I Return Home With Uneasiness
Ghana’s High Commissioner to Namibia and Botswana, Harruna Attah has said he is returning home with some uneasiness since his critics see his service to the nation as a crime. “As I head home...
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As Ghana March Towards A Liberal Democratic Tradition
By Kofi Amenyo It has been said that if you give the people, any people at all, a real chance to change a government, the odds are high that they will actually do so. And they will do it irrespective...
Election 2016 and Ghana’s March Towards A Liberal Democratic Tradition
It has been said that if you give the people, any people at all, a real chance to change a government, the odds are high that they will actually do so. And they will do it irrespective of the...
Water Pollution, Time To Stop Impending Doom
“Famine and thirst sigh like a scythe across the field of statistics and the desert is a moving mouth”—Derek Walcott (The Fortunate Traveler) During the electioneering campaign, I hardly heard...
Standard Chartered Appoints Bedu-Addo As Its Southern Africa CEO
Standard Chartered Bank has announced the appointment of Kweku Bedu-Addo as CEO of the Southern Africa Region comprising Mauritius, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Angola and South Africa. The...
Coca Cola Buys African Bottling From AB InBev For $3.15 Billion
Anheuser-Busch InBev (ABI. BR) has agreed to sell its majority stake in Africa's largest Coke bottler to the Coca Cola Company (COKE.O) for $3.15 billion, the final planned divestment following its...
The Namibia Experience
Sometime after January 7 2017, my two and a half years tour of duty as Ghana’s High Commissioner to Namibia and Botswana would come to an end and I will head back to my homeland Ghana to pursue the...
Charting The Path To Defeat
The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office, says...
Why Nigeria’s Sports Ministry Deserves A Better Head, By Paul Peters
Without fear of contradiction, leadership with sheer competence is purely one of the main challenges of development and growth in Nigeria. The matter of leadership is not for want of qualified,...
Ghana Can’t Disappoint Africa In 2016
Some members of the Pan-African Parliament (PAP) have reminded Ghana to be guided by her previous peaceful elections and, as such, cannot disappoint Africa in the December 7 polls. “Ghana bears the...
Thabo Mbeki-Led C’wealth Observer Group Assures of Impartiality & Transparency
Members of the observer group from the Commonwealth are expected to start arriving in Ghana from Sunday, December 4 to be deployed across the country for Wednesday’s general elections. The...
The Reality of African Footballers
Abuse and poor pay - the reality of African footballers African players abroad are used to the photo call after being signed. A major survey into global football shows that life for the vast majority...
Swear To Prove I’m Lying, Attah Dares Nana Addo
Ghana’s Ambassador to Namibia and Botswana, Haruna Attah has dared the flag bearer of the main opposition New Patriotic (NPP), Nana Akufo-Addo, to swear on the bible to prove he (Mr Akufo-Addo)...
Claim NPP Is Anti-Northern ‘rubbish’ – Mike Oquaye
To say the New Patriotic Party (NPP) is an anti-northern party is “absolute rubbish”, a leading member of the NPP, Professor Mike Oquaye, has said. Professor Oquaye said this in response to...
Haruna Attah Is ‘betrayer, Backstabber’
Ghana’s Ambassador to Namibia and Botswana, Alhaji Harruna Attah, must stop “betraying” and “backstabbing” late vice president Alhaji Aliu Mahama with his “irritating and backward”...
Mahama Is ‘an Unrepentant Ethnic Bigot’
President John Mahama, unlike the flag bearer of the main opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), “is an unrepentant ethnic bigot,” Nana Akufo-Addo’s spokesperson, Mustapha Hamid, has said....
Akufo-Addo Camp Calls Haruna Attah A Liar
Harruna Attah’s claim that New Patriotic Party flag bearer Nana Akufo-Addo told him once that no non-Akan can ever be allowed to lead the party into an election is “false” and “a total...
Introduce More Private Sector Reforms
A private sector development specialist at the World Bank, Mr Frederic Meunier, has urged the government to introduce more reforms in the private sector to improve the ease of doing business in the...
SACU Launches ‘onestop Shop’ Trade Data Platform
The Southern African Customs Union (SACU) has launched an online platform that will provide economic and trade data on SACU Member States in Windhoek. SACU Executive Secretary, Paulina Elago, at the...
TOUGHA Signs Agreement With South Africa
The concept is aimed at promoting the tourism drive between the two countries, which would enable tourists to tour major cities in the two countries. Mrs Nancy O. Sam, the President of TOUGHA, in an...