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Wesley Girls-Muslim Students Case: Full details of the lawsuit shaking Ghana's education system

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  • Togbe Kporwomordzikpo KpornugloAvumako 7 months ago

    Next time another idiot can also go to court challenging single sex schools for gender discrimination

  • Kwaku 7 months ago

    Why would such a person be an idiot? What really is the point of a single sex public school?

  • Yaw 7 months ago

    One fundamental principle in law that has helped Ghana to maintain peace is the criminalization of discrimination. Children from different religions backgrounds were made to live together in same neighborhoods and played toge ...
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  • Ghanaman 7 months ago

    I understand the Ahmadiyya secondary school, which is a private school, set up and funded by Ahmadiyya muslims, though some of them are funded by the state, allows its christian students to practice their christian faith, inc ...
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  • Cobby 7 months ago

    Exactly!..Religion itself is not forced., but education is seriously compulsory. If the child feels a particular school is best academically she qualifies academically and morally, no amount of religious this or that can rest ...
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  • gh leaders don't have sense 7 months ago

    Cobby, thays you but these afuom ppl in Gh its like they have rocks for brains..see how they chastised Marguy the kid with dreadlocks and still.preventing kids with dreadlocks, braids from going to school..its mind-boggling. ...
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  • Tanko 7 months ago

    You should be the last one to identify someone as afuoni! You still have a major problem with writing. Instead of you focusing on how to get that together, you rather disclose your stupidity to the Ghanaweb.

  • Kwesi 7 months ago

    This is not ture please

  • Cobby 7 months ago

    Muslims do not receive money on behalf of the government. The government might have received donations as you claim, but Muslims understand clearly that they must obey the government and support the government by paying all t ...
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  • Johnny,Oyarifa -Madina 7 months ago

    @ Cobby
    Don't comment on issues you don't have information on.I was a witness to a Communal fight in Madina in the 80s.My friends brothers stole several thousands of Dollars sent by various Arab govt meant for the constructi ...
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  • Johnny,Oyarifa -Madina 7 months ago

    @ Cobby
    Don't comment on issues you don't have information on.I was a witness to a Communal fight in Madina in the 80s.My friends brothers stole several thousands of Dollars sent by various Arab govt meant for the constructi ...
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  • Pastors & Christian Government officials stole from Cathedral 7 months ago

    Crime including corruption is not limited to Muslim or Christian. We are all witness to how Pastors and Christian government officials recently stole from National Cathedral. So should that justify the denial of education to ...
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  • Jessica 7 months ago

    Jonny, is this your justification for supporting religious discrimination??? A criminal be it Christian or Muslim must be made to face the law. Our current children should not be made to pay for past crimes. Some Christians c ...
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  • gh leaders don't have sense 7 months ago

    Ghanaians don't like change..it will be forced down their throats by any means foolish stubborn people allow the hijabs into wesley.girls lol

  • Nana Kwaku 7 months ago

    Has Wesley Girls School authorities denied any Muslim girl admission to their school?What they saying is every student shd comply to the school's rules period. No Hijab and No Fasting in the school.

  • Yes WG are constructively denying Muslim girls education 7 months ago

    Yes, they’re constructively denying Muslim, by law. They make life so difficult for Moslem students that some of us have refused to send our children their because of the discrimination even though the children are fully qu ...
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  • OGyam 7 months ago

    What has the nonsensical hijab wearing crap got to do with education?

  • Pastors & Christian Government officials stole from Cathedral 7 months ago

    We are all witness to how pastors and government officials who are Christians stole from the national cathedral. So should we use that as justification to denied education to Christian children

  • GHANA 1ST 7 months ago

    He who comes to the court of equity must come with clean hands. Do the Muslims themselves believe in tolerance. Is it not their religion that practices the killing of infidels. Can Christians go to Saudi Arabia without hijab? ...
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  • Nii 7 months ago

    I’m a Christian but can you mention a case in mother Ghana where Muslims discriminate and go round to kill people? Ghana is a unique country. Respect the good name we have made for ourselves as a country. We are made up of ...
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  • Nii 7 months ago

    Even if mission schools are own 100 percent by the missionaries, and they are situated in Ghana and the school is opened to the Ghanaian public there is no way their policies can rightly supersede or override the constitution ...
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  • OGyam 7 months ago

    @ Nii... What has the Arab crap of wearing hijabs got to do with education.. When the muslims came to Northern part of Ghana centuries ago and saw the women stark naked , did they provide them with clothings or built schools, ...
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  • gh leaders don't have sense 7 months ago

    Education for these white folks begun as a means for them to study the Bible and congregation and that led to the formation of universities. I'm sure the notion of universities, admitting students from various socio economic ...
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  • gh leaders don't have sense 7 months ago

    The fact that you haven't seen a hijabs wearing woman working in America does not mean it does not exist I saw a few Muslim.women in New Jersey with hijabs who work on college campuses..look well

  • gh leaders don't have sense 7 months ago

    Meanwhile the Chinese, Indians etc continue to follow and worship their idols you even see them in their places of business

  • Hayford 7 months ago

    Paul issues an imperative to women in 1 Corinthians 11:6, saying, “let her cover her head.” Then, in verse 15, he says, “For her hair is given to her for a covering.” That seems clear enough: A woman should cover her ...
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  • FRANKIE 7 months ago

    One critical question remains unanswered. Why were so many Moslems with very poor grades posted to Grade "A" schools like Wesley Girls, Legon Presec, Achimota etc? Colleagues in those schools complained about these strange po ...
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  • Johnny 7 months ago

    @ FRANKIE
    Ghana has 71% Christians & 20% Moslems.Proportionately we expect more Christian criminals to go to prison than those who are Moslems.Unfortunately it's the reverse. That explains your puzzles FRANKIE. Check our po ...
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  • TWEAA DC 7 months ago

    THESE MUSLIMS TOO....WHY DON'T YOU DO WHAT ROMANS DO WHEN YOU GO TO ROME?...YES, WHY?...WHY? ...ABBA!...TWEAA.

  • Ashantiman 7 months ago

    Because muslims are dirty that is why Our president decided to convert to christianity.

  • Christians let's vote any party who rules against us 7 months ago

    I blame Rawling for giving moslem who are only 18 percent of the population a holiday mahama is now also promising them an additional holiday hypocrites calling themselves Christmas Egypt has about 20 percent Christians but t ...
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  • Chris 7 months ago

    I think the state must stop financial support to all faith based schools and instead, use the money to build very good state schools. Faith based schools must be for people who want to practice their religions.

  • Kojo 7 months ago

    Take Ghana as an institution housing all the religious groups you mentioned under one law-the constitution. In reality that is so. Now show me the chaos. Ghana is rather seen as one of the peaceful countries in Africa where p ...
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  • Enough stones in Ghana 7 months ago

    When will moslems in Ghana save enough money to build a decent school instead of using their money to travel to Saudi to stone themselves to death at least there are enough stones in Ghana

  • FRANKIE 7 months ago

    Hahaha..... @STONES, it is called religio-cultural imperialism. In fact the Whiteman and the Arab man did a freakin fvcken good job on the mind of the African. Why must one dress like an Arab to be a Moslem? Why must one lear ...
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  • K. Opoku-London-UK 7 months ago

    Why is Bawumia-the MUSLIM KING hiding from the Wesley Girls Muslim terrorist and unprincipled demands????? Bawumia is a NATIONAL SECURITY THREAT TO GHANA. Apart from Bawumia being a COLLATERAL DAMAGE MUSLIM, Bawumia is a Mamp ...
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  • K. Opoku-London-UK 7 months ago

    Why is Bawumia-the MUSLIM KING hiding from the Wesley Girls Muslim terrorist and unprincipled demands????? Bawumia is a NATIONAL SECURITY THREAT TO GHANA. Apart from Bawumia being a COLLATERAL DAMAGE MUSLIM, Bawumia is a Mamp ...
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  • SANDRA 7 months ago

    PLease SAVE me my feLLow Ghanaians, i'm a 24 years oLd Ghanaian Lady that was scammed by some Nigerians, i'm currentLy stranded in Nigeria, it aLL started few months ago when i got a WhatsApp message that a traveL agency in L ...
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  • Bobby Stones 7 months ago

    Stop the scamming business, where did you get teacher Adamu Wariso number from, go to the Ghana High Commission in Lagos if you're serious.

  • hans 7 months ago

    Molems should build quality schools and then their wards attend....

    Methodist school is for Methodist people...they saying no hijab....

  • Yaa Yaa’Commentary 7 months ago

    The lawsuit against Wesley Girls’ High School—now before the Supreme Court—has cracked open a deeper national conversation about what it means to balance religious identity with constitutional rights in a pluralistic so ...
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  • gh leaders don't have sense 7 months ago

    Clearly the gh attorney general.is stupid..how can you make such a ruling? Wesley girls is a TAX FUNDED funded institution and.this makes it unlawful for the school to disallow students based on religion..in Ontario Canada, t ...
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  • Gh 7 months ago

    Dominic Ayine is a bastard, look at the serious corruption cases in ghana and u going after Muslims students..if the court rule against Muslims, all Muslims should boycott NDC, there are over 10 million Muslims in ghana..the ...
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  • gh leaders don't have sense 7 months ago

    That's bull..why don't you want tonsee muskim girls wearing hijabs? Let them.wear their hijabs, provide them with a space to worship and pray and leave their fasting to them..its their choice..their parents pay taxes and as a ...
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  • Asiedu Nketiah 7 months ago

    What nonsense are you trying to bring to our mission schools. The plaintiff can send his wad to TI Alhamadiyya school

  • Kojo 7 months ago

    Define ‘advertise’. As used in your submission. Total disregard to the constitution is a crime, mind you.

  • Nana 7 months ago

    Advertise means display.You can't display your religious dress in the different from the school prescribed. Girls can put on their Hijabs in the Mosque provided by the school but can't take it to the classroom or dinning hal ...
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  • gh leaders don't have sense 7 months ago

    Wesley.girls high school is a GOVT FUNDED INSTITUTION. money talks.bullshit runs marathons..until this school become a private funded institution they can not bar anyone from.attending and celebrating their culture religion e ...
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  • Yaw 7 months ago

    Who are the Ghanaians you are talking about. Remember, Ghanaians are Muslims too. Not all of us are Christians. Not all of us are Muslims, even not all of us are religious. But our nationality remains the same, we are all Gha ...
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  • Johnny,Oyarifa -Madina 7 months ago

    Most Ghanaian Moslems are Criminals and Thieves. The Arab World have sent billions of dollars to Ghana, that they could have used to build 20 Grade A schools like Wesley Girls.They embezzled & stole these monies to private us ...
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  • MoreFire 7 months ago

    The defendant should should also withdraw from government support. Mission schools are not purely private. Why others don't have problem but only Wesley shs. The world "DISCRIMINATION" is the only reason why Ghana can never ...
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  • Koo Manu 7 months ago

    Wherever muslims find themselves they don't follow the prevailing laws. They refuse to submit to the prevailing authority but when it is the other way around they'd kill you even if you don't pay the tax imposed on non muslim ...
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  • Nkontompo 7 months ago

    Because they are in the minority otherwise they would have done their worst

  • Donatus 7 months ago

    Massa, let's give the schools back to the churches.

  • Owan Yaw aka Lisiemine Ubi 7 months ago

    Minister of Education Haruna Iddrisu is the one causing all this nonsense and the Mission schools should fight back strong. As a past student of a Catholic mission school in the Volta Region, there is everything to stand for ...
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  • Andrew - 7 months ago

    Interetsing times, if the court rules against Wesley Girls that will also means all religious schools in Ghana are unlawful. Careful what you wish for

  • Kojo 7 months ago

    They are already unlawful and they know. Religion and secular education should never come together. The churches and mosques should focus on what they do. Once a church set up a school, the main aim is to teach the GES syllab ...
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  • Star from the North 7 months ago

    Haruna Iddrissu is a very dangerous politician from the north and we must be very careful with him. He always rush to speak on issues of national importance. He should forget about any ambition to contest for the presidency o ...
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  • Kojo 7 months ago

    Ghanaians must be definite in what they want their country to look like in the eyes of others.
    First, we prepared a constitution which apperently is a republican in nature, but we have given recognition to chieftsincy, makin ...
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  • Zamata 7 months ago

    This social cohesion has kept us together and made us unique. You find a mosque and a church in close proximity to each other. We shouldn't allow ourselves to be used to divide us.
    If it's a mission school, it should be full ...
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  • OGyam 7 months ago

    Muslims do not understand social cohesion. It is either their way or nothing. Anyway, did they even had the brains to establish any decent schools i. Ghana , Nigeria, Mali, Niger etc long before the missionaries came to our s ...
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  • Kojo 7 months ago

    Your choice of words reveals who you are. People like you have reduced Christianity into a religious bandit. Asking if your fellow human has brains? You have aggressively taken this debate like World Cup, insulting who ever d ...
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  • OGyam 7 months ago

    @Kojo...Cut the crap! The Koran confirms Muhammed married Aisha at 6, had sex with her at 9. So, what exactly is your problem?

  • gh leaders don't have sense 7 months ago

    Ogyam were you there when Muhammad married aisha at 6yrs old omg lol if you weren't there ad you heard this from.someone please don't believe the lie

  • OGyam 7 months ago

    @Gh, it is all in the false prophet called Muhammeds own Koran as well as their bogus Hadiths. Failing to use your head, just google Aisha, Muhammed wife and the facts will be starrng you in the face.Think, will you?

  • Kojo 7 months ago

    Ghanaians must be definite in what they want their country to look like in the eyes of others.
    First, we prepared a constitution which apperently is republican in nature, but we have given recognition to chieftsincy, making ...
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  • Nkontompo 7 months ago

    Pork meat

  • The Don 7 months ago

    Will a Christian child attending a Moslem school, be allowed to take and consume pork in the Moslem school? Will you say the Moslem school is discriminating against the Christian child because they forbid pork?

  • Dandura 7 months ago

    A nonsense case. Is it by force to go to Gey Hey?

  • Mandela 7 months ago

    This case is just like a Muslem running into a church and shouting Allah huakbar and expects the freedom to operate without respecting the rights of the history congratulations.

    Anyway, A traditional can equally wear beads ...
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  • Dom 7 months ago

    What will happen, at the end, is that all the Mission Schools will limit the admission of Muslims into their schools. Watch it.

  • Christians this is our last chance 7 months ago

    If we Christians compromise on this and allow moslems to have their way we are doomed no political party will ever take us seriously and Ghana will become like Nigeria

  • Facts 7 months ago

    Facts…

  • Komfo Kwaa’ante 7 months ago

    Religious freedom should prevail everywhere in Ghana except in private homes. Wolsey Girls is a public school mainly funded with taxpayers money and not a religious parochial seminary or institution, so muslim girls should be ...
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  • Johnny,Oyarifa -Madina 7 months ago

    Your Fellow Moslems stole all the Billion of Dollars sent by the Arab for Grade A school. Methodist Church used their own judiciously to build Wesley Girls.They say they don't want Hijabs on their compound what is your proble ...
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  • Ashantiman 7 months ago

    Wesley Girls school is on a mission to transform and mould the ladies to become Christians. So if you are a muslim and you decide to attend Wesley Girls it means you want to renounce your faith and follow methodist, so why a ...
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  • North tongu 7 months ago

    Ghana is at peace with each other I mean Christians and Muslims and this foolish lawyer is coming to create confusion in Ghana. Can Christian go to makalanta and do what he or she wants there? I support Dr Bawumia to become ...
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  • Michael 7 months ago

    So those who are traditional worshippers should be allowed to go to school with their masquerade attires and masks, because they have ''freedom'' to practice their faith?
    The religious schools are for teaching, based on the ...
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  • PaulDavid. 7 months ago

    I agree totally agree with u but why north? NPP should be wise. They have spoilt the case for moslem presidency. It's regretable.

  • Otonte Williams 7 months ago

    Ghana, Ghana, Ghana be very very very very careful! This is how Nigeria’s problems started, now they are in extreme chaos. I don’t want that for Ghana. Be very careful. It starts with little things like these and then tur ...
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  • The Spear 7 months ago

    The only reason some crazy things happening in Nigeria can't happen in Ghana is that, muslims are in the minority. And it will be difficult to have a muslim president in Ghana.

  • An3lka 7 months ago

    You carry millions of cedis to mecca just to stone your stupid allah. Use that money to build schools and hospitals. Stupid muslims who follow a rapist mohammed and a mad idol called allah.

  • Kwame 7 months ago

    Completely nonsense why don’t u stay home and fast or wear ur letter box nonsense

  • K. Opoku-London-UK 7 months ago

    Why is Bawumia-the MUSLIM KING hiding from the Wesley Girls Muslim terrorist and unprincipled demands????? Bawumia is a NATIONAL SECURITY THREAT TO GHANA. Apart from Bawumia being a COLLATERAL DAMAGE MUSLIM, Bawumia is a Mamp ...
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  • K. Opoku-London-UK 7 months ago

    Why is Bawumia-the MUSLIM KING hiding from the Wesley Girls Muslim terrorist and unprincipled demands????? Bawumia is a NATIONAL SECURITY THREAT TO GHANA. Apart from Bawumia being a COLLATERAL DAMAGE MUSLIM, Bawumia is a Mamp ...
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  • K..dat 7 months ago

    Imagine a Muslim is a president and education minister is also a Muslim too? Trouble Trouble Trouble

  • The Spear 7 months ago

    NO one's going to vote for a muslim president.

  • Two Causes 7 months ago

    But that is exactly what we have now. Mahama is just pretending to be a christian. All his children have moslem names. And don't forget about his brother, Ibrahim Mahama. He is only pretending for political gain.

  • kanawu 7 months ago

    Muslims will cause a civil war in Ghana.
    They are barbarians

  • Hmmm!!! 7 months ago

    WOW!!! So much hate speech from people on the religions which says love thy neighbor! Hypocritical and deceit to self. Reading comments from multiple platforms, what comes to mind is the song "there is fire on the mountain, b ...
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  • gh leaders don't have sense 7 months ago

    Kwasia and Christians don't commit rape, crime, robbery etc are confused or stupid?

  • Dondon 7 months ago

    The Christians should fight for the right of eating of porks in our various schools because no constitution bares that

  • Dr who 7 months ago

    For Shafic Osmas to evoke Article 130(1) of the 1992 Constitution of Ghana to bring a constitutional matter of this nature directly before the Supreme Court. Shows he lacks the true interpretation of the law and should go ba ...
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  • Tintempa 7 months ago

    The last time I visited the butcher's shop in kaneshie market and asked if I could get pork the butcher spat on the ground got angry and when I asked they drew their daggers
    Waiting for the outcome of this suite we shall adv ...
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  • kanawu 7 months ago

    Do they cook pork at TI AMASS?

    Can Christians start requesting port food at Muslim schools now?

  • Omar 7 months ago

    Hi, can somebody tell me if there is any code or article That says Ghana is a Christian country or secular country?

  • Kwame Nkrumah 7 months ago

    Will Wesley girls do same with Muslim doctors and teachers

  • Philla philla 7 months ago

    As paul Grugger,the president of then Transvall republic said, THIS IS MY COUNTRY AND THESE ARE MY LAWS, THOSE WHO ARE NOT READY TO OBEY MY LAWS CAN LEAVE MY COUNTRY

  • The Great 7 months ago

    I'm a Christian and a Methodist. I attended sixth form at T.I Ahmediyya Secondary School in Kumasi and Christians were allowed to practice their Christian beliefs. So in this case I would side with the plaintiff.

  • Honest 7 months ago

    In fact am at a loss on how to develop Ghana why has this become an issue to attract attention
    Too many dumb lawyers who don’t has anything sensible to do
    Too many politicians with diabolic minds and agenda setting
    By t ...
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  • Mk 7 months ago

    Africans will continue to be slaves for good. These kids from all these schools are sleeping on the floor, till now have not started full classes due to broken curriculum, no text books, no proper diet at school, no water, fl ...
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  • Kwaku 7 months ago

    What an idiotic statement. Are they going to reimburse the tax payers if they take their schools back?

  • Mk 7 months ago

    @Kweku
    Don’t hide behind that name Kweku to talk nonsens. Uncivilized fools like you are selling us for peanuts. You think we don’t know who you are. You go and collect money from these Arabs and come here and impose the ...
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  • John 7 months ago

    You prioritize building mosques and investing in Mecca, yet overlook the importance of building schools to nurture the next generation of faithful leaders.

  • Carly Ahiable 7 months ago

    I want to gently wade into the ongoing debate on the Wesley Girls-Muslim Students lawsuit. Is a country that bans all churches violating religious freedom? Most would agree it is. But what about a country that supports faith- ...
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  • OSAFO KANTANKA 7 months ago

    I don’t believe our courts are entertaining this kind of nonsense. WESLEY Girls School was established within the Methodist traditions And those who admire the METHODIST culture and Traditions. It was seriously NOT Establ ...
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  • The Spear 7 months ago

    If you think judges are intelligent, think of Torkonoo. They're very selfish and stupid.

  • Kofi Virginia 7 months ago

    The peace of the country is grounded on the integration of our institutions. Education is critical to be integrated. The Peace Council was supposed to address this conflict the last time around when the hijab question came up ...
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  • Omar 7 months ago

    Gh belongs to everyone not one religion right so why are we doing this to ourselves

  • Kwame Amoah 7 months ago

    This is a political strategy engineered by NDC. NDC and its fake and charlatan pastors are using this to bring down DMB who is a Muslim. Ghanaian fake and charlatan pastors are very pathetic in their world view.

  • MELO 7 months ago

    That Azar man is an idiotic fool who follows any useless thing in the name of human right

  • UK-GHANA Shopper 7 months ago

    UK-GHANA SHOPPER gets you whatever you need from UK or Ghana in just days. Both personal and trade goods are couriered both ways. Talk of convenience where u live in Ghana and shop in the UK and pay cedis to get your UK goods ...
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  • Test2 7 months ago

    THESE GUYS THEY HAVE AN AGENDA
    THESE MUSLEMM SCHOLARS IF THEY ARE REFUSED THEY WILL START KIDNAPPING AND BURNING OF THE SCHOOLS AS HAPPENING IN NIGERIA RIGHT NOW
    WHT CANT THEY BUILD A SIMILAR SCHOOL LIKE WESLEY GIRLS IN TH ...
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  • Suma 3 months ago

    Fairness is what maintains peace. If this works on both sides there will be no discussions. It goes with What is Good for the goose is equally good for the ganda. I do not believe there is any muslim schools where studentsl a ...
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