A battle over cement pricing in Ghana reached a new stage this week when the Chamber of Cement Manufacturers (COCMAG) hit back at proposed government regulation.
Nana Kwame Appiah, my grandfather, was the Adontenhene of Toase in Atwima Nwabiagya District of the Ashanti Region when the famous Chief Owusu, the father of the equally famous Nana Akwasi Agyeman, was the Chief of Toase.
The Attorney General of Ghana is trying desperately to spin serious embarrassment to the Republic of Ghana in an international tribunal using all the tools in his propaganda toolkit.
I have travelled a bit to some African countries, Asia, and Western and Eastern Europe, and I have realised that the quality of life in every country I have been to can be traced to the culture of the people. These cultures are born out of the people's beliefs, which form the building blocks of that society.
When it comes to what subjects I write on in my column, it is often as the spirit moves me, always with the understanding that I am not the type of person to write on Ian Smith and Rhodesia on the day that three former heads of state are executed in Ghana.
Concentrating on my baggage problem report, I overhead not one, not two but multiple lined-up unhappy complainants at the Kotoka International Airport (KIA) baggage complaints office last Saturday morning.
Mahmoud [Mahamudu] Bawumia looks like a happy man having roused the country to its feet since May. All eyes on him, he has quietly choreographed the new face of party political campaigns.
Sunday, 9th June, history was made when Otumfuo Osei Tutu II came down to Accra to pay a rare courtesy call on the Ga Mantse, Nii Tackie Teiko Tsuru II.
While Africa’s busiest port, Durban, looks to improve its battered reputation, a new World Bank-S&P report highlights significant progress in the overall efficiency of African ports. According to the report, African ports reduced vessel waiting times at the fastest rate globally in 2023.
Plea bargaining is a topic which has captured the imagination of the public following the allegation made by the third accused person against the Attorney General in the on-going trial of a former Deputy Finance Minister, and now leader of the Minority in Parliament, Cassiel Ato Forson.
Last week, Ghana’s Minister of Communications (and “digitalisation”) held a press conference in the heat of controversy about the government’s decision to award the country’s only 5G telecom license to a shadowy entity called, Next Gen Infraco Ltd.
The Constitution of Ghana enshrines the freedom of association and religious practice (Article 21(1)). The country and our public ceremonies very much recognise three of these religious groups: Christianity, Islam and Traditional worship.
Ghana's history is being bastardised, with serious consequences for social cohesion, and no one seems to care. Not even the Historical Society of Ghana. Why?
A harrowing video clip of an entire roof of a building in Accra, Ghana, ripped off by winds, went viral yesterday. It caused damage to property and could have snuffed out the lives of many.
A severe internet outage that has hit several African countries - the third disruption in four months - is a stark reminder of how vulnerable the service is on the continent.
Have you asked yourself why, for the first time in the history of state investigation into a suspected crime, the three agencies — Attorney General’s Department, Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) and the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) — are disagreeing with one another in public?
Change in ownership of companies has been a constant development in the corporate space in Ghana. A recent significant acquisition in the telecommunications sector is the change of the brand name of Vodafone Ghana to Telecel Ghana.
Marriage is considered the oldest sacred and revered institution for companionship, procreation, support, love, and life-long union between a man and a woman. Its validity is dependent on strict compliance with widely recognized contracting customs, and legislations which support acceptable religious forms of marriage.
Picture this: you put in a couple of word prompts into a free Artificial Intelligence content generator and the system composes a song, produces an art-piece that is museum-worthy or engineers a revolutionary technology that can reshape an entire industry; does the produced work belong to the person who put in the prompt, the person who created the AI programme, or perhaps even the AI itself?
Climate change has become a very essential topic not only in environmental discussions but also major factor in geopolitics. The hotter temperatures and the erratic rainfall and storms we have been experiencing in recent years are but a few of the effects of climate change. Climate change clearly affects us all and must be addressed.
The benefit of possessing a right is seen in being able to exercise and enforce them. This is especially so in the scope of intellectual property (IP). The enforcement of intellectual property rights is a crucial aspect of promoting innovation and creativity.
The advent of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has fuelled an unprecedented revolution in various sectors with the workplace experiencing significant transformation.
In April 2014, the government of Ghana borrowed $46 million from Rome-based IFAD, the International Fund for Agricultural Development, a UN body that, as its name suggests, finds money for countries to fix some of their agricultural challenges.
Everyone who followed IMANI’s exchanges with the Electoral Commission in 2020 carefully would have noticed that IMANI was against the compilation of a new electoral register for one major reason: shady procurement and waste of resources.
For the argument that SML contributed to the increase in petroleum consumption, and therefore taxes, to be sustainable, proof has to be shown that SML’s interventions have led to an uptick in volumes recorded over and above the historical trend of increases over time.
I have now read Akufo-Addo's letter two times. It is glaringly and painfully obvious to me, that, I do not understand some things in the letter. Perhaps, this is due to my intellectual limitations.
