Egypt blocked several media websites on Wednesday including those belonging to the Qatari Al-Jazeera news channel and an opposition television station based in Turkey, a security official said. Mada Masr, an independent Egyptian media outlet that has published investigative reports on corruption, was also inaccessible on Wednesday night. Egypt has accused Jazeera of supporting the … Read more
The ethnicity of Presidential candidates is not NDC’s problem The news article only named him as a pollster, something Mr. Ben Ephson is widely known to do extremely poorly, and not as the editor-publisher of a newspaper (whose name I cannot readily recall but suspect is called the Daily Dispatch) which does not seem to … Read more
Long before the creation of the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), the widely acclaimed and prematurely glorified founder of the NDC, a career coup-plotter, had created another political machine with his clansmen and other opportunistic non-Ewe associates called the Provisional National Defense Council (PNDC), a veritable military junta intended to radically and decisively suppress … Read more
May I take this delightful opportunity to congratulate the outgoing Parliamentary Minority Spokesman on Agriculture, Dr. Owusu Afriyie-Akoto, for having been reportedly chalked down for the cardinal portfolio of Minister of Agriculture by President-Elect Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo (See “Dr. Afriyie-Akoto Likely to Be Next Agric Minister – Nana Addo” Citifmonline.com / Ghanaweb.com 12/31/16). Coming from … Read more
This is not a column I had intended to write; but, fortunately or unfortunately, a column that I recently wrote and published which was captioned “Cut this Primitive, ‘Prophetic’ Tribalism, Pastor Owusu-Adjei,” which appeared on several Ghanaian media websites, including Ghanaweb.com (12/20/16), convinced me of the need to follow it up with the present write-up, … Read more
We know he is a thief or at least the criminal suspect of a grand theft, because in the lead-up to the 2016 general election Mr. Sylvester Mensah was arrested by agents from the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI). At about the same time, his bank accounts were frozen and his passport impounded. I highlight … Read more
In my most recent column last night, and one which hit the media websites and perhaps several newsstands, as well, this morning, I highlighted the need for one of our most respected and distinguished elderly statesmen and citizens to promptly and urgently speak to the need for the immediate abatement of rising tensions in the … Read more
What happened to the 22-year-old dictatorship of Gambia’s President Yahya Jammeh a couple, or so, days ago is inevitably bound to be repeated in Ghana on December 7 when Ghanaians go to the polls, once again, to decide who should run their beloved nation and its socioeconomic, political and cultural affairs for the next four … Read more
There is an article circulating on Ghanaweb.com, as well as other Ghanaian media websites, captioned “Bawumia’s Father Betrayed Mahama – Veteran CPP Member” (9/21/16). The gist of the article is that, somehow, the distinguished and highly respected father of Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, Alhaji Mumuni Bawumia, the former Chief Executive Officer of the erstwhile Cocoa-Marketing Board … Read more
A couple of days ago, I came across an article on one of the country’s media websites in which a virulent critic of the outgoing Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana (GA-PCG) was calling for Prof. Emmanuel Martey to be bumped off the National Peace Council (NPC) as a member … Read more