Ayekoo GEY HEY ’97
I have seen and heard credible stories of how Old Girls of Wesley Girls High School, both home and overseas often went to great individual and collective lengths to raise substantial amounts of funds...
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Free SHS Policy Implementation; the President’s Warning and the Missing Link
In 2003, I got the opportunity to teach in a junior high school in the central region. I was given the opportunity to represent my head teacher in most of the Ghana Education Service workshops and...
My Pledge of Obedience of Love To My Faithful First Love: My Val’s Day Vow
I cried out for Your mercy the other day. You held me up from the ground, washed me, treated my wounds, cleansed all stains on me, wiped all tears on my face, took away everything that had burdened...
‘Dynamic’, ‘eloquent’, ‘intrepid’ Etc – How Akufo-Addo Described Ministers In His 2018 SONA
As a news editor, I keenly listen to speeches and addresses of newsmakers with the hope of reading in between the lines to convey the correct message to the eagerly awaiting public of news consumers....
Refuse To Reduce the Rim!
Today, doing right almost seems wrong. As adults, it sometimes seems almost impossible to hold on to the same values we held in high esteem when we were younger. It’s great to have values but it is...
Opinion: A SONA of Campaign Promises
A few days ago, the President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo in fulfillment of Article 67 of the 1992 Constitution, delivered the State of the Nation Address to Parliament. This was his second address...
Countryman Songo Fires Critics of Singer’s Erotic Style
Ebony’s nudity – Ebony has got some die-hard fans in the entertainment industry solidly backing her nudity on-screen. Leading the tribe is none other than controversial sports TV personality...
Fast Facts About The Newest Dating Site For Single Africans
US-based Ghanaian relationship blogger, Kwadjo Panyin has teamed up with two other US-based bachelors of Ghanaian origin to launch Afringle, a new dating site dedicated to Africans living abroad...
AUCC Founder Launches Book About His Life As Public Servant and Private Citizen
The founder and first President of the African University College of Communications (AUCC), Mr. Kojo Yankah has officially launched his autobiography titled “Our Motherland – My Life” in Accra....
Protests Continue As Nkrumah Is Celebrated Today
Ghanaians at home and abroad are celebrating the memorial birthday Ghana’s first president, Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah who is the key founder of Modern Ghana. This day, since 2012, has been observed...
US Actor, Playwright Sam Shepard Dead At 73
Sam Shepard, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and Oscar-nominated actor whose celebrated career spanned nearly five decades, has died, a family spokesman said Monday. He was 73. Shepard died at...
TALKING DRUM: Our NSS Has Gone Mad Again!
It was something that one of the world’s renowned scientists tried looking at. Yes, so I think. But he greatly failed finding answers. It’s elusive. In his own words, Isaac Newton opined that,...
Motorsports Boom In China
Trailing enormous plumes of dust, the Silk Way rally cars tore through the Gobi Desert bound for China's Imperial city of Xi'an -- fresh evidence of the Middle Kingdom's newfound love of motorsports....
REVIEW: GPl’S Match Day 24
Away wins for teams that had been starved of them. Away wins are precious as they come. They make champions and hurt contenders who fail in a quest to pick up the points. Olympics are still 15th on...
To Choose Or To Die
So, thinking about life and the choices we make, the things we get to choose from, why we pick one and leave the other, the pain we go through to choose when we have to choose between two things we...
TALKING DRUM: The Simplest Question I Would Have Asked Prez Akufo-Addo
At the Flagstaff House , in the Greater Accra region, the President invited journalists to come listen to him tell Ghanaians what he has achieved so far after six months in office. On Tuesday, July...
Syrian Actors Bring Cost of War Home To NY Audience
Six Syrian actors battled a fraught US visa process to tread the boards in New York this week, seeking to impress on American theater goers the human cost of a war raging halfway round the world....
A Case Made For A Change of AFCON Timing
There are those who believe the Cup of Nations is perfectly placed at the beginning of the year while others reckon a change on the calendar year will serve the tournament well and help increase the...
Surf Epic Is Escapist Bestseller For Trump’s America
William Finnegan tested the patience of his publisher in the 20 years it took him to write his remarkable memoir of his lifelong obsession with surfing, "Barbarian Days". "I gave up a couple of...
Maths ‘genius’ Maryam Mirzakhani Dies, Aged 40
Maryam Mirzakhani, an Iranian-born mathematician who was the first woman to win the coveted Fields Medal, has died in a US hospital after a battle with cancer. She was 40. Mirzakhani' friend Firouz...