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UK Girls’ School to BAN Home Work Because It’s Causing Depression of Students

Imagine going to school each week without those boring and time consuming home work? This may become the reality for students of a top UK girl’s school. Cheltenham Ladies’ College, Gloucestershire in an effort to make the wellbeing of its students as important as their grades plans to introduce meditation sessions, long walks between classes and no … Read more

PHOTOS: Princess Charlotte Enjoying A Cuddle From Her Older Brother-Prince George

Princess Charlotte who was born May 2, 2015 to Prince Williams and Kate Middleton’s first official portrait has been released—it’s so beautiful and adorable. The Princess is placed in the hands of her older brother-Prince George for a cuddle, a photo which was captured by the Duchess of Cambridge. The picture above, one of a set … Read more

The Proliferation of Junk Food Restaurants in Ghana | Another KFC Opens in Kumasi…Should We Not Be Worried?

KFC Kumasi | Photo Credit: Ebenezer Nana Yaw Donkoh
KFC Kumasi | Photo Credit: Ebenezer Nana Yaw Donkoh

Ghana is struggling on its crippling legs and even though we cannot boast of many modern hospitals, efficient and far reaching healthcare systems—and even common electricity as well as clean drinking water, we can at least take solace in our natural good foods.

But it seems, we are about to trade this away in exchange for obesity, heart diseases and the many fast food associated problems of the West—more also, we do not even have the corresponding structures to tackle these problems, contrary to what is done in the West.

Am I the only one worried about the fact that we already have a lot of problems in our backyards, of which some are very simple and yet we cannot solve them. However, we seem to be strangely interested in jumping the gun to bring in many far complicated problems that we cannot even tackle if given a century to work around them?

Economically, Ghana has become an empty rabbit hole with its citizens utterly confused as to when things would settle. Our educational system is pretty much a mess, so is our general progress as a country.

But one thing you know you will certainly get right, free from some sort of artificial engineering is the various natural Ghanaian foods on sale in our cities and villages. Food poisoning and cancer-spreading foods are not really part of our vocabulary but it seems our uncontrolled desire to ‘belong’ without adequate understanding of the culture we want to be part of is swiftly leading us into the Junk Food Market.

I run away from KFC and the many low Junk food restaurants in the West as a result of how unhealthy these foods are, and  I wouldn’t walk into any of these outlets in Ghana because of the already mentioned reasons…and even more…

In the West, inspections and oversight mechanisms work properly—and even there, these fast food restaurants are not only undesirable but have also become where you go to sign your death certificate if you want to go quick.

These fast food restaurant operators do not really care about human beings (forget their damn mission statements) —like most companies, it’s all about profit maximization for them. This, coupled with what we already know about Ghana when it comes to inspection, supervision and bribes, I can assure you that the worst kinds of food would be sold by these restaurants.

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In The Midst Of All Ghana’s Troubles-The Cedi Keeps Plummeting Against The Dollar

Cedi Against Dollar
Cedi Against Dollar

Amidst floods and fires, fuel price increases and dumsor, people are overwhelmed with enough troubles they’re overlooking another major one: the depreciation of the cedi against all its major trading partners- but most especially against the dollar.

The cedi has been steadily depreciating since this government took over almost 8 years ago, and I remember how much news it made when $1 hit Ghc 3. It fluctuated through most of last year, going back to as low as Ghc 3.1 when it had hit Ghc 3.6-7 at some points during the year.

But the free fall resumed since the beginning of this year, until it hit $1=Ghc 4 sometime in May. As the above image shows, within the past 3 days alone, the cedi has depreciated from Ghc 4.05000 to 4.1400 on the dollar- just look at the steepness of the rise on that infograph.

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PHOTOS: Reggie Rockstone & His VVIP Guys Clean Gutters in Takoradi

VVIP
VVIP

Over 200 people do not have to die for us to know that we need to clear our gutters—so that water can flow any time it rains. And VVIP has for over a year now been bringing this campaign to Ghanaians—with the recent being a Takoradi gutter cleaning exercise.

According to Reggie Rockstone, VVIP in the past year been on about this, and have cleaned gutters in Tamale, Kumasi, Nima-Accra and Koforidua—all to remind the locals that, they need to regularly clean their choked gutters.

Maybe more of our celebrities need to leave their LV bags at home and organiser the residents of their localities—and together enter the various gutters to get their hands dirty…

Check below for photos…

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Jennifer Lopez SUED in Morocco for Being So HOT & Performing So HOT

Jennifer Lopez
Jennifer Lopez

Singer-Jennifer Lopez is facing a lawsuit for just being too HOT—we mean, she is being sued for a HOT performance she gave out in Morocco last month.

According to reports, J.Lo on 29th May, 2015 gave a HOT performance in the North Africa state, shaking her famous booty which was packed in a skimpy outfit backed by sexy dancing…

But now, she is being sued for this. J.Lo’s performance was aired on a Moroccan TV and according to the lawsuit filed by an education group, Jennifer Lopez “disturbed public order and tarnished women’s honor and respect” with that HOT performance.

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Praise the Lord: Creflo Dollar’s Ministry Would Buy Their $65m Private Jet After All

Reverend Creflo
Reverend Creflo

At this point I think it’s been scientifically proven that very few jobs pay as well as being in the service of the Lord.

Maybe that is God rewarding Creflo for doing his work, but the wealth of those at the top is always at the expense of their often very poor followers. A religious person would say that is not what God intends, but since it happens all the time and nothing bad happens to those who take advantage of others; it’s safe to assume God approves of this exploitative behaviour of his representatives.

Creflo Dollar is the pastor who sparked worldwide outrage when he opened a petition to get people to donate $65m for him to buy the best private jet on the market, the Gulfstream G650 (see above photo). That plan was abandoned after the backlash, but now the board of the church says they will buy the jet anyway.

In a sickening statement, they claim the initial plan to raise funds was misunderstood. They claim they were only asking specific people who believed in their work, and not the general public at large.

“The G650 appeal published on the creflodollarministries.org web site was directed to a specific community of like-minded people who love and support the ministry and its global missions work. There was not, nor will there be, a request for donations from the public at large, people outside that faith community or the members of local World Changers churches in Atlanta, New York and two dozen other locations.”

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PHOTOS: Yvonne Nelson, Becca, Prince David Osei, Fred Nuamah, Luckie Lawson & Others

Actress-Yvonne Nelson premiered her latest movie-‘If Tomorrow Never Comes’ last night in Accra—and to her disappointment, the turn out was really poor as only a few people turned up compared her previous premieres. Perhaps, she should have been smart and postponed the premiere following the Accra flood disaster—the fact it also rained yesterday with several … Read more

Petition Started To Get Africa’s Best Mayor Oko Vanderpuye Kicked Out Of Office | All of You Should Go & SIGN

Mayor of Accra Billboard
Mayor of Accra Billboard

Yesterday the news was rife with demolition exercises and desilting of the Odaw river and more grandstanding from government- 200 bodies too late.

We’ve already hammered on the points why Alfred Vanderpuye is no best mayor, and the fact he’s still in office after most of his antics just speaks to our obliviousness to the concept of personal responsibility and accountability.

One Ghanaian living in the UK has taken it upon himself to start a petition to get the mayor kicked out of office. Addressed to the president, the petition calls for the President to get rid of his mayor who has consistently failed to act to ‘safeguard life and properties’.

The petition has 286 signatories as at now, despite being up almost two days and the outrage running over the country. It wouldn’t really change anything but it would be nice to see a lot more people supporting this.

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New Music: ‘Sor Mi-Ha’ By Sariki Feat. Yaa Pono

Rising musical star-Sariki (formerly known as Bossu) is back with another single-‘Sor Mi-Ha’ and this time, he features the Uptown Energy soldier-Yaa Pono. With his sharp lyrics, Yaa Pono killed the rap while Sariki does the singing, with the catch line; ‘Sor Mi-Ha.’ He says, he is soft like ‘body lotion’—a lame but interesting line. It’s … Read more