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Sunday, September 27, 2009 |
On the anniversary of Africas man of the millennium Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah it is befitting to take a look at the sociopolitical and economic situation in the country he once led Ghana It is disheartening to note that Ghana once the beacon of hope in Africa a country so blessed with many natural resources cannot meet its basi ... Read more |
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Sunday, September 27, 2009 |
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Refocus the aims and objectives of Pre School Nursery and Kindergarten Education in Ghana There has been an increase in the number of private schools and so called international schools in Ghana in recent years This is in part due to the crumbling nature of public schools in the country and the need to find an alternative form of educati ... Read more |
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Tuesday, July 21, 2009 |
The Statesman in its editorial on Monday July th indicated that President Barack Obamas address to Ghanas Parliament is a vindication of the NPP ideology The newspaper quoted relevant portions of the address to support its claim It is true that President Obama said all the things the Statesman quoted President Obama in his speech indica ... Read more |
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Sunday, July 19, 2009 |
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The Statesman in its editorial on Monday July th indicated that President Barack Obamas address to Ghanas Parliament is a vindication of the NPP ideology The newspaper quoted relevant portions of the address to support its claim It is true that President Obama said all the things the Statesman quoted President Obama in his speech indi ... Read more |
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Wednesday, July 01, 2009 |
I am compelled to write to you on this one because frankly I see NADMO as a useless national organization as it is constituted now and as it has always been I have written about this before in the Ghanaian press and also in the international press during the NPPs years rule You have headed this organization before and you didnt do a particul ... Read more |
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Tuesday, June 30, 2009 |
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AttnMr Kofi PortuphyDirector NADMO ACCRAGHANA Dear Mr PortuphyPulling Down Houses Not An Answer To The Flooding In Accra I am compelled to write to you on this one because frankly I see NADMO as a useless national organization as it is constituted now and as it has always been I have written about this before in ... Read more |
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Tuesday, June 23, 2009 |
State funding of political parties is a controversial issue which has generated heated debates elsewhere because of the added implication that state funding means taxpayers funding and that money could be better channeled elsewhere Currently the issue is under debate in countries like Britain and New Zealand In Ghana somewhere in the issue ... Read more |
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Sunday, May 31, 2009 |
I see a lot parallels between the Republican Party of the US GOP and the the NPP of Ghana Both parties have lost successive elections and are finding it difficult to connect with the larger electorate beyond its narrow base The GOP lost the midterm elections lost control of Congress to the Democrats and again lost the Presidential elections t ... Read more |
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Saturday, May 23, 2009 |
My attention has been drawn to a news item carried by Joyfm on the fate of ACP Kofi Boakye the former Director of Operations of the Ghana Police Force ACP Kofi Boakye is reported to have called on the Police Council to reinstate him with full benefits in the Police Service He was supported in this call by the self described ace journalist and N ... Read more |
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Friday, January 02, 2009 |
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For heavens sake and for the sake of our children and our beautiful country Ghana can somebody tell these power drunk greedy self seekers and anti democrats in NPP that SOVEREIGN WILL RESIDES IN THE PEOPLE OF GHANA not in the fast track court they set up The people of Ghana have voted overwhelmingly to reject them in the general elections th ... Read more |
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Friday, January 02, 2009 |
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It is customary on the part of many to describe anyone who criticizes the NPP as an Ewe or an Ayigbe man and anyone who criticizes NDC as an Ashanti I think Ghanaians must rise above this AshantiEwe divide in our politics to stand up for truth and for freedom and justice as our motto says I dont think it is important but I want to make it cl ... Read more |
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Friday, January 02, 2009 |
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The Party formed by a former coup maker who does not always speak so fondly about democracy and which is described by its opponents as party of thugs lost power through general elections about eight years ago Its leader a former military strongman turned civilian president accepted the verdict of the people their presidential candidate who ha ... Read more |
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Thursday, December 25, 2008 |
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The outcome of the December th polls didnt come as a surprise to many watchers of the Ghanaian political scene The defeat of NPP had been on the wall for a long time It was only arrogance greed corruption insensitivity to the plight of ordinary Ghanaians who gave them the mandate to govern that blinded them from seeing the reality and resp ... Read more |
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Friday, September 26, 2008 |
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Grant us O Lord the perfect expression of the peoples will in these elections Give us the humility to accept the true outcome whether it goes for or against us so that defeat be glorified by grace and victory be tempered with modesty Amen More than a quarter of a century ago Ghana was under a military dictatorship on a downwar ... Read more |
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Sunday, August 24, 2008 |
For every politician with a vision there are hundreds who have no clue I am interested in knowing what plans the presidential candidates of the three leading parties NPP NDC and CPP have in dealing with the myriad of problems that confront our dear country I am particularly concerned about mass unemployment among the youth Health care provis ... Read more |
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Sunday, June 29, 2008 |
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Do we have the equivalent of the Food and Drug Administration in Ghana If we do has it neglected its role in society and like many institutions of the state has become a failure Sometime ago there was the Ghana Standards Board which existed among other things to certify all products as safe before being allowed unto to the market All food produ ... Read more |
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Monday, June 16, 2008 |
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On a recent visit to Ghana I had the opportunity to travel extensively within the country For the first time I did not visit your fancy towns like Obuasi Akosombo Elmina etc the usual tourist spots but decided to spend time visiting rural Ghana across the length and breadth of the country In most cases I was shocked at the extent of poverty ... Read more |
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Sunday, June 01, 2008 |
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What we have experienced over the years is growth without development I had the pleasure of reading one of the best analysed articles on our current economic situation written by a friend of mine Mr Kwaku ObengDiawuoh Benjamin of Bardstown Kentucky and will like to share it here with ghanawebcom reading public and Ghanaians in general w ... Read more |
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Monday, May 26, 2008 |
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When my last feature article under the caption Predicting a Difficult Election for the NPP in appeared on Ghanaweb a couple of weeks ago it generated quite a lot of comments Some took pains to write to me personally A good number including those who commented on it in Ghanaweb agreed with the views expressed but also I received flak from a ... Read more |
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Sunday, May 18, 2008 |
This will be the likely outcome of the General Elections in GHANA if it is free and fair according to my research While many dread such an outcome I am all for it Why Because I think that will be the best thing ever happened to our democracy It will strengthen Parliament to play its critical role in Nation building The current Parliament ... Read more |
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Saturday, May 17, 2008 |
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The need for a stable democratic order in Ghana is widely felt because of its implications for economic development because no meaningful economic development can take place under unstable political conditions However there are a number of factors that militate against a stable democratic order in Ghana It has been argued that one grave obstacle ... Read more |
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Thursday, May 01, 2008 |
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Which is a National Priority Blowing m on Independence party or meeting Our Basic NeedsSomewhere between the mineral riches gurgling beneath the earth and the desperate poverty of the people who live on it somewhere between the golden tree that bears the golden pod and the desperate needs and wants of the people who live nearby something ... Read more |
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Saturday, April 19, 2008 |
It takes courage and determination to fight corruption and often those doing so put themselves at a great personal risk However we in Ghana need to wage a battle against corruption if our people are to see a modicum of development in our lifetime and if our democracy is to survive The biggest threat to our democracy is to allow the all pervasiv ... Read more |
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Friday, March 21, 2008 |
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For every politician with a vision there are hundreds who have no clue I am interested in knowing what plans the presidential candidates of the three leading parties NPP NDC and CPP have in dealing with the myriad of problems that confront our dear country I am particularly concerned about mass unemployment among the youth Health care provis ... Read more |
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Monday, March 10, 2008 |
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The underdevelopment of Non State Actors NSA particularly civil society and the lack of capacity of existing organizations are seen as major barriers to sustainable development and strengthening democracy in Ghana An analysis of civil society organizations in Ghana indicates the weakness of popular participation in statesociety interaction The ... Read more |
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Saturday, February 23, 2008 |
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There is abundance of SUVs with their gas guzzling capacity engines driven by government appointees all over the country The poor Ghanaian taxpayers money is used to buy service and fill the tanks On the other hand there is lack of boreholes in the villages to supply good drinking water to the poor farmers whose toil supplied the money used by ... Read more |
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Wednesday, February 20, 2008 |
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There has been an increase in the number of private schools and so called international schools in Ghana in recent years This is in part due to the crumbling nature of public schools in the country and the need to find an alternative form of education for our children Particularly there has been an influx in the number of pre schools and element ... Read more |
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Friday, January 25, 2008 |
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I have often wondered aloud if the Japanese do not take the concepts and the principles of personal responsibility and social responsibility too far Imagine a twenty year old employee of a city council goes drinking after and causes traffic accident which unfortunately leads to the death of three little kids the whole press in Japan descends no ... Read more |
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Friday, January 18, 2008 |
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Do we have the equivalent of the Food and Drug Administration in Ghana If we do has it neglected its role in society and like many institutions of the state has become a failure Sometime ago there was the Ghana Standards Board which existed among other things to certify all products as safe before being allowed unto to the market All food produ ... Read more |
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Tuesday, January 01, 2008 |
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When George Orwell wrote in the Animal Farm some years ago about some animals being more equal than others his target was the hypocrisy of some Communist leaders Today communism is all but dead and democracy is the buzz word However in a number of African countries citizens could just as well use Orwells words to describe some of their own ... Read more |
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Friday, December 28, 2007 |
More than a quarter of a century ago Ghana was a military dictatorship on a downward slip to economic and political doom There was massive plundering of the national coffers infrastructure was in shambles there was shortage of almost every conceivable item on the market standards of education had deteriorated to abysmal levels and poverty amon ... Read more |
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Tuesday, December 25, 2007 |
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Africas long suffering people are all too frequently caught in the crossfire of rampaging wars millions afflicted with diseases preyed upon by greedy despots and prevented by corrupt leaders and bureaucracies in a kleptocracy from obtaining basic schooling medical attention and any semblance of economic opportunitiesA look at the sociopoli ... Read more |
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Wednesday, December 19, 2007 |
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Political debates are or should be part of our democratic dispensation In several advanced democratic nations notably the USA there is an accepted framework and established rules with a commission to run it It is a privilege the citizenry of every democratic state deserves voters should demand it as a right and political leaders should see it ... Read more |
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Saturday, December 15, 2007 |
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Sometime ago there was a news item and a feature article on ghanawebcom about a cook at the Ghana High Commissioner for Canadas residence who has decided to seek asylum in Canada From the article it was clear that this practice of domestic workers sent from Ghana usually at the discretion of the high commissioner absconding and deserting post to ... Read more |
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Wednesday, November 14, 2007 |
State funding of political parties is a controversial issue which has generated heated debates elsewhere because of the added implication that state funding means taxpayers funding and that money could be better channeled elsewhere Currently the issue is under debate in countries like Britain and New Zealand In Ghana somewhere in and as re ... Read more |
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Saturday, September 22, 2007 |
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A news item carried by the Ghanaweb and JoyFm on September th stated that the UN Disaster Assessment Coordinating Team which toured the areas affected by floods in the three Northern regions of Ghana disputed the scale of the devastation as having been grossly exaggerated by the government The team was in the country to assess the impact of ... Read more |
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Saturday, September 22, 2007 |
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We have a national disaster management organization that does not know a thing about managing or preventing disasters It exists only to distribute relief items and they do that job horribly by diverting these items to their homes for private use or to their stores and selling them at exorbitant prices to the very people in whose names these items ... Read more |
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Wednesday, August 22, 2007 |
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I have often wondered aloud these days Do election results now reflect what voters really want or does money ultimately influences the outcome It is amazing the way money is being spent by the almost two dozen NPP presidential aspirants who want to win the partys presidential nomination It makes you think if the nomination is up for sale to ... Read more |
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Saturday, August 18, 2007 |
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The need for a stable democratic order in Ghana is widely felt because of its implications for economic development because no meaningful economic development can take place under unstable political conditions However there are a number of factors that militate against a stable democratic order in Ghana It has been argued that one grave obstacle ... Read more |
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Sunday, July 29, 2007 |
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The nd part of this article looks at the perils of the recent oil discovery in the Cape Three points area of Ghana The st part dealt with the promise of the discovery Economists often talk of the curse of oil pointing out that countries with resources such as oil often grow more slowly more corruptly less equitably are prone to mor ... Read more |
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Friday, July 27, 2007 |
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This article is in two installments The first part deals with the promise of the recent oil discovery in the Cape Three points area in Ghana holds for its people and the economy and the second installment will cover the perils of the oil discovery Theres no doubt that the discovery of oil in Ghana is good news for Ghanas economy It ... Read more |
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Monday, July 16, 2007 |
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After the war on terrorism is the war on poverty next It is a paradox that in this era of massive improvements in human livelihoods the UN goal of peace and prosperity remains an illusion for many people on Earth A recent UN study estimates that about onehalf of the worlds population about billion people live on less than a day Of ... Read more |
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Tuesday, June 26, 2007 |
With the rapid economic growth of China in the last one and half decades there is a made in China product in almost every household in the World This high demand for Made in China products is bolstered by the fact that they are reasonably priced compared with similar products made in the developed countries However recently Chinese made ... Read more |
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Saturday, May 12, 2007 |
I came across this exchange on a very important national issue which I have written on before and which is still dear to my heart on ghanawebs Say It Loud Forum and I like bringing it here for the attention of all Indeed it is the nations health which is at stake here The Issue of fake and counterfeit drugs on the market is impacting negatively ... Read more |
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Saturday, May 05, 2007 |
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Do we have the equivalent of the Food and Drug Administration in Ghana If we do has it neglected its role in society and like many institutions of the state has become a failure Sometime ago there was the Ghana Standards Board which existed among other things to certify all products as safe before being allowed unto to the market All food produ ... Read more |
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Monday, December 05, 2005 |
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When my last feature article under the caption Predicting a Difficult Election for the NPP in appeared on Ghanaweb a couple of weeks ago it generated quite a lot of comments Some took pains to write to me personally A good number including those who commented on it in Ghanaweb agreed with the views expressed but also I received flak from ... Read more |
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Saturday, November 12, 2005 |
A President and his ruling party all but give up on its signature slogan of zero tolerance for corruption and the electoral promise of creating jobs for the youth The cost of living continues to rise beyond the ability of most Ghanaians to cope with rising crude oil prices and falling cocoa production are blamed Some major indicators of the heal ... Read more |
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Tuesday, October 18, 2005 |
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Sampling Some Views On The Internet I was shocked to read the Ghana Police has declared one William Antwi a Ghana web writer wanted for writing on the per diem paid to the President and his Minister when they travel outside the country In addition the Police I learned has invited two Chronicle journalists for questioning for publishing the said ... Read more |
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Wednesday, September 28, 2005 |
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It is one thing to say that you want to increase food production to prevent the reoccurrence of famine that has hit the two Upper Regions to increase the image of farming by attracting many people into that venture It is another thing to say in order to do so you have to give free land free seedlings and free money forget about the term loa ... Read more |
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Monday, May 16, 2005 |
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In major public fora international conferences symposia and also throughout my writings I have identified corruption mismanagement and bad governance as major problems inhibiting African development In most cases I have had many who agreed with my assessment of the situation in Africa but in some cases there have been some disagreements with ... Read more |
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Friday, May 13, 2005 |
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In major public fora international conferences symposia and also throughout my writings I have identified corruption mismanagement and bad governance as major problems inhibiting African development In most cases I have had many who agreed with my assessment of the situation in Africa but in some cases there have been some disagreements with ... Read more |
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Sunday, May 08, 2005 |
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It was the summer when the price of a gallon of petrol topped fifty thousand cedis It was the summer when the minimum wage could hardly buy a loaf of bread and Makola women starting charging for their wares in US dollars instead of cedis It was the summer when the cost of living shot through the roof and hyper inflation became the order of the day ... Read more |
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Sunday, April 10, 2005 |
Houston We have a problem Well Ladies and Gentlemen fellow Ghanaians we have a problem We have a problem with the body politic of Ghana We have a problem with the moral fiber of our society We have a problem with leadership and management of our country We have a governance problem Imagine the GFA under Nyaho Tamakloe is in a mess ... Read more |
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Tuesday, March 22, 2005 |
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On a recent visit to Ghana I had the opportunity to travel extensively within the country For the first time I did not visit your fancy towns like Obuasi Akosombo Elmina etc the usual tourist spots but decided to spend time visiting rural Ghana across the length and breadth of the country In most cases I was shocked at the extent of poverty ... Read more |
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Monday, March 07, 2005 |
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On a recent visit to ghanawebcom one new item carried by The Ghanain Times and published on ghanaweb general new of Thursday February caught my attention It was titled TB Found IN Fresh Milk In Accra It went on to say that large quantities of fresh cow milk sampled from four kraals at Ashale Botwe near Accra contained bovine tuberc ... Read more |
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Monday, August 23, 2004 |
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I am always shocked by the arrogant behaviour of some in government who think they have the right to lord it over the rest of us In all other advanced democracies people in government are mindful of the fact that they were elected to serve but not to become the lords of the people Not long ago The Lens a local newspaper broke the story of you ... Read more |
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Thursday, August 12, 2004 |
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Tackling Governance and Accountability in Ghana Africas long suffering people are all too frequently caught in the crossfire of rampaging wars millions afflicted with diseases preyed upon by greedy despots and prevented by corrupt leaders and bureaucracies in a kleptocracy from obtaining basic schooling medical attention and any semblance o ... Read more |
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Sunday, June 06, 2004 |
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When George Orwell wrote in the Animal Farm some years ago about some animals being more equal than others his target was the hypocrisy of some Communist leaders Today communism is all but dead and democracy is the buzz word However in a number of African countries citizens could just as well use Orwells words to describe some of their own ... Read more |
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Friday, May 14, 2004 |
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About a quarter of a century ago Ghana was a military dictatorship on a downward slip to economic and political doom There was massive plundering of the national coffers infrastructure was in shambles there was shortage of almost every conceivable item on the market standards of education had deteriorated and poverty among the masses of the pe ... Read more |
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Monday, April 26, 2004 |
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Political debates are or should be part of our democratic dispensation In several advanced democratic nations notably the USA there is an accepted framework and established rules with a commission to run it It is a privilege the citizenry of every democratic state deserves voters should demand it as a right and political leaders should see i ... Read more |
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Thursday, December 25, 2003 |
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Registered Non Governmental Organizations NGOs variously known as Private Voluntary Organizations Citizens Associations Civil Society Organizations but also increasingly called NPOs an acronym that stands for Non Profit Organizations are on the rise world wide This is re ... Read more |
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Sunday, December 21, 2003 |
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State funding of political parties is a controversial issue which has generated heated debates elsewhere because of the added implication that state funding means taxpayers funding and that money could be better channeled elsewhere Currently the issue is under debate in countries like Britain and New Zealand In Ghana somewhere in the Presi ... Read more |
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Monday, December 08, 2003 |
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The need for a stable democratic order in Ghana is widely felt because of its implications for economic development because no meaningful economic development can take place under unstable political conditions However there are a number of factors that militate against a stable democratic order in Ghana It has been argued that one grave obstacle ... Read more |
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Monday, June 23, 2003 |
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We live in challenging times On the one hand the second half of the th century was characterized by broad scale peace and greater improvements in human livelihood than in any other period of history On the other hand however for many people on the planet the United Nations goal of peace and prosperity seem as elusive as ever For exam ... Read more |
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Tuesday, June 17, 2003 |
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The need for a stable democratic order in Ghana is widely felt because of its implications for economic development because no meaningful economic development can take place under unstable political conditions However there are a number of factors that militate against a stable democratic order in Ghana It has been argued that one grave obstacle ... Read more |
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