My attention has been drawn to a feature article published in the New Punch on Tuesday, 3rd November, 2009 which was given wide publicity during the newspaper review segment by a panelist on Peace FM. I received numerous telephone calls f…
In some corners of the world, some children are enjoying their heavenly life, while others are suffering bitterness. But a strong will lightens the load of those suffering children and gives them hope.
UGANDAN ORPHAN FENDS FOR SIBLIN…
Telecommunications facilities are important to a school pupil just as it is to the tomato seller or a business tycoon. The uses and importance to business people cannot be overemphasized but Devine Ocloo, an 11-year old primary six pupil f…
Another academic session has begun and parents are frantically looking for admission to ensure their wards and children benefit from the numerous educational facilities, and that they are not left out. It is for this reason that the Muslim…
Thirteen-year-old Kwasi Boadu stood in the middle of his father's farm confused and angry at himself for his inability to identify the big tree where his father had dumped a heap of cocoyam he was to collect home for the family's supper. …
If you are longing to become one of Ghana's latest "nouveau riche", then go the nine yards as a shea farmer or producer of the crop.
For, small and medium scale shea farmers and producers will soon advance to the rank of the rich as…
It was an innocuous remark or statement which was not meant to generate any controversy. Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo was on a familiar terrain doing what he knows best. It was a friendly advice to the publishers of a friendly newspaper …
The global economic crisis is contributing to shifts in power relations in the world that will impact currency markets, monetary policy, trade relations and the role of developing countries, said World Bank Group President Robert B. Zoelli…
You can read all about the Mabey and Johnson judgment from the leading websites on Ghana. Each carries the story and details what I said in an earlier breaking news alert of August 7th. At the time, I wrote about the impending implosion…
For some years now, there has been keen interest globally to use the Jatropha plant and agricultural-based crops as renewable energy generation alternatives, at the expense of food production, as the world is running short of fossil resour…
The desire by many Ghanaians to get a lifeline from the Government to improve on their socio-economic fortunes is becoming an illusive appointment with fate.
Getting one square meal a day in a country where every successive governmen…
The world's poor will bear the brunt of the impact of global climate change. As the planet warms, rainfall patterns shift, and extreme events
such as droughts, floods, and forest fires become more frequent.
Millions in densely popula…
Today, the World Bank Ghana Office joins
the Government and people of Ghana in commemorating the 100th birthday of Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah.
The vision for a better future developed so eloquently by this great son of Africa still dri…
On the mantle piece in my home, I have a piece of sculpture from a fallen statue of a once formidable dictator in Ghana. On 24th February, 1966 together with a host of friends just turning teenage, we flocked to the front of Parliament …
In the heat of the suspended Vodafone employee retrenchment exercise, the management gave a number of reasons why the exercise is necessary, one of which is to set the tone for things to be done "The Vodafone Way" at the former Ghana Telec…
Is Britain's aid money well spent? One expert working in Ghana raised doubts - and was sacked. Rosie Waterhouse on the whistle-blower and the missing £18m
Howard Horsley is an idealist, committed to overseas aid. Over the years he has w…
ICHA (International Cardiovascular Health Alliance) and EAUMF (Edward A. Ulzen Memorial Foundation) Announce Pilot Program to begin in Elmina, Ghana.
A San Francisco-based non-profit, whose goal is to eliminate the spread of Cardiovascu…
In those days when succession to the throne could be very acrimonious, there existed a tacit understanding among all the contestants and their supporters anytime the throne became vacant. This unwritten law or convention was strictly ad…
So much has been said about fibre optics over the last two years, particularly submarine fibre optics communications technology coming to Ghana.
The hype of the fibre optics talk was particularly fuelled by the sale of 70 per cent o…
“A country that does not celebrate its heroes is not worth dying for.” It is in this vein that one calls for a more sober interrogation of our history. In fact, it is high time we examined the narrow perspective of the “founding” of Ghan…
The vision of a united, peaceful and prosperous Africa has been a long, cherished but elusive ideal whose early advocates included Marcus Garvey, President Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, George Padmore, W.E.B. DuBois, Emperor Haile Selassie of Et…
Over the last two years alone, so much has been said about fibre optics, particularly the coming of submarine fibre optics communications technology to Ghana.
The hype of the fibre optics talk was particularly fuelled by the sale of…
The Gynaecology Department of the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital recently took delivery of the refurbished second floor of its Maternity Block, thanks to MTN.
The completely transformed floor, re-commissioned on Friday, August 14, 2009,…
Ghanaians were warned during the electioneering campaign that a vote for Mills was tantamount to a vote for Rawlings. The slogan was “Vote for Mills and get Rawlings free”. This prophecy has been fulfilled. Yes, Rawlings has taken over t…
In his recent visit to Africa President Barack Obama praised the strength of Ghana’s democratic institutions and emphasised the vital importance of good governance to sustainable development and the protection of human rights. Obama’s me…
I was recently in the offices of one of the telecom giants in the country. At the waiting area of the front office there was this "huge" woman sitting with a baby on her back, ranting and raving about her house having been branded in the c…
As the day to the commencement of Ramadan (Sha'ban) approaches, when fasting is seen as a means of achieving piety and righteousness, it is necessary that the Muslim brethren adhere to the Prophet's admonition that "He who does not give up…
State of the Union Addresses are normally presented by incumbent and constitutionally elected leaders of countries. Therefore, I, an unknown and unsung political animal do not have any locus standi to present one to my constituents, who …
Last Sunday, the 12th of July, 2009, at about 8.15pm, I had a phone call from an unexpected source. Guess whom? The ‘honourable’ P. C. Appiah Ofori himself. Let me state here that I cannot say for sure whether it was Appiah Ofori himsel…
In office he ran a tight schedule. He came into office when the country was in dire straits. The economy was tottering at 3.6% of GDP a year. Fuel supplies were down to only a few days' supply. External reserves of only $233 million coul…
From Dom Diogo D’Azambuja to Barack Obama
Not since Dom Diogo d’Azambuja’s mission to Elmina on January 20, 1482 has a visiting potentate garnered so much interest on our shores. It is widely assumed that d’Azambuja’s visit was the first …
A few years back a huge global scare about the cancerous effects of radio frequency radiations (RFR) from mobile handsets gained capital in the Ghanaian media.
Warnings were that mobile handsets should not be held close to the ear b…
Officials from Tuscaloosa, Alabama, U.S.A. are visiting Sunyani with the hope of establishing a Friendship City relationship between the two cities in the future.
Tuscaloosa City Councilman Robert Lundell and Tuscaloosa Sister Cities …
1. Key development issues and rationale for Bank involvement Ghana recorded significant achievements in terms of governance, growth and poverty reduction in the recent years. The Country Performance Institutional Assessment ranked Gha…
It is said that singing one's song incessantly becomes monotonous. However, another proverb goes that if the blacksmith is hitting one spot repeatedly, he either wants the holes there to vanish or to make the surface smooth.
Similarl…
One could hear the cries of toddlers from a distance. Some so loud to keep one wandering what could be happening to the owners of those voices.
As one approached where the noise is coming from one realises they belonged the future l…
Every journalist like the hunter always has a dream, while the hunter may dream of big games, a journalist always dreams of big stories that would capture the headlines.
The Media is referred to as the fourth estate of the realm aft…
Our core problems in Ghana revolve around literacy and health. We are in a part of the world where only one in five people can read on average. In our region of Africa we have the highest literacy rate but this should not cause us to be…
From a state of near collapse in 2006, the Ho Municipal Hospital inaugurated in 1927 has bounced back as the first choice health facility for people in the Municipality.
Fresh blood has been injected into the Hospital bringing it bac…
Canadian-born Chinese (CBC) are sometimes called "bananas"(yellow on the outside but white on the inside), meaning they are Chinese but "westernized" to the extent such that they think, act, and talk like white people.
Inspired by …
Like many Ghanaians, this Writer thought he knew Vice President John Dramani Mahama quite well. He later discovered that he was wrong.
The savoir-faire and ebullient Politician John that Ghanaians are accustomed to on television is s…
One of the greatest challenges confronting today's world is the menace of HIV/AIDS, which by all indications is a big catastrophe confronting contemporary society since both the sexually active and non-sexually active stand the risk of g…
There is no doubt that the desire by the Government and its partners to bridge the developmental gap between the North and the South would be a mirage if the people in the area continued to engage in conflicts and violence.
This is b…
As the young and affable Mr Haruna Iddrisu Member of Parliament for Tamale South comes to office as Minister of Communications, one thing that mobile phone users in the country would expect him to deliver on is his promise to ensure that M…
Earlier this month in Addis Ababa, African leaders agreed on the need to develop and improve Africa's infrastructure. Better infrastructure –
water, transport, electricity“ can increase growth rates in Africa by more than 2 percent, rai…
Ghanaians up and down the country celebrate 52 years of independence in March 2009 with
help from the Ghana Black Stars Network (GBSN). The celebratory event which encompasses
an awards ceremony, fashion show and performances will be hos…
The World Bank's Board of Governors has approved a first phase of reforms to increase the influence of developing countries within the World Bank Group, including adding a seat for Sub-Saharan Africa to allow developing countries a majorit…
The decision of President John Evans Atta Mills to consult with the Leadership of the Ghanaian religious organisations to observe Sunday February 1 2009 as national day of prayer and thanksgiving struck a harmonious note in some ears while…
Almost a week after Israel announced a unilateral ceasefire in the Palestinian territory of Gaza Strip, life in the costal strip recovered gradually on Friday from the shock of the Israeli attacks although it's still very hard for those ho…
With all their belongings on a donkey cart, Ali's family came to the UN-run school in northern Gaza Strip's Jabalia refugee camp before sunset on Thursday, only to find that the temporary settlement has already been fully accommodated.
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