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Annual disaster: Resolving accra’s flooding crisis
On the night of June 3, 2015, disaster struck the nation’s capital. A petrol station near the Kwame Nkrumah Interchange built metres from a floodplain, in a city with no enforced land-use plan exploded as floodwaters surrounded it. At least 150 people died. Not from the rain, but from a fire that ignited because fuel [...
ITTF- Africa Youth championship: Aklie, Borteye make history as Ghana win first African table tennis gold since 1987
Ghana has ended a 39-year wait for a gold medal at a major African table tennis event after Israel Aklie and Joanita Borteye clinched the U15 Mixed Doubles title.
Monetisation of politics threatening democracy — Bagbin
The Speaker of Parliament, Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin, has warned that the growing influence of money in politics is gradually shutting ordinary citizens out of governance and turning public office into a financial investment. He said the rising cost of political participation was distorting democracy, weakening pub...
Edward Debrah writes: Ghana’s perennial flooding and waste management conundrum
Every year, when the rains come, some parts of Ghana flood. Roads become impassable, homes and businesses are damaged, livelihoods are disrupted, and, tragically, lives are sometimes lost.
Modified Taxation Scheme: Ghana’s surest way to inclusive tax administration
For any nation to deliver on its promise to citizens, it must mobilise the resources to fund essential services. In Ghana, taxes account for over 60% of total government revenue.
David and Goliath: The curse of top dogs and the innovative power of underdogs; “Am I a dog, that you come at me with sticks?”
The David and Goliath metaphor conveys a powerful message of the glorified champion beaten by the underestimated novice. This narrative depicts champions as villains and transforms the unassuming into heroes. Subtly, it satisfies our resentment toward those who appear unfairly advantaged while offering hope to those wh...
Tears for the Zenith: The Final curtain falls on Takoradi’s musical shrine
For more than a decade, Bernard Antwi-Boasiako, affectionately and controversially known across Ghana as Chairman Wontumi, has been one of the most influential figures in the New Patriotic Party (NPP).
Why the Court of Appeal cleared Sedina Tamakloe – the bare facts
Because the theft and financial-loss convictions fell for lack of proof, the money laundering charges — which legally depend on there being an underlying theft — collapsed with them. And because every conviction was quashed, the Court declined to consider whether her original ten-year sentence was too harsh, holding th...
Fear, Fatigue, and Broken Systems: Why the Ghanaian abroad can’t come home and what Ghana must build before they can
Ghana receives nearly $4.6 billion a year in remittances from its diaspora. It receives this money from people working double shifts in care homes, stacking shelves through the night, driving strangers across cities in the small hours, and cleaning office blocks before the rest of the city wakes. It is the product not...
Jerome Geraldo writes: Protecting our kids online:
Think about the last time you saw a child without a phone. It is getting harder to remember, isn’t it? Today’s children are growing up in two worlds at once, the physical one we can see, and a digital one that never sleeps, never pauses, and is designed by some of the smartest engineers on […]
Understanding SIGA’s policy of encouraging inter-trading among Specified Entities
The purpose of this piece is to demonstrate that SIGA’s policy of encouraging inter-trading among certain specified entities is lawful in principle, commercially rational, and fully consistent with its mandate to safeguard and enhance the value of the State’s ownership interests.
Spain’s new Rafa eyes grass-court success in year of firsts
It has been a year of firsts for Spain's breakout teenage star, Rafael Jodar.