Yussif Ahmed Ibn Yussif

Unless John Dramani Mahama intends to contest 2024 if he loses the 2020 elections, one way or the other, we will have a one-term president in the history of this country come December 7, 2020. As to whom it will be, only time, campaign messages, and the thumbs of Ghanaians will tell. Yesterday, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) gave a resounding victory to John Dramani Mahama to lead them into the 2020 general elections. He won over 95% of the total votes cast by the NDC delegates yesterday. In fact, Prof. Joshua Alabi, a contestant jokingly said that the gap was too much. Umaru Sanda Amadu Of Citi FM/TV calls Dr Ekwow Spio-Garbrah the ultimate loser of yesterday’s elections. Some people too have commended Prof. Joshua Alabi for coming second even though his performance was awkwardly awful. Some political commentators have already said that for John Mahama to choose a running mate from amongst those who contested him, Prof Joshua Alabi, Alban Bagbin, Goosie Tanoh, Dr. Ekw

For an entire university academic year, I stayed with my uncle. Now, make no mistake, it was the first time I was meeting him. Imagine yourself moving from your comfort zone to live in a city you have only heard so much about and a person you have never spoken to before not to talk of seeing him. Yes, that was the feeling initially but with time, I settled in just fine. I settled in not just with the different lifestyle I had to adapt to suit the academic challenges of the university but how to cope with living with a person I had never met. I would say my uncle is a semi-liberal person. He doesn’t often talk about what others do. He observes for a while before making any observatory comments. Frankly speaking, for the fun part, I enjoyed living with my uncle. But the part where he would descend on me to make his observatory comments about all the wrong things I had done, I really didn’t enjoy it.... (Yussif smiles).. Don’t get me wrong, I like it when someone points out my mi

Yes, I went to a wedding ceremony last week on Sunday. Now, before the trotro vehicle which would eventually stain my white dress the next day (weird) pulled out of the Darkuman Official Town circle spot, a lot of dust began to settle in it. We, the passengers looked around and found out that a mentally challenged individual was sweeping along the street. Some of the passengers began to make some unsettling comments. While others insulted the sweeping mentally challenged lady to be insane, others spoke of how nobody had sent her to sweep the roadside that early morning. After they have made all these comments and many others like them, it got me thinking. So, the mentally challenged person has realized that the place is dirty and for that matter needs cleaning but the mentally sane people don’t see that. The mentally challenged sees that we need a clean environment to live healthily but the mentally sane individuals don’t see the same thing. Above all, the mentally chal

There is a growing perception of the Ghanaian media that it only feeds into negative news. They rarely report or give much attention to positive news or happenings in this country. This, as the argument suggests, emboldens foreign media to also report only negative news about Ghana and even Africa as a whole. I strongly disagree with such perception about the Ghanaian media on grounds that the media gives attention to issues that are prevalent in its environs. Because Ghana is fraught with so many challenges, the media is forced to focus on giving attention to the same to draw the attention of the leaders. Yes, the news must be balanced with both positive and negative stories. But if the country is suffocating under so many challenges, the media cannot turn a blind eye just because they want to put the country in a positive space on the international front. So, if almost all the roads in this country are worthy and not deplorable, the media would still report negatively about roa

Out of about twenty-eight comments that followed her post, only about two people suggested that she could have done otherwise. Well, she disagreed with them anyway. In fact, my heart skipped a beat when I saw her post at first but I eventually calmed down. I thought she wanted to disgrace me in public for getting some of my facts wrong in an article I had written. But I later realized that even though she could have chastised me in private instead of in public, the public rebuke will better put me on my toes to do better next time. I was impressed with something her husband had done and I wrote an article about it. He had provided some dustbins in some parts of Accra to help curb the poor sanitation in the city. Now, in the article, I referred to Bilqis Binta Umaru Sanda as Umaru Sanda Amadu’s wife instead of referring to her as his daughter. So his wife who is Bilkis Nuhu Kokroko took to Facebook and lashed at me for getting this wrong. Indeed, not that I didn’t know the fact