Inside the News by Mpakoo – All pieces appearing in this column are satire

The government has used biblical language to admonish Ghanaians to embrace the new taxes, quoting Leviticus 11: ‘Cast thy bread upon the water: for thou shalt find it after many days. Give a portion to seven, and also to eight; for thou…

The National Executive Committee of the NPP has vowed to suspend anyone who stands in the way of the party’s attempt to take over the reins of government from the NDC. Hours after the suspension of Dr Nyaho Tamakloe, a senior member of…

Privileged information reaching us suggests that heavyweights in the government are weeping and gnashing their teeth this Christmas and New Year season over the lack of foresight that pushed them to oppose calls for a new voters’ register.…

The Flagstaff House has tried to assuage the anxieties of Ghanaians regarding the rising spate of corruption scandals with a press statement assuring the public that the government promises to finish the plunder of state resources before…

Disappointed PNC presidential hopeful, Hassan Ayariga, has claimed that he would have ‘easily won’ the primaries if he had ‘only stuck to his previous strategy of coughing’ at his opponents instead of vote-buying. Speaking to…

The majority leader has exposed the diabolical machinations of the NPP, whose leadership, said he, have been busily forming alliances with forces internal, external, and even infernal! Privileged information available to the NDC MP…

The Power Minister, Dr Kwabena Donkor, has highly sang his own praises at the Tema Harbour, where the Karpower barge from Turkey has finally docked. ‘Once again, our detractors are going to question the wisdom in inaugurating the…

President John Dramani Mahama has directed some harsh words at the 4.9% of NDC voters who expressed lack of faith in his leadership at the party primaries last weekend. He told a gathering of supporters that it was ‘unfortunate that…

Martin Amidu, the former Attorney-General who introduced the word ‘Gargantuan’ into popular Ghanaian vocabulary, is no longer in the good books of Ghanaians. The self-acclaimed Citizen-Vigilante incurred the self-righteous…

Card-bearing members of the NPP have dismissed concerns about the growing spate of violence in their party which recently led to the second murder of a member of the party this year. ‘The fratricides occurring in the party will help us…