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Destination: Osu. The most popular 3-star hotels in Osu are as flickering quality as the most popular 1 st class restaurants in Osu. The best cars driven in Osu match the top-quality offices in the town. The popularity of Osu in Accra is not overrated. It is worth every dime of the hype it receives.  If you doubt this, you can ask anyone who know the city well enough to know his or her way around it. Osu is lit all year round. Particularly during the festive seasons and the holiday, Osu, Accra is forever in a frenzy. When these times come around the pause button on your body ceases to work until you cannot take it any longer. After all the fun has died down, it will be time to unwind. For sure, Osu seldom sleeps. But for all the fun is worth, a man must relax at the end of the day(or should I say, at the end of the adventure). The son of man must have a place to lay his head. And the quality of your preferred accommodation should match the level of fun you had. Agr...

Kumasi is the Garden City of Ghana as well as being the Ghana’s second most prominent city. Not a city of gardens, but a well-groomed city where anything at all can sell on a large scale provided one has the heart to commit to it. It is here that some of the oldest buildings in Ghana are. A good chunk of the revenue from tourism comes from Kumasi and the rest of the Ashanti Region . Ghanaians of repute who hail from this city are countless. The brand, Kumasi is carved in a homogenous matching fashion to that of Koforidua which has the accolade as a city of flowers. For both instances, Kumasi and Koforidua, business and cultural symbolism are far more paramount than the trees, flowers and gardens that are attributed to them. Sufficing to say that, taking these attributes to flora as a concept, both Kumasi and Koforidua excel in leaps and bounds when it comes to businesses of various kinds and age-old traditions. Even, Kumasi is globally acknowledged for its cultural bank. Ku...

Valentine is that one season of the year where every secret is an open one. I mean, you have to show your love to the one you love. It rhymes but it is real too. Otherwise, you know better than I do that for the rest of the over 300 days in 2017, a memory bank of you flop will be inscribed in both the heart and mind. Whoever opined that love does not come cheap was so right. It is a must to go out of your way on Val’s day to make that needed impression. We never hear the end of the Valentine stories. On Val’s day, that once in a year feeling is intensely strong and who are you to fight it? Let us explore some of the best Val’s day packages and coolest deals to take advantage of this week. It is now or never. It is even competition in this Valentine season. The top hotels in Ghana are on a collision course this week as each tries to outwit the advances of the other in an attempt to provide the most irresistible and best Val’s day packages for their guests. This is not just a...

For me, the contrast in the celebration of Val’s day then and now is excruciatingly far apart. If there was any dint of similarity in the occasion between these 2 life periods of mine, then it will take a journey which includes crossing the Red Sea to discover it. Valentine’s Day was another day in my village. And oh, yes! We did know Valentine Day in Mmaampehia. However, it remained just a matter of knowing by the mention of it; nothing more. As to the content of the pie, our courage needed a sea of encouragement to even dare pose that question to our parents. If the Fetteh stream water ever ‘boozed’ or intoxicated any child enough to ask for insights into the thrust of Val's day, he or she will never hear the end of harsh reprimands. And to be sure it sinks well, the cautions will fly in from all quarters in the village. Somewhere along the line, it was blood-tight tradition for all Mmaampehians to be anti- Val’s day. So you know I was in the mind of almost all the kid...