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Africa keeps rebuilding its food security every time a shipping lane closes
Thousands of kilometres away, in markets across Africa where food already absorbs about half of a household’s daily spending, the arithmetic was brutal, with Urea price doubling from $400 to $850 per tonne: when fertiliser costs rise, food prices follow, and the distance between a difficult season and a hungry one narr...
Meeting my mirror: The first chapter of motherhood
Humans, by nature, often take certain things for granted until we experience them ourselves. It is only then that we begin to find the words, the emotions, and sometimes even the courage to express what we are truly going through. Yet, perhaps we should not always wait for personal experience before learning.
Arthur Kennedy celebrates mothers
Today, Mothers’ Day, is a good time not just for celebrating our mothers but also for reflection on motherhood. Let me begin by celebrating my late mother, Madam Abena Atta, as well as my wife, Evelyn, for all the cooking and housekeeping and helping raise the kids. In addition to these, I have reflected a […]
Arthur Kennedy calls for health reform after Prof Akosa report
Let me begin with some commendation to the above-named for the thorough work done and their recommendations. One caveat here: I only watched the video of Prof. Akosa’s delivery of the report, so I may have missed something. I want to take respectful issue with their work and our national culture of burying our heads […...
How pension funds can solve Ghana’s university hostel crisis
I have watched with keen interest the work of the current Rent Commissioner, Frederick Opoku, who has been touring hostels across the country and raising concerns about the soaring cost of hostel accommodation, which ranges from GHC7,000 to GHC24,000 depending on occupancy rates.
System failure is not an accident; it is a policy choice
The death of Charles Amissah is not just a tragedy; it is a profound indictment of a failing system. While any loss of life is regrettable, the realisation that this was entirely avoidable makes it an unconscionable crime of negligence. As a nation with decades of self-rule, we should be boasting of a robust healthcare...
Assafuah calls for urgent gov’t intervention to save Ghana tennis
The Ranking Member on Parliament’s Youth and Sports Committee, Vincent Ekow Assafuah, has called for immediate government intervention to support the Ghana Tennis Federation.
Arrests and detentions: Miracles Aboagye cites pattern of intimidation, questions institutional independence
The communications director for Mahamudu Bawumia has warned that Ghana’s democracy is under threat, citing what he describes as a pattern of arrests, detentions and intimidation of dissenting voices under the current administration. Speaking on the Asaase Breakfast Show on Thursday (14 May), Dennis Miracles Aboagye arg...
Ghana’s historic proposal for a UN Resolution on Transatlantic Slave Trade as the gravest crime against humanity. Revisiting the depth beneath our silence
Three years ago, I wrote a Facebook post about our failure to mark the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and Its Abolition.
Free Primary Healthcare policy ‘needless’ – NPP Deputy Communications Director
Deputy Communications Director of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Jennifer Oforiwaa Queen, has criticised the government’s Free Primary Healthcare policy, describing it as unnecessary given existing challenges in the country. Speaking on UTV Ghana, she argued that the policy duplicates the role of the National Health In...
When diversity wins: The Paradox of racism in modern football
As the 2026 FIFA World Cup unfolds across the United States, Canada, and Mexico, it offers a powerful reminder of one of football's most enduring truths: diversity wins. From Europe to Africa, South America to North America, many of the tournament's strongest teams are products of multicultural societies and global mig...
Analysis: Prof Kwaku Azar dissects Kojo Oppong Nkrumah’s suit against legal vacation
OGO has sighted Writ No. J1/29/2026, issued by his nephew, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah invoking the original jurisdiction of the Supreme Court over the Chief Justice’s (CJ) decision to have selected criminal trials continue during the legal vacation. My nephew seeks, in substance, the following five reliefs: 1. THE WARRANTS AR...