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Women have, since time immemorial, been facing many challenges in all facet of our socio-economic life, particularly in Politics, Business, Sports and Arts.

Suffice it to say that natural environment must outlive human beings unless unthinkable or unspeakable happens.

I could not hide my joy on the day the Ministry of Business Development was announced.  Some Colleagues in my office began calling me Minister for Business Development, obviously because I lead the business development function of my company.

One controversial excerpt from the inaugural speech of the incumbent president admonished Ghanaians to be citizens but not spectators henceforth!.

Dear S.O.P,

There is no doubt that leadership and governance remains an issue of dire concern in most African countries: the story of failed states in the continent as well as leaders who promised their countries and people heaven on earth but ended up looting, or facilitating a prolonged stay in power that so often results in corruption at its peak, is now well known to the world.

Unlike 2012 when Prof John Evans Atta Mills won the elections for John Mahama, through sympathy votes and the impressive economic performance of his government, the man John Mahama in 2016 suffered the most humiliating defeat ever recorded by an NDC Presidential Candidate and sitting President in Ghana.

This month has been some way paaa oo. We have had series of suicides; I have resisted the temptation to write about it. A daughter of Eve is trying to convince me to, at least, write something about it, but I have resisted that temptation. In my view, raising the profile of the recent incidence of suicides might encourage more people to consider that as an option.

Now, this argument is not new, but coming from a Gender Minister -- the most senior individual responsible for the welfare of women and children -- makes it egregious: the old baseless, shiftless and lazy short skirt argument that doesn't even hold water.

As the normal principle of economics says, when a domestic currency depreciates it makes the prices of goods and services decline compared to the international prices.

A Ghanaian Nancy Abu-Bonsrah has become the first black female Neurosurgeon at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. Abu-Bonsrah left Ghana at the age of 15, and has been in the U.S for nearly 11 years.

Let us put politics aside. Let us put our emotions aside. Let us shelve religious beliefs for a moment. Let us put our thinking caps on. Let us behave like rational human beings of the world, human beings who deserve to be taken seriously and treated with the same level of respect the Americans, British, Germans and the French would require from the rest of the world. Let us think like a country or a people who take human lives seriously. Let us think rationally and use commonsense approach to the Kintampo Waterfall disaster that has left people with heartache.

In the corporate world, nobody gets hired without a job description for the position in which he’s being hired.

While many Ghanaians are extremely baffled over President Akufo-Addo’s decision to appoint around 110 substantive and deputy ministers, I, for one, have no marked feeling for or against the size of Akufo-Addo’s government.

That the agenda of some of the members of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to derail this new government and make sure it stays and remains out of focus can now be confirmed. From the day Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo was declared President-elect to date, some in the opposition have served notice that they will make sure he stays out of focus.

In the last few days, there have been a barrage of attacks on the person of Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings. These attacks were in response to a demand made by the former National Democratic Congress (NDC) member of parliament for Ningo-Pampram, E.T. Mensah, who was urging the NDC as a party to apologize to the former first lady and her husband for the ill-treatment meted out to them by party functionaries (Link available here: http://dailypost.com.gh/2017/02/26/apologize-mrs-rawlings-et-mensa-tells-ndc/).