The Chairman of the People’s National Congress (PNC), Mr Bernard Mornah thinks that the “Ghana beyond aid” mantra was a great call which is only a “rhetoric.” Ghana beyond aid is an agenda that President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has been championing since he assumed office in 2017 and has pledged to ensure that Ghana…
In my secondary school days, I had the privilege of spending one long vacation with my maternal grandmother in a village called Agogo in the Eastern Region of Ghana. Something happened during that period which ignited my interest for business. I accompanied my cousin to the market one day to help him sell some baskets…
Globally, the rights of persons with disabilities have been the subject of much attention at the United Nations (UN), at the regional and national levels over a long period of time. This awakening is informed by the open truth that there is a close connection between the limitation experienced by individuals with disabilities, the design…
The President of the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Dr Abubakar Saraki, has urged African countries to devise their own model of development if they want to be competitive on the global stage. He said such a model should see Africans focus on manufacturing goods that could be marketed to their people, stressing…
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo says the realisation of his vision of Ghana Beyond Aid “requires a deliberate, qualitative change in all aspects of our lives; especially, in the structure of our economy, the nature of our infrastructure, the education of our young people and acquisition of skills, and, above all, in our attitudes and…
“Is sanitation management not another euphemism for corruption in Ghana?” That’s a question a man who works with one of the big donor countries quietly asked me after I moderated an EU sponsored event last year. It became apparent at the event that local assemblies blamed sanitation for much of their spending but had very…
When I sat in a darkened theatre in 2008(ish) watching Al Gore deliver his now famous slide show on climate change, the enormity of the challenge we were facing hit me. And then I got hungry. Very hungry. Because if I am honest, the thing that most hit home to me was the way in…
Teachers. Every day thousands and thousands of teachers in Ghana walk into classrooms where they hold young minds in their hands to nurture, develop and build. Some teachers in Ghana have turned playgrounds into pedophile hunting grounds, They use their position, authority, power to sexually harass, extort sex for grades or school fes and sexually…
Two weeks ago, when I read a report in this paper, that some pregnant women “are now taking skin bleaching pills in their quest to have light-skinned babies”, my immediate reaction was: ‘Unbelievable! What kind of madness is this?!’ I was even tempted to dismiss the news item as an instance of a fad practised…