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This article shares my ideas and experiences as a US-based Ghanaian who has made several trips to Ghana in the last few years and have spent several hundred hours driving on Ghana’s major roads. The idea is to compare our broken system with…
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The State of the Nation Address is the single most important national speech by the president every given year. The address is expected to give a report or account programs and projects announced in the previous year,  account for the…
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It is quite interesting that, a statement made some several weeks ago; an account that went virtually unnoticed could be revived to spark such uproar within the industry. Well, the timing and circumstance doesn’t matter now. The fact is,…
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I read that the Ghanaian passport is ranked 78th by something called the 2020 Henley Passport Index. According to this index, our passport provides visa-free/visa on arrival access to 65 destinations, while we need visas to get to 161…
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If you are a parent, the past couple of weeks must have given you a chill down the spine. Courtesy of social media, we have seen some of our children in secondary schools engage in behaviour so reprehensible that it is scarcely appropriate…
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Despite being perceived to be one of Africa’s less corrupt nations, Ghana faces an uphill battle in the fight against graft. The country loses about $3 billion to corruption each year, while both its main political parties – the ruling New…
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“Is this metallic green shelter a kennel, pen, kraal or a sty, please?” “No madam, it is a rubbish house,” he replied. “In Japan, animals live in the same home as their owners and should there be a make-shift shelter for the pet, it…
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Taking a cue from Article 45 of the 1992 Constitution, these heads of our national electoral body, become so pompous and intransigent the only time they know 'stop?' is when a Court of Law has ruled against them. It happened during Dr…
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“When I closed THE GRAPES OF WRATH, I was a different man. It enriched my powers of thinking and discipline and my relationships. I left prison more informed than I went in and the more informed you are the less arrogant and aggressive you…
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Monica Amekoafia, the winner of the first edition of the Miss Ghana contest in 1957 while representing the Trans-Volta Togoland was contestant Number 9. It was from her number that people from the Volta Region are called Number 9.…
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