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Wednesday, June 17, 2009 |
There is no gainsaying that the introduction of the National Health Insurance Scheme NHIS is a laudable life saving policy by the government of Ghana in the nations effort to reconstruct itself and catch up with the advanced countries The scheme has come to stay as it is highly acclaimed by many Ghanaians for it has made healthcare delivery ... Read more |
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Wednesday, June 17, 2009 |
Who said lightning does not strike twice our democracy has proved it wrong And our hopes and aspirations are for it to strike a third time a fourth etc till death we part The presidential and parliamentary elections and the subsequent transfer of power for a second time backtoback civilian elected government was a historical chap ... Read more |
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Thursday, May 21, 2009 |
The rule of law and democracy has always been the order of the day in many parts of the world Many nations are trying their best to implement the act of democracy so as to give the people the chance to speak their minds and not to be intimidated by anybody However from the look of things democracy seems not to be for all but for a limited ... Read more |
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Thursday, March 05, 2009 |
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The last time I had the pleasure of attempting a response to a wellwritten letter meant for Jomo I abused my honour by needlessly borrowing my neighbours wheelbarrow to cart a large collection of dictionaries and other writing texts I had shopped from bookshops in Ottawa I needed those books to guide me write good English to the man who writes ... Read more |
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Thursday, March 05, 2009 |
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Herbs have been with the African society from the very onset of life but the effect of colonialism on the continent has turned away the minds of the people from the usefulness of herbal medicines Most Africans believe that the best products come from the developed countries the Western and European In Ghana a lot of broadminded people hav ... Read more |
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Thursday, February 26, 2009 |
continued from Monday February edition We are now in a democratic era and things must be done or seen to be done in a transparent and civilized manner It is not uncommon to hear some activists and sympathisers of the NDC branding all NPP members as thieves and narcotics peddlars Why We are not in a military era when known cadres of the PN ... Read more |
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Wednesday, February 11, 2009 |
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To recover fully from a disease or illness is the desire of all persons It is always wished that whenever one recovers from a disease there is the surety that one comes back to his or her normal self However the situation is not always so Leprosy is one of the diseases feared by mankind In the past people with such diseases were looked down u ... Read more |
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Friday, February 06, 2009 |
Background Ghanas Presidential and Parliamentary elections were the most competitive in the countrys history Sixteen years had elapsed since the return to constitutional order and the main contestants the National Democratic Congress NDC and the New Patriotic Party NPP were squaring off again The NDC had won the first two four year ... Read more |
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Thursday, February 05, 2009 |
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Continued from Tuesday February edition This brings me to the media hype that has followed the issue of the socalled malfeasance at the Ghana Secretariat and the construction of the Golden Jubilee House In the early Nineties when Gen Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida annulled the freest or fairest elections ever held in Nigeria he p ... Read more |
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Wednesday, February 04, 2009 |
The Double Club in Islington north London seemed the perfect place for lunch with Dambisa Moyo a Zambian economist preparing to take on the western donor establishment with the publication next week of her first book Dead Aid At the Double menu décor and music are split halfAfrican and halfwestern under the same roof You can sit on pla ... Read more |
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Wednesday, February 04, 2009 |
In the beginning of time according to biblical words after the creation of the universe the Creator proclaimed that mankind eats the food of the fields and the herbs for medicinal purposes It is of no doubt that the Creator knew exactly the power behind what he said Herbs have gone a long way in curing a lot of unimaginable diseases in the worl ... Read more |
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Wednesday, January 21, 2009 |
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There is popular biblical saying which goes the hand that does not work must not eat It is a fact that reward is attributed to those who are willing to work very hard for their survival It overwhelming to know that someone who has spent years to acquire wealth through toil and hard work can be stripped off his wealth by another man within a b ... Read more |
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Tuesday, December 16, 2008 |
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On the th of November I wrote an article in The Chronicle under the headline Ensuring credibility of the electoral process in which I dealt with the various processes that go into an election ie Election administration operational performance the conduct of political parties judicial adjudication of electoral disputes and the con ... Read more |
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Monday, December 01, 2008 |
On the th of December the good people of Ghana will be making a decision as to who becomes the next president and members of parliament This choice is very crucial I see it to be a contest between the New Patriotic Party and the National Democratic Congress because there is no way the Convention People Party can form the next government a ... Read more |
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Thursday, November 27, 2008 |
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Sometimes no matter how careful one is mistakes are bound to happen sometimes certain things one least expects in ones life tends to happen within the blink of an eye A saying in one of the Ghanaian language translates that if one will be entangled in another mans web it would be because of sickness or disease This saying with a doubt ... Read more |
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Tuesday, November 25, 2008 |
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Rational use of drugs requires that patients receive drug appropriate to their clinical needs in doses that meet their own individual requirements for an adequate period of time and at the lowest cost to their community Rational drug use requires active participation by The prescriber A trained professional who gives a reco ... Read more |
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Thursday, November 20, 2008 |
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Mede me nkwan to ho ma Ghana a man in his sixties tells his admirers Immediately one of his aides corrects the statement Sir did you mean to say you sacrificed your life nkwa as in life for Ghana or you meant nkwan as in soup say Abenkwan Oh that was soup right Okay I meant life but we could go with soup too reminiscent of th ... Read more |
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Wednesday, November 19, 2008 |
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Who says people are not prepared to change Who says no matter the social amenities provided for people they will not make good use of them Who says the Ghanaian society as well as the African continent will never develop till the people have a change of mindset The nature of an environment is always believed to be the nature of the people ... Read more |
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Tuesday, November 11, 2008 |
Recently one of the effervescent human rights and environmental advocacy organisation in Ghana WACAM celebrated its th birthday in Accra under the theme A Decade of CommunityBased Mining Advocacy in Ghana Challenges and Prospects In retrospect anybody who is conversant with the history of this organisation would not be far from right to ... Read more |
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Thursday, November 06, 2008 |
Wrap up As the extraordinary spectacle of the first AfricanAmerican winning the presidency was taking place on stage something extraordinary was taking place offstage Mr Obama was raking up a stunning electoral votes at least so far Mr McCain was left with Race it seemed had melted away as an issue Something else was happenin ... Read more |
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Friday, October 24, 2008 |
No one will doubt the fact that armed robbery cases in the country are on the ascendency Today many people in our big cities and towns are in perpetual fear and fright because of armed robbers Becoming rich is now a crime It seems almost certain that armed robbers are ready to pounce on anyone they perceive to be rich They rob their victims of ... Read more |
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Thursday, October 16, 2008 |
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Let it be stated clear and plain the socalled current impasse on the formation of an inclusive government has nothing to do with the poor the hungry the unemployed the black in short nothing to do with the plight of all those writhing under the MDCcourted illegal Western sanctions So let no politician posture pretending a duplicitous huma ... Read more |
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Tuesday, October 14, 2008 |
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In the run up to the general elections the newly formed political parties embarked on vigorous membership drive through lobbying Opinion leaders influential people former politicians and youth activists were targeted The NDC especially took the lead in this race in northern Ghana Through the PNDC they made use of incumbency by getting m ... Read more |
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Thursday, October 09, 2008 |
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DESPITE THE strenuous efforts of civil society groups coupled with the extensive media coverage on environmental and human rights concerns diverse forms of human rights abuses are still persistent in mining communities in Ghana A recent research conducted by Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice CHRAJ reveals evidence of aw ... Read more |
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Wednesday, October 08, 2008 |
Food has always been meant to be eaten by man for survival and also for man to obtain energy for his daily activities Apart from that food is needed for mankinds daily growth and good health Food is a daily necessity of mankind no wonder even in the biblical word Essau sold his birthright just for a loaf of bread This shows how important foo ... Read more |
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Wednesday, October 08, 2008 |
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Come December millions of Ghanaians will again go to the polls to choose among the candidates presented by the various political parties whom they deem fit to serve and not to rule them as a people Under normal circumstance one would expect this to be a simple task for any wellmeaning Ghanaian to perform However unfolding eve ... Read more |
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Monday, October 06, 2008 |
At a tumultuous meeting of antiVietnam War militants at the Chicago Coliseum in Bill Ayers helped found the radical Weathermen launching a campaign of bombings that would target the Pentagon and United States Capitol Twentysix years later at a lunchtime meeting about school reform in a Chicago skyscraper Barack Obama met Mr Ayers ... Read more |
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Wednesday, October 01, 2008 |
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Gone were the days when man depended solely on traditional occupations like farming hunting and fishing this time it is very different owing to the emergence of whitecollar jobs and modern technology However in spite of the drastic change the link between traditional occupation and modern technology is not totally missing since the developm ... Read more |
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Friday, September 26, 2008 |
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Once upon an incredibly short weekend I went with the missus to the Tema Community One Market to shop for dry fish fingerlings Keta schoolboys fresh cow hide wele and some fresh vegetables for a meal of Savanna TZ see The missus seemed to know her way around and we were done with the task in minutes About a month later I ... Read more |
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Thursday, September 25, 2008 |
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African leaders have taken firm action to tackle their continents problems Mr Jakaya Kikwete chairperson of the African Union AU and president of the United Republic of Tanzania today told a highlevel meeting of the UN General Assembly on Africas development needs But because it is the worlds poorest continent Africa does not have enoug ... Read more |
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Wednesday, September 24, 2008 |
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Human beings behave differently some rationally some irrationally no wonder sometimes certain attitudes of some individuals seem unthinkable Though one has the freedom to behave the way he or her pleases it is not supposed to cause harm or become an inconvenience to people around as some say your democracy ends where mine begins In every ... Read more |
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Monday, September 22, 2008 |
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Judicial officers backed by police personnel gleefully execute court judgements against members of the civil populace But when the judgement is against any of the government agencies especially the armed forces executing it becomes a difficult task EMMANUEL ONYECHE and AJIBOLA ADEOSUN take up this issue with some lawyers and the police L ... Read more |
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Friday, September 19, 2008 |
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Senator Joseph R Biden Jr says he entered public life in the late s dismayed by the riots of that era and inspired by the quest for racial justice I wasnt at the bridge at Selma he said in an interview but the struggle for civil rights was the animating political element of my life Mr Biden Democrat of Delaware has devoted ... Read more |
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Friday, September 19, 2008 |
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Thank you for providing me space in your esteemed paper to react to the publication cited above which was published on September To be sincere to the reading public Winneba and for that matter the Effutu State has no such festival as a Black Stool Festival What is true is that on the second Wednesday of September each year the elde ... Read more |
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Tuesday, September 16, 2008 |
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When Shakespeare wrote his tragedy Julius Caesar he had veil Yesterday when I was thinking of what to write as my weekly contribution towards digging deep into our archives a veil was taken off my eyes and straight away I began to see the light In a trance like manner like what happened when Peter was told that he should not call what God ... Read more |
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Saturday, September 13, 2008 |
The response and reception at the recent outdooring of John Dramani Mahama suggest that exposing John Mahama and injecting the NDC partys message into the rituals defined here as actions that move people emotionally and psychologically that define people is critical to making them immutable part of the partys support base When it comes t ... Read more |
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Saturday, September 13, 2008 |
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I refer to the story with the above title which appeared at the front page of the Thursday September edition of your newspaper The authors of the story Bismark Bebli and George Kyei Frimpong claimed to have obtained some information which suggested that Former President Rawlings would act in some advisory capacity to Professor Mills ... Read more |
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Monday, September 08, 2008 |
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ON AUGUST and this year the Parliamentary Select Committee on Environment Science and Technology visited Anglo Gold Ashanti Obuasi mine and Golden Star BogosoPrestea Limited respectively The mission of the parliamentarians at the two mining companies was simple to ascertain whether the companies were carrying out their businesses und ... Read more |
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Friday, September 05, 2008 |
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Since the apocalyptic emergence of FltLt Jeremiah John Rawlings on the hitherto placid Ghanaian political landscape some three decades ago I have had my own doubts regarding the professionalism of the Ghana Armed Forces GAF as an institution On August retired Chief of Defense Staff CDS BrigGen NunooMensah confirmed my doubts ... Read more |
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Friday, September 05, 2008 |
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Last week Professor Maxwell Owusu of the University of Michigan a political scientist and researcher at a public forum in Accra expressed the view that after years of independence Ghana seems to have made little progress He blamed this largely on the corrupt actions of political leaders and public officers SOME BACKGROUND Really ... Read more |
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Thursday, September 04, 2008 |
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I Mr Wisdom Tsatsu Constituency Chairman of the Lower Manya NDC wish to state that my attention has been drawn to a publication in the Chronicle newspaper of Wednesday th August of my purported defection to the NPP The said publication went on toallege that I have defected with three hundred members of the NDC to the NPP ... Read more |
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Thursday, September 04, 2008 |
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An influx of workers from China is receiving a mixed reception in Africa where people both admire and resent the hardworking newcomers pursuit of wealth Awe at the efficiency with which Chinese build roads run shops and manage factories is matched by unease at a growing Chinese presence in Africas fragile labor markets Delight at cheap shirt ... Read more |
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Friday, August 29, 2008 |
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Cholesterol is a lipid that is essentially made by the liver and also obtained in our diet The body needs cholesterol to make some hormones maintain cell structure digest lipids in food and so on Good cholesterol is cholesterol carried by High Density Lipoprotein HDLCholesterol because it mops up cholesterol from the blood and carries it ... Read more |
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Thursday, August 28, 2008 |
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It resembled the final triumphal scene in every American highschool film you ever saw You know the one where the least fancied girl becomes prom queen and swirls off into the distance with the hunkiest handsomest member of the football team Well it happened to Michelle Obama on Monday night except that her audience was the American view ... Read more |
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Thursday, August 28, 2008 |
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Mentally challenged people have been viewed diversely as a little bit lesser than human They are always considered as a burden a nuisance and pathetic to society Some of these perceptions people have about the mentally challenged has resulted in them being underrated and discriminated upon Family members even sometimes run away from their r ... Read more |
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Tuesday, August 26, 2008 |
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Graduate unemployment has been one of the social cankers that are draining our dear country of her ability to use the products from the highest institutions of learning universities not forgetting the polytechnics There is no single day you do not hear one complaining about graduate unemployment This is the problem facing us Graduate unempl ... Read more |
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Wednesday, August 13, 2008 |
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The rate at which prices of commodities are galloping in the country is compelling the economic poor to choose the easier path towards acquiring certain material comforts in life The present economic hardship in the world has made getting three square meals a day in the underdeveloped countries extremely difficult how much more acquiring dece ... Read more |
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Monday, August 11, 2008 |
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The escalating incidence of road accidents in Ghana is no news to a reasonable Ghanaian of ordinary intelligence Despite increased road safety campaigns the rate at which accidents occur on our roads is very alarming It is a truism that one of the major challenges that this country is still battling with is motor accidents Professor Agyeman Bad ... Read more |
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Friday, August 08, 2008 |
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For those who have been following the politics of this country Hajia Alima Mahamas name does not only ring a familiar tune it is indeed a familiar one She has traversed remarkably the political landscape from the year when she contested for the NaleriguGambaga Parliamentary seat on the ticket of the NPP and lost to her NDC counterpart ... Read more |
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Thursday, August 07, 2008 |
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Nothing presents itself as much a bewildering paradox as the action popularly so referred to as instant justice It consists in the activities of individuals who upon suspicion of a violation purport to circumvent and does circumvent the objective criteria for determining such violation by substituting their own notion of what they consider as ... Read more |
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Tuesday, August 05, 2008 |
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The effect of their incompetence would result to the following The state institutions would not perform to bring in revenues required to enable the government gets its corporate tax of between The state institutions would not make profits after tax and would produce zero dividends Hence the governments share of X will yield no divi ... Read more |
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Monday, August 04, 2008 |
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There are currently serious debates going on about the sale of shares of Ghana Telecom GT to Vodafone UK The debate is all centered on the governments actions to depart its share of saying that this is too high for the money being exchanged for Whilst I support the sale of GT I also blame the government of contributing to the proble ... Read more |
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Thursday, July 31, 2008 |
The problem of the executive trying to affect the functioning of the Judiciary is prevalent in a host of both developing and developed countries The Ghanaian judiciary is often perceived to be highly corrupt and a lot of research has been done to explore the causes and consequences of administrative corruption However not a lot of studies h ... Read more |
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Thursday, July 17, 2008 |
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I still recall the scene vividly as if it were yesterday perhaps the memory of it all enhanced by the demonstrations of former President Rawlings right hand It was the Presidential elections of and Rawlings was addressing an unusual dusk rally in an unequal mixture of Ga and English On the Economy he said that the NDC government ha ... Read more |
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Wednesday, July 16, 2008 |
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Sex from the very onset of time has being known to be meant for marriage Sex is vitally important to human beings for procreating and the continuation of the human race It is a truism that in the olden days sex was really cherished and it was even an abomination for one to get involved in premarital sex Our forefathers even went to the e ... Read more |
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Tuesday, July 08, 2008 |
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I had intended not to join in the simmering political fray but for the regularity with which objective and intellectual appraisal of issues are being supplanted by political expediency with the unwavering tendency for patent determination of issues to be discoloured and ousted by selfish considerations spurred by an unmitigated fidelity to politic ... Read more |
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Tuesday, June 10, 2008 |
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MY ATTENTION as the secretary of the Yoruba Community in Kumasi has been drawn to series of publications in your paper The first was on May by a faceless person and the second one which appeared in the June was jointly authored by Abdallah AlinTofa secretary to the Zongo Palace and Alhaji Issa Sarkin Shanu Senior Cabinet Member ... Read more |
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Tuesday, June 10, 2008 |
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Deputy Minister of Information and National Orientation Mr Frank Agyekum has noted that the New Patriotic Party NPP government is serious about fighting corruption in the country He indicated that the passage of the Procurement Law Internal Audit Law and other anticorruption agencies would always keep individuals and organisat ... Read more |
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