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Method in Madness – Blaqq Qouphy
By November 2025, I noticed I was exhibiting Founder Burnout. I’ve been running AgroCenta for close to 10 years now and this was something I dreaded. Founder Burnout is a state of chronic physical, mental and emotional exhaustion resulting from intense, long hours and identity-driven stress of running a startup. It typ...
Chleo-Patra A. Azantilow writes: Ghana – a grand strategy without its youth
President Mahama’s push for a UN resolution on the transatlantic slave trade, his AU vice chairmanship, and his role as AU Champion for Reparatory Justice form a coherent and ambitious foreign policy moment.
Bawumia means business: New Policy committees puts NPP ahead of any opposition party in Ghana’s history
Political historians may one day mark this moment as the turning point in how Ghanaian opposition parties are expected to operate. With the formal launch of its 23-sector policy committee framework, the New Patriotic Party, under the intellectual stewardship of Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, has placed itself in uncharted terri...
Jobs, health, energy, education: NPP’s sector committees cover every pain point Ghanaians face
Ask any Ghanaian what keeps them up at night, and the answers cluster around a familiar set of anxieties: jobs for their children, healthcare they can afford, electricity that doesn’t vanish without warning, and schools that actually teach. The NPP’s newly unveiled sector policy committees appears designed with precise...
NPP under Bawumia is thinking like a government, and Ghana should take note
There is a habit, long embedded in Ghana’s political culture, of treating opposition as a holding pattern, a season of noise, criticism, and waiting, with genuine governance thinking deferred until after the next election. The NPP, under Mahamudu Bawumia’s emerging leadership, appears to be breaking that habit. Decisiv...
From Theatre to Trial: Why audit reports must become dockets for prosecution
The ritual of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has become a grand theatre of the absurd, a choreographed dance of indignation that yields nothing but the dust of forgotten files.
When the State Turns on Its Own: Saving indigenous enterprise from institutional strangulation
In a nation where young people are constantly encouraged to dream, to innovate, and to build from nothing into something meaningful, a troubling question now confronts us: what happens when those who dare to build are undermined not by competition, but by the very institutions meant to protect them?
How IGP Christian Tetteh Yohuno vindicated a nation’s choice and outshone the noise of dissent
In the high-stakes theatre of Ghanaian politics, where the loudest drums often hollow out the quickest, there exists a rare breed of leader who understands that true power does not need to shout.
Bawumia means business: New Policy Committees puts NPP ahead of any opposition party in Ghana’s history
Political historians may one day mark this moment as the turning point in how Ghanaian opposition parties are expected to operate. With the formal launch of its 23-sector policy committee framework, the New Patriotic Party (NPP), under the intellectual stewardship of the 2028 flagbearer, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, has place...
Why SRC ‘Gender Commissioner’ must replace ‘Women’s Commissioner’
I am not easily given to cosmetic changes in nomenclature, but this change will reflect a more comprehensive and contemporary understanding of representation, inclusion, and advocacy within student governance.
NPP launches research-driven policy engine to provide credible alternative for Ghana
In a move that blurs the traditional line between political party and think tank, the New Patriotic Party has quietly but deliberately launched what senior figures are describing as Ghana’s most ambitious opposition policy infrastructure, a research-driven framework designed to produce credible, technically grounded al...
NAPO urges restraint in political discourse, warns against insults
The 2024 New Patriotic Party (NPP) running mate, Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh, has urged Ghanaians to exercise restraint and responsibility in political discourse, warning against using democratic freedoms to justify insults and personal attacks. Dr Opoku Prempeh, popularly known as NAPO, said democracy gives citizens the...