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Tackle Ghana’s road carnage by fixing deadly highways(Article)
Travelling by road between regions in Ghana is becoming a very risky adventure. For many, the only guarantee of a safe journey is having ‘the grace of God’ and so it is not uncommon to have relatives checking up often on their family folks…
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Reforming a hungry prisoner: Woes of the Prison administrator
Prison systems the world over in recent times have a responsibility to ensure the reformation and rehabilitation of prisoners under their care as the era of mere warehousing of offenders is long gone.
This they do by taking the prisoner…
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Umaru Sanda writes: Why oh why, my brother Manasseh?
I hesitated a lot before publishing this piece. I conceptualized the idea and abandoned it several times. I consulted many people and got varying responses. I even told Manasseh himself that I was writing a critique of his work but I may…
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The fundamentals of the Ghanaian cedi
The depreciation of the Ghanaian Cedi has now become a perennial crisis. Overtime, we have come to the realization that the depreciation of the currency is structural and not necessarily due any form of mismanagement of the economy by the…
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Smiling in a ‘fishy’ business
“Man must live, not on bread alone…”
That’s half of Matthew 4:4, according to Christ. And the Lord is right, isn’t he?
There really is a lot — aside “every word that comes from Jehovah’s mouth,” of course — that, coupled with bread,…
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Samson’s Take: Journos, don’t stop taking pictures in public places
The Police and a section of the public have and continue to sell a lie that there is some offence or breach of law when journalists take photographs or film or record an event in a public place. They ignorantly or deliberately claim that…
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Diana Ngon writes: Sand winning activities threatening White Volta
As a child travelling down southern Ghana from the north some two decades ago, I remember the colour of the White Volta as I crossed it at Yapei. It looked milky, very much like the colour of tea with a generous amount of milk.
Recently,…
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Nigeria’s universities are performing poorly. What can be done about it?
Why are Nigeria’s universities in such a sorry state? Some would say it had to do with just one word: money. Sadly this is part of the reason. But not entirely.
Nigeria’s universities have been under-funded for decades. Like a talented…
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Plane Crash: Should You Be Scared of Flying?
For some people, traveling by air is fun and they wish to do it every day. As a travel blogger with over 200 flights, 800 hours in the air which translates into spending a full month in the skies, thoughts of dying in a plane crash send…
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Effia Tenge writes: We can end militias but…
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.” -Martin Luther King Jr.
Apart from…
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