Ghana's Great News

Ghana's election polls just recently closed. It was the election for the new president of Ghana. This election was between John Atta Mills and Nana Akufo-Addo. They both campaigned all throughout Ghana. John Atta Mills reigns from the Democratic Party. Both men kind of centered their campaign about violence, because violence is a big problem in Ghana. We don’t know who won the election yet though.

Recently, the director of Ghana has issued to not build bars near schools. He says, “Their activities are incompatible to peaceful conditions needed for teaching and learning.” He wants to keep kids focus on school and their education without being distracted by drunks, or people selling alcohol.

The Black Stars of Ghana have just recently found out their ranking in the next fifa world cup coming up next year in South Africa. They are ranked 31st in the world, which is pretty good for the fifa soccer world cup which comes every 4 years. They are ranked 3rd in all of Africa which is also really good. The qualifiers for the world cup have been going on since last year, and they are still going on. In 2010 we will see Ghana in the world cup, and I will be rooting for them.

Ghana and Nigeria must work together and cooperate to develop as countries. “We must strengthen our relationship, economically, socially, politically and culturally and see to remove all barriers to enable us work together to enhance development and reduce poverty among our people,” says Mr. Muhammed Musiliu Obanikoro, High Commissioner of Nigeria to Ghana. He also says that Ghana and Nigeria working together could help all of West Africa and the sub-region. We will see how things will turn out.