Respectively, here is one operating principle worth considering! Don’t suffer anyone, including people who claim to have advanced degree, Ph. Ds, most of all. Include among them those who, in over 10 years of churning out one hyper-partisan essay after another, have never bothered to offer 10 data points even, to support any of their … Read more
There is this segment on a BBC Africa Channel called the Resident Presidents. It is about two hilarious characters who try to take the lighter side of issues. Presidents Olushambles and Kibarkingmad’s satirical take on issues have won my heart and keeps me yearning for more after each episode. In one of their episodes, these … Read more
Ghana became the first sub Saharan African country to halve extreme poverty, an indication that the country’s economic policies are having the desired impact, MARK DEAN of Your Business Watch writes. Ghana became the first sub Saharan country to halve extreme poverty in relation to the UN Millennium Development Goals, according to a United Nations … Read more
Ghana became the first sub Saharan African country to halve extreme poverty, an indication that the country’s economic policies are having the desired impact. MARK DEAN of Your Business Watch writes. Ghana became the first sub Saharan country to halve extreme poverty in relation to the UN Millennium Development Goals, according to a United Nations … Read more
“The members of the government [Busia’s] pretended to care about press freedom but made it impossible for any paper with contrary opinion to be published. Dr. Busia and his government kept in place all the powers and restrictions that the Nkrumah government instituted against free press and free speech. “As an example of their hypocrisy, … Read more
Those who overthrew the legitimate government of Dr Kwame Nkrumah in 1966 were “evil men,” Prof Edmund Delle, Chairman of the Convention People’s Party (CPP) has said. “Ever since the forward march of this country was truncated by evil men in 1966, through the overthrow of the legitimate government of Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana … Read more
The one-week celebration of the death of Mrs Mary Adu Boahen, will be held on Monday, October 24, 2016 at the Accra Ridge Church at 7am prompt followed by a gathering at the Airport Residence of her late husband. Auntie Mary as she was popularly known was the wife of Professor Albert Adu Boahen, the … Read more
“The problem of Africa is because folly is set in dignity and the wise have been reduced to nothing. People who have no business telling anybody anything shoot their mouths everyday and people who have something to say shut up every day and the rest look on… “It is very interesting that many people who … Read more
“I apologise unequivocally. If I am able to get the opportunity to talk to the president, I will definitely apologise vehemently and if I’m not able to, I’m doing so through your outfit. I do apologise unequivocally. I will not at any point in time insinuate anything evil…except to state my opinion, flat as it … Read more
By: Prof Lungu “… J. B. Danquah, the attorney, was the only principal member of the UGCC who did not contribute a single penny to fund Nkrumah’s travel back to Ghana in 1947 to assist the UGCC in a project they were miserably failing at…When the Great People of Akyem Abuakwa, through their taxes and … Read more
Speaking at a recent electioneering campaign forum in Accra, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo declared that a World Bank report – not from the Volta Region, by the way – indicating that roughly half of all Ghanaian youths ages between 15-24 years are unemployed, while more than 18-percent of Ghanaian adults ages between 25-64 years were … Read more
History has it that on the 21st day of September 1909, a boy was born in a tiny village of Nkroful, somewhere in the Western Region of present day Ghana. The boy grew up as a young man with his country and continent at heart. He believed and had a firm conviction for the liberation … Read more
They Stole Ghana’s Industrial Revolution as Nation Toiled to Close Technology Gap! By: Prof Lungu “….While the detractors of African independence are predicting that the continent will revert to the jungles once it is left on its own people’s rule, Ghana is wasting no time refuting that “prophecy”…. Instead, with its own financial and manpower … Read more
Dr Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana’s first President, established the Centre 40 years as part of an industrialisation programme to expand international trade especially inter-African trade. The Ghana Trade Fair Company Limited was incorporated as a Limited Liability Company under the Statutory Corporations (Conversion to Companies) Act 1993, Act 461 in April 1997. With this vision, successive … Read more
It is on record that the three governments headed by Former President J. J. Rawlings killed more people in Ghana than all the other governments combined in that endeavour. Former President Rawlings headed the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC) government in 1979 and within three months had executed his predecessor military rulers and superiors. In … Read more
24 April 1936 – 16 June 1979 Father: Opanin Kwaku Amankwa Mother: Ama Serwaa Amaniampong Education & Career Pattern Presbyterian Boys Boarding School, Mampong A/R 1967: Commandant, Military Academy Afrifa was one of the brains behind the 1966 coup that toppled Nkrumah. While as Commander of the First Infantry Brigade in Kumasi under Kotoka, the … Read more
26 October 1926 – 17 April 1967 Place of Birth and Hometown : Education & Career Pattern Alakple Roman Catholic School, Angloga Senior School, Trained as a Cathechist 1947: Qualified as a Goldsmith but abandoned craft for Financial reasons 1947(July): Enlisted as a Private in the Infantry, School, Teshie of the Gold Coast Regiment 1952: … Read more
Father’s Name: Kofi Ankrah Mother’s Name: Beatrice Abashie Quaynor Wife: left behind several wives Children : 18 Education & Career Pattern Wesleyan Methodist School, Accra 1939: Mobilised into West Africa Frontier Force on the outbreak of World War Two 1947: Commissioned Lieutenant (Within 14 years of his commissioning he rose through the ranks to become … Read more
The International Monetary Fund said Tuesday it was holding talks with government officials in Ghana on possible aid to surmount the African nation’s fiscal and economic challenges. A team will be in the capital Accra through September 25 for the discussions with Ghanaian authorities, who formally requested IMF assistance on August 8, the Washington-based global … Read more