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Buhari turns down Rolls Royce ride in London

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  • Isaac Kusi Bronx, NY. 8 years ago

    These are indications of the things to come. Hope he can fight corruption.

  • MONEY TEMPTATION 8 years ago

    NOT NECESSARILY, KUSI.

    ACHEAMPONG ALSO STARTED BY ARRIVING AT AN EVENT IN A TOYOTA COROLLA.

    WHAT ABOUT OUR INDEPENDENCE DAY IN 2015?

    MAHAMA RODE IN A TOYOTA AVALON.

    NOT A BAD CAR, BUT THAT'S HOW THEY PRETEND TO HI ...
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  • Blame my teacher. 8 years ago

    Hmmm.

  • HON SHAMO 8 years ago

    OKUDJETO ABLAKWA USES PRESIDENTIAL JET FOR HIS WEDDING, KWESI PRAAT USES PRESIDENTIAL JET FOR HIS PERSONAL BUSSINESS, VOTE NDC OUT

  • Owu 8 years ago

    I applaud President Buhari for turning down Rolls Royce ride in London. This is to to tell African leaders how to lead an exemplary lifestyle. Most African leaders live large and their budget are always funded by the west. It ...
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  • Why Ghana 8 years ago

    Buhari knows his security needs more than anyone in the world. The article says he had arranged for his own security. He didn't need any from anyone.

    Boko Haram can assassinate him in that Rolls Royce.

    You want to teac ...
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  • BBC NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 8 years ago

    IGNORE THAT BOKO HARAM LEADER. WE HAVE THE SAME IN GHANA , THEY ARE NOW BUSILY SHOWERING ACID ON THEMSELVES.BUHARI AND ASHANTI/ AKYEM NPP PARTY CAN NOT BE TRUSTED IN A MUNITS.

  • IBRAHIM SEIDU 8 years ago

    WAAA LOOK AT THIS...NDC ACID ATTACK CULPRITS...A National Democratic Congress (NDC) member, Mr. Kwadwo Adjei, has expressed worry that the Techiman Municipal Police have not arrested anybody in connection with the case in whi ...
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  • Big Bro 8 years ago

    Suarez or who ever you are please think before you start comments please. ...

  • Emmanuel 8 years ago

    Why are you guys so scared of even the shadow of Akufo Addo

  • NPP FANATIC 8 years ago

    1. NO-ONE IS AFRAID OF AKUFO ADDO EXCEPT MAYBE LITTLE GIRLS AND BOYS...AND 2. EVEN IF SOMEONE WAS, WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE? YOU WISH SOMEONE WOULD TAKE AKUFFO SERIOUSLY..OTHER THAN HIS HEART SPECIALIST-HAHAHA!!!

  • kofi 8 years ago

    Because he is criminal and drug dealer, a country like Ghana don't need a leader like him

  • Dk 8 years ago

    Bbc u are a stupid fool

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  • PRINCEWILLY@YMAIL.COM 8 years ago

    A politician opened the door of his Rolls Royce, when suddenly a car came along and hit the door, ripping it off completely. When the police arrived at the scene, the lawyer was complaining bitterly about the damage to his pr ...
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  • DusTY-FooT-pHiloSophER 8 years ago

    And so what, the dailyguideghana.com?

  • .USMAN. 8 years ago

    Your Prez Mahama stupidly tripled his salary and back-dated the increment, something Prof Mills vowed never to implement. After that, what do we see? A depletion of the state coffers to the extent that Mahama has to now decla ...
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  • Ankomah 8 years ago

    Your over ambitious Akuffo Addo would have hopped into the rolls royce for all the fanfare he likes.But this will never happen in his life time!

  • Kate 8 years ago

    I thought we have seen all these before.....They start like this but end on the opposite note.....JJ shun bigger things. ...but where is he now. .? Populism on my mind. .....

  • .USMAN. 8 years ago

    Buhari was not as hungry as JJ was before coming to power. Another difference is that Buhari is principled and cultured and received good training from his Mum and Dad unlike JJ.

  • Canadasheabutter( GhUWR ) 8 years ago

    Nigeria will see colossal growth & development under President Mahammadu Buhari

    Long live your reign -----Ramadhan Mubariik in Advance

  • DusTY-FooT-pHiloSophER 8 years ago

    Oh Yeah! Aren't this same Muhammadu Buhari part of the centuries woes of that country of his? What a travesty of hypocrisy! Nigerians were simply fed up with the everyday attacks from Boko Haram hence his chosen since he is b ...
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  • .USMAN. 8 years ago

    By the behaviour of Mahama we all know he is a failure. No wonder Lydia Foresight described him as a dummy little school kid in an adult body form.

  • PRINCEWILLY@YMAIL.COM 8 years ago

    MURTALA MOHAMMED TRIED TO WEED CORRUPTION BUT HE DID NOT SURVIVE.BUHARI IS PART OF THE CORRUPT OLD GOAT.

  • Nii Adjei 8 years ago

    On a private visit but turned up at 10,downing street meeting and discussing official matters.

  • Ekanson 8 years ago

    “Hard as the stunned diplomats present tried to convince him, he refused to bulge, ....”
    Refused to bulge paaaaa? Ei!!! Brofo paaa niee?

  • Ashifo (Uncertified Security Expert) 8 years ago

    Ekanson, you havent seen anything yet. If you want to see more, read the Daily Guide.

  • EKAS 8 years ago

    Ekan, Ashi, our writers are a huge joke.

  • Dave 8 years ago

    Exactly does not make sense ! Then have a meeting at No 10 ?

  • Kpeli 8 years ago

    Lol

  • .USMAN. 8 years ago

    ...and Okujato would have been singing the praises all over town in the highest crescendo.

  • Martin osey 8 years ago

    Did Kufour not grab a brand new Land cruiser offered him when he won in 2000 and went to the castle and his car battery could not ignite his care? fools all you know is to insult Mahama

  • I.B 8 years ago

    Ghanaian journalist have to stop copying.word for word theu copyde story from nigerian media ,what a shame

  • Kweku Ananse 8 years ago

    there is a wind of change coming to africa. Come on Buhari.

  • Susuka 8 years ago

    Wind of change? Are you sure? Maybe you were born yesterday.

    Much as I think Buhari has the potential to really knock some sense into the political management of Nigeria, I really do not think that he has the fortitude and ...
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  • SUMMER 8 years ago

    YES, SUSUKA.

    WHEN NIGERIA WAS DRENCHED IN CORRUPTION AND ARMED ROBBERY, WE MANAGED.

    TODAY, WE"RE THE SAME, IF NOT WORSE.

    MAHAMA IS THE WORST OF OUR LAST 4 PRESIDENTS - CORRUPT, INCOMPETENT, UNCARING.

  • joe,boston 8 years ago

    Nana Addo are u listening, if u can match such a humbling gesture as above then u can have my vote. But for an arrogant and a violent person like u I can't be sure.

  • .USMAN. 8 years ago

    Buhari is not as useless as that academician called Goodluck Jonathan. I hope our useless John Mahama too will take a cue from this gesture and repent from tripling his salary and backdating the increment some few days he bec ...
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  • DusTY-FooT-pHiloSophER 8 years ago

    It would be better to advise your wannabe president by whom fleet of expensive cars is that of his posture anywhere he goes and at the criminal expense of the Ghana@50 courtesy Kufuor. Hello Kufuor! Ayerko!

  • .USMAN. 8 years ago

    Stop the equalization and inform your Dead Goat Mahama to do things that will inspire Ghanaians for great feats.

  • DusTY-FooT-pHiloSophER 8 years ago

    "Buhari is not as useless as that academician called Goodluck Jonathan. I hope our useless John Mahama too will take a cue from this gesture and repent from tripling his salary and backdating the increment some few days he be ...
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  • .USMAN. 8 years ago

    Mahama is in the saddle and so it will be suicidal for him to commit the same mistakes others committed to exit the political terrain. I don't know whether his history class at the university taught him to make such mistakes. ...
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  • DusTY-FooT-pHiloSophER 8 years ago

    So, Buhari is around one more time to straighten the crooked paths this time around, you argued, right? Well then, yesterday is history, today is a gift from our heavenly Yakubu and tomorrow is as mysterious as the universe. ...
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  • Azure, libya 8 years ago

    USMAN, you are very stupid

  • .USMAN. 8 years ago

    A dead goat will remain a dead goat.

  • DusTY-FooT-pHiloSophER 8 years ago

    Keep rumbling until thy kingdom come on your propagandizing soul.

  • Jay 8 years ago

    I guess if this offer was made to John Mahama he would not have refused it.

  • pablo 8 years ago

    What has this news got to do with us in Ghana. How is it going to help in solving the energy crisis. Please let's get serious

  • Osman Abdulai 8 years ago

    y should people like u BBC always think negative please try to be hamble when u see dey truth.

  • pablo 8 years ago

    Usman, I don't like to insult on this platform but I have to tell you that you sound like an idiot.

  • .USMAN. 8 years ago

    Come on, be factual and be truthful. Prez Mahama's idiocy is unprecedented.

  • RINGO 8 years ago

    Buhari is now President so his safety must be paramount. He cannot just use any car. He is taking his anti extravagance crusade too far

  • .USMAN. 8 years ago

    ......because he is an Army General.

  • JB Mann 8 years ago

    1 Who toly you that the RR was bullet -proof.

    2. Is RR the only safest car in the world?

    Yes, his secutity is paramount, but a RR wont guarantee that, certainyl not!

  • Ofori Amanfo, Techiman 8 years ago

    Sensible talk. Keep it up.

  • Ohiani 8 years ago

    Let us see what he can do

  • Papa Yaw 8 years ago

    Yes

  • Ruby Yaalele 8 years ago

    Dear Buhari, Please teach our stupid Ghanaians what it means to be humble. May God punish our useless leaders and Chastise them with scorpions.

  • Murtala 8 years ago

    English master, it could be a typo,.after all you got the message

  • DR 8 years ago

    Fellow Africans, Mr Buhari is yet to taste power at the presidency. I wish him well though but I can assure you he will fall like a brick from a roof top.

  • Elderman 8 years ago

    Well, let him start 4rm corruption first.

  • ktz 8 years ago

    Mahama would have jumped into the Rolls Royce and even take pictures with the cars to show the world, just like he did when he visted CNN

  • kojo nzo ekangaki 8 years ago

    Imagine it was de over ambitious Nana Akufo-Addo.he would have hopped into de Rolls Roys,we all witnessed how he hijacked official cars from his former ministry for his 2008 presidential campaign...

  • abiba 8 years ago

    This example must be a lesson for all African leaders with impoverish population back home yet whilst abroad on their so called begging mission they show off as if nothing is happening back home.

  • Adama 8 years ago

    I really HOPE to God that Buhari will be true to himself and his God and transform Nigeria, a great nation by all standards yet as poor as a church mouse. Buhari should rid himself of all the thieves and jokers who will try t ...
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  • Ekow Sam 8 years ago

    President elect, I doff my hat for you. Many African leaders would have been swept off their feet with such a gesture. Africa has a bright future with leaders like you.

  • Colegate 8 years ago

    Leadership is a collective responsibility.The head can lead by example but if those who are around him do not do same it makes it very difficult to stamp your authority.Fisrt there must be a code of conduct that must apply to ...
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  • NAT OCANSEY,ESSEX-UK 8 years ago

    THE MARKS OF A GREAT LEADER IN BUHARI.HE SHOULD NOT STOP THERE BUT CHECK THE UNNECESSARY FALSE OSTENTATIOUS LIFE STYLE OF GOVT.OFFICIALS WHILE MILLIONS OF NIGERIANS WALLOW IN ABJCT POVERTY TALKLESS OF THE UNENDING ELECTRICITY ...
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  • Pepe 8 years ago

    JDM, for those who call him president would have invited a big hip woman and get lost in mind and flow in London. Big hip woman is more important than his life

  • Man of Character 8 years ago

    The President elect of Federal Republic of Nigeria, has set a very good example for African leaders to follow. If it were to be someone I know, he would have hopped into the the car before the High Commissioner would have fin ...
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  • Bread and kokonte 8 years ago

    So Buhari cannot do anything without consulting a white man! Boko Haram was formed by he Buhari and some Europian leaders just oust. President Goodluck who did not agree with some proposals of David Cameron like African ligal ...
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  • Michael K. Tettevi 8 years ago

    Since he is not yet inaugerated, he actually visited London privately and should be treated as such. Not until 29th. of May when he is declared as the new head of state of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, will he accept such ...
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  • JDM KILLED MILLS 4 FREE 8 years ago

    NDC HATE TEH TRUTH ABA,MAHAMA IS A THIEF WE ALL KNOW IT,MAHAMA ISJUJU MAFIA,WHY DID MAHAMA KILLED MILLS FOR POWER MAHAMA AND NDC DID NOT SAY NOTHING?? FUNNY ASSHOLE,NKWASEAFUO BI NTI,NONSES

  • Appiah 8 years ago

    This is an honest leadership character and not what Akufo Addo goes round to do.

  • why 8 years ago

    He has started well n i hope those pen down as ministers will take note. Follow his steps n it shallbe well with u.