World Press Freedom Day is 3rd May. This year’s theme is ‘Keeping Power in Check: Media, Justice and The Rule of Law'. It’s being celebrated here in Accra, Ghana. That makes it a good time to explore the themes and how they interconnect locally here in Ghana and globally...
Raaaaid. Kills insects dead! That is the advertising message of one of the insecticides on the market. The rains will soon come, and we cannot afford to keep our drains choked. Choked drains have always been breeding ground for mosquitoes which drain our blood.
You can imagine the feeling of...
To me, character in a person is judged by the decisions that are made under pressure.-Bryan Cranston
Dear Readers, last week I examined some aspects of pressure being given to various staff who handle loans. Pressure can come from both internal and external sources. In this final edition of advocating...
"Millennial" - this word has raised eyebrows and brought a frown or even a smile to innumerable faces. Nonetheless, it has ignited a conversation regarding the group of people who fall under that category, also referred to as ‘Gen Y’. Now, to many of us the details which the...
Term limits. That’s a phrase alien to fifteen out of 54 African heads of state each of whom has held power for more than 20 years. The issue is back on our radar after Gabon’s end of term limits this year effectively allowed President Ali Bongo Ondimba to rule...
Dinosaurs are extinct for a reason. They didn’t get the memo. It is a measure of how often we don’t actually read the small print, that the quietly potent announcement issued by the Millennium Development Authority was duly reported and allowed to sink, without a ripple or comment. Until...
Anyone who recognises free speech should understand that it’s not a sole preserve of the ‘oppressed’. It is a holistic concept. It is one that brings balance to a story. It facilitates fairness when both sides of an issue are presented to an audience for them to make inferences.
In...
“For bitcoin to gain global acceptance and be used as a competitor money to dollar, euro and pound, it must be accepted everywhere, it must be very stable and credible,” Former of Head Global Markets, Stanbic Bank Ghana, Inusah Musah has said.
Inusah Musah made this disclosure at the second...
Moesha Boduong. One Ghanaian woman. One minute four second interview on CNN. One international award winning journalist, Christiane Amanpour. One outraged and disgusted nation.
The woman condemned. The journalist lambasted.
Moesha contributed to a series called ‘Sex and Love: Around the World’. The series features the nations of Ghana, India, Germany...
Ever since Edward.L. Thorndike profess the idea of social intelligence in the 1920s which sciences equated it into emotional Intelligence, it has become a force to reckon with. It is a proven fact that unlike in the past where IQ was the only measure of intelligence and success, studies...