Nana Addo,The Septuagenarian President
Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, the President Elect of the Republic of Ghana is going to be recorded in the annals of Ghanaian history as the first Septuagenarian President of the Republic until...
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A View On #CNNGetItRight
After the recent Ghanaian elections, CNN published an article that angered a number of Ghanaians. In the piece, Ralph Ellis (reporting from Atlanta) and Stephanie Busari (reporting from Lagos)...
A Letter To My Ideal Woman; Why I Will Not Support The Idea Of Expensive Funerals
Dear Afia, I do monitor most of your conversations with your friends during lectures. I must admit to the fact that I do like the clarity in how you express your views to your colleagues. But your...
10 Bad Pieces of Relationship Advice That Actually Sound Good
Bad advice is cheap. Good advice is expensive. This is very obvious in today’s world where many of us have been drowned in unnecessary complexities because of some so-called piece of advice we...
Shatta Wale Ignored Again For 2016 BASS Awards
Shatta Wale is the ‘hottest’ dancehall act in the country at the moment, but that ‘hotness’ was still not taken into consideration when organizers compiled the final nomination list for the...
A Lesson Tanzania’s Magufuli Offers Nana Addo
“When I say NDC, you say no abaabasɛ. NDC, no abaabasɛ. Then, the third one, you say ‘hweeeeeeeeoooow’ ,” there was President John Dramani Mahama addressing teeming supporters. Indeed,...
Bob Dylan ‘beyond Words’ To Receive Nobel Prize For Literature
Bob Dylan said it was "truly beyond words" to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. In a speech read on his behalf at the ceremony in Sweden, he said he thought his odds of winning were as likely...
The Dissipation of The NDC, From The Lens of A Voltarian Child.
I have always loved the National Democratic Congress not due to any reason but just as many of us will say, we love HE Jerry John Rawlings for being our own. His Charisma, honesty and his...
All Hail President Mahama
Thousands of Ghanaians both home and abroad are jubilating over the victory of the president-elect, His Excellency Dr. Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo but one person I would want Ghana to hail and...
President Mahama’s Concession Speech [a Spoof Written Before the President Conceded]
Good evening, my fellow countrymen and women. A few minutes ago, I made the most difficult phone call I have made, and may ever make, in my life: I called President-elect Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo...
Mix Masta Garzy Bags Two Nominations. Check Full List Of 2016 Bass Awards
The nominees for 2016 Bass Awards, has been released, Mix Masta Garzy, has 2 nominations. Ghana's beat intellect and CEO of 2MG Music has procured 2 slots for himself for this year's Bass Awards....
Managing Election Expectations And Disappointments
Stakes are high and the polls have confirmed that assertion. Whichever direction the pendulum swings, history beckons. Victory for the NDC means they will be the first political party to win three...
Wasting Insane Youths In The Streets
In this report, Odimegwu Onwumere writes that a compassionate Nigerian rescued an insane young lady from the Abuja streets recently and admitted her to a hospital; while the Nigerian winks that many...
Mimiko, Louis Odion And The Limits Of Charlalism
Without much ado and for the purpose of clarity, let me quickly inform that the term charlalism as used in this piece refers to a situation where an otherwise established journalist descends into the...
For Slavery Or Salvation? Ghana Decides Today
Change is indeed coming! Perhaps 2016 is just a year of change. First was Nigeria, then USA and most recently not even the banning of internet and international calls could stop the wind of change...
Ghana Decides Today
By Akwasi Brobbey The political process does not end on election day. Young people need to stay involved in the process by continuing to pay attention to the conversation and holding their leaders...
“What Does Soyinka Want?”
On my way to work this morning, one man asked: “What does this Soyinka want?” Sitting beside him in the same bus, I couldn’t immediately provide a reply. One thing I was sure of was that this...
Kotokolis Also Voted To Become Ghanaians As Others
Exactly sixty years (60years) ago, 1956 – 2016, Kotokolis in the then British Togoland, were among some ethnic groups such as Ewes, Akans, Mamprusis, Dagombas, Nanumbas, Bimobas, Konkomba,...
Jammeh Makes It Seem Fun And Easy While He Joins A Pantheon Of Losers In Presidential Elections
Be careful when you hear that the lion has become a new convert and he’s on his way to the Church or the Mosque. Chances are that he wants to mingle with the saints and receive baptism. Or he’s...
Kwesi Pratt May Need Ambulance On December 7th
By Philip Kobina Baidoo Jnr The recent election in the United states showed how the media is bias towards the conservative Republican party. They are so brazen in their partiality they scarcely hide...