Ghana to have another capital city

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  • NANA AKUFFO ADDO 12 years ago

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  • yanks 12 years ago

    NANA YOU ARE THE MOST FOOLISH MAN IN GHANA. SO YOU ARE A TURUMU MAN AND YOU WANT GHANA TO VOTE YOU AS PRESIDENT? TOFIAKWA!

  • ATSU, HO 12 years ago

    MAY THE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH PREVAIL ON THE LAND. MOVING THE CAPITAL CAN BE A VERY GOOD IDEA BUT WHO WILL GET THE COURAGE, I HOPE IT WILL NOT BE AROUND THE rLG PROJECT.

  • J.B. ADZAH, SOUTH AFRICA 12 years ago

    BEWARE ! THIS AN ATTEMPT TO PUSH ASHANTI AGENDA. THEY LOST THE ELECTIONS.NOW THE ANT IT THROUGH THE BACK DOOR. MAHAMA OPEN YOUR EYES.

  • Jato Julor (J.J.) Rawlings 12 years ago

    Let's go federal & we shall see rapid development in every nook of the country.

    The Federal system of govt, as proposed by the Danquah/Dombo/Busia fraternity after independence and which is practised in India,USA,Australia ...
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  • GHANAian 12 years ago

    I support the person who proposed the Federalism. Its very okay to do that and development and development challenges will come into the country.

  • Ghanaba 12 years ago

    Doesn't work like in Africa! Look at Nigeria

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  • PAA KWAO 12 years ago

    WE ASHANTIS DONT ANY SENSELESS CAPITAL IN OUR KUMASI.YOU CAN TAKE YOUR CAPITAL TO THE NORTH.

  • JOHNNY 12 years ago

    A NEW CAPITAL SHOULD BE CREATED IN THE NORTH.

  • GOLD COAST 12 years ago

    The new capital - Nkrumah City - should be located in the center of the country.

    PEACE

  • insight to the bone 12 years ago

    legacy of the pepeni and his murder of mills is nothing but sorrow, misery and poverty while he and his cronies boldly continue to loot the country. this is understandable since they are not Akans, they do not care as they kn ...
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  • Kojo T 12 years ago

    Make Ho the new capital, that way The KKK will be afraid of " kporsi" and will keep away from fightin for power

  • moyo 12 years ago

    The next capital of Ghana should be Sunyani in the Brong Ahafo Region. The problems associated with Accra can be found in Kumasi and therefore Kumasi should not be an option. Sunyani is the best place in terms of proximity to ...
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  • Ghanaba 12 years ago

    I agree with you

  • CC Top 12 years ago

    Oh waht a disgraceful Ghanaian you are. It is a pity your mother wasted her time storing you for 9 months.

  • Jato Julor (J.J.) Rawlings 12 years ago

    It's peter jeffrey the lunatic gay idiot in his heat, using the monickers "Yanks","Nana Akuffo Addo" and "Nana Addo Danquah Akuffo Addo".

  • KK 12 years ago

    AFTER IMPERSONATING PETER JEFFREY YOU THINK YOU CAN COME BACK WITH YOUR OWN MONIKER AND TALK NONSENSE?

    YOU HAVEN'T SEEN ANYTHING YET!! WE WILL TAKE THE FIGHT ONTO FACEBOOK AND TWITTER AGAINST THE DWARF.

  • KK 12 years ago

    YOU THINK YOU ARE SMART. AFTER USING PETER JEFFREY'S MONIKER YOU THINK PETER IS BEHIND THE MONIKERS OF THE DWARF, HUH?

    YOU HAVE NOT SEEN ANYTHING YET!

  • Jato Julor (J.J.) Rawlings 12 years ago

    Your IP address is still the same,looney !

    You are the same junk of the gay lunatic peter jeffrey spewing the same garbage over and over with all that monickers.

    You are just an outrageously grotesque loafer and a myopi ...
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  • OLIVER TWIST 12 years ago

    AFTER 4 INTENSIVE TURUMU WAR, NPP CRIMINALS ARE ON THE BACK FOOT....RETREATING TO THEIR JUNGLE!!

    OLIVER, I AM UNBEATABLE!!

    OLIVER I AM UNTOUCHABLE

    OLIVER, GHANA'S ROTWEILLER AND ANTI NARCOTIC CZAR.....

    OLIVER MAKA ...
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  • PAA KWAO 12 years ago

    YOU ARE IDIOT GOD WILL PUNISH YOU.YOU NO GO DIE BETTER FOOLISH BULL ASLOCK ASHAWOBA

  • KANIBA 12 years ago

    iT BEGINS WITH AN INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT IN KUMASI. HATERS MUST FACE THE FACT THAT KUMASI IS THE COMMERCIAL NERVE CENTER OF GHANA

  • osuklottey 12 years ago

    followed by a Sea full of Fishes,Ghana is more than one tribe,Ghanaians must unite,as citizens of a nation,that old thinking,we are this and that should stop

  • KILLER 12 years ago

    HOW CAN YOU SUGGEST KUMASI AS GHANA CAPITAL.

  • GHFUO, BE SERIOUS NOT PRIDEFUL! 12 years ago

    AFRAM PLAINS, AKOSOMBO, KINTAMPO OR KONONGO...FIND MONEY N DEVELOP THE AREA. ACCRA IS TOO DIRTY N DUSTY, SMELLY TO BE GH'S CAPITAL. DO OUR SO CALLED LEADERS NOT HAVE EYES N NOSES?

  • princewilly@ymail.com 12 years ago

    KINTAMPO OR AFRAM PLAINS SHOULD BE THE CAPITAL.
    ITS SHOULD BE A NEUTRAL PLACE LIKE ABUJA.
    THE NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT WOULD HAVE USED IBADAN,ABA OR BENIN BUT CHOSE ABUJA.
    AFAM PLAINS AND KINTAMPO ARE SUITABLE TO BE THE POLITIC ...
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  • Ada Boy 12 years ago

    Where in the world have we seen a landlocked city with no waterways linking the sea that is an economic capital?Besides the untruths about this story,Kumasi would be better suited for a political capital,yes, for the talkfest ...
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  • princewilly@ymail.com 12 years ago

    THE RIVER GOING INTO THE SEA IS LIKE MY PENIS GOING INTO A WET PUSSY.
    THE VOLTA ENTERING THE SEA IS SUITABLE FOR ECONOMIC CAPITAL.
    EUPHRATES,GANGES,TIGRES AND NILE ALL ENTER THE SEA.
    Timbucktu died because Tim buckle two.

  • DARK DAYS IN GHANA 12 years ago

    The Ashantis think Lake Bosomtwe is their sea and River Pra is their canal to the sea.

  • Nhyiraba 12 years ago

    Kumasi should be the economic capital. Accra has been developed by government funds but Kumasi has been developed by the hardwork of its citizens. God bless Ghana.

  • Kofi UK 12 years ago

    Please get a virgin land somewhere and plan it properly but not Kumasi. That town is clogged up and is an eye sore.

  • Kofi 12 years ago

    It is not enough. Certain people have too much power and they are connected, they control the whole national cake and share it among themselves, families, friends and relatives, that is why Mahama's brother can afford a priva ...
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  • OP/LONDON 12 years ago

    KUMASI IS TOO DIRTY FOR A CAPITAL,WE NEED A MODERN CITY

  • Is a disease to be EWE 12 years ago

    Op/london u said Kumasi is dirty? Accra is the dirties city in Ghana if u look at the money the government pumps in and yet dirty. SMH No wonder u live in London

  • BET 12 years ago

    WHY KUMASI FOR CAPITAL, NOOOOH, IT SHOULD GO TO HO,KINTAMPO,TAMALE OR AXIM

  • Jeee 12 years ago

    Where da fuck is the idiot Indian hamza doctor .watba fool

  • STILLAMA 12 years ago

    CAPE COAST OR TADI KUMASI CAN NOT BE CUS NO SEA

  • Is a disease to be an EWE 12 years ago

    SMH, stupid people with stupid ideas. Who told you u need a sea for capital city? Reason up son.

  • Iroko 12 years ago

    Economic Capital need sea for any import/Export goods and that while Lagos State still remain as economic power of Nigeria.. Who are the leaders that brought-out this idea??? Accra and Kumasi are having similar problem. The p ...
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  • CC Top 12 years ago

    It is better to remove the filt in Accra to upgrade Accra as a national capital than to creat another city which will in the end be full of rubbish and litters.

  • GHANA FIRST 12 years ago

    AKIN TO LAGOS ACCRA SHOULDBE THE ECONOMIC CAPITAL AND ENTIRELY NEW ADMINISTRATIVE CAPITAL BUILT IN EJURA Which seems to be the middle

  • GHANA FIRST 12 years ago

    THIS WILL SPREAD DEVELOPMENT IN THE WHOLE GHANA

  • Is a disease to be an EWE 12 years ago

    I am with u on this. We already has Accra the capital, Kumasi the second city, we need another new and clean one.

  • TRUTH 12 years ago

    What does this add to our condition as citizens? This is just to create another avenue for corruption.

  • Kweku Boateng Jnr. 12 years ago

    Any new capital should be cited at the centre/middle of the country and that is Kintampo in the B/A region. Government should acquire 50sq km and build the new capital there. It is in the middle of the of the country, close ...
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  • ROGUE LAWYER 12 years ago

    THIS IS A LOUDABLE IDEAR OTUMFOUR SHOULD HELP RELOCATE THE ZOO FROM THE CENTER OF THE CITY-

    kejetia should be either for stores or for transport- i will prefer Transit Point than the stores

  • Mensah,PigFarm 12 years ago

    KUMASI THE CAPITAL MY FOOT

  • Is a disease to be an EWE 12 years ago

    Don't worry, because Kumasi dot need to be the capital for it to be recognize and well known. There is no where on this earth that Ghana history is written without Kumasi been mentioned, u just gato to live with it bro and i ...
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  • O D B 12 years ago

    is there a sea at Kumasi??what a vallage with yewa ppl?there is noo civilization over there and thats why they are racist

  • Is a disease to be an EWE 12 years ago

    You this fantes and sea. after all the white man use sea and cheese to slave trade your behind u still use sea as a property. Reason up son the Fanti, Ashanti war is over ok. We all know that Fantes and the dumbest people in ...
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  • Yaw 12 years ago

    What do you mean by this statement.

    "We all know that Fantes and the dumbest people in Ghana live with it"

    Please don't start the Fanti/Ashanti tribal bickering here. Be aware that no matter what you think Fantes will f ...
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  • JH New York 12 years ago

    The fantis learned how to drink tea,coffee,hot chocolate,bread and butter/jam from the whiteman and taught the Ashanti how to drink tea, butter and bread to soften their hard muscles caused by weeding the farms.

  • jojo 12 years ago

    Sometimes these so called think tanks come out with some of the most STUPID ideas.no wonder this country has remained so backward.

  • OPPONG 12 years ago

    NONONONO,SECOND CAPITAL WILL GO TO VOLTA REGION

  • zomabi 12 years ago

    GOOD IDEA BUT THE PLAN IS NOT GOOD. GHANA MUST HAVE A NEW POLITICAL NOT IN ACCRA BUT IN THE CENTRE OF GHANA CALCULATING FROM NORTH TO SOUTH AND EAST TO WEST. ACCRA IS NOT FIT TO BE THE POLITICAL CAPITAL OF GHANA. IT IS VERY M ...
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  • WISE MAN 12 years ago

    SECOND TO NONE. PERIOD!!!!!!!!!!

  • angle man 12 years ago

    People are now lossing faith to be Ghanian,why are we always copying Nigeria.donts we have heard to think for ourselfs,why cants we copy Japan,S.korea,Singapore,Taiwan.Nigeria moved the capital from lagos for only one reason ...
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  • Chap 12 years ago

    Take it back to the central region.

  • Banson 12 years ago

    These fools can't even balance the fiscal budget of the country as it stands now and how would Ghana's economy be like if a quack government like the NDCis in power and mis-managing acountry with two capital cities? And by ...
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  • Kick Ass 12 years ago

    I will like to know how they would be able to control the boxlike structures which has the inscriptions lotto,haircut,chopbars,cobblers and many more that are spread across the street of Accra since people are lawless and wou ...
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  • Shamu 12 years ago

    This will be the most stupid idea for the nation. This is a place where Ghana`s corrupt people come from, it will be that, one has transfer his sheep into the hands of lions and tigers for care.

  • Some day 12 years ago

    The essence of a financial capital is that it must have first class transport and IT links to the rest of the country and globally.
    Kumasi does not even have first class road connections with the rest of the country let alo ...
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  • OTOYO 12 years ago

    The NDC gurus and thier cahoots are finding every ways and means to siphone the coffers and leave dry bones for NPP to inherith beacouse they know thier time is up How can Ghana afford to build a new capital in this type of ...
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  • Mr. Mensah 12 years ago

    New Capital good idea but not in the Ashanti region which is already over crowded. B/A will be better option to be considered after all the centre of Ghana is there so it simplifies all the argument geographically. They are a ...
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  • MENSAH 12 years ago

    The government is making a BLIND MISTAKE in citing the COMMERCIAL/BUSINESS CAPITAL AT KUMASI,WHICH IS IN THE HINTERLAND,WHIST ACCRA,THE POLITICAL,AT THE SHORE.
    THAT IS JUST THE OPPOSITE OF WHAT THE DEVELOPED COUNTRIES HAVE D ...
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  • Mr.principle 12 years ago

    Fellow Ghanaians, we should all be haunters of peace for now because we have only one Ghana and so when the country is in any difficulty we all Ghanaian are going to to suffer the repercussions i ...
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  • wISDOM 12 years ago

    aaah!!!!!!!!!!!haaaaaba! KUMASI? KUMASI can never be a capital for Ghana, never ever. Dont we know these asantes? If the ruling party is not their party it can never happen that they would allow the government to rule. We kno ...
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  • GHANA FIRST 12 years ago

    wISDOM, YOU HAVE BETRAYED YOURSELF AS NON-ASANTE. YOU HAVE BEEN REFERING TO ASANTES AS : THEY, THEY THEY. WHICH MEANS YOU ARE NOT AN ASANTE. PLEASE KNOW THAT WE ARE ALL GOD'S CHILDREN AND ALL GHANAIANS. GHANA BELONGS TO ALL G ...
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  • OTCHERE DARKO 12 years ago

    Ghana should create a complete new city from scratch to become the new administrative capital. This completely new city should be centrally situated and land-rich.

    A place between Ashanti and Brong Ahafo regions could be ...
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  • Hays 12 years ago

    Everybody is already planning where the new capital should be. How many countries in the developed world have dual capitals? Yet they continue to do well. We should find the most effective and efficient use of our little r ...
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  • Ohene Yaw Barima Boakye-Yiadom 12 years ago

    IT has long been known that the best place for Ghana's modern capital would KINTAMPO in Brong Ahafo. Other places in the records include the Atebubu-Yeji areas. The center of the nation is definitely where the new capital sho ...
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  • oppong london 12 years ago

    federalism is the answer to ghanas problems,ghana needs to go federal like the usa,germany,austria,nigeria and others for a rapid development of the country.with regard to this more regions or states need to be created.

  • GHANA FIRST 12 years ago

    FEDERALISM IS NOT THE ANSWER. GHANA IS TOO SMALL FOR FEDERALISM.

  • OSMAN 12 years ago

    Tamale the fastest growing city should be the second capital city. there is vast land without hills and mountains to hamper development.Why always south south south. In fact there should be uniformity in the country's develop ...
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  • Living in Kumasi 12 years ago

    I agree it should be Tamale. This is already a major city.


    But truth be told, dont know why a second one is needed anyway.

    In Tamale, both the interests of the North and South will be met here. Going all the way ...
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  • MUGU YARO 12 years ago

    TAMALE WOULD HAVE BEEN IDEAL IF IT WERE THE CENTER OF THE COUNTRY. IF WE ARE TO HAVE A NEW CAPITAL, IT MUST BE IN THE CENTER OF THE COUNTRY. SECONDARY, MAKING TAMALE THE CAPITAL WILL BE MORE EXPENSIVE THAN FINDING A VIRGIN LA ...
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  • Iroko 12 years ago

    Federalism is the answer to Ghanaian laziness, federation system will make the citizen to be hard and economics growth/competition among the regions. Nigeria is the only country in Africa that took the hard decision. But my p ...
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  • Anoda Dblack 12 years ago

    Ghanaians are annoying me. Federalism has worked very well in Nigeria in spite of her nasty political problems. As a Ghanaian I have travelled to at least 5 Nigerian cities and each with their own peculiar pace of development ...
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  • JM 12 years ago

    NORTHERN REGION SHOULD BE

  • Ama Badua 12 years ago

    Kumasi, the economic capital of Ghana!!!
    Fine, let's construct a Kumasi Canal and Kumasi seaport to connect the city to the Atlantic Ocean. This will increase the commercial activity there.

  • afiba 12 years ago

    Y'all get it straight, they need City that can
    grow without any boundaries like the sea and self made city with a lot
    of buildings already so it can spread it's wings
    across real quick. A
    city that can grow in a circular ...
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  • Zori UK 12 years ago

    Tamale was the dream of Dr, Nkrumah, why changing it to kumasi, The Ashantis are making a move to take over Ghana,
    Let us consider TAMALE as Capital,
    Mahama and NDC should wake up.

  • kb 12 years ago

    and I thought the master plan called foe dodowa to be the administrative capital??

  • sulemana 12 years ago

    you can't build 15km of road in one year and yet you talk of a new city, jimi fuo

  • Facebook.com/GhanaNewsCentral 12 years ago

    Ghana my happy homeland. It will work again.

  • JAMES Y 12 years ago

    The recommendation for two capitals in Ghana is as daft as the recommendation of Single Spine Salaries Structure(SSSS) for Ghana workers.

  • Duhoe Fred 12 years ago

    Accra is congested, likewise Kumasi, please your recommendations are the best but the location is bad. let that place be one of the undeveloped and less busy regions not Kumasi. I will suggest Cape Coast of Volta Region.

  • G.A 12 years ago

    DODOWA WILL BE GOOD FOR GHANA WO