FEATURE

During the reign of King James the First, the Kingdom of Great Britain passed the Witchcraft Act of 1735. A person who claims to have supernatural powers could be imprisoned up to a year. This law was ostensibly to stop the killings of…
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Police, soldiers and local authority taskforce were in the news, seen and reported caning people and administering various forms of sanctions when COVID-19 struck. They stopped ‘trotros’ and brought people down ordering them to sweep and…
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I chuckled a bit when I read Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa’s letter, announcing that he was resigning from Parliament’s Appointments Committee for reasons “both personal and on principle.” He is a younger man with potentially a big future ahead…
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Flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) for the 7 December 2020 Presidential and Parliamentary elections and former President of Ghana, John Dramani Mahama, on multiple campaign platforms ahead of the December 2020 elections,…
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Life in Prison is not easy. It is an experience I would not wish for even the worst of enemies. Those years I spent in the Kumasi Central Prison would go down into history as the darkest moment of my life. Growing up in Sawaba, Kumasi, I…
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Law school admission was one of the topical issues ahead of the 2020 General Elections. Indeed during the vetting of Ministers, the Attorney General assured the committee of taking an-all-inclusive look at the situation to find solutions…
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In recent days, there have been reports of unsavoury content in some textbooks purported to be for use in our lower institutions of learning. In particular, some of these books have been found to have content that seem to cast some of our…
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In what may be the first Court case since the coming into force of Ghana’s Right to Information (RTI) Law, the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) has filed a suit at an Accra High Court against Ghana’s media frequency regulator,…
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Listening to the Budget on Friday, I felt very ashamed and disappointed as a Ghanaian who had high hopes for the future. A National Budget in a pandemic must offer hope and inspiration. This budget does not inspire confidence for the…
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Women are given equal rights under the Constitution of Ghana, yet disparities in education, employment, and health for women remain prevalent. Furthermore, women have much less access to financial resources than men in Ghana do.…
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