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…
The Akans say; "Apupuo a oboo ne nsuo da asu kakyi" to wit "the pond snail that created the pond is confined to the edges of the pond" and so it came to pass that the Brong Ahafo Region celebrated the 50th anniversary of its creation and t…
Basic science has it that there exists inter-relationship between simple and complex organisms. It follows the order of green plants producing food through the process of photosynthesis for herbivores (plants eating animals) to feed on. Ca…
“I will be President for all Ghanaians whether they voted for me or not. I’ll heal wounds and strive to ensure unity. No Ghanaian should live in fear of armed robbery. Improvement in internal security would be top of my priority.
Atta Mil…
After being mentioned in passing at various continental forums, the idea of creating an African Union (AU) along the same lines as the European Union (EU) was vigorously revived in the mid-1990s. The move was concretized with the adoption …
AD 2010 is the anointed year of single spine in which the average Ghanaian public worker seeks to wrest power and authority from the humiliating jaws of financial anaemia.
It is the appointed year of the labour front to resolve to ma…
Cotton is a major cash crop cultivated in most parts of the globe including Ghana. It is a soft, stable fibre shrub native to tropical and sub-tropical regions around the world including the Americas, India and Africa. The cultivation of c…
There is only one president in the country. We know who is he, for there can be no other President but John Fiifi Atta Mills. He is a learned Professor of Law.We are aware that the nature of his job calls for a high level of tolerance, dis…
Navrongo Secondary School popularly called NAVASCO is 50 years old. This shining star of Northern Ghana has made tremendous intellectual; moral; political and academic impact on Ghana.
The impact that NAVASCO has made could be describ…
We have marked a year into the Mills administration and the various partisans have lined up with their predictable positions but the solutions to our most sustained problems of poverty,ignorance and disease cry for transparent,open,data –d…
This year's Population and Housing Census like all other topical exercises has engaged the attention of individuals, organizations and Government because its successful outcome would serve as a stimulus for national development.
Indee…
Bapella (U/E), Jan. 6, GNA - Education in the Talensi-Nabdam District in the Upper East Region is threatened as some communities in the area have no schools, and where they exist they have extremely poor infrastructure and pupils have to r…
Anniversaries are occasions for celebrating the truism of history as the "craftsman" who shapes the lives, the future direction and progress of nations and peoples.
Nations and peoples who do not treasure and celebrate their history have …
Millions of Ghanaians regard HIV/AIDS as a condition for the other person and not them. The thinking is that the condition is far away from them and as long as they did not engage in unprotected sex.
The story was the same for a 26-year o…
“Order is Heaven’s First Law”, it is said. But discipline begets discipline. Hence a disciplined life is an orderly life. A disciplined nation is an orderly nation. It is in the midst of discipline and order that a nation or an individual …
Accra-Tema Motorway is fast deteriorating, becoming a death trap, with high traffic growth and encroachment of right-of-way, and unless
serious efforts are made by the Government to save this vital national asset, traffic build-up and inc…
In the year 2000, a veteran journalist cautioned his junior colleagues who would be covering the activities of one of the then presidential candidates to be time conscious, because the man is habitually punctual.
Some of the juniors …
The Minister of Power and Energy, Dr Oteng Agyei. There is no doubt that when ex President Rawlings spoke of the Greedy Bastards, sycophants, strangers and bootlickers, he had the Minister of Mines and energy as one of such people.
With a…
Project Name(ID): GH-Energy Dev & Access SIL (FY08) (P074191)IDA Project Amount: $91.91 million
IDA Amount left to be disbursed as of end October: $75.70 million Trust Fund Project Amount: $50 million Trust Fund Amount left to be disburse…
There can be no doubt that education is the key to success and development.
And since charity begins at home, it is the responsibility of parents and guardians to play a counselling role in shaping the educational
aspirations of th…
Shakespeare wrote that:”There is no art to find the minds construction in the face”. Just yesterday, the attitude of someone I had trusted as a loyal ally has baffled not only me, but many Ghanaians. Like Duncan in Macbeth, this person spo…
I can understand your mild discomfort with such a sweeping statement – that “human security is national security” I mean.
After all if we were to loosen the bounds of what constitutes “national security” to the extent that the title of t…
It is amazing, almost unbelievable how some companies and institutions are striving to outdo each other to sponsor beauty contests and other social events but they are unwilling to assist unfortunate children in orphanages.
These ch…
Promises on campaign platforms with the sole intention of hoodwinking the masses into believing that “A Daniel has come to judgement” is as good as saying: “Atta Mills will drastically reduce the prices of petroleum products”.
This is the…
In May when a newspaper reporter boldly posed as a rice dealer and relayed to the public the existence of powerful syndicated rice smuggling cartels operating along Ghana's long and winding border with Cote d'Ivoire many must have played i…
Ordinarily, when two factions emerge in the camp of our political rivals, (the NDC), with each faction using all the ammunition in its arsenal to outwit, and outpace the other, I should be carousing with members of our tradition. After all…
Millions of Ghanaians regard HIV/ AIDS as a pandemic for the other person. The thinking is that the disease is far away from one as long as he or she does not engage in unprotected sex.
The story was the same for a 26-year old appren…
The Watchtower society is big money, being one of the top 40 New York City Corporations making nearly one billion dollars a year. That's just from one of their many corporations.
Unlike in the case of Christians who are persecuted in oth…
The African Continent, which is the richest and the second largest of the world, is perceived perhaps to be the most worried region on the planet.
Economic, political and environmental improvements are all at risk on the Continent due to …
The importance of census was known before Jesus Christ was born according to the Biblical account of the birth of the saviour of the world. Caesar Augustus, the Emperor of the Roman Empire ordered that all the people should be counted and …
The cutting of the sod for work to begin on the construction of a sheanut processing factory in Buipe on November 14 2009 by Vice President John Dramani Mahama could well be described as a dream come true.
The 10 million-dollar Shean…
Economic growth and poverty reduction are closely linked with the quality of its infrastructure its power, transport systems, water supply and sanitation, and its ICT networks. In the current economic climate, finding the financial
resou…
Do landlords know that it is an offence not to provide toilet facilities in their houses before renting them out?
Well, a lot of them do not know and that is why they continue to put up houses without toilet facilities and expect the…
Organisers of Brighter Futures, Ghana’s biggest Recruitment and Talent Management Exhibition and Conference, Occupational Management Limited, have announced the confirmation of more international speakers and launched an online job board i…
In her dreams, Hannah Rudoff often feels like the Chinese butterfly kite hanging in her bedroom, flying, shuttling across the immense ocean between the United States and China.
In many ways, the 14-year-old girl living in Portland, …
The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors today approved the Bank’s new policy on access to information which positions the Bank as a transparency leader among international institutions. The policy was informed by extensive external a…
One must give on to Caesar what belongs to Caesar for a nation that does not honour her heroes is not worth dying for. One sole armed with truth, courage and dedication can change the destiny of a nation. Quashigah is an achiever, a hero,…
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 …
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