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."
On November 17, 2021, Ghana’s minister of finance, Ken Ofori Atta read his budget for the year 2022 but the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) voted it down late November 26, 2021. The opposition party in parliament would not accept some taxes, including the 1.75 percent tax on electronic money transfers known as Momo among […]
Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia of Ghana on Tuesday, November 2 delivered a public lecture on the Digitization of the Ghanaian economy at the Ashesi University and followed it up with a question and answer session. Speaking on the topic: Using digitization to transform an economy – the Ghana Story, Dr. Bawumia explained the digitization drive […]
The introduction of Bajaj Qute vehicles by the Coastal Development Authority (CODA) of Ghana into the country’s transportation system is welcome news. The bold initiative was conceived by the ruling New Patriotic Party government in the heat and passion of the 2020 election campaign. After much political wrangling, ‘CODA Drive,’ (as the mini-sized vehicle is […]
The center stage of Ghanaian political debate has shifted to the issue of homosexuality inflaming passions, angering many and confusing Ghanaians about the legality and otherwise of the homosexual act. What is now dubbed LGBTQ+ whatever it means has now become a fad being bandied about with jest in some circles and with utter rejection […]
We concluded in our editorial comment in the last issue that as human as western democracy is, we would prefer that to military coups on the continent. Our contention is based on its inherent fairness and equity. It allows free expression of ideas, religion and, most of all, economic democracy that stimulates development. We reiterate, […]
Military coups in Africa have always promised transformation but experience over the years showed that the military were not to be trusted in establishing democratic governance. A few who showed initial leniency toward democracy only prepared themselves for permanency in civilian garb but could not deviate from their regimental backgrounds. Until late, however, the incessant, […]
The Olympic Games just ended in Tokyo, Japan with much of the medal haul going to the Peoples Republic of China, the United States of America and the wealthy nations. The 60,000-capacity stadium where most of the events were held was mostly sparsely filled with spectators who had to go through intensive testing and observation […]
The practice of homosexuality in Ghana is not novel. Men known in some Ghanaian communities as Kojo Besia are closet homosexuals against who parents warn their little ones. Lesbianism is also a sexual lifestyle practiced in Ghana among young females, and is commonplace in girls’ dormitories in high schools and other institutions as well as […]
Like all documented pandemics in our contemporary world, the appearance of coronavirus less than two years ago threatened the world order and placed it in a jittery and uncertain situation and future. The scientific world and researchers responded in kind and within a short time came up with antidotes to the debilitating virus. In an […]
When Ghana’s President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo assumed leadership of the Republic of Ghana in 2017, among his early promises and goals was to make Accra, the national capital, the cleanest in Africa. The President was right, because the filth that had littered and engulfed the gateway city to Africa was nothing to write home […]