Person of the Year	President Kufuor
Top Story	The Rise & Fall of IFC Loan  -Read
SportsPerson of the Year	Margaret Simpson Hepthatlate who won our only medal at the commowealth games.
Cote D'Ivorie Award	Murder of Ya-Na Yakubu Andani  Awarded to an event/person that threatens national security.
Joke of the Year	A  Letter From Angry Girl To Her Boyfriend Dear my dearest,  This is your girlfriend calling you from Besease town. Before I go on, how is your air condition? When you come to eat your holiday vacation you do something I don't like at all. You take another girlfriendship and so it pains me.  The first time you see me you say I beautiful than all the girls in Besease town but I hear people say you say I no beautiful. If I no beautiful I wont say anything. I will give all to God and God will eat my case for me. Even when you came to eat your holiday vacation and it is raining you pass through the rain and come and stand by my window place and call me. And do you think what you have done if I throw you medicine it won't hit you? It will hit you only I am a christianity so I won't throw you. Now I get a new boyfriendship and he do work in aeroplane.  Even you the first time I love you frindship you say you will give me this you will give me that and so you thinking the secondary school you go I can't go some. I can go some. I can go some. You say I no beautiful, I and you who is beautiful? Your face like a goat. Because of what you have done, God will beat you with a stick and eat my case for me. When you come to Besease I will show you wise. Apiiitor.  Your girlfriendship.  Aggie
"Konongo Kaya" Award	J. H. Mensah Awarded to a person  who does not belong to a place, or can't perform a particular task yet won't yield to someone who can. JH, you've done you part. Give way to the youth
"Face-the-wall" Award	Ala Adjetey Awarded to a person who should be ashmed of himself. $90,000 of taxpayers money, on a luxury vehicle, in a HIPC-ful, IFC-less country, in this age of "positive change" ......
Abbreviation of the year	IFC Last year HIPC won hands down. This year it's IFC.  "I" stands for International.  "F" for Financial "C" is the Controversial (pan intended) bit. Is it Consortium, Corporation, Commotion or Confusion ?
OJ Simpson Award	Tsatsu  Tsikata  Awarded to a person who commited a crime, we can't prove
Best Quote	I will strip Rawlings naked - K. Baako
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Jonas Kwami Dotse Foli, 66	of Shia [Volta Region] who spent most of his diplomatic career in the Ghanaian Foreign Service and Consultant for the UNHCR died of a stroke at [Nyaho] Clinic on June 9, 2002.
Joe Mensah	Veteran highlife musician admired in music circles as "The Bosueman" immediate past president of the Musicians Union of Ghana (MUSIGA) and also former President of the Copyright Society of Ghana (COSGA) died on 14th June.
Ya-Na Yakubu Andani II	King of the Dagbons.
Mr. Torbay	NDC MP for Okere from 1992 to 2000 ... Read more
Victims of the Volta Lake Boat Disaster	on April 18 in which many people including school children were drowned.
Mr Reo Addai Basoah 68	New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament for Kumawu Constituency in Ashanti... Read More
Baafour Osei Akoto, 98	A senior linguist of the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu ll.
Esther Ocloo, 83	African Leader and Microlending Pioneer died on Feb. 8 in Accra. Read More
Francis Kojo Poku, 83	Popularly known as Poku Transport, a renowned businessman and transport operator Read More