Wow! What an eventful number of days it was in Ghana! My good friend announced a couple of months back that he was getting hitched to his long term girlfriend;…
Newaccra.com, a “leading success and personal development brand”, yesterday named me as a young achiever in its 2015 edition of the ‘Newaccra Achievers Report’. Many thanks to the Newaccra.com team…
We might be in for a BIG SHOCKER if The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) grants Ivory Coast the temporary provisional measures they seek which is…
Dr Lloyd Amoah makes some compelling arguments in his paper titled “Lee Kuan Yew, Deng Xiaoping and Actualizing the Visions of African Independence” on how the neo-elite class can catalyse…
The world certainly mourns when a great man dies. Today, we celebrate the life of one such great leader who did right by and for their people. Lee Kuan Yew,…
I have over the past year noticed a lot more of us – Ghanaians especially – comment on posts and/or share web links often without taking time to read through…
My three-part series (papers 2 and 3 co-authored with Kwamena Essilfie Adjaye) on the ongoing power crisis (aka ‘dumsor’) in Ghana and the way forward is available for download via…
So, despite the announcement of the $940m bailout programme, the Cedi has been behaving cynically and purposelessly lamenting against the major international trading currencies – the dollar being the major…
In Africa, oil explorers will keep drilling and producing from select locations such as onshore east Africa and less complex projects off the West African coast even with oil at…
In an interesting twist of events, the Ivorian government formally requested the International Tribunal of the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) for a suspension of oil exploration and production activities…
These are some of my favourite book collections on Ghana (formerly the Gold Coast) A Political History of Ghana. The Rise of Gold Coast Nationalism 1850-1928 by David Kimble Ghana:…
Extract from the latest and damning IEA Report on the most important problems confronting the country. I dare say this is the ‘real’ state of the nation. Generally, the report…
This is one of the policy initiatives I will vigorously pursue to diversify Ghana’s energy mix, were I to have the chance. All public schools (especially the secondary schools), municipal…
Extracts from The Times newspaper of 1955 (1) “Throughout the country the middle classes, men in the upper ranks of the law; the professions and education are instinctively against the…
My attention was drawn earlier today to a statement made by President Mahama to the effect that: “Ghana’s population is 25 million, but statistics indicates that mobile phone lines in…