The love of filthy lucre, glamorous, shiny life, rabid materialism, the seeking after crude fame, appearing on the pages of newspapers, glossy magazines, bribing journalists for self-promotion to cover up the rotten life of the corrupted soul, these are the practices of the corrupted soul. The corrupted soul is arrogant, unfeeling, opinionated, deluded, and secretive. He never criticizes corruption. For him, he does not care about what you are talking about. From my close observation of rich, but corrupted soul , I sense his inhumanity. He lacks humility; he bullies his subordinates, workers and upright humanity. The corrupted soul never accepts wrongful actions and he says things that fail to reflect historical misdeeds. He adopts the holier-than-you all attitude. The political leader, who condones corruption, the civil servant, who shamelessly betrays his office, the political advisers, who support bribery and usury, they know no peace, they are restless, quixotic, develop shifti...

The Northern Regional House of Chiefs has reiterated its plan to perform the funerals of the late two Yaa-Naas in Dagbon. At its last sitting on December 10, 2014, the house resolved that funerals of the late Yaa-Naa Mahamadu Abdulai and Yaa-Naa Yakubu Andani II should be performed latest by March 31, 2015. Counsel for the Northern Regional House of Chiefs, Lawyer Fatawu Yakubu in an exclusive interview told Citi News the house hasn’t changed its position. According to him, copies of a five point resolution adopted by the House were submitted to all the major stakeholders involved particularly both sides of the chieftaincy divide. “The five points resolution has been forwarded to all the chiefs concerned and all those who are required to take any necessary actions have all received their copies of the resolution.” He added, “Indeed most of them were present in the house when the resolution was passed: so we are currently working towards kick starting the pro...

The West African Examination Council (WAEC) has said that all is set for the inaugural resit of the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) for private candidates, which begins today Monday February 16, 2015. The BECE resit presents an opportunity to candidates who failed to achieve pass marks at their first attempt, and thus missed out Senior High School placements via the Computerised School Selection and Placement System, to have another go at the examinations Over a thousand candidates are expected to take part in the examinations at 11 examination centres across the country. The Western Region recorded the highest number of registered candidates (276) with the Upper East Region registering the lowest number of registered candidates (28). The Principal Public Affairs Officer of WAEC, Agnes Teye-Cudjoe, confirmed to Citi News that everything was in place for the start of the examination today and that all the examination materials had been transported to the WAEC centres ...

The real history of Valentine's Day is not comprised of roses, chocolates and pretty cards. Instead, crime, imprisonment and execution are at the genesis of our modern day love fest, dating back to the man whose martyrdom may have inspired the holiday. There were reportedly three early Christian saints named Valentine, but the one the holiday likely comes from was a Roman priest during the 3rd century A.D. under Emperor Claudius II. The Roman Empire was experiencing massive turmoil at the time. Dubbed the 'Crisis of the Third Century' by scholars, this period saw the empire divide into three competing states, with the threat of invasion all around. Claudius made the unpopular decision to ban marriage among young people, believing that unmarried soldiers fought better than married soldiers. With the Roman Empire hanging by a thread, Claudius needed all the brazen war power he could get. This is where Valentine comes in; the pesky priest who believed marriage to be a God-g...

A graduate in Biology from the University of Ghana was having difficulty in finding a job. He saw an advert in one of the daily newspapers for a job at a zoo. At the interview, the manager told him that their gorilla, which had been tourists attraction had died so they needed someone to dress up and pretend as gorilla. The graduate was embarrased, but since the salary was good, he accepted the job. On the first day, he put on the gorilla skin and entered the cage, he started jumping up and down, beat his chest and roared like gorilla. The next day, he put on a Gorilla skin and started moving around the zoo again and mistakenly entered another cage and found himself staring at a lion. The lion roared and rushed towards him. The scared graduate quickly forgot that he was a gorilla and started shouting like human, "Help! Help!" The lion leaped onto him, knocked him to the ground and whispered in his ear "gyimifuo" it's me, Apart Boahene, your course mate. Shut...

Leonard Adjetey, at age 73, has just graduated with a Second Class Upperdegree and tells NEWS-ONE he would be pursuing his Masters degree because higher academic education gives him the requisite confidence and discipline to live a better life. Mr Adjetey owns two thriving hotels, one in Tema and another in Kpone.  He also runs a successful agriculture business and says he went to the university to get a degree not because he does not have what to eat. NEWS-ONE first asked him why he returned to school at such an old age. “Confidence; I wanted confidence. I was thinking to get to the top but I realised I had a limitation and that the key to the top lay in my ability to acquire higher knowledge. I was advised by my eldest daughter to go to the university and I took that advice. Now, my brains have been sharpened and I want to pursue my Masters. “I gained admission to the Presbyterian University College, Tema Campus, at age 71 and started as a level 200 student. My cla...

    Turning and turning in the widening gyre     The falcon cannot hear the falconer;     Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;     Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,     The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere     The ceremony of innocence is drowned;     The best lack all conviction, while the worst     Are full of passionate intensity.     Surely some revelation is at hand;     Surely the Second Coming is at hand.     The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out     When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi     Troubles my sight: a waste of desert sand;     A shape with lion body and the head of a man,     A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,     Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it     Wind ...

For some time now, some candidates who sat for the November/December 2014 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) have been receiving calls from people who introduce themselves simply as staff of the West Africa Examination Council (WAEC). These people claim to have access to the WAEC results database and can alter results for candidates, usually for huge amounts of money. A candidate who spoke to The Mirror said she received a call from an unknown number telling her she had scored D7 in an English paper she wrote last year. The caller gave out details of her index number, number of subjects she wrote and her examination centres. He also told her she had failed the English Language paper and that she could be given a better grade before the results were officially released if she would part with a certain amount of money. ‘I was very convinced because he had all my details. I panicked because it was the third time I had sat for those papers. I asked for the mod...

The National Service Scheme (NSS) says as part of changes in the registration procedure, recruitment and deployment for the 2015/2016 service year, all prospective national service personnel would now be required to undergo pre-registration payment process in accordance with the scheme’s realignment and new posting schedule. A statement issued in Accra Wednesday and signed by the acting Executive Director, Dr. Michael Kpessa-Whyte says all prospective national service personnel would be required to complete payment of their pre-registration fee of forty Ghana cedi (GH¢40.00) at any branch of the Agricultural Development Bank (ADB) across the country, using their uniquely assigned pin codes. The statement further added that it is only after the payment of the pre-registration fee that prospective national service personnel can have access to the Scheme’s on-line registration platform to register to be deployed for 2015/2016 national service. The Public Relations Offic...

‘The fly that struts around on a mound of excrement wastes his time; the mound will always be greater than the fly. The thing that beats the drum for ngwesi is inside the ground. Darkness is so great it gives horns to a dog. He who builds a homestead before another can boast more broken pots. It is ofo that gives rain-water power to cut dry earth. The man who walks ahead of his fellows spots spirits on the way. Bat said he knew his ugliness and chose to fly by night. When the air is fouled by a man on top of a palm tree the fly is confused. An ill-fated man drinks water and it catches in his teeth When a handshake passes the elbow it becomes another thing. The sleep that lasts from one market day to another has become death. The man who likes the meat of the funeral ram, why does he recover when sickness visits him? The mighty tree falls and the little birds scatter in the bush… The little bird which hops off the ground and lands on an ant-hill may not know it but is still...

Africa tell me Africa Is this you this back that is bent This back that breaks under the weight of humiliation This back trembling with red scars And saying yes to the whip under the midday sun But a grave voice answers me Impetuous son, that tree young and strong That tree there In splendid loneliness amidst white and faded flowers That is Africa your Africa That grows again patiently obstinately And its fruit gradually acquire The bitter taste of liberty DAVID DIOP, “Africa"

A complainant who stormed a court in Tamale in the Northern Region to seek vengeance on a defendant and as detained has been released on bail. Speaking to Joy News, Northern Regional Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Ebenezer Tetteh says the suspect will be formally charged on Monday. “He will be charged formally and arraigned before court on Monday but he has been granted police enquiry bail.” Yakubu Abubakar is a plaintiff in a suit involving Abubakar Zayeed who allegedly assaulted him with a pistol. He lodged a complaint with the police that he was coming from the Tamale Airport when suddenly a Toyota Camry crossed him. When the vehicle stopped, some guys came out of the vehicle and one of them used a pistol to hit him on the forehead, giving him a deep cut. But, he decided to take the law into his own hands and revenge the assault after Zayeed appeared in court. He was arrested on the orders of the court when he attempted to slash the accused person with the cut...