NDC Chairman Reminds Me of Rawlings and Apino Soap

In three decades, the lead operatives of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) have not changed their ways one bit. They continue to reason like envy-wracked toddlers who are in no hurry to go anywhere, as long as they are provided with their favorite toys, namely, access to raw power and the chance to wantonly … Read more

Well-Intentioned But Grossly Ill-Timed Advice

My good “Telephone Friend” – we have never met personally, except via Skype – called me from Accra, where he has been visiting with his new and second wife, to tell me that the members of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Ghana, or the Ghana Catholic Bishops’ Conference (GCBC), as the group prefers to call … Read more

NDC Has Already Destroyed Ghana’s Economy, Little Dramani

NDC has already destroyed Ghana’s economy, little Dramani It is a crying shame and a pity that President John Dramani Mahama should so soon forget that it was the anti-people cash-and-carry policies of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) that plunged the nation’s economy into the doldrums (See “NPP’s Manifesto Will Destroy Ghana – Mahama” Starrfmonline.com … Read more

Africawatch Magazine Story On Akufo-Addo Not Worth A Dime

Back in August, when Mr. Steve Mallory (real Ghanaian birth name Kwadwo Osei-Poku) published his so-called lowdown on the purported state of the health of the three-time Presidential Candidate of the main opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), I categorically noted that the editor-publisher of Africawatch was a cud-chewing “ruminant journalist” who was simply regurgitating old … Read more

Superintendent Amekudzi Has No Right To Force Anybody To Vote

There may be a new breed of officers in the Ghana Police Service (GPS) who would surely do better having their services engaged elsewhere in the country’s public service sector than in law enforcement. One such breed of Ghanaian police officer is Mr. Isaac Amekudzi, Superintendent of Police reportedly in charge of the police personnel … Read more

Kan-Dapaah Offers the Best Advice On BoG Gold-Watch Scandal

Kan-Dapaah offers the best advice on BoG gold-watch scandal He is a certified chartered accountant and business savvy, and so Mr. Albert Kan-Dapaah began by asking the sort of intelligent questions that most of our politicians and government business executives ought to be asking, which regards the question of why, in spite of the establishment … Read more

Ato Forson, You Cant Eat Numbers

There are at least two Deputy Finance Ministers in the Mahama-led government of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), and so I had to do a double take to ensure that I was responding to the rejoinder of the right Finance Ministry second-bananas. According to Mr. Cassiel Ato Baah Forson, numbers do not lie. Well, the … Read more

Edward Mahama May Be Too Untruthful For His Own Good

The Presidential Candidate of the Limann-founded People’s National Convention (PNC), Dr. Edward Nasigri Mahama, is dead-on-target when he asserts that “Nobody can either join or support the National Democratic Congress [NDC] without becoming a corrupt leader” (See “You Cannot be with the NDC if you are not Corrupt – Edward Mahama” Rainbowradioonline.com / Ghanaweb.com 9/7/16). … Read more

Anthony Karbo Should Sue Phone-Stealing Accuser(s)

The New Patriotic Party’s Deputy Communications Director, Mr. Anthony A. Karbo, has called on his supporters and sympathizers to disregard a scandalous allegation making the rounds in the media to the damnable effect that he had stolen a cellphone belonging to the three-time Presidential Candidate of the main opposition party during the party’s special conference … Read more

Fiifi Kwetey Is A Screaming Mess At Transport Ministry

He is obviously earning an undeservedly fat check in the Mahama cabinet because the 49-year-old Mr. Fiifi Kwetey acquitted himself creditably as a rotten-mouthed propaganda point-man for the Rawlings-minted National Democratic Congress (NDC) by the blighted lights and rag-tag standards of the latter political juggernaut, of course. I have also followed his bumbling political career … Read more