Winneba Masquerade Festival : The First Party Of The Year In Ghana

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If you want to start your New Year with colour, celebration, and pure energy, there is only one place to be on 1st January, Winneba . While everybody is still sleeping after 31st Night, Winneba is already awake. Drums, brass band, costumes, masks. This is the Winneba Masquerade Festival, locally called Fancy Dress. It is the first major festival in Ghana every year. And it is the second biggest festival in Winneba after Aboakyer. There is a morning in Winneba that does not feel like any other morning in Ghana. By 7am, you can hear it. The brass band far away. The drum, shouting and the crowd. If you are in Winneba on that day, you cannot stay in your room. The sound will drag you out. I remember the first time I followed the sound. I thought something had happened. I thought maybe there was a funeral. But when I reached the road, I saw something I had never seen before. Men wearing masks. Big, colourful, scary, beautiful masks. Some looked like animals. Some looked like old white men ...

Professor Mike Oquaye Maintained As Speaker In The 8th Parliament Of Ghana


The General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party, John Boadu, has uncovered that the NPP side of Parliament has suggested that Professor Aaron Mike Oquaye be kept up as Speaker in the eighth Parliament of Ghana.



According to Mr Boadu, this decision assented to by President-elect Akufo-Addo and the Party’s Council, is out of the need to maintain consistency in Parliament in view of the current numbers.

In the previous days, names of noticeable NPP individuals including Freddy Blay and Boakye Agyarko have been accounted for as contender for the position. 

Be that as it may, a choice was made in a gathering on Monday, January 4, 2021 to give Professor Mike Oquaye an additional four years as Speaker of Parliament. 

Professor Mike Oquaye has been parliament two- times for the Dome-Kwabenya constituency and has been speaker since 2017. 

He filled in as Ghana's High Commissioner to India from 2001 to 2004. 

In the John Agyekum Kufuor administration, Professor Mike Oquaye filled in as Minister of Energy and Communications. 

Prof. Oquaye was additionally a professor of Political Science at the University of Ghana and was already the Head of the Department of Political Science and individual from the University's Academic Board.

The National Council of the NPP has also opted to maintain Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, the Suame MP, as its Leader in Parliament.

It has also endorsed the change in deputy from Sarah Adwoa Safo, the Dome-Kwabenya MP, to Alex Afenyo-Markin, the Effutu MP.