a PIN, no?

I will check then. thanks. bit if someone sends in a big amount , will the person be allowed to? cos the first time i received money through it they asked for some verifications

dainformant:
A Nigerian man identified as Oluwa Success popularly known as Gbaja Marine has been killed by rival cultists in Ghana. The young man who reportedly belongs to Eiye confraternity was stabbed to death by members of the Vikings confraternity in Accra, Ghana capital few days ago...

His friends are already threatening on Facebook - saying 'heads will roll over the death of 'Gbaja Marine''.

Source; http://www.nationalhelm.net/2017/05/nigerian-cultist-gbaja-marine-killed-by.html

this guys have brought their bs here too?

Just30:
it's the reason why today, Ghanaians hardly declare their wealth. It's very difficult knowing who owns what company, in Ghana.

and it's very bad you know cos a lot of youths and outsides don't know about this great pursuits done by Ghanaians. if we fail to tell our story someone else will tell it for us. and of course it will be concorted.. he really brought down the entepreneurial​ spirit it of well meaning Ghanaians. I considered it that he was afraid​ that those people with their immense wealth and infulence can get him over thrown and killed. and this still goes on till Today

LePrezident:



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fanficgirl:

When was that? Hahahahahaha

check this.. Nigeria got it's Independence in 1960 and in less than ten years was thrown into civil war. meaning that even before the Independence Nigeria has not been stable. the war stopped 1970, then we had the likes of fela surface. the man with the truth in his mouth. and you know what? from that time on he had no record of singing when Nigeria better, it has always been the same thing. Its evident the government has succeeded in playing the populace because many are ignorant and divided on tribal, cultural and ethnic line's

fanficgirl:

Wow . That's so sad . Imagine to build yourself only for enemies of progress to tear you down

it's very sad you know. we can be so deep with envy for our neighbour. this are untold stories..

Nowenuse:


I hate it when people emphasize on Qatar and UAE making progress. These countries just have only a few million people with vast rescources. They are also linguistically, ethnically and religiously one.
They would be mad and sub-human not to make progress.

Ghana does not have any rescources? For real?
Why are they called the gold coast? Their land is very fertile and they have a small population.
They also have an ethnic and religious majority who are always in charge and leadership of affairs.

ghana has practically every resource nigeria has so its strong enough to stand o its weight if corruption is reduced and proper policies are being implemented

Legonviking:


We were made to believe that Lt.Gn Acheampong was the worst Ghanaian leader and needed to be tied on the stake and shot.
You are right.In his time B.A Mensah established a tobacco factory ,while Siaw established a brewery which were later confiscated by Rawlings and sold to foreign investors on flimsy excuse of tax evasion.

well its obvious that there is more to the story and his dealings were not clean as well...its just ignorance and tribalism that made people over look the truth... one thing he should never have done was to kill entrepreneurship spirit of many ghanaians look at siaw who established the tata brewery, the first indigenous owned in west africa.. he had military raid his house and confiscate is house.. and his company sold on a cheap platter to guinness ghana, what of Mr. Yaw Boakye, another business tycoon who was a victim of the Rawlings legacy. At a time when the local manufacturing of mattresses was unknown, he set up a factory to produce deluxe mattresses.what of Kowus Motors, the first locally assembled motor plant in west africa..the list goes on and on, by now we should have been a trailblazer in the world. and reflecting as the star of africa.. but we will still get there.. am optimistic about the reforms of the new government..

popizaino:
ok.there were early signs of resurgence of the cannery when she newly acquired it but don't know why nothing is happening there yet making blue skies the only saving grace of the youths in the town.

its very sad to say the least, that cannery would have been a money spinner and transform ghana into a major dairy producer, but as professeur pat utomi pointed out .."ignorance is a bane of not just the nigerian youth but the african at large" he did well in terms of restoring order but he was not clean as potrayed..

read..

Rawlings came to power first through a popular uprising in 1979 as a military man. He led the AFRC junta and handed over power to Hilla Liman after a few months in office. On December 31 1981, Rawlings led a coup d'état which overthrew the democratically elected government of Dr. Hilla Liman. He ran a military dictatorship under the PNDC government between 1981 -1992 before putting off his military uniform to run a pseudo democratic government for another eight years until the year 2000.

Before grudgingly handing over power in the year 2000, Rawlings attempted to perpetuate himself in power for much longer but his sinister moves were resisted by members of his own government. In recent comments, Rawlings confessingly said, '"we (NDC) could have stayed on for another eight or sixteen just to work to consolidate situations very well and proper."

"I made a suggestion to my colleagues that considering that people are becoming saturated with us or with me, let me let Justice Annan take over and I can be his number 2 or step aside. He can serve four years or eight years then I could come back, and that will be sixteen years of consolidation because what we had noticed was that these characters will destroy anything and everything so let's not allow it."

He continued, "Some of my comrades said no and that, it's never been done before. Is that not what Putin did recently? We would have been the first to do it here. That would have helped to consolidate because quite often we make reference to institutions but the institutions rely on the human factor and if those human entities are not bold enough to defy that which is wrong, that institution will be weak; am I lying?" he asked.



Today, We can say that Rawlings wanted several more years to consolidate the killing of local industry and the forcing of foreign goods on Ghanaians,and therefore the destruction of the local industry.



During these nineteen (19) odd years, Mr. Rawlings and his wife Nana Konadu Agyeman – Rawlings governed with terror using what he himself describes as the 'shock effect' and the 'fear factor'.



He did this through several extra judicial killings, imprisonment, torture and seizure of private properties and enterprises. Also killed or imprisoned anyone that he considered 'enemy of the revolution'.



This 'reign of terror' targeted at the local industry forced into exile, detention, and the ultimately the grave, many wealthy business men and women whose businesses formed the industrial base of Ghana in the 70s and 80s and appeared to be Rawlings' main target, for he labeled them all as 'enemies of the revolution'.



The list of Ghanaian businesses which were either destroyed or taken over by the government of the AFRC/PNDC/NDC under Rawlings and later given away to members of the Rawlings regime/family or to foreign interests for a pittance is endless.

A notable example of a local industrialist whose industry was destroyed was Mr. Joshua Kwabena Siaw, a native of Kwahu Akwasiho in the Eastern region. Originally a teacher, the man gradually began building a business in the Brewing industry. In 1973 during Col. I.K Acheampong's regime, he opened the largest brewery in West Africa at Achimota, a suburb of Accra. The brewery produced Tata beer for the local market and exported Maltex, then a very popular soft drink, to Togo, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cote d'Ivoire, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Senegal, and The Gambia.

Unfortunately under a so-called 'house-cleaning' exercise under Rawlings targeting local businessmen identified as collaborators of Kalabule, (a system of price hikes), Rawlings arrested and confiscated the brewery of Mr Siaw with the lame excuse that he had been hoarding sugar at a time the commodity was scarce on the open market. A trumped-up charge of tax evasion was later added and he was thrown into jail.

Mr. Siaw later managed to escape and fled into exile in Liberia on transit to South London, where he died in obscurity in1986. His company Tata Brewery was sold by Rawlings to foreigners. It is now in the hands of foreign owners - Guinness Ghana Breweries Limited.

Since his death, Mr. Siaw's children have been engaged in protracted legal tussle to retrieve his properties, including the brewery, but justice has eluded them ever since.

Another example is Mr. Benjamin Amponsah Mensah popularly known as BA Mensah who had established many local business initiatives. For example the International Tobacco Company Limited at North Kaneshie in Accra manufactured Rothmans King Size cigarettes. His main competitors were American-owned Pioneer Tobacco Company, producers of 555 cigarettes.
After the in June 4 1979 military takeovers led by J.J Rawlings, Mr. B.A. Mensah was accused of not paying taxes as an excuse to seize all his assets, including the International Tobacco Company Limited. International Tabacco Company limited was among several indigenous Ghanaian companies aided by the Acheampong regime with a five- year tax holiday to encourage the growth of the local industry and to enable them compete with foreign companies effectively.

Unfortunately, many of these local businesses which were helped by Col Acheampong to grow ended up dead in the hands of Rawlings and alongside Col. I.K Acheampong himself who was shot by Rawlings after taking over power.

We can also remind ourselves of Mr. Yaw Boakye, another business tycoon who was a victim of the Rawlings legacy. At a time when the local manufacturing of mattresses was unknown, he set up a factory to produce deluxe mattresses.

Mr. Yaw Boakye also established a state of the art private hospital at Cantonment in Accra. When Rawlings took over power, Mr. Boakye was one of the first victims of his brutalities. His mattress factory was seized, and the hospital confiscated to the state.

The Police Hospital in Accra today, was originally Mr. Yaw Boakye's private hospital. The property was seized and handed over to the Ghana Police to operate as a Centre for medical care of senior police officers.

Those above fifty years will remember a popular car assembly plant called Kowus Motors. It was established by late Kofi Owusu, who acquired R.T. Briscoe when they were sent packing, and operated a wholly Ghanaian-owned assembly plant. Like many successful Ghanaian businesses, Kowus Motors bacame victim of the AFRC and PNDC aversion to successful native initiatives.

Vacuum Salt Products Limited (VSPL), was confiscated from the late S.C. Appenteng in 1992, under the pseudo democratic rule of Rawlings and co.

The bitter truth is that Jerry John Rawlings and his regime did such irreparable damage to the local manufacturing industry that it would take more than mere speeches to get Ghanaian men and women to commit their resource and know-how into manufacturing goods for local consumption especially since they cannot compete with foreign capital bringing already finished goods into Ghana. No wonder, shopping malls have taken over manufacturing industry in Ghana.

If there will always be pressure on the cedi to fall, it is due to our forced love for foreign goods by Rawlings AFRC/PNDC brutal policies which encouraged the selling of imported items, rather than manufacturing them at home. If there are no local goods on the Ghanaian market today, it was Rawlings and his AFRC/PNDC/NDC who once cleared the local market of Made in Ghana goods.

Interestingly, by the time Rawlings and his PNDC/NDC were forced by the IMF and the World Bank to introduce economic reforms to recover the sinking Ghanaian economy of the 80s, there were a few local business men and women who were capable of taking advantage of the divestiture implementation program under the economic Reform Programs of the IMF and World Bank.

At this point, Rawlings and his cronies then began to loot and share among themselves most of the local business which were either established and ran by the state or seized from private citizens by the state under the guise of a so-called divestiture implementation committee (DIC).

Never known for running any business throughout her life, Nana Konadu Agyeman –Rawlings, wife of Jerry John Rawlings used Caridem Corporation, to acquire several public enterprises, including the GIHOC Cannery, GNTC Bakeries, GIHOC Brick and Tile, GNTC Supermarket, Nsawam cannery and the former State Transport Corporation which she run down very badly. Mrs. Rawlings also began running a number of gas stations and supermarkets in Accra and other cities. She also allegedly bought shares in several chains of hotels, including Accra's La Palm Pleasure Beach Hotel and other hotels in other cities in Africa.

Many of these state owned enterprises acquired by wife of Rawlings were never paid for, and in some instances, very little was realized by the state from the sale. It has been suggested that these appropriations of state properties served as retirement packages for Mr. and Mrs. Rawlings who indeed could not account for the proceeds of the economic divestiture program that saw the sale of several hundreds of state enterprises to private sector players.

According to Kojo Appiah-Kubi, a Ghanaian economic historian, 909.617 billion old cedis was realized from the Divestiture program. He also noted in his book that the "the privatization of AGC (Ashanti Goldfields Corporation) alone produced [fetched Ghana] about USD $454 million" (Appiah-Kubi 2001, p.212).

Up until today, nobody in the Rawlings regime can tell Ghanaians how the US$454 million from the sale of AGC or the entire 909.617 billion cedis was squandered. What is clear is that Most Ghanaians who were old enough at the time had cause to worry about where the money ended up.

In 2001 a study by three scholars including Ghana's Professor Gyimah-Boadi to ascertain the success of the P/NDC economic policies including the privatization of State Owned Enterprises and how the proceeds were utilized, found that: "only 7 per cent [of Ghanaians] were some how satisfied" while "over half of all Ghanaians (53 per cent) were dissatisfied" (Bratton/Lewis/Gyimah-Boadi 200, p. 248).

In a word, Jerry John Rawlings and his family and cronies in the AFRC/PNDC/NDC first totally killed off genuine local Ghanaian industries and enterprises by confiscating and turning them into state enterprises only to turn around and sell them/share them off to themselves and other foreign friends and failed to account to the people of Ghana.

This is the only truly enduring legacy of nineteen (19) years of Rawlings AFRC/PNDC/NDC government. All of Ghana's economic problems today take its roots from this bad legacy which handed over every profitable business in Ghana to foreigners at the expense of the local economy and industry.

popizaino:
I heard Rawlings wife bought nsawam cannery how true is that?

very true there, they are not saint's either

Legonviking:


Let come out from the ghost mode.

It will be very wrong to opine that GH went down in the 90s.On the the contrary it was in the 90s that the country started to show progress after years of decay.The Acheampong era in the 70s witnessed a massive decay in the country and prolonged into the 80s.
The early part of the Rawlings era saw Ghana experiencing a major drought and scarcity of essential commodities

school of thought. do you know that Ghana had More millionaires in achempobg time than in Rawlings. this is not to criticize​ the house cleaning exercise but I think was a lot of witch hunting that could have been avoided in the process. there were great Ghanaian owned companies that should have been sustained till now. am talking about the likes of rothmans cigrattes, the first cigratte company in West Africa.I bet people dont know that this brand was owed by a Ghanaian before he got his property conifscated. and sold off to bat.the nsawam cannery etc. I think in the process of the house cleaning he damages the entepreneurial spirit of well meaning Ghanaians to an extent

Factfinder1:
Even if his uncle is arrested would there be any one to stand against him as witness in court.. The most important thing is for the boy to make heaven... His uncle will answer God

and is this how life will keep going? he came to this Earth for a reason.being cut short is the worse thing that could ever happen in this race

Throughout history , it has been the inaction of those who could have acted, the indifference of those who should have known better, the silence of the voice of
justice when it mattered most, that has made it possible for evil to triumph.

vaxx:
whao fantastic answer.chocholate course production. That is a very good idea. This is where goverment needs to play its own role. The subsidy of cocoa pesticide should be taking seriously.some are using the advantage for their personal gain. Goverment also needs to empower farmer financially so that cocoa farming can be encourage. You know this says sticking lotto is better than cocoa farming. I get piss off when i hear it.

this things are a no brainier. and the mere fact that we have to point it out at this day and age is a shame. Ghanaians should stop looking up to political promises but take action cos we have an enabling environment. you wonder why foreginers are flooding the country and what the average person would do is still complain.. we need to develop the spirit of urgency and make use of our competitive advantage.

vaxx:
i concur with you. Ghana now has a chocholate company call golden tree. It is not as powerful like cadbury nor those it make varieties like cadbury either. Imagine a cocoa producing nation is not even self sufficient on chocholate. Is it not a mess.

there is a lot of work when it comes to creating s company like Cadbury. those are considered as great companies. before we can achieve that there has to be some things in place. Branding- this goes a long way and I see that it's nonexistent in slot of this companies. they need to pay more attention on brand projection. start chocolate production course's in our schools. we need to get serious

vaxx:
there is nothing bad in doing business with a closer country like nigeria. Europe too is not bad idea. Use USA FOR EXAMPLE. Usa enjoy good business both with closer member and the EU

exactly my point. but the reality is not the case. go to see borderline and see the amount of truck's waiting for clearance enter the country. so many unessary verification under the guise of chopping money. the reality of a free movement only exist on paper. but I must laud addo in taking a bold step in making that change. he went to go and told them to keep the aflao border open 247.. I mean. how will our borders be shut at a particular time. which serious trading nation does that. we are the enemies of our selves

obaaderemi:
That's what i told vaxx too.Nkruma was brilliant but he talked too much and acted little.He spent huge amounts on white elephant projects and when the projects failed,he couldn't handle the criticism so visited his people with a heavy hand.African leaders have always been selfish.

no on the contray he walked the talk. he was not a perfect man. if there was something he lacked in his government is a strong system of unity among he and his cohorts. just like what South Korea did.. black are divided by religious,wthnic and tribal lines and will not mind of an external force brings their heart desire to a precived enemy

vaxx:
bro ecowas has a lot of benefit for each member. A very less percentage of commodity moving in and out each member state to another. Free movement of member to any any state under the cover of ecowas. Millitary assistance during chaos time. And many more. Authough i agree some member are enjoying the priviledge better than some state. Nigeria was able to penetrate ghana market as a result of ecowas rules and regulation. There was a time in ghana in 2013 when ghanians complain of foreigner domination their local market. Ghana goverment was called to order by the ecowas court ... I think we should look much in a way to improve it better than to dissolve it. We can borrow idea from gulf member state not EU.

that's why mahama made a statement about Nigeria's over protectionism. which is even affect business in Nigeria Today.. as at koufor time Ghana sort to be a hub so they let in the biggest player's in the region. in the hopes of also opening to Ghanaian business. but it wasn't to be as Nigeria has been practicing a protection system.thats what prompted the Ghana gov reaction and not the other way round. it is the joy of every country to attract investor's and business.. for me Ghana should concentrate on trading with eu and neighbour countries. looking forward to what Nana has in store

obaaderemi:
As a freedom fighter and a pan africanist,he was a great guy.Do you know Sunny Ade made a song about him?But as a leader,Osagyefo like most other african leader of his time failed woefully.Years ago,I watched a documentary on NTA on ghana.The focus was a colossal aluminium smelter Reynolds,an american firm built for nkruma.After completion, reynolds insisted on bringing bauxite from jamaica.Nkruma disagreed since ghana had more bauxite than jamaica.The americans,who had the expertise to manage the plant left and the plant just remained redundant.The ghanaians obviously didn't read the fine details of the contract.That was just one example,many abound.Across Africa.

despite the fact that he fails in the end . he was a man who walked the talk. you know CIA masterminded his over throw. to date the projects he left behind are still serving the purpose. his plan was to make an African super power and he was moving to avaheive it. he is among the first leader's that got to understand the strong grip of neo coloniasm helped by the black eggs in his county. I wonder why the airport is still named kotoka. after a man that sold the country on a cheap platter.