It wasn’t US President Donald Trump’s intention, but he did his successor Joe Biden a potentially historic favor through his incitement of the violent insurrection at the US Capitol on January 6, for which the House impeached him for an unprecedented second time this week. No right-minded individual would wish...
“A road cannot tell you that there is a misfortune ahead.” – Batswana proverb Nobody is ever going to tell you that their inability to accept you for who you are is their own challenge. They are always going to make it look and sound like it is your fault...
The application of public private partnership (PPP) in infrastructural development have been adopted in the water sector, aviation, road sector, energy sector and telecommunication sector in Ghana. Thus, the involvement of the private actors with various government agencies in the delivery and infrastructural development is not a new phenomenon in...
By: Four for Growth – Suzy, Dorothy Doreen & Doris Have you read Wheel of Life – Part 1? If you did, you may reminisce how a conversation between four ‘not-so-young-girls’ led to a roller-coaster experience of self-identity and emotional discoveries during a 2-day retreat. By the end of...
The world faces a "catastrophic moral failure" because of unequal COVID vaccine policies, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said it was not fair for younger, healthy people in richer nations to get injections before vulnerable people in poorer states. He said over 39...
By Four for Growth – Suzy, Dorothy, Doreen & Doris Just imagine it. Imagine all four of us as we closed the door behind us, each of us holding a glass of red wine. The bed in the hotel room looked very well laid. One you want to sleep on...
The 2020 general elections, their outcome, and overall conduct of political players in Ghana call for sober reflection on what democracy and democratisation mean and the debate on the way forward. According to American political scientist Larry Diamond, democracy consists of four key elements: a political system for choosing and...
Academician and Quiz Mistress of the renowned National Science and Maths Quiz (NSMQ), Professor Elsie Effah Kaufmann has detailed inspiring aspects of her life on the Y Leaderboard Series to motivate the youth. She engaged YFM’s Rev. Erskine and listeners in a riveting conversation on her upbringing, career, family,...
“We would normally associate party foot soldiers with riotous ballot-box snatching episodes.  But when the best of our representatives showcase extreme rancor among themselves and sow seeds of doubt in the electoral process in such pugnacious, mendacious, vicious manner, the very survival of our democracy is threatened.”   So everything...
In late 2019, as the African oil and gas industry was looking to the future with optimism, an Offshore Engineer wrote that the continent had reason to expect a “more productive 2020.” Instead, the unforeseen happened, and the COVID-19 pandemic had a devastating impact on the oil and gas...