Gov’t to create skills bank in the diaspora

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  • ' and Jesus wept ' 11 years ago

    They are now smelling the coffee. Anyway don't forget to lure Ghanaians in the diaspora to save in Ghana for higher interest rates. With this money, we don't need to borrow from foreign banks to pay much higher interest rates ...
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  • Victor A, Young 11 years ago

    Shameless NDC people! So this is the reason why John Mahama stole the elections, in order to copy and implement everything contained in Nana Akufo-Addo and NPP's manifesto. Just as NDC stole his Northern Development Fund Proj ...
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  • OKOE 11 years ago

    THE IDEA IS IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION, BUT IF IT IS NOT PROPERLY SET UP WITH THOUGHT OUT PRINCIPLES OF ITS ESTABLISHMENT, IT WILL COME TO NAUGHT DUE TO INHERENT ENVY BETWEEN OUR LOCAL BROTHERS AND SISTERS. FOR EXAMPLE, WOULD Y ...
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  • anokwale 11 years ago

    People want to get paid. If funds are made available and a bidding process is put in place, many Ghanaians and their children born abroad would bring their skills to Ghana. In reality, without financial incentive only thos ...
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  • ORDINARY GHANAIAN 11 years ago

    A CLEANER IN THE DIASPOAR GETS PAID MORE THAN A PROFESSOR IN GHANA. THANKS TO RAWLINGS. WHY SHOULD THEY COME BACK. PAY THEM AT THE SAME RATE AS THE EXPATRIATES AND THEY WILL COME IN THEIR MILLIONS. THEY MISS HOME BECAUSE IT ...
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  • DE NAPOLI 11 years ago

    D o you want me to bring my cars and trucks to Ghana for the government to turn round and resale them to me at the harbor?You can't pay your doctors,teacher and even laborers and you want well trained professionals to come an ...
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  • Wofa Kojo 11 years ago

    I find it strange that this is being given such prominence as if its a new measure. This has been in place for the past 6 years or so.
    There is a site at the Ghana missions abroad where one is expected to lodge their CV for ...
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  • danny 11 years ago

    What will motivate diasporians like myself to come home and help when I run my own consultancy in IT training a ltd company that delivers training projects to UK government projects and well paid, to return and pay twice wh ...
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  • EZEKIEL 11 years ago

    It is all "mouth-mouth" and NOTHING really behind it! ALL THEY want is OUR foreign money but BARRING US from any decision making position in Ghana!!
    Shame on you IDIOTS!!!

  • Pelicles 11 years ago

    Ghanaians in the diaspora should be allowed to vote in our presidential election else, nothing from any government will be accepted. If money from diaspora is needed what about their vote?

    Ghana is reeling under clueles ...
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  • Kofi Frempong 11 years ago

    Citizenship law has to be repealed and citizenship restored without condition which automatically enables voting as a right. diasporas' are taken for granted because so of us are short sighted and selfish and follow party pol ...
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  • KANE 11 years ago

    SKILLS BANK FOR PROFESSIONAL GHANAIANS TO WORK IN GHANA FOR GHANA'S SINGLE SPINE SLAVISH SALARIES WHILE POLITICIANS RAPE GHANA'S TREASURY AND RESOURCES UNSCATHED?

    FORGET IT!!!

  • Seniorman 11 years ago

    On one condition if we can cast our votes first because that is paramount. The expertise' advice can only work when we are given the platform otherwise they are going to gather dust on shelves and waste resources scarce resou ...
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  • Ibn Batuta 11 years ago

    A similar move was made by the Kufuor government and it all came to nought.

  • Abdul 11 years ago

    I wonder how could that happen if Ghanaian in the diaspora ar denied dual citizenship.How could one serve if he has US citizenship.

  • Kofi 11 years ago

    Thank you, that was my question too.

  • MPATA MPATA 11 years ago

    When you get the roads in order and water and electric which would power our computers and give us light and clean the thievery Ghana Post office
    we would come home by ourselves.
    If you do all that what have said and ha ...
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  • HAZOR 11 years ago

    This is a call to deceive Ghanaian diaspora by the gov't.Has the gov't done create skills bank for Apostle Safo,Gideon Agyari,Asidu Abudu,Dr Afari and other skills and talented inventors.Has our contractors include roads and ...
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  • fredsaid 11 years ago

    This idea has been mooted and booted about for years and like all other mahama and ndc promises it is just another hot air baloney talk talk and yap yap yap

  • Lord Tennison 11 years ago

    That is if John Mahama's sycophants will see eye to eye with them.

  • Lord Tennison 11 years ago

    Bring in American investors.They have the money.

  • Kwasi 11 years ago

    Well implement the ropaa and give us a vote! You have realized the help we can offe the country, then give us a vote!

  • PROFESSOR THOMAS KUBI- McA 11 years ago

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  • Adjei Yaw Danso 11 years ago

    THE GOOD QUALIFIED AND EXPERIENCED ONES WITH GOOD CHARACTER AND WORK ETHICS WOULD LIKE TO BE COMPETITIVE IN THE JOB MARKET AND WOULD LIKE TO WORK IN A MORALY AND PROFESSIONALLY CONDUCIVE ENVIRONMENT WHERE RIGHT PEOPLE ARE PLA ...
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  • Congnitive Dissonance 11 years ago

    Okay, learned brothers and sisters let us take the argument away from Hannah Serwah Tetteh and KB (I guess he went to the school on the Hill)If you live "outside " and you are doing well, a more compelling reason to return a ...
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  • Dessy,Canada 11 years ago

    skills enhancement progam is good way aquiring skill in the country:suggestion,:apostle Kodjo Sarfo skills trade centre must be focus by the government..it is direct skills learning centre

  • YEBOPOWER 11 years ago

    Skill bank is a utopian idea dead in the water. African governments do not respect their kin in abroad. They are envious of them because they are successful. It will take a good hearted , well learned diplomat to make it happ ...
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  • Kofi 11 years ago

    Will it include Ghanaians with foreign citizenships? Develop skills bank in Ghana.

  • Akadu Mensema 11 years ago

    We Africans are jookers first class. I know scores of people in Ghana who have applied for jobs in Ghana and didn't even receive courtesy replies!