Counting the days... Shake-up at Graphic
705 At the end of August 1993, I had completed my mandatory two-year national service with The Mirror and, therefore, stopped receiving the service allowance. Luckily for me, even though new service persons — Michael MacDonald Tetteh Nyarko Crabbe and Andrews Sylvanus Kwesi Biney had joined The Mirror, I was encouraged to stay on and contribute to the paper as a stringer. I was paid according to the number of stories I filed for the paper. Being a weekly newspaper, it meant that I had to work extra hard to earn enough to take care of myself. I, therefore, went all out and filed as many as f...