Luther fans, your prayers have been answered – the husky-voiced detective is returning for a fifth series. Idris Elba will once again don his tweed coat for the four-part season, which has been described as “utterly heart-stopping and unmissable”. The crime drama was last on screens in December 2015, although Elba reprised the role for … Read more
I begin with the proposition that a great relationship is a transparent relationship, where both of you are open books. The more you know about each other, the easier it is to meet each other’s emotional needs and make decisions with each other’s interests in mind. A related proposition is that none of us is … Read more
An Israeli court Sunday awarded Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife $32,500 in a libel case over a journalist’s claim she kicked him out of the car during a row. Court documents said writer Igal Sarna was ordered to pay 60,000 shekels ($17,000, 15,000 euros) in damages to Netanyahu and 40,000 shekels to his … Read more
Our elders has a saying that, “if you tend to forget the sound of the drum of your chief, you certain get lost in the masses”. This saying is exactly the case in Ghana today. I would not want to go into that much because in my previous article titled, “Ghana, an agro-economy; a joke … Read more
Come to think of it, have we thought of the stringent punishment the Late Major would have been served with if he had shot to kill or hurt in self defence? About 99% who had the opportunity to watch that heinous death went like, ” but he could have shot in self defence, why didn’t … Read more
A few years ago, I had the privilege of being a part of an international conference in Accra. At one of the group sessions, the issue of lawyer advertising came up. I argued forcefully against the current rules that prohibit advertising and described them as colonial relics that have become shorn of their relevance. The … Read more
Ghana’s Kofi Annan (a former UN Secretary General) and founder of the Ashesi University, Patrick Awuah, have been named among the 100 most reputable people on earth for the year 2017. South African research-based, global performance-management consulting company, Reputation Poll released its inaugural list of 100 Most Reputable People on Earth Tuesday. The individuals who … Read more
As they say and which I also share, the task of providing quality education, including girls’ education, is about active collaboration, partnership and participation from all of us. If education really is a right and we think “All”should benefit from it, as contained in our nation’s educational plans, including the Education Strategic Plan (2010-2020) or … Read more
The heart of many bled when the footage on the gruesome murder of Captain Maxwell Adam Mahama went viral. The army officer met his untimely death at Denkyira-Obuasi in the Central Region while on operational duties in that area. The young captain, who was with the 5th Infantry Battalion (5BN), was accused of being an … Read more
At the Reception Hall at 3FM, TV3’s radio station, in Accra, were two security men on duty that very night. They sat dejectedly and seemingly talking to the television set that hung on the wall. The two guys were fuming that my “good evening” to them was submerged in their rants. Showing on the television … Read more
As they say and which I also share, the task of providing quality education, including girls’ education, is about active collaboration, partnership and participation from all of us. If education really is a right and we think “All” should benefit from it, as contained in our nation’s educational plans, including the Education Strategic Plan (2010-2020) … Read more
US officials came out Tuesday to praise and defend President Donald Trump’s first Middle East tour, but one question about democracy in the region was met with a diplomatic pause. At the White House, Trump’s spokesman Sean Spicer hailed an “unprecedented” foreign policy triumph that had “united the civilized world in the fight against terrorism … Read more
An uninformed generation is without doubt, a lost generation. In other words, people who do not have any knowledge about themselves or their belief systems don’t seem to know what they are about. Apparently in Ghana, many young people have very little or no knowledge at all about their culture and traditions. What young people … Read more
Adventurer, Orientalist, spy: the remarkable story of Spanish explorer Ali Bey al-Abbassi is to be told on the silver screen for the first time, two centuries after his death. Born in Catalonia in 1767, Domingo Badia y Leblich posed as an exiled Arab prince and became one of the first Europeans to set foot in … Read more
For star trumpeter Ibrahim Maalouf, famed for his award-winning film soundtracks and jazz-inspired mixing of eastern and western sounds, improvisation is “a way of life”. “Improvisation is a discipline that people don’t understand well,” the Franco-Lebanese musician, who has played with Sting and Elvis Costello among others, told AFP. “For me it symbolises and sums … Read more
When the Diabetes Youth Care, a non-governmental organisation which caters for children with diabetes, visited little Pamela Wayor at Osu, in the Greater Accra region, she met us wearing a broad infectious smile. The Diabetes Youth Care had read a feature I wrote about the plight of the 13 year old girl and with the … Read more
I sent e-mails to two prominent journalists to do a story about the frustrations of the Ghanaian passport holder in travelling within Africa and the world. I thought they would tell my story for me. I have waited for weeks but I have not received even the courtesy of acknowledgement of mail. Remembering the citizen … Read more
Do you ever think of the heights arts can reach unhindered? It offers opportunities that have often been unimaginable. Think of the many ways you can express your thoughts through the arts. In drama, music, painting, poetry, pottery, sculpture, sketches. It could be represented in architecture, illustrations, landscaping or weaving. That is the opportunity FRTR … Read more
I must confess, I am amazed by the seriousness the entire nation, led by the political, traditional and religious leadership, as well as non-governmental organisations, has attached to the fight against the “Galamsey menace” in our country. That alone goes to prove that if we set our minds to the fight against the cancer of … Read more
The sale or management contract of Ghana’s electricity corporation, ECG ECG should be privatized and the buyer held strictly responsible for delivering a 99.95% reliability The report that the Nana Akufo-Addo government will not sell the Electricity Company of Ghana outright but retain 51% shares and sell the rest for $498 million (Ghanaweb May 23, … Read more