Should we blame women who fall prey to the antics of Pastors

In five days, four pastors have been arrested for indecent assault on women congregants following reports that they were washing the genitals of women under the guise of giving them spiritual healing.
The reports have brought to the fore, the fact that women most often fall prey to the antics of quack pastors who take advantage [...]

August 24, 2009 | Read the story »

Who would have the Political will to transform our state institutions?

Our discussions in the past week have all ended with a common suggestion that to prevent some ills (such as electoral fraud and violence), our state and Public institutions need to be strengthened and made independent to deliver.
On Thursday on the super morning show, we sought to identify why state institutions mostly fail to live [...]

August 20, 2009 | Read the story »

Expect more electoral Violence

In my discussion on Tuesday following election related violence in the Akwatia Constituency, I sought to understand why incidents of electoral violence persists in Ghana despite acclamations that we are a mature democracy that should serve as an example to other African countries.
On sunday, supporters of the NPP and NDC in Akwatia constituency resorted to [...]

August 18, 2009 | Read the story »

Super Morning Show Wins Second Award

Super Morning Show wins 2 awards
JOYfm’s Super Morning Show won a second award for the year 2008 at the recently held GJA awards night.
The show tagged as Ghana’s Biggest Breakfast show picks up a second award following the first by the Chartered Institute of Marketing Ghana (CIMG) which similarly recognized the excellence of the show [...]

August 16, 2009 | Read the story »

Muntaka Pampers - If you want to clean up the house, keep your hands clean

Today, I had a long chat with the former sports minister Muntaka Mubarak on his Pampers and baby oil saga which led to his removal from office.
While Alhaji Muntaka insisted he had done nothing wrong, I was left with the feeling that the then sports minister had just been inexperienced with his actions and inactions.
Alhaji [...]

August 12, 2009 | Read the story »

Are you convinced that Ghana’s health authorities have Swine Flu under control as they say they do?

Two cases of Swine flu have been reported in Ghana.
Health authorities say they have the pandemic under control.
Are you convinced?
What would you want to see done to convinced that you are safe?

August 10, 2009 | Read the story »

Must sexual offenders be profiled?

Today’s main discussion on the Super Morning Show took some time to fly but I believe the point was made.
The point that the war against domestic violence is far from won. The implementation of the Domestic Violence Act passed in 2007 has been more than slow. A board that will supervise its implementation has yet [...]

August 6, 2009 | Read the story »

Multinationals take over lands of local farmers at Yendi

Farmers in Northern Ghana say big multinational organisations are depriving them of their livelihoods.
The farmers say the firms, receiving the backing of chiefs in the affected areas, have acquired large swathes of their farmlands, displacing several villages.
Ghana’s drive to increase the production of biofuel is receiving massive support from these multinational organisations from mainly the [...]

August 5, 2009 | Read the story »

Road Fund owes 105 million Ghana cedis?

Hi, my name again is Evans Mensah, sit-in host of the Super Morning Show. Did you hear the Roads and Highways minister on the Super Morning Show this morning?

I was startled by the revelations on the Road Fund. He said the NPP mortgaged the road fund for a loan from the Social Security and National [...]

August 4, 2009 | Read the story »

Competence and Loyalty, My Thoughts

Hi my name is Evans Mensah. I am the sit in host of the Super Morning Show on Joy 99.7fm.
It has been a week since I took over the hot sea as Kojo takes break. It has been a challenging experience seeing how sophisticated the listeners are. That is why [...]

August 3, 2009 | Read the story »