Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit. My love for the New Patriotic Party knows no bounds. I eat and drink everything NPP. In short, I virtually swim in it. And so I decided to adopt a “Sidon look” posture a…
I glance around and find us a seat. It’s just gone past half-eight and we’ve just driven over from the Osu Food Court after grabbing a sinful pizza that defied all my dieting aspirations. We’re attending the launch of Ophelia Crossland’s n…
Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit. My love for the New Patriotic Party knows no bounds. I eat and drink everything NPP. In short, I virtually swim in it. And so I decided to adopt a “Sidon look” posture a…
I wiped away ‘teardrops’ with my napkin. For the first time in a few months I was laughing so hard my eyes wouldn’t stop watering. It was an unbelievably hilarious moment as guests roared with laughter at the rich act of comedy coming from…
I wiped away ‘teardrops’ with my napkin. For the first time in a few months I was laughing so hard my eyes wouldn’t stop watering. It was an unbelievably hilarious moment as guests roared with laughter at the rich act of comedy coming from…
Ghanaians are dying in silence and in pieces. People call it ‘slow poison’. The old Ghanaian hospitality of being your brother’s keeper no longer holds. It is money galore. Go to our educational and public institutions, the rot is there. …
Ghanaians are dying in silence and in pieces. People call it ‘slow poison’. The old Ghanaian hospitality of being your brother’s keeper no longer holds. It is money galore. Go to our educational and public institutions, the rot is there. …
The Chief Executive Officer of the Millennium Development Authority (MiDA), Mr. Martin Eson-Benjamin, has said completion of projects envisaged under the Millennium Challenge Accounts (MCA) would enhance the socio-economic transformation o…
I look around me and sigh. It’s a big sigh. The kind that you let out when you’re on the verge of frustration. I squint out my window at the entrance of the Fiesta Royale Hotel and contort my lips into unimaginable curves. For the last twe…
The Chief Executive Officer of the Millennium Development Authority (MiDA), Mr. Martin Eson-Benjamin, has said completion of projects envisaged under the Millennium Challenge Accounts (MCA) would enhance the socio-economic transformation o…
I look around me and sigh. It’s a big sigh. The kind that you let out when you’re on the verge of frustration. I squint out my window at the entrance of the Fiesta Royale Hotel and contort my lips into unimaginable curves. For the last twe…
On a busy walk-way in the Ministries area of Accra, two children found peace in the thunderous foot trampling around them as they slept away on a mutilated cardboard.
Amina (not real name), their mother, sat a few metres away on an a…
Chieftaincy, a revered traditional institution, has painfully but remarkably survived the colonial and post-colonial evolutions in Ghana.
So irresistible and influential is chieftaincy that its relevance has been guaranteed by the 19…
On a busy walk-way in the Ministries area of Accra, two children found peace in the thunderous foot trampling around them as they slept away on a mutilated cardboard.
Amina (not real name), their mother, sat a few metres away on an a…
Chieftaincy, a revered traditional institution, has painfully but remarkably survived the colonial and post-colonial evolutions in Ghana.
So irresistible and influential is chieftaincy that its relevance has been guaranteed by the 19…
Recent reports in the online and print press suggest that the Director of Television Mr. Ampem Darko and other directors have been complicit in procedural manipulation of the Public Procurement Authority in order to push through an order t…
Recent reports in the online and print press suggest that the Director of Television Mr. Ampem Darko and other directors have been complicit in procedural manipulation of the Public Procurement Authority in order to push through an order t…
It is about time and President Mills has shown great courage and caring by recently visiting the Accra Psychiatric Hospital. This institution and others for the care of the mentally ill in our nation are suffering severely from legislative…
In a tirade attacking the Customs and Excise Unit, President Evans Atta Mills has cautioned that he will not give up the sacred mission conferred on him by Ghanaians to build a better Ghana and he will get there surely but slowly.
Informa…
It is about time and President Mills has shown great courage and caring by recently visiting the Accra Psychiatric Hospital. This institution and others for the care of the mentally ill in our nation are suffering severely from legislative…
In a tirade attacking the Customs and Excise Unit, President Evans Atta Mills has cautioned that he will not give up the sacred mission conferred on him by Ghanaians to build a better Ghana and he will get there surely but slowly.
Informa…
It is about time and President Mills has shown great courage and caring by recently visiting the Accra Psychiatric Hospital. This institution and others for the care of the mentally ill in our nation are suffering severely from legislative…
In a tirade attacking the Customs and Excise Unit, President Evans Atta Mills has cautioned that he will not give up the sacred mission conferred on him by Ghanaians to build a better Ghana and he will get there surely but slowly.
Informa…
Motherhood is often a positive and fulfilling experience, but for some women in Ghana, it is associated with agony, ill-health and even death.
The experience of Adwoa Kumi Yeboah, a 30-year-old farmer and mother of five from Abwokwa in th…
Motherhood is often a positive and fulfilling experience, but for some women in Ghana, it is associated with agony, ill-health and even death.
The experience of Adwoa Kumi Yeboah, a 30-year-old farmer and mother of five from Abwokwa in th…
Motherhood is often a positive and fulfilling experience, but for some women in Ghana, it is associated with agony, ill-health and even death.
The experience of Adwoa Kumi Yeboah, a 30-year-old farmer and mother of five from Abwokwa in th…
The raging brouhaha between the Bank of Ghana (BoG) and the Commercial Banks regarding lending rates has degenerated into a blame game. While the BoG is faulting the Banks for not reducing lending rates to support the Central Bank’s prime…
The raging brouhaha between the Bank of Ghana (BoG) and the Commercial Banks regarding lending rates has degenerated into a blame game. While the BoG is faulting the Banks for not reducing lending rates to support the Central Bank’s prime…
The raging brouhaha between the Bank of Ghana (BoG) and the Commercial Banks regarding lending rates has degenerated into a blame game. While the BoG is faulting the Banks for not reducing lending rates to support the Central Bank’s prime…
The Reverend Mrs Jemima Amanor, Country Director of Compassion International, Ghana, a non governmental organization that takes care of poor and vulnerable children, believes that every child whether from a rich family background or a poor…
It was a gloomy atmosphere at House Number 12, Israel, near Florensa Hotel when Mr. Frank Ayim Damptey returned from a one week business trip abroad to meet his household in mourning.
Mr. Frank Ayim Damptey, who is the MD/CEO of Tata Beve…
It was a gloomy atmosphere at House Number 12, Israel, near Florensa Hotel when Mr. Frank Ayim Damptey returned from a one week business trip abroad to meet his household in mourning.
Mr. Frank Ayim Damptey, who is the MD/CEO of Tata Beve…
It was a gloomy atmosphere at House Number 12, Israel, near Florensa Hotel when Mr. Frank Ayim Damptey returned from a one week business trip abroad to meet his household in mourning.
Mr. Frank Ayim Damptey, who is the MD/CEO of Tata Beve…
18th August 1955, the Asantene addresses the Confederacy Council that “the Kumawuhene … did not want anything to do with the National Liberation Movement (NLM), which was fighting for the preservation of our traditions and culture. The Ku…
18th August 1955, the Asantene addresses the Confederacy Council that “the Kumawuhene … did not want anything to do with the National Liberation Movement (NLM), which was fighting for the preservation of our traditions and culture. The Ku…
18th August 1955, the Asantene addresses the Confederacy Council that “the Kumawuhene … did not want anything to do with the National Liberation Movement (NLM), which was fighting for the preservation of our traditions and culture. The Ku…
At a recent workshop organized by a Ho based NGO, one of the facilitators described indiscipline as a "disease" that has infected the moral fibre of the Ghanaian society.
He said some signs of this disease include jumping the traffic li…
The saying that what identifies a group of people is their cultural heritage is becoming real daily in this era when nations are trying to promote their culture internationally.
A nation without cultural heritage is therefore without …
The Blind and the Lame in the Oncho-Free Zone of the Upper West Region have lived up to the saying that being physically challenged is not a disability.
Unlike the physically challenged persons elsewhere, who are despised, marginalise…
Patriotic members of the New Patriotic Party: I address you as an ordinary but committed member of our noble tradition on a matter of great concern. You have been entrusted with the destiny of the party in choosing which of the four candid…
This Writer first met the late Peter Kweku Abban in 1989 as the Eastern Regional Editor of "The Ghanaian Times" when he was doing his national service with the Ghana News Agency at Koforidua.
It was very refreshing learning from Papa…
A cursory look at the streets, traffic lights and intersections in our cities reveals a disturbing phenomenon - an overwhelming rise in the population of beggars.
So visible are these beggars on our streets in recent times that one …
A write up by one Yaw Okyere Addo had the headline, 'Anybody but Jake" .I was at a loss as to the real motive of the author to give such a sensational headline to a feature whose content is greatly at variance with the title. The scales fe…
After the results of the run-off presidential elections were declared, some of us felt our defeat too bitter a pill to swallow. We had sat on tenterhooks while waiting for the results. Eventually, when they were released, we found it too d…
In the Upper West Region there is no community, village or settlement where people are not campaigning against the expulsion of Fulani herdsmen and their cattle from the region.
Women and children are worried because they are leading…
Scores of boys are being exploited by cattle owners in several parts of the North-Tongu District in the Volta Region as they are denied formal education.
These children, mostly between the ages of 10 and 15 years, are engaged as herds…
The clouds gathered, tension heightened and the political barometer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) rose. Its opponents were expecting that the party would come out from its Tamale National Delegates' Congress bruised and broken.…
Every now and then the issue about the dismal performance of state-owned enterprises in Ghana, and in most parts of Africa for that matter, has come up for discussion. The pertinent, double-barrelled question here is: "Why do State enterpr…
A great tide in history flows, and as it flows, it brings back great memories; - memories of the contradictory sides to a great man who can dance to different tunes of music at different times. I am referring to the Great Man of Destiny,an…
It was not a good news at all for Madam Mary Akosua Darkwaa, a 63-year-old trader at Abesim, near Sunyani, to wake up in the middle of the night to receive a call from his son, who rang from Koforidua to alert her to vacate her room due t…