Do you trust Ghana’s parliamentarians or select committees to always ACT in the supreme national interest of Ghana – that is, regardless of how one defines national interest? NB: Wanted to…
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GHANA AIRWAYS: ON A WING AND PRAYER I first wrote this on 15 December 2013 “‘Christ Is the Answer”: What Is the Question?’ A Ghana Airways Prayer Vigil and Its…
So, I spent time going through the comprehensive 378-page report titled “Domestic Violence in Ghana: Incidence, Attitudes, Determinants and Consequences” authored by the Institute of Development Studies and the Ghana…
Media appearances on the Ghana-Cote d’Ivoire Maritime Border Dispute at ITLOS Websites “TEN field reserves are estimated at 306 million barrels of oil while the wider Tano Basin, which was…
The ruling of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) on the maritime dispute will not affect Ghana’s oilfields, a Petroleum Economist has said. Dr Theo Acheampong…
Using the latest figures published by the Bank of Ghana, I estimate the top five banks in Ghana in terms of value add as Bank of Baroda, Barclays Bank, GCB…
One decisive outcome from today’s presidential encounter with the media is the decision by the government not to extend the IMF deal from the original April 2018 completion date to…
By Theo Acheampong For most countries where near-universal primary school (primary and junior secondary) enrollment is high, there is the challenge of ensuring these children also get a secondary education…
Going through KNUST’s Research Report for 2015 and I must congratulate the team that put this maiden publication together. It is very well designed and information flows logically. The report…
Came across this read which provides a good background to understanding history of patronage in African politics published by Foreign Affairs Magazine. In the post-independence era of the 1960s, “[Foreign]…
The Caliphate | Sunni Wahabism | Radicalisation | Western Ignorance & Interventionism | Global Hegemony | Soviet-Afghan War | Boko Haram | Al-Shabab | Al-Qaeda | ISIS | Kenya |…
According to this Economist article Road accidents are the leading cause of death among 15- to 29-year-olds globally, according to a report published by the World Health Organisation on October…
Introduction Governance in Africa has evolved and gone are the days when men, clad in military uniform, would just pop out of nowhere to seize the national radio and television…
1. Emerging Challenges Monday 23 August 2015, was a terrible day for global markets as sell-offs hit global stocks across almost every sector driven by China’s stock market. As at close…