Features & Opinions

Conversations at social gatherings almost always end with the concern that Ghana has become sharply divided, intolerant and polarised, especially around the two dominant parties and individuals who lead them. We are a very unequal nation and becoming more and more so. Vertical inequality refers to when you rank households by their wealth (or income) from the poorest to the ...

Frankly, partisan politics in Ghana has become dirty, stinky and unattractive. It is fraught with hypocrisy, lies, slander, greed, propaganda, envy, mischief, sabotage, destructive criticisms, equalisation, unfulfilled promises, among other repulsive tendencies that are inimical to national development and the growth of democracy.  Sadly, sincerity, objectivity, rationality and credibility have been hurled to the dogs. I strongly concur with John ...

Today, Wednesday 10 October 2018, the world would gather to focus on mental health. It is a day reserved globally for mental health education, awareness and advocacy against the scourge of social stigma and discrimination. It is a day of particular importance that draws thousands of supporters from their homes to gather to draw attention to mental illness and its ...

Today we join others around the world to mark the 16th World Day Against the Death Penalty.  The 2018 World Day is focused on raising awareness of the inhumane living conditions of people sentenced to death. The World Coalition Against the Death Penalty reports that many testimonies document the inhumane living conditions that people sentenced to death endure.  Even though ...

In his visit to flood-hit areas recently, the Vice-President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, announced that Cabinet will meet to discuss the construction of the Pwalugu Multipurpose Dam{PMD} on October 1. This is good news and the timing is epic; it were as if Dr Bawumia listened in on the high-level meeting held in Bolgatanga a few days before. At the meeting, ...

Following the recent heavy rains and the annual spillage of excess water from the Bagre dam of Burkina Faso, Northern Ghana (Upper East, Upper West & Northern Region), have been the subject of news (local and international) reportage for the past three weeks for all the negative reasons. Several damages have been recorded and still counting, with farms being submerged, ...

Since its imperceptible evolution from oral, written, printed, electronic, and now in its digital age, media have played consequential role and continue to play and transform the way in which people everywhere in the world relate socio-culturally, economically, and politically.  Media’s influences on cultures are so pivotal and all-embracing that it is not surprising some leaders or governments with dictatorial ...

The devastation and emotional drain of road accidents can be encapsulated in a famous quote attributed to Nikki Rowe. “There’s something about trauma to the mind, body, and soul.  One day your normal and the next you’re different; you don’t know what changed but you know nothing’s the same and all of a sudden, you are learning to adapt yourself to the ...

I making these emphatic statements not based on any personal hatred against the NPP and the NDC as political parties but I do so on the basis of what history has proven on the issue of the Ghanaian economy and by extension the African economy. These two parties deviate from the valid principles that can salvage us. It must be ...

The Yendi -Chereponi road in the Northern Region is such in a terrible state that anybody using it will have a story to tell. Following rainfall for almost two weeks, some streams and other water bodies have overflowed their banks making many roads in the region making them inaccessible. Several communities and villages have been cut off due to the ...