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UK scraps £3,000 visa bond policy against Ghana

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  • Whatever 10 years ago

    Good move

  • prempeh 1. 10 years ago

    You said good news, you think the British people have a good feelings on this third world countries, you have no idea.

  • All Die be Die 10 years ago

    Prempeh,Bush mna.Who are those who live illegal in Europe? not you cocoase people?You blamed Mahama when this 3000 pounds was imposed.He Mahama,the one you goats accused,has helped to ease this burden.Now you and your monkeys ...
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  • Akonoba 10 years ago

    If anybody is a goat it is you because apparently you cannot even read.

    For your information and thick NDC head, it was not Mahama who prevailed upon the British to scrap the policy. Read the article again and you will se ...
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  • Parker 10 years ago

    So why was Nigeria included is it becos of the same homosexuals reasons as you mentioned,you could be right but to me it seems far fetched,don't forget the internal rejection could have been the pressure from the commonwealth ...
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  • OLD SOLDIER 10 years ago

    Author:...OBAA YAA...

    OOO FATHER FORGIVE HIM FOR HE KNOWS NOT WHAT HE IS DOING.
    A hallmark of any incompetency is an excuse, which by the way is a trademark for Mahama’s Administration an extension Mill’s inability to ...
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  • Aye Hyeehyeeeeehye 10 years ago

    WHEN THE ORDINARY "kAAYAYOO" IS LEFT ON THE STREET TO FIND HIS/HER OWN ACCOMMODATION, A DEPUTY MINISTER, WHO EARNS ABOUT Ghc72 MILLION IS GIVEN A FREE ACCOMMODATION IN A COUNTRY WHICH IS CRYING OF LACK OF MONEY EVERY MORNING. ...
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  • oppong london 10 years ago

    even if this had become a law,it were going to be meaningless to pay that amount as many people in uk here don,t even have 3000 pounds when they travel to ghana for staying and working for 5years,why do you pay 3000 pounds t ...
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  • insight to the bone 10 years ago

    today our country has the notorious reputation of being one of the most corrupt in the world thanks to pepeni and his band of thieves . we told everyone we knew he had no plan or program to develop the nation except pillage t ...
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  • Parker 10 years ago

    I bet you will be the last person to accept an offer from the British government, how long do you think $3,000 will last you living in Ghana?on the other hand let the British government offer those who have over stayed their ...
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  • GEORGE 10 years ago

    Your hate for the president is leading you astray, at one point you said it was not Mahama who secured this deal only to turn back and say you fear that behind the scenes, the government may have agreed not to restrict homose ...
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  • Kponyo 10 years ago

    George Im really sorry I have to say this but common-sense appears not to be so common after all.

    Secondly it appears that your English comprehension is faulty and you need to polish up.

    I never said at one point that ...
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  • PROPERTY DEVELOPER 10 years ago

    THIS PPEPENI IS REALLY A FOOL-BASTARD.ALL DIE BE DIE WILL BE YOUR NAME FOR EVER.THIS YOUR GOAT CAN NOT STOP BRITAINS FROM WHAT THEY WANT TO DO IN THEIR COUNTRY.WE THE COCOASE PEOPLE HAVE CONTRIBUTED A LOT TO THE COUNTRY'S ECO ...
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  • Grace Accra 10 years ago

    You think A white man will give something like this for free? Think Again. Mahama is selling us into Slavery. God please step in.

  • QED. 10 years ago

    Nunno Mensa can pay for that bond for every Ghanaian 'feeling Ghanaian kitchen too (dry) hot willing to leave Ghana and 'Madam Theresa' May on compassionate grounds had to give in for fear of 'boats' full of Ghanaian 'kitchen ...
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  • YOU AND I 10 years ago

    WHY ?

  • WOMEN 10 years ago

    STOP THEM FROM STEALING AND LOOTING MINERLS , OIL AND SEE WHO WIL BE THE LOSERS IN ALL THIS. GLOBAL WORLD IS DIVERSE AND THIS NONSE MUST STOP

  • kwasi 10 years ago

    THAT THEY CLIME ON , REPELING THIS VISA BOND NONSENSE WAS THE RIGHT THING TO DO

  • STANDUP 10 years ago

    THEY TOOK GHANAIAN SLAVES, MINERALS AND NOW OIL FOR FREE. THEY NEED TO COMPENSATE GHANA AND AFRICA EVERY SINGLE STONE THEY TOOK INCLUDING HUMANS. SHOW ME WHERE ON THAT TINY ISLAND IF YOU CAN FIND GOLD BUT YET BRITAIN HAVE M ...
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  • Joe 10 years ago

    This was a 10-day wonder and I am not surprised about the outcome.

  • WOMEN 10 years ago

    GHANA AND AFRICA SHOULD CONTINUE MAKING EDUCATION A PRIORITY AND THAT IS THE ONLY KEY INGREDIENT THAT WILL EXPOSE THESE CRIME COMMITTED AGAINST HMANITY CENTURIES AGO AND STILL CONTINUE WITH OUR OIL, GOLD ETC

  • Nde 10 years ago

    THE SAME GROUP OF GHANAIANS WHO WILL BEST BENEFIT FROM THIS IS THE SAME GROUP THAT STILL THINKS JDM IS EVIL

  • christian brotherhood 10 years ago

    IT WAS A STUPID AND RACIST LAW,NO WONDER PRESIDENT YAYA JAMMEH HAD ANNOUNCED HE IS PULLING THE GAMBIA FROM THE COMMONWEALTH,AND INDEED ALL COMMONWEALTH COUNTRIES FROM AFRICA AND ASIA COULD HAVE THREATENED ITS SURVIVAL,THIS AN ...
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  • MEN 10 years ago

    THEY COME AND STEAL AND YET THEY TELL YOU NOT TO COME INTO THEIR COUNTRY. SHAME SHAME SHAME TO THEM. BUNCH OF THIEVES WHO FUEL THE BRITISH ECONOMY AT THE BACK OF SLAVES THROUGH BARCLAYS, STANDARD BANKS AS WELL AS ALL THE GOLD ...
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  • STANDUP 10 years ago

    THEY TOOK EVERYTHING FOR FREE INCLUDING GOLD, DIAMOND AND NOW OIL. SOONER THESE LEADERS REALISED THE BETTER AND HEALTHY NATION GHANA YOUTH WILL BENEFIT FOR THE FUTURE INCLUDING NEXT GENERATION

  • HABLUTA SENYO 10 years ago

    WHAT GHANA NEED FROM U.K GOVERNMENT IS A
    COMPASATION.THEY CAME TO LOOT GHANA
    IN THE NAME OF COLONIZATION.THAT IS
    CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY.

  • Ben Apeadu-Leeds-UK 10 years ago

    BECAUSE MAHAMA'S NDC HABOURS HOMOSEXUALITY IN GHANA THIS £3,000 BURDEN ON GHANAIANS HAVE BEEN TAKEN AWAY. SHAME UNTO YOU NDC HOMOSEXUAL PARTY. REMEMBER THIS PRACTISE IS ALIEN TO OUR RICH GHANAIAN CULTURE.

  • All Die be Die 10 years ago

    Ben,do you think wev don,t know what you guys are doing in this Guy infested country?You fuck men to get papers,buy cars etc.Are you afraid more of your home town men will come and take your job.,Do an aids test ok!!

  • TROUBLE-MAKER 10 years ago

    And more are coming in Jan 2014.Because of those their lost cousins from eastern Europe the British people have completely forgotten the contributions made by the commonwealth nations.

  • con 10 years ago

    DO NOT TAKE CREDIT FOR THAT,BECOS THEY KNOW THAT GHANA PEOPLE ARE GOOD WHEN IT COME TO VISIT,THAT WHY THEY REMOVE. SO DONT STAND THERE AS IF U DID IT.SOLVE THE HARDSHIP FOR GHANAIAN.

  • TOTO AFRICA 10 years ago

    JUST LOOK AT MAHAMA IN A HAND SHAKE WITH DAVID CAMERON AS IF THAT WAS WHAT WAIVED THE GBP3,000 SECURITY BOND TO HAVE BEEN IMPOSED ON UK VISA APPLICANTS IN GHANA.

    THIS IS A SCRAPPED POLICY, SO MAHAMA HAS NO CHANCE TO TAKE A ...
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  • HABLUTA SENYO 10 years ago

    I FOR ONE WILL NOT VISIT U.K. EUROPEAN ZONGO ANY WAY THAT VISA IS NOT MY PROBLEM.

  • WOMEN 10 years ago

    GHANA AND AFRICA SHOULD TRADE, EDUCATE, HIGHLY MECHANIZED FARDING, IRRIGATION, DEVELOPED AMONG THEMSELVES NOT TO WORRY ABOUT THESE THIEVES WHO STOLE FROM US BOTH IN GOLD, MINERALS, OIL AND HUMANITY-SLAVES TO ENRICH THEIR ECON ...
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  • Maame Afua 10 years ago

    They have thought of it that if the fund is not scrap they won't get huge monies from us as visa fee. Shame on them. God have mercy on them

  • CHARLES KOFI,AFRICA 10 years ago

    MAHAMA DID NOT INFLUENCE THIS UK DECISION ON THE VISA BOND SO HE SHOULD NOT TAKE UNDUE CREDIT FOR IT.THE DECISION TO SCRAP IT WAS ANNOUNCED MONTHS AGO BEFORE HIS VISIT.
    CHEAP POPULARITY.HE SHOULD RATHER COME BACK HOME AND FA ...
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  • BEN KOFI,AFRICA 10 years ago

    MAHAMA EPITOMIZES A SQUARED PEG IN ROUND HOLE.HE SHOULD STAY AT HOME AND SOLVE THE BITING ECONOMIC HARDSHIP RATHER THAN GLOBE-TROTTING GIVING FALSE IMPRESSIONS ABOUT HIS GOVT AND GHANA. HIS PERFORMANCE IS NOTHING TO WRITE HOM ...
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  • P.OWUSU 10 years ago

    The British Govt is perhaps finally waking up to the NEW WORLD REALITY and that is developing countries like Ghana can not easily be isolated and bullied any longer.We have other options in trading and developing partners suc ...
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  • KWAKU OSEI 10 years ago

    I just returned from a trading trip from China where all the products I need for my business is readily available.The prices are cheaper,quality is the same and even higher in some cases and hospitality is the same(the Chines ...
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  • j s addo 10 years ago

    i wonder why ghanaians were worried about the visa bond fee do ghanaians need to go to britain after all
    do they

  • Nteneke 10 years ago

    After using slaves labour to build their economies and stealing minerals from Africa, the imperialists tried to block Africans from enjoying what is partly theirs in the so-called developed world. Kudos to you, Nick but sham ...
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  • HANNIBAL(Blessed by God) 10 years ago

    Britain is old and creaking, dirty and indebted.

  • 4 Year Old 10 years ago

    U.K is still the best. "Wo pam aboa no se woanya no a wo se ne ho kankan"

  • HANNIBAL(Blessed by God) 10 years ago

    You have the brains of a toddler.

  • Kwabena 10 years ago

    You make a point - now can we see Africa's people use the considerable remaining resources to make Africa great? Or will corruption remain as a way of life?

  • Jane Street 10 years ago

    Now confirmation required by Nunoo Mensah.... get your passports and fly out of Ghana oooooo !!!

  • Jane Street 10 years ago

    f you can’t sacrifice like what some of us have done then get out. If the kitchen is too hot for you, get out.
    – Brig. Gen. (Rtd) Nunoo Mensah, National Security adviser

  • Yaw 10 years ago

    Oh! Mahama, please don,t put any spin on this. Build your country and they would respect you. It,s not you in particular that this is lifted. Think of India, Pakistan and Nigeria. It,s because of these countries......you were ...
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  • Igp 10 years ago

    Why is UK targeting emerging former colonies like India, Ghana, Nigeria as "axis of high risk?" Is Cameron, the man doubting or questioning his sexuality, really has "balls in his thighs? Ghana will have to match UK's nonse ...
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  • AK47 IS MY FUCKING ADDRESS 10 years ago

    ONLY FEW BRITISH HAS THAT AMOUNT IN THEIR ACCOUNT SO WHY GOING TO BRITISH IF YOU HAVE THAT AMOUNT

  • AL KHEBAB, GHANA CHAPTER !!! 10 years ago

    CONGRATULATIONS, PEPENI ABOA KWASIA MAHAMA...... IS THIS AN ACHIEVEMENT????? WE SHALL SEE !!!

  • Sir T 10 years ago

    thank God for the cancellation. Glory be to God. Amen.

  • BRO DAN- TRC 10 years ago

    PRECIOUS PEOPLE OF AFRICA, DIGNIFIED ONES OF THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD, INNOCENT PEOPLE OF GHANA- WE GIVE THANKS. "IT IS FINISHED" THEREFORE, "OCCUPY TILL I COME". SELAH.
    TOGETHER WE CAN! WITH GOD, WE CAN!! GOD BLESS AF ...
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  • concerned observer 10 years ago

    Three USA presidents have visited Ghana in case the Brits don't recall.Queen Elizabeth did visit Ghana. Who is lying through his or her teeth?

  • Frank 10 years ago

    Your headline is decietful and a ploy to make Ghana look good among her group of indicted countries. What is this that Ghana always want to portray that they are a different from others whereas everyone else knows Ghanaians a ...
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  • John 10 years ago

    You make some good points Frank, backed up by facts instead of talking the NDC, PPP, NPPP nonsense I read in these comments.

  • Grace Accra 10 years ago

    This is the simple truth. Thanks Frank.

  • JOMO 10 years ago

    Manama is the course to all these problems

  • Oyarifa 10 years ago

    The came in, took our gold and diamond, mis-educated us and sowed the seed corruption which is now wreaking havoc.
    The chickens are coming home to roast.
    They are stuck with thefruits of their iniquities.