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Liberia's 2017 elections came at a time that the country is facing several challenges. The economy is facing serious challenges including high inflation, repeated budget shortfalls and weak revenue mobilisation. The Ebola crisis of 2014/15 also affected the country and downturn in iron ore and rubber prices complicated issues for the economic management team of the outgoing administration. The country saw steady growth rate of 5-8% and sharp increases in export revenue in the first term of Madam Sirleaf. This advancement did not improve the lives of most Liberians, 64 % who fall below the poverty line. Nepotism and corruption became a ritual under the outgoing leader. The President promoted relatives to senior positions and many of them saw their positions as a route to amassing personal wealth. The election was also largely a referendum on Sirleaf's 12- year presidency and Boakai's pseudo incumbency. Liberians were yearning for practical solutions to the problems. Boaka...

Accoding to Frederic Bastiat,  there is only one difference between a bad economist and a good one: the bad economist confines himself to the visible effect; the good economist takes into account both the effect that can be seen and those effects that must be foreseen. Basing my assessment and evaluation of Bawumia's performance so far, my conclusion is that he is one of the bad economists we have in the system. According to Bastiat, bad economist pursues a small present good that will be followed by a great evil to come, while the good economist pursues a great good to come, at the risk of small present evil. Renowned economists present and past support this assertion. Where is Dr Bawumia? Why the sudden quietness and where are his magical prowess. At his "Ask Bawumia" forum he said he was optimistic the 2017 budget was coming to perform magic. He based his confidence on his government's policies and measures which were outlined in the budget. He said the ...

PRESS RELEASE DECEMBER 30,2017 The leadership and family members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) worldwide commend African Union Human Right Commission for their prompt acknowledgement of the petition submitted to them by IPOB team of lawyers. This petition became necessary as a means to explore other legal remedies outside Nigeria given that due process of law is virtually non-existent in the country under the current Buhari administration. Against the backdrop of well documented incidents of human rights abuses by the Nigerian Government and her security operatives, it has become necessary to escalate the matter to African Union given that both ECOWAS and Nigerian courts are terrified to rule against the Buhari regime in any matter concerning Biafra. We hope and pray that Africa Court on Human Rights will prove to be the opposite of ECOWAS and Nigerian courts where the presidency determines every legal outcome or which judgement to obey or ignore. Nigerian Gover...

Palestinian" terrorists from Gaza launched a barrage of several rockets at southern Israeli cities with the intent of murdering thousands of Israelis. One rocket hit an Israeli civilian’s building at Sedrot Negev Southern Community in the south of Israel and thanks to the Red Alert siren, all of the residents were already in the bomb shelters and nobody was injured. Two of the rockets were intercepted very high in the southern skies of Israel by the Israeli advanced defense system, "Iron Dome", after the system detected that the rockets would target large populated areas with many innocent Israeli civilians and therefore saved many lives. There are also reports about few more rockets which exploded in open areas. Important to mention that the attack occurred during a ceremony for the Israeli captive soldier, Oron Shaul, who is held by the Hamas (and assumed dead) since Operation Protective Edge and since the ceremony was at an open area, the civilians couldn...

Greetings to you Sir. My name is Ij Onuigbo.  I am using this opportunity and platform to write to you on behalf of my people, the indigenous people of Biafra who were amalgamated with Nigeria by the British.  We need your attention. The situation is that the British made arrangements that made the Biafran people subservient to the Hausa Fulani tribe and the Hausa Fulani people have since then held the Biafrans at ransom and gravely marginalized starting from the killing of over 2 million Biafrans in the 1967 - 1970 civil war in their quest to deny Biafrans freedom from Nigeria.  And they have succeeded in enslaving Biafrans ever since. They massacre, maim and butcher Biafrans at will on a regular basis. As a matter of fact President Trump, the Hausa Fulani Army controlled by Muhammadu Buhari killed many Biafrans in cold blood when they came out in celebration of the election of President Trump. The reason they have killed, oppressed and continued to kill and oppr...

The Hon.member of parliament for Builsa South,Dr.Clement Apaak,have asked the minister for Lands and Natural Resources,the quantity of rosewood impounded since the ministry announced the ban on harvesting and exportation of rosewood and how the impounded rosewood is disposed of. Tell them Dr.Apaak asked this question on the floor of parliament last Tuesday 19th December 2017,where the deputy Minister for Lands and Natural Resources,Benito Owusu-Bio was made to appear before the house and give answers to questions asked by the law maker,Dr.Apaak. With response to the questions raised by Hon.Dr.Apaak,the  deputy minister,Benito said,the total volume of rosewood impounded since February,2017 to date is estimated at Four thousand Nine hundred and Eighty Six(4,986) metrics cubes and that is made up of Two hundred and Seventy Seven (277) containers. The material was disposed of through public auction and the total amount realised was Two hundred and Ninety Five thousand,Four hu...

About five months ago Ghanaians were not comfortable with the manner in which the $2.25bn bond was issued as it was not issued in conformity with the guidelines for public borrowing and  Article 181 of the 1992 Constitution. Some reported the matter to CHRAJ for investigation regarding conflict of interest and related matters.The general finding is that the respondent(The Minister of Finance) is cleared of conflict of interest allegation. CHRAJ however, made a great revelation under the subtitle observation that the Minister of Finance is a former director,shareholder and beneficial owner of several companies in the securities market and his interest to see them grow has the potential to conflict with the interest of the state. This is a serious observation that should attract the interest of government and parliament as potential risk alerted by a constitutional body like CHRAJ is great enough to affect the securities sector. The summary of the findings by CHRAJ is very clear:...

President Akufo-Addo's government that promised was coming to weed out corruption from all state institutions has once again been involved in an alleged crude and contaminated oil racketeering. Some indigenous unlicensed companies have lifted crude oil grades valued at Ghc 2.3 trillion in the last ten months. Most clueless government Three months enquiry into Ghanaian and global registries by a respected global institution revealed that the repeated failure by the NPA and BOST to provide clear and accurate identity of some companies they awarded multi-million dollar oil lifting contracts this year is helping these companies to escape public scrutiny. Hon Kennedy Agyepong revealed that 800 new oil companies have been formed since the Npp took over. Some top NPA officials responsible for oil sales approached for confidential response to the discrepancies in the companies identities did not respond. The refusal to make information about the status and identities of the compan...

As we gather a new spirit of responsibility, patriotism, spirit of service to our dear nation and sacrifice, let us resolve not to care only about our individual survival, partisan inclinations and selfish tendencies but pitch in and work hard and look after one another and protect our democratic boundaries by being truthful to ourselves and the establishment. What Akufo- Addo's one year and the associated failures and problems has taught us is that we cannot continue grovelling and pretending while people suffer unduly. The President gave Ghanaians hint of his dishonesty and incompetence during his inauguration. It is immoral to plagiarise other people's work , but even worse pretending as if it was his own work. His administration was built on lies (Plagiarism). The good news is that some of our prominent citizens who fell for his [Akufo-Addo] lies have began shifting from their earlier position. Mr Emile Short who defended the Special Prosecutor has moved from his earlier ...

I stand before you tonight not to launch the Biafran Revolution, because it is already in existence. It came into being two years ago when we proclaimed to all the world that we had finally extricated ourselves from the sea of mud that was, and is, Nigeria. I stand before you to proclaim formally the commitment of the Biafran State to the Principles of the Revolution and to enunciate those Principles. Some people are frightened when they hear the word Revolution. They say: Revolution? Heaven help us! It is too dangerous. It means mobs rushing around destroying property, killing people and upsetting everything. But these people do not understand the real meaning of revolution. For us, a revolution is a change - a quick change, a change for the better. Every society is changing all the time. It is changing for the better or for the worse; it is either moving forward or moving backwards; it cannot stand absolutely still. A revolution is a forward movement. It is a rapid, forward m...

By definition, an intellectual is one with a highly developed intellect. One who engages in critical thinking and reflections about the ills in society and comes up with practical solution on how to address them. Intellectuals are the brains, the think tanks and conscience of the society. But let's get one thing clear here attending all the high profile centres of learning in the entire universe and acquiring all the academic titles doesn't automatically make one an intellectual in the real sense of the word hence the title of my article "the hood does not make the monk just as the wig does not make the lawyer". Some of our intellectuals have contributed enormously toward curing some our societal ills and others have developed wonderful concepts and policies to support our reconstruction agenda. Some are a disgrace to that powerful term "intellectualism" and have subjected the title (intellectuals) and the term intellectualism to worst form of ridicu...

Senior Minister Yaw Osafo Maafo has been described as the "most corrupt politician" ever, in the annals of the country's political history, by a former Deputy Minister in the John Mahama-led NDC administration. "Why? Because he (Osafo Maafo) has allegedly managed to construct a building a few months after his appointment as Senior Minister". Murtala Mohammed therefore wants him (Osafo) to tell Ghanaians how he managed to complete the said building which was at a foundation level for years. “Go to Pillar two (Dome, a suburb in Accra), there is a building there and my understanding is that the building belongs to Mr Osafo Maafo; it was just foundation for over ten years. Mr Osafo Maafo didn’t even have a dime to buy blocks to raise it. Go and see that building today in less than a year. "Mr Osafo Maafo should tell us where he got that money to do that…and let no one tell me that oh he had money. If he had money, is it not curious that he didn’t see ...

A few days to the  inauguration of President Akufo-Addo this year, a friend went to Abossey Okai to buy spare parts to fix his vehicle. He later narrated what he witnessed at the place to me. According to Odame, the dealers hard no time for their clients and all he heard at the place was chants of "Ossey Nana, Nana b3y3, the "Messiah has landed". He said you could feel the "Change" hanging in the air like Christmas lights. Few days after Nana's inauguration,  spare parts dealers reduced prices of their goods, radio stations metamorphosed into platforms for praise worship, some pastors suspended preaching of the word for Nana's projection,social media flew into a whirlwind celebrating the triumph of vague promises. Sceptics began to see hope and their common jargon was "Ghana is working again". One year after and what is left, for many Ghanaians including supporters of the Npp, is huge carcass of disappointment. The spare parts dealers hav...

If you bribe in Nigeria it is not always a sin. It is usually a necessary act of survival. A better word is extortion and we must  differentiate between briibery and extortion. Bribery is when you use cash or kind to induce a government servant to get what you don't deserve. Extortion is when a government servant demands cash or kind to give you what you deserve. In Nigeria both are classed as briibery and corruption. What should naturally come to you is blocked by unscrupulous government officers. They demand bribe. You are forced to use underhand routes. You may even carry out criminal actions like forging documents in order to get good things done. Years later they can use these instruments they forced you to do as a reason to clamp you in jail when they caused it in the first place. If you did not do what you had to do, you would fail to achieve the great dreams you set  out to achieve. Consider Innoson. Here is  a young man with an incredible dream - to build ...

In a UTV discussion on nepotism and cronyism in the 1 year old government of President Akufo-Addo, Sammy Gyamfi, SRC President of Ghana School of Law has disclosed that the President appointed his first cousin as the Chief Justice.  He said the Chief Justice, Sophia Akuffo, who hails from Akropong with the President may not discharge her work independently. He condemned the action as a danger to public accountability. He went further to list the number close relations of the President who have been appointed to key government positions. He cited the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori Atta, who he said is also a cousin  of the President. He said the practice must be condemned by all well meaning Ghanaians. According to him, with the President's relatives holding key positions in government and the judiciary, when an issue of accountability comes up, the matter will be swept under the carpet. He said a public accountability matter will be dealt with in a family way instead of th...

                                                   By :- Hon Freeman Kashiari Emefiele Have you ever asked yourself why out of a country of over 150 million people, boasting of 36 states and a federal capital territory, why all the fully functional ports are located only along the axis of the South West? Why have the Port Harcourt, Onne, Onitsha inland port, Warri, and Calabar ports never come into full operation and functionality? This has been their mischievous game plan of the Yorubas since the end of the civil war in order to maintain Lagos ports as the singular functional port destination. They also directed all oil companies to have their corporate headquarters in Lagos. They know that the successful functionality of ports in other viable regions regions would be a game changer for the South-South and South Eastern regions. You'd watch how ...

Nigeria's president, Muhammadu Buhari recently flew out to Istanbul for the D-8 meeting. I wonder how many Nigerians understand the meaning of D-8? In the Nigerian media, you see something like "Developing 8" and yes, it's also known as "Developing 8" but what "Developing 8"? These days, they don't like to call it what it is. It is actually an organization of 8 Developing Muslim, yes, Muslim nations. Very specific. Currently, countries that make up D-8 are Bangladesh, Egypt, Indonesia, Iran, Malaysia, Nigeria, Pakistan, and Turkey. Do you get the drift yet? Nigeria named amongst hardcore Islamic nations! And if you think this is some kind of regular, harmless bilateral or diplomatic relations, read below the history of the D-8. HISTORY "The idea of co-operation among major Muslim developing countries was mooted by Prof. Dr. Necmettin Erbakan, the then Prime Minister of Turkey, during a Seminar on "Cooperation in Development...

Watching them surge forward,pushing their armoured tanks gradually into his compound We understood them to be on a mission.  Those that sent them called them pythons and,O OHANEZE Ndigbo, Governors deceived the gullible that they are only on routine patrol. The pythons, we later observed were bokoharam kingpins,released by Muhammed Buhari and absorbed into Nigeria Army by murderer in chief General Yusuf Tukur Brutai;  same was assigned to exterminate the supreme leader of Indigenous people of Biafra, mazi Nnamdi Kanu. They invaded his home at isiama AfaraUkwu Ibeku in Umuahia Abia state Biafra land. When they retreated after several hours of military conquest more 28 persons died,several others injured,properties worth millions were intently destroyed. Not less than 685 bullet connectors holes was seen on his walls. Nigeria Army it was believed must have killed him or taken him hostage alongside his parents. Mazi Nnamdi Kanu was last seen after the clinical military attack...

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to block the properties of persons or entities involved in serious human rights abuse and corruption outside of the United States of America The executive order frowns on the actions of individuals outside the US that threaten the stability of international political and economic system and violet human rights. President Trump said the prevalence and severity of human rights abuse and corruption that have their source, in whole or in substantial part, outside the United States have reached such scope and gravity and threatens the stability of international political and economic systems. The White House states that human rights abuse and corruption undermine the values that form an essential foundation of stable, secure, and functioning societies and have devastating impacts on individuals; weaken democratic institutions; degrade the rule of law; perpetuate violent conflicts; facilitate the activities of dangerous persons; ...

Former Vice-President, Mr Kwesi Amissah-Arthur has criticized the NPP government’s handling of the economy so far. According to him, the NPP government could have done much better in one year and that Ghanaians are hoping that they (NPP) puts in much effort to resolve problems confronting the country in the coming years . The former Vice president was speaking to the media on Christmas Day at Ho in the Volta Region after making some donations to children on admission at the Ho Regional and Municipal Hospitals with his wife, Matilda Amissah –Arthur. Mr Amissah Arthur said most of programmes being implemented by the NPP government “are without the full conceptualization of the appreciation of the cost involved.” He explained that some of the projects should have been “costed, agreed and implemented from day one” instead of modeling our way through without any concrete plan . Mr Amissah -Arthur cited the free SHS example, saying the current challenges would have been avoided i...

The Akufo-Addo government may pay dearly in the coming years if nothing is done to correct the perception being created in the minds of Ghanaians following the numerous corruption allegations that have been leveled against the New Patriotic Party administration, IMANI President, Franklin Cudjoe has said and I quote corruption in this administration are no more a hidden rather its done irrespective of who is watching and it will be in the interest of the president to check his appointees because Ghanaians who put them incharge will be same people to boot them out, and  urge him to look around himself that if Ghanaians to vote out a government who has done so much in less than four years meaning total humiliation awaits them come 2020. Those who don't read are now far better than those who always read cover to cover but don't understand. Those who claimed they know how to generate money internally without borrowing are looting the tax payer  from the public purse. Those who ...

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