Dr. Kwegyir Aggrey "Only the best is good enough for Africa."
Kwame Nkrumah "The independence of Ghana is meaningless unless it is linked up with the total liberation of Africa."
An international airport is an entry/exit point in a country, utilizing air transport. Throughout the world, airport facilities are named after things that exude positivity and reflect exemplary qualities of the person or thing named after. Heathrow Airport in London was named after an old cottage of Heath Row that was demolished to make way […]
Ghana transitioned to a republic under its first President Kwame Nkrumah in 1960 and commemorated July 1 as Republic Day and a statutory public holiday. Under the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government the holiday was adjusted and moved. The current National Democratic Congress (NDC) government brought back the July 1 public holiday, highlighting it as […]
When the enslaver and slave ship captain John Newton encountered violent turbulence at sea, he called on God to help save the ship. Thereafter, he revitalized his faith and turned to an Anglican minister, after which he penned the epic Christian hymn “Amazing Grace” in appreciation and gratitude to God. Many slave merchants and […]
Ghana’s President John Dramani Mahama in his second coming has vowed to stem corruption by any means possible. He has set up a five-member committee charged with investigating suspected and perceived corruption, looting, and state capture of public assets and to reclaim same. Even though the committee, appropriately themed Operation Recover All Loot (ORAL), was […]
Ghana’s contentious presidential and parliamentarian elections on December 7 between the two dominant parties in the 4th Republic provided several firsts. Former president John Dramani Mahama of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), who was the first one-term president in Ghana’s 4th Republic, shocked both critics and observers with his almost 57% of the total valid […]
Ghanaians face a crucial moment in their nation’s history as they go to the polls to select a new government and a new parliament for the next four years on December 7 this year. The political climate is so taut and saturated with political rhetoric between the two main parties, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) […]
It is said that a healthy nation is a wealthy nation. But the wealth of a nation depends on the investments of infrastructure and human resources that a government places on the health of the nation. Both complement one another to attain a Six Sigma status. But the health of a nation, and by extension […]
Some portions of Ghana’s 2012 Road Traffic Regulations Act were being considered for amendments. Spearheaded by the Ministry of Transport, the amendments to Legislative Instrument (L.I.) 2180 sought to allow government ministers, members of Parliament, and justices of the Supreme Court to drive with sirens blaring and blazing and without regard to speed limit. We […]
A. AYINIBISAH AYELAH A recent video of the Apetorku Gbodzi Festival went viral on social media reigniting the debate for a traditional holiday in Ghana. Traditionalists who are cognizant of their rights under the code of arms of Ghana, “freedom and justice” as well as the protections bestowed on them under Chapter Five, 21 (c) […]
The socioeconomic development of a country is anchored on the basic tenets of its culture. Once the tenets start to give way, the center cannot hold, and the country becomes an abracadabra of anything goes. Its people become lost for lack of cultural directions. Japan, China and a host of other countries have developed not […]