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Hollywood to cash in on Ghana's $3m World Cup drama

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  • Mohammed Awuni 9 years ago

    I look a bit like him

  • Ghfuo, 30seconds WC DISGRACE!! 9 years ago

    Really!

  • Mohammed Awuni 9 years ago

    ..so I qualify

  • Queenie 9 years ago

    Ghana is corrupt as hell. I remember Obama & many others praising our nation for its good governance & now it's all a farce. There's nothing good to brag about this once promising nation.

  • ?2U 9 years ago

    YOU SEE JDM YOUR SELF WHERE YOU TODAY,(YEKAA WONTIE NO DABI DABI NA WO BEHUNU) TODAY IN SPORTS TOO YOU DID NOT LET IT END WITH WOYOME AND OTHERS,NOW THE WHOLE WORLD HAS SEEN GHANA IS THE MOST CORRUPT COUNTRY IN THE WORLD OF S ...
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  • Bula 9 years ago

    It's a pity when semi-literates talk about their country this way. It's a shame.

  • Gye Nyame 9 years ago

    May be this is what folks in the government need to change their attitude, when they see themselves on the "BIG SCREEN". It is sad when footballers who technically don't need the money, don't trust the promise made by their p ...
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  • Ghfuo, What Is Your Purpose/Legacy? 9 years ago

    Where was the finance minister in all this and why didn't he advice mahama of the tax implications of sending physical cssh on a plane to brasil. This is gross stupidity at the highest level of government! Jesus Christmas.... ...
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  • TRUTH 9 years ago

    I LIKE YOUR LAME OPINION ABOUT WHAT HAS HAPPENED. READ THE ARTICLE. IT IS NOT ABOUT CORRUPTION. IT IS ABOUT GHANAIAN PLAYERS GREED AND LACK OF PATROITISM.IT IS ALSO ABOUT CLEARING GOVTS IMAGE AND THE STINKER THAT WAS TO FOLLO ...
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  • WALI 9 years ago

    NIGERIAN TEAM DID A BETTER JOB THEN GHANA TEAM OF LOSERS

  • Adjaloo Kweku Nenya 9 years ago

    Hahahahahahah, we gave our beloved Black Stars to Kwasi Appiah, and we ended up becoming the laughing stock of the world. Oh mine!

  • Ofori 9 years ago

    Ghana is being ridiculed thanks to the impulsive and inmatured attitude of President Mahama

  • Kofi Joe 9 years ago

    What do you want him to do? The players were walking out unless the get their money. He did not start it.

  • Eva 9 years ago

    :)

  • WIDE EYES OPEN 9 years ago

    I can imagine Mahama toting a bag full of money like Eddie Murphy's father in Coming To America seeking his bopys in a strange land while the foxy Brazillians watch him sultified as they pounce on him to snatch a chunky porti ...
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  • Just passing by 9 years ago

    Awuni, don't make me laugh so much this late at night. It's not good for my digestion :DDDDD

  • AL JAZEERA NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 9 years ago

    Sulley Muntari CLINICALLY TREATED Ghana’s serious disease, CORRUPTION. He attacked corrupt NDC'S CREATE, LOOT AND SHARE BUSINESS! !!!--------

    Below is what led to the brawl.

    Sulley: WHAT IS THE USE OF SOO MANY G.F.A O ...
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  • Charlie King Addo 9 years ago

    Uganda had Idi Amin and the world had a good laugh. We have NDC and it is not funny any longer. The joke is now on us. If you have nothing positive to sell this is what the propaganda machinery does to a country predestined t ...
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  • kojo 9 years ago

    When, where and how was Ghana "predestined to carry the mantle and fauna of Africa"???

  • CHA 9 years ago

    NDC must go- enough of this nonsense- Mahama must leave now

  • Jay Rogue Ray Ram Liar 9 years ago

    Ghanaians have ownership to this story and no movie company should have the right to publishing or imitating any aspect of the story without authorized permission from Ghana the "laughing stalk" in this episode. Ghana, it now ...
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  • Agya 9 years ago

    where have you been? anything that makes money belongs to NDC big shots. They should actually tittle the movie Fools Paradise...hahaha

  • Odikr@ 9 years ago

    Are there any Casting agents willing to recruit "film extras? on location?
    Reasonable daily rates of pay for successful applicants ;)))

  • Tokugawah 9 years ago

    Why don't you stop film makers from making money out of this nonsense, or better still it can be made by Kumawood or whatever it's called.

  • WIDE EYES OPEN 9 years ago

    This ECOWAS will soon turn into a bufoon club. What brains are guiding it ? Mahama's Ghana is a complete failure in all things - even the Tetteh Quarshie Interchange is growing into a forest, littered all over with filth and ...
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  • ph 9 years ago

    mahama n nyantakyi

  • KAY 9 years ago

    Lill win and kyeiwaa better be quick before these opportunists makes a fortune out of our stuuuuuuuupidnesssss and mediocre thinking. After all we cause the mess so we should profit in turn

  • Abbe 9 years ago

    Ha, ha ,ha Ghana for sure knows how to entertain people around the world.

  • Nana asare, accaa 9 years ago

    How can a dog eater be a President of a Nation. Fucken useless Bastard mahama. The Brain God gave u, simply if u and Ur Class 1 Ministers can,t use it better then pls Return it to God cause u Guys are animals and u will be f ...
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  • Mahama's Ghana 9 years ago

    President Mahama really could not have thought through before sending the cash. Mahama at times you must be presidential. This one act has made you a poodle and that actually is overstatement.

  • Rastafara"I" 9 years ago

    and wimpy Kwesi Appiah as the toke

  • Cobe 9 years ago

    An interesting thriller it'll be...

  • Kofi Wayo Teye BaakaJnr 9 years ago

    NDC HAS BROKEN ALL RECORDS FOR THE WRONG REASONS

  • I SAID SO 9 years ago

    ...and now Hollywood is cashing in on our downfall. We've become laughing stalks to the world.

  • kobbyscratch 9 years ago

    Just sums it all up really! very sad. With corrupt leaders in this country what do we expect! Now we have become a laughing stock! We can't pay our polytechnic lecturers! Yet we fly $3,000,000 to brazil. where brazil takes 17 ...
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  • Senior Wisdom 9 years ago

    This will be fun to watch and I would love to star as Mahama!!

  • ali 9 years ago

    money laundering thick morons. the rest of the world have banks

  • Agya 9 years ago

    bunch of jokers...Ghana is a joke at this time

  • KnYc(USMC) 9 years ago

    Useless President sending 3million and paying taxes on it, whiles you could have pay them in Ghana and collect that taxes. Foolish mahama you call this moron a president? tweaaaaaaaa.

  • Niibi 9 years ago

    If we haven't realised the importance of doing things right with diplomacy and tact this in this global world maybe this could be a wake up call for Ghana and all Africa. Wish I have enough money to buy a plane full and just ...
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  • TEE 9 years ago

    IS SO A SHAME HE HEAR THE LAUGHABLE STOCK GHANA HAS BECOME. WE ARE BE RULE BY A INCOMPETENT USELESS CLUELESS AIMLESS HOPELESS VISIONLESS LEADERLESS THIEF CHECKS AND BALANCE CHOP SCOT FREE PEPENI FRAFRA MAHAMA

  • Wayome 9 years ago

    Please show John Boye's own goal and kissing Dollars. I will love to watch this. Which Cinema are they gonna show this. The consequences of corruption.We have been exposed and rudicled as a nation. Ghana is a failed state. We ...
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  • YOOMOBEGA 9 years ago

    Starring Dumelo as the courier. Don't use an American. Dumelo will win the academy award for this role.

  • CITIZENS BECOME FOOLS 9 years ago

    WHAT A STUPID PRESIDENT

  • NORTHERNERS ARE STUPID 9 years ago

    MAHAMA IS BRIAN DEAD

  • STUPID PRESIDENT 9 years ago

    TAANI-KWASEAAAAAAAAA

  • Yaw Poku, USA 9 years ago

    Thanks to the idiot Atuguba and co

  • Kojo Agatebe, Oregon 9 years ago

    I don’t know what we are waiting for. With or without FIFA sanctions, we have already become the armpit of international soccer. So, in order to save us from further humiliation, we must dissolve the GFA and withdraw from i ...
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  • BABY FACE 9 years ago

    IN A REAL DEMOCRATIC COUNTRY TELL YOUR PRESIDENT TO STEP ASIDE BECAUSE HE IS OF NO USE TO THE NATION.THE TITEL OF THE FILM SHOULD BE´´MAHAMA,MY STUPID DREAM OF WINNING THE WORLD CUP´´.

  • TEE 9 years ago

    OH GHANA NOW WE SEE OUR DISGRACE EVERYWHERE. AFARI DJAN ATUGUBA WHAT HAVE U DONE OUR MOTHERLAND GHANA

  • Q-tip 9 years ago

    Dis chicken mumu pepeni parading himself as president came in power to destroy the nation.

  • Kanawu 9 years ago

    Exposing the mentality of an average Ghanaian - corrupt, stupid, selfish, primitive you name it.

  • Kanawu II 9 years ago

    Where do these people come from? It sad that the intelligent ones don't do politics

  • Escargo 9 years ago

    The Intelligent will do politics. What you don't understand is that this chaos was cultivated by J J Rawlings 35 yrs ago. If you stand in their way with the truth they murdered you. So the whole population was cowed into subm ...
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  • Maureen 9 years ago

    i cant beleiev we've now turned into this world caricature! it's sad and im very sad :(

  • Brig 9 years ago

    Mahama will be better off resigning from office. He's proven that he's incapable of being the leader of this country.

  • Boss 9 years ago

    What a disgrace? Mahama and his gang must go

  • DIAMOND 9 years ago

    Ghana deserves a 40% cut from this movie's proceeds; we own the patent for this World Cup's stupidity.
    What trademark caricaturism!

    This is where Nyantakyi must take Hollywood to court for stealing our stupidity, not taki ...
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  • MYSELF 9 years ago

    Because of the stupidity the worst government in the history of Ghana's democracy we are now the laughing stock of the world. Thank you wanker head of state idiot mahama and his thieving ministers.

  • BE BOLD 9 years ago

    This is a lesson to Mahama that money cannot buy everything. He bought the presidency with public funds through the electoral college and the courts. Now he could not buy the world cup through cash but instead, his stupidity ...
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  • Gye Nyame 9 years ago

    @BE BOLD: Hey don't dare Mahama with this "money cannot buy everything", he might send another plane with more millions of dollars to the film makers to stop them from making the thriller. Shhhh... don't give Mahama new ideas ...
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  • Kofi Joe 9 years ago

    You have been in the US too long go home. Ghana does not have electoral college.

  • NYANSA. 9 years ago

    DON'T DESERVE THIS LABEL MUST BE STOPPED.

  • AME, U.S.A. 9 years ago

    I just don't understand why theses boys were not settled before they left home. Now we have washed our dirty clothes in public. the top management is corrupt from head to toein this modern times i cannot phantom how a whole p ...
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  • NTIKUMA ANANSE 9 years ago

    JOHN DRACULA MAHAMA HAS HUMILIATED GHANA AND IT IS NOW GOING TO BE DOCUMENTED IMMORTALISED IN FILM. WHAT A HUMILIATION, WHAT A SHAME???????????? OH GHANA, YOU DESERVE BETTER THAN A LAZY PRESIDENT JOHN DRACULA MAHAMA HAS OFFER ...
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  • We are all a bunch of sick farthies. 9 years ago

    This ppl(US) no matter what will defend their country and keep internal affairs internal not to be meddled with by outsiders. SO foolish we are that we can fool about bcos of the internet. when the goat destroys stuff around ...
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  • ANANSE KWAKU 9 years ago

    Because of such stupid actions, very well educated Ghanaians in USA and Europe find it difficult to get well-paid, professional jobs. Because the corporate thinks that if a whole government can be that silly, then what can b ...
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  • Akadu Mensema 9 years ago

    These Blacks like to demonize Africans!

  • OH SHIIT 9 years ago

    GHANA WILL RISE UP OUT OF THIS DEBACLE AND SHOW THE WHOLE FUCKING WORLD SOMETHING TO MAKE THEM EAT SMELLY PIGRATDOGVULTURE MEAT AND PUKE ALL THE WAY TO HELL!!!.

  • eugene 9 years ago

    WE KNOW YOU VOTE ndc...WHO ELSE WOULD COMPLAIN!

  • What a disgrace! Ghana! Africa! 9 years ago

    Very sad indeed. The government has really reduce the entire nation to a laughing stock! WHAT A DISGRACE!!

  • ADAM THE OLDMAN 9 years ago

    WHO ARE WE BLAMMING UNDER THIS NASTY SITUATION OF DO OR DIE THAT FACED GHANA. IF THE GOVT FAILED TO SEND THE MONEY THE BOYS WOULD HAVE DISGRACE GHANA BY REFUSING TO TURN UP AND THE COUNTRY WILL STILL BEFORCED TO PAY OR SURCHA ...
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  • Awurade kasa 9 years ago

    WHERE IS THE COUNCIL OF ELDERS?. CAN YOU ADVISE THIS GUY TO RESIGN BEFORE THE NEXT ELECTIONS PLEEEEAAAASSSSSSEEEEEE?.
    HE IS A DISGRACE TO THE COUNTRY.

  • Obrefoo 9 years ago

    WHAT A DISGRACE TO OUR DEAR COUNTRY WHEN STUPID PEOPLE ARE IN CONTROL OF AFFAIRS?

  • GOD IS WATCHING 9 years ago

    the joke on the ndc government.

    r

  • Margarita 9 years ago

    So why couldn't mr president of a joke wire the money or put the money in respective bank accounts. Ans: because the money was not in a bank account to start off with. It was stashed under mr president's bed. He is the most c ...
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  • SAD, SAD, SAD 9 years ago

    WE MADE IT INTO THE GUINESS BOOK OF WORLD RECORDS AT LAST, BUT IN THE MOST BIZARRE OF WAYS.

  • Daddy cash 9 years ago

    this is not a news, my people am even going to sponser the local movie artest to stage something on it. some one should be the president who promise and later send the money by plane, another person should be the sport minist ...
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  • Margarita 9 years ago

    Ha ha that sounds like a great plan but don't forget to have a scene where mr president is seen removing the suitcase of cash from under his bed to hand over to the sports minister ha ha

  • eugene 9 years ago

    asked for their money before they would leave home!

  • Agyei Sikapa 9 years ago

    J. D. M. is most pathetic. Of course, if all that a man thinks of is SLEEPING WITH WOMEN, THAT IS SEX, SEX SEX, he has not the time to think.

    John wanted to be president to steal state money to be able to look after ...
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  • mahama 9 years ago

    the president without common sense thank you for your good work .This is where you have taken the nation to .Mr producer please i wanna play foolish mahama.