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Azumah is a great blessing to our country - Rawlings

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  • Amidini 9 years ago

    Ampa Mr JJ

  • HUMANISM 9 years ago

    Where has JJ been with all the corruption and nonsense going on in this country. His silence goes to show he just hates Kuffuor & NPP. It is pure hatred and nothing else.

    He does not actually love Ghana. It has always be ...
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  • Nana Yaw, Düsseldorf Germany 9 years ago

    Please, why? He was president b4, so please never say that again, we should respect our elders,

  • Mahmoud 9 years ago

    Cuban-Style Dictatorship
    The mere fact that Rawlings still goes about talking about democracy and the rule of law is an insult to the intelligence of all Ghanaians. Someone who hijacked and impeded our development for almost ...
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  • Rastafara"I" 9 years ago

    a corrupt former president deserve no respect!! he set ghana back 20 years

  • Rastafara"I" 9 years ago

    he is quiet because mahama paid him off...kuffuor and mills ignored him

  • NOBODY 9 years ago

    There was corruption galore in Kufuor's government, so stop kidding yourself. Name a single government in Ghana where there was no corruption. NPP is as tainted as NDC when it comes to corruption.

  • KD Sly 9 years ago

    JJ WAS THE GREATEST LIABILITY GHANA EVER HAD

  • Frimpong 9 years ago

    See what is happening in Burkina Faso?

  • Rastafara"I" 9 years ago

    and a thief too

  • Donkor 9 years ago

    WHY WHY WHY?

  • PROF 9 years ago

    AZUMAH IS AFRICA'S GREATEST BOXER. THANKS PROF ZOOM ZOOM.

  • ELINAN 9 years ago

    We thank God for your life for being a true role model for our country at a time when there are no leaders.

  • Ambrose 9 years ago

    It was an oversight on his part!

  • KOFI 9 years ago

    NANA ADDO IS A CURSE

  • Ojoo 9 years ago

    Village boy like you make me sick of social medial and ghanaweb's incompetency of editing stupid comment like yours even when is it out of headline .

  • Mahama the rapist!! 9 years ago

    I john drossmani mahama aka the rapist can't stay a minute without sex. That actually has been my problem since my basic school days. I once raped a colleague but my father used his strong political powers to kill the case. A ...
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  • Ask 9 years ago

    By God's grace a young man rose from nobody to fame. your footprint will be there for all yet to be born to come and see. God bless Prof. Azumah

  • OGOGLO QUARTER! !!! 9 years ago

    THERE WAS AND THERE WILL BE ( ONLY) AND (ONE) AZUMAH NELSON.........

    NOW THAT WE HAVE THE BUKOM-BANKU AND THE OKRO-STEWS,GHANA BOXING IS NOW JOKE,,,,,,,

  • Frank 9 years ago

    A great statesman

  • PROF 9 years ago

    SIMPLY THE GREATEST IN AFRICA. NO CHALLENGER.

  • JON BRUCE 9 years ago

    you suck.shut up! you think we have forgotten your brutality.God damn you.

  • nana otumfuo 9 years ago

    why is it that some nitwits always are not constructive in their criticisms and will want to put politics into everything in this country, after all there is no smoke without fire go and ask what they did before they were mur ...
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  • Ghanaba 9 years ago

    @ Jon Bruce, U ave a point I do understand u very well, but if u look at what is going on now in our beloving ghana, then of course u need to understand what the man (Rawlings) was coming from. I do believe some people are to ...
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  • KONONGO CONTRACTOR 9 years ago

    Typical African leader.Mr Rawlings,go to the world bank and ask for a loan to cnstruct sewerage and drainage system in Accra and stop Azumah is a great blessing to Ghana.Chorela and malaria is not going any where if Azumah i ...
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  • EWES ARE GOATS 9 years ago

    YES WE WILL CURSE THE VERY AIR HE AND HIS KIDS BREATH. AND IT WON'T STOP WITH HIS DEATH. WE WILL GO AFTER HIS KIDS THEN.

  • Addo Dankwa 9 years ago

    You people of such attitude do not have any education in your life. You always insult elderly people in this country. Think about yourself guys, and seek for knowledge. Remember that the Bible says:"Di w`agya ne wo`na ani na ...
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  • nene 9 years ago

    The Bible said respect your parents and it shall be well with you, another translation said'' you will live longer. So pls be conscious of your words against the elderly ones.Thanks.

  • SOMAJA 9 years ago

    Yes, he is a great man indeed. His is disciplined and a determined man who is never discouraged anywhere he finds himself. I will surely get a copy of this book, God bless him.

  • J J RAWSHIT 9 years ago

    Someone tell J J RAWSHIT to back off and not taint this man's reputation with his toxicity.Next thing we know RAWSHIT will stealing credibility for Azumah's success too.Leave him out of your tribal politics.

  • Sam 9 years ago

    Envy and jealousy is what's going to kill you. Azumah himself acknowledges the role JJ played for him to become a great champion. Get some education, read Azumah's book.

  • JJ RAWSHIT 9 years ago

    I guess Rawshit helped him train or built a world class gym for him? Maybe he facilitated Azumah with some good trainers and healthcare professionals to care for him.Azumah may be too polite to call Rawshit a parasite but I a ...
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  • Don 9 years ago

    Rawlings may seek to associate himself with respectable men and women all he want, at the end of the day he will still remain a murdering bastard of a cheap prostitute. Even his father rejected him through out his life becaus ...
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  • Poku 9 years ago

    You were too young to know. He restored a broken down country! He back refugees from Nigeria. I was one of them

  • DON 9 years ago

    DON'T YOU KNOW THAT RAWLINGS CLOSED THE BOARDER WITH TOGO WHEN YOU WERE FORCED OUT OF NIGERIA?THIS FORCED TOGO TO CLOSE HER BOARDER WITH BENIN THEY DIDN'T WANT TO BE STUCK WITH THE GHANAIAN REFUGEES.RAWLINGS WAS SHAMED AND FO ...
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  • Stan 9 years ago

    what Don is saying is true,I just ran across that interview given by BBC and some excepts of iterviews with returnees on youtube.Ghana is too peaceful.This man should have been dealt with the same way he dealt with his enemie ...
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  • FAKE PASTORS - NO SCIENTIST 9 years ago

    GHANA WAS WORLD KNOW BEFORE AZUMAH . DK POISON WAS GREAT BOXER BEFORE AZUMAH . GHANA BLESSING HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH SPORT.

  • BAFFOUR -- YAW 9 years ago

    Rawlings is out-minded,Ghana at choas position and only come with stupid laugh.

  • AKORABA 9 years ago

    Ghana must be proud of him.Advise Mahama to name the Volta University after him.Long live Barima Azumah Nelson.

  • mr eduah 9 years ago

    Truely lives a life worth emulating. Ghana loves u.

  • care 9 years ago

    in the west people feel proud of their sport both men and women and even where ever they gothey follow them with camera,when Africa will wake up,if i dont like my colour i will hate my self been African

  • THIEF OF BAGDAD 9 years ago

    Nana Akufo Binado would be knock out in round one whether NPP like it or not.

  • Joe Turkey 9 years ago

    The imbecile, Jerry Rawlings, who, in his drunken stupor thought he could save the world by killing everyone he perceived as corrupt (and denying some). Can he still recognize when he sees corruption now? This is what Ghana i ...
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  • bbc 9 years ago

    What about" DK POISON" !!!!!.

  • emmanuel nakai nettey-chicago Illinoi 9 years ago

    Azumah made Ghana proud.but the following GA boxers must also be remembered.floyd klutei Robertson.david kotei poison .the clotteys. Ike quartey.gbese Tyson.bukom banku.and ayitey powers...
    this are GA men who excelled in wh ...
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  • wisdom amevor 9 years ago

    A true legend Ghana must celebtate

  • Shoot rawlings 9 years ago

    shut up Rawlings! shut the fuck up!who the fuck are you to tell us who is or is not what? shut up and avail yourself for scrutiny at the the courts if you think you don't have anything to hide. I need you at the Teshie Range ...
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  • Fonzie 9 years ago

    When did Jerry John Rawlings change his name to Jeremiah John Rawlings?

  • Jonas Obeng. 9 years ago

    Our achievements in Soccer placed Ghana on the world map long before Azumah Nelson became a boxer. I believe both Rawlings and Azumah Nelson were all school boys at that time.In the Olympic games in Tokyo in 1964,Ghana placed ...
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  • DESTROYERS PARTY N D C 9 years ago

    WHY ALWAYS GIVE SUCH DEMON POSSESION SON OF A BITCH MURDERER A PUBLICITY.A SATAN INCARNATE BEAST IS A LIAR AND ALWAYS BE A LIAR KING OF CORRUPTION

  • Nana Benkum 9 years ago

    Thank you. Such happy memories of our childhood. I remember the song: "Floyd Robertson, Ghana's left-hand boxer, Floyd Robertson..." Those were the days. That was Nkrumah's Ghana! What a shame we do not honour our heroes or e ...
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  • kwesi fori 9 years ago

    he has done well
    wat abt de money dk poison borrowed de govt? wnt u pay him?

  • Peter P 9 years ago

    rawlings lies again. Before Azumah, there was DK Poison. David Kotey Poison was the very first Ghanaian world boxing champion. And the Ghana Black Stars team was famous long before Azumah Nelson was born. So much so that the ...
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  • Akans Prophecies 9 years ago

    This Paranoid will never use the Phenix of Azumah to ressurect his Ashes of Doom image, burying his crimes as a Thief of Titles with Guns and Roses . Mr Azumah was a good boxer ! Ok ! thats fine! but he has never initiate ...
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  • WTF 9 years ago

    Azumah is a blessing but Rawlings is a shameless SPONGE, a curse, an eternal cause of loss to the economy. Even curtains Rawlings will not buy but shamelessly force the state to provide to him.

    RAWSHIT, open your eyes and ...
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  • Kofi 9 years ago

    Congrats Zoom, Zoom Azumah.

  • JOE LONDON 9 years ago

    SEE HOW RICH AND SAUCE YOU LOOK AND YOU KILLED INNOCENT MEN FOR JUST HAVING MONEY NOW U ARE COUNTED THE RICHEST MAN IN GHANA

  • HAWA YAKUBU 9 years ago

    Prof, I salute you with power, pride and tears for your supernatural abilities. You deserve every praise JJ gave you. Banquo said this if I am not wrong "the instruments of darkness tell us truth". Prof, you made Ghanaians pr ...
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  • Sid 9 years ago

    Still watch Azumah's videos and get chills and speechless explaining to my kids.

    Azumah, we were always with you in prayers and watching your fights day and nights when you were out there putting Ghana on the map. You have ...
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  • TEE 9 years ago

    AND YOU RAWLINGS II A CURSED TO OUR COUNTRY