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Richard Sky writes: Is the politics of insults the new face of Ghana’s democracy?
Fellow citizens, almost twelve years ago, I broke the news of DrMahamadu Bawumia’s nomination as Running-Mate to Nana Addo from the Alisa Hotel in Accra. Bawumia was relatively unknown. He was also relatively young.
However, the former…
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Africa can draw lessons from the UAE’s response to COVID-19
The UAE’s predominantly urban population presented one risk. Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Sharjah would seem to be the perfect environment for a contagious virus to spread quickly. Added to this was the even greater threat presented by the…
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Don’t Condemn Prof Naana Opoku-Agyemang Yet!
Until recently, Vice-presidential nominees make a smaller electoral difference in Ghana’s politics but Dr Mahamudu Bawumia changed the narrative.
The current Vice-president of Ghana was naïve and lacked a sufficiently nuanced…
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60 years of Ghana-China diplomatic relations: A journey worth celebrating and pondering [Article]
July 5, 2020, marked 60 years of the establishment of diplomatic relations. Sixty years of enduring and exemplary relations and cooperation between two countries which is worth celebrating and pondering over.
Ghana established diplomatic…
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Joshua Fosu Amoah writes: Defining and understanding life in the slum
Life as we know it is a never-ending puzzled journey full of unimaginable bits and bobs with several turns whilst we ride along to an unknown destination. Our differences are uniquely distinct from each other although unfair but naturally…
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Letter Seeking To Exercise Disciplinary Control Over Auditor-General Has 5 Problems
The 3rd July letter seeking to exercise disciplinary control over the Auditor-General has 5 problems.
Article 297(a) power to discipline appointees does not apply to the AG or other independent bodies. The only mode of disciplining…
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Bedroom Pornshows: A Threat To Quality Education
The quest to providing quality education and the zeal to delivering it within schedule is not a scare-crow. This is the only thing that keeps defining the proportion of the budgetary allocation for education in all countries across the…
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NPP Primaries: What The Delegates Have Taught Us
With the successful organization of a historic parliamentary primary under COVID-19, the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), has demonstrated their readiness for the 2020 Parliamentary and Presidential elections.
Many lost and many won.…
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When My Child’s Name Is Not Ghanaian Enough To Merit A Birth Certificate
My child’s birth certificate got lost and needed to be replaced. I applied for the Births and Deaths Registry to reissue a copy of the birth cert as same is already in their database. I submitted copies of the required documents and a copy…
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Absa: Bringing possibility to life during a crisis [Article]
When a crisis of the magnitude of Covid-19 strikes, it is our role as a responsible lender to put forward various immediate and medium-term solutions to proactively combat the downturn it brings.
As an African business, we have sought to…
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