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When My Child’s Name Is Not Ghanaian Enough To Merit A Birth Certificate
My child’s birth certificate got lost and needed to be replaced. I applied for the Births and Deaths Registry to reissue a copy of the birth cert as same is already in their database. I submitted copies of the required documents and a copy…
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Absa: Bringing possibility to life during a crisis [Article]
When a crisis of the magnitude of Covid-19 strikes, it is our role as a responsible lender to put forward various immediate and medium-term solutions to proactively combat the downturn it brings.
As an African business, we have sought to…
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Nicholas Gborse writes: Volta and Oti regions deserve tailor-made manifesto commitments
It is interesting how party manifestos are becoming the norm rather than the exception in our body politic. Our politics is becoming one of issue-based, and no longer about personalities, insults and mere sloganeering without any form of…
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Our Inclusive Education And The Partial Reopening Of Schools – What Happens To “Bless And Others”
The name Covid sounds so nice if not the "19" that marries it. Pregnant women may wish naming their babies after this anathema. School children may wish singing it in an early morning matching song if not it's unpardonable devastating…
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The gorilla in a developing country [Article]
Many at times people tend to fault the government on its many decisions due to propaganda rather than appreciating its genuineness to create as much as possible an equitable advantage to the entire populace. Who knows, most decisions may be…
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Why Shatta Wale’s copyright rant may be right and wrong [Article]
Popular Ghanaian dancehall artiste Shatta Wale and controversy are like twins. It’s either he loves the controversy or controversy likes him.
The good news out of his controversy is that it leads to a debate about topical and interesting…
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OccupyGhana: Dear Ghana, have we decided to live with the virus?
The outbreak of COVID-19 surprised many leaders around the world. Several had to institute lockdowns in major parts of their countries to stem the spread of the virus. However, this led to massive economic downturns in their countries. To…
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The COVID-19 Reality: Weija Gbawe In Focus
The President of the Republic of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, in a recent address to update Ghanaians on measures taken to curb the deadly COVID-19, mentioned “Weija Gbawe” as one of the hotspots for the coronavirus pandemic in…
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Esther Cobbah writes: Family communication – a weapon against COVID-19
Our Ghanaian and African communal traditions make the family context an important setting for dealing with the COVID -19 situation. “I AM BECAUSE YOU ARE, YOU ARE BECAUSE I AM” — “UBUNTU” (in Swahili) is deeply meaningful to us and must be…
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Why new law to govern universities is bad idea [Article]
Academic freedom is supposed to enable academics to conduct scientific enquiry and produce knowledge to be used for the public good. Academics need it so that they can meet their obligation to society. And the state has a corresponding duty…
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