Features & Opinions

We have been brought up to believe that being Ghanaian is the best thing that could happen to anybody. We take pride in our country as a beacon of hope for Africa. The country that produced the likes of Yaa Asantewa, Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah and Kofi Annan. Everything Ghana was supposed to be the best. Our fufu, akple and ...

“Government tackles flood with GH¢197 million”, “Government donates relief items to flood victims”, “NADMO records 53,000 rendered homeless due to floods”. These and other headlines flood our media space every year during rains, yet no radical measures to solve our flooding menace exist! Citizens and successive governments have destroyed the lives of many Ghanaians. Yes! Governments’ thirst to score political ...

I stopped by a friend’s house the other weekend as I was in her area. As acceptable practice in our tradition, I did not give prior notice and assumed that she would be in and would not mind my stopping by. She was not in the house when I got there. Her houseboy attended to me. He did not remember me when I asked him even though ...

There is the story of an old drunk who was seen searching for his keys under a street light. ‘Did you drop them here?’ he was asked. ‘No, I dropped them in the park, but the light is better here’. Africa’s economy has been described as having the greatest potential for growth in the world for the past decade. However, ...

Feminism is basically advocating for women’s rights and equality of the sexes. Feminist groups have been springing up to fight for women’s rights since immemorial. One such group that popped up in Ghana recently was the Pepper Dem Ministries whose main objective is to compel people to ‘unlearn toxic narratives.’ Then some men went into their armoury and women bared ...

There is a popular idiom that goes ‘children should be seen and not heard’. I agree with this, in certain circumstances. However, I believe that in contributing to the development of society through speech as a concerned youth and citizen of this nation, I ask that my thoughts are considered. Thus, permit me to rant. It has become somewhat a ...

Tales from a series of interviews after hitting the street to detail our findings reveal hidden activities that go on. Two homeless boys told their story and shared their experiences on the street. We started with Joseph Boateng, who is well known as ‘‘Ahoɔfɛ’. He is popular and everyone seems to like him because of his dramatic character. Ahoɔfɛ told Benabi ...

Safety commonly referred to as Occupational safety and health (OSH), Occupational Health and Safety (OHS), Occupational Health, or Workplace Health and Safety (WHS) is an area that concerns itself with the safety, health and welfare of people in the workplace. The main goal of workplace health and safety or OHS is to adopt safe and healthy working methods at the ...

Sometimes I sit in endless traffic and mesmerize, helplessly watching the chaos commercial motorcycles, popularly known as Okada, are creating on our roads and conclude that posterity would lambast our generation for allowing such retrogression in a 21-century country. Many may disagree on the reasons why commercial motorcycles should or should not be banned irrespective of the lives being lost ...

“The commitment I want to make, and for all of us to make, is that by the end of my term in office, Accra will be the cleanest city on the entire African continent. That is the commitment I am making to you.” These were the words of President Akufo-Addo when the President of the Ngleshie Alata Traditional Council, Oblempong ...