By Samuel Adadi Akapule That smuggling in the country’s border areas represents a major challenge to national security and the country’s economic growth is a fact that cannot be disputed. In the Paga and Bawku areas of the Upper East Region, for example, smuggling of fuel products, fertilizers, pharmaceutical products, foreign currency, foodstuffs and even [...]
The entire auditorium of the Calvary Baptist Church at Adenta in the Adentan Municipality was thrown into the state of mourning on Sunday, when the congregation was officially informed about the sudden death of the Head Pastor, Rev. Dr. George Ansah Odoi. Deacon Christian Sottie, former Accountant General and member of the church council [...]
By I. K. Gyasi It is a pity that despite his pretence at being even-handed, what Mr. Kwadwo Adu-Asare succeeded in doing on the Monday, April 29, 2013 ‘KOKROKOO’ programme of Peace FM, was to rationalise the brutal assault of two journalists by personnel of the Ghana Armed Forces. The two photo-journalists, Mr. Vincent Dzatse [...]
*Jermaine Nkrumah* There has been much talk in recent times about building a new international airport in the Ningo/Prampram area in Greater Accra to ease traffic at Kotoka International Airport also in Accra. Before we rush into agreements that can potentially lead to another round of judgment debts, let us have a national debate about [...]
By Anthony Kwaku Amoah There is now an increasing spate of driver-induced accidents on the roads. Patrice Ofori Atta (March 29, 2013), in an article titled “Road safety: A Shared Responsibility” observes recklessness, carelessness, over-confidence, illiteracy, disregard for road safety regulations, wrong overtaking and overloading by drivers as causes of most road deaths. Persistent efforts [...]
(Continued from April 24th, 2013) A number of times, a young man or woman, who might have been the hope of a family getting a doctor of medicine, may disappoint by turning his/her back on an anatomic scenario, in which frozen and/or fixed in formaldehyde, the human body is split into two, face-up, displaying “the [...]
News of the decision of the National Labour Commission to compel doctors through a law suit to call off the current strike action which it describes as illegal hit me like a bad dream. Surprisingly had this same NLC decided five weeks ago to muster both the resources and the courage to sue the Fair [...]
By I. K. Gyasi “Mrs. Thatcher’s abuses of state power have intensified an awareness of how undemocratic, because it is unwritten, the British Constitution is.” – NEW STATEMAN & SOCIETY. June 10, 1988. Indeed, between 1979 and 1990 when she was the Prime Minister of Great Britain, Mrs. Margaret Thatcher ruthlessly used state power in [...]
“A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess” -Philip Randolph Ghana prides itself as a democratic nation; with current statistics showing that Ghana is on the way to even surpass its Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) [...]
Nantomah Mustapha, University of Cape Coast (UCC) The first time I heard any policy to be put in place to bridge the yawning development gap between the southern and northern parts of Ghana, was in 2008, when Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo unveiled his plans for northern Ghana, should he win the 2008 general elections as [...]