No intelligent person should form an opinion or make a point from just reading a newspaper headline anywhere in the world—it is even worse if you are in Ghana.
Editors want to sell their papers or grab the attention of ‘passerbyers’, knowing that they will have to compete with other newspapers put on display at a particular newsstand in Ghana. Therefore, most Editors have employed this cunning way of presenting their headlines which can send a shock to your brains (not just grab your attention) when you see them.
Together with a friend on facebook-Austine Wood, I have put together some of the shocking Ghanaian newspaper headlines—and how the first paragraphs will mostly read.
MILLS DIED OF AIDS
Residents of Akwatia were thrown into a state of shock when it emerged yesterday that their hardworking Assemblyman Derrick Williams Mills died of AIDS.
LORD KENYA IS DEAD
Yaw Amoah often referred to by residents of Bantama as Lord Kenya drowned at Lake Bosomtwe on Republic day
AGYA KOO ARRESTED FOR POISONING WIFE
Residents of Sefwi Wiaso were thrown into a state of shock after a very respesctable member of the town Agya Koo Dan was arrested by the Police for allegedly poisoning his wife.
ALAN CASH TO LOSE LEG AFTER ACCIDENT
Alan Cash, a prominent member of the NPP and known in real life as James Asamoah will lose his leg after a gory accident, doctors of the Koforidua Gov’t hospital have said.
GHANAIAN TAXI DRIVER BURNT IN RUSSIA
Kwame Asante, a taxi driver was burnt to ashes at Russia a suburb of Accra after his taxi caught fire.
NADIA BUARI’S CAT KILLS NEIGHBOUR
A black cat belonging to a certain woman who looks like Ghanaian actress Nadia Buari and has therefore earned the name Nadia Buari in Kintampo is reported to have bitten a neighbour who died two days after.
KEN ATTOH WINS 200 MILLION DOLLAR JACKPOT
A Ghanaian living in Zimbabwe by name Ken Attoh has won a locally run lottery’s jackpot of 200 million Zimbabwean dollars, which is worth 20 pounds when converted.
JOSELYN DUMAS’S SON RAPE A SCHOOL GIRL
Actress Joselyn Dumas could not believe what her son has done when the police knocked at her door to inform her that her 21-year old son has rapped a girl of 13 years old. What will happen to the son when he is sent to prison and how devastated Joselyn Dumas will survive this trial in the soon to be released Socrate Sarfo movie is something most movie fans would not expect.
AMA K ABEBRESE SELLS PURE WATER AT KANESHIE
A young pure water seller known among traders as Ama K. Abebrese who was knocked down by a motor-bike at Kaneshie last Friday has returned to work, two days after her fatal accident…
Who has come across such headlines before?
Hehehehe Chris you won’t kill me oo lol
hahahahaha omg Chris you too much lol the headline got my attention for a minute so had to enter a bathroom to read. Wow how were you able to come up with all these? Thumps up a man of creativity. I think news papers lol has some funny marketing ways.
True talk sister. Is that your daughter? She is cute
lol yes my third born thanx so much she’s such a joy and a chip of an old block.
She’s very beautiful meant to ask but caught up with something. I love kids.
Thank you my dear!!!
Hehehehehe Chris I couldnt stop laughing. This is so true. Ama K sells pure water paaa?
Lmao im I the only person who finds this funny??