Voice Of Reason: The Gang Rape Of Mother Ghana In ParliamentTuesday, January 29, 2013
Do the Maths: Lets multiply their allowances and perks by 275 MPs...I swear, if I write one more article this year about politicians and their unyielding appetite for money, Im going to throw up on my computer screen.With all the political scams that have been tumbling out in Ghana one ...
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Voice Of Reason: Can You Hear Me Now, Mr. President?–Part 2Friday, January 18, 2013
HOPEFULLY, THIS MAIL WILL FIND YOU IN GOOD SPIRIT. Yes, I did promise to come back after your honeymoon.However, Im not going to disturb you with too many issues right now because there are other pressing matters that cant wait for another four years. The needs and aspirations of your people must ... |
Corpses Have More Respect Than House MaidsTuesday, December 25, 2012
CORPSES ARE TREATED WITH MORE RESPECT than Housemaids and house- Keepers or domestic workers in Ghana. And, that is not an exaggeration. Yes, the tears of our Ghanaian House- Servants have contaminated our land, but we hardly talk about it.The ill-treatment the house- girls or house -keepers ... |
Can You Hear Me, Mr. President-Elect?Sunday, December 23, 2012
Authors note:Im writing this piece on the presumption that Mr.Mahama is duly declared by the electoral Commission as the President Elect. And, probably remains so after a legal challenge. If that is the case Id congratulate him and would like to offer the new President of Ghana my ad ... |
Our Reflections In A Cracked Mirror: Ghana Election 2012 Is OverSaturday, December 15, 2012
SOME PEOPLE WONT BE HAPPY ABOUT THIS ONE. THE 2012 ELECCTIONS ARE OVER. Now what is next? You cant change the election result, but you can change your personal responsibilities.Are you as screwed up and naïve as the media and politicians make you out to be? Impossibleotherwise you wouldnt b ... |
The Free SHS: The Devil Is In The Details.Wednesday, December 12, 2012
WILL THE SCARCITY AND ALLOCATION of our limited resources make the Free-SHS proposition possible in this day and age?When politicians say they want to bring tuition- free SHS education to the masses without comparable increase in taxes, theyre only using political calculations, without any econ ... |
Postmortem of 2012 Election: 'We Dey Beat keke'!!Monday, December 10, 2012
The possession of power does not guarantee wealth. Nor does wealth always guarantee power. But the lack of power can guarantee poverty and poverty can always guarantee powerlessness.The jury has spoken. Ghana has spoken. All right, that may not be what youve been thinking ... |
Major Nature or Man-Made Disasters Loom: We Have To Be Proactive Now!Thursday, November 29, 2012
A FAR MAJOR DISASTERS are predictable and unavoidable, but how prepared are we as a nation?Yes, looming nature or man made disaster is real because even sea levels are rising 60 percent faster than previously predicted ,according to a new U.N scientific study. Do we know what that means? ... |
OOOps!! OOOPs!! (You’ll Get It In A Minute!)Wednesday, November 21, 2012
When will the Melcom Stores disaster become a teachable moment?THIS HAS TO BE ONE OF those articles when the subject needs to be approached gingerly and with due respect for our fellow citizens loss, lest, Ill be accused of hardheartedness. With that firmly in mind Ill delicately ... |
The Other Side Of Free-SHS Education Equation That You Don’t Want To See.Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Universal SHS tuition-free education is nice but Universal access to a quality education is much better because the problems of education are not confined to tuition affordability.FAR BE It from me to get in the middle of the Ghanaian politiricking a combination of the words,politics ... |
Ghana:A Nation Of Greedy -Evil –Dwarf Bastards!Monday, October 22, 2012
Power concedes nothing without demandFredrick Douglas. This is extraordinary and humongousThis is a head- scratching momentTHE YOUTH OF GHANA SHOULD arise to defend and protect the environment and the nations health and its resources.Yes, the young people ... |
Shouldn't Ghana File For Bankruptcy, ASAP?Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Say what?.Oh, Puh-lee-ze, give me a breakYes, I know that Ghanaians have very highly inflammable anger in their chromosomes when it comes to monetary issues. However, I have intentionally gone out of my way to push the pedal of creativity and controversy to their limits, just to test the te ... |
Have We Been Reduced To Political And Ethnic Fanaticisms?Saturday, October 13, 2012
Authors note:Some of the materials in this piece were first published in 2009.But I have been asked to republish it since were in an election season. I have reread and made whatever relatively minor changes .I feel theyre warranted. I genuinely believe that anything ever written by an ... |