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Thursday, June 11, 2009 |
If there is any debate in Ghana which has never died down then it is the question of state funding of political parties in the country The debate has resurrected again with the proposed draft bill presented by the Institute of Economic Affairs The draft bill proposes that two and half per cent of total national tax revenue be used as the s ... Read more |
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Saturday, June 06, 2009 |
June marked the thirty years since some junior officers of the Ghana Armed Forces toppled the then Supreme Military Council SMC II headed by General Akuffo The June th Uprising culminated in the execution of three former heads of state General Ignatius Kutu Acheampong General Akwasi Amankwaa Afrifa and General Akuffo Other mili ... Read more |
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Saturday, June 06, 2009 |
Last week fire outbreak at the KumasiKejetia Central in which two children got burnt to death and properties worth millions of Ghana cedis got destroyed is enough to cause everyone to ask how prepared are the emergency services for largescale emergencies and disastersWe have more questions to ask our city authorities and emergency service ... Read more |
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Thursday, November 06, 2008 |
Let us be dissatisfied until that day when nobody will shout White Power when nobody will shout Black Power but everybody will talk about Gods power and human powerMartin Luther King JrAt the beginning of the bus boycott in Montgomery black people in the state of Alabama set up a voluntary car to get the people to and ... Read more |
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Monday, October 27, 2008 |
Americans go to the poll to elect their president members of Congress and the House of Representatives in about two weeks time American elections dominate every newspaper page and television screen all over the world From the peasant farmer in the Philippines to the taxi driver in Tuobodom people always take a stand with regards to who beco ... Read more |
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Friday, March 09, 2007 |
THE TRUTH of these words GHANA AT WHY GHANAIANS MUST WEEP is beyond doubt Even when pressed by the demands of inner truth men do not easily assume the task of writing or asking people to weep during a year of jubilee when we have more foreign people visiting us Nor does the human spirit move without great difficulty against all the apath ... Read more |
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Tuesday, February 28, 2006 |
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If the herd that went out to graze has not come back from the fields we do not allow other herds to go out Akan Proverb Two issues which have assumed greater public attention of late are the Representation of Peoples Amendment ROPAB and the need for a new presidential jet for the president for both his domestic and international trips ... Read more |
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Wednesday, February 15, 2006 |
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A person shall not be deemed to be resident in a polling division if he has been absent from his place of abode for a continuous period of six months ending on the qualifying date PNDC Law The Kufuor governments decision to amend the legal provisions to allow NonResident Ghanaians NRGs to register to vote in future elections faces numerou ... Read more |
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Thursday, February 02, 2006 |
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If you are reading this and are a customer of a Ghanaian bank it is likely your bank is exploiting you in more ways than one This illicit practice has survived for a long time because we have a weak consumer watchdog group in Ghana and the Bank of Ghana appears ineffective looking after the interests of the public through regulation Some ... Read more |
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Monday, January 23, 2006 |
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A new academic year is set to begin and as usual Senior Secondary School leavers and others who want to go to the universities have to buy an application form costs For the first time all the public universities are charging the same for application the forms This amount is too astronomical and it appears the stakeholders of th ... Read more |
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Sunday, January 15, 2006 |
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At the just ended th Annual New Year School one issue which generated a quantum of debate and controversy was the assertion that Apostle Kwadwo Sarfo of the Krsito Asafo Mission is doing better than our scientists and technologists churned out by the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology KNUST The answer given by the Vice Cha ... Read more |
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Saturday, December 31, 2005 |
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At the National Governance Workshop VIII which got under way in Accra Kumasi and Tamale last week we had participants discussing issues of national concern One of the major issues which participants discussed was CORRUPTION AND ITS CONTAINMENT Do all gifts amounts amount to corruption What about Christmas hampers and other gifts at C ... Read more |
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Thursday, December 29, 2005 |
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Another debate has rocked the legislative halls of Ghanas Parliament which the two sides have taken polar opposite sides again It is all about the issue of new presidential palace to be built for future presidents of the Republic to dwell in The root cause of the debate is is the new presidential palace a need or want Cant the preside ... Read more |
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Sunday, December 18, 2005 |
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Last week I wrote about a recent ranking of universities which had Ghanaian universities almost missing from the rankings In the first part of this feature I underscored the complicity of successive governments and the university authorities in the universities fate If mathematical regression analysis were to be plotted for their respective sha ... Read more |
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Saturday, December 03, 2005 |
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The recent World University Rankings on the web published by the Laboratorio de Internet httpwwwwebometricsinfo which Ghanaian universities performed poorly has generated a quantum of debate amongst education loving Ghanaians both at home and abroad The ranking is a dominating issue in places crowding the pages of the press and the da ... Read more |
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Wednesday, November 30, 2005 |
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The global impacts of the September th and July th attacks in New York and London respectively tell us that no nation can go it alone issues that cut across borders Neither America nor United Kingdom alone can for instance win the battle against terrorism Whatever affects one country affects others indirectly In a slightly differe ... Read more |
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Tuesday, November 01, 2005 |
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Ghanas Worsening Score On The Corruption Perception Index Last week the Transparency International through its local representative in Ghana The Ghana Integrity Initiative released the Ti Corruption Perceptions Index Ghana our beloved country chalked the th position with an abysmal mark of out of If this is expressed as a perc ... Read more |
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Monday, October 17, 2005 |
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This years private candidates Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination SSSCE conducted by the West African Examination Council WAEC which started last week was marred by numerous problems Most of the candidates were put in a state of heightened suspense as they did not know where to write their examinations On the very day of commenc ... Read more |
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Sunday, September 25, 2005 |
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Before we as a nation can confront the principalities of road accidents in the country it is equally important that we look at the causes of accidents Experts inform us that there are four main causes of road accidents in this country namely human ie the driver passenger and pedestrian vehicle its condition and maintenance environmental ... Read more |
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Thursday, September 22, 2005 |
Today road accident is a dominating issue in all over the places crowding the pages of the press and the daily conversation of Ghanaians It appears no single day goes off without you and I hearing about road accidents I just returned from Lome and on the Ghana portion of the journey road accidents have littered all the places Our roads have b ... Read more |
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Tuesday, September 06, 2005 |
You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong Abraham Lincoln Our overriding passion for foreign goods and services are unthinkable From the president at the Christianborg Castle to ordinary street sweeper at Suhum Central Market we like imported goods and services rather than our own whe ... Read more |
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Monday, August 29, 2005 |
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Some few years ago some major companies in the United States eg Enron collapsed under the weight of poor accounting practices So we can blame the management for the collapse of such industries When it comes to Ghana the blame is corporately ownedthe president and the people of Ghana we all have an equal share in the collapse of local industries ... Read more |
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Tuesday, August 16, 2005 |
Recently I posted a questionnaire on httpghananowwhatsonghanacom and requested for response from Ghanaians One of the questions was What do you think is Ghanas main problem It would surprise you that all the respondents to questionnaire mentioned corruption It appears no single week goes of without the GHANAIAN CHRONICLE reporting on an ... Read more |
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Wednesday, August 03, 2005 |
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The recent debt relief granted to some developing countries including Ghana has been heralded as a major breakthrough by advocates of debt cancellation for Africa The criteria set before a country could benefit from debt relief are worth commending governance and rule of law among others And by these standards G Finance Ministers added Ghana ... Read more |
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Friday, July 08, 2005 |
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For Future Elections This Constitution shall be the supreme law of Ghana and any other law found to be inconsistence with any provision of this Constitution shall to the extent of the inconsistency be void Article Section of the Constitution Last year when the Kufuors government decided to amend the legal provisions to allow Non ... Read more |
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Tuesday, July 05, 2005 |
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The recent spree of examination leakages at the University of Ghana and that of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology has awakened the questioning minds of many Ghanaians about the caliber of graduates coming out from our public universities It will interest us to know that this practice is as old as the earliest history books and ... Read more |
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Tuesday, June 28, 2005 |
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This is a letter from Paul an apostle of Jesus Christ by Gods will sent out to advise you on matters affecting the country which you are serving as the president This is my second letter to you John Make sure that you read this letter well John just last week I asked Brother Michael to deliver a letter to you I do not know whether you ... Read more |
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Monday, June 27, 2005 |
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This letter is from Paul an apostle of Christ Jesus appointed by the command of God our saviour and by Christ Jesus our hope It is written to you President John Agyekum Kufuor May God our father and Christ Jesus our Lord give you grace mercy and peace It has become practically necessary for me to write you an epistle as I did to the earl ... Read more |
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Thursday, June 16, 2005 |
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One problem that government after government in this country has to grapple with is those who are not working but have their names on the government payroll This is what we call in our Ghanaian parlance ghost names There are those who are dead and instead of their relatives writing to the appropriate government department to delete their ... Read more |
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Monday, May 23, 2005 |
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One political catch phrase that has performed miracles in Ghana is the New Patriotic Partys slogan Positive Change In deed the events that preceded the Elections were indicative of the fact that the whole population was demanding change and lo and behold God almighty showered on us change The high expectation that gripped the firs ... Read more |
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Thursday, May 05, 2005 |
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One of the institutions of democracy that suffers most anytime there is a military take over is the legislature which we also call parliament A cursory look through the and coup detats are indicative that the first decree that comes from the holders of power is the suspension of parliament In the forty eight years of our ... Read more |
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Sunday, March 06, 2005 |
The black man is capable of managing his own affairsWhat the Europeans and American have used hundred years to achieve the black man can use one generation to achieve Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah Today marks the forty years of our nationhood a day we all cherish as a nation Now is the time to look calmly at ourselves and identify the mist ... Read more |
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Wednesday, February 16, 2005 |
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Since the first time the senior secondary school certificate examination results was published in a league table it has generated a widespread argument in various circles about the criteria for the ranking of schools in the country and labelling some as the best and other as the worst The idea of the Ministry of Education to stick to a quan ... Read more |
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Monday, October 04, 2004 |
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In my last feature I presented on the above topic I stated my against funding of political parties Today I want to present the other side As usual there are fewer arguments for the state funding of political parties than there are against it Political parties are the life line to our democratic dispensation The main argument for state fu ... Read more |
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Sunday, September 12, 2004 |
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INTRODUCTION W ith the coming into force of the Constitution a number of political parties have sprung up There are those that date their roots far back before independence and those that are new in the political front Democratic governance has caused the budget of the government of many countries to increase exponentially In ... Read more |
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Thursday, July 01, 2004 |
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July st is celebrated in Ghana every year as National Holiday to mark the day Ghana became a Republic This day since has been celebrated by various governments both pessimistic civilian and optimistic military regimes During the early part of Rawlings second term in office he said that the Republic Day shall be used to remember or dedicate ... Read more |
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Saturday, June 12, 2004 |
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THE TH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA By Appiah Kusi Adomako Leaders Of Tomorrow Foundation KumasiGhana I was just three years old when Ronald Wilson Reagan beat the incumbent James Earl Carter to make a triumphant entry to the White House From the next eight years when he was the president of the greatest country in the h ... Read more |
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Saturday, March 06, 2004 |
At long last the battle has ended Ghana our beloved country is free forever These were the words proclaimed by Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah at the Old Polo Grounds on the eve of Ghanas independence on th March Ghana was the first country south of the Sahara to break lose from the shackles of colonialism Our peaceful path to indepen ... Read more |
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