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

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…

Mr. Elvis Afriyie Ankrah's lawyers have reacted to a satirical piece published on our weekly satire column 'Inside the News by Mpakoo' with a rejoinder. We are publishing the rejoinder in full unedited for the benefit of our readers.…

Various NDC bigwigs have asserted over the past week that the failed attempt to assassinate the president is evidence that Mahama is the best president Ghana has ever had. ‘It is a fact that only great leaders are objects…

The Parliament of Ghana has been cited for blasphemy for the contempt proceedings they held against Prof Alex Dodoo and Abubakar Ahmed (aka Blakk Rasta), at the end of which the speaker, the Right Honourable Doe Adjaho, pronounced them…

Reasons why China rejected an application for loan by the Ministry of Finance to fund the ‘Gang of Four’ projects has until now been shrouded in secrecy. The finance minister, Hon Seth Tekper, has said the loan was declined because the…