My Scripts
YOU CAN DO BETTER THAN THIS, MTN!
Some three months ago, dear friend, I noticed that my phone could show ‘No Service’ without any reason. Once you tried making a call, the phone reverted to the MTN network with reception bars and the call could then be made. After a while, the network would relapse...
‘WE THE PEOPLE’ Part 2
“Contrary to what we, the people, have been told, we are the power; we have supreme authority because we are the masses and true power always resides with the masses, never with the global elite who, by their very nature, have always been a vulnerable minority and...
‘WE THE PEOPLE’ Part 1
In our childhood days, I used to spend time watching boys-boys in the neighbourhood play soccer. Even though I never took part in the game physically, I learnt some good lessons. I remember this boy whose father was affluent comparatively and he enjoyed the...
STAYING TRUE TO THE CAUSE
While growing up as a child in Cape Coast, there was this hymn we used to sing so much during church services. When I moved on to College subsequently, it was still one of the favorite hymns for the College Sunday Mass. Mr Mark Forjoe and his band of choristers would...
EEEIII, LANDS COMMISSION!
ou go to the Lands Commission to make up a payment on behalf of an organization. You get there at 8.30am knowing that the Lands Commission opens its doors to the public at 8.00am. I got to the Rent Management Unit of the Commission this morning, only to find the...
WAKE UP, GHANA WATER STAFF AT AMASAMAN!
For close to two weeks, a section of the Pokuase-Amasaman vicinity have not had treated water running through their pipes. I had an outstanding bill of GHC5.00 and therefore used the opportunity of making payment to follow up on the situation. On the said day, I...
CREATING A CONDUCIVE WORKING ENVIRONMENT FOR GOVERNMENT MINISTRIES.
I had a programme to attend at the Ministry of Works and Housing sometime a few days ago. Knowing where I live and considering that I did not want to be late, I set off early arriving at the Ministry by 7.00am. Sitting in my vehicle, I made a lot of observations...
LET’S ASSIST OUR NATIONAL BROADCASTER TO RE-DISCOVER ITSELF
Last week Sunday, a syndicated What-Do-You-Know competition by my College sent me to the home of the national broadcaster – Ghana Broadcasting Corporation in Kanda. As the team made its way from the gate through the very expansive compound of GBC, we kept wondering...
SUCCESS DOES INDEED HAVE GREAT FRIENDS!
In the mid-1990s, I remember reading an article in the Ghanaian Chronicle by one of its columnists, Prof. P.A.V. Ansah. The title of the article was, ‘The Land where Success may be a high risk factor’and it was in reference to how the government of the day did...
WHITHER PIWCS! A PERSONAL REFLECTION
The last week witnessed PIWC-Kokomlemle celebrating the institutionalization of the PIWC concept; an idea that has been vilified and scandalized in much the same measure as it’s been lauded and praised to the heavens for being the panacea for the growth and...
THE PIWCs AND THEIR CONTRIBUTION TOWARDS THE CHANGING FACE OF THE CHURCH
The Pentecost International Worship Centres this July commemorate twenty-five years in the existence of the concept. Even though, it is a well-known fact that this is one of the most vilified and fought against concepts ever introduced into The Church of Pentecost, it...
CONVERTING THE FIGHT ON INDISCIPLINE INTO A CASH COW – THE CLEAREST EXAMPLE
On 13thMay 2019, an Accra-based media house, Omni Media Ltd (operators of Citi FM and Citi TV) launched a media campaign to fight the canker of indiscipline in our society. The campaign, according to the firm was to be rolled out in phases beginning with road traffic...
‘RAPING’ THE STATE IN THE NAME OF CONSTITUTIONALITY
Two days ago, the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo inaugurated a five-member Presidential Committee on the salaries, emoluments and allowances payable and the facilities and privileges (including retiring benefits and awards) to be made available to Article 71...
ARE WE NOT TINKERING TOO MUCH WITH EDUCATION?
In the last five or so years, our education sector appears to have been buffeted in several ways – both for good reasons and the reverse. For reasons that appear not too clear, almost every level of the education ladder has had some attempt being made to make major...
LET’S DE-MYSTIFY THE STUDY OF MATHEMATICS NOW!
This week has been the examinations week to close up the Second Term for the private school where my two children are enrolled. As usual, I had been following up with keen interest the various papers as they had partake in. Fully aware that the examinations were to...