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Government Spent Ghc 43,000 On Commissioning New Community SHS Building

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In the midst of these corruption scandals, from AMERI to bus branding and the wanton stashing of public resources into the pockets of the privileged few- it seems another one has taken place on the blind side of Ghanaians.

The government promised the building of 200 community Senor High Schools as part of improving education in the nation- and the project has commenced already with the commissioning of the first two. Magnificent edifices though they are, they might be costing us more than we actually bargained for.

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Kris Jenner Fires Her Entire Security Team After Stalker Incident

Kris Jenner
Kris Jenner

It seems with a baby in the house, Kris Jenner is not willing to take even the tiniest degree of risk.

A total stranger managed to waltz his way straight into Kris Jenner’s mansion, and even found his way to the room she was , earlier this week. The stalker was arrested, but the presence of baby Saint in the house has enraged everyone, from Kris Jenner to Kanye West.

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Rita Ora Takes Jay-Z To Court To Break Free From Roc Nation

Rita Ora
Rita Ora

Rita Ora signed to Roc Nation as a burgeoning 18 year old, and has since grown into a veritable force in the industry. However, she now wants to branch out on her own from the legend who brought her up.

Ora signed onto Roc Nation in 2008, but wants to leave the label now, a new lawsuit has revealed. Ora claims her interests are not being served by being on the label anymore, as the company has moved into several other ventures, leaving her feeling marginalised.

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Four Students Of Koforidua Technical Institute Arrested For Engaging In Juju Intended To ‘Trap’ Girls

 

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WTF

Whenever you hear of such superstitious nonsense from Ghanaians, it is understandable when it involves the old generation, or at least people in their middle ages. But when it involves the next generation, it becomes even more disheartening.

Four students of the Koforidua Technical Institute were arrested by a group of concerned citizens and handed over to police- after being caught chanting incantations in a forest at night.

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Company Which Branded Metro Mass Buses Claims They Charged Ghc 100 Per Bus

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This cost 310m old cedis to brand?

Recently we all (presumably) wet our pants when we discovered that our beloved government had spent Ghc 3.6m to rebrand some newly acquired Metro Mass Transit buses.

The cost to the state, apparently, was Ghc 31,000 per bus- an amount the average Ghanaian worker on Ghc 500 a month would not earn for over five years.

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VIDEO: Virtually Impassable Roads Lining Up Buokrom Estate In Kumasi

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dusty road

Putting the cart before the horse is a uniquely Ghanaian specialty. Estates are named that because they are presumed to be more developed than the typical Ghanaian abode.

Yet in Kumasi’s Brokuom estates, the roads look like something from the most remote village in the country. Its virtually impassable, yet the estate presumably houses people of note.

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A Stalker Talked His Way Into A Meeting With Kris Jenner And Got Arrested For His Troubles

Kris Jenner
Kris Jenner

Celebrities have to deal with this all the time and the fans who get obsessed past a certain level really need to get goals in their lives.

I mean, how do you obsess over someone else to the point where you go to their house uninvited and enter their private spaces to pretend you belong there?

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Draw Held For The Maiden Edition Of The Ghalca G6 Tournament Set To Rock The Country In January

Hearts of Oak
Hearts of Oak

There has been a huge clarion call in recent times over what could really be the reason for the demise of the local league. Those in charge have decided journalists are to blame, but that’s absurd when the reporter’s job is to report- and the administrators job is to administrate.

Here’s easily one of the reasons the enthusiasm for the local league has gone down. In times past, pre season tournaments such as the GHALCA top four used to whip up the fans excitement- and great rivalries such as Hearts and Kotoko were constantly in display, providing fans with great entertainment.

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The President’s Brother Ibrahim Mahama Says He Took ‘Only’ Ghc25m To Prepare The Site For The Infamous AMERI Turbines

Ibrahim Mahama
Ibrahim Mahama

The revelations made by Norwegian newspaper VG on the deal involving Ghana getting some gas turbines at a massively inflated prices is leading to more stunning revelations.

Whilst Ghanaians try to make sense out of the entire deal, a new development is unlikely to make anyone happy. Ibrahim Mahama, the filthy rich brother of our President- says he received the contract to prepare the site for the AMERI turbines- and he was underpaid to do it!

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Chelsea Sack Manager Jose Mourinho

Jose Mourinho
Jose Mourinho

Just over two years after returning to the club where he really made his entrance as a force on the world scene- Jose Mourinho has once again been unceremoniously been ushered off the bench by owner Roman Abramovich.

Chelsea have been atrocious this season, losing nine games before Christmas and lying just above the relegation spot- just four months into their title defence. The team never seems to have recovered since the early season dismissal of club doctor Eva Caneiro signalled the deep cracks building in the team.

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UN Human Development Report Ranks Norway The Best Country To Live In The World- Ghana 140th

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The United Nations annually releases its human development report, which studies critically the level of development in countries worldwide, and releases that data in the Human Development Report.

The 2015 report, according to the body, “is the latest in the series of global Human Development Reports published by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) since 1990 as independent, analytically and empirically grounded discussions of major development issues, trends and policies.”

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Pressure Group Sues Power Minister Over Ameri Deal Calling For Contract Details To Be Revealed Publicly

Power Minister- Kwabena Donkor
Power Minister- Kwabena Donkor

The latest financial malfeasance scandal to hit this government is in relation to a power deal that saw Ghana being intentionally screwed over- possibly for the financial benefit of the few people involved in the deal.

The icing on the cake was the significant involvement of a known fraudster in facilitating the deal.

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Human Rights Group Calls On Nicki Minaj To Cancel Upcoming Concert In Angola Due To Rights Violations And Corruption

Nicki Minaj
Nicki Minaj

Nicki Minaj is scheduled to perform during a Christmas party in Luanda this Saturday- but that performance would not come on if a human rights group have their way.

Human Rights Foundation (HRF) wants Nicki to cancel the gig because the money for the show, they believe- would come from “government corruption and human rights violations”.

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Bill Cosby Loses Another Honorary Degree As University Of Boston Revoke Theirs

Bill Cosby
Bill Cosby

Allegations of s*xual molestation against Bill Cosby is now nearing the half century mark, and irrespective of what can be proven in a court of law, he’s pretty much persona non gratta in the public eye now.

He continues a legal battle against some of the women, but the harm to his reputation is already set. Several universities have already revoked their honorary degrees awarded to the comic legend. Boston University is just the latest to do so.

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African Football Legend Samuel Eto’o Fils Appointed Player-Manager Of Turkish Club

Samuel Eto'o Fils
Samuel Eto’o Fils

Samuel Eto’o Fils is easily one of the best players this continent has ever produced, and there is a decent argument to be made for him being the greatest African player of all time.

After a stellar career having represented Barcelona, Inter Milan, and several other clubs and scoring wherever he went, the 34 year old joined Turkish club Antalyaspor in June.

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Lamar Odom Is The Most Searched Google Term Of 2015

Lamar Odom
Lamar Odom

As the end of the year approaches, several end of year list are released, looking at the year in review. For the ordinary man, it’s a great way to reminisce over what the year was about.

Google is the world’s biggest and most used search engine, and its use has become almost a natural part of life. In fact the term Google has become a verb to describe the action of searching, and there can be no greater compliment to be paid to the tech firm.

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Three More Magistrate Judges Shown The Door In Wake Of Anas Scandal

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The judicial scandal hitting the country is no longer at the forefront of the public’s consciousness, but every once in a while a development comes which we’ re surely interested in.

A couple weeks ago, twenty of the lower court judges were dismissed by the judicial service for being implicated in the scandal. Some received their end of service benefits, but most did not.

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VIDEO: Nana Akuffo Addo Makes Commitment To Local Industries- Promises To Use Kantanka Vehicles For His Campaign

Nana Akufo-Addo
Nana Akufo-Addo

The NPP are doing their best to implode despite the NDC’s best efforts to show us unrivalled incompetence– I guess just to make the 2016 elections more competitive.

Flagbearer Nana Akuffo Addo has been hugely criticised for not handling the internal frictions well enough. He has rather focused on explaining to Ghanaians why he thinks he would make the best leader going forward.

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Saudi Millionaire Whose Defence In A Rape Case Is That He Fell Into The Girl’s ‘Coochie’ Has Been Acquitted In The UK

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WTF

There’s bizarre, and then there’s this. A man accused for rape whose defence is that he tripped and fell into the p*ssy.

Why the hell didn’t KKD think of that?

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Development Of Youth Choirs In Ghana- Top Ten Areas With A Youth Choir

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The Dansoman Youth Choir in 2014
The Dansoman Youth Choir in 2014 (Facebook)

The utility of music to human endeavours is one that can never be overstated. Even before the highly digitalised era of music today, replete with enough instruments that fine tune and even alter the music being churned out by the singer- humans have found ways to give voice to their inner sense of wonder.

Aside being a means of entertainment, music has also served several other purposes, such as serving as a means of communication. Over time, several genres and forms of music have developed, serving different groups of people during different periods of history.

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Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Alright’ Tops Vulture’s List Of Top Music Videos Of The Year

Kendrick Lamar
Kendrick Lamar

It has become an anthem for African Americans in this time of entrenched racial inequality in the US, epitomised most by hugely disproportionate violence by police against blacks.

The Grammy nominated song from this year’s classic release from Lamar, ‘To Pimp A Butterfly’, has been earning rave reviews. And now the entertainment website Vulture has ranked it their top music video of the year in their end of year list.

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Maurice Ampaw Threatens To Release S*x Videos Of Gyan In Response To Leaked Sarah Kwabla Videos- Including One Where The Ghana Captain Is Masturbating

Asamoah Gyan
Asamoah Gyan

Lawyer Maurice Ampaw is quite big on making threats, although he’s not so big on following through.

He threatened last week to release s*x videos of Gyan if his camp does not come to settle his client Sarah Kwabla’s family- although that did not seem to work out too well.

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VIDEO: Madonna Hits Back At Fans Who Booed Her For Being Late To A Show By Telling Them To ‘Shut The F**k Up!”

Madonna
Madonna

Madonna has no patience for whiny fans!

The veteran singer had a concert in Manchester on Monday night, but somehow contrived to turn up almost an hour late.

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Pappy Kojo To Appear In A Movie With Yvonne Nelson?

Pappy Kojo
Pappy Kojo

Pappy Kojo is relatively new on the local scene, but is working hard to establish himself to one day join the pantheon of greats.

The ‘Realer Nu’ MC appeared on the Citi Traffic Avenue with Yvonne Nelson in tow on Tuesday. And between the two of them, they dropped some juicy hints of what Ghanaians can expect going forward.

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Ghanaian Education Official Says Assessing Students Entirely Through Examinations Is ‘Tyrannical’

BECE pupils
BECE pupils

This is one of the huge flaws in education that is worth examining. Some other countries have recognised it, and place just as much premium on extracurricular activities, practical assignments, and several other means of testing students that are meant to complement being examined.

But in Ghana, we place too much premium on examinations, and very little value on anything else. It breeds ignorant graduates, who crammed as much temporary info into their minds as they could to pass exams- but have very real or practical knowledge of whatever course it is they are studying.

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Bill Cosby Sues Women Accusing Him Of S*xual Assault For Defaming His Character

Bill Cosby
Bill Cosby

Bill Cosby’s argument is that over forty different women want to extort him, and have concocted unique but similar stories of his predilection to drug and then molest women.

But that is the way of civilised society, where the law is the final arbiter of issues. It is Cosby’s right to sue, just as it this that of the molested ladies to seek compensation.

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