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Alidu Seidu fails to get endorsement as Asokore Mampong MCE

Alhaji Alidu Seidu who was nominated by President Akufo-Addo, as the Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) for the Asokore Mampong Assembly in the Ashanti region, has failed to secure the endorsement of assembly members. Graphic Online's reporter, Joseph Kyei-Boateng who covered the elections on Friday said Alhaji Seidu secured seven YES votes against eight NO votes, representing 46.7 per cent. A total of 15 assembly members, made up of 10 elected and five government appointees were present for the voting. A nominated metropolitan, municipal or district chief executive needs a two thirds majority endorsement by assembly members to be confirmed for the position. If a nominee does not get the two thirds endorsement at the first round of voting, but secures more than 50 per cent, the person gets a second chance. Since Alhaji Seidu could not obtain more than 50 per cent of the votes, he would not get a second chance and therefore President Akufo-Addo would have to nominate another pers...

Fallen Standard of Love

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Upon request by my pen has ejaculated, once again! About the commodification of love.... I have witnessed the commercialisation of lust and infatuating commensurate desires. That explains the interminability of the flourishing business of hookers (prostitutes). Yes! People who can't afford the priciness of love, and the overpriced conditions attached to it tend to turn to chronic costumers to hookers. Love is a feeling of completeness and having unc ditional attachment to someone, but modern alterations have been used to mar the sanctity of what used to be termed true love.   When I say modern alterations, I mean influences such as poverty, peer pressure, overambitious expectations, jealousy and envy, and sometimes pride; and all these defines what love in this era is. For instance, some people absorb an inexperienced feeling of the love portrayed in movies especially telenovelas, and the ramification of expecting similar simulations, hallucinating ambitions and expectat...