2005 Review
| Person of the Year |
For his selflessness and commitment to improving education standards in Ghana, Patrick Awuah, founder and president of Ashesi University, has been selected as GhanaWeb's Person of the year. read more |
| Top Story
Voted by GhanaHomePage visitors |
Ghana's long wait for a World Cup finals place ended in emphatic style when the Black Stars beat Cape Verde Islands 4-0 to qualify for finals in Germany.... read more |
| Sportsman of the Year |
Ghana's first and only World Athletes Championship silver medal was won by Gaisah at the World Championships in Helsinki. Gaisah also set a new national long jump record of 8.34m in China |
| Best Photo | Arresting Traffic Offenders, Oseikrom Style
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Determined to make an arrest, the police sergeant in the picture is attempting to arrest a motor traffic offender who remains unruffled and secured in his VW Golf car .. ..read more
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| Best Moment | They waited far too long for their beloved Black Stars to qualify for the World Cup finals. But four decades of drought finally ended, as Ghana's 4-0 victory over Cape Verde in Praia secured their passage to Germany 2006.... |
| Saddest Moment | Three top Urologists, Prof. J.M.K. Quartey, Dr Isaac Bentsi and Dr Benjamin Osei-Wiafe, died in a motor accident on August 27. The three were part of a medical team returning from an outreach programme at the Sunyani General Hospital.... |
| News Media of the Year | ..... |
| "Osama(n)" Award
Where is he/she/it? |
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| "Konongo Kaya" Award
He/She does not belong to a place, or can't perform a particular task yet won't yield to someone who can. |
MP for Nkoranza North He was everything but an MP. Philantrophist, Chief, Wrist watch seller, Businessman, ... and maybe a drug trafficker. He did not make a single contribution on the floor.... read more |
| "Face-the-wall" Award
Awarded to a person who should be ashmed of himself |
" When I heard it (Amoatengs Drug Bust) last week, I prayed to God that, that MP should be an NDC MP and not an NPP MP .... READ MORE What about praying that it was not true or then he was not Ghanaian. |
| OJ Simpson Award
We can't prove |
The acquisition and funding of "Hotel Kufuor" is still not clear to most Ghanaians. We know who really owns it, but we cant prove it ...READ MORE |
| Children Behaving Badly |
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| Hmmmmmm of the year | Lawyer for busted MP for Nkoranza North, Eric Amoateng says his client arrived in the US with an amount of $9000 to purchase wrist watches ... read more |
| Most Popular Song of the Year |
by Obuor |
| SILer of The Year
Webmaster's Award Say It Loud (SIL) is the ghanaweb forum |
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| Most Amusing Stories |
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| They left us in 2005 | |