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The Corrupted Soul

By AlatiphA - February 23, 2015

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...

Dagbon Yaa-Naas funeral rites performance on course

By AlatiphA - February 21, 2015

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...

Maiden private BECE resit starts today

By AlatiphA - February 16, 2015

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 Bloody History Of Saint Valentine

By AlatiphA - February 14, 2015

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...

The Employed Gorilla

By AlatiphA - February 13, 2015

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...

Grandpa, 73, graduates from university

By AlatiphA - February 11, 2015

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...

The Second Coming by William Butler Yeats

By AlatiphA - February 07, 2015

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 ...