GHANA TRADITIONAL & CIVIL WEDDING: KOFI AND ASIEDUA

This particular couples happen to be my family relations. I am directly related to the Groom who is my uncle. They married some where in 2015 after staying together for more than 15 years. Below are the pictures. Enjoy!

The beginning of the event

The bride price

Family of the Bride

The grooms family (ie. my folks)

announcing the groom's coming

Grooms family ushers her in

Their daughter (ie. my cousin) dances with joy as her dad arrives

The groom (My uncle)

Ushering in the bride (center,wrapped in cloth)

The bride

She greets the folks

The paparazis were not left out

Putting the ring on his bride's finger

hugging her

The two shall be one...




THE CIVIL UNION

Family gathered at the Church marriage registration office

Marriage sermon by the Minister of the Gospel of Christ

Bride walked down the aisle by father in traditional kente cloth of Ghana

Well prepared to exchange lifetime vows

Poised and ready!

One can't start without inviting Christ to the vessel

exchange of rings by groom

exchange of ring by bride

blessing of marriage

prayers after communion

wow! such a passionate kiss indeed!

signing the marriage into law (CAP 127)

Jubilation by family

Other witnesses sign

closing prayer

Now recognized as husband and wife

Exiting to take their seats

Bride presented with marriage certificate

Grandma hugs her son. What precious moment!

Bride hugged by one officiating minister

leaving in grand style

singing for joy

exiting for some photos

Bridal party with officiating ministers and counselors

Couple with bride's parents

Couple with groom's parents

couple with brides friends

Couples with grooms friends

Couple with a cousin and a relation

The two love birds

Sweet! Isn't it?

Bride only

Groom only

Bride with one of my cousins

Groom with sibling (r) and daughter


THE WEDDING DINNER

The gorgeous bride

Bride and her maid

Chilling at the banquet

One gay man doing some dancing

another tom boy joins him

Finally!

Wishing them all the best!

Bring back the Tankass of the Good Old Days

13th March 2013

Article by Christiana Afua Nyarko

Edited by A.C. Ohene
 

Take a look at this scenario: a market woman buys chilled water and, after drinking it, throws the polythene that had contained the water on the floor of the already filthy market. A young man spots the scene and gently walks up to her; in a calm manner, he advises her not to repeat the action. But, this much older woman, full of anger; instantly hurls insults at him for having the audacity to scold an older person in public. She annoyingly exclaims: Aha na wo da?, which literally translates as: Is this your sleeping place?

Let us look at this scenario too: A woman, after using her chamber pot, empties its content of urine into the main drain along the street just in front of her home. A third case study is a self-contained house with no septic tank but a pipe connecting the household’s water closet directly into a nearby drain that eventually empties the human excreta into a close-by river. The river is the only source of drinking water for hundreds downstream. Other places, excreta and other poisonous effluent have been dumped in the sea, which rejects it back unto the coast.

The aforementioned pictures are the daily attitudes in our society. Despite the efforts by our leaders at the various metropolitan, municipal and district assemblies to help sanitize the environment; some undisciplined Ghanaians continue to litter our communities with reckless abandon. No wonder, last year, 2014, Ghana ranked as low as 135th – out of 193 countries – in the Environmental Performance Index; scoring only 17.77 percent.

The National Sanitation Day was instituted, last November, to help sanitize the environment but many Ghanaians have already started boycotting the monthly mass-cleaning. Thousands of shopkeepers and other self-employed people also flout the government instruction to close their businesses to participate in the communal work till noon.

Television Africa News believes that such unpatriotic and un-nationalistic attitudes are flourishing because the by-laws of the various assemblies have largely remained unenforced. Gone are the days when sanitary inspectors from the town councils – popularly called Tankass – thoroughly checked to ensure people kept their homes and surroundings tidy.

TV Africa News firmly believes that it is high time the Tankass figure and function were re-introduced to curb the fatal environmental pollution. After all, as the saying goes: se wosan wakyi kofa a, yenkyi. There is absolutely nothing wrong in re-enacting effective ways of life and rules of the Good Old Days.

Muslim wedding photos: Citi FM''s UMARU SANDA marries his bride BILKISU NUHU KOKROKO

Muslim wedding photos: Citi FM''s UMARU SANDA marries his bride BILKISU NUHU KOKROKO

Award-winning journalist,Umaru Sanda of Citi FM, has finally tied the knot with his new found love,Bilkis Nuhu Kokroko. Umaru and Bilkis are both past students of Ghana's most prestigious journalism institution, GIJ (Ghana Institute of Journalism).Interestingly,Umaru is a former GJA-GIJ President whiles, Bilkis was the former Vice President of the same organization for the 2014 batch of students,under the Nutsugah-led administration.
Below are the photos. Enjoy.

                                IS GHANA REALLY FREE FROM EBOLA?

Written by Abena Boakyewaa Yiadom                                               4th October, 2014.

Posted by Christiana Afua Nyarko

The  Ebola outbreak in West Africa,which has killed more than three thousand human beings in Guinea,Liberia,Sierra Leone and Nigeria this year; has been described as the world's deadliest. As a result,the World Health Organization (WHO) has declared an international health emergency in the sub-region.

After the first travel-associated case of Ebola was diagnosed in the United States of America on the 24th of the last month, September;the question I ask is,is Ghana,a country hemmed between the four West African countries that have caught the Ebola virus,really free from the disease.

Although many ailments detected here in Ghana have initially been suspected to be Ebola,every single one of them have been diagnosed to be some other thing than Ebola. That notwithstanding;rumors of the disease are still rife along along our coastal towns where fisher-folks keep returning home from sojourns into Guinea,Liberia,and Sierra Leone without customs checks and screening.

The advance team of the Newly established UN Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER) arrived in Accra late last month,to knock together a headquarters from where training of personnel and other Ebola combat activities will be waged. A deputy Minister of Health,Victor Asare Bampoe,in enumerating measures to fight the new scourge,should it erupt in Ghana; said Government is spending 7 million Ghana Cedis to get combat-ready.

Ebola is a very deadly viral disease

  " Indeed,we have a long way to go; and we should not pretend as if we have arrived!"

However,aside from whatever the Health Ministry and allied agencies are using the Seven Million Ghana Cedis for; I hereby proposes they take a second look at the country's security checkpoints-especially the borders close to the countries already Ebola-endemic.Ghana needs to be forewarned that having UNMEER headquarters here does not guarantee the country's immunity from Ebola.

Reports from hospitals where suspected Ebola cases were reported indicate that, doctors there run for their lives,leaving the sick to their fate,instead of taking the best care possible of them according to the dictates of their profession. The Ghana Medical Association will have to join hands with Government to educate doctors and nurses on how to handle suspected Ebola cases reported at their facilities. Indeed,we have a long way to go; and we should not pretend as if we have arrived!

Curtsey: Abena Boakyewaa Yiadom (Akan language broadcast journalists-TV Africa).