LADIES, WATCHOUT!

ON-CAMPUS VS. OFF-CAMPUS LIFESTYLES, THE REALITIES MY SISTERS MUST KNOW.

It is an unquestionable fact that upon gaining admission into a tertiary institution like a university, everyone has always had great and penchant desires to excel, do great things in future, and become better persons. Unfortunately, as the saying goes: "man proposes, but God disposes". Most times, we have always neglected some very vital things about our lives, leave them to the wind, and later on try to chase after them, only to realise that the wind had taken them away.
This piece goes to my beautiful sisters who have always thought that life is all what they see everyday on campus. Life's really good, but then we ought to get the understanding that it becomes better when we plan towards it, measure it, strategise and review every step as we go along.
I want to dwell on 'Marriage' and the kind of frustrations ladies go through after age thirty (30). Ladies after 30years have always tended to make a lot of wealth, live in their dream houses, drive their dream cars, live large, change clothes and do so many things at no one's control. But they soon realise that their dream man never comes along. They see guys and expect them to propose, but unfortunately they have always failed to realise that guys propose based on their assumptions and presumptions and the underground works/queries they carry out on ladies.
Naturally speaking, most guys that will go into a relationship that sees the lady have the upper hand financially, they have always had their own reason(s) why. Basically, they are mostly into it for monetary gains only to re-engage with other ladies elsewhere.
Guys that also come along to propose are always 'Married' ones who would want to play the 'Hit-and-run' crusade. They already have the resources, the cash and all that you could think about, so therefore other ladies have 'eyed' them and already occupied those positions. You too, have all the necessities of life, but lacking a comforter whom you would point your hand to as 'husband'. It isn't usually because the ladies don't have good characters or are disrespectful, but their positions or properties alone pushes men far away from them.

I would therefore want to urge my fellow sisters on the various campuses of the nation's universities and polytechnics to take things easy, try to lie low, reduce their high-time, hi-life syndrome and try to see whether they could build  life-long relationships with their fellow students who might probably turn around to be their future husbands. If after completing school you think you aren't going to be a nun, please let's face the reality and settle down early with a trusted partner, such that our lives don't turn around to be frustrated after we have gotten all the pleasantries of life, only to weep bitterly alone in bed.

This in effect does not in any way mean that I am suggesting we should just hang out with any guy on campus, but steadfastly, we can realise some qualities in one or two guys who come our way, so therefore we could capitalise on those opportunities and secure our futures.

I have seen a lot of women in high ranking positions seeking for men to marry, only to used and dumped half-way, that is why I find it prudent to draw our minds to these salient points in order to help safeguard ourselves from future disappointments.

BEYUO JOHN PAUL
ABE POST GRADUATE STUDENT
PENTECOST UNIVERSITY COLLEGE
P.O.BOX KN1739
KANESHIE.
EMAIL: mwinbee1@hotmail.com
020 931 9095  

Meeting

#Are you an old student from Nandom?

#Do you care about the future state of the schools in Nandom?

#Do you wish that something be done for the schools in Nandom?

#Would you support an idea of setting up a fund to help the schools in Nandom?

If your answers to the above questions are "YES", then you are invited to the GBC Clubhouse on Sunday the 7th of October at 2pm prompt for a meeting on the way forward for the Nandom Schools. We expect you in person to especially do well to come along with a friend you know. Come support a worthy course.

Getting Noticed @ your Post

Getting Noticed

Staying "Visible" at Work

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Make sure that you're noticed for all of the great work that you do.

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Do you sometimes feel that your hard work is "invisible"?
Perhaps you do such good work on a regular basis that your manager takes you for granted. Perhaps, because of this, you're no longer recognized and rewarded for your efforts, as you once were.
In this article, we'll discuss strategies for getting noticed for the great work that you do. This, in turn, will help you to continue moving towards your career goals.

Why Work on Getting Noticed?

You might be the hardest worker in your organization, and the one everyone wants on their team – but if you're not in people's thoughts, then you'll be passed up for new projects, additional responsibilities, awards, and promotions.
That's why you need to be visible at work!
Let's look at some strategies that you can use to get noticed in the workplace.

Developinging Specialist Skills

Do you consider yourself a "generalist" – someone who does many different things in different roles – or a "specialist" – someone who is an expert in one or two specific areas?
New businesses often hire generalists, because they can perform in so many different roles. As organizations grow, however, specialists are often hired to focus on key areas. This may leave the hard-working generalists feeling pushed aside and disempowered.
If you're a generalist, think strategically about what types of skills your organization needs. Work on building these skills to become a specialist. The more knowledgeable and skillful you become in a particular area, the more likely you are to be noticed for your work.
Remember that organizations also tend to look for people with great "soft skills" – non-technical skills such as creative thinking, emotional intelligence, conflict resolution, communication skills, flexibility, and coaching. These are often as important as professional expertise.
If you're thinking about becoming a specialist in a certain area, don't forget to consider these important soft skills. Helping your boss resolve a major conflict within your team will get you noticed just as much as delivering a great presentation or sales report.

Building a Network

How can building a network of contacts help you get noticed in front of the people who matter?
Essentially, if you help people out when they need assistance, then people will help you out too. (Our article on the Influence Model explores this further.)
And if you take the time to build and nurture relationships with the people around you, you'll build a network of "allies" who can help you get assigned to interesting, significant, or eye-catching projects that might otherwise go to someone else. They may also recommend you to other departments, which can open up opportunities that might not have been available to you without their recommendations.
Build a network of alliances within your department, with other departments, and with the executive team or board. Try to get assigned to teams that involve a wide variety of people. This can help you build your reputation, and make important friendships.
Also, build your network outside of office hours. Socializing with colleagues after work often makes everyone feel more relaxed and open to new friendships.

Tracking Your Accomplishments

When you're working hard, it's easy to forget all of your achievements over the last six to 12 months. This won't help when it's time for your performance review.
Keep track of all of your accomplishments within the organization. If clients or colleagues give you compliments, write them down. If the compliment came in an email, print it. If you exceeded last quarter's sales goals, get the paperwork that proves it.
Put all of these great compliments and achievements in a file, and bring the file to your performance review. This gives you hard evidence to prove to your boss what a great job you're doing. Then, when it's time to ask for a pay raise or promotion, it may be harder for your manager to say no.

Getting Out of the Shadows

Sometimes, whether intentionally or unintentionally, your manager or colleagues may present your ideas as their own.
However, if you want to get noticed, you must receive credit for your ideas.
If this happens to you, first find out if it's also happening to anyone else. Often, a colleague or boss "borrows" ideas from several people, not just one. One way to discover this is by simply watching other people's body language around this person.
If your colleague or manager is taking credit for only your work, but no one else's, then document it every time it occurs. If practical, "watermark" your work whenever you can (this is a feature in some word processing software packages). If the person claims your ideas as their own in a meeting, gently but firmly correct the misstatement.

Taking on More Responsibilities

You can also get noticed by your manager and other executives by taking on more responsibilities whenever possible.
This doesn't mean that you should overwork yourself! But if you see a new project or role that will help you expand your skills, take advantage of it. Do this, particularly if it's one that has high visibility within the organization, or has a significant impact on the bottom line.
This is particularly important with innovation and process improvement. Developing a reputation as an innovator or creative thinker can be valuable. If you believe that you have the ability to innovate and think of good ideas, then try to get assigned to projects where these skills are valued.

Tip:
While you're doing this, make sure that you continue to do the core parts of your job well. If you fail to do this, you'll get noticed – but for all the wrong reasons!

More Tips on Getting Noticed

Here are a few more ideas for getting the people you work with to notice you:

• Make sure you're visible – Spend a few minutes every day greeting and talking with your co-workers. A simple smile can help tremendously. Also, try to speak to colleagues face-to-face from time to time, instead of sending emails or instant messages.
• Praise others – If you have a colleague who works as hard as you, then praise the person in front of your manager. Be specific, and sincere, about what the person is doing.
• Stay updated on your industry – Read trade newsletters or other relevant materials that keep you up-to-date on trends and technology. You never know when this information will be valuable.
• Find a mentor – Mentors can offer valuable advice and career coaching. The chances are that the mentor has been through the same situations that you're experiencing, and can help you navigate them successfully.
• Get involved with your organization's charity events – Volunteering for these activities – like running in a race or coaching a children's team – can help you build your network within the organization.

Key Points

People can often overlook your efforts, even if you consistently work hard. If this happens to you, it's up to you to get noticed and stay in their thoughts, so you can keep moving toward your career goals.

Become a specialist in areas that are important to your organization. Build a network of allies, network inside and outside of work, track your accomplishments, and take on additional responsibilities whenever possible.

Source: Mindtools.com

THE HEALING POWER OF DANDELION

By Peter Gail

Suppose your doctor tells you, on your next visit, that he has just discovered a miracle drug which, when eaten as a part of   your daily diet or taken as a beverage, could, depending on the peculiarities of your body chemistry: prevent or cure liver diseases, such as hepatitis or jaundice; act as a tonic and gentle diuretic to purify your blood, cleanse your system, dissolve kidney stones, and otherwise improve gastro-intestinal health; assist in weight reduction; cleanse your skin and eliminate acne; improve your bowel function, working equally well to relieve both constipation and diarrhea; prevent or lower high blood pressure; prevent or cure anemia; lower your serum cholesterol by as much as half; eliminate or drastically reduce acid indigestion and gas buildup by cutting the heaviness of fatty foods; prevent or cure various forms of cancer; prevent or control diabetes mellitus; and, at the same time, have no negative side effects and selectively act on only what ails you. If he gave you a prescription for this miracle medicine, would you use it religiously at first to solve whatever the problem is and then consistently for preventative body maintenance?

All the above curative functions, and more, have been attributed to one plant known to everyone, Taraxacum officinale, which means the "Official Remedy for Disorders." We call it the common dandelion. It is so well respected, in fact, that it appears in the U.S. National Formulatory, and in the Pharmacopeias of Hungary, Poland, Switzerland, and the Soviet Union. It is one of the top 6 herbs in the Chinese herbal medicine chest.

According to the USDA Bulletin #8, "Composition of Foods" (Haytowitz and Matthews 1984), dandelions rank in the top 4 green vegetables in overall nutritional value. Minnich, in "Gardening for Better Nutrition" ranks them, out of all vegetables, including grains, seeds and greens, as tied for 9th best. According to these data, dandelions are nature's richest green vegetable source of beta-carotene, from which Vitamin A is created, and the third richest source of Vitamin A of all foods, after cod-liver oil and beef liver! They also are particularly rich in fiber, potassium, iron, calcium, magnesium, phosphorus and the B vitamins, thiamine and riboflavin, and are a good source of protein.

These figures represent only those published by the USDA. Studies in Russia and Eastern Europe by Gerasimova, Racz, Vogel, and Marei (Hobbs 1985) indicate that dandelion is also rich in micronutrients such as copper, cobalt, zinc, boron, and molybdenum, as well as Vitamin D.

Much of what dandelions purportedly do in promoting good health could result from nutritional richness alone. Vogel considers the sodium in dandelions important in reducing inflammations of the liver. Gerasimova, the Russian chemist who analyzed the dandelion for, among other things, trace minerals, stated that "dandelion [is] an example of a harmonious combination of trace elements, vitamins and other biologically active substances in ratios optimal for a human organism" (Hobbs 1985).

Recent research, reported in the Natural Healing and Nutritional Annual, 1989 (Bricklin and Ferguson 1989) on the value of vitamins and minerals indicates that:

* Vitamin A is important in fighting cancers of epithelial tissue, including mouth and lung;

* Potassium rich foods, in adequate quantities, and particularly in balance with magnesium, helps keep blood pressure down and reduces risks of strokes;

* Fiber fights diabetes, lowers cholesterol, reduces cancer and heart disease

risks, and assists in weight loss. High fiber vegetables take up lots of room, are low in calories, and slow down digestion so the food stays in the stomach longer and you feel full longer;

* Calcium in high concentrations can build strong bones and can lower blood pressure;

* B vitamins help reduce stress.

Throughout history, dandelions have had a reputation as being effective in promoting weight loss and laboratory research indicates that there is some support for this reputation. Controlled tests on laboratory mice and rats by the same Romanians indicated that a loss of up to 30% of body weight in 30 days was possible when the animals were fed dandelion extract with their food. Those on grass extract lost much less. The control group on plain water actually gained weight.

Beyond nutritional richness, however, are the active chemical constituents contained in dandelions which may have specific therapeutic effects on the body. These include, as reported by Hobbs (1985):

* Inulin, which converts to fructose in the presence of cold or hydrochloric acid in the stomach. Fructose forms glycogen in the liver without requiring insulin, resulting in a slower blood sugar rise, which makes it good for diabetics and hypoglycemics;

* Tof-CFr, a glucose polymer similar to lentinan, which Japanese researchers have found to act against cancer cells in laboratory mice; Lentinan is a yeast glucan (glucose polymer) that increases resistance against protozoal and viral infections.;

* Pectin, which is anti-diarrheal and also forms ionic complexes with metal ions, which probably contributes to dandelion's reputation as a blood and gastrointestinal detoxifying herb. Pectin is prescribed regularly in Russia to remove heavy metals and radioactive elements from body tissues. Pectin can also lower cholesterol and, combined with Vitamin C, can lower it even more. Dandelion is a good source of both Pectin and Vitamin C;

* Coumestrol, an estrogen mimic which possibly is responsible, at least in part, for stimulating milk flow and altering hormones;

* Apigenin and Luteolin, two flavonoid glycosides which have been demonstrated to have diuretic, anti-spasmodic, anti-oxidant and liver protecting actions and properties, and also to strengthen the heart and blood vessels. They also have anti-bacterial and anti-hypoglycemic properties, and, as estrogen mimics, may also stimulate milk production and alter hormones;

* Gallic Acid, which is anti-diarrheal and anti-bacterial;

* Linoleic and Linolenic Acid, which are essential fatty acids required by the body to produce prostaglandin which regulate blood pressure and such body processes as immune responses which suppress inflammation. These fatty acids can lower chronic inflammation, such as proliferative arthritis, regulate blood pressure and the menstrual cycle, and prevent platelet aggregation;

* Choline, which has been shown to help improve memory;

*Several Sesquiterpene compounds which are what make dandelions bitter. These may partly account for dandelions tonic effects on digestion, liver, spleen and gall bladder, and are highly anti-fungal;

* Several Triterpenes, which may contribute to bile or liver stimulation;

* Taraxasterol, which may contribute to liver and gall bladder health or to hormone altering.

These chemicals, individually, are not unique to dandelions, but the combination of them all in one plant, along with high levels of vitamins, minerals, carbohydrates, proteins and fiber account for the many claims made regarding the plant.

These claims include the following results of clinical and laboratory research, again as reported in Hobbs (1985):

* A doubling of bile output with leaf extracts, and a quadrupling of bile output with root extract. Bile assists with the emulsification, digestion and absorption of fats, in alkalinizing the intestines and in the prevention of putrefaction. This could explain the effectiveness of dandelion in reducing the effects of fatty foods (heartburn and acid indigestion);

* A reduction in serum cholesterol and urine bilirubin levels by as much as half in humans with severe liver imbalances has been demonstrated by Italian researchers;

* Diuretic effects with a strength approaching that of the potent diuretics Furosemide and Lasix, used for congestive heart failure and cirrhosis of the liver, with none of the serious side effects, were found by Romanian scientists. They found that water extract of dandelion leaves, administered orally, because of its high potassium content, replaced serum potassium electrolytes lost in the urine, eliminating such side effects common with the synthetics as severe potassium depletion, hepatic coma in liver patients, circulatory collapse, and transmission through mothers' milk;

* In 1979 a Japanese patent was filed for a freeze-dried warm water extract of dandelion root for anti-tumor use. It was found that administration of the extract markedly inhibited growth of particular carcinoma cells within one week after treatment;

* Dental researchers at Indiana University in 1982 used dandelion extracts in antiplaque preparations;

* In studies from 1941 to 1952, the French scientist Henri Leclerc demonstrated the effectiveness of dandelion on chronic liver problems related to bile stones. He found that roots gathered in late summer to fall, when they are rich in bitter, white milky latex, should be used for all liver treatments;

* In 1956, Chauvin demonstrated the antibacterial effects of dandelion pollen, which may validate the centuries old use of dandelion flowers in Korean folk medicine to prevent furuncles (boils, skin infections), tuberculosis, and edema and promote blood circulation.

Also, Witt (1983) recommends dandelion tea to alleviate the water buildup in PMS (pre-menstrual syndrome).

There are many testimonials from those who have benefited from the use of dandelions in the treatment of what ailed them.

Robert Stickle, an internationally famous architect, was diagnosed as having a malignant melanoma 21 years ago, and was given, after radical surgery had not halted its spread, less than 2 years to live. He said, in a letter to Jeff Zullo, president of the Society for the Promotion of Dandelions, (June 23, 1986):

" I went on a search for the answer to my mortal problem, and [discovered] that perhaps it was a nutritional dilemma.... To me, cancer is primarily a liver failure manifestation. {Italians are very concerned about problems of the 'fegato']. [I discovered that] the cancer rate in native Italians is very low among the farming population (paesanos). When they get affluent and move to the city, its the same as the rest of civilized man. Paesanos eat dandelions, make brew from the roots, and are healthy, often living to over 100 years."

He states that he began eating dandelion salad every day, and his improvement confounded the doctors. When he wrote the letter in 1986, 18 years had passed and there had been no recurrence of the melanoma.

A benefit which comes from writing articles for national media is that you hear from people who have interesting stories to tell. I recently received a call from Peter Gruchawka, a 70 year old gentleman from Manorville, NY, who reported that he had been diagnosed with diabetes melitis 3 months before and was put on 5 grams of Micronase. At the time, he had a 5+ sugar spillover in his urine. He took Micronase for about a month before he learned, from his wife who is a nurse, that Micronase can do damage to the liver. He had read in "Herbal Medicine" by Diane Buchanan and "Back to Eden" by Jethro Kloss about the effectiveness of dandelions in controlling diabetes. Without saying anything to his doctors, he stopped taking Micronase and began drinking dandelion coffee each day. During the first week, his urinary sugar, measured night and morning, was erratic and unstable, but after a week, his sugar stabilized and when he called, he had been getting negative urine sugar readings for over a month. The doctors are amazed and can't explain it. An interesting side benefit to replacing Micronase with dandelion coffee is that, while Micronase damages the liver as a side effect, dandelions are particularly known for strengthening the liver.

According to Mr. Gruchawka, he changed nothing but the medication. He had cut out pastries and other sugars when he was diagnosed and started on Micronase, and has continued to do without those things while taking dandelion coffee.

In reporting these claims, however, I must add three qualifiers:

1. First, unfortunately, neither herbs nor synthetic remedies work for everyone in the same way. Different bodies respond differently to medicines, and what works incredibly well for one person may not work at all, or work less well, for someone else.

2. Second, good health results from a combination of healthy diet and enough exercise to keep the body toned. Bob Stickle, for all his insistence that dandelions cured him, changed, according to a mutual friend, his entire lifestyle. He didn't just add dandelion salad to what he was already doing.

3. People with health problems need to seek the advice and care of a competent physician, with whom this information can be shared. It is important to reemphasize that it is presented as information only. I am not a medical doctor, and neither advocate nor prescribe dandelions or dandelion products for use by anyone or for any ailment. Only your doctor can do that.

Because there are so many variables, it is hard to attribute Mr. Stickle's cure to any one of them directly. Likewise, Italian farmers live a lifestyle which combines a healthy diet, lots of work and clean air. They heat and cook with wood, which they have to cut and split. They haul water for household use. When they move to the city, diet, exercise, and environmental conditions change. Stress and sedentary habits increase.

And there is the importance of faith in the healing process, whether it be faith in God or faith in the curative properties of the herb being taken.

While dandelions, given all these variables, may never be proved to cure any specific ill, they are an extremely healthy green which cannot in any way hurt you. Research on how much you would have to eat to cause harm indicates that eating grass is more dangerous than eating dandelions (Hobbs 1985). Therefore, with everything going for dandelions, it is highly probable that everyone can derive at least some nutritional benefit from them by eating or drinking them regularly.

The medical and pharmacological establishment is generally critical of claims regarding the use of herbs on disease, and their concerns need to be put in perspective.

Herbal medicines have been used very effectively far longer than synthetics, and many current pharmaceutical products have been derived from research on plants used as medicine by many cultures. The problem with plants, however, is that they are available to anyone. It is impossible to patent a plant, and thereby gain proprietary rights to it. As a consequence, pharmaceutical companies attempt to isolate the active properties from medicinal plants and synthesize them so that they can patent them. Many of the synthetics have serious side-effects which were not present in the natural plant product, often because other chemicals in the plant offset them (i.e. the large quantities of potassium in dandelions which allows for potassium replenishment when dandelion is used as a diuretic).

USDA botanist Dr. James Duke (1989) suggests that a proper and appropriate "herbal soup", filled with "vitamins, minerals, fibers and a whole host of bioactive compounds," from which the body can selectively strain the compounds it needs to restore itself to health, will be more effective than synthetic medicines containing a "very select and specialized compound or two plus filler, usually non-nutritive." This is especially true if the "herbal soup", in the form of a potent potherb like dandelion, is a regular part of the diet so that the appropriate bioactive substances are present in the right amounts when the body needs them.

Just imagine what will happen if you are confronted with the following scenario:
1. You sit in your office and your subordinate or a colleague runs to you and starts to shout aloud: save me, save me, balabala, bububu, shiii, habapapapapapa, yeee, help me and so forth; what will happen?
or
2. You stay at home and your son or daughter comes to you and starts to shout at you, I need this and that and that to the hearing of passersby, how will you feel?

Based on your guess, that is what we are doing to GOD. We shout at the top of our voices as if the God we serve is a DEAF and DUMB. Is our God now so old that we think HE cannot hear our prayers and supplications anymore without us shouting?

Accra is now a nuisance! No one cares about noise pollution any longer. Christian Council is TOOTHLESS. Every corner in Accra, someone is holding a microphone with a COLLECTION BOWL in-front pretending to be preaching. Some of them you pity, they can't even QUOTE a BIBLE verse, yet pretend to USE GOD'S NAME to ROB and CHEAT. Eih! So we no longer CARE about how to make our daily bread, other than to use God's Holy Name to stand outside and beg for money? Others claim they are NGO's who are using God's name to beg for money to help SO CALLED NEEDY PEOPLE in society.NGO my foot! Just the other day, I overheard one saying his target for that day was Gh50.00. So if he made that fifty Ghana cedis, multiplied by five or six days, can you imagine his income? There is also this poor woman on the newly constructed Kwame Nkrumah Circle Fly-over who uses a loud speaker to do this business am talking about; you just realise that this woman is NOT a person who can convince any soul, yet she places a container in-front of her waiting for some coins to be dropped into it.

Please someone must be responsible for this upsurge and bring this noise making illegal business to a halt. God will ask people who should rise up and fight against this and are woefully failing to do so oneday. If you haven't moved about in Accra recently, just do so in Abeka Lapaz, Kaneshie, Circle and Central Accra, and see for yourself what am talking about.

What are AMA and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) doing? Don't they see them? Can't someone safe God's Holy Name?

Oh! When I see them, my heart pants and wants to eat them up. I just sometime CURSE and wish that I had my own way; I would have just picked them up one after the other and dealt with them. Preaching God's Word is NO CRIME, what is CRIMINAL is the COLLECTION bowls. They have an agenda: MONEY MAKING!!!
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UNKNOWN HAPPENINGS UP NORTH: WAR WAGING UTTERANCES

UNKNOWN HAPPENINGS UP NORTH: WAR WAGING UTTERANCES: I find it sometimes difficult to accept, when I read through articles, features, reports and other sources of information from different me...

WAR WAGING UTTERANCES

I find it sometimes difficult to accept, when I read through articles, features, reports and other sources of information from different media houses and the tone and manner in which it is presented, you see nothing but HATE SPEECH, Intemperate language, incitement, and all the negativeness one can coin to suit this seemingly growing lifestyle of ours in Ghana. Ghana is a blessed land flowing with all the natural resources which even though others do not have, have been able to tap from ours and have marvelously developed, whilst those of us living in this country wallop in abject poverty. Just a handful of people are able to afford three square meals a day; yet everyday on the airwaves, you hear of nothing but unnecessary issues that CANNOT bring food to our tables. People who should talk of development based issues, they rather prefer to talk on issues that will allow people to call in and insult other people for free.
One thing I have always said  and will continue to say is that, Ghana is not a safe haven for peace. Ghana is like any other country that have enjoyed peace and stability before. Ivory Coast was more stable than Ghana. Liberia, Nigeria, Congo, Sierra Leone and all the other war torn countries, they did enjoy stable environments before being plunged into  a state of confusion. Ghana is not far from reaching that level, if our current political leaders are not checked, condemned and made to understand that we the masses are not ready for such uncalled for, uncivilised statements from them. 
Politicians should rather be convincing and begging us, not that they should rather cause our deaths and incite hate speech in our various communities. We have come to a stage where we must stand up to tell people who are representing us that enough is enough! Left to me alone, any political party that does not preach peace, unity and stability do not deserve our support and must therefore NEVER be given our nod. When they lose and realise that they lost due to their choice(s) of word(s), it could serve as deterrent to others. We should call upon our institutions to rise up to the occasion and work. The National Commission on Civic Education is to blame for these kinds of intemperate behaviours. They are not working as their mandate requires them to. They should not wait to be told to do what they have been receiving payment for. If the citizens are educated very well, they can contribute to maintaining peace and development and make demands from their MPs and all those who represent them in higher authorities. Unfortunately in Ghana, the masses are not given the opportunity to ask questions when our leaders address us and are in need of our mandates. The conversation is always one-way, top-down approach; they tell us what they want to do for us when given the power, but never seek our opinion on what they are expected to  do or how we expect to perform.
That is why I have always said that we have a very long way to go as far as our democratic development is concerned. We cannot claim any positive achievement when there is so much insecurity all over in our major towns and cities. Accra is filthy, blood stained, crying for development, yet government upon government come to tell us that they are the best. They will always be the best, why not? If within three-four years you are able to change your status as an ordinary Ghanaian citizen to a millionaire, illegally acquiring wealth and protecting your family's future needs, what would prevent you from saying that you have achieved a lot? Come to think of it, majority of those in Government are made to declare their assets when being appointed, but before they leave office, they do not declare their assets for us to know what and what they acquired whilst in office. If they steal state money, they are fired and never prosecuted. They are even awarded ex-gratia which run into several millions or billions of Ghana cedis. That's Ghana  for you. All that I would like to say is that:

When we pray for peace, we MUST live peace. God is NOT a HYPOCRITE like us. He Knows what's good for us IF WE DO THE RIGHT THING. Ghana is NOT a land of ANGELS, right? Ghana is gradually being infiltrated with filthy things here and there. Check out our NEWS stands and you get nothing but pornographic materials which people gaze at for hours. Which of those guys do not attend church services? Hypocrites!! The Lord is watching each and everyone of us. Accra is spilled with the blood of innocent ones who are being murdered everyday for rituals. Our Beaches are filled with sexual immorality. Our big shots are beating war drums. Wake up for Ghana is not sitting on a silver plate, but destined to destruction if our current political leaders are not condemned and made to understand that they CANNOT take us for GRANTED!! Other nations are praying for us to BREAK our record of being a peaceful nation, yet people somewhere sit down to talk as if Ghana is the only beloved country of God. Watch out before we are consumed.

Yes, I have voiced out my concerns, you need to think critically about them and do your best to live PEACE, Eat PEACE, Drink PEACE, Think PEACE, Act PEACE, Dream PEACE and Walk PEACE and try  to condemn violence. Don't entertain violent people, they are nation wreckers. Our destiny is in our hands. Watchout before we are blacklisted! Pray for Ghana. A word to the wise is...............