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Forwarding a fake message can land you in jail!

The advent of technology has made a number of things easy for humans. A century ago, it was practically impossible to acquire a university...

5 effective virtual teaching methods for lecturers during COVID-19 crisis

Teaching and learning in Ghana’s tertiary institutions and for that matter, most tertiary institutions around the world, are typically characterised by in-person meetings between lecturers and...

Of COVID-19 lockdown and Coup d’etat curfew

Today, we don't have many drainage systems with free flowing water in Ghana. Virtually every gutter in the country is choked to the brim....

Covid-19: Media houses deserve a stimulus package – Journalist

In December, 2019, public health officials from China contacted the World Health Organization about a problem they had at hand.That problem was a...

Live From the Woods: Akufo-Addo’s romance, lockdown, police and military brutalities

That we are not in ordinary times is not lost on anyone but that’s no justification for the brutalities meted out to civilians.President Nana Addo...

The magic coconut and COVID-19

The existence of COVID-19 has called for many researches to be done to find a cure or means to fight this deadly disease killing...

Why Akufo-Addo’s lockdown speech triggered panic withdrawal, mass migration

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s near midnight speech had one aim – save the lives of hundreds of thousands of Ghanaians from the coronavirus....

Why the world needs a COVID-19 Remembrance Day

On the day the World Health Organisation will finally announce containment or an end to the fight against the Coronavirus global pandemic, that day...

Musings of a PR professional: The Covid-19 experience

We started thinking about the implications of the coronavirus pandemic on our families, our business, clients, organizations and our nation Ghana, when Asia’s cases...

Coronavirus pandemic: A call to action

I hope we are all complying with the following personal hygiene measures: washing our hands often with soap and running water for at least...

Coronavirus crisis: Akufo-Addo has proven he is a leader for the ages

The ultimate measure of a man, the late great Martin Luther King Jnr said, is not where he stands in moments of comfort and...

The coming week will be crucial in Ghana’s war against coronavirus

For many months, Ghanaians monitored international news networks reporting the battering of Wuhan, in the Hubei Province of China by the novel coronavirus disease...

Coronavirus, a return to God!

The outbreak of the deadly Coronavirus in China has brought a lot of fear and panic across the globe. This has accounted for many deaths...

Coronavirus: Ghanaian punches holes in President Akufo-Addo’s directive

Last night our President issued a directive on the Corona virus pandemic. While I appreciate our president's swift response, I find a number of...

Are the courts to be blamed for delayed prosecutions?

Times without number, people have lamented about how the wheels of justice grinds slowly in Ghanaian courts.There are numerous complaints from people who...

Ekow Amoasi Writes: Meeting Stephen Appiah, a dream fulfilled after 20 years

Was it emotional? Yes, it was. Watching Stephen ‘Tornado’ Appiah on an analogue television at the age of six for the first time is...

Opinion: A charge to keep we have, why more of us should answer the call to serve

It is easy, when one surveys the social media landscape, which has come to take up the place of the proverbial public square, to...

Prof Gyampo wades into government appointees benefiting from scholarships

Embattled senior political science lecturer at the University of Ghana, Professor Ransford Gyampo, has shared his thoughts some ministers in the Akufo-Addo government and other...

Simbox fraud back in earnest?

Lately, every single call I get from abroad shows on my phone as a local call, a phenomenpon that used to be a common...

Fibre Cut – Easy excuse or reality? Asks Samuel Dowuona, Adom News

People are often very quick to criticise telcos for whatever challenge they face, and rightly so, because if you pay money to a service...

Rtd Lanchene Toobu’s letter to President J.J. Rawlings

Dear President RawlingsI bring you greetings from Wa, the capital of the Upper West Region (UWR). I woke up this morning the 15th day of...

Opinions divided: Read social media reactions to Kan Dapaah’s ‘leaked’ video

Social media users have reacted to the leakage of a video in which Ghana's National Security Minister, Albert Kan Dapaah, was caught in a...

Constitution Day celebration – Peeping through memory lane

On Tuesday, January 7, Ghanaians would observe the Constitution Day as a public holiday to recognise the Fourth Republican Constitution, which came into effect...

Dear 2020

A decade means ten years. A lot happens in 10 years and yet in some cases, it seems nothing at all happens.So how...

Why you must not kiss during Christmas

Ei so soon next week Wednesday is my birthday again. Please wish me well o and I will wish you well. If you don’t...

Letter from Africa: How talk of witches stirs emotions in Nigeria

All hell broke loose when the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, announced last month that it would hold a conference on "witchcraft'' at its campus...

The Man Rawlings – An Apostle of justice

It is true that nothing is done until words are spoken. For the people who believe in the creation story, it is written, “Let...

My seven months journey in Ghana

Africa is the ‘new first world’ and not the acclaimed third world ‘continent’.In my personal opinion, Africa is the ‘new first world’ and not...

Adom News Editor asks: Are all other telcos in Ghana working for MTN?

Some telecom industry stakeholders have dared to suggest in some circles that government's telecom industry policies have either deliberately or accidentally created a situation...

Clash on the Dunes: Will Joshua’s power prevail against Ruiz’s speed?

Six months ago Anthony Joshua entered the ring as a heavyweight champion of the world, holding three of the four credible belts plus the...

NDC’s Sammy Gyamfi gives 8 reasons why all isn’t well with Ghana’s agric sector

Folks, let’s examine a few pertinent questions relative to the boastful claims of the NPP about the success of the Planting for Food and...

The ICC and Africa: Is the Treaty Body Truly Biased Against the Continent?

The International Criminal Court (ICC) is indeed a court and nothing more, that was established by a treaty, the Rome Statute, in 1998. The...

Africa’s solution to waste management and portable sanitation

In a bid to get closer to the Millennium Development Goal of halving the 2.5 billion people without sanitation access, innovative solutions such has...

PDS: Government shouldn’t rush into a new concession agreement

As is now widely known, the concession agreement between the Government of Ghana (GoG) and Power Distribution Services Ghana Limited (PDS) has been terminated...

What you didn’t know about life in Zongo: My experience

Zongos are often populated communities inhabited by people of Northern Ghana and other West African countries. Hausa is the main language of the people...

Arts biased 20-year-old student ends up in engineering, the story of Juliana

Engineering is certainly a programme not to be joked with. Indeed, it is said that without having the brains to memorise complex mathematical theories,...

‘Dead Goat’ v. ‘Live Goat’: The unreported case of 2020 elections (Part 1)

In 2012, an election which was blemished with rampant irregularities and inane showcase of thuggery had to find its footing in the Supreme Court (SC) for...

Takoradi missing girls’ DNA results – Is it negative or positive?

The Head of the Ghana Police Forensic Laboratory, Supt Dr Kofi Adjapong Afrifah, has said the DNA tests to determine whether there is a...

Maybe we want them to steal – Elizabeth Ohene writes…

I tell a story about a friend of mine who became a First Lady. I am not sure I should mention her name, so,...

Africa still in the era of slavery, apartheid

No African country is independent! I will say this over a thousand times with confidence. Africa has not gained its true independence; slavery and apartheid are...