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What is the OSP Whingeing About?

The usually energetic and ready-for-action Special Prosecutor of Ghana, Mr. Kissi Agyebeng on Wednesday, November 29 looked downcast and capped an unusual press conference with the singing of a dirge after wailing about the dismissive attitude of the judiciary towards anti-corruption cases and actions taken by his office. Two days before his press conference, a High Court nullified an indicting […]

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Can You Swim All of River Volta?

If you had a boat weighing in at 4.5 tonnes built in Accra and needed to get it to the confluence of the Black and White Voltas for an expedition, the riverine port at Buipe is where you’d have to get your boat to. The logistical conundrums of moving a solar-powered boat up from Tema to the Savannah Region is […]

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Fact: Government is not to Blame for our Economic Challenges. Still fact: Government Is!

In the past four months the average household in Ghana paid two-thirds more than it did the year before for fuel, food and flour. The Akufo-Addo (mis)led government blames the Russo-Ukraine war for Ghana’s economic hardships, and he mentioned same in his address to the United Nations in September of 2022. While true that Vladimir Putin’s intransigence has contributed to […]

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A Festival of 4 Jokes at the Jubilee House

So, whose job is it to make a mockery of the Jubilee House now? Which incognocenti sit within those halls of misdirected power and draw wages on job descriptions that include planning outrageous stunts such as the one Meek Mills was allowed to pull off, rapping all kinds of unmitigated twaddle from behind the same lectern bearing the seal of […]

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Of a National Cathedral and Jephthah’s Foolish Promise

The President of this apampamu-store franchise lost his bid to ascend the presidency twice, in 2008 and in 2012. He won at the end of 2016 after an animated year of campaigning and describing the party in power at the time of gross incompetence. Electric power failure, economic incompetence and a series of misguided verbiage involving the death of a […]

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Adwoa Yankey: A Song for Akufo-Addo

Tucked beautifully away in the forests between Akyem Asafo on the Apedwa-Bunso stretch of the Accra-Kumasi highway and Akyem Kukurantumi on the Koforidua-Nsutam road is the village of Addo-Nkwanta. This village could only correctly be called a Ghanaian village. Unlike other Akyem villages where Akyem Twi was the lingua franca, Addo-Nkwanta has a healthy mix of just about every Ghanaian […]

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The Gods Must Be Crazy

Before moving to permanently settle at Odumase and Somanya, the ancient Krobos lived in the beautiful outcrops called Klowem, located just near the Akuse junction on the Akosombo Road. Every avid hiker, mountaineer or trekker worth his rank under the professional OAG knows the Klowem outcrops. The moderately challenging 10km diameter wilderness has steep trails, grassy passes, rocky valleys and […]

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So Ghana Go Be?

In 2007, after the new Landcruiser had rolled out of Toyota’s factories with its 5.7-liter V8 engine and the resultant 381 horsepower and 401 pounds of torque, the company presented less than a dozen of the units to its sales offices in Ghana. Toyota Global was not sure that citizens of our highly indebted poor country could afford the new model’s sound-absorbing […]

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To Marry or Not to Marry?

It depends largely on one’s perspective, but a Professor friend of mine, bemoaning the abysmal lack of intellectual acuity in today’s young couples said to me in response to the question, “Anyone that goes C-minus in logical reasoning has no business getting married.” A few acquaintances disagreed with him. “Who cares about brains?” One asked me when I reported the […]

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Is 5G the Mark of the Beast?

To answer this question the logical way, we will have to first find out who or what the Beast is, what it means to acquire its mark, and then expose any connection both may have to the much touted 5th generation wireless communications technologies supporting cellular data networks. Of course, neither of the constructs mentioned in the question is without […]

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Covid-19 in Ghana: To Lockdown Or Not To?

At the time the corona virus hit the European continent, President Akufo-Addo was on a 12-day tour of Europe. This led many social commentators to wonder whether the President needn’t be quarantined for 14 days on his return. A Norwegian diplomat to Ghana who was with the President’s entourage in Norway was the first to test positive for the virus […]

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Here’s What the Yes-Vote Campaign Fails to Understand About Nay Voters

The work of devolving political, administrative and fiscal authority to local governments that begun in 1988 seems to have called for what might be the biggest showdown in referendum history in this apampamu-store republic. And while MMDCE elections since then have barely made the headlines – other than Assemblymen-wannabes sharing cola nuts and making local gin bitters loosely available in […]

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Elegy to the Ta’adi Girls

You had no mobile phones; were in no Uber; could not leave a technological trail for the dumbest CID investigator to follow and rescue you under 72 hours; You walked the street, humble and low, going about your regular routines when you were picked up by the twist of fate that unleashed the twisted actions of some Nigerian scum. You […]

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The Sons of Eli and Otabil the Chief Priest

I am respectfully privileged to extend my greetings as a Christian jungle boy to Pastor Mensa Otabil. I have never met him and I probably never will. Not to worry, though. These Facebook and Internet streets make anything possible. And since God is good, I have a good feeling that my article will find his good self somehow in these […]