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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…

The writer   Your phone rings. A calm, professional voice tells you there has been unusual activity on your bank…

The writer   The 5th industrial revolution today is deemed fast-paced for the corporate world, where organisations and investors are…

President John Mahama   A little over a year of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) being at the throttles of…

Prof. Ransford Gyampo   It has been reported that Prof. Ransford Gyampo, formerly of the University of Ghana, engaged in…

The writer   Abomination! It is condemnable without equivocation, the alleged actions of a Russian national who reportedly lured several…

Prof. Naa Afarley Sackeyfio   On reflection, perhaps “exceptional” doesn’t even come close to an appropriate description of Prof. Naa…

Cocoa Farmers The fire stoked by the cocoa sector crisis continues and would persist until there is a reversal of…

The writer   Ghana is rapidly becoming one of West Africa’s most digitized nations. Accelerated fintech adoption, expanding e-commerce, mobile…

The writer   Last week, eight Ghanaian traders were gruesomely killed and several others wounded when insurgents ambushed a community…

  By sheer coincidence, Muslims and their Christian counterparts commenced their month-long period of fasting on Wednesday. Shouldn’t this underscore…

The jihadists’ murder of Ghanaian traders in Burkina Faso presents us with a security conundrum requiring tactful diplomatic manoeuvre. By…

The writer   For those of us from the heartland of the smock, our earliest memory of the revered fugu…

  The reality of the proximity of Ghana to the insecurity in Burkina Faso and its attendant implications have never…

The late Charles Amissah   Minister Kwabena Mintah Akandoh, I write publicly with respect for your office and appreciation for…

  The challenges in the cocoa sector caused by the reduced price of the golden beans remain a major issue…

Nana Kwasi Boatey Esq   What was meant to be an executive decision turned out to be the perfect Val’s…

The writer   In a recent public statement, the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) announced it would terminate its credit rating…

  Giovanni Jacopo Casanova de Seingalt (1725-98) was an Italian adventurer famous or if you like notorious for capturing in…

Governor Frederick Gordon Guggisberg   Many governors ruled the Gold Coast and while some of these left important footprints on…

  There is a noticeable increase in the cost of living in the country, food items especially becoming unusually expensive…

The writer   Every year, thousands of young Ghanaians hear the same phrase before moving into a new apartment: “Two…

Kofi Ofosu Nkansah The former CEO of the National Entrepreneurship and Innovation Programme (NEIP), Kofi Ofosu Nkansah, has had a…

  What if the phone resting quietly in your pocket knows more about you than your closest friend and is…

The writer   We celebrate the remarkable contributions of women and girls in science who remain a minority among the…

President John Mahama   And it came to pass that President John Mahama, incensed by the evidenced-backed wanton vote-buying in…

The writer   The passage of Ghana’s Right to Information (RTI) Act in 2019 was hailed as a watershed moment…

  Each month, I go to Korle Bu Hospital’s Melody Centre for review of my antidepressant medications. Each visit, I…

  It took an unprecedented large scale electoral corruption to play out in a mere constituency primary for the anomaly…

  As the generations who experienced the two world wars pass away, our direct links to these events go with…

Agradaa   Let us begin where the High Court judge himself began. He made three points that deserve to be…

President John Dramani Mahama in Fugu   The buzz, anger, and friendly debate over President Mahama’s official visit to Zambia…

  Cocoa farmers are pained and for justifiable reasons; they are not being paid for their produce. What they are…

  The aftermath of the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) presidential primaries has shifted national attention beyond politics into a deeper…

  There is an okada rush to Ghana from Niger, and with it more carnage on our intra-city roads. Many…

The writer   To me, the enduring image of Dr. Alhaji Mahamudu Bawumia’s stupendous Presidential Primary victory, is not of…

  The government’s feat in reclaiming 800 acres of galamsey degraded land at Nyankumase in the Manso Adubia District of…

Keta Ramsar site   Among the world’s most productive ecosystems are wetlands, which support exceptionally high concentrations of birds, mammals,…