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Ghana on course to secure fresh IMF aid under deal

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  • Saint Ghfuo: Nyantakyi must go! 8 years ago

    Read the story of the wolf in the attic

  • Hanson 8 years ago

    IMF PLEASE GIVE US ELECTRICITY

  • PRINCE KWASI ADADE (OFIE P33) 8 years ago

    AUTHOR: MR. FIGURE-OUT----------------
    It is only in Ghana would such a dishonorably idiot be on the government pay roll. Professor Mill should be solely blamed for imposing those criminals on us. After Mills found Betty Mou ...
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  • facts 8 years ago

    EEEiiih, Seth Terkpeh!Are you still looking for loans? Untill when would you learn your lessons? Woe, Woe, Woe is Ghana. So you are detyermined to sink this country into the abiss!

  • Brian Williams 8 years ago

    IMF cannot and will not develop your country for you. Your shameless leaders need to stop stealing and emulate Dr. Kwame Nkrumah.

  • Chief amankwa 8 years ago

    Begger mentality not different from begger on the street ..the country is begger nation ..the president came to make money for himself ..simply

  • Ben Brako 8 years ago

    Ghanaian s as people are beggars. Ghana Government is a begging Government. You can not beg to develop a Nation. That is what Ghanaian and the government do not understand.

  • Concerned 8 years ago

    This is just about the release of the original funds. No new funds but the phasing of the allocation. The only good news will be news about internally generated funds. Government should focus on investments which generate cas ...
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  • TK 8 years ago

    GREAT!

  • Concerned 8 years ago

    I am sure you don't understand what is going on. The money was not invested in any cash generation project so how will we pay for it. At a time when our loan repayments was low and we had high revenue from oil, cocoa, mineral ...
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  • ADAMU 8 years ago

    SIMPLY RETRIEVE OUR STOLEN MONIES FROM NDC JUST NOW AND GHANA WILL BE FREE FROM IMF.....LOTS OF NDC LEADERS ARE THIEVES WHO LIVE ON TRIBALISM AND ILLITERACY BY EXPLOITING THE IGNORANT MASSES SUPPORTING NDC IN PLACES LIKE SODO ...
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  • ADAMU 8 years ago

    DEFINITELY NDC DIDNT COME TO RULE BUT TO STEAL AND SO THEY ARE EXPLOITING IGNORANT MASSES OF THEIR VOTERS TO CONTINUE STEALING TO IMPOVERISH THE NORTH AND VOLTA EVEN MORE

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  • Paapidi 8 years ago

    A whole country with enormous God-given natural and human resources salivating over $115 million loan riddled with conditionalities? What a shame!

  • Joe 8 years ago

    Paapidi you're 100% right!!

  • Eshun 8 years ago

    Give us Electricity please

  • Nii Lartey Nartey. 8 years ago

    I bet if we helplessly look on doing nothing, we will wake up one day as people to find ourselves as slaves in our own country as the incompetent Mahama led government will do anything for power out of political ignorant to h ...
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  • Nii 8 years ago

    So Anyemi your solution is just to cry?

  • meelon 8 years ago

    But mind u,if the Europeans COULDNT help their own backyard Whites-GREEK neighbours, THEN this TIME around GHANA MUST NOT EXPECT ANY BETTER THING into their silly HIPC-CALABASH. WITH ALL THE ENDLESS BORROWING & RECKLESS SPEN ...
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  • Nii 8 years ago

    Shallow thinking

  • Ghanaian 8 years ago

    The IMF know too well that they should have waited until after the elections before releasing the funds. They are intentionally making sure that our country never gets out of the rot brought about by the corruption and inexp ...
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  • ogyam 8 years ago

    Borrowing ,borrowing and sharing among yourselves for future ghanaians to pay. IDIOTS.

  • most Ghanaians are corrupt 8 years ago

    Why borrow all these money when you have oil. Mind boggling bad management. Forever in debt. Crazy

  • BOY KOFI 8 years ago

    Since 2012 when Mahama took over from Prof.Mills,our economy has been in crisis until today.Mahama fired Dr Duffour and replaced him with Tekper at a point where Ghana was one of the fastest growing economy in the world looki ...
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  • Concerned 8 years ago

    Decisions made in the duffuor era are the things affecting us now. The huge deficit in 2012, woyome, akunfem, gyeada etc were all things which happened under duffuor. The low inflation, high growth, the unprecedented cocoa re ...
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  • BOY KOFI 8 years ago

    I believe in results not jargons.What you should know is that Terkper inherited a robust economy with positive indications all over.He is solely responsible for this miserable state of the economy we find ourselves today.I wo ...
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  • abena-kwabena 8 years ago

    Ghana is indeed sinking right before our eyes. Until the people start speaking with one voice against corruption and mismanagement, Ghana will continue to sink.

  • Kwesi Baidoo 8 years ago

    Bad managers,Bad managers Ghanaians will continue to suffer because we have bad managers managing our affairs.

  • Yaovi 8 years ago

    Sad day for Ghana if all we need to shore up our economy is JUST $140 million

  • Kanawu 8 years ago

    Aids what aids? Aids with attachments and conditions? Ghanaians who haven't lived abroad including Mahama, Terkpe, and most of NDC ministers will never understand the West World. In West there is nothing like free lunch. Its ...
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  • Concerned 8 years ago

    When the time for repayment comes, they would be asking us to sell our assets like water resources to them on the cheap. In the west, a litre of bottled water cost more than a litre of oil. They give us loans we can't pay i ...
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  • Blow 8 years ago

    So the president and his Finance minister are not shame of themselves

  • Sam 8 years ago

    I'm sorry for u politicians. your time is near.

  • kk 8 years ago

    if u think this a good news look at Greek IMF cant help Ghana all this money has to be paid back

  • SON OF MAN 8 years ago

    Ghana has made progress with specific benchmarks,(fuel prices and other tariffs.)
    SETH, YOU ARE IN OFFICE TO MANAGE THE FINANCE OF GHANA AND NOT TO MAKE GHANA A SLAVE TO IMF CONDITIONALITIES.
    THAT IS A CLEAR SIGN OF A FAIL ...
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  • VOICE OF REASON 8 years ago

    And that is why I call Mahama a buffoon president.No sensible president who knows how economies are run and has love for country will be so irresponsible and reckless and selfish as this useless Mahama did

  • VOICE OF REASON 8 years ago

    That singular act of depleting almost $5bn of the nation's reserves is what has collapsed the economy....even Bawumia and Nana Addo will have an uphill task putting the economy back to an even keel

  • Farmer 8 years ago

    Who are those people representing the IMF in Ghana? How can it be possible that they help the government to fabricate a success story where there is none?

  • sk 8 years ago

    we have no shame..

  • BABA AVOKA 8 years ago

    l hope the government and good people of Mother Ghana are observing what is going on in Greece" with IMF Loans, Greece is almost on it knees and at the verge of leaving the Euro Zone for not been able to pay it loans back to ...
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  • kwaku 8 years ago

    IMFplease don't turn Ghana to become like the Greece with these prodigious leaders

  • me 8 years ago

    going for a loan should be an embarrassment but we talk of it as if we just recorded a bounty revenue/profit

  • Ben Brako 8 years ago

    Ghanaian s as people are beggars. Ghana Government is a begging Government. You can not beg to develop a Nation. That is what Ghanaian and the government do not understand.

  • ga nyo bi. 8 years ago

    AGAIN.

  • Tony 8 years ago

    Please IMF, help us with electricity and curb this Dumsor scenario blanketing this country into darkness.

  • Kwame Ghanaba 8 years ago

    When the time comes, who ever signs for the loan, whoever has their signature on the papers, pays. Not the people of Ghana.