Dr Gideon Boako: Ghana’s novel zero-coupon bond
Ghana is the first Sub-Saharan African country to issue a foreign currency-denominated zero-coupon bullet tranche to its bond financing mix, enabling it to create...
The hair debate and Nkrumah’s agenda: Public interest or ethnic/religious rights?
For a little over a week now, ours has been a nation sharply divided over hair and why a brilliant kid, Tyrone Iras Marhguy,...
Ekow Acquah: Bawumia’s disclaimer, a mark of respect and good leadership
The Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia on Wednesday, March 25, issued a statement on the proliferation of his posters across the country promoting him...
Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa: Rastafarian brouhaha: The conflict between the rights of the child and school rules
Exceedingly grateful to you, Right Honourable Speaker for the opportunity to make this statement on an important matter of considerable national interest.Mr. Speaker, a...
Prof Edmund Ato Kwaw: Dreadlocks on Senior High School campus, acceptable?
There has been a lot of brouhaha surrounding the dreadlocks matter, with Achimota School being trolled on social media.I have seen one social media...
She’s the boss: Five reasons why women succeed in leadership
The word ‘boss’ is often synonymous with a leader of a group, firm or organisation.The first image that comes to mind when one...
Plummeting sperm counts, shrinking p3nises: toxic chemicals threaten humanity
The end of humankind? It may be coming sooner than we think, thanks to hormone-disrupting chemicals that are decimating fertility at an alarming rate...
Dada Hafco on highlife agenda: Ghanaians hate anything Ghanaian
"When this whole highlife movement started for me, I’ve been to places where people have asked why the need to continue doing highlife and...
Francis-Xavier Sosu: 2021 Budget to deepen the woes of prospective law students
Law school admission was one of the topical issues ahead of the 2020 General Election. Indeed during the vetting of Ministers, the Attorney General...
Why leaders fail?
I have a great obsession for quality leadership and shaping leaders’ perceptions about the right way of leading their subordinates or followers onto a...
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,...