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In the midst of the announcement by information minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah on behalf on His Excellency Nana Addo Dankwa Akuffo Addo directing the finance minister to start negotiation with the IMF for a fund program, the former president has in a facebook post admonished Akuffo Addo to take certain drastic measures in other to secure a succesful program. In his view , the president must relieve the finance minister of his post and make sure he get credible people to lead the government delegation to negotiate with the IMF. The former preaident believes, the vice president must as well not be the one to lead that delegation since he is part of the government's Economic Management team that has mismanaged the economy Below is the full statement of former president John Mahama on what he thinks the president must do to get the country out of the exonomic quagmire in which she finds itself even as we head for an IMF programme. SACK KEN OFORI ATTA , REPLACE BAWUMIAH AS LEADER

  Prof. H Prempeh WRITES: "When Eastern Chiefs were fighting for Gold Coast independence Ashantis were not part.." ~ Yaw Osafo Maafo By Prof. Henry Kwasi Prempeh This is the kind of historical illiteracy you get when you represent and teach Gold Coast Colony history as Gold Coast/Ghana history. If Ashanti chiefs, and Ashanti elites generally, did not feel compelled to join E/R chiefs in their fight for their independence, it was because, as far as Asante was concerned, that wasn't their fight. When Ashanti was fighting for its own self-government, they were not joined by E/R chiefs. That independence or internal self-government for Asante was achieved when finally the British assented to the restoration of the Asante Confederacy (and Confederacy Council) in 1935. Restoration of the Asante Confederacy (that is, of Asante as a unit under the headship of the Asantehene-in-Council) had been the primary goal and demand of Asante since the return of Prempeh I. That goal, which

  Journalist and Television goddess Bridget Otoo has single handedly gotten the social media languards running for cover in what was rather a very heated exchanges and prove of intellectual debate.. The Metro TV journalist on her social media handle posted and expressed how disappointed she was having been deducted a very huge some of money as E-Levey for a bank transaction she performed electronically. This did not go down well with the social media Army of the NPP party who defends the government. They poured in on the Journalist’s facebook wall attacking her of deceit calling her all sort of unpalatable names including insults.. They (Social media army) had asserted that, the transaction date of the the transaction she claimed to have performed was dated 4th April, when the date she posted her ordeal is 3rd.. As if they had succeeded in nailing the renowned opinionated journalist, it came out eventually that, bank transactions usually take that form . That , all transactions perform