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Humans do live in association with one another. No benefit comes by living a solitary life. Keeping friends is natural to us. But these friendships always do come in levels. We share our lives with others based on what brings us together. Some friendships are just for familiarity purposes with nothing much to achieve together as well as no real-time commitments. Others, as a result, are of social groups or professional associations where community goals are at stake. The interest of the organization is held in high esteem.    However, there is one other form of relationship that is much closer and intimate than the others. It is MATRIMONY . Though there are levels of intimacy before marriage which are acceptable to society, those are nothing compared to actual marriage. It is only in marriage that we find rights, privileges, and security. This is so because both partners publicly swear to be faithful to each other. Moreover, it is expected that both will work for t...

         Over the years, the African continent has been prone to lots of changes. We can all understand that these changes have had substantial effects on us as a continent. One of these changes is none other than technology. Technology has spread like wildfire across the African continent. The use of mobile gadgets and others have made things quite easier, no doubt. Particularly social media, which is our item under the spotlight today. With all the enormous amount of information social media passes around, has it succeeded or failed to enhance Africa’s development?        Development in Africa in all aspects, is moving at a slower pace. Government leaders often try to justify this by simply stating that there are not enough foreign aids. However, people are beginning to realize how dissipated the Governments have been to access of foreign funds. In other words, their eyes are open now. But how can others hear ab...

Shadows cast, lights out, flashback! Off the dance floor, down to the golden mattress Fantasy did touch the lips and hips of reality No stress, no chorus, no applause Just self-indulged copulatory commentary That threw millions of spermatozoa in a dicey race. A race, with just two rules: *win by ace or death is the case* Shadows lengthened, lights on, behold the present! Kudos to you! You won that exterminatory contest; yet with no bones, no expertise. Here, destiny challenges us to gladiatorial combats For this you must hear The rules may not always be fair Opponents ruthlessly attack -- with both club, dagger and spear While the crowd hiss and tease with every setback you face in the arena -- That invokes series of intimidating atmosphere. It matters not, if the throes are heftier than River Mississippi Any3mi, si wo trimu pi... And buckle up! It matters not, the count of defeats you record Just don't fall on your sword; set up a comeback -- I mean buckle...

Government institutions have, in recent times, come under lots of scrutiny from the general public. The exposure from much coveted investigative journalist, Anas only revealed the depth of rot at these places. It is no new news to hear about the unethical behaviours that deface our public sector all  because  many people in these institutions do not see the need to be responsible for the outcome these institutions produce at the end the day. Evidently, both the ‘powers that be’ and the masses are alike answerable to this impunity. We all do share in the blame , every single individual of the country because we have not raised up our heads to say "no more" and have not made our confessions of repentance with a firm decision to do right by the country. To begin with, one major cause of the social menace is the overload of work being assigned to subordinates by their supervisors in other words exhibition of laziness by the leaders. Once a person manages to hurdle t...

Without too much pharmacology or phytochemistry and words like Tetrahydrocannabinol, cannabidiol,  cannabinol,  tetrahydrocannabivar, CB1 &2 receptors, I seek to simply get the message well absorbed. So in spite of my strong predisposition to use big scientific words I will try to use simple english as much as possible. For clarity sake. It will be unfair not acknowledge that this piece was purely inspired by the great piece by Prince Acquah Rockson under the Heading, "A friend with weed is a friend indeed." A recreational user takes marijuana for the effect it creates and the high or buzz they want to get from it. Continued use builds up tolerance and can lead users to consume stronger drugs to achieve the same high. Drug dealers, motivated by the profits they make, will say anything to get you to buy their drugs. some of the stories they tell includes but not limited to increase in academic performance and increase in manual productivity and the al...

A friend with weed is a friend indeed is now a prevalent proverb that was brought out of the old and wise saying, " A friend in need is a friend indeed." In recent times, the use of hard drugs has become very common especially among the youth. Among them, it has been realized that weed has the highest rate of consumption and this is due to the legal terms that has been associated with weed. In some parts of the world, for instance Nevada the domestic use of weed has been legalized and it was surprising to know the number of people who queued to get some rolls of weed. The question i ask myself is, " Does weed now do us more good than harm or it has been genetically modified to perform miracles?" The answers to these questions are subjective depending on opinions or testimonies that have and are being shared. I doubt physicians now recommend weed as a cure or treatment of an ailment yet people argue on its good medicinal effect and its ability to affect your emotio...

Attest with me to the fact that since the beginning of this world, agriculture has been the most practiced and sustained profession/occupation. In fact I can say that it is the most important revolution that has ever happened to man. Asking ourselves today, is agriculture really what it used to be back in those days? As for me I will say that agriculture back in those days was more  lucrative than I assume it is in our time. Here's why; back in those days most of you will bear me out that agriculture was practiced on family basis such that no matter who you are or how you carried yourself, you will till the ground when the time for farming was due. Though currently, the family farming system may or may not exist; but let's ask ourselves that 'how many are into it and even those in it, how lucrative is it for them?' With current advancement in the world, people 'misconceptionally' assume agriculture or farming occupation is meant to be practiced by the rural...

It's of no doubt that what we accept about nature is what keeps us conscious. One undisputed fact is that 'no one can ever cheat nature.' So many people have forgotten that no matter how alike they may be with others, they're are made in a unique way. Nowadays, so many people doubt who they're due to certain life factors ( skin tone, body shape and size, walk of life, social class, among many others) but I ask this; must that be the case? I say a big no to with my reasons being these; as individuals from different parts of the world, we are who we are because of what we are, what we possess uniquely and what we accept and don't accept about ourselves. Let me use my own personal experience as an example; I was in a bus travelling to Kumasi, a city in Ghana when I had an encounter with this young woman. In fact she was fat but pretty. As we sat in the bus, I could see her flipping through her pictures on her smartphone. So I decided to poke a little and this ...

We are all used to this quote" Time is money". Everybody seem to have heard about this in different occasions in their lives but the question is, how many have really thought through on this? We have made it so generic to the point where we can't even realise it has lost it's power to inform us with the message it really carries. Everybody knows this quote but no one is willing to make a meaning out of it. We have unconsciously restricted it to the rich in society and we only believe its power to change circumstances when its coming from wealthy personalities. How sad...? Think about time, "Time is money". Every human has the same measure of time for an hour,a day, a week,a year and so on but why then do others tend to be very fruitful with their time whiles others do not.? It about how effective your time is to you than how long it lasts. We have been made to believe time is money but no one has taken the burden to make us understand the greatest tre...

In Ghana,  women constitute over 50% of the population, yet out of the 275 members of parliament, only 29 of them are women. The marginal representation of female leaders is common in many organizations across the country. A country like ours cannot develop when over 50% of its population do not have  equitable number of representative of leadership positions in various sectors of the economy. Women are needed to be the voices to promulgate the plights and needs of women in their communities, to propose policies that favor women, and to contribute in the building of our economy. Gender inequality sprouts from a lot of factors and religion seems to be one of the major. Ghana; like most African countries, is a very religious country of which Islam and Christianity is the most common of the religious affiliations. These two religions clearly spell out the role of women; to be submissive, to be busy at home and to  follow her husband's leadership. This law is basically fol...

I’m still here, waking up, while I dream every morning There was something called love, and we both shared it; it was beautiful I still dream of the euphoric moment, when in our salad days we were ignorant of decisions Until when We needed food for our stomachs and you very well couldn’t secure a three square meal for yourself Yes! I could have waited But we both know that time favored you more, that it did with me So, When the potbellied middle aged man Asked me to marry him I knew Automatically That not in a million years Would I have said Yes But it came to the point When I had to brood And decide I never said that love didn’t matter It really did That is why it hurt me then, that is why it hurts, even now Because With no trace of alacrity I agreed I decided to marry him He would give me the life that money could buy As for love If I loved him? No! So I suberized my heart Deceived myself Th...

“Had I known is the language of the fool”. You are now accountable to yourself with regards to how you earn and spend money. Below are some selected guidelines that will help you to spend your first lump sum salary wisely. 1. DRAW A BUDGET: The cliché goes like ” If you fail to plan, you plan to fail”. Life can be well lived only when it is planned well. What do you intend to use your salary for? Take a few moments and write them down. It is called ‘budget’. Budget writing has two most important components, i.e. INCOME and EXPENDITURE. INCOME is best described as the inflows: where and how will you get your money? Don’t settle for your salary as the one and only source of your income. On the other hand, EXPENDITURE is also best described as an amount of money that is spent on something. The things you spend your money on can further be grouped into NEEDS and WANTS. Your needs are the things you can’t live without while the things you can live without are your wants. For ins...