SOME YOUTH of La-Wireless, an area within the La Community in Accra, yesterday stormed the offices of DAILY GUIDE to register their frustration at the hands of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG). The group, Rising Against Stupidity (RAS), said they had decided to take this measure because it seemed…
FOR A very long time, I have tried to understand why our Ghanaian movie directors and producers did not pick books by renowned writers like John Grisham, Jeffery Archer, Sidney Seldon and make movies out of them. Well, apparently, I have been wrong all this while, as they seem to…
“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” —Winston Churchill The quality of some movies being released onto the Ghanaian market sometimes make me wanna puke. Ordinarily, I would…
We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure. -Cesar Chavez On Sunday, January 24, 2010, many Ghanaians including me, myself and I jumped for joy when we scored an early goal against Angola haven ruled out the National Black…
Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn’t be any fun living in it, or profit. — Josh Billings April fools’ day comes once in a year on April 1, but 18th January, 2010 will forever be remembered as the day majority of Ghanaians were ‘fooled’. On…
“Focused will is incredible. If you have a dream and you don’t give up no matter what obstacles come up, then life’s problems will fall away and you will get what you want. It happens. It works.” —Yanni Ghanaians in particular, Africans for that matter and the whole black race…
I don’t ever have any trouble in regulating my own conduct, but to keep other folks straight is what bothers me. – Josh Billings On Thursday, September 10 2009, a private newspaper (Daily Guide) in Accra published a story on a 65-year-old ‘white’ American paedophile, Patrick Ken Larbash, alleged to…
A word to the wise ain’t necessary, it’s the stupid ones who need the advice. —Bill Cosby I was once listening to a news bulletin on one of the local FM stations, and the newscaster was trying to let us understand a situation in Iran in which a suicide bomber…
I am more afraid of an army of one hundred sheep led by a lion than an army of one hundred lions led by a sheep. ~Charles Maurice ABOUT A week ago it was reported in a national daily, Daily Graphic, that 50% of the students that sat for the…
“Do not judge, so that you may not be judged. For with the judgement you make, you will be judged, and the measure you give will be the measure you get.” —Matthew 7:1-3 With the above quote in mind, I have come not to judge the ‘men of God’, rather…
