No intelligent person should form an opinion or make a point from just reading a newspaper headline anywhere in the world—it is even worse if you are in Ghana.
Editors want to sell their papers or grab the attention of ‘passerbyers’, knowing that they will have to compete with other newspapers put on display at a particular newsstand in Ghana. Therefore, most Editors have employed this cunning way of presenting their headlines which can send a shock to your brains (not just grab your attention) when you see them.
Together with a friend on facebook-Austine Wood, I have put together some of the shocking Ghanaian newspaper headlines—and how the first paragraphs will mostly read.
MILLS DIED OF AIDS
Residents of Akwatia were thrown into a state of shock when it emerged yesterday that their hardworking Assemblyman Derrick Williams Mills died of AIDS.
LORD KENYA IS DEAD
Yaw Amoah often referred to by residents of Bantama as Lord Kenya drowned at Lake Bosomtwe on Republic day
AGYA KOO ARRESTED FOR POISONING WIFE
Residents of Sefwi Wiaso were thrown into a state of shock after a very respesctable member of the town Agya Koo Dan was arrested by the Police for allegedly poisoning his wife.
ALAN CASH TO LOSE LEG AFTER ACCIDENT
Alan Cash, a prominent member of the NPP and known in real life as James Asamoah will lose his leg after a gory accident, doctors of the Koforidua Gov’t hospital have said.
GHANAIAN TAXI DRIVER BURNT IN RUSSIA
Kwame Asante, a taxi driver was burnt to ashes at Russia a suburb of Accra after his taxi caught fire.
NADIA BUARI’S CAT KILLS NEIGHBOUR
A black cat belonging to a certain woman who looks like Ghanaian actress Nadia Buari and has therefore earned the name Nadia Buari in Kintampo is reported to have bitten a neighbour who died two days after.
