Asian shares struggled on Thursday after a lacklustre performance on Wall Street as investors looked to U. S. economic data later in the day for potential catalysts, as markets wind down ahead of the holidays. The subdued mood was expected to carry over into European trading. Britain’s FTSE 100 index could edge down 0.1-0.2 percent, … Read more
The Son of Man has no place to lay his head. However, Rockson Adofo counted himself a lucky person when he went to Ghana on a special mission. As one of the honest, dedicated and dynamic NPP supporters, he decided to proceed to Ghana to join other NPP faithful and sympathizers as well as the … Read more
An 18th Century Chinese imperial seal has been sold for a record €21m (£18m, $22m) – more than 20 times its estimated price. The sale, to an unnamed Chinese collector, took place in Paris on Wednesday after a heated bidding war, Drouot auction house said. The palm-sized seal is made of red and white steatite, … Read more
Readers of this column of mine may have been starved of my teachings for a while seeing as it’s now been over two months since I last posted any article here. But then, just this past Sunday afternoon, I woke up from a short nap and was compelled to further engage my thoughts on matters … Read more
The majority of the Ghanaians fear blood which became obvious in the many Coups the country had seen which mostly were a friendly takeover of stronger groups with small blood lost unlike similar situations in other African countries. This is not to say that in the Northern parts of Ghana people do not kill each … Read more
A prominent opposition leader in Ethiopia has been detained after he returned from Europe. Merera Gudina had violated Ethiopia’s state of emergency by having contact with “terrorist” and “anti-peace” groups, state-linked media reported. Mr Merera criticised the state of emergency in an address to the European parliament on 9 November. The government imposed it in … Read more
Remember prosperity? Want it back? Here’s the secret formula, which has always worked and would work again: Cut marginal tax rates and restore integrity to the dollar. Donald Trump campaigned on meaningful marginal tax rate cuts and implying, with his offstage praise of the gold standard , a solid instinct for monetary integrity and how … Read more
“Anton Wilhelm Amo, the first African and black professor and philosopher of the European Enlightenment” (Henry Louis Gates, Jr. /Emmanuel Akyeampong, “Dictionary of African Biography, Vol. 6). GOTTHELF LOESCHER ON ANTON WILHELM AMO “A passage from an address made by Gotthelf Loescher, the professor who chaired Amo’s successful defense of this second dissertation in April … Read more
On behalf of the “Mahama Must Go” movement, a family and friends voluntary organization with membership open to all willing and able Ghanaians, I am appealing for help from all Ghanaian students irrespective of their age, height, tribal extraction and political persuasions. I plead with you, my noble Ghanaian students, to take time to read … Read more
The first Chinese firearm with an imperial reign mark ever to be offered at auction sold for 1.985 million pounds (2.5 million U. S. dollars), the auction house Sotheby’s London announced in a statement on Wednesday. The gun — a brilliantly designed and exquisitely crafted musket, produced in imperial workshops — was created for the … Read more
Embattled Presidential nominee of the People’s National Convention (PNC) Dr Edward Nasigre Mahama has described the Electoral Commission (EC) as Nebuchadnezzar in the Bible who dreamt and didn’t want to tell his dream but wanted people to conjure the dream and give interpretations. The Supreme Court unanimous decision ordered the EC to allow all the … Read more
Rockson Adofo and family are putting up strategies to conduct successful electioneering campaign to garner more votes for Nana Akufo Addo and NPP to emerge victorious in the upcoming 7 December 2016 presidential and parliamentary elections. They have been phoning to friends, relatives and school days acquaintances, telling them the reasons why they must vote … Read more
Campaign and vote for change on December 7 I am today, Sunday 30 October 2016, pleading with all discerning and financially-strapped Ghanaians, to join the ongoing euphoria to campaign for vote for change from President Mahama and the NDC to Nana Akufo Addo and the NPP. The time has come, according to the designation of … Read more
I am today, Sunday 30 October 2016, pleading with all discerning and financially-strapped Ghanaians, to join the ongoing euphoria to campaign for vote for change from President Mahama and the NDC to Nana Akufo Addo and the NPP. The time has come, according to the designation of God Almighty that Ghanaians are to be liberated … Read more
If the tone of retorts, actions and threats of further actions from all the major actors in the nerve-stretching movie-thriller called The Syrian Crisis 2016; and the sick joke of a choice being nakedly played out before our eyes, to elect the person to act as the world’s most powerful politician; if these are anything … Read more
Agya Koo doing a great job despite his late NPP electioneering campaign I say, bravo and more grease to the elbows of Agya Koo, my fellow NPP campaigner canvassing for Nana Akufo Addo and NPP to win Election 2016. As a late comer as he is, he is doing a brilliant job. He is a … Read more
I say, bravo and more grease to the elbows of Agya Koo, my fellow NPP campaigner canvassing for Nana Akufo Addo and NPP to win Election 2016. As a late comer as he is, he is doing a brilliant job. He is a crowd-puller and an orator whose messages find favour in the eyes and … Read more
A popular admonishing Akan proverb goes, “When you go to find someone with his beard caught on fire, you had better fetch water to place beside yours”. This proverb is directed at warning people against the possibility of suffering same ill-fate that their colleague or neighbour might be going through at a particular moment hence … Read more
By Kofi Ata, Cambridge, UK October 11, 2016 At the close of nominations on Friday, September 30, 2016, seventeen aspirants filed their nominations forms in readiness to contest the December 7 presidential election (fifteen representing political parties and two independent aspirants). This article analyses the crave to be president of Ghana. I sometimes find it … Read more
A tale of two airlines: Ethiopian Airlines and Ghana Airways Anis Haffar The in-flight magazine of Ethiopian Airlines – Selamta – adorned the cover page of its Sept/Oct 2015 issue with a picture of the Group CEO Temolde Gebre Mariam and the U. S. president Barack Obama, during Obama’s three day visit to Ethiopia in … Read more