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Helping the Needy! – A case of nuisance or frank impoverishment?
“And so we are appealing to you all; we need your help so that this boy can swallow again. They have been begging on the streets for a while now but the money isn’t up yet. Ketewa biara nsua”.
Walking back to my seat, I kept wondering…
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‘Sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity’: Fueling the bloodbaths on our roads
Today’s conversation is so disheartening and mind-boggling at the same time that this column has decided to use one of the famous civil rights icons’ wise sayings to help construct a conceptual framework within which to try to make some…
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AWW Commission: How did EC boss miss the obvious?
It is two months after the shameful Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election incident. Within this space, a number of things have happened; notably, the NPP, NDC blame game, the AWW Commission of Inquiry and a seeming political will by key political…
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The Carnage On Our Roads
Last Friday the 22nd March 2019 the country woke up to the sad news in the early hours of yet another two separate gory road accidents in the Bono East and Central Regions. A Joy News reportage put the death toll from these two road…
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Tackling The Menace Robbery, Role Of Gov’t
“Prevention strategies addressing the root causes of crime hold considerable promise. They tend to involve partnerships among government, city authorities, civil society organisations and residents themselves. Cities that are safe for all…
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Reality! The hypocrisy of Ghanaian feminists
According to the Longman dictionary, feminist is someone who supports the idea that women should have the same rights and opportunities as men. This definition is quite explicit.
I believe there are many serious areas that need the…
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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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