By Ernest De-Graft EGYIR Mr. President, your return to office offers a unique opportunity to inspire hope and set a transformative agenda for Ghana. The first 100 days of your presidency will be crucial for defining your leadership and laying the groundwork for long-term development. Here is a strategic roadmap...
The heartiest of congratulations on your re-election as the President of the Republic. There are scarcely any plaudits left to describe you and your monumental comeback that have not already been used. It is the stuff of legends and we considered ourselves privileged to have been witnesses to it. We are indeed...
By Daron ACEMOGLU It should not have come as such a surprise that US voters were largely unmoved by the Democrats’ warnings that Donald Trump poses a grave threat to American institutions. In a January 2024 Gallup poll, only 28% of Americans (a record low) said that they were satisfied...
By Ernest Bako WUBONTO The National Democratic Congress (NDC) won the 2024 General Election with a landslide victory, a reflection of the trust Ghanaians have placed in them to turn the current poor economic situation around and address systemic challenges in the various sectors. Sports, especially football, have long been described...
By Kizito KUDJOE The flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, has urged party members to unite and avoid blame games following the NPP’s loss in the 2024 general elections. Speaking to a crowd of supporters who visited his residence to express solidarity, Dr. Bawumia acknowledged the electoral...
By Juanita SALLAH Like many Ghanaians, I have noticed the parallels in the campaign language used by the opposition party in the December 7, 2024 election campaigns and that used by and the ruling administration in the 2016 general polls. The rhetoric of the opposition mostly consisted in accusations of corruption, economic...
By Dr. Bernard L. TETTEH-DUMANYA As Ghana approaches its December 7, 2024 elections, investors will be keenly examining the manifestoes of the two leading candidates—Mahamudu Bawumia of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and John Mahama of the National Democratic Congress (NDC)—to evaluate which economic vision is more likely to...
By Mawuli ZOGBENU ‘It is only when the rain has no essence that a young lady will be seen running holding her breasts’ – a proverb from an unknown part of Ghana. Please don’t think about it o, just hold your breasts and run once the rains are not torrential enough....
 By Adjei Dickens Ofori Asare  Ghana’s Attorney General and Minister for Justice, Godfred Yeboah Dame, has lauded Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia as the "generational leader" the country needs. Dame made the comments during a courtesy visit by Prof. Etse Sikanku, an Associate Professor at the University of Media Arts and...
The 2024 polls to elect Ghana's leaders for the next four years have just begun. The process started on Monday with the special voting exercise. While there were some pockets of confusion, the Electoral Commission described it as smooth. Ghana, since it embarked on this democratic journey in 1992, is...