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The NPPs presidential candidate, Nana Akufo-Addo had always spoken big, to the effect that he is capable of making big time decisions when it counts most. In fact, Akufo-Addo is known for making big, off your rocker and unachievable promises just to cover his competence deficiency

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It beggars disbelief to reflect and contemplate the horrendous discrimination meted out to Ghanaian emigrants when they live outside their country, and also when they return to their own God-given country. It is simply mind boggling

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The economy usually trumps other social issues as the substratum for politicians to hammer on their opponents especially incumbent governments, in their bid to seek political power. That is why we have this famous phrase “It’s the economy, stupid”, which was widely used by Bill Clinton during his successful 1992 presidential campaign against then president George Bush

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Let’s be serious in any discussion of our leadership problems. Here is something to start with (from the great J.E. Casely Hayford’s propositions on Leadership in West Africa): The story goes that a flock of birds once set out to find a king. And they climbed a high mountain if only they could find him there. And they climbed and climbed until they scaled the topmost peak, and there they did find him. But—he was only a bird!!!

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Road as a type of transport means, is a path on land established for the movement of vehicles, humans and animals. Roads offer a dependable route for the movement of goods and services from one place to the other. For roads to effectively provide the functions described above, it should be in good shape or in other words motorable

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The NPP folks love to bash and jab the NDC whenever they want to score despicable political points. In fact, the NPP people hardly waste any time to throw their arsenals every time they see a cheap loophole looming

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The NPP’s Akufo-Addo is, indeed, a man of many parts—a lawyer, human rights activist, and politician, among others. Now, he has turned himself into a matador to kill the mammoth of a bull that Kennedy Agyapong’s hate speech has created

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In his first major appearance on a politically motivated event to engage the major concern of Ghanaians (the state of the country’s economy), the NPP’s Mahamudu Bawumia presented a catalogue of critiques that the NPP activists have described as a “brilliant” analysis but which the official response from the Ministry of Finance and government spokesmen trashed as “intellectual dishonesty.”

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The NPP’s strategy of exposing Bawumia is on course to catapult him into the limelight. That’s why he seems to be playing a frontline role these days and receiving media attention for it

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Dialectics is defined as an art of arriving at logical conclusions through question and answer or a form of exegesis which involves analysis, argumentation, synthesis, evaluation and differentiation

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The elections that brought David Cameron to the British prime-ministerial positon, witnessed a development which is any African country, would have resulted in a serious confusion and possible civil strife

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Just last week, the professed Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) out-doored an eleven-member Presidential Debate Committee to hold three presidential debates before the December 7 elections. But there have been some genuine hue and cry from some political parties notably the NDC, CPP and PNC concerning the composition of the committee

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Dear Mr President,

We the members of COMMON PURPOSE ALLIANCE GHANA, CPAG, have followed with dismay the unacceptable conduct of the government’s prosecutor, who is representing the taxpayers of Ghana, in the case of the State against Mr. Alfred Woyome, for allegedly defrauding the Republic of Ghana to the tune of GHc 51M

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What is the Christian leader’s justification for playing God, especially in this case when the name by which President Mills is called has nothing to do with the Great Commission that should be the substance of this Methodist Bishop’s concern in his propagation of the Christian faith?

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The Bishop of the Obuasi Diocese of the Methodist Church, the Rt. Rev. Stephen R. Bosomtwi-Ayensu is reported to have warned President Mills to reject the name “Asomdwehene” or face the wrath of God. His reason? The name, which means “King of Peace,” must be used by none other than Christ

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Opinion: Akufo-Addo, A Threat To Peace In Ghana? – Part One: US CSIS Report

“The role of the NPP leader and expected presidential candidate, Nana Akufo-Addo, will be crucial, and early signals suggest reason for worry. Akufo-Addo is desperate to mobilize support, and he has played the ethnic card, referring to the NPP as “We the Akans,”

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