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Wednesday 7 March 2012

ATTACKING NANA ADDO CAN NOT COVER UP IMCOPETENCE

The New Patriotic Party in the Upper West Region has resented the deliberate and constant criminalization of its leader and flagbearer Nana Akufo-Addo, by some members of the National Democratic Congress
A press statement issued by the Communication team of the party at a press conference in Wa on Monday and signed by Mr. Umar Nuhu, a member, noted that some NDC members had through character assassinations and personal attack, vilified the NPP leader.

It said despite several pleads from venerated Ghanaians including former President John Jerry Rawlings that the electioneering campaign be conducted, devoid of insults, there were still some members of the NDC who still to denigrate Nana Addo's image and character

“Such spiteful behaviour by the NDC towards Nana Akufo-Addo must stop because the practice would not either create employment or put food on the table of ordinary Ghanaians; rather it has the potential of tensions during the elections.”

“Trying to use the NPP and Nana Akufo-Addo as a cover up for their failures did not matter to most ordinary Ghanaians,” pointing out that what matters to the people “are the catalogues of failures in President John Atta Mills’ social interventions, policies and programmes.”

The statement said “For instance, the successes churned out in the President’s Mills’ state of the nation’s address did not reflect the situation on the ground and should be treated with contempt and as a mere political propaganda to throw dust into the eyes of the good people of Ghana.”

The team observed that the Free School Uniform and Free Exercise Books Programmes of the government had been poorlydone and that the idea of one Laptop Computer for each school going child, muted by the late Kwadwo Baah Wiredu had been changed to 24 laptops per every 200 students, as being done under the NDC.

On inflation, they said during President John Kufuor’s administration, the NPP was able to reduce the inflation rate from 48.5 percent to 23 percent within its first term in office while the NDC under President Mills’ administration had been able to reduce inflation from 18 per cent to eight percent within the same period.

By this calculation, the NPP had been able to reduce inflation rate by 25 per cent as against 10 per cent for the NDC within the same period.

With regards to the Rural Electrification Programme, the communication team said it was the NPP that contracted a loan of 350 million US dollars to implement the project and that the NDC must learn to give credit to the NPP in that regard.

The group said some of the developmental projects in the region such as the Babile, Kaleo, Daffiama, Nandom and Gwollu wind-powered electricity and the Charia small town water supplies, as well as the Sissala West District Assembly block, which were completed in the NPP era were now being claimed by the NDC.

It noted that the NDC’s priorities and concerns were not about fixing the ailing economy rather “it had preoccupied itself to unjustifiably run down the NPP and drag the name of Nana Akufo-Addo in the mud so that those who were gullible would see the NPP and Nana Akufo-Addo as such and rejected them in 2012 elections.”

According to the group the NDC had failed Ghanaians on its promises of “one time premium” on the National Health Insurance, the promise to eradicate cocaine trade, fighting corruption and reducing fuel prices drastically.

“It had also failed to resource the Savannah Accelerated Development Authority (SADA) adequately, caused distortions in workers salaries, failed to build the Wa Regional Hospital, contributed to the massive failures of students at Basic Education Certificate Examinations, and the abortive promise to building vocational schools in all districts as well as allocating 40 percent of government appointment to women.”

The statement ended that in the face of all these challenges and failures, the NDC had always blamed NPP for all its woes and cautioned that “the NPP would as from now on go all out if the NDC continued to damage Nana Akufo-Addo’s image and the vilification of the NPP.”



Monday 5 March 2012

55 years after indepedence and still............


God bless our homeland Ghana
And make our nation great and strong
Bold to defend forever
Fill our hearts with truth and humility……….

The national Anthem! Sounds great doesn’t it? The composers of this anthem un debatably had the interest of the nation at heart. Patriotism was described perfectly in the song ‘’y3nara y’asaase ni’'. This is what I call patriotism. People in the past were willing to die for the country but can we say the same for our current generation?

Fortunately most of our leaders claim to love our country but their actions don’t prove so. All what he needs to do is to live behind a mask and do all the bad things and defraud the country of our money and come to television with his polished face and pretend that nothing happened. We now live in a country where most of the ‘’mask’’ our leaders wear are the mask of friendship and leadership.

We are all familiar with the classic tale of back-stabbing romance that tells how Miles Standish lost the love of his fair Priscilla. He trusted his best friend John Alden to ‘’fix them up.’’ Well Alden tried but Priscilla said, ‘’speak for yourself, Johnny’’ and in the end it was John who got the girl. But as Shakespeare once said, ‘’Most friendship is feigning; most loving mere folly.’’ Miles should have studied up on his Shakespeare and done the job himself.

The mask of friendship is all around us, as some ‘’phantoms’’ want to win our trust and then betray us and that is how our leaders are. Once they have won our trust they betray us by stealing from us. Their deceptive mask they wear can victimize the people they govern and take their money and destroy their trust.

Take for instance the Europeans, when they came to Gold Coast they came as people who wanted to help the country but look at what they did to us. They took our money and before long left us with nothing, left us with a polarized country and left us divided. They really showed us that all what everyone in that top position wants is money and nothing else and I think that our leaders of today have demonstrated this far enough.

Many of our leaders are comparable to the old time quack doctors who sold phony remedies. Only that today’s ‘’quack’’ leaders don’t have to travel miles of distance to sell ‘’phony’’ ideas. All what they do is to use today’s technology and voila they would reach and ‘’touch someone.’’ It is therefore not surprising that most of the monies stolen are stolen by our leaders of today. Beware of mask of ‘’the friend of the people’’ and remember that when the offer sounds good to be true, it probably is.

Benjamin Franklin once wrote ‘’he that is of the opinion that money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.’’ Where is the link here? Most of the people in Ghana are with the perception that money will do everything so they do all they can do to make sure that they get into these top positions just to get money. And this is how the story of most corrupt people begins and unfolds. Can we therefore pretend that there is nothing wrong and that we have great heroes? Let’s go back to those days when our leaders were those who slept on empty stomach, those days when our leaders were the ones who slept on the floors so that their followers can sleep in the room and sleep with a full belly.

Song lyrics from Phantom of the Opera proclaim, ‘’A nation waits, and how it hates to be cheated!’’ But it seems that this nation has adopted cheating as a survival tactics. We’re taught that we have to be tough to be successful, even if toughness isn’t our personality. Now ‘’who is who’’ really becomes a complicated game but how can we tell when everyone is busy trying to be like someone else?


Also take, for example, pastors who claim they can make barren women give birth by making them shed their shirts during ‘’examinations.’’ He would simply answer when asked what they were doing with the naked women ‘’I was asked by God to do that.’’ So what was God or they checking for? Because the last time I checked God was closer to us than our clothes?
                                                                                                                   Joseph Yaw Frimpong
                                                                                                                  iNews Gh, editor
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VLAMIR PUTIN VICTORY WAS SKEWED

According to International Observers Putin's victory was skewed. According to the Observers 1000's of  people were unlawfully arrested. They also claim that there were uneven playing field in the run off elections and have described it as "Carousel voting widespread"


A statement from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe says there was no real competition. It says abuse of government resources ensured that the winner was never in doubt.

The OSCE says Putin was given a clear advantage in access to the media. It says voters had a limited choice of candidates because of overly restrictive registration requirements. The OSCE also reports voting irregularities at one-third of the polling stations.

Russian opposition leaders plan to rally near the Kremlin Monday to protest what they say was a sham election.

Preliminary results give Putin 64 percent of the vote and his closest rival, Communist Party chief Gennady Zyuganov, 17 percent. Three other candidates won less than 10 percent.

Putin says he won what he calls an "open and honest struggle." He tearfully greeted tens of thousands of supporters outside the Kremlin Sunday, thanking them for stopping the country from, in his words, "falling into the hands of enemies trying to usurp power."

The late Russian President Boris Yeltsin named Putin his successor on the first day of 2000. Putin won a presidential election later that year and again in 2004. The constitution barred him from a third consecutive term. Putin has served as Russian prime minister for the last four years under outgoing president Dmitry Medvedev.

Putin's critics say he planned to return to the presidency all along and that he never really gave up his powers. A constitutional amendment has extended the president's time in office to two consecutive six-year terms, meaning Putin could stay in power until 2024 -- an outlook many Russians find unsettling.

Communist Party candidate Zyuganov denounced Sunday's election as "illegitimate, unfair and not transparent." Others complained of doctored voting lists and said pro-Kremlin business leaders installed voting booths in factories and pressured workers to vote for Putin.

Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader, told the Interfax news agency that he doubts the results reflect the true will of Russians. He said the challenge now is to change the country's election system to make voting fair, and restore direct election for governors.

Sunday 4 March 2012

I will not preside over corruption

Nana Akuffo Addo has assured the nation that if elected President in December, his administration will not work with members of his own party whose aim is to enrich themselves.

He promised that he would only work with people who have the main of bettering the lives of the ordinary Ghanaians. Nana Addo was speaking at a breakfast meeting with the United Kingdom Chapter of the Young Executives Forum (YEF) of the NPP at the Grosvenor House in London.

“My message to any of you, or anybody for that matter who wishes to serve in an Akufo-Addo government is this: if you want to make money then forget it. We don’t need you and we don’t want you.”

He went on to explain, “If you want to make money, I am all for making legitimate money; but, if you want to make money then, please, don’t come into politics. if you want to make money then the private sector is your place. Stay there and keep away from politics.”

According to the Nana Addo Dankwa whose is sure of the party’s victory in December, the culture where people choose politics as a money-making venture or career must be fought and defeated, it is frustrating the development of the country and breeding poverty.

He observed, “Ghana is not poor, Ghanaians are not poor, what makes the nation so poor is poor management of the nation’s resources. We defeat poor management first and foremost by getting the right people in place.”

Explaining why he chose to be a politician, he said, “I chose politics because I want to serve; I chose politics because I believe I can play a leading role to create opportunities for everyone and raise the living standards of our people; If money-making was my motivation, I would have stayed in my successful private practice as a lawyer and take fat legal fees.”

Akufo-Addo also told his audience of professional Ghanaians who hosted him at the exclusive place at Park Lane, Central London, that the fight against corruption must be fought on two main fronts: “One, strengthening, empowering and freeing up the institutions of state to deliver efficiently on their mandate and; two, for those at the top to lead by example. I will lead by example.”

He further stated, “By God’s grace, if we are successful in this year’s election, I want to attract to government a good blend of committed, competent Ghanaians, from home and abroad, experienced and creative, dynamic and dependable. We want to put together a team of patriots who can deliver and will get their biggest thrill from delivering on our programmes for people and country and not in enriching their pockets.”

“Transforming our economy, from a raw material producing one, to an industrial one, where our foreign receipts will rather come from the export of value added products and not raw materials, remains my goal," Nana Addo pledged.

He emphasized "Providing free, quality, accessible education up to senior high school for all our country's people will be a major component of that transformation."

The NPP disclosed, "Going around the country, meeting and interacting with people, one can sense the high levels of despondency and disappointment in this NDC administration, and the Ghanaian people are looking to us in the NPP to come and save them."

He attributed the nation’s under-development to factors including, outlined growing unemployment, collapsing businesses, widespread poverty, access to and cost of quality education and corruption amongst.

He however stated, “When the NPP returns to power in 2013, by the grace of God, we will build on the gains of President Kufuor's regime and move Ghana forward."

He repeated that his political opponent’s continuous fabrications, insults and attacks on his person do not bother him at all.

"The NPP has given me a duty to win back power from the NDC in order to restore hope to our country and that remains my focus; as for the insults and lies, it is just a small price I'm paying for putting myself up to serve my people and that does not worry me at all." he said.

He also said that the NDC have also resorted to attacking his person because they do not have a message to tell the electorate.



PUTIN DECLARES "WE HAVE WON

MOSCOW -- Vladimir Putin scored a decisive victory in Russia's presidential election Sunday, extending his hold on power for six more years.
His eyes brimming with tears, he defiantly proclaimed to a sea of supporters that they had triumphed over opponents intent on "destroying Russia's statehood and usurping power."
Putin's win was never in doubt as many across the vast country still see him as a guarantor of stability and the defender of a strong Russia against a hostile world, an image he has carefully cultivated during 12 years in power.
Accounts by independent observers of extensive vote-rigging, however, looked set to strengthen the resolve of opposition forces whose unprecedented protests in recent months have posed the first serious challenge to Putin's heavy-handed rule. Another huge demonstration was set for tonight in central Moscow.
Exit polls cited by government television predicted Putin would get about 59% of the vote. With more than 90% of precincts counted nationwide, Putin was leading with 65%, the Central Election Commission said. Complete results were expected today.
Putin claimed victory Sunday night when fewer than a quarter of the votes had been counted.
He spoke to a rally of tens of thousands of supporters just outside the Kremlin walls, many of them government workers or employees of government-owned companies who had been ordered to attend.
"I promised that we would win, and we have won!" Putin, 59, shouted to the flag-waving crowd. "We have won in an open and honest struggle."
He ended his speech with the triumphant declaration: "Glory to Russia!"
Communist Party candidate Gennady Zyuganov was a distant second, followed by Mikhail Prokhorov, the billionaire owner of the New Jersey Nets basketball team whose candidacy was approved by the Kremlin in what was seen as an effort to channel some of the protest sentiment.
The clownish nationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky and socialist Sergei Mironov trailed behind.
"These elections are not free. ... That's why we'll have protests tomorrow. We will not recognize the president as legitimate," said Mikhail Kasyanov, who was Putin's first prime minister before going into opposition.
Protest rallies in Moscow have drawn tens of thousands in the largest outburst of public anger in post-Soviet Russia, demonstrating growing exasperation with the pervasive corruption and tight controls over political life under Putin, who was president in 2000-08 before moving into the prime minister's office because of term limits.
Golos, Russia's leading independent elections watchdog, said it received numerous reports of carousel voting, in which busloads of voters are driven around to cast ballots multiple times.
Putin's campaign chief, Stanislav Govorukhin, rejected the claims of violations, calling them "ridiculous."
Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, has become increasingly critical of Putin's rule. "These are not going to be honest elections, but we must not relent," he said after casting his ballot.

SUPPORTERS OF Putin rejoicing

LATEST TOP TEN MOVIES IN THE WORLD

1. Dr. Seuss' The Lorax
2. Project X
3.Act of Valor
4.Safe House
5. Tyler Perry's Good Deeds
6. Journey 2: The Mysterious Island
7.The Vow
8. This Means War
9.Ghost Rider: The Spirit Of Vengence
10. The Artiste


compiled by Ahmed Kofi Kyei Dawoode
                     entertainment editor
 source: yahoomovies

TOP THE MOVIES

  1. Act of valor
    2. Tyler Perry's Good deed
    3., Journey 2: The Mysterious Island 3D
    4. Safe House
    5.The Vow
    6.Ghost Rider: The Spirit of Vengence
    7.This Means War
    8.Wanderlust
    9. Gone
    10. The Secret World Of Arrietty
    compiled by Ahmed Kofi Kyei Dawoode
                        Entertainment Editor
    source; yahoomovies 

TOP TWENTY MUSIC

1. Stronger-Kelly Clarkson
2.Set fire to the rain- Adele
3.We are young- Fun featuring Janelle Monae
4.Part of me- Katy Perry
5.Glad you came- The Wanted
6.We found love-Rihanna
7. Good feeling- Flo Rida
8.Turn me on- David Guetta ft Nicki Minaj
9. Young, wild and free-Snoop Dogg ft Wiz Khalifa and Bruno Mars
10. Starships- Nicki Minaj
11.So Good- BOB
12.Sexy and I know it-Lmao
13.International Love- Pitbull featuring Chris Brown
14.Domino- Jesse J
15.Take Care- Drake featuring Rihanna
16.Somebody that I used to know- Gotye featuring Kimbra
17. The Motto- Drake featuring Lil Wayne
18. Rock City- Tyga
19. Turn the music up- Chris Brown
10. It will rain- Bruno Mars

compiled by Ahmed Kofi Kyei Dawoode
                    entertainment editor
source; billboard
image of Kelly Clarkson, the billboard top song artiste

Friday 2 March 2012

Beyonce and Jay-Z takes Blue Ivy to diner

She may only be a few months old but Beyonce and Jay-Z‘s baby girl is already enjoying the finer things in life.
The powerhouse couple were spotted taking their bundle of joy to Sant Ambroeus Restaurant in New York City this weekend. Bey and Jay tried to lay low in dark clothing and shades as they carried Blue Ivy, who was bundled up in a blanket, into the eatery.

But this wasn’t the first time the new parents hit the town this week! Beyonce and Jay-Z took a parental break and indulged in a basketball game as a couple. A few night ago, the duo were spotted sitting court-side at Madison Square Garden — cuddling as they watched the New Jersey Nets (which Jay co-owns) play the New York Knicks.


WHY IS THE INCOMPETENT A-G WHIPPING UP PUBLIC SYMPATHY-COUNSEL FOR WOYOME SAYS

Mr Rockson-Nelson Dafeamekpor, Counsel for beleaguered businessman Alfred Agbesi Woyome, is peeved over what he claims is the latest ‘misleading’ statement put out by ex-Attorney General, Martin Amidu, and accused him of scheming against Mr Woyome.

Counsel for Woyome also suggested that Mr Martin Amidu underperformed whilst at the helm of affairs as the A-G for about a year and wondered why he is whipping up public sympathy against his client.

Mr Amidu had in Thursday’s statement expressed disappointment at the level of legal representation of the Republic in Court. He stated also that while in office he refused to succumb to pressure by way of memos to withdraw a pending suit against Mr Woyome to enable the Republic pay an additional GH¢9 million in judgment debt award to Alfred Woyome in final settlement of interests in the Woyome's judgment debt scandal.

But Mr Dafeamekpor said “The case was filed by the A-G but because of the indolence of the A-G, the matter was struck out for want of prosecution. But because my client had a counter claim on that matter, he got the matter re-listed. Now they came to court to intimate to court…that they were willing to withdraw the matter…so they agreed to settle this matter and pay us the interest so that the matter could be concluded, and this was under the tenure of someone who is now raising issues."

He said the ex-A-G was given the opportunity to deal with the matter but failed, "...now you exit the stage, and you want to whip up public sentiment against my client, and this is a matter that is still in court.”

Woyome’s counsel explained that the GH¢9 million accrued as a result of the “intransigence of the state” in paying his client the judgment debt on time, insisting that amount would be pursued as far as it would go.

Mr Amidu had also stated that Alfred Agbesi Woyome and Austro Invest were fighting over the share of the GH¢51 million judgment debt in another High Court.

But Mr Dafeamekpor refuted the claim, adding, “This is actually a red herring the Attorney General has put out… I can say that he has misled the public because there is no matter in court in respect of Austro Invest versus my client”.

Meanwhile, he said the legal team of Woyome was studying the statement by Martin Amidu and should be expected to issue a response.


source:ghanaweb

Thursday 1 March 2012

lady Gaga launches born this way foundation in Harvard

 

Lady Gaga has launched a youth foundation by urging young people to "challenge meanness and cruelty."

The singer spoke Wednesday to a crowd of more than 1,100 students, faculty and invited guests at Harvard University.

Oprah Winfrey, U.S. Health and Human Service Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and others joined her in kicking off the Born This Way Foundation. It's named after her 2011 hit song with lyrics that promote self empowerment.

The singer says the foundation's goal is to empower youth and inspire bravery.

She urges students to do "simple acts of kindness" in their communities to help foster acceptance, tolerance and individuality.

Earlier Wednesday, Lady Gaga caused a sensation on the Ivy League campus when she arrived in Harvard Yard in a sleek black dress, tall hat and platform shoes.


Compiled by Ahmed Kofi Kyei Dawoode
                     Entertainment Editor
 source:          billboard

MILLS DIVIDES PEOPLE EVERYWHERE HE GOES-FONKAR

According to Ernest Owusu Bempah, Spokesperson for Friends of  Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings, FONKAR, President Mills is a leader who always brings division everywhere he goes. Speaking on an Accra based radio station he confirmed the Jom and Jerry relationship between President Mills and the leader of the party, Jerry John Rawlings.

Again Ernest Owusu Bempah revealed how President Mills, while working as a Commissioner at the Internal Revenue Service, created divisions and disharmony among the people he worked with.
 
He also claimed that the national security together with some officials from the Castle, the seat of government, were making desperate attempts to break the leadership front of FONKAR, stressing: “They are doing this with the full backing and the knowledge of President Mills.”

He again said: “Everywhere President Mills goes, he creates or leaves behind a divided group of people”.

He recalled how former President Rawlings had defied all odds to bring President Mills to the political limelight and yet the former was now being unfairly treated referring to Presidents Mills as a hypocrite and ungrateful individual.

He stressed that NDC belongs to the former President Rawlings and the wife and that any attempt to sideline them would not work, warning the NDC leadership to uphold the principles of probity, accountability and social justice to save the party from collapse.

He also claimed that President Mills has categorically told the NDC leadership that he will not need the NDC Founder and the wife to campaign for him in the upcoming national elections scheduled for December because he remains a winnable candidate.

Although he failed to disclose the source, Mr Bempah maintained that the President made the statement at Peduase Lodge, where he met some NDC gurus. He said, “He [Mills] knows what is going on and he benefitting from it.”

Asked whether FONKAR would support President Mills in 2012 general e elections, Mr Owusu Bempah beat about the bush but gave the impression that the group would not be part of NDC 2012 campaign.

Meanwhile, FONKAR has issued a statement to debunk recent publications that the group has broken up in order to support President Mills and NDC in the upcoming elections.

The group has accused Ransford Amoah, former President of FONKAR, as the brain behind the publications, with the intention to destroy the group’s aim to protect the legacies of the Rawlingses.

The statement stated that FONKAR had resolved to remain united and fight to achieve what it set out to do.

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