Presidential press corps in accident; one feared dead

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  • Kobla ZEGO 10 years ago

    I pray God for the lives of the pressmen.

  • ATSU, HO 10 years ago

    MAY GOD HAVE MERCY

  • Sigma, London 10 years ago

    Speeding has been the order of the day in driving in Ghana. Obviously the second bus which had the accident was trying to catch up with the first one hence the accident. Under no circumstance should a driver drive more than 8 ...
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  • CORNEY 10 years ago

    That is what they do especially when they are in those convoy,they don't know that cars are machines,they don't even know that their terrible roads are not good for such speed.

  • Dr Jay 10 years ago

    Sad to hear this but to which hospital to handle this emergency? Doctors are on strike
    I have said it and will say it again that we should ensure our hospitals and doctors are in good shape. These kinds of emergencies happen ...
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  • OKOMFO ANOKYE 10 years ago

    THEY SHOULD ALL DIE AS QUICK AS POSSIBLE

  • Ghanaian, NY 10 years ago

    Have you ever heard this sayings; "If you pray your neighbor doesn't make nine you too don't make 10". "If you sow evil thoughts you reap evil deeds".

  • Mustapha Yahaya 10 years ago

    They should all dead,and live u alone. Pls are u a normal human being?????

  • AMA 10 years ago

    As the gentleman stated, these were only 2 buses of journalists and cameramen who were returning to Accra to prepare the story. The president and the others were still wherever.

  • NO! 10 years ago

    "The President and his entourage are still in Ho because we had to return to come and work on the story".

    AND YOU GUYS DON'T HAVE THE SIMPLE TECHNOLOGY TO WORK ON THE STORY FROM LOCATION? YOU HAD TO RETURN TO ACCRA TO DO ...
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  • noah 10 years ago

    I really dont understand Ghanaian pressmen, this is just simply as u said. The use of Technology to work on the story shd have been the best thing to do than drive all the way back to accra from Ho, the journey is too long fo ...
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  • Obed Adore 10 years ago

    They all try to go in their bus loads to attract the press monetary allowances or "kola money" that the Ghanaian Press people are notoriously well known for collecting upon coverage of every event (major and minor).

  • Ugly akufo addo 10 years ago

    He will die this year

  • Ali Baba 10 years ago

    You stupid bastard, you and your entire family will die together with John mahama.....kwasia, what has this got to do with Akufo addo?

    A stupid fool son of a bitch....

  • nipa nua 10 years ago

    Thank u Nana

  • pee uk 10 years ago

    U will die first

  • Ghana lady 10 years ago

    U ND all of ur family ll this year! Ur father ND mother ll be first to die by accident they want fine they bodies to be berried, foolish man mahama is killing Ghanaians physicals.he is using juju to kill Ghanaians if u idiot ...
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  • Rudolph 10 years ago

    Everybody nwill die sooner or later, nitwit !

  • kwame 10 years ago

    I hope the evil forces are not behind this accident.

  • Atakora-Mensah 10 years ago

    You sound terribly ignorant!!

  • CORNEY 10 years ago

    Blame yourselves,the carelessness that go with the presidential or government convoy in the country is the cause of that accident,the excessive speeding by government convoys is the reason,we don't have different speed limit ...
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  • Stoway 10 years ago

    This is not the convoy, it is the press corp. They left the convoy the story said. Learn!

  • CORNEY 10 years ago

    If you are "stupid but you don't you are stupid",you don't know what is convoy but you are saying somebody is ignorant.

    Why not learn before coming here to display your ignorance,when to vehicles are moving together going ...
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  • Somuah 10 years ago

    Laughing...................hahahahahaha....

  • Stoway 10 years ago

    Read your comment and you will realise you described it as a presidential convoy. I would have pardon you if you had said 'presidential press convoy' They are totally different. Learn!

  • john mahama 10 years ago

    very sad. but that is what happens when we have a foolish president

  • Kenny 10 years ago

    NPP terrorist were after the president again, but a poor journalist (probably NPP member) has lost his precious life. May his soul rest in peace till all die be die man pays for his president at all cost wickedness.

  • Think Ghana First 10 years ago

    @kenny, if npp is truely torrist as u claim then you and the ndc party should have been wiped off from this motherland,because u are not humans but rather evils looking for the down fall of the their nation

  • NANAÖ MOTHER !!! 10 years ago

    well said,thanks.

  • Ghana lady 10 years ago

    The juju that mahama did is killing Ghanaians, ur stupid ndc party is devilishly party,b'cos the funder of the party is devil ????,who came to power ND kills Ghanaians b'cos of 50gh, he killed judges ND market woman, he kills ...
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  • Ghana lady 10 years ago

    The juju that mahama did is killing Ghanaians, ur stupid ndc party is devilishly party,b'cos the funder of the party is devil ????,who came to power ND kills Ghanaians b'cos of 50gh, he killed judges ND market woman, he kills ...
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  • Yaw Ghana.... 10 years ago

    Is the president being blsmed here? Maybe some politicians are rejoicing. They and their GMA will pay very dearly. Shame on them all!

  • Close Observer 10 years ago

    Foolish president, foolish mission, resulting in the lost of this life. VOTE THE USELESS NDC GOVERNMENT OUT.

  • FUGU 10 years ago

    YOU ARE THE MOST STUPID IDIOT IN GHANA WHO IDENTIFIES HIMSELF BY THE PRESIDENT'S NAME AND INSULTS HIM.

  • kakari 10 years ago

    This is a clear sign and signal of the rejection of Mahama by the people of the world bank. The gods have spoken. Period.

  • BIRAHMA 10 years ago

    What about the Bawumia accident

  • AMETEFE 10 years ago

    WHY IN THE HELL SHOULD A BUS LOAD OF 20 JOURNALIST FOLLOW THE PRESIDENT. WHAT ARE THESE 20 JOURNALIST GOING TO WRITE ABOUT THE PRESIDENT THAT 4 OR 5 JOURNALIST CAN'T DO. THI IS A COMPLETE WASTE OF MONEY. THAT MEANS THE OTHER ...
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  • Joe 10 years ago

    AMETEFE, I thought you are so level headed to know that all the press in Ghana (both public and private) including print and electronic media has representatives in the presidency. It is not waste because the press corps feed ...
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  • Nana Wise 10 years ago

    The journalists belong to different media houses my dear. They all want to
    the first to break the news. Simple.

  • cee 10 years ago

    every media house will send a representative. radio. TV and print media will all send a representative,hence the twenty journalists.

  • GRAPHIC 10 years ago

    AMETEFE, YOU ARE A FOOL.
    THERE ARE PRIVATE MEDIA IN GHANA.

    IF THERE WERE NONE, YOU WOULD SAY MAHAMA IS SUPPRESSING FREE SPEECH.

    DOES HE EVEN TELL THE PUBLIC MEDIA HOW MANY JOURNALISTS SHOULD COVER HIM?

    AH!
    KWASEA!

  • YIKRA 10 years ago

    why do the money-hungry DVLA want people to renew their licence every 2 years? To make filthy godless money, to extort. And they call themselves christians. Instead of asking drivers to go for yearly inspection to take care o ...
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  • hope usa 10 years ago

    WHY WILL OVER TWENTY REPORTERS FOLLOW THIS STUPID PRESI WHO IS KILLING GHANAIANS SHIIIIIIIIIIIIT

  • Kenny 10 years ago

    Go and ask your third class economic graduate who is currenlty a certificateless lawyer, also known as all die be die and president at all cost man.

  • Alhassan Walla 10 years ago

    You are a fool, plain and simple. You cannot even construct a simple sentence correctly, and yet you are here castigating an accomplished lawyer. I bet there is no educated person in your entire family, including your father ...
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  • Nana Wise 10 years ago

    Your father and mother are the most stupid people on earth. Who the hell do you think you are?

  • oboy kofi 10 years ago

    Mahama ye nomee ma oman ghana hwe de3 esii melcom, hwe ogya hyehye3 a esii wo circle, dumsor dumsor, fire at market places, the way atta mills died, the economy woye antichrist

  • adamu 10 years ago

    How some people always pray for Akuffo will die? I am asking is it him make ghanaians suffer of hard ship life some people are idiot talking noises es

  • Kenny 10 years ago

    Yes, they are sabotaging. They said they will make the country ungovernable.

  • TT 10 years ago

    thanks bro

  • Amidini 10 years ago

    Unfortunate and sad ! wish them speedy recovery and condolences to bereaved family

  • K'dua 10 years ago

    Look at this!

  • Opare 10 years ago

    Oh sorry may God have mercy on as

  • adamu 10 years ago

    Your mother father will die first

  • ADAM SOULE-MAN 10 years ago

    I THINK THERE ARE SO MANY CALAMITY AWAITING NDC EXECUTIVES FOR RIGGING THE 2012 ELECTION AND BRINGING HARDSHIP ON GHANAIANS,

  • pee uk 10 years ago

    Hahaha bogus Ghana journalists ur wages are waiting for u. U see now, GOD will punish u all for deceiving the country

  • TT 10 years ago

    will u pp stop putting this in polictice. n let us pray for our mother Ghana?

  • JOHN MAHAMA 10 years ago

    NA HU CAUSE AM

    NDC BLOOD SUCKERS
    YOU SUCK MILLS BLOOD
    GHANAIANS BLOOD
    NOW THIS ONE TOO
    reporters too everywhere kurra u wnt go come talk lies say president they work waaa...now u see who way go chop dey guy way e d ...
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  • Jacke Jones, VA 10 years ago

    This idiot cannot pay our doctors but has money to tranport these uselsess idiots to this useless region

  • trudat 10 years ago

    your mother ugly pussy useless region

  • OYIKO 10 years ago

    Hahahahahahaaahahaaaaaaaahahhhaàaaha

  • Gbessi Zolawodji 10 years ago

    akpe useless region . we are the most educated among all tribes in Ghana . we gave u the national anthem, the pledge n the national song yet we're useless what a pity. during the 2012 election petition, all the leading lawyer ...
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  • KKK USA 10 years ago

    MAHAMA WITH 30 PRESSMEN FOR WHAT PRESS MEN THERE WILL DIE MORE FOOLISH PEOPLE YOU FOLLOW THIS FOOLISH PRESIDENT AND TALK RUBBISH IS ZONGO DEAD

  • Francis Malba Malba 10 years ago

    Pls lets pray for them and stop putting politics into every issue it won't us.Anybody can get accident,so lets stop stooping so low to involving Nana Addo and the president.

  • USA 10 years ago

    This stupid president will kill so many people to win his political power, this man depend on juju to win power not hard work, so don't follow him look at how Ghanaians are suffering but no media can be bold to say to him how ...
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  • John 10 years ago

    You stupid idiot. Who does juju more than Nana Akufo Addo who travels to the waling wall in Israel, returns to mallams and juju men in Ghana, mixes them all up with pastors and all sorts of spiritualists just to be president ...
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  • Douglas. Bristol-UK`° 10 years ago

    Hey Cuban doctors!

  • HAWA 10 years ago

    Election almost due, he has started his bloody things. Kill ur NDC people and leave our journalist for us.

  • ASIEDU NKETIAH JUNIOR 10 years ago

    Warning ? to Ghanaians journalist please please everyone must be careful with this president next election they need human beings for Rituals NDC planning now

  • CORNEY 10 years ago

    Over twenty journalist! That is a large number of stomach journalists!

  • ABAAH 10 years ago

    WAS KWESI PRATT AMONG?.

  • CORNEY 10 years ago

    Idiot,I'm warning you stop using my name to write your trash,don't think I cannot get you even if you are hiding in Internet cafe,you animal,stop using my name,if that is the only name you have then better not come here.

    S ...
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  • CORNEY 10 years ago

    SORRY people, I lost my cool forgetting I was the same person who wrote the earlier comment. There are times we do things 'pour encourager les autres'. Sorry...

  • CORNEY 10 years ago

    I have not patented the name Corney!

  • Kpodo Kpokpokriiir 10 years ago

    This is the second time in one week in which Mahama has caused problems to media personnel. First journalists were stranded at their own Awards Ceremony because state security had taken over the function. Ever heard such non ...
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  • Juliana 10 years ago

    No WEAPON Gis prtect everyone

  • CRAZY COUNTRY 10 years ago

    DONT DIE BECAUSE OF 'TWEAA PRESIDENT'

  • Ekow Samuel. 10 years ago

    RIP.
    AND MAY God merbyful tauches them to be very careful of driving when on the road.

  • Yoofi 10 years ago

    Do you need 20 journalists to cover a story. Why can't one person cover it and syndicate it to the rest. Or is it the lure of the Per Diem and free food?

  • Nana Wise 10 years ago

    You idiot. Even twins can't see the same thing, the same way. Wake up!

  • dennia 10 years ago

    oh, what sad day for ghanaians may his/her soul rest in peace and aiso wish the injured speedy recovering

  • GC/USA 10 years ago

    NO SPEED LIMITS AND NO SEATBELTS.

  • Atakora-Mensah 10 years ago

    Under no circumstances should the name of the deceased be made public until the family is notified.

    I dare say the family will learn of the dead through the stupid press!

  • Kwasi 10 years ago

    Stupid Report! Why mention names when the family is yet to be informed! Just Stupid!!!

  • Brofo 10 years ago

    I hope the dead was kwesi pratt.

  • a.k, amsterdam 10 years ago

    Why not Solomon Nkansah, Sam George, Kofi Adams or Asiedu Nketiah, l wish all these political nuisance are no more. They only disturbing the peace of the country.

  • nzema 10 years ago

    the speed is too much

  • speeeeed 10 years ago

    respect every elderly person and be wise. u r nt God, and know that God is nt dead.

  • Richard 10 years ago

    DODOWA ..? HOW

  • Jack Jack 10 years ago

    This stupid who make everything difficult in Ghana think he will do everything to spoil the name of this government but God is control, he will leave b4 2016. His grand parents from bush he should go back to the bush. Nana g ...
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  • philipoooo 10 years ago

    Hmmmmm Dead Goat Syndrome, u again?
    CPP GOVT NOW.

  • Banza Yaro 10 years ago

    A family head is dead and all some of us have is the blame game. When are we going to live up to respectable civilized standards on commenting? No wonder God/Allah has deserted us for the devil to feast on our ignorance. Can' ...
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  • STEPHEN OSEI,NORWAY 10 years ago

    WOMAMETWE,KWASIA BA,OFUEI, THIS SAD NEWS HAVE NORTHING TO DO WHITH AKUFO ADDO,TOO MUCH SPEED WHITH OUT CONTROL,ABOA-BASTAD WHITH OUT HEAD

  • peter 10 years ago

    Ooooh KKK USA, it's really unfortunate that you're also a Ghanaian!! If U don't know how to write English, who is forcing you? U really need JDM's free education come this September

  • WAS IT NPP WHO CAUSED IT 10 years ago

    Check with the TADI concertman Solomon Nkansa and Asiedu FUR COAT Nketsia whether it was NPP who caused the acfcident

  • Ali Mahama 10 years ago

    NDC needs Blood for its annual rituals..Remember Atta Mills had to shed his Blood around this time of the year in 2012. NDC Yabre Mo.

  • Say the TRUTH 10 years ago

    WHEN DOCTORS NEED BETTER CONDITIONS OF SERVICE TO PERFORM LOOK AT THE AREA SHOWING WHY THERE IS ALWAYS PRESIDENTIAL OVER EXPENDITURE FOR OVER 300%!!!!!

    40 PRESSMEN IN ONE BUS (2 BUSES) SO LIKELY THERE WERE 80 PRESSMEN THAT ...
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  • BY BYE BUY.Toronto,Canada 10 years ago

    NDC GOVT

  • Osei Abeb 10 years ago

    I wish this should have happened to Mahama and his top corrupt staff.

  • BY BYE BUY.Toronto,Canada 10 years ago

    KILLER GOVT

  • REPACKER 10 years ago

    It is pity to hear this news,but the drivers shd know the type of they use.

  • joe 10 years ago

    twenty reporters how ?????.waste of state money

  • Prof.from London 10 years ago

    Because the ndc administration is so corrupt that the tax payers money is being used to pay all these media men so to say soli or by enticing some of these media men hence the mass entourage may God save the lives .

  • Tony 10 years ago

    Work oh work something small for the family

  • Tamaklo 10 years ago

    I wish it was Mahama himself, stupid

  • EKUMFI OTUAM 10 years ago

    The Mahama NDC gov't is now slaughtering Ghanaians like chicken. The doctors that they should give them conditions of service, they said no, and the press following them too, they are slaughtering them. Slaughtering the press ...
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  • HARDCORE 10 years ago

    My condolences to all involved in this terrible accident, I pray the good Lord heal you.

  • Adomako Frobour 10 years ago

    Let's hope that those in critical v condition can receive help. With our doctors on strike it's proper to move them to private hospital

  • Mawutor 10 years ago

    Nonsense! !!!!

  • niinoi 10 years ago

    I HOPE PEOPLE WILL NOT READ POLITICS INTO THIS TRAGIC ACCIDENT.

  • Okesse 10 years ago

    To Ho to commission a toilet? Or to commission a three classroom block? Please leave some of these to the ministers.

  • MR ASHLY MICHAEL 10 years ago

    Let the witnesses say what happened and stop ? saying what we haven't seen.lord have mercy

  • Romeo 10 years ago

    jonky speak well, kwasea

  • Victor A. Young 10 years ago

    We pray for the speedy recovery of those injured in this tragic accident and our condolences go to the family of the colleague who just passed on. May he find rest in the bosom of the Almighty Lord.

    But I find it strange w ...
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  • FACT 10 years ago

    And in Greece, the responsible Prime Minister after the bailout was agreed and approved, has resigned because of lack of support for conditions of the bailout.

  • tempane constituency chairman charcle 10 years ago

    why not President Mahama oh god u didn't do well

  • Tempane MP 10 years ago

    we wanted our father to die

  • Ray Nash 10 years ago

    Kenny, you are a stupid fool. Kwasia, aboa, buuluu.
    Your type don't deserve to live.
    I feel sorry for your parents.

  • Rev. S. K. Appiah-Kubi 10 years ago

    O my GOD, we need u every hour.The world is coming to an end. Let's take God ooo. Sammy, may your soul rest in perfect peace.

  • BELL 10 years ago

    Sad story and hope they recover but who is the editor for this website? Too many grammatical errors. its really bad

  • Ike 10 years ago

    Bad news for GH we pray this kind of deaths stops in the name of Jesus

  • Awunyamah vincent 10 years ago

    You all don't have god the way u went ghana 2 b so shall it b

  • DK Meble 10 years ago

    May he rest in the bosom of his creater

  • FBS 10 years ago

    I wonder y people do insult great people of our land. pls u should insist from this behaviour . don't let any body influence u with money let always say the true and put that dirty politics of our.

  • john mahama 10 years ago

    they should be compensated both the dead and the living

  • J MAHAMA 10 years ago

    NDC RITUALS

  • Akolbilla Mbawini;Garu 10 years ago

    may Good lord be wit the journalist and give them long life and one passes on shld rest in perfect peace

  • ADOLEY- Accra 10 years ago

    we are learning the hard way, how come they could not transmit the reports from Ho to Accra than to speed up ?????OUR roads are very BAD and the drivers dont know NOTHING. In such a case the car must be checked.Now some fami ...
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  • BRO DAN -TRC 10 years ago

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  • major Lord 10 years ago

    Everything we blame the President,so people says he is using juju to kill them.l think Kuffour also used juju to kill the police dispatch riders and body guards.

  • EMMANUEL 10 years ago

    Look , u people must learn how to talk because a lot of ppl are listening to u. We must respect our leaders and those in authorities b/cos it GOD who placed them there and u cannot challenge GOD. we must rather pray for the w ...
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