The Man Behind DJ Switch’s Glory
“Hello Kofi, when exactly is the date for this year’s Talented Kidz audition?” said Evans Tawiah known in showbiz as DJ Fuad, as he called me on phone one morning. It was exactly five days to...
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A Decade After Oil Discovery! The Bold Steps, the Mistakes, the Lessons, and the Future
A decade after oil discovery! The bold steps, the mistakes, the lessons, and the future When Ghana discovered hydrocarbons in commercial quantities a decade ago in 2007 under the erstwhile Kufour...
Radio, TV & Events – The Media Journey of Rising Star AJ Sarpong
Media Personality AJ Sarpong is in her mid-twenties but has close to a decade experience working in the entertainment industry as a Radio, TV and Event Host. She is also a Voice Over artist, an...
Suicide, A National Canker Which Needs To Be Addressed
Suicide, a national canker which needs to be addressed As I sit on a Sunday afternoon sipping a class of coke and taking inspiration from Oparebea, a new friend of mine from the Ghana Institute of...
Kufuor Foundation Awards Scholarship To 20 Tertiary Students
The John A. Kufuor Foundation (JAKF), a non-profit making organisation, has awarded scholarship to 20 students of various tertiary institutions across the country to undergo a leadership training...
Media Not Government PR Wing – Lecturer
The media in Ghana would need to interrogate the achievements touted by government within its first 100 days, communications expert Dr Etse Sikanku has said. “The media are not stenographers and...
31 Children of Deceased Security Officers Get Schorlaship From Lebanese Community
The Lebanese Community in Ghana has presented scholarships to 31 children and wards of Police, Immigration and Prisons Service personnel who died in service. The ceremony for the presentation of the...
Delta Force Attack A Lesson To Politicians – Lecturer
Recent disturbances involving political vigilante groups is a signal to politicians to rethink the extent to which they will use such individuals or groups in their activities, Osei Kwadwo Addo, a...
Wontumi Must Rather Shut Up, and Not Kan Dapaah
I have since last week Friday tried to restrain myself from responding in equal measure to some irresponsible statements made by the Ashanti Regional Chairman of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP),...
Wontumi Must Rather Shut Up, and Not Kan Dapaah
I have since last week Friday tried to restrain myself from responding in equal measure to some irresponsible statements made by the Ashanti Regional Chairman of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP),...
GIJ SRC Aspirants Angry Over ‘outrageous’ Filing Fees
Some aspirants in the Student Representative Council (SRC) elections to be conducted at the Ghana Institute of Journalism (GIJ), have raised red flags over what they call outrageous filing fees...
Don’t Sanction Internal Critics – Lecturer Urges NDC
It will be risky for leadership of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to punish members of the party who have publicly shared their sentiments over the causes of the party’s defeat in 2016,...
KKd’S Nephew Takes On ‘disloyal’ KOD; Calls Him ‘damn Coward’
A nephew of Kwasi Kyei Darkwah’s has descended heavily on Kofi Okyere Darko, calling him an ingrate. In a statement on Thursday, March 23, Nana Yaw Acheampong said the recent pronouncement by KOD,...
GIJ SRC Receives GHs10,000 Donation From Stanbic Bank
Stanbic Bank Ghana has donated an amount of ten thousand Ghana cedis (¢10,000) to the Students’ Aid Fund (SAFund) of the Students’ Representative Council (SRC) of the Ghana Institute of...
Tina Aforo-Yeboah Goes For Vice-President of GJA
The Editor of the Spectator, Mrs Augustina Aforo-Yeboah, has declared her intention to contest for the position of Vice President of the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA). The seasoned journalist...
Ghana Excels At Harvard Model UN
Ghana has for the fourth year running, participated in the prestigious Harvard University National Model United Nations (HNMUN) Conference in Boston, USA. The conference was organized by the Harvard...
Akufo-Addo Inspects Parade As Ghana Clocks 60 Years
Ghana is 60 years old today, March 6, 2017. President Nana Akufo-Addo will take the national salute, deliver a speech of solidarity and light the perpetual flame at the Black Star Square...
Accra’s Major Roads To Be Closed On Independence Day
The Ghana Police have announced the closure of major roads on Monday, March 6, 2017, due to the 60th Independence Day Anniversary parade at the Black Stars Square. In a statement released Sunday,...
Police Announces Closure of Roads
The Police Service has announced that some roads will be closed as a result of Ghana’s 60th Independence Day Anniversary parade at the Black Stars Square on Monday, March 6, 2017. The roads...
Heckling In Parliament Customary
The interruption of the presentation of the president or his ministers on the floor of parliament by the Minority is part of the parliamentary culture in democratic dispensations, Osei Kwadwo, a...