The Visible Records: Nkrumah vs. the 4th Republic

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  • Joy 1 year ago

    Ghanaians must trust me that Alan is Kwame nkrumah to us. Look Kwame nkrumah moved from UGCC to form cpp to save ghanaians from thieves in the UGCC party. The same thing has happened in our time. Alan has moved from nana add ...
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  • Rex 1 year ago

    Massa, I won't read again, Akuffo Addo is a disgrace, commissioned someone's university and is bn touted as an achievement,is it for commissioning or what?, pure disgrace.cant he build one himself?

  • Unpredictable Oye Onye Kwasi Atta 1 year ago

    NPP and that their NAPO taught they could be always lying and disgracing Kwame Nkuruma but little did they know they were rather rejuvenating fruitful debates that will expose them woefully

  • P Djamgbe 1 year ago

    Ghanaweb should stop these unnecessary and useless comparisons - Dr Kwame Nkrumah has no comparison. It's not just the 4th Republic, even if you put all the leaders that came him together. Dr Nkrumah's legacy cuts across the ...
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  • Blue 1 year ago

    Ghanaweb, please STOP this very silly comparison. It is so so ridiculous. I've said that you don't compare a filthy sewage rat with an elegant, well cared for horse that is reserved for the service of true and highest royalty ...
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  • FRANKIE 1 year ago

    Please please please......... Stop this comparison! Trying to compare any of our past and present presidents to Nkrumah is sacrilegeous and blasphemous. This is a man who was voted as Africa's greatest personality of the last ...
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  • KWAKU PORTO RICO 1 year ago

    Do people still believe black people are capable of ruling themselves like nkrumah Said??? and I know any honest person on this earth know the answer...

  • Frankiedonatusjudasarefools 1 year ago

    All the project listed make no sense. When you want to compare, you need to compare the resources they had at hand, the population size at the time and how lond they were in power for.

    This is a stupid comparison and l ...
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  • Blue 1 year ago

    @Frankiedonatus. You do not compare population size and conveniently leave other relevant factors. You also look the GDP, the tax revenues, grants and loans, the efficiency in utilizing these financial other resources, loan r ...
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  • Zoobie-Zoobie 1 year ago

    NKRUMAH HAD LESS THAN 12 MINISTERS...

    AKUFO ADDO HAD 125-131 MINISTERS....

    HOW CAN A COUNTRY WITH 33 MILLION HUMANS SELECT A LOUD-MOUTHED IDIOT TO BE THEIR HEAD OF STATE???

  • Kofi USA 1 year ago

    No one can deny the fact that Kwame Nkrumah did a lot for Ghana and it was necessary to lay a solid foundation for our dear nation, Ghana. But it will be wrong for us to think that no one can surpass or aspire to surpass Kwam ...
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  • Jayhovah 1 year ago

    Look here, even if Nkrumah did build any hospital brought ant development to Gh which he did by the way, the man brought independence to the continent. All the current administration did and keep doing is embezzling funds fro ...
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  • Kk 1 year ago

    This article is indirectly trying to say all of ghana leaders are the same from Nkrumah down

  • Emma 1 year ago

    Odwan. Why will you credit Pokuase interchange to Mahama? Your head dey pain you?

  • Only God knows 1 year ago

    You could see clearly that it's an ndc write up. All the interventions of Akuffo Addo were not even mentioned. N crediting pokuase interchange to mahama is a clear example of being biased. Tweaaaa write up

  • Emma 1 year ago

    So who so the credit go to? It seems u can't even read or conduct a research

  • Eric 1 year ago

    I'm even shocked, but please no insult.

  • Kwesi ghana 1 year ago

    VERY INCOMPLETE and VERY MISLEADING.

    LACKS DETAILS OF MANY PROJECTS UNDER DR NKRUMAH AND NDC - RAWLINGS AND ATTA AND MAHAMA!!!

    GHANA AIRWAYS AND BLACK STAE LINE SHIPS , REAL FACTORY - SHOE, GLASS, MATCHESTEXTILES,S ...
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  • MAKOLA no 1 MARKET! 1 year ago

    GHANAWEB YOUR RECORD COMPARISON IS MOOT BCOS VISIONARY AKUFFO ADDO HAS DELIVERED EXCEPTIONALLY FROM YOUR ANALYSIS...

    OSAYY PRESIDENT AKUFFO ADDO NO SIZE.... NAYSAYERS ARE WORRIED!

  • DMB (Don't Mind Bawumia) 1 year ago

    Stop taking hard stuffs ok

  • Nsia 1 year ago

    Another nonsense on stilts from Ghanaweb. Kwame Nkrumah, was released from prison in February 1951. He was the leader of govt business. from 1951. He was instrumental in establishing KNUST. Also, Nkrumah took
    Loan from U ...
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  • DMB (Don't Mind Bawumia) 1 year ago

    So with these 2by4 achievements by Akufo Addo, how can that Napo with his hippopotamus nose utter such rubbish. It's no clear that spewing nonsense nowadays has indeed become the act of maintaining relevance. Too many fools i ...
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  • Prophet My Ass 1 year ago

    Why did you neglect the millions of secondary schools Nkrumah built only to mention Ghana National? How about the GIHOC group on industries, the Black Star Line (where are our ships?)... Too many to mention.

    If you say you ...
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  • Ras fire 1 year ago

    You are right ..... A lot to mention secondary schools free healthcare free education a lot to mention
    Be honest

  • Nsia 1 year ago

    And, for the naysayers who rely on rumours that their venomous parents told them instead of pure unadulterated facts, Nkrumah, secured £100 million loan from the former Eastern Block to build a whole lot of projects includ ...
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  • Sarfo Bediako 1 year ago

    With this record Dr Nkrumah has no equal. Mahama fall second position while Akuffool Kwasia falls the last position.

  • SD.com 1 year ago

    Who do you say started the ugmc? Kuffuor or what? Because you said attah Mills completed ugmc.
    Mobile money interoperability: you attributed it to Mr lier: false.

    There are a few more though.

  • Bastie Asantefournyinaahene 1 year ago

    Nkrumah is Nkrumah- African of the millenia. No useless asante tribal chief is worthey to unlace the shoes of Kwame Nkrumah.

    Whereas, Nkrumah fought for the total liberation of the African continent and to restore the dign ...
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  • Samuel Asante 1 year ago

    Kwame Nkrumah did not build University of Ghana.
    Akuffo built Pokuase interchange and Tema interchange.
    Your submission about a lot of things wrong.
    Get your facts well.

  • Bastie Asantefournyinaahene 1 year ago

    Akuffo Addo cannot lace the boot of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah. He's even shy. Akuffo Addo went to report Burkina Faso to the US. Captaine Ibrahim Traore nearly invaded Ghana because of Akuffo Addo , Serwaa Broni's boyfriend. Nana Adu ...
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  • FTT 1 year ago

    Ghanaweb polittics can’t save ndc. Why did you credit pokuase interchange to ndc.It’s AkuffoAddo/Bawumia project. Nana Addo and NPP overtake Nkrumah

  • FTT 1 year ago

    Nana Addo/Bawumia built pokuase interchange please correct it now

  • KT 1 year ago

    It’s JM please the money was already there and Akufo Addo added finishing touches with that money and commissioned it

  • Not a spectator 1 year ago

    ESLA (energy sector levy), E blocks, Single Spine etc missing.

  • BOY KOFI 1 year ago

    Kwame Nkrumah built the Tema Township and its port with many factories.
    Besides,the Accra-Tema Motorway,Kwame Nkrumah built the Atomic Centre for Energy and Biochemical Research.
    As for me,the Atomic Centre is the most futu ...
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  • AAA+ 1 year ago

    Foolish comparism
    Most blacks lack sense especially, Ghanaians lack senses!!!

    What was total population at Nkrumah's time, around 7million and what's total population now, around 33million.

    What was total percentage ...
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  • NPP, are the SSNIT hotels profitable now?? Mmoaa akromfour. 1 year ago

    This article is by an NPP sympathizer who uses words like several others but quick to state specifics under NPP. Is agenda 111 completed project to add to achievement of NADAA/Bawuliar?? What kind of Nonsense is that. Not to ...
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  • Uncle Pee 1 year ago

    Comparing Nkrumah's record with the presidents in the 4th republic without factoring in the wealth of the nation when the leader began their term is baseless. None of the presidents in the 4th republic started their governmen ...
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  • BOY KOFI 1 year ago

    Please stop this childish talk.Tell me,how many schools did the British leave for Kwame Nkrumah?
    What was the human resources when Nkrumah took over in 1951?
    Tell me just one secondary school in the whole Northern part of G ...
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  • King Poker 1 year ago

    Nkrumah invested whatever wealth he inherited in the development projects which were bequethed to successive governments to build on. He didn't loot those resources, as has been the case in subsequent regimes. So whatever ach ...
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  • BOY KOFI 1 year ago

    That's why Kwame Nkrumah is the founder of Ghana because he started from the scratch to develope the new born baby called Ghana.Tnx.

  • Tetteh Zutah 1 year ago

    It is not by force to write an article if you don't have enough information.
    Who is forcing you?

  • Hard 1 year ago

    Ghanalies not Ghana web even kid knows akufo addo built pokuasi interchange

  • Eric 1 year ago

    When was the Pokuase Interchange constructed under Mills/Mahama, and why were they put together when both had separate terms as presidents?

  • Kojo 1 year ago

    Who told this writer that Tech and lagoon were founded by Nkrumah?Go to their websites and read about their history very well

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  • Concerned Ghanaian 1 year ago

    Kwame Nkrumah was a dictator, who made Ghana a one-party state. To be employed by the state, one needed to be CPP card bearer. Political opponents were imprisoned without trial under preventive detention act. Judges who gav ...
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  • Concerned Ghanaian 1 year ago

    He made himself the president for life, was the only candidate on the ballot card during elections and had no vice president. All chiefs were told to stand and bow when he entered a meeting or gathering. Children were asked t ...
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  • KWAKU PORTO RICO 1 year ago

    Enough of this nkrumah stories.... may he RIP....he did his part and Ghana thank him for that and now let's move forward.... also I have a question,, do any honest person still believe black people is capable of ruling themse ...
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  • FatCobra 1 year ago

    Lying bastards. God will punish you borlaweb for blatantly distorting history. Mahama built pokuase interchange for where. No amount foolishnes in propping the incompetent JDM will work.

  • Nana - These lies must stop 1 year ago

    Rawlings did not pilot NHIS; Kufuor established it. Under Rawlings, Private District Mutual Health Insurance Schemes were started by churches and communities, not government. This lie that Rawlings piloted NHIS must stop.

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  • Nana 1 year ago

    Also on NHIS - THE NDC did not enhance the NHIS. Kufuor left them GHS350 million. By the time NDC left office, the NHIS was in debt over GHS2 billion.

    Kufuor moved the 145 district schemes to one NHIS. Under Kufuor, all t ...
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  • Star from the North 1 year ago

    Whoever contracted the loan for a project owns it according to the manifesto party governments under the NPP NDC. Get it into your heads and stop confusing yourselves. Nkrumah is no match in terms of vision and development fo ...
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  • Stan & Ollie 1 year ago

    Mills is standing for GIMPA green hills. But the last structure is uncompleted. Mahama chopped the money. Is this record with some kind of mistakes maybe? 88 became 111 with the help of LA HOSPITAL.

  • Dan 1 year ago

    Some of you journalist lack home training. Professor Mills was a President for only 3 and half years. How come he built the UGMC which was commissioned in 2016? How come Kufour buit Bui Dam which was designed by Nkrumah in 19 ...
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  • Mojo 1 year ago

    Very stupid article. Mahama has more hospital than mentioned. The dodowa hospital and many others. You people just want make this useless foolish government and the entire npp look good but they are not will never be.

  • K 1 year ago

    Kwame Nkrumah waisted Ghana money on other countries in Africa and on women. And also for communist activities, destroying our chieftaincy system and rule of law. He was a dictator. He killed many of his opponents.

  • Kofi 1 year ago

    @K, we can always tell who the fools are. They have stupid names and their comments does not say much about their intelligence. And, who ever that brainless "K" is, is a typical example of the fools that we keep talking abou ...
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