Christiana Love Is Pregnant…But Not By Me – Husband

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Created on Wednesday, 19 October 2011 00:00

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Christiana Love Is Pregnant…But Not By Me – Husband

Reports reaching Peacefmonline.com indicate that sensational Gospel artiste, Christiana Love, has taken seed. This would have been welcomed news for her numerous fans and well-wishers, but her husband, Pastor Love says he is not responsible for the pregnancy.

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Akuapem Celebrates Odwira

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Created on Tuesday, 18 October 2011 00:00

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Akuapem Celebrates Odwira

THE OMANHENE of the Akuapem Traditional Area in the Eastern region, Oseadeeyo Addo Dankwa III, has called on all stakeholders to do all in their power to reverse the continued deterioration in morality among the youth to ensure the ‘proper’ development of the country.

Oseadeeyo said moral decadence in the youth had greatly contributed to many vices in the society, stressing that the situation could endanger the proper growth of the country.

According to him, homosexuality, promiscuity among the youth, armed robbery and disrespect for authority were as a result of breakdown of moral values in contemporary Ghana and if nothing was done about it, it would affect the future of the country.

Oseadeeyo was speaking at a grand durbar to climax this year’s Odwira festival of chiefs and people of Akropong-Akuapem on Friday.

The durbar was attended by a large number of people from all walks of life including a powerful delegation from the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) led by its flag-bearer, Nana Akufo-Addo whose father comes from the area.

Before the durbar, sub-chiefs in the traditional area dressed in their rich kente and regalia had paraded through the main streets of the town in their palanquins.

Oseadeeyo, who was speaking on the festival’s theme ‘Need For Moral Restoration In Ghana’, said respect and obedience to authority or the elderly was a necessary ingredient for a stable society.

He said parents, teachers and religious leaders should ensure children are disciplined and duty-conscious in whatever they did.

He made particular reference to the Akuapem Traditional Area where discipline was part and parcel of their lives and religiously inculcated in the youth.

He said this traditional discipline amongst Akuapems had also been greatly affected by the general decadence in the country.

He therefore called on the Akuapems to lead the crusade to help reverse the trend of moral decadence among the youth by exhibiting moral virtues known of Akuapems.

The Akuapem Omanhene called on politicians to lead exemplary lives and ensure a clean campaign during next year’s general elections.

The Eastern regional minister, Dr Akyem Appea-Kubi, who represented the president, expressed concern about disunity among the Akuapems and the growing chieftaincy and land disputes in the area. He called on Akuapems to resolve those challenges to help speed up development in the area.

The announcement of Nana Akufo-Addo’s presence at the function threw the whole ground into a frenzy.

From Thomas Fosu Jnr, Akropong-Akuapem

Source: Daily Guide/Ghana

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Akufo-Addo Is Doomed

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Created on Tuesday, 18 October 2011 00:00

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Akufo-Addo Is Doomed

A renowned spiritualist has prophesized that the New Patriotic Party (NPP), will again suffer a painful defeat at the hands of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) come 2012 because the flag bearer, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo, is not spiritually ordained to rule the country.

He said had the NPP selected Alan Kyeremanten or millionaire Kennedy Agyapong, the CEO of Kencity Media, the party would have been able to defeat the NDC in the 2012 elections saying those two individuals would have had the spiritual backing of God to lead this nation.

According to Sheikh Mallam Musah, the current leader of the opposition NPP has not been spiritually chosen to lead this nation after the 2012 election.

He said, unlike all former presidents of this country, including current president, His Excellency John Evans Atta Mills who carry the mantle of leadership spiritually from God, Nana is unfortunately not part of those spiritually chosen by God Almighty to rule at least in the coming election of 2012.

The spiritualist added that since the NPP flagbearer cannot get the chance to lead his party again after 2012 then obviously he can never be the President of Ghana.

Though Sheikh Mallam Musah acknowledged and commended the impressive Human Rights record of Nana Addo and his long years of experience in the legal field, he maintains Nana Addo is better-off serving the party in other capacities since his current dream of making it to the Castle would not materialize.

He said he had dived deep into the spiritual realm regarding the chances of the NPP presidential hopeful, going into the 2012 elections but unfortunately he gets the same answers that the NPP candidate is not the right person for the party and the country.

Speaking about Nana Addo’s failed attempt at the presidency in the 2008 elections in an interview with the media over the weekend, Sheikh Mallam Musah explained it was the same reason why the NDC then in opposition was able to overturn over 100,000 votes deficit to the NPP who were enjoying incumbency advantage at the time.

He again revealed that to avert this political misfortune, the flag bearer must agree to step aside to allow those spiritually gifted to lead the NPP to victory in 2012.

According to the renowned man of Allah, the same circumstance surrounded the defeat of Nana Addo when he lost to the then candidate Kufour in their Sunyani congress under some strange occurrence which is not clear yet at this point.

To him, the mantle of leadership in the pool of gifted personalities in the New Patriotic Party rests with failed presidential candidate for the NPP, Alan Kwadwo Kyeremanten and less fancied millionaire and MP for Assin North, Hon. Kennedy Agyapong to wrest power from the NDC.

Sheikh Mallam warned the NPP not to be quick in rubbishing his statement as another politically motivated utterance since everything he has said is nothing but the truth.

Source: Ibrahim Amadu/The Al-Hajj/Ghana

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Asantehene Has No Coequal in Ga State

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Created on Sunday, 16 October 2011 00:00

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Asantehene Has No Coequal in Ga State

Rather than dignifying the office of the Ga-Mantse by resolving ongoing power struggle among the three Ga royal-stool claimants, a group calling itself the La

Citizens’ Network decided to put on a nuisance show on the day that former President John Agyekum-Kufuor cut sod to officially launch his Center for Leadership, Governance and Development complex on the campus of the country’s flagship academy, the University of Ghana (See “Kufuor Must Pay Homage to La Chief or… - La Group” Ghanaweb.com 9/19/11).

The main grievance of the La Citizens’ Network was that the former president had scheduled a courtesy call on the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei-Tutu II, as part of the observance of a similar project earmarked for the campus of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, on the same day. For the La Citizens’ Network, Mr. Kufuor ought to have scheduled a courtesy call on the La-Mantse, the traditional custodian of Ga-Stool lands, including lands officially ceded to the University of Ghana, Legon.

Actually, it is the Ga-Mantse, the supreme overlord of the natives of the Greater-Accra Region, who ought to have been honored with such a courtesy call. Unfortunately, as Mr. Frank Agyekum, the former president’s official spokesman rightly pointed out, the abject lack of respect and dignity with which the traditional leaders of the Ga State themselves appear to regard the Ga royal paramountcy makes it extremely difficult for any “outsider” to reverse the prevailing “normative” course.

What must also be highlighted here is the fact that the Ghanaian founders of the University of Ghana, spearheaded by the putative Doyen of Gold Coast and Ghanaian politics, Dr. J. B. Danquah, did not hail from any part of our country lacking adequate land space on which to have caused the historic establishment of Legon in 1948. In short, the choice of where Ghana’s flagship academy sits today had more to do with the fact of Accra having been named capital of the Gold Coast Colony by the British colonial administration in 1896. Once the landed property was ceded by the La chief, or whoever represented or deputized for the Ga-Mantse at the time, Legon automatically became the collective national property and pride of all Ghanaians, rather than the especial preserve or eternal property of the people of Labadi or even Gas in general!

Consequently, the very notion that anytime that a major project is initiated on the campus of the University of Ghana, the key players or initiators of such venture ought to, perforce, pay homage to any sector of the Ga State constitutes nothing short of the height of the insufferably preposterous. If by their wanton misbehavior in recent years (and here, also, the reference is to the Ohene-Djan Stadium affair) the leaders and representatives of the Ga State and people want the government to steer all productive and meaningful ventures meant for the collective appropriation of Ghanaians at large away from our nation’s capital, then they had better promptly say so. And believe me, there would absolutely be no shortage, whatsoever, of suitable locations around the country in which to site such ventures and/or projects.

And on the foregoing score must be promptly recalled the fact that prior to their respective establishment in Kumasi and Cape Coast, for example, both the now-Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) and the University of Cape Coast (UCC) were bona fide and integral components of the University of Ghana. The latter’s Department of Science and Technology would be moved to the Asante Regional Capital to become the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. The erstwhile Legon Department of Education would also become the University of Cape Coast. Presently, there is also another University of Education at Winneba, also located in the Central Region. It must also be promptly pointed out that Accra was not Ghana’s capital until the British colonial administration relocated it there in 1896, the very year in which my maternal grandfather, the Rev. T. H. Sintim, of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana, was born. And there is every reason to believe that should the Ghanaian people so decide in a future referendum, our nation’s capital could well be moved to a more convenient and agreeable space within the geopolitical confines of our rich and historic nation.

If the La Citizens’ Network is so desirous of having the traditional rulers of the Ga State accorded the kind of courtesy befitting the Asantehene, Ghana’s foremost monarch, then they had better demonstrate a more serious and dignified attitude towards the conduct of Ga chieftaincy affairs. One cannot cut off one’s nose to spite one’s own face and then expect neighbors and total strangers to accord one the same level of respect as those who deeply appreciate the facial beauty that an unblemished nose brings to one’s mien.

*Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D., is Associate Professor of English, Journalism and Creative Writing at Nassau Community College of the State University of New York, Garden City. He is Director of The Sintim-Aboagye Center for Politics and Culture and author of “Ghanaian Politics Today” (Lulu.com, 2008). E-mail: okoampaahoofe@optimum.netThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .
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