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Ukraine-Russia tensions: How many people have crossed borders to nearby countries and where have they gone?

The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) can confirm that as of March 22, 2022, a total of 3.6 million people had left Ukraine...

From cleaner to neurosurgeon at Vanderbilt University Medical Center – Dr Kwadwo Sarpong’s story

“I didn’t think it was possible”, Dr Sarpong’s answer to my question about whether he saw himself becoming a resident Neurosurgeon at the prestigious...

Some SHS students use phones more expensive than Free SHS

1. Shouldn’t we be funding individuals/groups that go to court for constitutional litigation?‘Go to court’ is a mantra used by politicians on the governing...

Prof. Ransford Gyampo: Open letter to President Akufo-Addo on current hard times

I greet you. It is clear that times are hard and many Ghanaians never imagined that these will happen in your regime.You gave all...

Int. Women’s Day: Celebrating women blazing the trail in Ghana’s banking industry

The banking and financial sector globally is male dominated and the situation in Ghana is no different.Some banking institutions have taken the bold step...

Understanding Putin’s narrative about Ukraine is the master key to this crisis

With his incursion into Donetsk and Luhansk, Vladimir Putin has broken international law and destroyed the best negotiating track, the Minsk agreement. That is clear. What...

Demystifying federated machine learning: A practical guide with PyTorch

Machine Learning has revolutionised various industries by enabling intelligent systems to learn from data and make accurate predictions or decisions.However, traditional centralized machine learning...

Read: Royal, engineer, born leader: New Osu Mantse, Teteete Nii Nortey Owuo IV, vows to make Osu ‘greater’

Nicholas Nii Nortey Owuo was born for leadership with his graceful demeanour, impressive intellect, infectious humility and wisdom, conflict resolution skills and unifying disposition...

Dr Richard Yeboah Asante: Why should Barker-Vormawor allow principles of social loafing to deceive him of his importance?

The rat that uses the motor or the highway as its playing ground, might either be under the influence of hard drugs, gross stupidity,...

The role of paperless procurement system

In his inaugural address, Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia stated that Ghana will go paperless.Based on this assumption, the Passport office, the Registrar...

Criminal libel is dead and buried but ‘law’ on responsible citizenship is alive

"I prefer a noisy, boisterous sometimes scandalous media of today to the monotonous praise-singing sycophantic one of yesteryear". President Akufo-Addo, July 18, 2017In recent...

5 key reasons why Valentine’s Day must be celebrated

All too soon, a new year is here and the second month of the year is with us again. Work and life go on...

Dr Kwame Kyei’s CAF invitation and experience

The success of AFCON 2021 can never in anyway be swept under the carpet, though its organization came under a barrage of criticisms from...

Mahama & NDC imposed over 116% levies on Ghanaians

The hypocrisy of former President John Mahama and the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) is legendary.Mr. Mahama's government in its bid to revive...

It’s great we’re celebrating Rihanna’s pregnancy, but here’s what’s being left out

She looks beautiful, and the way Rihanna is being celebrated after the announcement of her bundle of joy should be the reality for all...

Ransford Gyampo: An Open Letter to Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu

Dear Sir,I listened to your interview on Joy News where you alleged that I am a die-hard NDC man, simply because I asked that...

UN Eminent Peace Ambassador advises ECOWAS to tackle coup d’état in Africa from root

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has shown concern after coup d’état in some African countries recently. While many countries in the...

Akufo-Addo govt making good use of taxpayers’ money: Razak Kojo Opoku writes

Respectfully, I would like to urge Ghanaians to totally and wholly disregard the propaganda, misrepresentations and ugly noises from the anti-development NDC, misinformed experts...

The situation of food waste in Ghana: a reminder and positive attitude towards achieving SDG 12

Food waste is categorised as food that was originally produced for human consumption but got discarded. Most often, the public is confused with the...

The E-Levy and the Pregnant goat analogy – Agumenu

There's a wisdom in my native language that says anytime a pregnant goat is being sold at the market, it implies that the situation...

Negligence, regulation lapses, institutional failures caused Apiatse disaster – Dr. Solomon Owusu

A Ghanaian mining consultant based in the USA, Dr. Solomon Owusu has linked the tragic incident that happened at Apiatse to institutional failures from...

Some provisions in the constitution of Ghana must be amended – Kwaku Asafo Agyei

Deputy Communications Officer of the National Democratic Congress in Ashanti, Kwaku Asafo Agyei, has called for the amendment of some provisions of Ghana’s 1992...

SIM Registration: George Andah wades into discussion

Former Deputy Communications Minister, George Andah, has backed the current processing place for the ongoing SIM registration exercise nationwide.Per the directive of the National...

Expectations ahead of Africa Cup of Nations 2022

The Africa Cup of Nations, or simply AFCON, is one of the biggest soccer competitions in Africa.The next edition is set to start...

Why New Year’s resolutions so often fail – and how to make ones that stick

The New Year is here! Let us rejoice, feel hopeful, and optimistically declare that in 2022 we will become the best versions of ourselves.A key part...

Okechukwu Chukwuebuka: Expectations ahead of Africa Cup of Nations 2022

The Africa Cup of Nations, or simply AFCON, is one of the biggest soccer competitions in the continent.The next edition is set to start...

I feel loved – Elvis Kwashie’s words of thanks as legend’s death takes the joy out of JoyNews

The room was darker. It was kept dark.The frame of a stout man stood behind the door, flanked by two others who opened...

Ace Annan Ankomah: Dear Prophet

Prophesying is no crime: But “how” you communicate “what prophecy,” could be a crime.By all means receive your end-of-year prophecies, whatever the source....

Sammy Gyamfi writes: Attempt by the police to regulate and criminalise prophecies

My Christian brethren, even though we all know that there are charlatans occupying pulpits in many churches today, we must hasten slowly on the...

MTN Ghana@25: Nurturing girls to be tech gurus

Araba never understood why her parents did not appear to understood her passion for technology stuff.A broken-down laptop at home fascinated her than a...

Not all leaves are created equal – Ras Mubarak writes on Cannabis

Not all leaves are created equal. Cannabis, which some call marijuana or ganja, is certainly in a class of its own.I spent my day...

‘Apologising to Mahama’ – Manasseh Azure Awuni writes

APOLOGISING TO JOHN MAHAMA...When John Mahama first appeared on the presidential ballot paper in 2012, I voted for him. I convinced those within my...

President Akufo-Addo has made Ghana better than developed states – Razak Opoku

Considering the status of Ghana before the swearing-in of President Nana Akufo-Addo in January 7, 2017, and comparing to the current state of Ghana,...

Martin Amidu: The egoism of power and lizard that jumped from a high iroko tree to the ground – 2022 budget

“Radix Malorum Est Cupiditas” – The First BetrayalOn 3rd March 2021, the Minority in Parliament contrary to its own avowed negative evaluations approved the affected...

Martin Amidu’s take on 2022 Budget

On 30th November 2021, the Minority in Parliament knowingly absented itself from the sitting of Parliament to facilitate the Majority in Parliament to purport...

Ghana needs a rebirth to address critical issues that face us as a nation and people

Celebrating Three Decades of Fourth Republican Dispensation in January 2023.I have always been fascinated by the idea of the being ‘born again’ philosophy...

Read: Using two smartphones poses a climate threat — Prince Osisiadan writes

Topic: Impact of the use Smartphones on Climate ChangeMore than three billion people have and use smartphones in the world today. The impact of...

Martin Amidu reacts to rejection of 2022 Budget statement

The Parliamentary vote on November 26, 2021, against the approval of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s 2022 Budget Statement and Policy presented to the Parliament of...

Francis-Xavier Sosu: Kill the killer taxes before it kills us

As stated by Winston Churchill, former British Prime Minister and statesman who served the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, during the Second World...

Edward Omane Boamah: Bawumia the runaway economist; Digitalisation started from Adam

Fellow Ghanaians,Bawumia (THE RUNAWAY ECONOMIST) knows the Akufo-Addo government has done little on improving broadband (fixed and wireless Internet) and his mismanagement of the...