HomeOpinion

Opinion

Kweku Adoboli’s untold story

Short story: The sad end of man who once earned £ 10,000 a weekend

As Michael frantically searched the entire breadth of...

Short Story: ‘Oh, Jagger Pee!’ (Part 1)

(A fan-fiction tribute to Sackey Sowah’s 1980’s television...

Sammy Awuku, an epitome of a double track politician

In Ghana now, single and double track are...

The curious case of Kweku Adoboli

People called me witch for stopping grandma cheating in exams

So today is Sunday and I need us to talk about projecting ills as norms in our society and its impact on nation-building. A few...

Islam and Jamal Khashoggi’s murder

Incredible! Unbelievable! Shocking! Dramatic! Heartless! Barbaric! Unimaginable! Perplexing! Callous! Beastly! One can ceaselessly go on and on to list, and to find the exact...

‘Feminism is sexist’: The women backing Brazil’s top politician

Jair Bolsonaro is one of the most controversial politicians in recent Brazilian history. The far-right candidate, who has a wide lead in the polls ahead...

Teenage Pregnancy: How a daughter’s growing belly earns her a mother’s growling slap

Barbara and her mother make their way through a mini squabble outside the consulting room. It's a long queue cemented with resistance, and impatience....

Let your women keep quiet in the church (Pt. 1)

I have been blessed tremendously by the ministry of some well-known women of God in Ghana and abroad. I wouldn’t like to name them...

Church accountability: What happens to money men ‘give to God’?

Whose money is it when men give to God in church? If it’s God’s, do men need to give a hoot about how it...

Inside Asiedua Chest: My husband’s bestie

After a long lecture about being careful and studying hard, with his forefinger pointing at me and in a deadpan tone my father said:...

Open Letter to Former President John Dramani Mahama – By a swing voter

Your Excellency, I am taking this initiative of writing to you in the hope that you will see reason and a greater purpose, not...

Mahiasem: Tuesday, 9 -2018

Mahiasem: 24th September, 2018

The man to clean up our banks

As I sat down late Monday night at my laptop to write, I was thinking that Kwaku Adoboli had finally resigned himself to being...

Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah: The idea, strength of Africa’s liberation

“There comes a time in all political struggle hard to distinguish yet fatal to less slip. Then all must be set on a hazard,...

Mahiasem: 19th September, 2018

Sharon Strikes: How anger disfigured my beautiful face, body

My heart would pound faster, blood pressure would elevate and the levels of my adrenaline and noradrenaline would increase. And yes the hair around the...

BettyBlueMenz Perspectives: Double track system ay3 pinsoo!

As the double track system takes off across selected senior high schools in the country, some parents are still unsure which school their wards...

NCA’s new 4G move; a fix or more mess?

The National Communications Authority (NCA) is finally taking steps to ensure that at least each telco gets to come into the 4G space after...

The salvation of Atewa Forest sits in the bosom of Nana Akufo Addo and Osagyefo Amoatia Ofori Panin

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) 2009 report, on the state of the world’s forest indicates that the current total forest area of the...

NATIONAL CATHEDRAL: Vulgar or Virtuous Venture?

My Unwholly Holy Initial Thoughts, Honest-to-God ‘To build or not to build?’ is more often than not a rather profound, mind-wracking, heart-churning, soul-searching question, be...

All you need to know: Friendship, the Dagaaba-Frafra way

True friendship, it is often said, is tested on the day one finds oneself in a crisis and needs the help of others one...

BettyBlueMenz Perspectives: National Cathedral, misplaced priority?

On Independence Day, 6th of March last year, which also happened to be the 60th anniversary of Ghana’s independence, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo cut the...

Jones Asante Mfodwo write: Now the dust has settled

“The GOG and FIFA shall work closely to eradicate corruption and malfeasance and other associated criminal conduct from the administration of football in Ghana” Interestingly,...

Take a Read: Ghana’s oldest female legislator alive writes to SA Prez Cyril Ramaphosa

Re: A letter in response to the article “South Africa risks Zimbabwe-style land chaos Johannesburg (South Africa), August 11” Dear President Cyril Ramaphosa, I wish to...

MANASSEH’S FOLDER: The trial of Mensa Otabil

Great men and women, they say, are like eagles. They don’t flock. They are spotted one at a time. Once in a while. It...

V.S. Naipaul and Kofi Annan: Death of opposites

It was a week of dramatic occurrence -- the short passage to eternity of two contrasting (in manners and lifestyles) Nobel laureates. One of...

World Photography Day: Sad end of African photojournalist whose shots shook the world

Sunday marked the World Photography Day and as the day is set aside to measure progress made so far in the industry and as well...

Inside Asiedua’s Chest: Compound House Chronicles 2

Click here for Part 1 of Compound House Chronicles. It is a free show now with tenants peeping through their windows to see the faces behind the...

BettyBlueMenz Perspective: Hypocritical tributes, honest rantings

I think I heard Prophet Isaac Owusu Bempah claim he prophesied about the demise of former Vice President Paa Kwesi Bekoe Amissah-Arthur?! Yes, he...

Ace Ankomah writes: Before you sign “I Consent…”

There are so many of us who have accepted to be directors of companies and signed consent letters but haven’t attended or been invited...