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I have this high-voltage conviction that this small African nation of ours was destined to become one of the best places to live in on earth but thanks to a mixture of incurable sloth, disunity and one unpardonable blunder too many, we are stuck in one quagmire of a rut, with problems as multiple as [...]
Read the rest of this story »Years ago, I attended Mass at St. David’s Cathedral in Cardiff city in South Wales and when it came to the Gloria, I levitated in the pews, mind, body and soul. You don’t believe me, do you? I had been nostalgic for the Catholic Latin Mass since liturgical changes replaced it with the English and [...]
Read the rest of this story »I staged a one-man demonstration in a supermarket early this week, Jomo. I had bought some items and gone to pay for them. There were four sales cashiers’ tables equipped with computers to facilitate the fast calculation of purchases. Save for one of the tables which was (wo)manned by a young lady, the rest of [...]
Read the rest of this story »I do not remember the last time any Ghanaian, even in death, remained in such unyielding competition with the most prominent national events for prime time news headlines for a straight fortnight running. Parliament reconvened on Tuesday in an atmosphere of brooding gloom and MPs dispensed with hearing the day’s business as a mark of [...]
Read the rest of this story »What do you call a sheet of A-4 paper folded in two, with an executive chief managing editor’s imprint at the bottom of the back page, which is populated with stale bits and pieces downloaded from Internet blogs and websites, with crumbs of domestic political gossip and propaganda added for good measure? A newspaper! Fantastic, [...]
Read the rest of this story »A Compatriot who has not made a single news headline for as long as any celebrity tracker in town can remember, suddenly received a massive overdose of media publicity this week, thanks to fate, circumstance and something else I am still trying to put a finger on. Media obsession with this individual was so all-consuming [...]
Read the rest of this story »Story By: Sydney Abugri The company physician armed me with a medical referral letter the other day, and sent me on my way to meet a medic at the Port Medical Centre in Tema. The medic I was told, would give me a check up: New company policy for employees above a certain age. So [...]
Read the rest of this story »The United Kingdom oil company Tullow Oil’s announcement of the discovery of more oil offshore in Ghana was reported on the Internet on Tuesday with the accompanying picture of a petroleum dispensing machine shaped like a book. Where the title of the book would normally be, was the inscription “Black Gold†and below that, where [...]
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