I’ve written about my experience as “the mistress.” It was a much-read post that unleashed both an outpouring of emotional stories and unbridled fury against me. There’s not one part of me that condones cheating. Before my experience sleeping with a married man, I was the type to utterly condemn people who …

Slavery on our own land is what I choose to call it. The white skin has more significance than the oxygen my people breath. Until the day, when we realize the damage this mental slavery has done and is doing to ourselves and generation yet unborn, our system would keep …

Tamale, Ghana – Chief Executive Officer of the National Entrepreneurship and Innovation Plan (NEIP), John Ampontuah Kumah, has expressed the interest of the state agency to collaborate with the University for Development Studies (UDS) to train some potential youth entrepreneurs. According to Mr Kumah, the government was putting in place …

Accra, Ghana – MTN Ghana Foundation is inviting students to apply for its Bright Scholarships which is opened from 3rd April to 3rd May 2018. The Foundation will award 100 scholarships to students in public tertiary institutions each year for three years. In all, 300 scholarships would be awarded over a period …

Sagnarigu, Ghana – Ghana’s Gender, Children and Social Protection Minister, Otiko Afisah Djaba, has implored District Social Welfare Officers in the country to work hard towards reducing increasing cases of child marriage, female genital mutilation, widowhood rites, witchcraft accusations and other forms of right violations. According to her, the Northern …

Nandom, Ghana – Member of Parliament for the Nandom Constituency and Ghana’s Minister for The Interior, Lawyer Ambrose Dery, made several donations to his constituents during the Easter holidays. Mr. Dery donated medical equipment for the diagnosis and treatment of cervical cancer to the St. Theresa’s Hospital otherwise known as the …

Sagnarigu, Ghana – Gender, Children and Social Protection Minister, Otiko Afisah Djaba, has given yet another indication that poverty is still high in the three regions of the North, quoting figures from the Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) to buttress her point. According to Madam Otiko Djaba, a chunk of …

At least over 3000 people have been rendered homeless at Salaga in the East Gonja Municipality of the Northern Region after a severe rainstorm occurred on Wednesday April 4th. The storm which started around 5pm lasted for close to two hours. According to the Municipal NADMO coordinator Ibrahim Alhassan, this …

Tamale, Ghana – The first batch of students of Modern Star Integrated School (MSIS -Tamale) for both the Senior High School (SHS) and Junior High School (JHS) are taking part in the ongoing 2018 Basic Certificate Examination Council and the West Africa Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination (WASSSCE). The school …

The current Local Government System was introduced in 1988(PNDC LAW 207). Many studies have been published on the workings of the system. This is not my intention. Having been at the centre of these reforms for the past 12 years, these are my views on how to deepen local governance. …