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Adjiringarno residents fume over poor Otano roads in year of roads [Photos]

In the year of roads, residents of Adjirigarno in the Otano electoral area are reeling over what they say is the deplorable road network...

Girl Child Day 2020: NGO calls for removal of gender barriers

As we join the rest of the world in celebrating the 2020 International Girl Day, on the theme: "My voice, our equal future", Hope For...

Adom FM’s Kwadwo Fordjour compares Ghana to ‘confused ghost at Elmina Junction’

One early morning,When the moon was upShining as the sun,I went to Elmina JunctionAnd there and there,I saw a wretched ghostGoing up and downSinging...

Adom FM’s Parliamentary correspondent pays tribute to murdered Mfantseman MP

On Friday, Ghanaians received yet another shocking news of the death of Mfantseman legislature, Ekow Quansah Hayford who was allegedly killed on a campaign...

Ghana’s Election 2020: The uncertainty of December 7

The war drums are throbbing again. And those in the political arena are dancing to tunes they’re familiar with, the consequences of which they...

The forgotten women: Impact of Covid-19 on obstetric fistula patients

“I don’t know what Covid-19 is. All I can say is that it has come to disrupt our lives. I would have had my...

Children can beat cancer too

I've always wanted to do paediatrics. Well, at least from the moment I first saw the tiny babies at my grandmother's maternity clinic and...

Kwabena Opoku-Agyemang: From Cape Coast with love

Prof. Opoku-Agyemang began the Central Region tour at the studios of Radio Central where she held a tête-à-tête with Benjamin Tetteh Nartey, host of...

How school placement under CSSPS works

From Monday, September 21 to October 31, candidates who have just completed the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) will be selecting the Senior High...

Manasseh Azure Awuni: Why Prof Benneh’s killers may not be found

My first meeting with Prof. Emmanuel Yaw Benneh was in his office at the University of Ghana Law School, where he had taught for...

Who speaks for the dead: Mills didn’t collapse Ghana’s economy, Mahama certainly did

I could not believe my ears when former President Mahama audaciously claimed during the NDC’s 2020 Manifesto launch that he unfortunately inherited a tattered...

John Mahama: The face of real development

In recent times, various people have expressed concern about the retrogressive nature of our country's development amidst the abundant resources available to the managers...

Kwamena Ahwoi’s working with Rawlings – Amidu’s Critique IV

In my second critique of Kwamena Ahwoi’s Working with Rawlings, I followed the qualitative research convention of making full disclosure to the reader about...

Two things I would change if I were president again – Kufuor

Ghana’s constitution offers no second chance to presidents who have served their two terms.But former President J.A. Kufuor says if he had another shot...

Agyapa: Is GoG running out of borrowing options? – Seth Terkper writes

Introduction            The topic for discussions in recent days is the authorization given to the Ministry of Finance (MOF) to set up the Agyapa special...

Elizabeth Ohene writes: All-knowing neutrals

Last year, I wrote a column about Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs), Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) and think tanks. I am revisiting the subject and I...

Franklin Cudjoe: Of presidential bowties and ‘sophisticated’ fallacies

Every President of Ghana comes to the office with a long train of courtiers. Some are senior advisers and strategists, with many years of...

Kofi Koranteng: The man who stood up for Ghana

There comes a time when men have to stand up against other men’s oppression- be it physical, emotional or economic.The wealth gap in Ghana...

Highest scoring African players in the 2019/2020 season (Top 12 Leagues)

?? Patson Daka, Red Bull Salzburg (24)?? Papiss Cisse, Alayanspor (22)?? P.E Aubameyang, Arsenal (22)?? Mohamed Salah, Liverpool (19)?? Dieumerci Mbokani, Royal Antwerp (18)??...

Diagnosing the perennial leakage of WAEC questions: A researcher’s analysis

Examinations are key in every educational system. The form a major part of any assessment framework and are important because exams serve as feedback...

‘The Bawumian cost of one interchange analysis leaves the media and electorate confused and lost’

The cost of one interchange under the erstwhile John Dramani Mahama administration is the cost of four interchanges under the Akufo-Addo administration, Vice President...

NDC’s Dela Coffie’s shocking analysis of the Rawlings/Amissah-Arthur aircraft incident

What is there that is left to be said about the controversy concerning President Rawlings’ removal of the late former Vice-President Amissah-Arthur from the...

Clinical Waste Disposal

Clinical waste is produced because of healthcare activities and needs to be disposed of legally and safely.Clinical waste must be packaged, handled, and collected...

Best performing president of the Fourth Republic

Ghana first became a Republic in 1960 with Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah as its first president, after his six-year reign as the Head of...

Manasseh Azure Awuni plans his own funeral

In 2006, I bought a copy of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana hymn book, circled Hymn 468 and wrote boldly above it, 'My Burial...

Manasseh Azure Awuni: No tribute or book of condolence when I die

In 2006, I bought a copy of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana hymn book, circled Hymn 468 and wrote boldly above it, “My Burial...

One dirty secret a man will go to the grave with

On my first day at the university campus, I found a supermarket nearby and went there to buy some groceries. When I got to...

Why Hawa Koomson is still at post

In Ghana, the masses have ceased grumbling. They’ve decided, rather, to return, in equal dosage, the ruling classes’ selfish greed and corruption.In times...

Elizabeth Ohene writes on killing of 90-year-old alleged witch

In the past few days, I have heard discussions on the killing of Akua Denteh in Kafaba, being likened to the killing of George...

Confessions: My insatiable desire for sex cost Maggie her degree

Yvonne usually didn’t care about how I went home after lectures but this time, she was the first to approach me when the Gender...

Let’s survive COVID-19 together

In the news todayMany new cases of COVID-19 are reported dailyWho are those who make up these numbers?Journalists, parents, children, actors, lawyers, doctors, farmers,...

Brakopowers: Sleeping NMC is waking up! Stops imperial interference with GBC and Crystal TV

The National Media Commission (NMC) is now ready to fulfil its constitutional mandate after decades of slumber during which the rights and freedom of...

Elizabeth Ohene writes: Nature will even it out

I am probably being melodramatic here, but I can’t think of a better way of putting this. My birth was political. I am the...

Kojo Addo-Kufuor: Mortgages in Ghana; the myths and facts

If you are renting now, buying a home could be a better financial decision. Of course, that depends on several factors such as; where...

Evaluating Ghanaian football: The grass is greener where you water it

Painful and unexpected exits at Round of 16,Needed calculations to advance the group stages,Year after year, same story on these pages.Aren’t we tired of...

COVID DIARY: ‘Fake news is a virus’

By Nana Kwasi Gyan-ApentengThe new coronavirus known as SARS 2 or COVID-19 for short is not the only virus in town. Of course, COVID-19...

Role of the UNIPASS system in national revenue mobilisation

Contrary to the stance and expectations of some stakeholders in the import and export business; and some civil society groups, the Ghana Revenue Authority...

What does she do with her money?

It started on our wedding day.Before the pastor said the closing prayer, he asked the whole church to give a special offering for the...

Covid-19: Why are we only concerned about Free SHS not Universities and Junior High Schools?

About 14 years ago, on my way home from school, which is Ghana Institute of Journalism (GIJ), there was an argument between a passenger...

The EC’s alleged sins against Ghana’s self-righteous civil society activists

The guiding principle that underpins all thriving democracies is that people disagree to agree or agree to disagree whatever the case may be.It...