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GPRTU, THE LAWLESSNESS
Recently, I wrote and shared a story on my Facebook page titled “Circle Straight, GHC10.” In that piece, I highlighted how some commercial drivers and their conductors are exploiting passengers along the Nsawam–Pokuase–Circle route.…
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CONGRATULATIONS TO THE 824 NEW LAWYERS OF GHANA.
A Call Beyond the Wig and Gown
Today, as 824 new lawyers are called to the Bar, Ghana witnesses not only an expansion of the legal profession but a renewal of national hope. In a country of about 32 million people, this number means…
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Galamsey Is A Social Crisis: Only chiefs, not drones or bullets, can heal Ghana’s wounded land
When I hear calls for helicopters, drones, and armed crackdowns to stop galamsey, I feel that our nation is misreading the illness. We keep treating a wound with instruments instead of treating the person who is bleeding. We have turned…
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With A Heavy Heart, Socrate Safo Writes To NPP…
Brothers and sisters of the great New Patriotic Party,
I write to you with a heavy heart, but also with fire in my spirit.
A brother once told a story. He spoke of two sisters who fell into a bitter feud. They traded insults like…
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Thoughts and Truths: The True Reflections of Life & Living Itself
THOUGHT has been defined as the product of mental activity; that which one thinks like a body of thought; a single act or product of thinking; an idea or notion like to collect one’s thoughts; the actor process of thinking; a mental…
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Faith, ethics, and the fight against galamsey
What kind of religious faith are we practising in Ghana? One that robustly processes fear of diabolism but ignores the dangers and consequences of environmental violence and man-made degradation? A faith that venerates devotion to religious…
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Chocolate Rivers, Arsenic Kontomire, and the Politics of Excuses
Once upon a time in the Republic of Uncommon Sense, rivers no longer quenched thirst—they served chocolate drink. Not the sweet Nestlé Milo type, but the Ankobra Special: thick, bitter, and foaming with silt. Fishermen dipped their…
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How Journalism Shapes Ghana’s Security Discourse through the Work of Lily Mohammed
Today in Ghana, security is no more discussed behind the doors of state institutions. They play out on the screens, radios and cyber platforms where journalists interpret between powerful people and everybody else. Leading this float is the…
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Are high pass rates masking educational failure?
If a student passes WASSCE or BECE, does that make them competent? Or just competent by Ghana’s standards, not the world’s?
Working with Lead For Ghana Associates, educators, and Head Teachers in the Ahafo region over the past year has…
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Why Akufo-Addo’s government lost its way — And what the NDC must learn
From historic hopes in 2017 to debt default in 2022, the Akufo-Addo administration’s arc is a study in early momentum, policy overreach, weak governance controls, and electoral-cycle indiscipline. As John Mahama returns to the Jubilee House…
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