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Golden Eaglet captain and Adokiye: The Insanity in a Newspaper Columnist-by Olajide Fashikun

Sun, 07 Nov 2009 22:18:10 +0100

I was a student in the school of satire Those were the days when Olatunji Dare now a professor and himself a columnist would write his rich satires which then was a bible for growing boys in my SaboOke in the early s We would argue as to what is the real intention of the writer Then we also had Adebayo Williams who writes from Ife Those ...

U-17 World Cup Fiasco: Nigerian Authorities renting Crowds to fill Stands

Sun, 07 Nov 2009 22:18:10 +0100

If as it has been said sports hold a mirror to society Nigerias hosting of the FIFA U World Cup has reflected an extremely unappealing image of ourselves Media reports that footballs world governing body FIFA is disappointed with the local organizing committee calls into question the whole framework of using the game to rebrand ...

26 reasons why Bode George must remain in Kirikiri-EFCC

Sun, 07 Nov 2009 22:18:10 +0100

The former Deputy National Chairman of the PDP was last Monday jailed alongside five others by Justice Olubunmi Oyewole of the Ikeja Division of the High Court of Lagos State George however on October approached the court for a postconviction bail due to alleged congestion of cases at the Court of AppealHe also said he needed ...

James Ibori botched Judgment postponed- full transcript

Sun, 07 Nov 2009 22:18:10 +0100

Contrary to expectation of all and sundry huhuonlinecom understands that the botched judgment by Justice Mercel Awokhulehin on James Ibori count charge of corruption and abuse of office was not delivered as scheduled Official transcripts of the court ruling obtained exclusively by Huhuonline reads This matter is slated for ruling today an ...

Open Letter to Kumawuhemaa

Sun, 07 Nov 2009 22:18:10 +0100

Dear Nana Hemaa I am one of your subjects resident in Den Haag the Netherlands I am very much alarmed about the ongoing events in Kumawu that raise an eyebrow I think I had better communicate my views and suggest the way forward that may help extricate the Kumawu traditional area from the chieftaincy impasse it finds itself deeply embedded ...

Is There any Chance For Rawlings Ever Ruling Ghana Again?

Sun, 07 Nov 2009 22:18:10 +0100

I regret and do apologise for being a doubtingThomas when I stubbornly challenged the validity of a soothsayers prediction This is about six years ago When I expressed my apprehension about Rawlings unpredictability and the possibility of he staging a coup d�tat to depose the NPP government a Masters Degree student emailed to chide me for ...

NIGERIA 2009: THE SUCCESS STORY OF FOOTBALL ACADEMY IN NIGERIA

Sun, 07 Nov 2009 22:18:10 +0100

As Nigeria qualifies into the quarter finals of the edition of the FIFA U world cup let us try to reflect into some issues concerning the team Majority of the players in the team ply their trade in football academies around the country with little or no prominence and mentionThanks to the success recorded so far in this tournament i ...

Diabetes in Zimbabwe: It's Not All About Sugar

Sun, 07 Nov 2009 22:18:10 +0100

GROWING up in Zimbabwe diabetes a polygenic disease characterized by abnormally high glucose levels in the blood was something that the old people always talked about and the fear of the disease grew over me like a giant baobabTo describe a person with diabetes the old people would say in local parlance Ane shuga which literally means ...

THE ENQUIRER'S PEACOCK STORY ON THE EX-VEEP WAS MISCHIEVOUS!

Sun, 07 Nov 2009 22:18:10 +0100

After listening to a certain Larry Dogbe of the Enquirer newspaper speak on joynews during its news at pm on the th November It emerged by my assessment that the enquirers publication on the thNovember which alleged the former VicePresident his Excellency Alhaji Aliu Mahama took away some peacocks from the Castle when he was lea ...

Kufuor Grabs Another Doctorate Degree

Sun, 07 Nov 2009 19:56:23 +0100

FORMER PRESIDENT John Agyekum Kufuor left Accra Friday morning for Lagos Nigeria for a twoweek working visit that will take him to Spain Rome Kenya and Ethiopia At his first stop in Nigeria the former President will be given an honorary doctorate degree by the Bells University of Technology in Ota Ogun State The award will be in recog ...

Exposed!

Sun, 07 Nov 2009 19:56:22 +0100

Some persons believed to be relatives and friends of yearold Sarakatu Muniru the man described by the Tema Police Regional Command as the assistant headmaster of an Ashaimanbased armed robbery training school are plotting to have the suspect freed from the grips of the law A source who spoke to DAILY GUIDE at Ashaiman said a group ...

Soyinka Blasts African Leaders

Sun, 07 Nov 2009 19:56:21 +0100

Professor Wole Soyinka a Nobel Literature Laureate on Thursday said Africas inability to progress beyond liberation from colonialism was due to the lingering slave mentality of its leaders and intellectuals He said even though African countries had long gained independence from Western powers The slave mentality continues to govern our t ...

Appiah-Ofori Fires Mills

Sun, 07 Nov 2009 19:56:21 +0100

Maverick politician and New Patriotic Party NPP Member of Parliament for AsikumaOdobenBrakwa Constituency Hon has turned his guns on President John Evans Atta Mills saying he is unfit to continue as President of the Republic of Ghana The anticorruption campaigner who had until recently been the darling of the ruling National Democr ...

Minority flays Bagbin over another committee

Sun, 07 Nov 2009 19:42:04 +0100

The controversy over Mills penchant for committees reared its head in Parliament on Friday when the Majority Leader AlbanSumani Bagbin recommended to the august House the setting up of a Committee by the Business Committee to assist the Public Accounts Committee in its works on the Auditor Generals reports presented to the HouseT ...

Govt probes �3.3m fraud at Sunyani Hospital

Sun, 07 Nov 2009 19:42:01 +0100

The government has launched investigations into an alleged million pound sterling contract fraud at the Sunyani Regional Hospital The amount was meant to build a housing unit complex for staff of the hospital The previous government paid million pounds out of the total amount to Messrs International Hospitals Grou ...

Boy holds onto sodomist organ for 30 minutes

Sun, 07 Nov 2009 19:41:56 +0100

The bravely of a yearold boy name withheld who deliberately held onto the male organ of a paedophile for more than minutes has led to the arrest of the culprit For as long as the boy a student of the New Adubease Senior High School kept his firm grip on the manhood of yearold Stephen Osei the alleged sodomist stood ...

Ghanaian couple's 72 years of marriage

Sun, 07 Nov 2009 19:41:56 +0100

For a number of reasons Ghanaians do not grow beyond these days while fewer marriages also last years or more It is for this reason that the yearold marriage between Mr Seth Yaw Amoah and Mrs Comfort Amoah is great news to people who come across the Akyem Odabased coupleThey are believed to be not only amon ...

Girls take over sex work

Sun, 07 Nov 2009 19:41:56 +0100

Sexstarved sailors visiting the portcity of Tema are said to be paying teenagers huge sums of money to satisfy their sexual needs The horny highpaying clients have no problem luring many young women and girls into their arms after spending long periods on the high seas The Spectators investigations have revealed that when th ...

Ghana Post accounts officer in court over GH�87,000

Sun, 07 Nov 2009 19:41:56 +0100

Adjei Manu an accounts officer of the Ashanti Regional branch of the Ghana Post who was arrested in September for allegedly embezzling monies belonging to the company has appeared in court to defend the charges against him The Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly KMA Circuit Court Judge His Honour Mr Adjei Frimpong asked the accused p ...

Police to release last batch of Bawku suspects

Sun, 07 Nov 2009 19:41:55 +0100

The police in Bawku are expected to release on bail the ten remaining suspects being held in connection with the recent violent clashes Earlier in the week suspects who were arrested after the violence which left about three people dead several others injured and properties destroyed were released by the police after screeningU ...

CHINESE COMPANY DEFAULTS VAT PAYMENT

Sun, 07 Nov 2009 14:57:02 +0100

Chinese Company Meluim Ghana Limited has defaulted Vat payment to the tune of a whooping sum of as at February The Company located at East Legon are distributors of Chinese herbal medicineInvestigation conducted by your reliable newspaper The Daily Searchlight revealed that the Madina Office of the Vat Service accessed t ...

Why Ugandans want to work in Iraq

Sun, 07 Nov 2009 14:37:52 +0100

At the Watertight security training ground in Uganda a group of men and women are doing target practice with their AKsNearby another group are listening to a lecture under the shelter of a treeWatertight Security Services has been sending Ugandan security guards to Iraq since So far more than Ugandans have g ...

Woman passes 950th driving test

Sun, 07 Nov 2009 14:37:51 +0100

A South Korean woman is celebrating after passing the written exam for a driving licence on her th attemptAfter four years of trying yearold Cha Sasoon finally managed to secure the out of points needed to pass the testThe grandmother has spent more than m won on application fees for the test ...

Mystery of SA 'Robin Hood thief'

Sun, 07 Nov 2009 14:37:51 +0100

South African police say they are baffled by a modernday Robin Hood who handed out money he stole from a mansion to servants who worked thereHe took expensive jewellery and rand from a safe and a firearm from a house in an affluent Cape Town neighbourhood police sayAs the man was about to make his esc ...

Ghanaians complain too much � Prez Mills

Sun, 07 Nov 2009 14:37:42 +0100

President John Evans Atta Mills has taken a swipe at Ghanaians for complaining that they were suffering too much under his presidencyHe emphasized that those complaining of severe hardship were not being fair to him as a person and his administration as an institution because the government was only months in officeI get w ...

Plan to release 'robbery teacher' exposed

Sun, 07 Nov 2009 14:37:34 +0100

Some persons believed to be relatives and friends of yearold Sarakatu Muniru the man described by the Tema Police Regional Command as the assistant headmaster of an Ashaimanbased armed robbery training school are plotting to have the suspect freed from the grips of the lawA source who spoke to DAILY GUIDE at Ashaiman said ...

Agona East NDC constituency election turns violent

Sun, 07 Nov 2009 11:03:05 +0100

Police reinforcement from Agona Swedru was dispatched to Agona Asafo in the Central Region to quell the violence which erupted after the election of Agona East Constituency Chairman of the National Democratic Congress NDCThe violence started when supporters of Alhaji Gyabiru Ibrahim who lost the election to Mr Jonathan Kwame Abb ...

TUC cautions against bogus oil training institutions

Sun, 07 Nov 2009 11:02:55 +0100

The Ghana Trades Union Congress TUC on Friday cautioned the citizenry to guard against the proliferation of institutions claiming to be providing skills training in the oil industryMr Kwabena Nyarko Otoo Acting Head of the Labour Research and Policy Institute of the TUC asked the public to report any unaccredited organisation op ...

Food production in the North lauded

Sun, 07 Nov 2009 11:02:54 +0100

The Parliamentary Select Committee on Food Agriculture and Cocoa Affairs on Thursday lauded the increase in food production in the Northern parts of the country particularly the production of riceThe committee urged the Minister of Food and Agriculture to expedient action in acquiring more combined harvesters to assist the farmer ...

Chainsaw operations employ 86,000 people

Sun, 07 Nov 2009 11:02:54 +0100

Eleven years after the ban on illegal chainsaw milling the practice continues to be a major source of supply to domestic timber markets thereby sustaining rural economies and livelihoodCurrently people are involved in chainsawrelated operations as compared to approximately people in the formal logging industry a s ...