Opinion

Wealth Over Wisdom: The Unintended Consequences of McDan’s Comment Hello McDan Group It is only in Africa that when people become rich overnight, they cast aspersions on higher education as useless ventures. It’s just that academic pursuit was a hard deal for such individuals, thus, shortcuts to success became the …

NEW BASIC SCHOOL UNIFORMS, PAINTING, NEW COLOURS… New Uniforms: Nothing wrong with changing primary school uniforms after decades. It’s cool with me. White attracts dirt too easily, meaning, the average pupil may require at least two sets of uniforms. The poor may struggle; some even struggle with just one set. …

THE GONJA KINGDOM: THE NPP DIRTY POLITICS AND THE JOHN MAHAMA FACTOR   The great Kingdom of Gonja is in the news again, and as usual, it is for the bad reasons from the perspective of people with conscience. Well, the news was deliberately and needlessly generated by the NPP …

Politics: A Game of Perception, Not Just Performance Politics is such a dark business. You may be talented and gifted and have all that it takes to serve in government or be recognized for your efforts while in opposition, but when optics are not in your favor you end up …

TAKE JOHN MAHAMA’S NAME OUT AND THE NPP WOULD BE LEFT WITH NO CAMPAIGN MESSAGE It is increasingly becoming clear that the New Patriotic Party has no tangible campaign message for this year’s election. Everything about their campaign this year is about John Dramani Mahama, the flag bearer of the …

TAMALE – A CITY WITH CARS, MOTORBIKES AND ACCIDENTS! THE PROBLEM It is just absolutely incredible to see an entire family of 5 (sometimes six) crammed up on the back of one motor bike- (bikes that are designed to take carry a maximum of two persona – without helmets and …

I guess, like many of you on this blue app, you’ve seen and watched a video of a man sitting in the studios of a media house spewing some hogwash about John Mahama having married his running mate and a rather bizarre claim that the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Running …

AMBROSE DERY: THE UPPER WEST ALBATROSS OF OUR COLLECTIVE CREATION HAS BEEN UNDRESSED TO PETTY MINISTER. Change can be challenging, but it also presents opportunities for growth and new beginnings. When there’s a change in leadership or reorganization within a government, individuals in appointed positions may be reassigned to different …

Ghanaians at the mercy of ‘trotro’ drivers: implications for national security. Today I focus on the cabal of private entrepreneurs, who have seen a business opportunity in the government’s failure to offer efficient public transportation and have stepped in to milk the situation so dry. There is time to discuss …

KOFI BENTIL’S ESCAPE PLAN FOR BAWUMIA AND MATTERS ARISING Kofi Bentil,in a write-up this morning, attempts an elaborate but implausible extrication of his friend,Bawumia,from the catastrophic performance of the government of which he has been the poster boy in the last seven years. Among other astonishing claims, Kofi says that …