Happy 86th anniversary of the Restoration of Asante Federation. Piawwwwwww!!!!
Exactly 86 years today (on 31st January, 1935), Asanteman was restored to its glory under Otumfuo Sir Osei Agyeman Prempeh II. He was the first to use the title “Otumfuo”
In December 1895, the British left Cape Coast with an expeditionary force. It arrived in Kumasi in January 1896 under the command of Robert Baden-Powell. The Asantehene directed the Ashanti not to resist, as he feared a genocide.
Shortly thereafter, Governor William Maxwell arrived in Kumasi as well. Britain annexed the territories of the Ashanti and constituted the Ashanti Crown Colony on 26 September 1901. Asantehene Agyeman Prempeh was deposed and arrested, and he and other Ashanti leaders were sent into exile in the Seychelles.
The Asante Union was dissolved[citation needed]. A British Resident was permanently placed in the city of Kumasi, and soon after a British fort was built there.
As a final measure of resistance, the remaining Asante court not exiled to the Seychelles mounted an offensive against the British Residents at the Kumasi Fort.
The resistance was led by Asante queen Yaa Asantewaa, Queen-Mother of Ejisu. From March 28 to late September 1900, the Asante and British were engaged in what would become known as the War of the Golden Stool. In the end, the British were victorious; they exiled Asantewaa and other Asante leaders to the Seychelles to join Asante King Prempeh I.
In January 1902, Britain finally designated the Ashanti Kingdom as a protectorate. the Ashanti Kingdom was restored to self-rule on 31 January 1935. Asante King Prempeh II was restored and the Ashanti Kingdom entered a state union with Ghana on independence from the United Kingdom.
People in the olden days described Asantes as “blood- thirsty people ” due to the human sacrifices they(We) offered during the burial of Asantehene.
The story is that, we Asantes have belief in the continuity of life in the land of the dead (asamando). Therefore a king is supposed to be accompanied by servants and bodyguards to continue his dynasty in asamando.
According to R.S. Rattray in Religion and Art in Asante, during the death of Asantehene Kwaku Dua I, some royals offered to be executed to accompany him to asamando and support him over there. Sometimes the favourite wife of the king is killed by abrafuo to accompany Asantehene and continue the life with him in Asamando.
This is also what caused the shifting of Akans Patrilineal inheritance to matrilineal by Nana Abu Bonsrah during the burial of his father at Adansi. His mother was executed to accompany his father Akora Foripan to Asamando. Alongside, some of his nephews were killed .
Almost all the Akan clans inheritance is maternal. This was instituted by Nana Abu Bonsra of Adansi Fomena. He himself inherited paternally from his father Akora Foripan of Adansi Ayaase.
Due to the severe pains his nephews and other members of his family suffered including his own mother who was executed to accompany his father to the land of the dead (Asamando), during his enstoolment as Adansihene, he shifted the system of inheritance from paternal to maternal that most of the Akans who migrated from Adansi is enjoying today.
That is “Abusua” literally meaning “Imitating Abu” or “Sua Abu”. This incident happened in the 15th century
May Asanteman continue to prosper. Long Live His Royal Majesty.
Be sure you are right for her son, if you are not, she will know and will not accept you.
Mothers have very strong intuition about their children especially godly mothers. She knows a million miles off if your motive for her son is to make his life better or worse.
Contribute meaningfully into her son’s life!
Ladies who only agree to marry a man because he has a car and lives in a choice apartment without contributing anything whatsoever to his life except reap where they have not sown should not expect the mother-in-law to-be give them the green card!
Your role in man’s life is to help him achieve greatness not suck all the element of greatness out of him.
If his life has changed noticeably since he met you, she will know and love you for it.
Show her utmost respect.
It’s not easy birthing, training and raising the adult you fell in love with and wants to marry. She deserves kudos for a good job well done. Respect, honour and appreciate her for being a great mother.
Call her often.
When you visit (not on the first visit), buy her gifts.
Assist with chores if you meet her doing something when you visit.
Genuinely love her from the depth of your heart.
Genuinely love her son.
Respect her son.
Speak well of her son.
Tell her the qualities you love about her son and appreciate her for training him well.
Ask God to give you favor in her sight.
Ask God to give you wisdom on how best to relate with her.
Overlook her weaknesses. Your mum has some too.
Tell your fiance things you like about his mother.
Learn her language if you are from a different tribe and endeavor to speak the little you know whenever you are with her.
Always dress decently.
Avoid local or international gossip.
Always speak with wisdom.
Do not answer questions you are not asked.
Be patient with her if she is slow at accepting you. She is studying you. She needs to be sure you are really the r ight person for her son.
Do not be judgmental.
Smile always.
Carry God with you every time.
Believe you will be favoured and you will.
Not all mothers in-law are evil.
Set the right foundation for your marriage.
If you can win her love in courtship and continue to win her love into marriage and never stop being a virtuous woman, your marriage to her son will be nothing short of heaven on earth.
May your marriage be sweet! Thanks for reading. God bless you. Cheers!
Money is one of the leading causes of divorce world-wide! Not facing reality in courtship is preparing for grand divorce in marriage!
For all the ladies who keep singing, “Money does not matter in marriage, it is love that matters!” I hope you’ve read the Bible passages that said “Money answereth all things.” Jesus was so holy and pure, a miracle worker with a burning passion to liberate the world, yet he always had money! Judas Iscariot was his treasurer!
To all the ladies who say “only vision matters” when choosing a spouse, some divorced women said something stupid like that years before they got divorced!
Yes, vision matters. A man without vision is a disaster going some where to happen! Marry a man with vision! Yes, don’t run after money, neither should you date Yahoo Boys but your Landlord won’t hear stories after marriage neither would manna drop from heaven after honey moon!
Talk about money!
How much do you both earn right now?
How do you plan to increase your income to accommodate your growing family in marriage? What you earn at the beginning of marriage may not sustain you when kids start coming.
How long do you want to earn salaries before starting your own business?
How will your vision generate money to take care of family needs?
Who will take care of bills in the home?
Who will pay for feeding and clothing?
What are your yearly financial goals for your marriage?
How much will you send to your parents monthly?
How much will you be saving every month?
What will the savings be used for?
How can you both work together on your vision to make financial profits?
For those going into full time ministry, how will you feed, clothe your family and pay bills? Thoroughly discuss this and come to agreement before heading the altar!
Lack of financial agreement is the reason many marriages are in crises today.
You have lots of serious issues to trash out in courtship, you shouldn’t have time for sex for God’s sake! Do you understand what marriage is about at all?
Both of you should read books on understanding vision, financial freedom, goal setting and agreement in marriage, they will help a lot. Don’t yourself up for financial disappointment in marriage. Prepare well, so you won’t end up in shame! May the good Lord grant you understanding.
About a week ago, a lady approached me and asked me how she would know that a guy is really serious for marriage. She said that a guy is coming for her and she is worried if the guy is serious or one of those hit and run guys.
So, I told her some things or rather how she will know that a guy is really serious for marriage and not one of those sex predators or time wasters guys.
Maybe as a lady, you are in this kind of situation. You are in a relationship with a guy but you are not sure if this guy is really serious for marriage or has come to waste your time and drive away potential life partners. This article is for you.
In this article, what I intend to do is to show you how you can spot a guy that is serious for marriage and wants to walk down the aisle with you. You really need to take this seriously because your time, prime, resources and potential life partners are at stake.
One wrong guy in a relationship with you will waste your time, resources and drive away or block other guys that really want to settle down with you.
So, how will you know that guy that’s promising you heaven and is serious for marriage?
He will introduce you to important people in his life
If a guy is serious with you, he will waste no time in introducing you to people that matter to him, his pastor, mentors, family, colleagues, friends etc.
You have being dating a guy for some time now, say 1 year or 2 years and you don’t know who his parents are, you don’t know any of his siblings, colleagues or friends, and whenever you bring up the issue, he will change the topic, Aunty be careful, na express you dey go!
He will also to want to meet important people in your life
A guy that is serious for marriage will not only introduce you to important people in his life but will also try to meet important people in your own life so as to make things official and formal.
When you are in a relationship with a guy that’s hide and seek with you, whenever you bring up the issue of him coming to meet your parents, he divert the conversation or run off, then you should know that he isn’t serious and you shouldn’t waste your time with a guy that for a year or 2 years he has refused to meet your parents or important people in your life. Don’t do that.
He will stay
For many guys, their number one aim for entering into a relationship is to have sex. Some of them will tell you, “If you love me prove it.” Some of them once you tell them that there will be nothing like sex until after marriage, they will zoom off without looking back. Some of them will threaten you that if you don’t have sex with them, they will break up with you and all that.
But when you tell a guy that there will be nothing like sex until after marriage and he stays, he doesn’t disturb you about sex, and he doesn’t threaten to leave if you should fail to give him sex, that may be a sign that he is serious about getting married to you.
As a lady, one thing you need to know is that sex doesn’t keep a man. If a man doesn’t want to stay with you, give him all sex styles in the world, doggy style, hossy style, scorpion style, cat style, etc., he will not stay. A guy that wants you will stay with or without sex.
He will include you in his plans and major decisions
When a guy begins to include you in plans and major decisions in life, you should know that he is seeing you in his future but when you are with a guy that hides things from you, he never tells you his next move or actions or his whereabouts, he just shows up and disappears anytime he wants, that’s guy that is not seeing you in his future.
A man wants to marry a woman that will be useful in his future, so when a guy includes you in his plans and decisions, you should think that he’s considering you useful to his future. We don’t go about sharing our plans with anyone that cares to listen but with those we consider important to use. The point is, when a guy includes you in his plans and decisions, he is seeing the future with you.
Subject everything to prayers
Prayer remains the master key. So, for your time not to be wasted, for you not to chase away potential life partners, for your heart not to be broken, subject everything to God prayers.
Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:(Matthew 7:7 KJV)
The secret things belong unto the Lord our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.(Deuteronomy 29:29 KJV)
You are in a relationship with a guy and you are not sure if this guy is God’s will or even serious for marriage talk less of being God’s will, you have some prayers to do.
Head Pastor of Alabaster International Ministries, Prophet Dr. Kofi Oduro, has blamed politicians for the jump in the coronavirus cases in Ghana.
He attributed the rise in the cases to the campaign activities during last year’s elections after some of the people who attended campaign events violated the protocols outlined to deal with the virus.
He also lashed out at the lawmakers who engaged in disturbances in parliament during the election of a Speaker for the 8th Parliament on January 7. He noted that they failed to observe the protocols in the chamber that day.
The government has expressed deep concerns following the spike in the active cases of the virus lately.
The country has 390 deaths, as of January 25, 2021, according to the Ghana Health Service (GHS).
The active cases stand at 3,940.
The country’s cumulative cases stood at 63,883 after more than 757,000 tests.
Ghanaians have been urged to observe all the protocols outlined to deal with the virus.
In one of his sermons recently, Prophet Dr. Kofi Oduro blamed the political leaders for the development and asked the government to take blame.
He said “Never tell me that these spikes just jumped up. I am telling you that this is as a result of your political dancing and vuvuzela blowing. Don’t be a hypocrite.
“They must take responsibility, look at the way everybody is in nose mask, everybody washes the hands, sanitizes their hands. If you want us to bring those videos back, we will. Take responsibility.”
He added “Suddenly, coronavirus had jumped. It was already, all the time, spreading. During the campaign, during the inauguration, coronavirus was still spreading.
“I am telling the government to be an example. Don’t tell me that when you were campaigning there was no coronavirus. When the people were fighting in parliament where social distancing was? When people were chewing paper and sitting on other people where did they know there was coronavirus.
“In September, in October in November in December it was spreading. During campaign during inauguration corona was still spreading. I am telling the government to lead by example. Don’t tell me that when you are campaigning there was no coronavirus, when the people were fighting there was no corona.”
Nigerians have questioned the anointing on two evangelists as they were spotted in a tough battle over preaching spot at Ikeja bus stop in Lagos.
The female evangelist was not ready to lose her spot to her male counterpart who had already set up his equipment and began his ministry.
In a video that has since gone viral, the female preacher could be seen charging at the male preacher and hurling abuses at him while the man was firing hot ”prayers” against her.
‘ Idiot, Ashawo preacher’ were some unpalatable words the female preacher used on her colleague who only commanded her to get away.
After successfully snatching the microphone from her colleague, the female evangelist tied her headscarf to her waist, an indication she was a red belt champion, ready for the spiritual battle.
In what was a brief but interesting fight, the female precaher conceded defeat and attempted to walk away, but that was only after cursing and spitting all over.
In the very beginning, of course was the abacus, a sort of hand operated mechanical calculator using beads on rods, first used by Sumerians and Egyptians around 2000 BC.
The principle was simple, a frame holding a series of rods, with ten sliding beads on each. When all the beads had been slid across the first rod, it was time to move one across on the next, showing the number of tens, and thence to the next rod, showing hundreds, and so on (with the ten beads on the initial row returned to the original position).
It made addition and subtraction faster and less error-prone and may have led to the term ‘bean counters’ for accountants.
But that was where the technology more or less stuck for the next 3,600 years, until the beginning of the 17th century AD, when the first mechanical calculators began to appear in Europe. Most notably, the development of logarithms by John Napier allowed Edward Gunter, William Oughtred and others to develop the slide rule.
Circular Slide Rule The Slide Rule: good enough for Dr. Strangelove The slide rule is basically a sliding stick (or discs) that uses logarithmic scales to allow rapid multiplication and division. Slide rules evolved to allow advanced trigonometry and logarithms, exponentials and square roots.
Even up to the 1980s, knowing how to operate a slide rule was a basic part of mathematics education for millions of schoolchildren, even though by that time, mechanical and electric calculating machines were well established. The problem was that these weren’t portable while the slide rule fitted into the breast pocket of your button-down shirt.
Real Rocket Scientists used slide rules to send Man to the Moon – a Pickett model N600-ES was taken on the Apollo 13 moon mission in 1970.
Gears, Wheels and Buttons The first mechanical calculator appeared in 1642, the creation of French intellectual and mathematics whizz kid Blaise Pascal as “a device that will eventually perform all four arithmetic operations without relying on human intelligence.”
Pascal’s machine used geared wheels and could add and subtract two numbers directly and multiply and divide by repetition. Gottfried Leibniz then spent the best part of his life designing a four-operation mechanical calculator, based on his ingenious slotted ‘Leibniz wheel,’ but ultimately failing to produce a fully operational machine.
The Arithmometer The Arithmometer: Soldiered on till 1915 That had to wait until 1820 and the patenting in France of Thomas de Colmar’s four function Arithmometer.
This first commercially viable counting machine was manufactured from 1851 to 1915 and copied by around 20 companies across Europe.
By then, the main tide of innovation had moved across the Atlantic, with the development of hand cranked adding machines like the Grant Mechanical Calculating Machine of 1877 and, more famously the P100 Burroughs Adding Machine developed by William Seward Burroughs in 1886.
This was the first in a line of office calculating machines that made the Burroughs family fortune and enabled the son, William S. Burroughs, to pursue a career consuming hallucinogenic drugs and writing subversive novels like ‘The Naked Lunch’.
The Comptometer The Comptometer: Press key calculating at last A further step forward occurred in 1887 when Dorr. E. Felt’s US-patented key driven ‘Comptometer’ took calculating into the push button age. This machine, too, spurred a host of imitators.
The Curta calculator, which first appeared in 1948, was perhaps the ultimate expression of the mechanical calculator, so compact that it could, somewhat lumpily, fit into a pocket and was capable of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
Machines like this ensured that mechanical calculators dominated 20th century office life all the way through to the late 1960s. By then, electronics were beginning to take over, as we shall see in the next part of this series.
The Curta calculator Curta calculator: mechanical could be compact Business Calculator: The Electronic Age The story of the electronic calculator really begins in the late 1930s as the world began to prepare for renewed war. To calculate the trigonometry required to drop bombs ‘into a pickle barrel’ from 30,000 feet, to hit a 30-knot Japanese warship with a torpedo or to bring down a diving Stuka with an anti aircraft gun required constantly updated automated solutions.These were provided respectively by the Sperry-Norden bombsight, the US Navy’s Torpedo Data Computer and the Kerrison Predictor AA fire control system.
All were basically mechanical devices using geared wheels and rotating cylinders, but producing electrical outputs that could be linked to weapon systems.
During the Second World War, the challenges of code-breaking produced the first all-electronic computer, Colossus. But this was a specialised machine that basically performed “exclusive or” (XOR) Boolean algorithms.
The ENIAC ENIAC: less processing power than a non-smart phone. However, it did this using hundred of thermionic valves as electronic on/off switches, as well as an electronic display.
The application of this technology to the world’s first general calculating computer had to wait until 1946 and the construction of the ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer) as a completely digital artillery firing table calculator also capable of solving “a large class of numerical problems”, including the four basic arithmetical functions.
ENIAC was 1,000 times faster than electro-mechanical computers and could hold a ten-digit decimal number in memory. But to do this required 17,468 vacuum tubes, 7,200 crystal diodes, 1,500 relays, 70,000 resistors, 10,000 capacitors and around 5 million hand-soldered joints. It weighed around 27 tonnes, took up 1800 square feet of floorspace and consumed as much power as a small town. Not exactly a desktop solution.
Valve and Tube Calculators Electronic calculating for the office had to wait on the miniaturisation of valves and the development of solid state transistors.
Source :The History Of The Calculator By Nick Valentine
First witness for the petitioner in the 2020 Presidential Election Petition, John Asiedu Nketiah, Friday raised a concern in the Supreme Court that counsel for the 1st Respondent Electoral Commission of Ghana (EC) addressed him as though he were the petitioner.
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) General Secretary took his turn in the witness box at the Supreme Court as the first witness of the petitioner to be crossed examined.
While counsel for the EC was “putting it to” masked Mr. Nketiah in the witness box who provided answers where required, it got to a point where he got seemingly alarmed by the line of questioning.
The counsel for the EC, Lawyer Justin Amenuvor had made reference to some analysis the petitioner did on the Techiman South results and arrived at a conclusion that the EC Chair was wrong with her figures when she declared Akufo-Addo President on December 9, 2020.
The lawyer pointed out to Mr. Aseidu that the analysis was not accurate.
“I’m putting it to you that using all the total valid votes in the Techiman South constituency, that’s the total registered voters (sic) in the Techiman South Constituency to do your analysis is incorrect and I’m putting that to you”, he said.
Aseidu Nketia disagreed, explaining that their analysis on that issue was informed by what the 1st Respondent Electoral Commission chairperson, Jean Mensa had said on December 9, 2020 when she declared the Presidential Election Results in favor of the 2nd Respondent Akufo-Addo
“So the analysis we did there was to show that based on the figures she herself declared, that statement could not be correct”, he explained.
Counsel insisted the witness knew that the Chairperson of the EC was right in her analysis as at the time she was declaring the said results and that it was stated in the petition and same confirmed by the 1st Respondent.
Mr. Nketiah wanted to clarify if the EC lawyer was referring to him as the one who he knew the EC chair was right. The lawyer answered in the affirmative, adding “so the petitioner stated that in the petition that that ought to be the correct number and the 1st Respondent agreed too”.
“I’m putting it to you that you knew”, Lawyer Justin stood his grounds demanding an answer to that query.
Mr. Nketia was hesistant with the answer at this point. He felt the lawyer had mistaken him for the petitioner.
“My lord, I don’t understand why you seem to be confusing me with the petitioner, my Lord, I don’t understand”, he said, while laughing.
The court was thrown into laughter.
That however did not stop the lawyer from demanding his answers.
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A six member delegation from the Coalition of Civil Society Organizations working in the area of governance, has called on the Speaker of Parliament to explore ways by which Parliament and Civil Society can collaborate effectively to push the democratic development agenda of the country forward. The delegation was led by the Executive Director of Star Ghana Foundation, Ibrahim Tanko, who, on congratulating the Speaker on his election, recollected the many projects undertaken by Civil Society Organizations and Parliament in the past and expressed the hope of more collaborative efforts in the future.
Speaking on behalf of the group, the Executive Director of the African Centre for Parliamentary Affairs, Dr. Rashid Draman outlined seven key issues that Civil Society expects Parliament to work on expeditiously. These include strengthening of the Parliamentary Training Institute, strengthening of the Legislative Drafting Unit of Parliament revision of the Standing Orders consensus building in Parliament, and negotiations and mediation in Parliament.
Speaker Bagbin emphasised that one of the key things he seeks to do during his tenure as Speaker is to create and maintain a bi-partisan Parliament which will work to maintain a balance of power among the various arms of government. The Speaker also emphasised the need for Members to work closely together, building consensus and putting the country first in all their deliberations and actions.
Members of the group that called on the Speaker are Ibrahim Tanko Executive Director Star Ghana Foundation, Dr. Kwesi Jonah,a fellow IDEG, Regina Amanfo from CDD, Beauty Emefa Narteh, Executive Director Ghana Anti-Corruption Coaltion, and Faruza Salisu a Programme Officer from Star Ghana Foundation.
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