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There is joyous moment and excitement across the six administrative districts of kusaug as they celebrate the 33rd samanpiid festival today Monday December 28.
The week long celebration started with chiefs and people of Kusaug Traditional area to offer thanks to the gods for a successful year.
All the 25 divisional chiefs in the Kusaug Traditional area have started pouring libation to appease the gods within their respective areas awaiting today.
There were exhibition of local foods, crafts and skulls of animals, and traditional wears such as the popular mock among other things that will be showcased today.
The samanpiid festival celebration has attracted people locally and internationally with diverse cultural backgrounds to withness the rich culture of Kusaug.
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A former member of the Council of State and former ambassador to Denmark and the Scandinavias, Hajia Fati Habib-Jawula, is dead. She was 78.
Hajia Habib-Jawula, who died on December 15 this year, was buried the next day in accordance with Islamic tradition.
She was the wife of the late Alhaji Habib Jawula (Founder Member of the Progress Party), niece of former Convention People’s Party (CPP) flag bearer, Dr Abu Sakara and sister-in-law of Lepowura M.N.D. Jawula, former Chairman of the Ghana Football Association and former Chief Director of the Ministry of Harbours and Railways and the Ministry of Health.
Over 17 million Ghanaians registered to participate in the December 2020 general elections.
The polls were keenly watched especially in the presidential race that pit incumbent Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo against former president John Dramani Mahama.
The voting process ended relatively peacefully till the collation process where the main opposition National Democratic Congress, NDC; has alleged massive irregularities costing them a parliamentary majority.
The party is also contesting the presidential outcome.
According to official results by the Electoral Commission, EC; president Akufo-Addo emerged winner of the vote with over 51% of valid votes cast. All things being equal, he will be serving his second and final term as president.
How Rawlings’ strong and abstract transformational leadership paved way for modern day Ghana
The first American to translate Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy and one of the fireside poets- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in one of his writings ‘A Psalm of Life’ had this to say: “Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time”.
This quotation best describes the life and time of Flight lieutenant Jerry John Rawlings, the former president of Ghana, who died November 12, 2020, at the age of 73 after a brief illness. J. J., as he was fondly called by the downtrodden of Ghana who have come to develop a great affinity for him, demonstrated uncommon characteristics and great leadership skills from his early days at Achimota school back in 1966. Born in Accra, Ghana on June 22, 1947 to a Ewe mother and a Scottish father, J.J. Rawlings from childhood developed a great interest in planes. His parents wante
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