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

The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) is expected to issue a press statement in the coming days to formally congratulate the Lord Mayor of Accra, Hon Alfred Okoe Vanderpuije, on what they describe as ‘the roaring success’ of the recent…

Encouraged by the enthusiastic approval with which the Ghanaian public received his order to the Sports Ministry to pay the Black Queens, President Mahama has issued a directive to TV3 Network to reinstate presenter Nana Aba Anamoah…

The SADA CEO, Mr Charles Abugri, has announced that the guinea fowls that spread their wings in Ghana and flew away to Burkina Faso are on their way back home, thanks to an in-built rLG navigation app developed by Ronald Agambire, who also…

NPP National Chairman, Paul Afoko, has sent a sweet, little love message to the NPP Disciplinary Committee after snubbing an invitation to appear before the body to be queried for misconduct. ‘Please tell them I said they can’t “do…

A powerfully anointed charismatic pastor of an Accra-based mega-church has compared the trials and tribulations that Ezanetor Rawlings is suffering at the hands of the Klottey Korle constituency branch of the NDC to the sufferings that…

They are crazy! They’ve gone absolutely insane! Someone call Profit (sorry Prophet) T. B. Joshua!’ President Mahama is now the centre of gravity of a gathering storm of an epidemic of madness. Earlier in the year, the Chief…

Former President John Agyekum Kufuor has prophesied that a massive plague of yeast infection is about to hit every corner of the country, with wonderful consequences for all bakers in Ghana. Using his Oxford English, the man fondly…

The NDC MP for Ketu South, Honourable Fiifi Kwetey, has suggested that all political parties should be left alone to bloat the voters’ register in their strongholds, claiming that this is the only democratic solution to the ongoing…

Unpaid public sector workers can now buy goods at the various markets across the country using government assurances, popularly known as Mahama Promises. Analysts at the Ghana Stock Exchange report that the new currency, Mahama Promise,…

The gods have rejected in the clearest possible terms the testimony of their erstwhile spokesmen, the elders of the Ga State, who weeks ago had publicly declared that the destruction by flood and fire of June 3 was caused by the enraged…