The Local Enterprises and Skills Development Programme (LESDEP) is supporting the Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW) Ghana, with 50,000 dollars, to facilitate the organisation of this year's week.
The week, which is celebrated globally, i…
One of the contemporary issues in Ghana is the New Patriotic Party's (NPP) Manifesto on Education, specifically the issue of providing free education to the Senior High School level, which continues to generate a major debate.
One is not …
"By the edge of Kodero Forest in remote western Kenya, local hunters discovered the body of 31-year-old newspaper reporter Francis Nyaruri, decapitated and grotesquely disfigured, his hands tied behind his back to render him helpless. It w…
Developing countries keep lamenting over brain-drain but we hardly talk about the large numbers of unskilled labour (is that brawn?) that leave our shores daily in search of the ever-eluding Golden Fleece or greener pastures. Certainly the…
Education remains one of the major themes dominating the campaigns of the major political parties in the run up to the December 7 polls in Ghana.
The contending parties hope to win the hearts and minds of the electorate with all kinds o…
Who is attracting the votes? The main opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) seeks to use it’s avow pledged to extend free education to the Senior High School level, build public Universities in regions without one and raise the quality of…
Presidential and parliamentary aspirants of the various political parties have filed nominations with the Electoral Commission, paving the way for the crucial political contest in Election 2012.
The parties are seriously engaged in electi…
Political parties that crave to come to power always do so with an agenda crafted in an elaborate campaign promise otherwise referred to as a manifesto.
The Oxford Advanced Learner's dictionary defines 'manifesto' as: "a written statement…
For nearly a decade of commercial citrus farming at Odumafo in the Eastern Region, 56 years old Kojo Marfo says, his highest sale of orange fruits after a good harvest was GH¢900.00 for a planting season.
"That year was a happy time for …
Living a healthy lifestyle is simple but certainly not easy. It is simple because there are a set of rules to follow such as increasing your physical activity and eating a healthy diet but it is not easy because we need to be disciplined; …
Not long ago, President John Dramani Mahama as part of efforts to tackle the nation's sanitation problem, launched a campaign on sustained healthy sanitation practice in Ghana.
In this regard, the Ministry of Local Government and Rural De…
There is no doubt that when it comes to ensuring peaceful election, the media as the Fourth Estate of the Realm has a major role to play. The success of every election therefore depends largely on the Journalist. That is why it is incumben…
If you do not know your blood cholesterol level, STOP whatever you are doing and rush to the nearest health facility to have it checked. The “Invisible Killer” could be stalking you.
Cholesterol is a waxy, fat-like substance that is made …
The highly anticipated movie “Mirror Boy” was yesterday premiered at the Silver Bird Ghana Cinemas.
The whole place was chocked with barely little space to maneuver, as more than 600 people thronged into the cinema premises ´ready for the…
Our forefathers warned us to run from a chicken that pursues us at dawn because he might have grown some teeth during the night. It is also not for nothing that Jesus warned us to beware of those who use His name in vain.
The President Pr…
Ghana has made a lot of strides in the development of trade as it gears towards becoming a middle income country by 2015.
No one can lose sight of the fact that the country is party to a number of international accords that focused …
We learn from the Holy Scriptures that it is not everybody who shouts, “Awurade ee Awurade ee” that will enter the Kingdom of Heaven. We are also warned to beware of wolves in sheep clothing who will use guile, deceit and lies to ensnare t…
Growing up as a child in Ho, the Volta Regional Capital,some of the games I and my friends enjoyed most were to go on crab hunting expeditions, fishing and swimming in streams and rivers in the suburbs.
It was refreshing observing th…
There are few words that are dreaded as much as R-E-T-I-R-E-M-E-N-T. Retirement planning can be a daunting, frustrating experience for many people, which is why some people put it off. Some authorities have even questioned whether it is be…
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The fact that the lion is the king of the jungle does not mean that it cannot be brought down by the hunter’s gun. We are surprised to now hear the bat is too blind to see things at night. The truth of the matter is that the bat has been b…
“I define genuine full employment as a situation where there are at least as many job openings as there are persons seeking employment,…” - William Vickrey
Under the Mills/Mahama administration, unemployment has yet again soared to unimag…
Helping poor farming families grow more crops and get them to market is the world?€?s single most powerful lever for reducing poverty and hunger.?
WASHINGTON, D.C. ?€? Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, today tol…
“The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease.”- Thomas Edison
When Hippocrates said that “walking is a man’s best medic…
Preamble: In Ecclesiastics 1:9, we learn that: “That which has been is what will be. That which is done is what will be done. And there is nothing new under the sun”. We read that “what is crooked cannot be made straight. And what is lack…
Preamble: In Ecclesiastics 1:9, we learn that: “That which has been is what will be. That which is done is what will be done. And there is nothing new under the sun”. We read that “what is crooked cannot be made straight. And what is lack…
Wonders, they say, shall never end. Otherwise, how do you explain a situation where the so-called enlightened and educated members in the nefarious contraption could deliberately misinterpret and give a twist to Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Add…
Wonders, they say, shall never end. Otherwise, how do you explain a situation where the so-called enlightened and educated members in the nefarious contraption could deliberately misinterpret and give a twist to Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Add…
Rainy season is an annual affair in Ghana but its pattern differs from one geographical area to the other. While it may rain throughout the year in Axim in the Western Region, the same cannot be said for the northern parts of the country w…
Very often we leave the doctor’s office only to remember that we left out a major complaint. Some patients immediately rush back to the consulting room totally oblivious of the privacy that that the next patient is entitled to. They expect…
Rainy season is an annual affair in Ghana but its pattern differs from one geographical area to the other. While it may rain throughout the year in Axim in the Western Region, the same cannot be said for the northern parts of the country w…
Very often we leave the doctor’s office only to remember that we left out a major complaint. Some patients immediately rush back to the consulting room totally oblivious of the privacy that that the next patient is entitled to. They expect…
The importance of tracking your investment cannot and should not be under-scored by any serious investor. Tracking your investment helps you discover salient information that can help you take certain crucial decisions concerning your inve…
The importance of tracking your investment cannot and should not be under-scored by any serious investor. Tracking your investment helps you discover salient information that can help you take certain crucial decisions concerning your inve…
In times of food and farming crisis there is a tendency in Africa for policy makers to adopt reactionary measures that routinely make things worse, not better.
A number of African countries have often resorted to ad hoc policy making – p…
In times of food and farming crisis there is a tendency in Africa for policy makers to adopt reactionary measures that routinely make things worse, not better.
A number of African countries have often resorted to ad hoc policy making – p…
The recent unveiling of the services of GLO 1, Globacom’s submarine fibre optic cable in Ghana, has suddenly opened the door to limitless possibilities.
The opportunities opened for the country is in the field of telecommunications, b…
The recent unveiling of the services of GLO 1, Globacom’s submarine fibre optic cable in Ghana, has suddenly opened the door to limitless possibilities.
The opportunities opened for the country is in the field of telecommunications, b…
IN THE INTEREST OF BETTER ZZZZZS (Part1)
Many of us may never experience the blissful sleep of Lord Tennyson’s “Lotos-Eaters” who after eating the lotus fruit slept deep and were absolutely apathetic, but we can enjoy great sleep that mak…
Pregnant women in some communities in the Lawra District fervently pray to God to prevent them from conceiving.
For, should their prayers go unanswered their otherwise blessings would attract sorrow as one of the babies could be kil…
IN THE INTEREST OF BETTER ZZZZZS (Part1)
Many of us may never experience the blissful sleep of Lord Tennyson’s “Lotos-Eaters” who after eating the lotus fruit slept deep and were absolutely apathetic, but we can enjoy great sleep that mak…
Pregnant women in some communities in the Lawra District fervently pray to God to prevent them from conceiving.
For, should their prayers go unanswered their otherwise blessings would attract sorrow as one of the babies could be kil…
Many countries are resorting to modern technologies and processes to enhance farm operations to ensure that the ever growing population have access to quality food at all times.
The global food crisis caused primarily by drought, ris…
Many countries are resorting to modern technologies and processes to enhance farm operations to ensure that the ever growing population have access to quality food at all times.
The global food crisis caused primarily by drought, ris…
GSE Securities Depository Company Ltd. (GSD), a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Ghana Stock Exchange. It was licensed by the Securities and Exchange Commission to operate a Securities Depository on November 5, 2008 and started operations on…
GSE Securities Depository Company Ltd. (GSD), a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Ghana Stock Exchange. It was licensed by the Securities and Exchange Commission to operate a Securities Depository on November 5, 2008 and started operations on…
This is the second article on high blood pressure (BP) that we are discussing within a short span of three months. This is to emphasize the importance of this disease and also to raise awareness.
In my opinion, knowledge is our best weapo…
This is the second article on high blood pressure (BP) that we are discussing within a short span of three months. This is to emphasize the importance of this disease and also to raise awareness.
In my opinion, knowledge is our best weapo…
The Libyan Leader, Col Muamar Ghadafi until recently, can be said to have endeared himself to the Libyans for providing them with the needed public goods and services.
Libya was regarded as a stable country and therefore attracted a …
A great tide in history flows. And as it flows it brings back great and happy memories. Memories of an articulate, energetic, confident, hardworking, courageous, patriotic, pragmatic and selfless young man, then in his early thirties, cr…