Akan-Language Newsreaders are Pathetic Jokers

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Massa 10 years ago

You wish you could speak the Akan language, skin pain go kill you. You do have the right to turn your radio off if you feel is a waste of time.
Stop hating.

You wish you could speak the Akan language, skin pain go kill you. You do have the right to turn your radio off if you feel is a waste of time.
Stop hating.
Kofi 10 years ago

This is not a case of his inability to speak Twi. The radio presenters can clean up their language and take the presentation a bit serious. It looks like some presenters take more to entertainment than information. There is t ...
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This is not a case of his inability to speak Twi. The radio presenters can clean up their language and take the presentation a bit serious. It looks like some presenters take more to entertainment than information. There is too much profane language and expressions as well. I think they can do better than that.
Azaa government 10 years ago

Sometimes I don't just want to listen to those news,they are boring and too profane especially Adom fm ,they need to edit and polish the language a little bit.It's really appaling.

Sometimes I don't just want to listen to those news,they are boring and too profane especially Adom fm ,they need to edit and polish the language a little bit.It's really appaling.
Boat 10 years ago

Are you from any of the 3 northern region?if the answer is yes then am sorry you are portraying tribalism and nothing more.

Are you from any of the 3 northern region?if the answer is yes then am sorry you are portraying tribalism and nothing more.
SOLOMON AZIATI 10 years ago

IS THERE ANYTHING LIKE AKAN LANGUAGE? HAVE ALL THE LANGUAGES OF AKAN PEOPLE METAMORPHOSED INTO WHAT IS NOW BEING CALLED AKAN LANGUAGE?WHERE IS FANTE, ASANTE, AKYIM, NZEMA ETC. IN MY CHURCH THE AKAN SPEAKING PEOPLE WANTING TO ...
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IS THERE ANYTHING LIKE AKAN LANGUAGE? HAVE ALL THE LANGUAGES OF AKAN PEOPLE METAMORPHOSED INTO WHAT IS NOW BEING CALLED AKAN LANGUAGE?WHERE IS FANTE, ASANTE, AKYIM, NZEMA ETC. IN MY CHURCH THE AKAN SPEAKING PEOPLE WANTING TO OUTSHINE OTHER ETHNIC GROUPS SPEAK OF AKAN. AS SOON AS THEY GET THEIR WAY THEIR DIFFERENCES GET HIGHLIGHTED. I AM FANTE, I AM ASANTE, I AM AKYIM, I AM NZEMA. SO FOR ME THIS AKAN THING IS ONLY TO GET THE VOTES IN EVERYTHING, EVEN IN THE CHURCH.
GRANITE 10 years ago

Ewes have dialects just like Akans so whatb is your beef ?

Ewes have dialects just like Akans so whatb is your beef ?
oppong k 10 years ago

Am sorry for you but the writer has Asante as his mother tongue Try to be objective at least for once. In the learning of every language, one of the sources to look for formal language is in the media(Radio, TV Newspapers.)I ...
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Am sorry for you but the writer has Asante as his mother tongue Try to be objective at least for once. In the learning of every language, one of the sources to look for formal language is in the media(Radio, TV Newspapers.)I bet you his observations are right on target
Ojatanaa 10 years ago

Kwasi, you must learn at a faster rate, open your eyes for this is tribalism act at it hifhest degree. I will tell the writer to stop listening to the akan news, I oersonally like the jokes along side the news since I listen ...
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Kwasi, you must learn at a faster rate, open your eyes for this is tribalism act at it hifhest degree. I will tell the writer to stop listening to the akan news, I oersonally like the jokes along side the news since I listen to the english version in addition to the akan version. I wish all akans will understand where thia is heading towards
Akadu Mensema 10 years ago

stop lying! News is read in other languages: Ga, Ewe, Dagbani, Hausa, etc. You are just pandering to anti-Akans on Ghanaweb! The fact of the matter is that Twi/Akan language is now spoken in every corner of Ghana! The spread ...
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stop lying! News is read in other languages: Ga, Ewe, Dagbani, Hausa, etc. You are just pandering to anti-Akans on Ghanaweb! The fact of the matter is that Twi/Akan language is now spoken in every corner of Ghana! The spread of Akan language is inexorable and can't be halted. It is a natural force!

"Unfortunately, Akan and Akan-language programmes seem to dominate our airwaves, leaving people from other ethnic groups no other option than to listen to those programmes. This explains the need for news-writers and/or presenters to use vocabulary or diction that reflects or takes into consideration the diversity of the entire Ghanaian population."
kk 10 years ago

Nobody ask you to listen Akan News . Today u can listen to News from global network so just keep quiet

Nobody ask you to listen Akan News . Today u can listen to News from global network so just keep quiet
GAWUKO 10 years ago

I wish we had listened to the author and made something out of his piece of advice. I have often listened to news broadcast and wondered why the so many proverbs but it seems mot of you the Akans enjoy it. So we maintain it.

I wish we had listened to the author and made something out of his piece of advice. I have often listened to news broadcast and wondered why the so many proverbs but it seems mot of you the Akans enjoy it. So we maintain it.
Ojatanaa 10 years ago

How do you know the akans dont enjoy the news, this tribalism, biggotry, nepotism nonsense will not fly, rather it will bring all the akans together. The writer must be ashame of his ideas behind this.

How do you know the akans dont enjoy the news, this tribalism, biggotry, nepotism nonsense will not fly, rather it will bring all the akans together. The writer must be ashame of his ideas behind this.
Vodoo Xebieso 10 years ago

Akadu, please stop that rubbish. Akan is spoken mainly by those who own it and not those who do not own it. It is not spoken in my own corner of Ghana.

I think the next thing for you guys to do now is to make it Ghana's o ...
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Akadu, please stop that rubbish. Akan is spoken mainly by those who own it and not those who do not own it. It is not spoken in my own corner of Ghana.

I think the next thing for you guys to do now is to make it Ghana's official language whereby official business both internal and external can be conducted in Akan, and even use it at ECOWAS, COMMONWEALTH and UNITED NATIONS.
REALITY 10 years ago

See how envying has made you show your stupidity on the forum. OOh thief nDC!

See how envying has made you show your stupidity on the forum. OOh thief nDC!
GRANITE 10 years ago

Y ou are a very big ostritch in deed. Keep the pretence if it is a bliss for you. By the time you emerge from your slumber, you will be on your way to Togo courtesy of Ghana Immigration Service bcause you can not speak any AK ...
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Y ou are a very big ostritch in deed. Keep the pretence if it is a bliss for you. By the time you emerge from your slumber, you will be on your way to Togo courtesy of Ghana Immigration Service bcause you can not speak any AKAN dialect.
Azaa government 10 years ago

But who cares about that your Aflao.

But who cares about that your Aflao.
REALITY 10 years ago

And what about the bombarding Akan music ? Are Trokosis going to do something about that.

And what about the bombarding Akan music ? Are Trokosis going to do something about that.
Nana Addo 10 years ago

I have even stopped listening to News in Akan because of these unnecessary additions, insinustions and blatant insults to others.

I have even stopped listening to News in Akan because of these unnecessary additions, insinustions and blatant insults to others.
Fantassy 10 years ago

Listen to music.

Listen to music.
Paddy 10 years ago

Thanks for this highlighting because it's steadily becoming a menace on the airwaves.Hope the akan newscasters will take it in good faith and make real amends for the good and progress of journalism.

Thanks for this highlighting because it's steadily becoming a menace on the airwaves.Hope the akan newscasters will take it in good faith and make real amends for the good and progress of journalism.
Danny 10 years ago

THESE ARE PEOPLE WHO TRAIN AT " MEDIA SOLUTION " SCHOOL IN KUMASI FOR 3 MONTHS & START CALLING THEMSELVES JOURNALISTS.THIS IS WHY OUR AIR WAVES ARE POLLUTED WITH GARBAGE, DEVOID OF REASON & PROFESSIONALISM.THE WHOLE MEDIA LAN ...
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THESE ARE PEOPLE WHO TRAIN AT " MEDIA SOLUTION " SCHOOL IN KUMASI FOR 3 MONTHS & START CALLING THEMSELVES JOURNALISTS.THIS IS WHY OUR AIR WAVES ARE POLLUTED WITH GARBAGE, DEVOID OF REASON & PROFESSIONALISM.THE WHOLE MEDIA LANDSCAPE IS ROTTEN. UNDISCIPLINE IN THE HIGHEST ORDER
Talk True 10 years ago

They should learn from former Akan news readers from G B C and stop the unwanted noise

They should learn from former Akan news readers from G B C and stop the unwanted noise
Kojo T 10 years ago

NDC attacking the Akan language will bring Akans together to face the evil

NDC attacking the Akan language will bring Akans together to face the evil
True Talk 10 years ago

Is just too bad esp.Adom Fm.

Is just too bad esp.Adom Fm.
Okofo 10 years ago

Mostly Kofi Adoma and The Vim Lady. They are pathetic. The way they indirectly insult politician and the government in power and exaggerate minor issues and elaborate on sexual issue, mostly Kofi Adoma, are extremely bad.

Mostly Kofi Adoma and The Vim Lady. They are pathetic. The way they indirectly insult politician and the government in power and exaggerate minor issues and elaborate on sexual issue, mostly Kofi Adoma, are extremely bad.
btg 10 years ago

I agree. their news is laced with profanities.

I agree. their news is laced with profanities.
Kremkraker 10 years ago

Your hammer is right on the nail. These news readers are not only not doing justice to news reading but are also destroying the Akan language by their pronunciation. For instance, I've heard some of them say 'annumere' instea ...
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Your hammer is right on the nail. These news readers are not only not doing justice to news reading but are also destroying the Akan language by their pronunciation. For instance, I've heard some of them say 'annumere' instead of 'anwumere' (late afternoon).
I don't know if it's part of the mandate of the media commission but I think they can initiate measures to improve the situation.

Certainly Akan new readers on TV Africa can serve as resource persons or role models for the others.
ghanaman 10 years ago

I agree 100%. Adom and Peace fm news readers are jokers and lack professionalism

I agree 100%. Adom and Peace fm news readers are jokers and lack professionalism
Floating Voter 10 years ago

The jokes,disrespect and abusive language and idioms the akan presenters in general but not only news readers use for the physically and mentally challenged is very pathetic.Sometimes these presenters seem to be enjoying them ...
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The jokes,disrespect and abusive language and idioms the akan presenters in general but not only news readers use for the physically and mentally challenged is very pathetic.Sometimes these presenters seem to be enjoying themselves at mocking vulnerable and the less advantaged of our society.These presenters sometimes dable in joy and laughters when announcing tradegies that have befallen others.
Nobody seems to check and control anything in Ghana anymore.Where is the Media Watch. No one single institution performs to even 50% of its expectation.Should we go back to col.........? Very,very sad. Init?
akora oteng 10 years ago

the problem with you in the minority tribes is your hatred of everything AKAN. You hide behind akan names as your pennames only to insult Akans. In Ghana, we have adopted ENGLISH, a foreign language, as our NATIONAL language. ...
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the problem with you in the minority tribes is your hatred of everything AKAN. You hide behind akan names as your pennames only to insult Akans. In Ghana, we have adopted ENGLISH, a foreign language, as our NATIONAL language. Since Independence, we have had equal minority leaders if not more. Yet, eventhough we could have adopted Twi which 96% of Ghanaians, speak and /or understand,and could have been economical and assimilating, our minority tribes keep jabbing the majority in everything we do. This is NOT fair because, there has not been any dictatorship from the majority tribes in Ghana. Ghana is the only land where there is much tolerance and accomodation among it´s tribes. So Akans do not need these kind of negative rabble rousing from those who have had their education through affirmative action taken by the Akan taxation- system. There are other LOCAL LANGUAGES on our radios, and if you hate Akan so much, just listen to your own language and leave Akans and their Akan jokes alone.
paa 10 years ago

writer,presentation of news is done in other languages too,u can watch tv africa or gtv bt whn it comes to the akan news readers,i will second u.we hv students trained at ucc,uew nd tech trained in various ghanaian languages ...
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writer,presentation of news is done in other languages too,u can watch tv africa or gtv bt whn it comes to the akan news readers,i will second u.we hv students trained at ucc,uew nd tech trained in various ghanaian languages esp in the field of translation which includes introduction nd intermediate bt hrm's will neva employ such pple.dis is Ghana for us.good article any ways.
Vodoo Xebieso 10 years ago

Fool, is Emmanuel Sarpong Owusu-Ansah from any of the Northern tribes, Ga or Ewe stock? Is he not one of your own? The fellow feels bad about your presenters and here you are talking trash instead of seeing some sense in what ...
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Fool, is Emmanuel Sarpong Owusu-Ansah from any of the Northern tribes, Ga or Ewe stock? Is he not one of your own? The fellow feels bad about your presenters and here you are talking trash instead of seeing some sense in what the guy is saying.

I Vodoo Xebieso NEVER received my education courtesy of your so-called "affirmative action taken by the Akan taxation- system. You people have been/are the beneficiaries of your own system just as you are matrilineal.

Restrict your Twi to your enclave and backyard and NEVER to Aflao.
Akora Oteng 10 years ago

Hej, I know the guy who writes under that PENNAME just as the one who also uses Margret Jackson and they are from your flock.so again,you FOOLS,only know how to insult us. What has matrilineal got to do with this? Aflao, that ...
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Hej, I know the guy who writes under that PENNAME just as the one who also uses Margret Jackson and they are from your flock.so again,you FOOLS,only know how to insult us. What has matrilineal got to do with this? Aflao, that dusty place, what would I come to do there.you can go and join the Togolese again if you want to speak Ewe.My Anwona girlfriend from Ho will Never look back to inwardlooking culture that you have there in Aflao. You can never beat us. We are going to be vigilant and start to deal with THIEVES very seriously. That is the only way you want to come up to be smart but NOT to work hard bottom-up like us. Shame on you . Our fathers fought the British and Danes and others to get this LAND for us. We have opened our arms and let you come from TOGOLAND to join us and now you call us fools. WE shall see.
Azaa government 10 years ago

Useless being we don't need that your fucking aflao for anything,skin pain who invited you to this forum ,you envy Akans but you want to remain Ghanaians ,where would you be had it not been an Akan?(Osagyefuo)is he from aflao ...
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Useless being we don't need that your fucking aflao for anything,skin pain who invited you to this forum ,you envy Akans but you want to remain Ghanaians ,where would you be had it not been an Akan?(Osagyefuo)is he from aflao?
Kwabena Gyamfi 10 years ago

The writer is right on his observation. Most often the Akan newsreaders unnecessarily use phrases that make the whole newsreading a joke. The phrases they use clearly mark them out for taking sides when they should present th ...
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The writer is right on his observation. Most often the Akan newsreaders unnecessarily use phrases that make the whole newsreading a joke. The phrases they use clearly mark them out for taking sides when they should present the news as it is. I will suggest to them to go back and check the archives of GBC Akan news to relearn the art of newsreading. At the moment, they do not present accurate picture of news items.
KND 10 years ago

Thank you Emmanuel for this article. I have also made these observations, and I think managers of radio stations should give their newscasters especially those who read Akan, in-service training. How on earth can you read a n ...
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Thank you Emmanuel for this article. I have also made these observations, and I think managers of radio stations should give their newscasters especially those who read Akan, in-service training. How on earth can you read a news item for almost twenty minutes? I am an Asante, I've studied Asante from primary to the University, and the knowledge I have acquired makes me wonder whether some of these newscasters have really taken pains to learn the language? It is not the ability to saturate your news with proverbs that makes you a good Akan speaker. Sometimes, I get angry and flip my dial to another station. This is getting bad. My advice to those newscasters is that they should be professional.....
Pelicles 10 years ago

In this time and age, there are countless radio stations scattered all over Ghana and there is no need to listen to any Akan radio and spew garbage. Some of you hide behind Akan names and use that as a base to spew damning in ...
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In this time and age, there are countless radio stations scattered all over Ghana and there is no need to listen to any Akan radio and spew garbage. Some of you hide behind Akan names and use that as a base to spew damning insults to us. I will tell you this, Akan is spoken in at least, every corner in Ghana. Dispute this and I will tell you that you are a liar.

Mahama himself understands Akan but he will shy away from speaking it. GBC still broadcast their usual local languages in Akan, Ga, Dagbani, Ewe, Hausa, Nzima etc, so you have a choice.

Get off our back.
Vodoo Xebieso 10 years ago

Pelicles, "Emmanuel Sarpong Owusu-Ansah (Black Power) is an Investigative Journalist, a researcher, an educator and the author of Fourth Phase of Enslavement (2011) and In My End is My Beginning (2012). He may be contacted vi ...
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Pelicles, "Emmanuel Sarpong Owusu-Ansah (Black Power) is an Investigative Journalist, a researcher, an educator and the author of Fourth Phase of Enslavement (2011) and In My End is My Beginning (2012). He may be contacted via email (andypower2002@yahoo.it)" is an Akan like you. You can trace him through publishers of his books. He is therefore not hiding behind an Akan-sounding name to spew garbage.

For your information, Akan/Twi is not spoken as a second language in my own corner. We speak our own language.
Pelicles 10 years ago

Efo, I hope you are throwing punches? Don't mind that. I wrote that because the guy sounds as if Akan is the only language spoken on all the radio stations in Ghana. I believe GBC still goes with their usual Akan, Dagbani, ...
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Efo, I hope you are throwing punches? Don't mind that. I wrote that because the guy sounds as if Akan is the only language spoken on all the radio stations in Ghana. I believe GBC still goes with their usual Akan, Dagbani, Ewe, Ga, Nzima and Hausa so, what is his beef?

I understand your point that Akan is not spoken as a second language in your corner but at least some of your folks understand it anyway. Right or wrong? Look, if Ewe is the largest majority tribe in Ghana I don't care if that will be used as a second language because we need national cohesion.
Akora Oteng 10 years ago

You should go to LOME and speak your language there . They will appreciate it. In Ghana, Twi is what is SPOKEN.

You should go to LOME and speak your language there . They will appreciate it. In Ghana, Twi is what is SPOKEN.
Azaa government 10 years ago

Who cares about that your language in Ghana? No Akan is interested in that language we would prefer either Ga or Hausa.

Who cares about that your language in Ghana? No Akan is interested in that language we would prefer either Ga or Hausa.
Horse Meat 10 years ago

Mr E A Owusu-Ansah I am not sure you will be in position to read my comments but if you do, well done. Africans have culture and the style and delivering of our language can never be second to a foreign language. Akans like p ...
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Mr E A Owusu-Ansah I am not sure you will be in position to read my comments but if you do, well done. Africans have culture and the style and delivering of our language can never be second to a foreign language. Akans like proverbs and colour when it comes to delivering message and I think Adom FM is doing a good job. Another point is you have to be in ones world in order to understand his or her needs.
kwaku b 10 years ago

There are a lots of profane in Adom-FM 6pm newcast

There are a lots of profane in Adom-FM 6pm newcast
Dede 10 years ago

This is very true. I live at the states and loves to listen to news online but the way the Akan news is presented makes it boring with unnecessary proverbs. They should shake-up

This is very true. I live at the states and loves to listen to news online but the way the Akan news is presented makes it boring with unnecessary proverbs. They should shake-up
Ken Owu 10 years ago

Stop talking get a license and start your own "Professional" Akan CNN

Stop talking get a license and start your own "Professional" Akan CNN
mensah abrampa 10 years ago

I think the English language presentations on radio and especially TV are the poorest. Wake up, Ghana!

I think the English language presentations on radio and especially TV are the poorest. Wake up, Ghana!
Acropolis 10 years ago

You got it all wrong, sir.
What you call jokes actually constitute a highly innovative and creative way of combining the useful and the agreeable - information and entertainment.

By the way, have you conducted any researc ...
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You got it all wrong, sir.
What you call jokes actually constitute a highly innovative and creative way of combining the useful and the agreeable - information and entertainment.

By the way, have you conducted any research in respect of audience reaction ? I have, and I can tell you listeners love it.
MINOR CASE 10 years ago

love the way the news items are presented. They are entertaining and lighten the day for a lot of people. I only wish they can be read every hour like BBC or CNN. More grease to their elbows.

love the way the news items are presented. They are entertaining and lighten the day for a lot of people. I only wish they can be read every hour like BBC or CNN. More grease to their elbows.
Silvuple 10 years ago

They envy the Akan language which is spoken by majority of Ghanaians.

They envy the Akan language which is spoken by majority of Ghanaians.
BUSINESS DEVELOPER 10 years ago

You perfectly right that most Akan news readers particularly Twi is the worse of all ,the news readers have no manners and ethics of practice,untrained hence unprofessional,use profane languages in twi and jokers not fit for ...
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You perfectly right that most Akan news readers particularly Twi is the worse of all ,the news readers have no manners and ethics of practice,untrained hence unprofessional,use profane languages in twi and jokers not fit for the job .As a result of their practice most ghanaian school goers have stop reading english story books and therefore can speak good english or write ,infact the practice these days is if you to silent a twi person just speak english ,am akan and think more programs should be in english including english to the listerners because the twi language is as weak as the cedi and do not go beyond our boarders on this i congratulate our brothers from the north and volta who speak english as their national language and not twi ,let us speak english to move ghana forward.
stepof, Bronx NY 10 years ago

Its through what you saying, compare to the olding days when Akwasi Donkor, Sekyere Boateng, Afia Konadu and others read news on our radois you will be delightful to hear from them, but now they do it like they on stage enter ...
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Its through what you saying, compare to the olding days when Akwasi Donkor, Sekyere Boateng, Afia Konadu and others read news on our radois you will be delightful to hear from them, but now they do it like they on stage entertaining audience. It is a very shameful .It seems they are doing it for pocket not for the public to know what is happening
NTAMKESE 10 years ago

NEWS READING SHOULD WELL DEFINED AND IN SIMPLE TERMS AS IN THE DAYS OF AKWASI DONKOR AND CO- A LITTLE PROVERB TO SPICE IT UP BUT NOT THE COMEDIES AND DJING JOKES THAT COME WITH IT. HEAR ADOM FM 6AM NEWS AND YOU WOULD UNDERSTA ...
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NEWS READING SHOULD WELL DEFINED AND IN SIMPLE TERMS AS IN THE DAYS OF AKWASI DONKOR AND CO- A LITTLE PROVERB TO SPICE IT UP BUT NOT THE COMEDIES AND DJING JOKES THAT COME WITH IT. HEAR ADOM FM 6AM NEWS AND YOU WOULD UNDERSTAND MY POINT AND THAT OF THE WRITER. KOFI ADOMA NWANWANI AND OBIDOMBIE KUMI ARE THE WORST CULPRITS-THEY JUST BEAT ABOUT THE BUSH WITH THE NEWS! AND THEY ARE CONSIDERED THE BEST @ ADOM? WHERE IS AFIA POKUAA?
E S D 10 years ago

With every radio receiver is an on and off button. The use of this button is obvious; if you are not enjoying what you a listening to, you have every right to turn it off....better still, use the other buttons to change the s ...
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With every radio receiver is an on and off button. The use of this button is obvious; if you are not enjoying what you a listening to, you have every right to turn it off....better still, use the other buttons to change the station. Nobody is forcing you to listen to something you detest so much. Make use of your fingers, Emmanuel, my friend.

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