Akogun Akomolafe
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14 July 2012 at 11 : 00 AM
Wanted: Financial Engineer
“All I can I say is that we have been overwhelmed into insensitivity by sheer excess. I have studied very carefully those figures and I have had to take a couple of aspirins after every paragraph, after every figure to ask and pinch myself; are we really living in the real world? Or whether […]
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7 July 2012 at 10 : 00 AM
Minister Hannah Tetteh’s huge gaffe!
I still reach for reggae songs when events seem to overwhelm me. This week has rather been particularly grueling. A sickness in the family bothered the mind greatly. As though that were not grave enough, I had to spend time listening to the ongoing Public Account Committee of the Parliament, revealing how our officials […]
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4 July 2012 at 08 : 00 AM
Welcoming the president
My brother, where were you? I was all over the place looking for you. Me, why, what happened? I had wanted you to join us to go to the airport. Airport, why? I didn’t know that you expected someone from abroad. You! Do you mean to tell me that you didn’t hear that our […]
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1 July 2012 at 10 : 00 AM
Cry, the beloved continent
I told you so, didn’t I? What are you talking about, now? What did you tell me and why are you so agitated like an excited cobra? I told you that you and your bunch of so-called dreaming Pan-Africanists are deluded jokers, delusional day-dreamer, stupid utopians… Ok, ok, I get the drift. But what […]
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23 June 2012 at 10 : 00 AM
On the President Medical Checkup
“But also, as I pointed out, that also entails hard work. That new Africa is ready to fight his own battles and show that after all the black man is capable of managing his own affairs. We are going to demonstrate to the world, to the other nations, that we are prepared to lay […]
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20 June 2012 at 08 : 00 AM
The state of the nation
I don’t know about you, but I reach for the books but when things get tough and confused for me. I also take solace in listening to music. I don’t know about you, but reggae remains my favorite music genre. I am not talking about the ‘modern’ form of reggae where people sing about […]
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11 June 2012 at 17 : 00 PM
Koku Anyidoho should resign
“The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor” – George Bernard Shaw “Life every man holds dear, but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.” – William Shakespeare Among the definition of HONOUR is “source of pride: somebody or something […]
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6 June 2012 at 17 : 00 PM
The president is angry
“Chiefs should not make new laws when they are angry.” – African proverb My brother, do you know that the president is angry? You, since when did you get close to the president to know his mood? Where have you been all this while? In Ghana, of course. I have not travel anywhere. And […]
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1 June 2012 at 11 : 00 AM
A Free Education Manifesto for Nana Dankwa Akufo-Addo
“On the expansion of knowledge I stand.” – Martin Luther I should like to damn the communications department of the main Ghanaian opposition party, the New Patriotic Party (NPP). There we have a bunch of incompeteniks looking on in askance whilst the other parties bash the most laudable idea propounded by their […]
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30 May 2012 at 10 : 00 AM
This INFLATION thing
An economist’s guess is liable to be as good as anybody else’s.—Will Rogers They say that Christopher Columbus was the first economist. When he left to discover America, he didn’t know where he was going. When he got there he didn’t know where he was. And it was all done on a government grant. […]
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