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I don’t know Justice Abdulai enough to vouch for him. But I felt hurt when the NPP labelled him as NDC in an attempt to question his motive for taking up a suit whose outcome they celebrate – a Deputy Speaker can be counted to form quorum…
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Your Excellency, I greet you. It is clear that times are hard and many Ghanaians never imagined that these will happen in your regime. You gave all of us a lot of hope in the lead up to the 2016 general elections, and to be fair, you cannot…
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It is very prudent to place special emphasis on girl child education as a necessary tool for development of the nation as a whole because women were born special in the affairs of handling and adhering to the morals of good governance.…
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It has been proven time and again that the darkest hour heralds the dawn of day, and in much the same way, recognizing the various sectors that uphold the country plays an instrumental role in the country’s progress. As the nation steps…
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As we celebrate Ghana’s 65th Anniversary today, March 6 2021, we must reflect on the need to decriminalise petty offences that are clearly colonial relics which remain on our statute books. The political independence of Ghana must not only…
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Unlike our fellow Africans on the north of the Sahara whose economy is relatively heavily reliant on oil prices, the conflict in Ukraine might not hit us that hard. But with our current economic woes and our dependence on Russia for some…
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It is only in a sick country where grand corruption is normalised that people caught stealing are free to walk the streets and possibly dissipate the stolen money or conceal it over a year after they were caught. In August 2019, a…
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One of the major ways governments generate revenue is through taxation. These revenues generated are used to provide essential public services for the benefit of the citizens. The concept of taxation is in two main forms. These are…
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The Constitution in article 286 prohibits illicit or unexplained wealth by public officers. It commands forfeiture and confiscation of such assets which cannot be traced to ones’ income, gift, loan, inheritance or other reasonably…
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The first time I read Amartya Sen’s The Argumentative Indian, I laughed and said to myself, “the eminent economist has probably never met a Ghanaian in his life!” My reaction was tongue in cheek, however, since Professor Sen’s main…
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