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  Poor emergency response management, poor emergency coordination, unacceptable performance by public servants and above all lip-service to important matters…

The writer   The nursing shortage is not simply a customer service or comfort issue for patients; it can mean…

Mr. Ibrahim Mahama   My name is Dr. Naa Adzoa Adzeley Boi-Dsane. The last time I received a reply in…

Ex-President Nana Akufo-Addo   The journey towards the international recognition of the unparalleled ills of slavery in the history of…

Ibrahim Mahama   The Tamale metropolis was nearly overrun by drug-related criminalities until the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mr.…

  The ongoing war in the Middle East has introduced many Ghanaians to the complex subject of geopolitics. Many hardly…

  One of the stories in this edition is unusually disturbing. It is about the unbridled level of indiscipline among…

Stephen Blewett, CEO of MTN Ghana   For many Ghanaians, MTN Ghana is responsible for the signal on their phone…

IGP Christian Tetteh Yohuno   The Motor Traffic and Transport Department (MTTD) personnel have over the years earned a notoriety…

The writer   It has been about three years since then-Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Vershinin said his country would…

The writer   A few years ago, as a young woman with wild hopes and dreams, when I began losing…

For those who were unborn when lawlessness ruled in the country during a so-called revolution, a bit of that regrettable…

The writer   Who would have thought that there would come a time when the universally acknowledged enemy of food…

Pearl Nkrumah   In Ghana’s traditionally male-dominated banking industry, Ms. Pearl Nkrumah stands at the helm of Access Bank (Ghana)…

Professor Kwabena Frimpong-Manso Opuni   The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) has launched investigations into reports that some vendors are…

  Today’s world, which is marked by rapid technological change, social pressures and complex moral choices, requires that many people…

Former President Nana Akufo-Addo and President John Mahama   Emerging developments in recent times continue to expose the hypocrisy in…

  It was unsurprising that attempts were made to eliminate the President, none of them succeeding until the February 24,…

  A Catholic Priest, Rev. Albert Henry Candler, played yeoman’s role in pioneering education in the Northern Territories at a…

  We do not know what number of persons suffering from an ailment can pass for a health emergency. This,…

  Recruitment into the security services has never been so chaotic and rancorous. All of a sudden this annual routine…

A picture from the 2024 IWD march in Accra   When I assumed office as United Nations Resident Coordinator, I…

The writers   Across Africa, development work has always demanded patience, partnership, and deft political navigation. Today, in a growing…

Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa   American and Nigerian officials should be wondering what drove our Foreign Affairs Minister Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa…

  The school bell had rung five minutes earlier. Its echo had long dissolved into the midday air, swallowed by…

Arrogance and abuse of authority are not acceptable attributes of good governance. Those entrusted with the responsibility of managing a…

  One in seven girls aged 15–19 in Ghana has been pregnant before. For 22-year-old Teresa, the statistics is not…

A traditional setting   Across Africa, debates on governance, development, and gender equality often focus on modern political institutions, electoral…

The writer   President John Dramani Mahama last Friday delivered a calm but confidence boosting assessment of Ghana’s current economic…

  Yesterday, the annual commemoration of the lowering of the Union Jack and the replacement of same with the freshly…

  The world is in a turmoil and even advanced economies are running helter-skelter as the repercussions of the ongoing…

Kwame Nkrumah poses with his presidential police motorcycle riders   Sixty-nine years ago, the dream of the ‘Big Six’ and…

  The attack on Ghanaian soldiers serving under United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) in southern Lebanon came as…

The writer   Introduction The 2026 State of the Nation Address, delivered on 28 February 2026, provided a constitutionally grounded…

The writer   On March 3, 2026, as voters queued in the Ayawaso East by-election, a video published by Ghana…

  The negative spectre of vote-buying in our political architecture, though a reality, is yet to receive the robust reversal…

Dr. Hilda Mantebea Boye   Source: Paediatric Society of Ghana (PSG) Your Excellency the President of the Republic, Speaker and…

Kojo Oppong Nkrumah Dissipation of public funds in situations of no-work-done across the country is a feature we have grappled…

 The writer   I grew up in a home where responsibility was shared. There were no rigid rules about who…

The writer   There is a quiet arithmetic to suffering. It does not make front pages. It does not generate…

  We wonder what the National Democratic Congress (NDC) would say when the effects of the ongoing hostilities in the…

Gen EK Kotoka and Gen AA Afrifa, Colonels at the time of the coup   Last Thursday marked the 60th…

  The Gulf of Guinea has never been so dangerous. Discourses about maritime safety, when they do take place, are…

The writer   Ghana has done something many countries say they want to do: it opened the door to a…

President John Mahama   With the cocoa price haircut still resonating across the country and the lame government response not…

The writer   Alliances in West Africa are shifting, and Accra is watching the developments with caution. In recent years,…

  The incidence of physical assaults on teachers by their students is on the rise across the country. It is…

The writer   Most Ghanaians no longer judge an organisation by how impressive its offices look or how visible its…

Violence in Schools   School violence in Ghana is no longer an occasional headline — it is becoming a troubling…

The late Charles Amissah The action taken by the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital (KBTH) against two doctors and same number…