Our mission is to produce more of what we consume and create more jobs here at home.
Every import is an opportunity to ask: why can’t we make it in Ghana?
That is the promise of the NEW ECONOMY: Ghana producing. Ghanaians working. Prosperity growing!
The NPP sent two of their strongest communicators to face Julius Kwame Anthony.
Two against one, yet Julius made it look like a group assignment where the other two forgot to study. 😂😂🔥
Baby, expensive does not mean luxury. Accra is full of basic, overrated products with audacious price tags, sold as “luxury” by people who confuse money with taste. Slapping a high price on mediocrity doesn’t make it premium,it just makes it overpriced and I’m sick of it!
Prof Barfuor Adjei-Barwuah says “the grass is greener abroad” is an illusion and Ghanaian youth should stay and build a future here. Stay and build on what, exactly?
You start a small poultry farm of fifty birds in your backyard as a side hustle. The moment they start laying, authorities show up demanding GH₵5,000. Pay up, or you have one month to sell off the birds before they come and confiscate them. That is how “enterprise” begins here.
You want land in Accra and you end up paying for the same plot three or four times to three or four different “owners.” You want a room and the rent is hundreds of times the monthly minimum wage. Food prices are not set by supply and demand. They are set by market queens who will manufacture inflation the moment they smell a chance at gargantuan profit.
You work, you save, you take permits from the same authorities, you build a home. Then they arrive with hammers. Waterway, they say, as if they did not know that when they stamped the permit.
There is no serious plan for people with disabilities, as if they are not part of this society. Teachers can go unpaid for years while parliamentarians, paid like kings, still have the nerve to say they are not well paid. Access to a loan to start a business is a battlefield. Youth who try agriculture get applause and almost no support. A country this size still has no well-structured national irrigation plan so that a young person who wants to farm can do it with some joy instead of prayer and debt.
Where are the opportunities?
How do we believe they exist here when you, our leaders, school your own children in the US, the UK and elsewhere? You built a system you will not use. You have no confidence in the Ghana you keep selling to us.
Life abroad is not paradise. Many struggle. Many never make it. That part is true.
What is also true is this: young people are not running because they hate Ghana. They are running because Ghana blocks the first brick, then lectures them for looking at another plot. Until the harassment stops, the land market is cleaned, rent is livable, farming is supported, permits mean something, and leaders put their own children in the same schools and hospitals they design for us, the grass looking greener on the other side is not an illusion.
It is the receipt from the leadership you provided to us!
When I made my comments about the Appointments Committee based on actual truth that those on Committee not only knew to be true but also that I knew to be true.
What broke my heart most were the insults of the very Ghanaians whose interests I was speaking for. I couldn’t believe how much lack of support I received for something so plain as day.
Till today, there are people who actually believe that I made those claims up.
When you keep pretending your dead mother is alive; soon the smell will lead termites to your room.
But just watch! Watch to see if any real inquiry will happen. Watch to see if this scandal will be enough to stop the confirmation of the appointment of the Judges to interrogate anything? It will be swept away and we will move on as a people.
Soon they will start insulting and persecuting the MP instead of actually dealing with the problem. That’s how it has always been. From Ayariga, to Ablakwa to Barker-Vormawor and now Patricia Appiagyei.
This is how it has always been.
Maybe one day they themselves will start telling truths about what really happened at the Public Accounts Committee too.
But for today, I say Vindication is really in the womb of time.
Shalom
Dear Hon Kofi Adams.
Ghana DOES not need 10 new stadiums. We are not there yet. Even Morocco with all their grand ambitions does not have a stadium in all their 12 regions.
It is your duty as a Minister to offer Professional advice to advise the President.
Already, there are number of Multipurpose sports complexes constructed by the previous administration that remain in the bush either due to poor siting or non-completion.
Advise that the funds for these 10 new proposed stadiums be used reasonably.
Ghana needs one world-class Olympic stadium of not less than 80,000 capacity, along with the ultramodern facilities in Accra region.
Preferably on Dodowa stretch, Saglemi area or Tema Akosombo stretch with future plans of rail connections.
This stadium only for FIFA CAF category A international matches and Olympic events.
Revamp Accra, Kumasi, Takoradi and Tamale stadiums.
Construct roof canopy over Accra and Kumasi stadium. Importantly, remove the aponkye grass over there and lay quality pitches.
Complete Kaneshie and other major complexes.
Strengthen NSA in terms of personnel to ensure proper maintenance.
Not every region needs an airport and same for stadiums.
Don’t go and throw money away. We never learn.
She was just weeks away from completing her national service as a dental surgery assistant. Then came what appeared to be the opportunity of a lifetime, a chance to leave Ghana for Belgium and start a new life. The offer came from someone she trusted, a woman she describes as an aunt, but behind the promise of a job abroad was an alleged trafficking network stretching from Ghana to Nigeria.
Peter Quao Adattor followed 26-year-old Doris Ampem from Accra to Lagos on a journey that would expose an alleged recruitment network and lead to the arrest of Ghanaian perpetrators...
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#GHOneTV #NewsAlert
🚨 🇩🇪 Toni Kroos on How the GOAT Criteria Kept Changing;
🗣️"What I find funny is how the narrative kept changing. In 2016, when Cristiano Ronaldo won the Euros while Messi still hadn't won an international trophy, many people still refused to call Ronaldo the GOAT.
Then Kylian Mbappé won the World Cup in 2018, and suddenly the World Cup wasn't enough to make someone the greatest.
But the moment Messi finally won it in 2022, the same people started saying, 'You can't be the GOAT without a World Cup.' That's not consistency, that's moving the goalposts.
I have huge respect for Messi as one of football's greatest ever players after Cristiano Ronaldo but some of his fans have a habit of changing the criteria whenever it suits their argument."
🚨🇦🇷🇪🇬 Rio Ferdinand: “Football Needs Fairness, Not Different Rules For Different Teams”
🗣️ “I’ve sat here and watched football for many years, both as a player and as a pundit, and what frustrates supporters the most is inconsistency.
When Argentina go down under a challenge, the whistle seems to come immediately. The officials are quick to spot the foul, quick to stop play and quick to protect them. But when Egypt are on the receiving end of similar incidents, suddenly the game is allowed to continue and everyone is told to move on.
That’s the issue people have tonight. Not the result itself, but the lack of consistency in the decision-making.
Then you look at the build-up to Enzo Fernández’s winning goal. Egypt were screaming for a foul, their players were surrounding the referee, and millions watching expected VAR to at least take a proper look at it. Instead, it felt like everyone in the VAR room had gone to sleep.
What exactly is VAR there for if not to review the biggest moments in the biggest matches?
If that incident happened against Argentina at the other end of the pitch, do you honestly believe it wouldn’t have been checked? I find that very difficult to believe. We’ve seen much softer incidents reviewed throughout this tournament.
That’s where the frustration comes from. Fans just want the same standard applied to every team.
And let’s talk about the disciplinary side of the game. Argentina seem to get away with an awful lot. There are challenges that would normally bring yellow cards, yet the referee appears reluctant to reach for his pocket. It’s almost as if officials are afraid of making decisions that might upset Argentina.
When you look at some of Argentina’s matches in this tournament, there have been several moments where opponents felt hard done by. One incident can be debated, two incidents can be debated, but eventually people start noticing a pattern.
Football cannot afford that perception. The integrity of the game depends on supporters believing that every nation is treated equally.
Whether you’re Argentina, Egypt, Brazil, France or anyone else, the laws of the game should not change depending on the badge on your shirt.
The officials tonight had a responsibility to be fair, balanced and brave. Instead, they have left millions of people questioning why some decisions are given so easily for one side while similar incidents involving the other side are ignored.
Football deserves better than that. The players deserve better than that. And the fans certainly deserve better than that.”
#ARGEGY
𝗧𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗸 𝘆𝗼𝘂, 𝗗𝗼𝗻 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗹𝗼𝘀. 𝗔𝗻𝗱 𝗴𝗼𝗼𝗱𝗯𝘆𝗲.
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By the time 🇬🇭 Ghana appointed Carlos Queiroz, the Black Stars already had deep structural problems. No coach was going to overhaul this team in a few months.
The mistake many fans made was expecting Queiroz to become something he has never been.
His football has always been about organisation, discipline and tournament survival. Not attacking flair. Never.
So when Ghana defended better but struggled to create chances, it shouldn't have been a shock.
Jerome Opoku captured it perfectly after the Colombia defeat, telling me:
"We can defend, defend, defend but if we don't get that one goal to relieve pressure off the defense, then we can't succeed."
Exactly.
Ghana conceded just three goals in four World Cup matches, but scored only two despite having forwards like Antoine Semenyo, Jordan Ayew, Brandon Thomas-Asante, Kamaldeen Sulemana and Fatawu Issahaku.
That, my people, is no accident. It is the the trade-off for having the 73-year-old.
This isn't about blaming the forwards. Semenyo came into the tournament after arguably the best goalscoring season of his career. Brandon Thomas-Asante had earned a much bigger conversation about his role. Jordan Ayew often looked isolated. The issue wasn't simply personnel; it was the system.
And that system was exactly what Queiroz has built everywhere he has coached.
For me, he was the right man for a very specific job: stabilise Ghana, restore defensive credibility and guide us through the World Cup with respectability.
Mission accomplished.
But that's also why I don't think he should lead the next phase.
World Cup football and a qualifying campaign are different assignments.
The next Black Stars coach must build on the defensive foundation Queiroz has laid—but also unleash one of Ghana's most exciting attacking generations in years.
Thank you, Carlos.
You did the job you were hired to do.
Now it's time for someone else to take this team forward. I'll be surprised if the GFA allowed him to take us into the future.
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Hakimi, Mbappé, Ivan Toney & Partey all face various allegations of sexual misconduct, but only Partey has been barred by Canada.
If the standard is about allegations, then it must be applied equally, not selectively.
Anything else looks like obvious hypocrisy dressed up as justice.
#FIFAWorldCup #Partey #Ghana