Features & Opinions

All across the continent, there seems to be a simmering movement among young people to challenge their leaders because of unemployment. Sadly, from the body language, utterances and policy announcements, it does not look like the governments are providing the answers. This is because they are not listening. But, if they cannot see, don’t they hear? Should they wait till ...

Education consists not only in the sum of what a man or woman knows, or the skill with which he or she can put this to his or her own advantage. A man or woman’s education must be measured in terms of the soundness of his or her judgment of people, situations and of things, and in his or her ...

One of the purposes for which God created man was to have him function as His development partner on this earth, the very reason why He created man in His own image and likeness. God is a visionary, imaginative, an awesome creator and innovator, a strategic thinker, long term planner, an efficient organiser, accurate implementer and a brilliant Achiever. All ...

One of the likeable things about WhatsApp messages is how some of them can get you laughing to the extent that people around turn to look and then bingo, you hit the share button with the intention of getting others to laugh too. Sometimes you succeed, other times you don’t because the person may have received the message thrice already; ...

Folks, I watched all that happened in Kyebi last Thursday when the Asantehene attended the durbar held by the Akim Abuakwahene (Osagyefo Amoatia Ofori Panin) to honour Nana Sir Ofori-Atta I (Member of the British Empire), 75 years after his death. Those of us who studied the history of the Ghana Empire and the pre-colonial, colonial, and post-colonial eras aren’t ...

When i left secondary school in 1987, I did one year national service before entering university. In those days, national service was for two years. But because of university students’ agitations, the universities had been closed down for some time, leading to an admissions backlog. The one-year vacuum was, therefore, used for national service purposes. I lived in Tarkwa with ...

There are domestic and international laws and conventions that generally frown on all forms of discrimination, some of which relate to employment and wages. Chapter 5, Article 17 (2) of the 1992 Constitution of the Republic of Ghana clearly forbids discrimination in all forms on the grounds of “race, place of origin, political opinion, colour, religion, creed, gender, social or ...

There has never been such a large influx of beggars from the West African sub-region. For these swarms of alms-seeking persons — our neighbours from as far afield as Niger and Nigeria  — this country is an oasis of wealth, an Eldorado where poverty will surely give way to wealth; a nirvana of sorts. They will, therefore, do all they ...

Ghana, like most countries is at the crossroads, overwhelmed by the ever-increasing waste. The development has become a huge social problem even though the same waste can be a source of job and wealth creation. One of the key lessons I picked on a recent Petroleum Commission Oil and Gas Trade Mission to Scotland in the United Kingdom is how ...

“In politics, we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill…we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent. The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself” ~ Plato Nobody ever said anything ...