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MANASSEH’S FOLDER: False claims, dumb defence
She’s not just any weightless propagandist or faceless serial caller whose words ought to be disregarded or treated with contempt. She is a lawyer. She is the Member…
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MANASSEH’S FOLDER: The unbelievable truth
It started like a blockbuster movie plot with a climax everyone looked up to. But it ended in an anti-climax and took a rather humourous turn when the…
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MANASSEH’S FOLDER: Kintampo deaths and Invisible Forces: Akufo-Addo’s biggest test yet
Let us put politics aside. Let us put our emotions aside. Let us shelve religious beliefs for a moment. Let us put our thinking caps on. Let us…
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MANASSEH’S FOLDER: Senseless portfolios, insensitive government
Yesterday, I listened to the Minister of Information, Mustapha Abdul-Hamid, on Joy FM’s Top Story with Evans Mensah. He was trying to defend the president’s decision to shoot…
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MANASSEH’S FOLDER: I saw Mahama’s Ford Expedition at Flagstaff House last month
Last week, the Deputy Executive Director of the National Service Scheme (NSS), Nana Boakye, said the Ford Expedition given to President Mahama by the Burkinabe contractor, Djibril Kanazoe,…
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MANASSEH’S FOLDER: Common sense analysis of Ayariga’s bribery claim
Before night fell yesterday, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) member of parliament for Bawku Central, Mahama Ayariga, set the nation on a fire of controversy. He alleged that…
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MANASSEH WRITES: Osafo Maafo can’t get evidence, but he can be honest
There is news that parliament is withholding the approval of some ministerial nominees of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. The list includes the Senior Minister-designate, Mr. Yaw Osafo…
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MANASSEH WRITES: If Bagbin had asked Suhuyini’s question the same way
In the past, some people appeared at the Vetting Committee of parliament and they were asked to recite the national anthem and national pledge. The questions were deemed…
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MANASSEH’S FOLDER: Of a greedy nation and a homeless president
Brethren in the Lord, let us open our Bible to the book of Matthew. We are reading from the twentieth verse of the eighth chapter. For a better…
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MANASSEH’S FOLDER: Why Akufo-Addo’s plagiarised speech is both good and bad omen
A child from a poor home, like the one in which I grew up, does not often look up to something special from its mother’s kitchen, but it…
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MANASSEH’S FOLDER: Has Akufo-Addo just repeated Mahama’s blunder?
Our wise elders have warned us that if a man dies by stumbling over a stone, we do not run to his funeral. For the fear of also…
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MANASSEH’S FOLDER: A critique of Akufo-Addo’s “Thank You” tour
When the much-vilified Old Man showed up again for the third time, his fate on the chopping board of the sharp-teethed babies and ill-bred adults was more predictable…