“Mimi, you have lost so much weight is very bad” Mimi you have put on weight you need to do something about your weight” These two statements were made to me by the same person three years apart! It was a bit baffling when the latter statement was made, but then it dawned on me, people will always have an opinion about how you look!
Africa Education Watch in partnership with the Coalition Against Privatisation and Commercialisation of Education, the All-Africa Students Union, the National Union of Ghana Students, with support from OXFAM International, is implementing the Education Spike Campaign aimed at promoting investment in public basic education to improve quality, as commercialisation adversely impacts on access, equity and standards in pre-tertiary education.
Nearly two years into the pandemic, it has become starkly clear that we need better treatments for COVID-19 for people in the earlier stages of disease.
What do you say to your husband when he tells you – “my endless, I have just been promoted! And guess what, we are moving to Belgium, and we will be there for 2 years”! As the supportive wife of an Army soldier, I was naturally happy for him.
On the 17th November 2021, the Minister of Finance of Ghana, Hon. Ken Ofori-Atta presented to the parliament the statement on the 2022 national budget. Among the policies expected to be implemented is the Electronic levy (E-levy), which involves the introduction of taxes on electronic transactions such as mobile money (momo) transactions in the country.
When we vote in general elections, we vote to elect both a President in whom is vested the Executive Authority of the Republic and a Member of Parliament who, together with other Members of Parliament, get to constitute the Legislative branch of government.
The ongoing impasse between the Ghana Police Service and the Member of Parliament (MP) for Madina Constituency, Mr. Francis Xavier-Sosu, supported by the Speaker of Parliament, over unsuccessful attempts by the Police to invite the MP to assist with investigations relating to a demonstration he is said to have led raises a key constitutional question about the appropriate procedure for serving a criminal process on or arresting an MP.
Rapid digital transformation is reshaping our global economy, permeating virtually every sector and aspect of daily life, changing the way we learn, work, trade, socialise, and access public and private services and information (The World Bank Group, 2019).
I don’t know about you, but anytime I attend a funeral, I am eager to get a copy of the brochure and in my free time, I read all the tributes written about the departed.
I once had an idea to author a book that would cover the third football season of Manchester United under the tempestuous reign of the Portuguese manager, Jose Mourinho, while interjecting some of my daily philosophical musings of life.
The ongoing impasse between the Ghana Police Service and the Member of Parliament (MP) for Madina Constituency, Mr. Francis Xavier-Sosu, supported by the Speaker of Parliament, over unsuccessful attempts by the Police to invite the MP to assist with investigations relating to a demonstration he is said to have led raises a key constitutional question about the appropriate procedure for serving a criminal process on or arresting an MP.
With the interminable debate of creating sustainable employment for young people through agriculture, it has become imperative for government to prioritize job creation as the unemployment situation in Ghana increases at a disturbing rate.
Okay, let’s straighten a few records, shall we? It is not that we don’t appreciate the fact of a Vice President of a country [Bawumia] like Ghana putting himself forward as a cheerleader of digital innovation. We do.
As we ponder about finding lasting solutions to our growing army of unemployed graduates and other school leavers, who are flooding daily into the cities and towns of Ghana in search of non-existent employment opportunities, it is becoming abundantly clear that our educational system should be focusing more on imparting useful skills training to our youth.
The two weeks of talks in Glasgow, Scotland, one of the United Kingdom’s most sustainable cities, is a rare chance for world leaders and thousands of attendees to get together to tackle climate change.
The Ghana Police Service, specifically the Accra Regional Police command are on the heels of Honorable Francis Xavier Sosu, member of parliament for Madina.
The memo submitted by the Group of 18 lawyers, academics and other professionals on the proposed Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill 2021 currently before Parliament continues to court controversies and varied reactions.
In the past three months, food prices in Ghana have shot up, a rise that the Minister for Agriculture, Dr Owusu Afriyie Akoto, attributes to a drought in 2020, leading to the underproduction of staple foods like maize.
The Biblical story of Sodom and Gomorrah is a popular story. Its popularity is drawn from its association with homosexuality and the brutal destruction of the two cities by God.
A wise man who knows about these things tells me, if you finish building inside your room before you go on site to cut the ground, you discover your building will take a very short time to complete. In other words, get all the money needed for the project before you start.
Recently, before my first lecture on fallacies, I gave my Logic and Critical Thinking Class this test, ‘A group of eminent doctors have written to Parliament that abortion should be legalised because we should not criminalise rights.
