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Africa’s gov'ts must manage natural resource rents wisely – Kofi Annan

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  • PAPSON 10 years ago

    SORRY TO SAY THAT AFRICA HAS ONLY EDUCATED FOOLS. WE ARE DOOMED FOREVER.

  • don`t care !!! 10 years ago

    Hmmmmm!blackman with black brain,this are what Kofi Annan is saying.....

    Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

    Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management i ...
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  • ZoRRo 10 years ago

    He has identified the fundermental problem the continent has, especially our country Ghana. Where the politicians make arrangements to extract the natural resources, benefit from the revenues, sponsor a few useless projects, ...
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  • Nana Appiah (Canadian) 10 years ago

    Kufuor Should be investigated and Jailed for exactly that...Misappropriation of national funds, Signing Bad Contracts for kickbacks, and inflating the Cost of all projects...

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  • KB,LONDON 10 years ago

    A girl once narrated he suffering in that country on Peace Fm. She was turned to a slave.

  • JH New York 10 years ago

    Beware of Slavery in those Countries; people !

  • Tijani 10 years ago

    Kofi you spent ten years as UN secretary general, but didn't do anything to change the UN laws that is favoring the rich countries, the west and killing Africa. see how the World Bank, IMF, Wall Street are dealing with Africa ...
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  • James. 10 years ago

    Tijani, why cann`t you be honest to yourself? Do you think the problem is mostly with our selfish and greedy leaders who only who do all they can to be in power soly to amass wealth and condonning with investors. How about ac ...
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  • KB,London. 10 years ago

    Tijani, UN laws has nothing to do with either the production negotiations or how governments deal with income generated from these contracts. In Africa, thieves and corrupt people rule the countries not leaders. Very intellig ...
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  • HARD REPLY 10 years ago

    Tijani, the reform as at now in UN was done by Mr. Kofi Annan so please check things before talking about it.

  • NEMESIS, UK 10 years ago

    The least said about this neo-colonialist and UNCLE TOM Kofi Annan's performances as the UN's Secretary General, the better. I do hope he devote the rest of his life to seek forgiveness for the avoidable lost of 'innocent li ...
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  • KB,LONDON 10 years ago

    Why should Africans expect some international organization to think for them? Including deciding whether you should fight yourselves or not? Anyway, what did the Rwandans do when ex-president Bill Clinton sent in the US milit ...
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  • Kofi Babone, USA 10 years ago

    What about the double standards by the UN and the West? The UN should stop fanning America and the west to commit atrocities. There is war war everywhere all stemmed by the US. Look, because the US wants to get rid of Israe ...
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  • jack rabbit 10 years ago

    wow! - Tijani wise talk truly wise talk

  • A citizen. 10 years ago

    You wanted Kofi Annan to come and build a new airport for Ghana? Build infrastructures for Ghana? Whose money or which country`s money is he going to use? Ghanaians, we`re selfish and we don`t reason at all.

  • wear 10 years ago

    Ask yourself, where is the Ghana Air ways, where is the Ghana Black Star line ships, the Factories, the Gold Refinery almost 80% completed, the Free education we had under Nkrumah throughout the country. All these project hab ...
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  • A citizen. 10 years ago

    In the first place, be a reason being to insult yourself before insulting others. Don`t ask me these questions but rather go and ask Rawlings for he could give you the right answers. If Dr. Nkrumah gave Kofi Annan free educat ...
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  • Funnythat 10 years ago

    Where do you live on the Globe. Your paranoid gated brain is not for this forum: You are completely exhibiting your ignorance. How can the Secretary General of the UN change the laws governing the UN?

  • A citizen. 10 years ago

    Please, leave that senseless being to die in his uneducated motive or motives.

  • CHIEF ADVISER 10 years ago

    Tijani has got an undue chance to voice out anything. It is the falt of the African leaders to see Africans in this state. With only three exceptions, they are all foolish dogs who think only of their selfish-ends. The except ...
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  • AK47 IS MY FUCKING ADDRESS ! 10 years ago

    African deserve to be rob by the rich countries bcos we have been brain wash, and lazy . Why can't we use our own language for everything in school ? Look at a this countries for example South Korea , Holland , Belgium ,Ita ...
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  • AK47 IS MY FUCKING ADDRESS ! 10 years ago

    African deserve to be rob by the rich countries bcos we have been brain wash, and lazy . Why can't we use our own language for everything in school ? Look at a this countries for example South Korea , Holland , Belgium ,Ita ...
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  • Funnythat 10 years ago

    You are very ignorant over what you have writtern. From whom and where do you know Brazil uses his own language at school? Do you not know Portuguese is the official language in Brazil? iF YOU ARE NOT LAZY then try to trans ...
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  • AK47 IS MY FUCKING ADDRESS ! 10 years ago

    I KNEW BRAZIL MORE THAN YOUR ASS . DON'T WE HAVE AKAN BIBLE ?

  • AK47 IS MY FUCKING ADDRESS ! 10 years ago

    African deserve to be rob by the rich countries bcos we have been brain wash, and lazy . Why can't we use our own language for everything in school ? Look at a this countries for example South Korea , Holland , Belgium ,Ita ...
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  • SGT ANANI FIADZOE 10 years ago

    You are NDC idiot and senseless Cow.

  • paul Siaw 10 years ago

    YOU ARE AN IDIOT !!!! TYPICAL EXAMPLE OF BRAIN DEAD BLACKMAN ENDOWED WITH STUPIDITY! DID YOU EVER HEAR OF ANYONE PARTICULAR LEADER AT THE UN CHANGING LAWS/RULES TO FAVOR HIS OWN COUNTRY?SO NO ONE HAS ANY SAY WHATSOEVER IN THE ...
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  • Abongo 10 years ago

    Tijani, if Kofi is a waste to Ghana, then you are the most stupid ass hole in Ghana. Do you want UN to develop Ghana for us, then it is a waste of time and resources to say we are electing people to parliament. The corrupt po ...
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  • Agyeman 10 years ago

    African countries with their abundant natural resources are like a teenager with a credit card.
    Ghana,Nigeria,Equatorial Guinea,DRC & Sudan are all lacking a resource thats more important than their mineral wealth- resour ...
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  • King Ahmed UEW-M 10 years ago

    Mr. Annan well speech. But you know, the leaders will not abide by it. Only God can judge these evil and corrupt leaders for us. And I know for sure that, poor people in this continent will never forgive their so called leade ...
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  • Funnythat 10 years ago

    When African leaders loose sight of what is lost there will be no wonder the resources be exploited to no ones benefit. African governments lack the art of ruling to the benefits of its citizens.After over 50 yrs of independ ...
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  • S.OSEI 10 years ago

    EXCELLENT DREAM MAKER. I WISH AFRICAN LEADERS WILL DO THAT.
    THANK YOU MR KOFI ANNAN

  • B.B.C. NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 10 years ago

    Mr. Tijani, your so stupid to say this to Mr. Kofi Annan .He did what he can.Africans are so stupid that, they can only fight them selfs, kill them selfs but not to produce any thing.If Africans are wise enough, we should gi ...
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  • Agyapong 10 years ago

    No more monopoly in Ghana elections and institutions. It is a shame the greed always want power but when power given to them they cannot help the average local citizens.

  • corrupt mahama juju killed mills,ei 10 years ago

    UESLESS MAHAMA DONT GET IT,EVEN ONE DAY,CORRUPT,EVIL,FAKE TO GHANA,SHAME UNTO NDC MAHAMA FOOOOOOLS,THANKZ MR ANAN

  • Kofitse kpoh 10 years ago

    From my observation it seems to me that the key difference between the black man and the white man is their attitude to the golden rule of life.which is " love The Lord your God with all your heart and love your NEIGHBOUR as ...
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  • Funnythat 10 years ago

    Lazy people like you believe in welfare system to abuse it. Look at the number of Africans either young or old in Western Europe having neither professional ability nor education with fleet of children depending on the welfar ...
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  • Isaac (USA) 10 years ago

    Fellow Ghanaians,it's unfortunate to read insults people are rainning on 'TIJANI' just for speaking his mind.Was his comment fair? I dont think so! Do we as productive citizines have to wage war on whoever voices his or her o ...
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  • A citizen. 10 years ago

    That`s not the question but as a normal human being, you have speak wisely. We all have brains to reason and when someone is saying something senseless, you point it out to him or her. Freedom of speech is there for a democra ...
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  • Jason 10 years ago

    All respect to Mr. Kofi Annan,

    But again in his adress, he points to Africa and his partners misses the chances. What I don't like about this is and her partners!

    Her partners aren't interested in Africa (as long as the ...
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  • True Ghanaian 10 years ago

    Are you listening, Mahama and NDC? It is not how much money you or your party will receive after signing off a contract but how beneficial such contract will be for Oman Ghana's Growth and development.

  • Kwasi Gyapong 10 years ago

    Tell Mahamma and NDC about this

  • peace 10 years ago

    mahama don't understand this big words

  • Akwasi 10 years ago

    The U.S Bureau of Prisons has stated that ex-Member of Parliament (MP) for Nkoranza North, Eric Amoateng, who is currently doing time in CI Moshannon Valley prison in the USA, for trafficking 136 pounds of heroin, valued at o ...
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  • Nana Egyir Aggrey 10 years ago

    Bra Kofi,-you are off the track,Africa is a big question mark ( "?") as illustrated by Dr Kwegyir Aggrey of Africa.Fifty six years after independence the countries in Africa has gone back to the dark days.The founding fathers ...
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  • paul Siaw 10 years ago

    ANOTHER POINTLESS COMMENT!! FULL OF LECTURES BUT NO SUBSTANCE! WE ARE GOOD AT THIS KIND OF STUFF!

  • Funnythat 10 years ago

    Aggrey is someone who produces a lot on the net with very very little substance. He seem to be more theoretical, and looses the light of reality. Book long with no substnce.

  • corrupt mahama juju killed mills,ei 10 years ago

    EVIL DWARF MAHHAMA JUJU DONT CARE FOR GHANIANS,ONLY BE ON POWER TO CHOP ALL OUR MONEY,AS HE SAID CHOP ALL AND LEFT US BONES,SEE HOW STUPID MAHAMA THIEF IS,ABOA BI LIKE HIM

  • Abongo 10 years ago

    What about the thief Kufuor who sold our Drill ship dubiously dam ass hole

  • Argent 10 years ago

    Go away with your double standards.
    Tell your masters to first deal fairly with Africans before opening your
    maggot infested mouth.

    Foolish stooge

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  • concerned ghanaian 10 years ago

    Ghana and for that matter, Africans have been very illguided in the way we have allowed foreignn companies to come into the country and pillage our natural resources.

    Mr.Kofi Annan prefers to call what we get from these ex ...
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  • miracle 10 years ago

    you and your family cursed by ndc.

  • zongo president 10 years ago

    WE need people like Mr Annan to lead our country ,he is smart, he is honest, with all the natural resource yet we cant provide basic stuff like ,roads,electricity. good drinking water,we dont need MAHAMA and his corrupt poli ...
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  • Daniel Okutu 10 years ago

    I hope our leaders would pay heed to this advice.

  • Kweku 10 years ago

    I thought we could make our points without necessarily insulting. Why insult Kofi Annan for giving advice to African leaders. What should he have done? come guys we should rather hold our leaders to account by fighting for t ...
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  • Osei Yao 10 years ago

    Listen to the neocolonialist agent. §he is urging African countries to sell more of their minerals to the west, at prices determined by the buyer! Some wisdom.

  • JH New York 10 years ago

    For decades African leadership especially
    Ghana had known that lapses but simply refused to act because they get their share of the deal and do not care about the mases,
    whether they shrink to death or survived.
    Mr Annan ...
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  • MARCUS AMPADU 10 years ago

    Ghana, Cote d'Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, and Cameroon should definitely form a West Africa common market to sell their cocoa.
    Such a board will control the price for our cocoa.

  • Kwadwo Amosa 10 years ago

    Marcus, I hope someone is paying attention to your idea. You are right on the money. Joining together for the common good will help every nation in our region.