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."
Election violence in Nigeria is nothing new but expectations this year are evoking fears that are sending out the country’s business and political classes. It is reported that they are emigrating in their numbers in anticipation of violence during the election of March 28. It is difficult to understand why mere elections should lead to […]
Our society is reeling from its own canker. When news broke recently about an alleged rape or sexual assault incident, it was not only the merits that came into sharp focus, but the broader problem of sex with children that exploded right in the face of Ghanaians. Coming just weeks after the arrest of a […]
Ivor Greenstreet recently shocked Ghanaians when he stomped the NDC congress grounds and punched the NDC’s ego right on its turf. In and of itself, that was news. Big news! Political parties have always supported and encouraged each other at congress without the embarrassment that came with this year’s NDC congress. Often, competing political […]
America’s warped race relations The conscience of America was pricked once again with the killing of an unarmed black man by a white police officer in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson. Quiet Ferguson was not prepared for such instant trauma so when it happened it shook the community and the entire nation. The incident […]
The Republican Party has prevailed over Barack Obama with its decisive victory in the Midterm elections and with it is a litany of cuts and reversals of policy that have been in place for the past six years. Essentially, those at the receiving end of GOP anti-Obama actions will be the poor and underprivileged. The […]
In response to a question on the Representation of the Peoples’ Act (ROPA) in his recent visit to the United States, President John Mahama urged that pressure be mounted on his country’s electoral commission for implementation of the act. Question is: who does the pressuring? If the pressuring has to be mounted by the Diaspora […]
The recent special election that was held to select five out of seven prospects for the NPP’s flagbearership established tacitly that the candidate that is most likely to grab power for the party in 2016 is Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo. His continued emergence as the party’s primary choice is an indication that Nana Addo […]
For the first time in the history of the United States, a sitting president is hosting African leaders. President Barack Obama, the first American of African descent to assume office as president of the United States of America, invited more than 50 African leaders to the White House to discuss mutual US and African […]
Once again Ghana made headlines in World Cup 2014 in Brazil, this time, however, for the wrong reasons. In 2010 in South Africa Ghana for the first time in a second appearance in a World Cup meet was able to progress to the quarter finals. The team’s ouster by Uruguay was an unfortunate episode. The […]
The recent economic forum at Senchi near Akosombo was called by the government to raise a consensus on the flailing economy. The government extended a hand of friendship to all political parties and all former ministers of finance inaddition to several prominent Ghanaians. A nuber of personalities including Mr. Kwame Pianim, a NPP elder were […]