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Leveraging academia to develop railway sector; role of University of Mines and Technology
From the chugging, grinding, and trombonic honking, which sometimes was irritating, but at the same time one that gave a sigh of relief to the market woman, that alas!, “the Zion train is coming my way”, to the squealing sound that brings…
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Reflections on Leadership
Growing up, the issue of whether leaders were born or made was such a raging topic that it proved too difficult to diffuse. I remember hearing a rather funny but poignant statement from a well-known academic, who said the person who settles…
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Beautiful Balance: Legacy of Ghana’s first female Major General
Major General Constance Ama Emefa Edjeani-Afenu of blessed memory… Wait a minute, did you know she’s been posthumously promoted?
Well, this was announced by the Chief of Defense Staff (CDS) of the Ghana Armed Forces Vice Admiral Seth…
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We sit on huge resources, yet we are hungry
We are in difficult times and must do all to save and generate income. Recently the finance minister announced some austerity measures that will help us raise some ¢3.6 billion even as we borrow 2 billion dollars to help stabilize our…
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Implications of weaning public tertiary institutions off gov’t subventions
As part of measures to address the self-inflicted economic crisis Ghana is facing under the Akufo-Addo government, the beleaguered Minister for Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta, with the support of Mr. Akufo-Addo, has proposed to wean public…
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The effects of the Russian-Ukraine military conflict on global supply chains
Michael Jackson’s Earth song said it best. The track saw Michael sending a wakeup-call of sorts about the terrible conditions that mankind has caused to the world, from war to the killing of animals and of the earth itself.
What have we…
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Nii Moi Thompson writes: The cedi; what happened? and where do we go from here?
On 4th March 2022, the Bank of Ghana reported that the cedi had reached 7.00 to the dollar. Compared to the rate of GHc4.2 at the end of December 2016, this meant the cedi had depreciated by 40.02% against the dollar since January 2017,…
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Do Not Kill The Future
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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An open letter to President Akufo-Addo on current hard times
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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Girl Child Education, a transformative tool for a sustainable tomorrow
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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