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She walked the path then lit the way: How inspire 2026 is shaping next generation of women in science
The program was curated and convened by Maame Ekua Acquah as a legacy initiative of her L'Oreal-UNESCO For Women in Science Sub-Saharan Young Talents Award 2025.
Samson’s Take: Transfers as punishment – The confessions of Minister Linda Ocloo
Lawyer and host of Ghana’s leading weekend news analysis programme, Samson Lardy Anyenini, has condemned comments by the Greater Accra Regional Minister, Linda Ocloo, suggesting that some directors in public office were transferred to the northern part of the country as punishment for alleged incompetence. In his edito...
Can traditional purification help curb frequent road crashes and deaths?
As far back as 2003, when I was a child, I witnessed a traditional ritual on the Awudome Anyirawase–Ho Highway in Ghana’s Volta Region, following a fatal road accident.
Mother’s Day: The love we learn too late to fully understand
We mistake a mother’s presence for permanence.We mistake her endurance for invincibility.We mistake her daily giving for duty.And far too often, we treat extraordinary devotion as something ordinary, simply because it never seems to run out. That is the uncomfortable truth sitting quietly beneath every Mother’s Day cel...
Ghana’s favourite sausages might be costing your kids more than you think
They’re on every plate. In school lunchboxes, at kids’ parties, in chop bars from Accra to Kumasi. Chicken franks and sausages have become the easy win for busy parents and picky eaters.
From Aid to Autonomy: Why Ghana must build self-reliance through health, research, and mining-led industrialisation
Ghana’s reported decision to walk away from a proposed United States funding arrangement allegedly tied to access to citizens’ personal data has sparked an important national conversation.
I know the President listens and he will – Franklin Cudjoe
9. In a formal petition I presented to the President yesterday, titled “Safeguarding Procurement Integrity, Market Confidence, and National Risk Governance in Ghana’s Insurance Sector”, I stated that across multiple Insurance institutions, we at IMANI observe: A. Shifts in renewal behaviour without clear evidence of co...
Charles Amissah’s Death: A lot of the blame must go to the ambulance service – Dr Yankson
A legal practitioner and former General Secretary of the Ghana Medical Association (GMA), Justice Yamson, has placed significant responsibility for the death of 29-year-old Charles Amissah on the ambulance service.
Xenophobia in Africa: A pattern beyond South Africa
Long before South Africans were filmed telling Africans to “go back to your country,” Africans elsewhere had already heard those words. Before South Africa, there was Ghana, Nigeria, Gabon, Mauritania, and more.
From Nyameduase to academic leaderhsip : The inspiring rise of Dr Richard Owusu Nyarko
The academic journey of Dr. Dr. Richard Owusu Nyarko, the Immediate Past Vice President and Head of Academics at the Ghana Christian University College (GCUC) from a young student from the Ashanti regional town of Bekwai to an internationally recognized medical scholar is a testament to what results of perseverance are...
Ghana’s healthcare crisis a system failure, not a few bad staff – Arthur Kennedy
US-based Ghanaian medical doctor and former New Patriotic Party presidential aspirant, Dr Arthur Kobina Kennedy, has criticised what he describes as the narrow focus of the Prof. Agyeman Badu Akosa Committee report into the death of 29-year-old engineer Charles Amissah, insisting that Ghana’s healthcare crisis is the r...
The status of the Ghana Law School Entrance Exams and current routes to being a lawyer
The landscape of legal education in Ghana underwent a structural transformation with the passage of the Legal Education Act, 2026 (Act 1170).