2019: The Year I Found Myself Looking back on 2019, I find myself stronger, more empowered, physically healed and an emotional bulldozer. The past decade was a dark period of my life. The warning signs were there but as a woman in love, I was so blind to even notice; …
Read More »Time to Call Kantanka to Order!
Time to call Kantanka to Order! Yes I believe we must all support Made-in-Ghana to propel our economic growth. Yes I very much understand that our environment can often stifle innovation. Yes I know in Africa we love to decry how the “black man loves to pull down his fellow …
Read More »Better Family Life For Men And Women in Uniform Will Improve National Discipline
I was born to a retired military officer turned peasant farmer. My mother was a house wife who made extra incoming by brewing and selling a local gin we call Pito. I grew up in the village with parents who believe the most important thing in life was not to …
Read More »Dangote Is Not Your Friend
In 1838, Carl Knorr (1)recognized a problem with cooking in Germany. People wanted their soups to have certain flavours and would spend hours drying, grinding, boiling vegetables and other spices to add to their meals. So he created the Knorr brand. You recognize the name because you have used a …
Read More »OPINION: Distribute The Ambulances Now; Stop The Wastage And Insensitivity Against Ghanaians
Ghana’s medical emergency care need a lot of input to meet WHO standards. There is serious lack of the needed skill-mix of personnel, consumable, medications at the in-hospital level, while at the pre-hospital level there is lack of knowledge and skill by the public on Basic Life Support (BLS), inadequate …
Read More »Will The NDC in The Savannah Region Have The Guts to Campaign Along Tribal Lines Again?
In the run up to the 2008 and 2012 elections, the NDC in the Savannah region and for that matter Gonjaland campaigned on tribal lines. They trumpeted to the hearing of all Gonjalanders that it was a golden opportunity for the son of Gonja, former president John Dramani Mahama to …
Read More »Forget About Alex Mould; Mahama Needs A Policy Communicator As Running Mate
Even before announcing his 2020 bid, Mahama’s propensity for “tactile” politics became the subject of intense scrutiny when he was accused of pussyfooting in the matter of his second shot at the presidency. As the issues piled up, Mahama came out promising to change for the better, and even offered …
Read More »Atiku Writes: Supreme Court Judgement, Part of Our Democratic Challenges
It is said that the Supreme Court is not final because it is infallible, but that it is infallible because it is final. While I believe that only God is infallible everywhere, and only Nigerians are infallible in our democracy, I must accept that the judicial route I chose to …
Read More »NHIS Membership Mobile Renewal Service, Members Satisfied
It’s all good and well as the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) Membership Mobile Renewal Service is having a massive impact on the Scheme’s over 11 million members resident in Ghana. Via a dedicated short code *929#, the awards winning innovation allows members to sit in the comfort of their …
Read More »The Nemesis in Our Education Sector And The Political Salvos Instead Of Solutions
“When they want to get you cajoled and controlled for the rest of your life, they get you thinking like them. And they can get you thinking like them when they structure your education system to work to their dictates. That is the tricks of the bourgeoisie.” A computerized system …
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