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Prez Mahama Under Pressure

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  • Onyame Nipa (Man Of God) USA 11 years ago

    AMEN

  • Jato Julor (J.J.) Rawlings 11 years ago

    Is the chin-chinga seller turned newspaper editor, Alhaji Bature's 'Al-hajj' newspaper the only newspaper in Ghana, ghanaweb ?

    Can ghanaweb tell us why it refuses to publish stories from reputable newspapers in Ghana, but ...
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  • IN GOD WE TRUST 11 years ago

    BECAUSE THE BATTLE IS YOURS. THIS MAN JUST GOT IN POWER AND HE IS ON PRESURE ALREADY. WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN FEW MONTHS FROM NOW? ONLY YOU GOD KNOWS. SO SOLVE ANY PROBLEM FOR US COS SOME OF US CAN SMELL THE WORSE.

  • OLD SOLDIER 11 years ago

    When Kwaku Baako informed us about the atrocities of Kwasi Pratt during PNDC Regime, some of us did not believe until the truth was confirmed during the NRC. Kwasi Pratt is the most dangerous Journalist Ghana had ever have, h ...
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  • SHAMO 11 years ago

    NDC SUPPORTERS WILL BUY FUEL AT CHEAP PRICE, WHEN THEY GO TO MARKET THEIR PRICES WILL BE CHEAP AND NPP PRICES WILL BE HIGHER! HAHAHAHA FOOLS

  • TerriblY Spe cifiC 11 years ago

    WHAT DID NPP MANAGE WELL WHEN THEY RULED AND RUINED GHANA FOR 8 SOLID YRS? EVEN THEIR SO-CALLED ENERGY EXPERT COULD NOT DO ANYTHING WELL EXCEPT TO LOOT THE PEOPLE'S MONIES AND GET BOOTED OUT IN ONLY 18 MONTHS. WHAT COULD NPP ...
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  • The Critical Mind 11 years ago

    At this point, I am questioning why you never speak in the interest of the whole country. All your comments are always directed to the NPP but they don't make Ghana as such. You will be better served if you were to consider t ...
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  • JATO 11 years ago

    NPP HAVE BEEN IN POWER FOR 8YEARS AND P/NDC HAVE RULED GHANA FOR OVER 35YEARS,SO GO FIGURE.ALL WHAT NDC KNOW BEST IS STEALING.

  • OLD SOLDIER 11 years ago

    The NDC would have to explain to Ghanaians how a dead man came to author and sign a letter!

    The opening paragraph states, “I came to serve; I have finished my time here on earth and have moved on to everlasting rest and ...
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  • DAN 11 years ago

    black boy the cost of gas in America today is $3.19...per gal (4 liters) What you people are paying is TAX,, Nigeria is next door..How can it cost more to transport oil from Nigeria than for 4 weeks across the ocean to Americ ...
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  • Jack-usa 11 years ago

    If this is comparable like you're saying, then either your country's refinery process is expensive or you're buying the refined product elsewhere and paying for the service. Followed by uncle TAX.

  • Proud Pepeman. 11 years ago

    The Americans are subsidising fuel, car manufacturing, cattle farms, the growing of corn and soya. My friend. The EU subsidises farming to the tune of billions of Euros. Grow up DAN. I know the government needs money and the ...
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  • angel 11 years ago

    U are the greatest fool together with ur family head.

  • BlindMan 11 years ago

    This thinking will arouse no one, the contributor is simply making FOOL of him/herself!

  • lordina mahama 11 years ago

    all ready oh my god this guy is paniking for what he need money for his pampers pls mahama waite for the court case because nest two months coming u will stanp down to hell with ur patro increase kronfuo paaa

  • Woman 11 years ago

    if you will continue reposting stuff, try to correct them!

  • BlindMan 11 years ago

    The WORDS alone won't help you, read beyond the sentences, and you'll find the 'KOKOO'S hiding place! Change, or adjust to the beat of the music, if you ever understand the meaning of HOPE!

  • KOFI MENSAH 11 years ago

    AND STOP THE BEING STUPID, AKOAMPA.

  • WE AKANS 11 years ago

    THE BLOE BAMBIO CRIMINAL JOHN MAHAMA HAS STARTED DRIVING GHANA INTO A DITCH.

  • Koku Kesedovoo 11 years ago

    He has made considerable progress. What about you

  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 11 years ago

    Then there shall be no male Prez in Ghana. Which of them is not a womanizer? Start from Nkrumah up to Mahama. None of them is innocent.

  • Kwaku 11 years ago

    And if he should remove the subsidy what can you do? Did God kick Kufuor out when he sold GTC and got a bribe of one million dollars? Dam idiot

  • gastog 11 years ago

    Edabeeeee....k3k3

  • Google 11 years ago

    OOOOH NO TO WHO EVER SENT THIS COMMENT TO INSULT THE PRESIDENT WHO EVER YOU ARE YOU MUST BE ASHAME OF YOURSELF

  • KANIA 11 years ago

    NDC ARE KNOWN FOR THEIR AGGRESSION AND RIOT CAUSERS. THEY HAVE NEVER DONE WELL IN BUILDING GHANA'S ECONOMY. LOOK AT HOW FAST THE CEDI ALWAYS SINK UNDER NDC. NPP ARE BETTER ECONOMIC AND NATION BUILDERS. NDC CAN ONLY TAKE GHAN ...
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  • Obiri Yeboah London. 11 years ago

    HELLO!THIS IS JUST THE BEGINNING, BEHOLD YOU ARE NOT GOING TO GET THINGS EASY AT ALL.THE TASK AHEAD IS MORE DIFFICULT THAN YOU CAN IMAGINE.IF YOU KNOW YOU HAVE ANY SICKNESS,BETTER GO AND SEE YOUR DOCTOR FOR CHECKUP.THE LOAD I ...
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  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 11 years ago

    With our current unemployment rate and high prices of everything, my NPP friends should hasten slowly about government not helping out in petroleum products and utility services. If government should stop absorbing some of th ...
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  • anayomi 11 years ago

    YOU AINT SEEN NOTHING YET TAX AND SPEND NDC GOVRENMENT WILL DESTROY GHANA ECONOMY AND BRING IT TO A STAND STILL YOU ALL WILL SEE ITS COMING SONNER THEN YOU THINK

  • SON OF GHANA 11 years ago

    WHAT WILL THEY DO WITH THE TAXES?????? JUST FOR THEIR POCKETS AND WE ALL WILL THEN SUFFER. AMEN!!!

  • Nana Esi, Ottawa 11 years ago

    To Onyame nipa, your so called shortman devil Nana will never ever become the president of this nation so keep it in mind and try as much as possible to adjust. For your information President Mahama is the new elected Preside ...
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  • The Critical Mind 11 years ago

    I feel sorry for people like you. No wonder you are in someone's country and can talk shit. I guess you will live, die and be buried there so there is no reason to think like a human being.

  • ADAMA 11 years ago

    GO DRINK PITO

  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 11 years ago

    And what shall you go to drink? Palmwine, ODOKA or Apio?

  • DERTYUIS, RUSSIA 11 years ago

    Dzifa are you an amateur journalist? Please some of your writings are deletorious for intelectual consumption. Correct the spelling and the grammatical errors before publishing your articles

  • Pipilipi 11 years ago

    Was there a Dzifa? Shine your eyes

  • JAMES Y 11 years ago

    The public should be educated about the menace of state subsidies and their effect on the economy as a whole. Unless people understand the pressures subsidies have on the economy, it is, politically, suicidal for the governme ...
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  • Majorgeneral 11 years ago

    Mo ne kasa James Y. These are the kind of people we need in this forum. It has always been my wish for our governments to educate the populace about the happenings in government. That's why we have the NCCE but sadly they don ...
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  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 11 years ago

    Your points are very true but even developed economies, governments are very careful and concerned when it comes to increase in petroleum products. If you live in the West, find out how high prices have soared in recent times ...
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  • Pipilipi 11 years ago

    Hmmmmmm where have people like you been on this forum? I am sick and tired of pigs like Adama,Jato Julor and co.

  • Kwaku 11 years ago

    Who's putting him under that pressure?Was he not aware that the people would come after him when he was making all sort of promises during the campaign?Ghanaians are not like the 3 women he deceived and had children with they ...
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  • Ewura Esi 11 years ago

    The World Bank and the IMF in their last review of Ghana’s economy late last year admonished the government to take immediate steps to halt the “bleeding” in the economy and to drastically reduce the budget deficit.

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  • Majorgeneral 11 years ago

    Of course, why won't they if they're funding our budget? It's really a shame. I wish there would be a time our budget would be 100% financed with Ghanaian money. Can't still believe westerners fund our election. What at all h ...
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  • Pelicles 11 years ago

    We are independent in mismanagement else, why would these anti development agencies dictate to us?

    IMF and the World Bank, will come to the aid of any nation when they see that elected officials of that particular nation i ...
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  • insight to the bone 11 years ago

    So far agreeably he has picked potentially very capable people , whether or not they are actually bold , courageous and competent enough is another matter as most of these people stood by to save their skins while atrocities ...
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  • John 11 years ago

    COLLECT THE JUDGMENT DEBT MONEY FROM WOYOME AND ADD TO SUPPORT THE SUBSIDY FOR THE FUEL.

  • Zangina 11 years ago

    The NPA was found guilty by the courts of overcharging Ghanaians on fuel and making hundreds of millions of cedis illegally in the process.What happened to this issue and it only means that we are still being charged these ex ...
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  • B.B. 11 years ago

    eiiii

  • Mr Mark(u.s.a) 11 years ago

    Do u need powerful spiritual help? I know of a very very powerful young lady name Queen who has rescue me from hell, poverty nd shame. Nd has made me very very rich nd powerful. Wats ur problem? Name it nd Queen will solve al ...
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  • Akwasi 11 years ago

    Is your inference to Kan Dapaah necessary? How can a member of the opposition pressure government for the increase of prices? Al hajj please come clean

  • TRUTH PREACHER 11 years ago

    What a shame to your baias News paper.
    My only question is who was in power when the caution was given by the IMF,WORLD BANK ?

  • Pelicles 11 years ago

    Those who inserted the clause in the constitution giving the president tax exemption status, are noting more than idiots. I do not see those people as "educators" or elite. They are nation wreckers. Now, if the president has ...
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  • Selira 11 years ago

    When the economy is going well for the country and people are praising you for the good governance you want to increase fuel prices to mess it up? who is giving the president this bad advice?

  • Joe 11 years ago

    When did the economy start going well ,and which people were praising him for the good governance? I think you are living in a different world.

  • KWABENA JONES. 11 years ago

    First, the emoluments should be reduced drastically to the barest minimium and cut down on the waste in the system, reduce the bureaucracy and duplication of efforts, check the unbridled corruption which is the underlying hum ...
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  • Selira 11 years ago

    Where should the money be spent? in the pockets of people? How long has the Kumasi- Accra road been in a very bad shape?

  • anayomi 11 years ago

    PRICES OF EVERYTHING WILL GO UP IN GHANA UNDER TAX AND SPEND NDC GOVRENMENT

  • OLE 11 years ago

    when it is coming, it is doing, 3baa na 3y)

  • PROXY ELMINA 11 years ago

    Its better government continue to subsidy because if the subsidy is removed and the realities hit the Ghanaian worker

  • PROXY ELMINA 11 years ago

    will be agitating for salary increment which will be higher than the subsidy

  • MAHAMA 11 years ago

    THANKS

  • Ibrahim 11 years ago

    Making these contradictory arguments in this article shows how all these unprofessional journalists have been hired to write in favour of this fake prez and his gov't. I hope you all enjoy your better Ghana agenda with the pr ...
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  • ASANTE holland 11 years ago

    here we go oo yi wa

  • Ataa Ayi 11 years ago

    What difference dus it make increasing prices of fuel products and then ending up by the need to upgrade salaries to much the fuel increment as against leaving the subcidy in play. i may be wrong and some1 can help me underst ...
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  • JCC 11 years ago

    I like Ghana politics and the media propaganda, they way they are pre-empt the increase by blaming it on IMF ..IMF warned against subsidy long time ago when Aja Atta Mills was campaigning but he promised to reduce fuel to win ...
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  • Whatever 11 years ago

    You allow foriegners to come and drill our oil, take it to France to process it, sell it and keep the money in foriegn banks for them to make more money out of it before it comes down and you come back and tell the people of ...
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  • j .p brooks 11 years ago

    is not good , ghana wach u

  • PATRICKNANASAPONG 11 years ago

    God said to SAMUEL THAT SAMUEL YOU ONLY LOOK AT THE APPEARANCE OF A MAN BUT i GOD, I LOOK AT THE HEART OF A MAN GOD GHANA AND OUR PRESIDENT

  • PATRICKNANASAPONG 11 years ago

    ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT GOD IS WATCHING YOU SO DO GOOD AND SAVE YOUR LIFE IN THE WOLD

  • Bismarck Asare 11 years ago

    My question is, why should a poor country like Ghana continue to give free fuel coupons to senior government officials every month? Can't they buy their own fuel just as others in the private sector are doing? Why should peop ...
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  • SHAKAMORA 11 years ago

    papa shamo kowokorom na awobeku wo eeeei ghana is sink forever n ever ndc go damage ghana

  • CHIEF 11 years ago

    John mahama will do something about it by continueing giving the subsidy. The revenue from our oil and some taxes will be channeled into strengthening the ground for the subsidy. Even npp was borrowing from every where inclu ...
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  • SLIMFIT 11 years ago

    OMG. MR PRFESIDENT YOU ARE JUST TOO HANSOME. I KEEP STARING YOU YOUR PHOTOS DAY AND NIGHT AND EVEN DREAM OF YOU.

  • Dr Kwabena Asempanaye 11 years ago

    Ghanaians will never appreciate anything you do even if you pay their bills for them and give them free food. Do you think they care that you're keeping gas prices down by you paying for it to keep it down ? I'm breaking the ...
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  • marcus amewor 11 years ago

    is to early to increase the fuel.they can do something.god bless ghana

  • MAHAMA MORE CORRUPT NOW 11 years ago

    SHAMELESS MAHAMA,WHY NOT USE WOYOMES GANGATUAN MONEY TO HELP GHANAIANS??????,MAHAMA YOU NOT SEEN ANYTHING YET,EBE DII BI K3K3,SO MAHAMA EAT AND GO,HAHAHAHAHA

  • Darko AG 11 years ago

    increasing fuel price will be the most crazy thing to do Mr president think twice

  • Aduanaba Kwabena 11 years ago

    Yes we said that a spare tyre can't be a substantive one.This is just the beginning.We are all going to smell pepper.We must all keep quiet and suffer.

  • jorge 11 years ago

    confusing the mind of ghanaians. i saw it coming

  • Ghanaian 11 years ago

    B4 u give a coment on this subject, ast 1.how many times did the NPP increased the price of fuel 4yrs. 2.@ what percentage. 3. ask the same in during NDC's regime

  • MAHAMA NAADU 11 years ago

    MAHAMA STOLE GHANA MONEY TO WOYOME,NOW CRYING,SHAME ON HIM,

  • brefo kwafo 11 years ago

    alhaj, dont disturb our ears. You cannot make govt. look good with the garbage you have published.the reason govt. cannot pay salaries is that all the money has been doled out to people for votes.

  • Amos Afriyie 11 years ago

    It is time for every official to buy his or her own feul to go to work, why should people be supplied with feul and still be paid. These very people waist the feul running round and even give part of there allocations to frie ...
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  • Amos Afriyie 11 years ago

    President Mahama please stop the waist by not allocating feul to any official it is not done anywhere accept ghana. They are paid like any other workers why this nonesence. I know a lady who every week use her allocation to f ...
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  • Gawuga 11 years ago

    Gh needs an economist or business person to lead the country not fulani cow boys

  • Gawuga 11 years ago

    No real leader to move the country fwd. We need a 'hands on selfless leader' to move the country fwd. That person can never ever come from NDC - never. NDC is here to chop chop and kill, kill, main, rape, burn, destroy, chaos ...
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  • AZU NARH 11 years ago

    STUPID GHANAIANS SHUT UP YOUR STUPID MOUTHS THAT WHAT YOUR EMPTY HEADS LIKE,HAVE YOU FORGET ATTA MILLS DID THE SAME TO YOU,FOOLS EMBLACE HIM YOUR DRAMANI MAHAMA.

  • Odehyee 11 years ago

    UNEASY LIES THE HEAD THAT WEARS THE CROWN!! CONTRI BROKE OH, E NO BROKE OH! WE ALL DEY. WE PRAY TO THE ALMIGHTY TO SUSTAIN US WELL, BEYOND THE FORSEEABLE FUTURE. O MA YEN MPOMDEN, NE NKWA TENTEN!

  • Bright 11 years ago

    whether rain or shine we all they inside, so no worry , you ingore free shs and went for increase of fuel and utility bills. and yet still pay school fees is bullshit

  • PEACEMAN 11 years ago

    GOD BLESS OUR HOME LAND GHANA STABILITY,PEACE,DEVELOPMENT AND JOY.

  • Pope-pious 11 years ago

    this is not a matter to do political attacks and insults, our very existence as a people is threathened we all know the aftermath of the elections and the strain political terrain we are facing, if the government is influence ...
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  • Yaa 11 years ago

    Ghanafuor, enjoy your new status as a middle-income economy under the rule of the Umbrella!

    Campaign promises of cheap fuel for all plus one-time NHIS premium.....immediately followed by credit crunch for all as petrol pri ...
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  • Myiesha Shaw 11 years ago

    This Man was not voted in as president of Ghana that is why you are having problems!