Gov’t constructs 73 SHS Day Schools - Mahama

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CHA 9 years ago

This Mahama and bunch of NDC thieves have no shame- what SHS have they constructed?

This Mahama and bunch of NDC thieves have no shame- what SHS have they constructed?
Iinsight to the bone 9 years ago

WO MAAME TWE WHAT ABOUT AKUFO ADDO NANA EBOLA WHO IS READY TO KILL TO BECOME THE PRESIDENT NEVER NOT IN GHANA

WO MAAME TWE WHAT ABOUT AKUFO ADDO NANA EBOLA WHO IS READY TO KILL TO BECOME THE PRESIDENT NEVER NOT IN GHANA
km 9 years ago

Are you serious? Are you not ashamed to say this about Nana Akuffo Addo? Do you remember Ex President Mills? Use your brains the next time you want to accuse someone of planning to kill.

Are you serious? Are you not ashamed to say this about Nana Akuffo Addo? Do you remember Ex President Mills? Use your brains the next time you want to accuse someone of planning to kill.
Lori 9 years ago

They are bunch of thieves and lairs.
Mahama should tell us where the constructions are going on. Just mere numbers not enough.

They are bunch of thieves and lairs.
Mahama should tell us where the constructions are going on. Just mere numbers not enough.
DABENDA 9 years ago

Well said but I am praying that they would not leave the work halfway. Already, there schools like Sunyani SHS that are without beds and students are sleeping on the floor. The numerous schools established by CPP government h ...
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Well said but I am praying that they would not leave the work halfway. Already, there schools like Sunyani SHS that are without beds and students are sleeping on the floor. The numerous schools established by CPP government have been abandoned by all the successive gov's without the slightest maintenance; is this a wise way to build a nation? Education wise, I see no sensible government after Nkrumah's time.
OLD SOLDIER 9 years ago

AUTHOR:-BOLUS, MERCY ADEDE...

"The drug barons are currently targeting Ghana making us a vulnerable nation hence we must toughen our national security at all our Airports. If Ms Ametefeh has been allegedly doing such mano ...
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AUTHOR:-BOLUS, MERCY ADEDE...

"The drug barons are currently targeting Ghana making us a vulnerable nation hence we must toughen our national security at all our Airports. If Ms Ametefeh has been allegedly doing such manoeuvres since 2009 goodness knows how many of such people have used this method just because of their status in society as security around such people have been relaxed. No one can be trusted when it comes to such issues any more as our security is at stake. We should not even allow the VVIP section security to be relaxed so that unscrupulous people take advantage of such freedom afforded to them in the wake of this saga".
oware obodiatuo 9 years ago

well said

well said
MARY 9 years ago

Mahama the best president ever

Mahama the best president ever
ADANKO 9 years ago

Where are the buildings? Are they hunging.? Or, they are under the sea? Mahatma,stop lying otherwise you will soon have a crooked mouth.

Where are the buildings? Are they hunging.? Or, they are under the sea? Mahatma,stop lying otherwise you will soon have a crooked mouth.
Onipaba Of Akyem Maase 9 years ago

I think you need to think about the comment you just made. In your mind just give one reason why Mahama is good president. If you can't get one, please leave Nana Addo alone. Be serious. The evil that men do lives after them.

I think you need to think about the comment you just made. In your mind just give one reason why Mahama is good president. If you can't get one, please leave Nana Addo alone. Be serious. The evil that men do lives after them.
www.owafk-africa.com 9 years ago

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Ghfuo: Be Ruthless, hang nyantakyi, N 9 years ago

The longer he stays, the worse things are going to get. This is what whyni like the naija people. If nyantakyi was in naija. His car,.offices would have already been shot up, bombed or terrorized. His car would have been set ...
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The longer he stays, the worse things are going to get. This is what whyni like the naija people. If nyantakyi was in naija. His car,.offices would have already been shot up, bombed or terrorized. His car would have been set on fire, kids kidnapped or.some shit. Ghanaians are all talk, talk, talking nkoaa. If nyantakyi is cheating with u17. Wat else has he swerved and will continue to steal from gfa?
Kofi Miawo De 9 years ago

I hope they are not schools under trees.

I hope they are not schools under trees.
abu okyeman KIBI 9 years ago

WITH ALL THE READ COMMENTS OUR PRESIDENT IS A SHAME ,DO NOTHING BUT BRAGGING.LOOK AT HIS CONTENACE AT AGE 56. UGLY AND TIRED . GIVE UP ALL THE TOOLS AND STAY BETTER CAUSE U CANNOT BEAR THE LOAD ,MIND YOU YOUR BOSS DIED FOR NO ...
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WITH ALL THE READ COMMENTS OUR PRESIDENT IS A SHAME ,DO NOTHING BUT BRAGGING.LOOK AT HIS CONTENACE AT AGE 56. UGLY AND TIRED . GIVE UP ALL THE TOOLS AND STAY BETTER CAUSE U CANNOT BEAR THE LOAD ,MIND YOU YOUR BOSS DIED FOR NO REASONS YOU BE NEXT .
abu okyeman KIBI 9 years ago

PRESIDENT MAHAMA BROUGHT THE CHOLERA AND EBOLA TO GHANA PERIOD.THE GHANA BLACK STARS ACTED IN THE RECENT WORLD CUP LIKE THEY HAVE CONTRACTED CHOLERA OR EBOLA ,NOT IN NPP TIME OF K4(THOUG H I DONOT APPRICIATE HIM THAT MUCH).MA ...
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PRESIDENT MAHAMA BROUGHT THE CHOLERA AND EBOLA TO GHANA PERIOD.THE GHANA BLACK STARS ACTED IN THE RECENT WORLD CUP LIKE THEY HAVE CONTRACTED CHOLERA OR EBOLA ,NOT IN NPP TIME OF K4(THOUG H I DONOT APPRICIATE HIM THAT MUCH).MAHAMA IS A LOW DOWN PRESIDENT OF ALL TIME.
humanity 9 years ago

Mahama has done what Kuffuor & Adoo Dankwa have promised.

Mahama has done what Kuffuor & Adoo Dankwa have promised.
EFO KOKU 9 years ago

Graduates can't find jobs and you're boasting of 73 new day schools. Useless guy!

Graduates can't find jobs and you're boasting of 73 new day schools. Useless guy!
nzema kotoko ni ba 9 years ago

Efo doku, so since u run away from d psychiatric hospital ur uterances still remains abnormal, pls go for treament for jm will pay ur medical bills

Efo doku, so since u run away from d psychiatric hospital ur uterances still remains abnormal, pls go for treament for jm will pay ur medical bills
NA 9 years ago

73 new SHS are jobs created. Granted that, each SHS needs 20 teachers,1460 teachers would be employed. People need to be trained in areas where the jobs are. Let us think outside the box.

73 new SHS are jobs created. Granted that, each SHS needs 20 teachers,1460 teachers would be employed. People need to be trained in areas where the jobs are. Let us think outside the box.
syllah 9 years ago

We have job for them, they should lined up at ndc head Quatters

We have job for them, they should lined up at ndc head Quatters
BBC NEWS! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 9 years ago

PRESIDENT MAHAMA IS UNTOUCHABLE, GHANAIANS ARE GOING TO GIVE YOU THE SECOND TERM ON SILVER PLATES COMES 2016.

PRESIDENT MAHAMA IS UNTOUCHABLE, GHANAIANS ARE GOING TO GIVE YOU THE SECOND TERM ON SILVER PLATES COMES 2016.
MARY 9 years ago

Re The Npp you are supporing are thieves

Re The Npp you are supporing are thieves
Joe 9 years ago

We want the President to name one by one where these schools are located so that the press will visit those places and bring pictures to prove their completion stages. Sometime ago they said they had constructed a teaching h ...
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We want the President to name one by one where these schools are located so that the press will visit those places and bring pictures to prove their completion stages. Sometime ago they said they had constructed a teaching hospital in the north but when Vice Presidential candidate for NPP Mohamadu Barwumiah visited the place he brought a picture of a yard completely covered with weeds with fence wall around it; and this is what they called constructed teaching hospital. They also said they had constructed a university in the Volta region, but pictures that came out showed only some few tiny structures which they called university, the rest of the area according the chiefs in those areas were bushes overtaken by reptiles. They said they had supplied computers to some higher institutions before election 2013 and it turned out that most of the schools mentioned did not even exist. Too numerous to mention. Let Mahama name where these schools are and we need to see the pictures. Enough of lies and promises. Time will tell.
Joe 9 years ago

Election 2012

Election 2012
Michael 9 years ago

Your very myopic, are the pressmen God? If you don't believe you President, just dive in the Korle Lagoon.

Your very myopic, are the pressmen God? If you don't believe you President, just dive in the Korle Lagoon.
Bawku naaba 9 years ago

Hahaha. Ignorant rat. Pick a bus and go to tamale and see for urself. No poliction will praise amother. Or better still ask those who live in tamale about the hospital or those in brong ahafo or if you glaucoma in your eye le ...
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Hahaha. Ignorant rat. Pick a bus and go to tamale and see for urself. No poliction will praise amother. Or better still ask those who live in tamale about the hospital or those in brong ahafo or if you glaucoma in your eye let someone lead you to police hospital or ridge hospital you may feel it. Big head for nothing person. God bless our homeland Ghana
Norsaid 9 years ago

Ok I know one in my area, Abease in the Pru District. It's beyond foundation level now, and work is progressing steadly.
For ppl like u who are sitting in their rooms and playing the game of deliberate ignorance, hv my pitty ...
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Ok I know one in my area, Abease in the Pru District. It's beyond foundation level now, and work is progressing steadly.
For ppl like u who are sitting in their rooms and playing the game of deliberate ignorance, hv my pitty.
All the things u said were falsely claimed by the NDC, are concrete things on the ground that an objective mind cannot deny. No wonder Ndc always wins elections and ppl dont understand.
Onipaba Of Akyem Maase 9 years ago

What is the meaning of this "constructs 73" and "are at various stages". Have you constructed even one? I feel very ashamed every time this man makes public pronouncements. See him lying like the schools were inexistence and ...
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What is the meaning of this "constructs 73" and "are at various stages". Have you constructed even one? I feel very ashamed every time this man makes public pronouncements. See him lying like the schools were inexistence and he was initiating them. Our chiefs whose communities need these facilities are quiet and would not question where those schools are being built. Ah! What a country? SUVs for brain shut down of chiefs and elders. Mahama, please with all due respect, treat us as thinking humans. You take us for fools! Please! Habah.
Akwasi Owusu. 9 years ago

REDUNDANT SPEECH DESIGNED TO MISLEAD MOTHER GHANA

REDUNDANT SPEECH DESIGNED TO MISLEAD MOTHER GHANA
Yaovi 9 years ago

So out of the $25billion loans contracted over the past 6 years all you can show for the education sector is 73 SHS in "different stages" of construction. Not even fully completed ! Shame

So out of the $25billion loans contracted over the past 6 years all you can show for the education sector is 73 SHS in "different stages" of construction. Not even fully completed ! Shame
Aikins 9 years ago

Point of correction 27 billion Dollars. Besides is it not the same mahama who in 2012 said free SHS can only be possible in 20 years? Iam sorry but stupid President like this I have never heard or seen in the world history. ...
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Point of correction 27 billion Dollars. Besides is it not the same mahama who in 2012 said free SHS can only be possible in 20 years? Iam sorry but stupid President like this I have never heard or seen in the world history. He talk and act as if he is still a vice president waste waste waste waste and waste of taxpayers money.
onnsonyameye Esi 9 years ago

The person who gave that profane rejoinder roping in Nana Ad do is a fool andthe lnsult goes to his mother. You simply can't talk like that on social media. Typical of NDC. If their so called communicators always come insulti ...
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The person who gave that profane rejoinder roping in Nana Ad do is a fool andthe lnsult goes to his mother. You simply can't talk like that on social media. Typical of NDC. If their so called communicators always come insulting what will their followers do? A shameless party. Come again and let your president name the schools one by one so that we can verify.
WAITING TO VOTE NDC OUT 9 years ago

In 2013, 50SHS's were supposed to be completed, staffed with teachers, fully equipped and with Ghanaian kids utilizing these schools.
Another 50SHS's should also have been completed in 2014.
As it is, none of the 100SHS's ...
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In 2013, 50SHS's were supposed to be completed, staffed with teachers, fully equipped and with Ghanaian kids utilizing these schools.
Another 50SHS's should also have been completed in 2014.
As it is, none of the 100SHS's have been completed, staffed, equiped and being utilized.
The purported 73SHS's are nowhere to be found, Ghanaians don't know which districts, which regions, which cities these purported SHS's are being constructed for it to be independently verified by well meaning and right thinking Ghanaians. Clearly, the gears on propaganda has been shifted into 4th position, with Ghana speeding very fast on the path into the doldrums, with nothing to show for all the loans, taxes and sovereign bonds.
This is not a gov't that is serious about development and they need to be massively fired at the ballot box in 2016.
Kojo 9 years ago

This guy is so mis managing the country, by the time he leaves office Ghana will be a few years back, and it will take Nana a whole term to clean up after him. I hope they are monitoring the amount of money he is squandering ...
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This guy is so mis managing the country, by the time he leaves office Ghana will be a few years back, and it will take Nana a whole term to clean up after him. I hope they are monitoring the amount of money he is squandering so we would squeeze it out of him after he's left office. I never saw such a bad crook before.
zaks 9 years ago

mr president we r solidily behind go go high n ignore dis skin pain people as for de minority leader de least said abt him de better bcus he is de most corrupt minority leader in de history of parliament

mr president we r solidily behind go go high n ignore dis skin pain people as for de minority leader de least said abt him de better bcus he is de most corrupt minority leader in de history of parliament
Kwame Rought 9 years ago

NDC ALWAYS LYING HANDS-UP

NDC ALWAYS LYING HANDS-UP
The mask 9 years ago

Nowadays businesses and government organisations have stopped demanding Secondary School Certificate or Basic Education Certificate.

Each of these certificates are important. For example for many tertiary graduates the on ...
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Nowadays businesses and government organisations have stopped demanding Secondary School Certificate or Basic Education Certificate.

Each of these certificates are important. For example for many tertiary graduates the only certificate that can tell whether one can speak good English or whether one has adequate knowledge of Mathematics is the Secondary School Certificate.

Similarly the only certificate that can tell whether a tertiary graduate has basic knowledge of Ghanaian history, culture, agriculture and the basic geography of West Africa is the Basic Education Certificate.
Alhaji 9 years ago

Give Ghana man water to drink and power to enjoy first....A great Liar of all time

Give Ghana man water to drink and power to enjoy first....A great Liar of all time
Omanba 9 years ago

I cant see any of de schools, so prez where can I find de 73. Its not true

I cant see any of de schools, so prez where can I find de 73. Its not true
Prof. Appiah, USA 9 years ago

Our President thinks like a baby.......we don't need empty classrooms. Talk about resources for the classrooms including books, teachers, salaries for the teachers etc.

Our President thinks like a baby.......we don't need empty classrooms. Talk about resources for the classrooms including books, teachers, salaries for the teachers etc.
mr amin 9 years ago

mr prez u have faild, the cedi has lost its value ghc3+ to $1 is high it creats poverty n is deficult to educate with hunger. n no job for the youth due to poor cedi n low pertrunage of goods n services.

mr prez u have faild, the cedi has lost its value ghc3+ to $1 is high it creats poverty n is deficult to educate with hunger. n no job for the youth due to poor cedi n low pertrunage of goods n services.
fail 9 years ago

u are a lying ass president

u are a lying ass president
Adincka 9 years ago

Later later later.

Later later later.
Franco 9 years ago

when are we gona finished bulding schools?. since time in memorial we have been building schools and we seemed not to finish. our colonial master built schools. all our Presidents indicate to us that they are building schools ...
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when are we gona finished bulding schools?. since time in memorial we have been building schools and we seemed not to finish. our colonial master built schools. all our Presidents indicate to us that they are building schools yet we still have schools to build. is building schools the only development agenda that we have in Ghana? can someone answer this question?
MYSELF 9 years ago

Mahama is milking Ghana dry with the looted money given his brother to do cocaine business. UK narcotic board should interview Mahama and his
brother. If possible Asiedu Kwasea (Nketia) should also be interviewed.

Mahama is milking Ghana dry with the looted money given his brother to do cocaine business. UK narcotic board should interview Mahama and his
brother. If possible Asiedu Kwasea (Nketia) should also be interviewed.
COS90 9 years ago

there are 10 regions in ghana so eastern alone received 50 schools out of 200 schools, how many schools will the remaing 9 regions will receive? this is not fair. simply mathematics tells us that if u divide 200 by 10 (200/10 ...
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there are 10 regions in ghana so eastern alone received 50 schools out of 200 schools, how many schools will the remaing 9 regions will receive? this is not fair. simply mathematics tells us that if u divide 200 by 10 (200/10)= 20 so why eastern got 50 schools?
akua 9 years ago

See how stupid you look,that is not true,you have not constructed a single one,nonsense

See how stupid you look,that is not true,you have not constructed a single one,nonsense
jerry 9 years ago

what is the name of these 73 shs schools
where on this earth is these schools located hmmm this man again

what is the name of these 73 shs schools
where on this earth is these schools located hmmm this man again
GhanaBa 9 years ago

Construction of schools is not a major policy achievement. constructing schools, hospitals, etc. is the basic responsibility of any government. Significant policies are those that make the country work. we can build the schoo ...
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Construction of schools is not a major policy achievement. constructing schools, hospitals, etc. is the basic responsibility of any government. Significant policies are those that make the country work. we can build the schools but how are we going to get them to educate our children? Build the hospitals but how are they going to be maintained and to give the right health care? Hmm... leadership at lost...
Kwame 9 years ago

The president has added the schools under pampas loan as part of it. It's wrong. Lies or mistake?

The president has added the schools under pampas loan as part of it. It's wrong. Lies or mistake?
Ugly Akufo Addo 9 years ago

We trusted u

We trusted u
DAN 9 years ago

why do you suck a white tourist penis dry of all the semen for 1 cedi per hour..then allow him to ram his dry penis up your anus and down your throat again for 50 pesawa extra!

why do you suck a white tourist penis dry of all the semen for 1 cedi per hour..then allow him to ram his dry penis up your anus and down your throat again for 50 pesawa extra!
john 9 years ago

always promised why,do it so that the people of ghanaians will see,wae

always promised why,do it so that the people of ghanaians will see,wae
DAN 9 years ago

place the name and address here on net!

place the name and address here on net!
Emmanuel 9 years ago

Go on my President, PROMISE ALL, and deliver, you are on course, stay focused, ENEMIES ARE NOT GOD, they will be ashamed in 2016. 2017 will surely be a victory for NDC and Ghanaians for the world to see.

Go on my President, PROMISE ALL, and deliver, you are on course, stay focused, ENEMIES ARE NOT GOD, they will be ashamed in 2016. 2017 will surely be a victory for NDC and Ghanaians for the world to see.
nana kwame Asuom 9 years ago

Tank u brother i voted 4 N D C 2016 N D C AGAIN

Tank u brother i voted 4 N D C 2016 N D C AGAIN
PIERRO 9 years ago

I can see you are an ape. What i don't know is how long your tail is.Aboooooowabiba!

I can see you are an ape. What i don't know is how long your tail is.Aboooooowabiba!
SONIA 9 years ago

Gyimiii... So u dey believe in this incompetent theif ...hahahaha then ur brain die rough..

Gyimiii... So u dey believe in this incompetent theif ...hahahaha then ur brain die rough..
bitter Ghana! 9 years ago

London’s Heathrow Grabs Africa’s
Narcotic Cleopatra
November 24, 2014
It was a fairytale life for the 32 year
old. A high flying life with deep political
connections across a sub-region of over
260 million people � ...
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London’s Heathrow Grabs Africa’s
Narcotic Cleopatra
November 24, 2014
It was a fairytale life for the 32 year
old. A high flying life with deep political
connections across a sub-region of over
260 million people – frequent flights in
not only the first class sections of some
of the World’s leading airlines, but
Bombadier Private Jets reportedly
belonging to one of West Africa’s
richest men and the brother of the
current Ghanaian President and
Chairman of the Regional Political
Union. Sleeping in the choicest hotels
around the world came only as an aside.
But this life at 15,000ft, for someone
born and bred in a country with per
capita just over a $1,000, came crushing
down on the Morning of November 10
when Border Security at London’s
Heathrow crashed the operation of the
lady who has been described and
nicknamed by some within the
Intelligence Community as “Africa’s
drug Cleopatra”, having used her
extensive political and social networks to
courier an estimated $75 million of
cocaine directly in just the past three
years.
It all ended for the modern “cleopatra”,
originally born Ruby Adu-Gyamfi when
a trip planned to be like the many she
has undertaken to over 28 countries in 5
continents turned out to be the opposite
as a result of collaborative work
between intelligence agencies in four
continents but interestingly without the
knowledge of any of her native Ghana
or Africa’s security units due to a
strong suspicion of complicity at the
highest level of Ghana’s political system.
With the world’s best intelligence and
security agencies behind her track, it
was supposed to only be a matter of
small time before this drug baroness was
nailed. However, numerous aliases, dozens
of passports bearing different names
and pictures – including those from
Austria, Canada, Brazil and Belarus and
several Ghanaian and Nigerian
passports – including a Ghanaian
diplomatic passport, allowed her rare
privileges both within the country and
outside. As though this was not enough,
cosmetic surgeries, aided by plastic
surgeons, and the sheer brazenness of
her operations plus the well documented
help of officialdom in her native Ghana
had succeeded in aiding her to escape
arrest for over 24 months.
When security officials finally closed in
on her, not even the power of the
Ghanaian Presidency or the brandishing
of a diplomatic passport could save her.
In her possession was as much as 12
kilograms of cocaine valued
conservatively at $5 million. So
unbothered was her operation that
unlike many others who conceal their
consignment in several ingenious ways,
‘Cleopatra’ carried her full consignment
in her hand luggage, having used the
VVIP Presidential lounge at Ghana’s
Kotoka International Airport, according
to local reports and signals picked from
Scotland Yard, one of the agencies that
worked on her capture.
Intelligence officers indicate that Ruby
managed to get her consignment safely
into the first class section of the
particular British Airways flight using
her connections in the Ghanaian
establishment, who managed to even get
a security official to safely courier her
consignment into the plane. Sources
close to the operation that nailed her
say that Ruby was spotted by other
first class passengers trying to fit 2kg
of her consignment into her hand bag.
These passengers alerted the British
Airways staff while the plane was
approaching London with the staff in
turn radioing Heathrow to be on alert.
On arrival at Heathrow, border security
officials, who had ordered only the first
class passengers to disembark, quickly
asked her to step aside to be searched.
This request is said to have infuriated
Ruby, who questioned the security
officials, pulling out her Ghanaian
diplomatic passport in the process. This
diplomatic passport with the name Ruby
Mahama did little to convince Border
Security who proceeded to carry out the
search.
So excited were the global intelligence
agency when she was finally captured
that three top officials of the Drug
Enforcement Administration (DEA) of
the United States quickly jetted off to
London, within 4 hours of her arrest, to
interrogate her on various matters of
concern to American officials in their
unending war on narcotics.
Norman Shanks, an Aviation Security
expert who spoke to Airport
International was puzzled that the
major achievement chalked by Heathrow
in capturing this long sought after Drug
Empress did not make it into headlines
of the mainstream British and
International Press, but was also of the
view that it did not make it into the
major headlines because the top
international agencies that worked on it
wanted to keep a lid on her arrest for
various reasons.
“This for me seems to be the biggest
victory in many months for the global
drug war. Arresting this lady was
important to stop a large part of the
volumes of narcotics we have seen
pouring into Europe and North America
in the past few years. Again, this was
one of the most difficult operations in
recent years because with her very close
connections and helpers in the Ghana
government, it was almost impossible to
expect any local help to close in on her.
All the work therefore was completely
done by agents of foreign agencies and
mostly from foreign bases and in such a
situation, you can only depend on luck”,
Shanks said, from his Coventry base.
Before her arrest, Ruby, who also goes
by the name “Angel” had been spotted,
according to intelligence sources in
Nigeria, during the inauguration of a
multimillion dollar Stadium in a country
where over 70% of the population still to
find, let alone live on a dollar a day. Her
mission there, according to the reports,
was to help entertain the top political
elite across West Africa, including the
Presidents of the three big West
African Nations – Nigeria, Ghana and
Cote d’ivoire, who descended on Akwa
Ibom, one of the many states in Nigeria
whose Governor put up the Stadium as a
legacy project.
For now, Ruby Angel or Cleopatra as she
was appropriately christened will no
longer be travelling with Presidents or
entertaining them. She will not also
enjoy the luxury of her villas in Accra’s
most expensive suburbs including her
main mansion at Trassaco Valley, which
is the city’s Beverley Hills with multi-
million mansions belonging to Ghana’s
political class and business elite as well as
some of Nigeria’s richest. Her properties
in Cantonments and East Legon, which
are also extremely expensive suburbs in
Ghana’s capital with land going for as
much as a million dollars, will certainly
also miss her.
By Tom Allett
Airports International
This article was published in the
November Print / hard copy edition of
Airports International.
Killer 9 years ago

Thieve president has no vision.U stole dis idea from Akuffo Addo n want to impliment it.U are problem president n will never see the light of d day.Our God is alive.U will have ur purnishment before I leave d seat by 2016.Kwa ...
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Thieve president has no vision.U stole dis idea from Akuffo Addo n want to impliment it.U are problem president n will never see the light of d day.Our God is alive.U will have ur purnishment before I leave d seat by 2016.Kwasea Teni Aboa
ISSA ABONGO 9 years ago

Some schools in Tamale have no tables and chairs for their pupils

It now comes to light in the wake of the cocaine saga, revealing information popping is out about the brother of the President’s brother Ibrahim Mahama, C ...
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Some schools in Tamale have no tables and chairs for their pupils

It now comes to light in the wake of the cocaine saga, revealing information popping is out about the brother of the President’s brother Ibrahim Mahama, Chief Executive Officer of Engineers and Planners. It appears the Mahama families are living well and money is not a problem. I am just probing and analysing into the information captured on ghanaweb.com 27/11/2014 in which Ibrahim Mahama reported that he has been a businessman for many years, working very hard like many others to earn a decent living for family and myself. Illicit drugs are a no go area for me he concluded.
It has also transpired that the brother of the President has such wealth including his own private plane has which has no red mark on its door.
I see that these days some businessmen in Ghana do their own private planes. This is great news!
Perhaps I am not figuring what is actually happening in Ghana with the economic progress and economic success, which has pushed some people like Ibrahim Mahama, owns his own jet though? It is not a crime but a displaced priority amidst poverty. My big question is, why then is our President wasting the taxpayers’ money jetting the globe in search of loans from the developed countries to sort our domestic affairs when there are already richer stakeholders luring around within Ghana. At least the interest such loans would free or at most very minimal.
May be his thoughts are rational!
In any case we have a case here, the brother of the President owns his own private jet and appears to be one of the very rich businessmen in Ghana on a decent salary as the Chief Executive Officer of Engineers.
On the other hand too, we have children in the same country children who are being rented out for domestic purpose by the middle class because no provision in our system to address their basic needs. For example “ child benefit” for all children and their families to alleviate the pains and suffering these go through.
Everyone knows we are a rich in natural resources yet so many of our own people are unemployed and live in poverty. Some of our politicians have no clues about the determinants of health, which would have helped them in appreciating the agonies this group encounter every day in their attempts in escaping poverty. Our country is one of the most densely populated countries in West Africa. The wealthy men still out chasing younger women with a mission to further worsen the situation. As we read in our media daily some politicians have turned the political scene into a money making machine using dubious ways and tactics in duping state asset thus making Ghana poorer and poorer thus becoming heavily indebted at the expense of the vulnerable and disadvantaged people. I will like to think that our politicians truly want to make a difference for our motherland.
Three regions in the North are particularly very deprived and suffering leaving many concerned NGOs to genuinely chip in in an attempt to alleviate pains and suffering of these group of people. Children and pregnant mothers are dying because no provision has been made for them even in the current Budget Statement are still unable to afford healthcare. It is not the fault of some of our politicians as some of them have the basic requirements needed for such post. The voters say they like a someone they never check the qualifications of a politicians. The only thing they check if whether politicians are rich enough and but to find out the wider aspects of a particular individual for example whether they have made a difference in their own community because if he has then he would apply the same principles in when in a higher office.
Presently, a significant percentage of people die in Ghana caused by unsafe water and poor sanitation. Water aid organisation have noted that 3 million people have no clean water and their only choice is to collect dirty water from unsafe sources in this 21st century in Ghana.
The 2015 Budget Statement read some few weeks ago was a fire fighting and sinkhole one with no provision made within it to address issues of concerns address in the article.
Let’s reflect on the plight of these group of people caught up in these scenarios mentioned earlier. I am referring to the disadvantaged young children, young adult and their families due to disabilities / lack of education. These groups are still ending up on our high streets as professional beggars or hawkers and opportunistic petty thieves. Some also suffer mental health issues. I would like to think that the Minister of Finance considered them in his Budget, as they are not his identified 800 orphans. Was any provision made any provision in his Budget Statement to address these issues?
When you go up and down our rural areas children are being educated under the trees with no risk assessment or assessment of the quality of teaching, teachers are not paid so busy transacting their petty business instead of teaching the pupils. Yet those some out there who can easily afford to help communities if they take up their quota of social responsibility but are not.
Close to your heart to Ibrahim Mahama’s own town where children are being educated in classrooms without tables and chairs.
As a Northerner one would like to think that this gentleman would be working on towards his social responsibility contributions is making a difference there. He said he has been a businessman for many years, working very hard like many others to earn a decent living for family and myself. So the obvious would be taking up his social responsibilities to help in alleviating the sufferings already discussed.
There so much poverty in the North and with his expertise in engineering one would thought a rich Northerner may like to emulate the English gentleman Richard Branson is providing a railway service in the U.K by also attempting a similar service from Accra to the North. Would this be a brilliant initiative perhaps? Thus such initiative would have helped in reducing the inequalities some people in the North face daily due to lack of effective communication. It would also help in creating jobs and reduced the number of young energetic hopefuls who end slaving themselves in the south. This would be seen as giving something back into ones own community. May be Accra means everything to some Northerners these days whiles may chose to forget their roots.
Any genuine successful hard working businessman would be measured against what they have achieved in giving something back to their community. The trend still continues as young people from the North are risking their lives rushing to the South in search of new opportunities. It is everyone’s responsibility ensure that the there is regeneration in the North and children and young people have some hope to achieve their full potential in life.
The plight of this disadvantaged group in the North needs to be acknowledged by the Minister of Finance and factor this in the Budget so that we see drastic reductions of the exodus, as currently it remains unchallenged.
I would like to think that Ghana is not going down hill in developmental terms. Why were we in too much of a hurry to become an independent country in the first place? Kwame Nkrumah was selfish but only was one of a kind. He never owned his own private plane or did he?
Currently we are seeing some politicians who are not fit for purpose yet accepting higher position and then later on reflection publicly say they regret accepting their position. Why? Some don’t even have the qualification, which give politicians that sounded trend of thoughts in Politics, Philosophy and Economics (PPE). This is a degree programme is rooted in the view that to understand social phenomena one must approach them from several complementary disciplinary directions and analytical frameworks. The study of philosophy is considered important because it both equips students with meta- tools such as the ability to reason rigorously and logically and facilitates ethical reflection. The study of Policitcs is considered necessary because it acquaints students with the institutions that govern society and help solve collective action problems. Last but not least is studying Economics which is seen as vital in the modern world because political decisions often concern economic matters, and government decisions are often influenced by economic events. So why are some of our policiticians not got this basics.
Many of our politicians are Mr and Mrs nice guys not fit for purpose therefore not astute to the wider aspects of being a politician other than the obvious to make a Million dollars . Because of this short coming many are not challenging enough to reject a sinkhole budget statement. Ghana do not need a Mr or Mrs Nice guys any more and should not be voted into office. Brillaint leadership qualities is what is needed to take the country forward.
Poverty in Ghana is not acceptable in this 21st century any longer and must be challenged by all political parties. Our Parliament must have the Gantt chart to seriously tackle the inequalities the country is facing on a 5 year programme to ensure that every child and pregant woman receive the best health in their community. The budget statement did not address this area at all? Either we have a second Budget Statement or not future Budget Statement must tackle and address all these concerns. The Minister of Finance either delibrately missed early years development or is not aware of the problems they are facing. The needs of the early years is equally as essential as those in SHS and further education.
It grieves ones heart when we see afluent indivudals who claim they are hard working individuals but fails to think of the wider world around them therefore not making any efforts towards their social responibilities. In life we are all entitle to 3 scores and 10 anything else is a bonus . So should we not be working towards scoring points for our next world where accountability is not amassing wealth and living comfortably but playing a role in acccepting our individual social responsibility and improving the lives of the younger generations. Yes indeed ! This is our only way of securing a free ticket for a more secured comfortable retirement home upwards to heaven. Ghana is full of greedy lots who would use dubious means to be acknowledge in society as rich men and women. Forgetting theat when we die we eveything behind as “nyemanye ma” ie useless waste..
Bawku naaba 9 years ago

Skin pain, if you had some one like Ibrahim in your family you surely will worship him. Since we know your part of the country and the party you belong to are money worshipers you don't care if it's I'll gotten or drug money. ...
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Skin pain, if you had some one like Ibrahim in your family you surely will worship him. Since we know your part of the country and the party you belong to are money worshipers you don't care if it's I'll gotten or drug money. live your life and stop being a stooge to nana addo. I believe you never met see or
speak to him before. Think and brighting the Conner that you are. A word to a wise. God bless our homeland Ghana
ISSA ABONGO 9 years ago

LOOK AT THE POOR CHURCH MOUSE, WHO HERO WORSHIP THE MAHAMA'S AND THINKS OWNING A LEAR JET IS HIP. LEAR JETS BOUGHT WITH STOLEN MONEY???????????? IBRAHIM MAHAMA AND HIS BROTHER JOHN MAHAMA IS NOT FIT TO UNTIE THE SANDALS OF TH ...
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LOOK AT THE POOR CHURCH MOUSE, WHO HERO WORSHIP THE MAHAMA'S AND THINKS OWNING A LEAR JET IS HIP. LEAR JETS BOUGHT WITH STOLEN MONEY???????????? IBRAHIM MAHAMA AND HIS BROTHER JOHN MAHAMA IS NOT FIT TO UNTIE THE SANDALS OF THE LEAST IN MY FAMILY, BECAUSE THEY ARE THIEVES. NANA ADDO AND THE NPP IS THE BEST THING TO HAPPEN TO GHANA. THE IMAGE OF GHANA NOW IS IN TATTERS ONE OF CORRUPTION, INCOMPETENCE PROVEN BY WORLD CUP FIASCO AND NOW DRUG DEALING CONNECTED TO PEOPLE HIGH UP IN THE NDC PARTY AND GOVERNMENT. HERO WORSHIPPER, TO YOU ANYONE LIKE WOYOME, NAYELE ETC FLASHING MONEY SHOULD BE WORSHIPPED AND BOW TO, NEVER MIND HOW HE MADE HIS MONEY, VIA EMBRAER JETS CONTRACTS.
Longman 9 years ago

Can anyone give us one reason why the npp should come to power? Let's be sincere in all our comments that we post because God is watching. What do /we know about the npp?

Can anyone give us one reason why the npp should come to power? Let's be sincere in all our comments that we post because God is watching. What do /we know about the npp?
nii adzei, la 9 years ago

50 SHS to commence in ER? Sod-cutting no doubts. But whr ar de 73 located? DE LYING DUM SO TIN-OF-PAST prez? Another scam of lies? LIAR! Be truthful for once, whr ar de 73 at variable probables? WOYOME,
SADA, SABU, RLG, GALLO ...
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50 SHS to commence in ER? Sod-cutting no doubts. But whr ar de 73 located? DE LYING DUM SO TIN-OF-PAST prez? Another scam of lies? LIAR! Be truthful for once, whr ar de 73 at variable probables? WOYOME,
SADA, SABU, RLG, GALLOPERS, OIL & GAS, GOLD-TO-IRAN, could hav built 730 not GHOST UNCOMPLETED SHS.
fredsaid 9 years ago

Where are the teachers for the schools. You can't even pay the salaries of current teachers

Where are the teachers for the schools. You can't even pay the salaries of current teachers
nii adzei, la 9 years ago

ghost workers? ghost service persons? ghost shs? automatically, ghost teachers on pay-rolls? trust mahama for ghost hanger, ghost renovation, ghost staffers, ghost per diem, ghost vvip, ghost persioners fund.
SURELY, GHOST A ...
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ghost workers? ghost service persons? ghost shs? automatically, ghost teachers on pay-rolls? trust mahama for ghost hanger, ghost renovation, ghost staffers, ghost per diem, ghost vvip, ghost persioners fund.
SURELY, GHOST ATTA MILLS BEGAN ALL GHOSTLY 2ND mahama DUM SO term!
AGYA OWUSU NYANSA, GERMANY 9 years ago

MAHAMA CAN´T YOU STOP LYING ? DAY IN DAY OUT THE NUMBER OF SCHOOLS YOU´RE BUILDING KEEP ON CHANGING !! ABAAH !!!ARE YOU BEING CURSED TO LIE ? NO WONDER IF GHANA CHOOSES A GYGOLO AS PRESIDENT!!!

MAHAMA CAN´T YOU STOP LYING ? DAY IN DAY OUT THE NUMBER OF SCHOOLS YOU´RE BUILDING KEEP ON CHANGING !! ABAAH !!!ARE YOU BEING CURSED TO LIE ? NO WONDER IF GHANA CHOOSES A GYGOLO AS PRESIDENT!!!
Aikins 9 years ago

Please please please, Ghana did not choose a gygolo as president, it was Afari Djan and Atuguba who forced him on us.

Please please please, Ghana did not choose a gygolo as president, it was Afari Djan and Atuguba who forced him on us.
KING ATTAH 9 years ago

CONGRATS MR.PRESIDENT FOR WORKING TO TALK. YOU HAVE PROVED THE NPP CRITICS WRONG. NOW THE EVIDECE IS THERE. NDC ALL THE WAY.

CONGRATS MR.PRESIDENT FOR WORKING TO TALK. YOU HAVE PROVED THE NPP CRITICS WRONG. NOW THE EVIDECE IS THERE. NDC ALL THE WAY.
Dominic Adusei 9 years ago

He should tell us where the schools are located.We are fed up with his blatant lies.

He should tell us where the schools are located.We are fed up with his blatant lies.
Barrow 9 years ago

government establishing all those schools ain't the answer to our educational problem.instead, government should rather encourage individuals to establish most of the shs in a form of subsidizing or partnership, with this the ...
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government establishing all those schools ain't the answer to our educational problem.instead, government should rather encourage individuals to establish most of the shs in a form of subsidizing or partnership, with this there wouldn't be any strike issues.most of the private shs or institution are well managed as compered to government schools being managed by individuals
Faithful Eric 9 years ago

If you think insulting prez will let u win, then better change. Ghanaian don't need arrogant and disrespectful people. Whether u believe him or not he is your prez or else go and throw yourself like Castro to Ada. foolish wri ...
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If you think insulting prez will let u win, then better change. Ghanaian don't need arrogant and disrespectful people. Whether u believe him or not he is your prez or else go and throw yourself like Castro to Ada. foolish writers.did ur Bible tell u to insult leaders and elders?
hajj salley 9 years ago

because all you do is you stay in kumawu or bantama and posting coment. wake up go round and see for yourself what the president was saying.shortsight people.

because all you do is you stay in kumawu or bantama and posting coment. wake up go round and see for yourself what the president was saying.shortsight people.
agya 9 years ago

you are killing the English. You need to attend one of the semi completed schools. Where are they located anyway

you are killing the English. You need to attend one of the semi completed schools. Where are they located anyway
hajj salley 9 years ago

you can't see those schools because you guys have shortsight.

you can't see those schools because you guys have shortsight.
Kofi Boateng 9 years ago

My problem is, Mr. President, what use is it to build school building when students who complete their education cannot get job to do? I am worried about the jobs.

My problem is, Mr. President, what use is it to build school building when students who complete their education cannot get job to do? I am worried about the jobs.
ABLAKWA 9 years ago

A LIAR WITH FOOLISH SUPPORTERS. LET'S WAIT UNTIL THE FESTIVAL DAY.

A LIAR WITH FOOLISH SUPPORTERS. LET'S WAIT UNTIL THE FESTIVAL DAY.
kodjo 9 years ago

Hey NPP, I thought NOTHING was happening in Ghana?? If you want us to vote for you, please give us a responsible opposition.

Hey NPP, I thought NOTHING was happening in Ghana?? If you want us to vote for you, please give us a responsible opposition.

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