My Scripts
DEIFICATION AND PERSONALIZATION OF NATIONAL GOVERNANCE
For the last few years, our media landscape has been inundated by a cacophony of noises with regards to various infrastructural projects and who is supposed to be the rightful claimant for such projects. I have attempted to toss the matter up in my mind on a number of...
WHAT A MAN OF GOD! -APS. MICHAEL COLLINS ASIEDU
In 2008, the Chairman of the Estate Committee (Surv. Emmanuel Martey) drafted me to assist in the supervision of maintenance works in the church’s Mission House in Mamprobi Banana. As a result of the decisions of the General Council Meeting in May 2004, our Resident...
CELEBRATING A PAST RESIDENT PASTOR – APOSTLE JULIUS FRANKLIN ASANTE-AYEH
I joined PIWC-Accra in 1997 at a time when Pastor Anthony Miah (later Apostle) had been transferred from PIWC-Accra to Gabon as the first Missionary of that country. Within months, we received our new Resident Pastor, Julius Franklin Asante-Ayeh from Navrongo. From...
CELEBRATING YET ANOTHER PAST RESIDENT PASTOR – REV. STEVE MILLAR
“Now praise we great and famous men, The fathers named in story; And praise the Lord who now as then Reveals in man His glory.” - W.G. Tarrant I first heard of him in 1997 when he was scheduled to inaugurate our campus student ministry - PENSA. He was the Greater...
This is simply not good enough, Ghana!
This reflection is premised on the funeral of Nenyi Nkensen II (my former Senior House Master), I attended exactly a week ago. He was enstooled the Tufuhene of the Senya Beraku Traditional Area following the abdication of his predecessor Nenyi Kow Nkensen Arkaah, who...
J.B. DANQUAH IN A POEM
In 1945, Dr Joseph Boakye Danquah wrote a poem to celebrate his Golden Jubilee on earth.The poem summarised his life, profession and politics up to that time. Like or hate him, this I edited news and sold it; I dyed my hair and stopped it; I espied a truth and...
BIRTH OF GHANA’S SECOND REPUBLIC – WAS IT UNREASONABLY IDEALISTIC OR SIMPLY ILL-CONCEIVED?
By Eric Atta-Sonno Introduction Most Ghanaians associate the 1st October date as the Independence Day for the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Very few however know or remember that this was the day that the Second Republic of Ghana was inaugurated. That Republican...
WAS IT WORTH IT? – EPISODES FROM THE PUBLICATION OF A BOOK
Title of Book: WAS IT WORTH IT? - EPISODES FROM THE PUBLICATION OF A BOOK Recommended Retail Price: GHS 40.00 Age Range: Young Adults and Adults ABOUT THE BOOK This book, ‘Was it Worth It? – Episodes from the Publication of a Book’ narrates the gruelling experiences...
KWAME NKRUMAH – ‘AFRICA’S MAN OF THE MILLENNIUM’
Title of Book: KWAME NKRUMAH - ‘AFRICA’S MAN OF THE MILLENNIUM’ Foreword: Prof. Kofi N. Awoonor Recommended Retail Price: GHS 150.00 Age Range: Adults ABOUT THE BOOK This book seeks to review various presentations made about the life of the man who led this country in...
BUILDING A 21 ST CENTURY CHURCH ON THE 1 ST CENTURY MODEL (AN AGENDA FOR GENERATIONAL TRANSFORMATION)
Title of Book: BUILDING A 21 ST CENTURY CHURCH ON THE 1 ST CENTURY MODEL (AN AGENDA FOR GENERATIONAL TRANSFORMATION) Foreword: Aps. Eric Nyamekye Recommended Retail Price: GHS 100.00 Age Range: Teenage and beyond ABOUT THE BOOK As Christian believers, we cannot remain...
DEARLY BELOVED, PLEASE FIND A PLACE AND REGISTER, WHILE DOING YOUR BEST TO OBSERVE ALL THE COVID-19 PROTOCOLS.
Two days ago, I checked into one of the registration centres in Cantonments under the La-Dade Kotopon constituency. I have voted in that constituency since 1996 except for the 2012 and 2016 where I voted in Trobu. When the registration exercise began a week or so ago,...
Reinforcing the Spirit of Patriotism with our Awards – How far?
In a discussion with one of my many young friends last week, the subject of national awards came up. I was shell shocked about his total lack of information on our national awards as a country. Back in Upper Primary as part of Civic Education however, we were taught...
LET OUR NATIONAL FLAG BE WHAT IT’S SUPPOSED TO BE
When I was growing up, we studied a subject called Civic Education (Civics) for two years in Primary School. One of the key areas of the subject was a study into the national symbols - National Flag, Coat of Arms, National Anthem, National Pledge, National Orders,...
LET’S BE MINDFUL OF THESE
In the last week, for whatever reason, we’ve had NPP apparatchiks loudly trumpeting the eighty-eight (88) District Hospitals and six (6) Regional Hospitals for the newly-created regional capitals. Just when the government began to receive applause for the initiative,...
Lockdown Diaries – Reflecting on what truly matters.
The thought hit me earlier this week, on Easter Monday. For the first time in living memory, we had spent the entire Easter weekend indoors – from the solemn Good Friday to the usually electrifying Resurrection Sunday. Such an important celebration on the Christian...