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Recurring LGBTQI+ debates in Ghana: CSOs loud silence deafening

The debate on the phenomenon of the Lesbians, Gays, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, I+ (LGBTQI+) agenda has been raging on for some time now and...

Making Ghana a Mathematics-friendly nation: A key to our national development agenda

In November 2019, the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organisation named 14th March of every year as the International Day of Mathematics. This...

Govt’s introduction of 10 pesewa ‘Borla’ tax for a clean Ghana: The best way to go

The issue of waste management continues to be a bane and stumbling block to Ghana's quest to achieve the cleanest city in Africa feat.And...

Why Mahama owes Akufo-Addo a phone call [read]

Three months after election 2020, Ghanaians could still have been removing dead bodies from the streets, the air filled with the stench of putrefaction...

Manasseh’s Folder: Domelevo, Alhassan and the soldier

Dear Daniel Yaw Domelevo,I am touched to write your tribute at a time you’re still part of the audience. I must, however, confess that...

Ace Ankomah: Of the black skin and Meghan Markle

I think that sometimes, we Black Africans living in Africa must take a step back and admit that we do not really or fully...

Dr Afriyie Akoto has the wits to sustain gains in Agric sector

Dr Owusu Afriyie Akoto, the two-term Member of Parliament (MP) for Kwadaso in the Ashanti Region, and Minister for Food and Agriculture, has distinguished...

Okoe Boye writes: We can end COVID-19 pandemic this year if we do these things

Today, the 9th of March,2021, is exactly one week since the Ghana government started vaccinating its citizens against the COVID-19 disease.As a physician...

Int’l Women’s Day: How her father as the first ‘feminist’ influenced her life – The Gifty Anti factor

March 8 every year is International Women's Day celebrated around the world. It is a focal point in the movement for women's rights.Today, we...

From challenge comes change: Int’l Women’s Day in perspective

International Women’s Day is a time to reflect on progress made, to call for change and to celebrate acts of courage and determination of...

Int’l Women’s Day: Meet the Ghanaian woman who holds a unique football record [Photos]

She holds the record as the first human to have played three significant roles on the football field.She has proved to be athletic, smart...

IWD: Celebrating women in Covid-19 ‘fight’ and development

Women globally have offered great input in the quest to building society in varied scopes like health, food and agriculture, science and technology, fishery,...

Int’l Women’s Day: Celebrating Regina Honu; Ghana’s tech guru mentoring young women

Her passion to empower young women and girls in Science, Technology and Engineering drove her to quit her prestigious job at an international bank...

Love is rented not bought

There’s an old cliché that says: “Money can’t buy love.” But is that actually true? There’s research to suggest that, up until a certain...

The role of Solar Energy in Ghana Energy Security and Climate change

Fossil fuel price instability plus its increasing cost and climate change, as well as efforts to reduce pollution, have led to an unprecedented investment...

The role of nuclear power in energy transition to fight CO2 emissions

Carbon dioxide emissions will continue to grow for the next 30 years. For us to control climate change, CO2 emissions literally must go to...

How one man’s love for Paul McGrath led to an entire town in Ghana supporting Aston Villa

Eerily quiet matchdays have become the norm in England, but over 5,000 miles away supporters of one Premier League side are dancing in the...

The s3xual relationship every guy should know about

As society evolves around factors such as social media and western influences, our outlook on life becomes reshaped and remolded in lots of ways...

Manasseh Azure: Why I won’t take Covid-19 vaccine with journalists today

Last night, I received an invitation from an executive of the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) to come for the Covid-19 vaccination today at the Ghana...

For the love of the grudge: Why we can’t forgive or forget

Forgive and forget is advice that has been passed down through generations of peacekeepers, television sitcoms and films, and sage mothers from my adolescence and well into...

Importance of deep relationships

In one of the most thorough and prolonged behavioral studies ever conducted, Harvard University researchers surveyed and scrutinized a group of 724 men from 1939...

EducationMark for private universities in Ghana

Ghana saw the emergence of private higher education in the early 1990s. Since then, there has been an exponential increase in the number of...

Super Clash: How much Hearts and Kotoko stand to lose playing without fans

On Sunday, Ghana’s two biggest clubs will go head-to-head at the Accra Sports Stadium for bragging rights.The fixture between Hearts of Oak and Asante...

Abu Jinapor: A minister-designate with a SMART strategy

In every enterprise of life, only those who come along with unique plans and strategies succeed and same can be said of governance even...

Manasseh Azure Awuni: Oppong Nkrumah, Prof Kwame Karikari did not lie

Dear Kojo Oppong Nkrumah,I heard you stressed at the vetting last week that I had never said I went to South Africa because my...

Manasseh Azure Awuni: The LGBTQ+ of Saudi Arabia and Ghana

I have a simple approach to and position on the vexed issue of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer or questioning (LGBTQ) and the...

Prof Gyampo writes: Stages of Democratic Progression and Human Rights

An extensive search of the Political Science literature on Democracy shows that there are four main stages of Democratic Progression. Each stage has an...

CDD’s Kwasi Prempeh launches defense of LGBTQ activism in Ghana

Once upon a time in human history and society, consensual sexual relations, including procreation, between persons of different “races” was proscribed as “miscegenation”, because...

Election, democracy, justice don’t only consist of victory, defeat is also part of the package – Kwaku Sakyi Addo

The NPP lost more than 30 parliamentary seats with the supervision of the same institution. They’ve accepted it with equanimity.I was in the Supreme...

What Ghana expects of Abu Jinapor, Lands and Natural Resources Minister designate

Forget the one-year-old Covid-19 pandemic. Yes, do, because it is not foolhardy if you did so.Indeed, even before Covid-19 entered its second year,...

‘I am fed-up’ – Call for action, suicide among police service in Ghana

Every year close to 800 000 people take their own life and there are many more people who attempt suicide.In Ghana, 1515 people...

Drama in the Supreme Court: Can Mr. Tsikata pull a rabbit from a hat?

The Supreme Court of Ghana opened the 2020 election petition hearing in dramatic fashion.In anticipation of the show about to unfold, I wondered...

Razak Kojo Opoku writes: ‘Akanfour party’ perception in politics hurts

Perception in our body politics is a very crucial element. In fact, at certain levels perception is considered to be reality depending on how...

Coronavirus: 137 deaths recorded in less than 2 months

On March 12, last year, Ghana recorded its first two cases of the deadly coronavirus disease.Since then the country has seen a rapid surge...

Ace Ankomah: He who alleges must prove

I keep reading this argument that because article 64 proceedings are ‘SUI GENERIS,’ (to wit of its own kind; unique) somehow, known rule of...

Lawyer Edudzi Tamakloe: The calmness of Kwabena Agyei Agyapong

A lot of young politicians do have a lot to learn from Kwabena Agyei Agyapong. In the 1998 New Patriotic Party (NPP) presidential primaries,...

What it really feels like to have an abortion

He said he would pull out. I don’t know why I believed him, or why I thought that would work.I was 23 years old;...

Digitalization Programme of Government: Making a Valid and Solid Case for KGL Technology Limited

The Government of Ghana through the Economic Management Team, the Bank of Ghana, Ghana Interbank Payment and Settlement Systems (GhIPPS), the Ministry of Finance,...

3 things you should change about your woman

It's an undeniable fact that some marriages don't last these days. It's not that people are not getting married but how to sustain the...

A relationship with an immature person is full of drama

Today’s relationships are full of drama for both males and females, all because we have people who are not mature but find themselves in...