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02/09/2026

02/09/2026

Kevin Taylor Warns Mahama Ayariga Not To Revive National Cathedral Project

Controversial NDC-aligned blogger and social commentator Kevin Taylor has issued a sharp public warning to the Minister for Local Government, Chieftaincy and Religious Affairs, Hon. Mahama Ayariga, cautioning him against giving any impression that government is willing to revive the National Cathedral project.

In a Facebook post, Taylor accused the Minister of unnecessarily courting political backlash, arguing that it was too early in his tenure to be embroiled in controversy over the stalled edifice. He insisted that the Cathedral, into which he claims over $90 million has already been spent, was conceived to defraud Ghanaians and “must never be entertained.”

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02/09/2026

Dancehall Queen, Kaakie Earns Doctorate in Nursing

Ghanaian dancehall star Kaakie has traded the microphone for the clinic, earning a Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP), a doctoral-level nursing qualification, and opening her own mental health practice in the US. She now goes by Dr Grace Aidoo, DNP, APRN, PMHNP-BC, and is the founder of Kaylora Holistic Wellness & Recovery, which offers psychiatric and therapeutic services.

Kaakie’s latest milestone brings her journey full circle. Before music, she trained in nursing and midwifery at the University of Ghana, and it was her appearance on the television talent show Stars of the Future, where she placed fifth, that opened the door to a music career. She went on to work with producer JMJ and sign with Xtra Large Music, becoming one of the leading names in Ghana’s dancehall scene with hits such as “Ewoo,” “Too Much,” “Toffee Pon Tongue” and “Zuuchia,” and picking up Best New Artiste of the Year and Reggae/Dancehall Song of the Year at the 2013 Ghana Music Awards. Even at the peak of her music fame, she kept working as a registered general nurse, a balancing act she spoke about in a 2014 interview with Graphic Showbiz.

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02/09/2026

President Mahama Dissolves Boards of Nine State-Owned Enterprises

President John Dramani Mahama has dissolved the boards of nine state-owned institutions with immediate effect, according to a statement issued by the Minister of State in charge of Government Communication, Felix Kwakye Ofosu.

The statement did not disclose why the boards were dissolved. It directed the sector ministers responsible for the affected entities to take all necessary steps, in line with applicable laws and governing instruments, to give effect to the dissolution, and indicated that the boards would be reconstituted in due course.

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02/09/2026

GhanaFeed Short Stories: ‘Ka Bi We’ (Have A Bite or Chew Some)

‘Ka bi we’, literally translated from Twi as “have a bite” or “chew some” was probably one of the most terrifying boarding house myths, a chilling piece of oral tradition, passed down from generation to generation in Odasco during the late 90s and early 2000s. For the freshers, it was not just folklore; it was a looming, shadowy threat.

According to the whispered stories, the old statue was not just a static piece of carved art, a monument to a forgotten scholar. Oh no. It was a spirit. A nocturnal wanderer. A cursed image that would mysteriously appear in people’s dreams, its stone mouth, usually sealed in a grim line, opening just enough to whisper things you were never, ever supposed to hear. Girls in the distant, imposing Asantewaa block reportedly woke up screaming in the dead of night, their cries echoing across the campus. Some claimed the statue moved its head at midnight, its cold, stone gaze following unsuspecting passersby. Others swore that if you stared too long, just a moment too long, into its blank, unseeing eyes, you would distinctly hear it say, softly but firmly, chillingly, “Ka bi we”.

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02/09/2026

The Asantehene Factor: How Otumfuo Turned Chieftaincy From a Burden Into a Brand Ghanaians Aspire to

There was a time, not too distant in Ghana’s oral history, when the announcement of a new chief was as likely to be met with dread as with celebration. Royals of good families would flee their hometowns, hide with relatives in other regions, or plead ill health and unworthiness rather than sit on a stool that came bundled with obligation, scrutiny and the weight of an entire people’s expectations. Chieftaincy was service first and status a distant second, and service, especially of the unpaid, unglamorous, endlessly demanding kind that traditional rulership required, was not something every eligible royal wanted.

That picture has changed. Today, succession battles are fought fiercely, sometimes to the detriment of the very unity the stool is meant to protect, precisely because so many now see chieftaincy as something worth pursuing rather than escaping. No single figure has done more to reshape that perception than Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, the 16th Asantehene, who has spent the past 27 years demonstrating what modern, purposeful, globally engaged traditional leadership can look like. Whatever one’s political persuasion, regional loyalty, or personal feelings about the institution of chieftaincy itself, the case for recognising what Otumfuo has built is one worth making plainly.

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02/09/2026

Christian Council Urges Gov’t to Set Politics Aside and Revive National Cathedral Project

The Christian Council of Ghana has appealed to the government to look past the political controversy surrounding the National Cathedral and find a path to reviving the stalled project.

The Council’s General Secretary, Rev. Dr. Cyril Fayose, said Christians in Ghana, along with international organisations and donor partners, remain willing to support the cathedral’s construction, but stressed that government backing would be essential to getting the project moving again.

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01/09/2026

Sammy Gyamfi Finally Instructs His Lawyers To Accept Afenyo Markin’s Writ In Defamation Case

The Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Gold Board (GoldBod), Sammy Gyamfi, has cleared a key procedural step in the defamation suit filed against him by Minority Leader Alexander Kwamena Afenyo-Markin, formally authorising his lawyers to accept service of the writ on his behalf.

The move comes days after Afenyo-Markin told Parliament on August 24 that he had begun legal proceedings against Gyamfi over allegations of extortion levelled against him.

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01/09/2026

Duane “Keffe D” Davis Convicted of First-Degree Murder in Tupac Shakur’s 1996 Killing

A Las Vegas jury has convicted Duane “Keffe D” Davis of first-degree murder with the use of a deadly weapon in connection with the 1996 killing of rap icon Tupac Shakur, marking the first time anyone has been held legally accountable for one of the most notorious unsolved crimes in music history.

Jurors delivered the guilty verdict on Monday, August 31, following a trial that stretched nearly two weeks and deliberations that lasted under three hours. Davis, 63, had faced a single murder charge with two modifiers, one tied to gang affiliation, the other to firearm use. Prosecutors ultimately dropped the gang enhancement over witness logistics, leaving jurors to weigh the core murder charge, which they found proven beyond a reasonable doubt.

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01/09/2026

The Anatomy of Insult: The Drift of Ghana’s Political Speech

Another monster has resurfaced in Ghanaian political discourse, and it is a familiar one. Insult has again become the common currency of the public square. We have split down the middle along partisan lines, each side defending the intemperance of its own while pretending to be scandalised by the intemperance of the other. The instinct is to be outraged; the duty, however, is to dissect. Insults in politics are not merely bad manners that a little civility can cure. They are a political technology, a way of converting citizens from reasoning participants into partisan spectators. The question they force upon us is whether public speech still has any moral boundaries at all.

Before any diagnosis, a set of distinctions must be drawn because the failure to distinguish them is what allows verbal abuse to hide behind the robes of free speech. Criticism is the reasoned judgment that a policy is wrong, a leader is incompetent, or a decision is harmful; it is the lifeblood of democracy. Satire uses ridicule and wit to puncture power, serving the public interest. Defamation is the publication of a falsehood that injures reputation, and it remains a civil wrong. Threatening speech is properly criminal. Invective is a sustained, aggressive indictment and an enthusiastic attack on a person’s character or record, but one that still attempts to build a case.

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