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Let’s harness expertise of Ghanaians in diaspora to develop nation

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  • The mask 9 years ago

    Many families are saying that blog.boachsoft.com is the most helpful family finance resource they have ever come across.

  • Dogg 9 years ago

    Rwanda has a system in place to harness their educated diasporians and it is paying off.

    Go visit Rwanda right now and see how they are progressing. This is a country that has gone through some serious war.

  • Africanus 9 years ago

    Ghanaians back home do not want anything to do with us, apart from the money transfers they look forward to every week. They are jealous of Diasporas hence unwilling to entertain use in the system back home.

  • Tarzan 9 years ago

    You are so right. When you are there they use you to travel - invitation letter, plane tickets, buy this - buy that, pay this for me with a credit card, etc..... then you land in Ghana. They receive you well at the airport. G ...
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  • June 9 years ago

    I returned home after 11yrs in Australia and all that you've mentioned above are currently happening to me now, It is very sad.

  • TAFRIGYA 9 years ago

    Well said. You continue to disenfranchisse them and yet insincerely want their help.You cannot have it both ways.Local politicians hate prospective Ghanaian politicians overseas. Both groups hate Ghanaians with dual citizensh ...
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  • TAFRIGYA 9 years ago

    forgive my mispelling "disenfranchise".

  • Omanhene (U$A) 9 years ago

    Does anybody even have to remind our leaders in Ghana, that there are many Ghanaians with a tall list of academic credentials, professional and practical experiences that they can bring down to Ghana to help with our Technolo ...
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  • 3x 9 years ago

    How often have we said this however Ghanaians back home feels they know it all. It is only fools who behave that way and even previous President have all felt that way. We come home with CV wanting to help but being put off b ...
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  • Odikr@ 9 years ago

    Would you challenge a Fisherman at Dixcove's
    expertise?
    They land enormous;Rays;Sawdish;Threadfins;and occasionally Shark..
    Help to market these,though will be of immense value on the domestic and international level..... ...
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  • Plasma Kote 9 years ago

    Ghanaians abroad need to NETWORK......

    There are NO REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS for Political Appointments.IT IS ONLY WHO YOU KNOW and how much money you can KICK BACK.

    NETWORK from wherever you are and then go visit and ...
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  • Dr Jay 9 years ago

    why do you nail it so well just like that!
    I hold a medical as well as health administration degrees. I have been back home in Ghana in the past 2 years trying to help only to be frustrated by Ghanaians at home especially f ...
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  • Sam 9 years ago

    Dr. J, do not go back. i will give you a job. give me an email address.

  • Brofo 9 years ago

    Our political leaders are ignorant and stupid: They forget that it is their duty to serve Ghanaians. They engage in petty discussions, lack ideas and embezzle state funds with no sense of guilt nor iota of responsibility. The ...
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  • JACOB 9 years ago

    CHEAT AND LIE THAT IS WHAT BLACK PEOPLE DO BEST AGAINST OUR OWN AND NEVER END WELL. SAD STATE OF AFFAIRS FROM ONE GENERATION TO THE OTHER

  • pk 9 years ago

    RECEPTION IS THE WORD. PULL HIM DOWN IS THE OTHER.

  • JACOB 9 years ago

    IS BEEN CENTURIES AND THE SAME OLD MASTER SLAVE MENTALITY IS WHAT GHANA AND THE REST OF THE CONTINENT LEADERS CONTINUE TO EMBRACE. SAD STATE OF AFFAIRS CONSIDERING HUGE YOUTH POPULATION WHICH GHANA AS WELL AS THE REST OF AFRI ...
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  • Zargon 9 years ago

    Got to good job offers I'm on my way to Ghana hehehe

  • Susuka 9 years ago

    This reporter has reported a serious issue but the medium or language used is horrible, to say the least and smacks of half-baked education. The issue of Diasporeans coming home to roost and help Ghana is cardinal but the pro ...
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  • AKORABS 9 years ago

    You picked it up! The article, in terms of language, is so painful to read. This shows the quality of education in Ghana as achieved over the last thirty years or so. If you come in with freshness in language and thinking, yo ...
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  • mojingles 9 years ago

    Don't blame the reporter, at least the gist of the message is clear; qualified Ghanaians working abroad are desperately needed back home, but like you pointed out, there is distrust and envy, or put more appropriately "skin ...
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  • Dr Jay 9 years ago

    why do you nail it so well just like that!
    I hold a medical as well as health administration degrees. I have been back home in Ghana in the past 2 years trying to help only to be frustrated by Ghanaians at home especially fr ...
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  • Y B 9 years ago

    CLEANSHIELD, Amazing health product for everyone, All Natural Alkaline supplement from US specially and scientifically designed to clean inner Ocean clear stomach toxins, as well as unwonted substances in the body like virus ...
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  • fun 9 years ago

    Y8u can find this ty p e of medicine in the trotr8 buses.

  • Lartey 9 years ago

    Not whiles NDC fucktards rule Ghana...never in a billion years...why should I care for Ghana when the people voted to care don't care?

  • Odikr@ 9 years ago

    How many in the diaspora;can steer a pirogue on to the landing sites at Dixcove?
    A multitude of sea going pirogues discharge their cargo of enormous rays;sawfish;threadfins;and the occasional shark.
    The solution though;is f ...
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  • .... 9 years ago

    Go back to Ghana? Fuck that. I am not going to suffer 'dumsor', no water, no medicines, potholed roads, smelly cities.....and all that shit from political nincompoops like these NDC twats! They can sell the country for all I ...
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  • Lartey 9 years ago

    Ndc mosquitos just want new victims to suck dry...bloody parasites!!

  • ISAAC A.K.A MARCUS GARVEY- ASIA 9 years ago

    We Ghanaians,talk too much,what good English educated,Ghanaians Living Abroad,helping other country had offer to help Amma Ghana? visit Asia country,like singapore,China,malaysia,thailand,Brunei,Indonesia E.C.T. they did not ...
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  • Abane 9 years ago

    health care to keep one alive. Sort out the health issues and dumsor first my friend as we are willing to come home to help.

  • kontoa 9 years ago

    Mr Charles Augustus sam's comment is very wise and honest. Let us all give it the attention it deserves. However it must be noted that 95% of Ghanaians in the diaspora think well of their mother country Ghana yet apprehensive ...
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  • Baffour Agyemang 9 years ago

    kontoa i am soo touched by your comment such that i have tears running down my cheeks. You are a deep thinker.May God bless you.But for me sometimes I feel like total destruction is the only solution.

  • Joel 9 years ago

    Ask the medical and dental council how many well qualified and experienced doctors some even highly experienced specialists have been refused registration because according to the council they failed to pass their exams.come ...
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  • Felix Ayisi Darko...kayisidarko@gmail 9 years ago

    God bless u for the thought u have for Ghana. You are the kind of people our nation needs..

  • Felix Ayisi Darko...kayisidarko@gmail 9 years ago

    You are the kind of people our nation Ghana needs to be in the realms od affairs..until.we redifine our definition of a weathy person we will never go anywhere as a nation...when you live simple that's when you are seen as "a ...
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  • Haunt Morro 9 years ago

    Thank you for the invitation but will only consider when NPP return. They appreciate knowledge and can do something with it. NDC would know what to do wit my skills

  • Odikr@ 9 years ago

    What were the positives of the summit organized by NPP?
    The "Homecoming Summit"...

  • Agya Pomaa 9 years ago

    What's is the goverment doing to help those engineers doctors to come and help motherland ghana..all i hear and read is we should come to ghana..
    when even the doctors in ghana don't lights to treat their patient ....and ple ...
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  • Victor A. Young 9 years ago

    It's as if nobody has come home to help. What about Dr. Bawumia, Dr. Akoto Osei and many others that I can't mention here who have all come home leaving their lucrative jobs and businesses abroad to come home and help build G ...
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  • .... 9 years ago

    Return to invest in Ghana? Not when these diabolical NDC cunts are in power.

  • GBEWAA 9 years ago

    FOR WHERE????

    AKUFFO-ADDO IS SO DESPERATE TO RECOVER THE HUGE LOSES FROM PLAYING POLITICAL "CHACHA" WITH PROCEEDS FROM THE SALE OF FAMILY PROPERTIES THAT I CAN SEE HIM LOOT GHANA WITH BOTH ARMS AND LEGS IF HE EVER BECOMES ...
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  • .... 9 years ago

    All DISCERNING observers would agree that NPP in government is waaaaaaaaaay better than the clueless NDC foooools!

  • Palmer- Germany 9 years ago

    Dear Mr. Sam,
    thanks for your comment.I think you are not really aware of what is going on or the situation in the country.Ghanaian politicians ,leaders of various institutions, ministries etc etc dont want any changings in ...
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  • Loway 9 years ago

    Because people in leadership wants things to stay the same.if you want help they brush you aside.blind leading the blind

  • Kwabena 9 years ago

    Have you tried to restore your dual citizenship lately? You are not welcome in Ghana!!! You are only wanted for your remittance but not your expertize. Bring your money but not yourself or your brains!! So long as Ghanaian ...
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  • Connie 9 years ago

    This happens all the time -year after year this same rubbish and when you get there they try to cheat you!

  • Yebopower 9 years ago

    What qualifies a person to hold political post in Ghana? What are the required credentials and how are these so called politicians vetted?

  • AKORA OTENG 9 years ago

    People back - including politicians are afraid of losing their jobs or their daily bread if such ideas are tried or put to use. If someone came home with education/experience in work, and even return as a student who was sent ...
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  • TOM 9 years ago

    A nations success is indeed measured by it's Human Resources. The rich HR Ghana has abroad are disgusted right at the arrival Hall of the bloody Kotoka International Airport. The bribes and lack of transparency at the harbour ...
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  • Kwame Amo 9 years ago

    They can come over but because Ghanaians are corrupt it pisses them off and they go back. There's no transparency. I can't imagine someone used to the transparent ways of the western world coming to bear with this corrupt sys ...
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  • Farley 9 years ago

    With my foreign passports, I am pretty much excluded from a lot of roles in Ghana

    Rawlings and his cohorts wrote this into the constitution so that we can continue to rely on the local talent that never left our shores.

  • Nana Yaw 9 years ago

    I think the problem that we have in the country is that majority of our politicians know they are not accountable to the people so they can do whatever that they want. How should the constitution allow the regional ministers ...
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  • Charles kojo 9 years ago

    Thank you very much for this Article.I completed my Bsc at the University of Ghana in 2009. I was posted to (Export Development and investment Fund) EDIF Ghana in Accra. The look that greeted me was that of xenophobic South A ...
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  • .... 9 years ago

    We are not coming back to that fucked-up shitty country.

  • DANNI 9 years ago

    Ghanaian leaders should take a leaf out of the books of Japan after the destruction caused by the 2nd world war. How they got the diaspora to return home to build the infrastructure, Nissan, Toyota, etc and a leader in electr ...
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  • EZEKIEL 9 years ago

    Sometimes I wonder what sort of Humans we are in Ghana! We have been crying for a CHANGE of this 1992...EXECUTIVE DICTATORIAL CONSSTITUTION!! Till today, NOBODY has the gut to spearhead the MOVE to CHANGE the parts of the con ...
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  • Easer-US of A 9 years ago

    We the people in dispora cannot come and help in any way because the leaders there who claim to have all the so called "BIG DEGREES" will not step aside to give people like me the chance to bring back the knowledge and the ex ...
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  • DANNI 9 years ago

    In the end it is all money for old rope The looting brigade of politicians family and friends continue

    Twenty Richest People In Ghana For 2013

    1. Ibrahim Mahama -$1.9 billion /Businessman , Brother of the current Presid ...
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  • Opare 9 years ago

    It is not about the 'coming back' but about the reception back home. Most homesters are intimidated by the diasporans and they show it vehemently.

  • APUU 9 years ago

    I advise no expert to leave and come to Ghana. Once in Ghana, the system will frustrate you as you need to be a member of a party in power. That's how the politicians are building the nation. There are more than necessary exp ...
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  • Capt. Steve Amstrdam 9 years ago

    Hi,Uncle Sam. Dis is ur friend Captain Steve from Holland. upon ur advice, I hav been able to come out with GHANAIAN DISPORA DEVELOPMENT NET WORK. Page on face book en would like u en everyone to visit en join to share ideas. ...
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