Yussif Ahmed Ibn Yussif

Ouch!! Farewell to the former Energy Minister, Mr. Boakye Agyarko. Well, His Excellency Nana Addo Danquah Akuffo Addo has booted him out of his government over reasons media rumors say includes the renegotiated AMERI deal. A communiqué from the presidency on August 6, 2018, indicated the President has relieved the former minister of his duties. But what I find interesting is that the communiqué doesn’t detail why he has been sacked. But for some time now, this renegotiated AMERI deal which parliament has put on ice has been one of the main issues in the media especially when it was said that the President was misled into signing the deal. Really? Misled? Did the President not have enough time to read through the deal or he didn’t even read it all? Let’s take it that he was misled into signing the deal, by whom? Could that be part of why the energy minister has been sacked? Former Energy Minister, Mr. Boakye Agyarko. We live in a country where high ranking members of governmen...

Little did I know that the saying that if you want to hide something from a black man, put it in a book wasn’t just a cliché but a reality. How is it that anybody would append his signature to anything without first reading its content? Some things are just mind boggling. For some days now, a document has been going round in parliament asking minority members of parliament to append their signatures to garner support for Former President John Mahama to run for the NDC flagbearership again in the upcoming 2020 presidential elections. This document is said to have seen as many as 94 signatures out of the 106 minority MPs in support of John Mahama. This tells how much support the former president still has in the NDC party. But can we say the same among the larger Ghanaian population? Well, a question only time and research can answer.                       Parliament House of Ghana. Among the numerous MPs who signed this docum...

Just a few questions, please. So, in whose interest do politicians take decisions? When parliamentarians sit in the chamber of parliament to execute their mandates, do they have the ordinary man in mind? When the president is appending his signature to anything, in whose interest does he do it? The judiciary arm of government, in whose interest do they work? Do all of these people perform their functions at the expense of the ordinary Ghanaian or for his benefits? Do they perform their duties with the next election first or last on their agenda? Does the politician fight for the ordinary man to not be disenfranchised to ensure human rights and freedoms are ensured or just for their parochial interest of winning political power? Last but not least, in whose interest does the electorate queue come rain or shine to cast their ballots every four years? We live in a country where everything politics is just black and white. There is no middle ground.  Everything any government does is...

The month of July will forever remain in the minds of  Ghanaians. It has invariably left an indelible mark on our history. Ghana was thrown into a sudden turbulence on July 24, 2012, when for the first time we lost a sitting presiden t.  As usual, when the inevitability of death caught up with His Excellency John Evans Atta Mills, it was shocking to everyone because even though we never see death coming, this was totally unexpected and very much a big blow to the country. The whole of Ghana mourned like we never had and never will again. As the custom of Ghana demands, we don’t speak ill of the dead and so all manner of people from all walks of life said all kinds of good and sober words about the former president.    The Late Prof. John Evans Atta Mills Per the demands of the 1992 constitution of Ghana, the then Vice President of the land was sworn in as president. After His Excellency John Dramani Mahama was sworn in as president, he chose the then governor...

One of the requirements to graduating successfully in my school is to have a three month internship in any media institution to acquire practical knowledge of all the theories you’ve been taught. And so I’m now doing my internship at a radio station in the Brong Ahafo Region of Ghana, Sunyani. I have been here for almost a month now. And boy, the experience! My encounter with a number of the journalists at my place of internship has taught me a lot of things. One of the lessons is how we respond to our environment. Different people of different mindsets will respond to the same environment differently. The station that I’m with deals mostly in local content and by local content, I mean its restricted area of the Brong Ahafo region. It deals in national issues though it localizes it to maintain their objective of promoting local content. The general manager of the station by all standards I will say is a very knowledgeable and experienced man. He speaks highly of his ...

                             In the eyes of the public lies the judgement of many an individual. The public is the biggest critique of human actions and inactions. Their judgements transcend the ruling of a supreme court of any stature. Once the public takes a stand or position on an issue, it builds pressure on the head of the individual or group of individuals so much so that it becomes reality even if their assertion is not entirely the case. The public opinion sometimes defines reality. It can make or unmake an individual. It is said that the voice of the people is the voice of God. Who are the people? It is, of course, the public. It's in this vein that the public has the sole power to elect public officials like politicians. Without the public, politicians are nothing. Considering the above is what makes some actions and inactions of some p...

I  watched as the rain washed a chunk of rubbish into the various gutters along the roads in Assin Fosu, a town in the central region. In fact, I was saddened by the scene. How on earth would someone eat from a rubber and drop the rubber anywhere he or she is sitting or standing? People sit in their stores, buy food, eat them from rubbers and throw the rubbers into the gutters in front of them. How is it that we dirty our environment without even considering the consequences of it? Do we ever realise that the numerous diseases ranging from malaria to typhoid we suffer from on a daily basis is as a result of the way a manner we dirty  our environment? We blame Assembly members, Zoomlion, Town Council and the various agencies who are supposed to be in charge of helping keep our communities clean for shirking responsibilities and letting us to stay in filth. Have we ever sat back and thought of our own actions and inactions that render the environment dirty? We do all kinds of t...