Punish Defying Shipping Lines
Key business organizations in the country have called for all shipping lines that flouted the Transport Minister’s directive asking them to halt charging the Terminal Handling Charges to be...
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Ghanaian Honoured Best Public Leadership Fellow of YALI Cohort IV
A law student of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Chris Arthur, was adjudged the best participant in the Public Management Leadership Track in this year’s Young African...
The Ever Gorgeous Gifty Bingley
Growing up as a young female writer, one of the people I deeply admired was Gifty Bingley. From her days at TV3 to Tigo Ghana, I have learnt a lot from this beautiful confident Ghanaian woman. Today,...
Shipping Community Haggles Over Terminal Handling Charges
There is uneasy calm in the shipping sector between shipping lines/agents on one side and a critical mass of the shipping community made up of traders, freight forwarders and import/export...
Name ‘incompetent’ Youngsters In Mahama’s Gov’t – Apaak Dares Adei
The presidency has dared the former Rector of the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), Professor Stephen Adei, to name the “incompetent young people” that he claims...
Nkrumah Treated Ghanaians As ‘slaves’ – Prof. Adei
Dr Kwame Nkrumah, at a point in time, treated Ghanaians like slaves, a leadership expert and former Rector of the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), has said. Speaking...
Nana, Nduom Will Offer ‘superior Leadership’ – Prof. Adei
Nana Akufo-Addo and Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom, flag bearers of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the Progressive People’s Party (PPP), respectively, will provide superior leadership for Ghana should...
Mahama Governing With Incompetent People
President John Dramani Mahama has led a “despicable team of young people” who have not done justice to Ghana, a former rector of the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration,...
Sanction Shipping Lines Who Flout ‘no Terminal Charges’ Order – AGI
“We urge Government to apply heavy sanctions against any Shipping Line that acts contrarily or attempts to impose such arbitrary charges on Shippers” that’s the latest call from leadership of...
The Futility of Ideology In A Polity of Under-Development and Handouts
Ghana’s political parties are currently engaged in a childish game of “Hide & Seek” about the release of them manifestoes for Election 2016, which is just over 90 days away. In the meantime,...
How the Lebanese Community Came To My Rescue
By Tryphena Lizzert Yeboah In 2015, The African-American Institute (AAI) released a report about the state of education in Africa; showing only 6 percent of younger people in sub-Saharan Africa were...
Look Here, Tarzan, Akufo-Addos Ride Is Not Your Business!
I don’t know by what measure Dr. Charles Wereko-Brobby presumed to carp Nana Akufo-Addo for supposedly riding on the coattails of former President John Agyekum-Kufuor. But it well appears to me...
Complete Biography & Profile of Fritz Kwabena Poku, Ambassador of Ghana to the United States
Fritz Kwabena Poku assumed duty as Ghana's Ambassador to the United States (with concurrent accreditation to Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Haiti and Bahamas) at the end of July 2004. A career diplomat...
Complete Biography & Profile of Kwamina Bartels, Former Private Sector Development Minister
Kwamina Bartels, was born on October 27, 1947, at Agona Swedru, in the Central Region. He had his secondary education at Secondi College, Nungua Secondary School and Mfantsipim School between 1961...
Complete Biography & Profile of Alban S K Bagbin, Minister of Health
Born on September 24, 1957 at Sombo in the Upper West Region, Hon. Bagbin is a graduate of the University of Ghana (1977-1980) and the Ghana School of Law (1980 -1982). He holds an Executive Masters...
Complete Biography & Profile of Alhaji Aliu Mahama, Vice President
As a young man he studied at the Government Secondary School, Tamale from 1960-67 for his Ordinary and Advanced Level Certificates. He proceeded to the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and...
Complete Biography & Profile of F.K. Owusu-Adjapong, Minister of Parliamentary Affairs
Mr F. K. Owusu-Adjapong, who is also the Member of Parliament (MP) for Akyem Swedru, was educated at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi. He came out in 1970 with a...
Complete Biography & Profile of Prince-Joseph Kofi Ayiku, Managing Director
Prince-Joseph Kofi Ayiku is the Managing Director of Lakeside Estate Limited, a subsidiary of Japan Motors Trading Company with over ten (10) years of management experience in estate enterprising,...
Complete Biography & Profile of Lieutenant General Peter Augus Blay , Chief of Defence Staff
Lieutenant General Peter Augustine Blay, the Chief of the Defence Staff (CDS), was born in Ezinlibo, in the Western Region of Ghana in November 1948. In academic education, he is basically a...
Complete Biography & Profile of Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo , Minister for Local Government and Rural Development
Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo is Ghana's Minister for Local Government and Rural Development. He was appointed by President Mills during a cabinet reshuffle in January 2011. Prior to this appointment he had...