Mahama Is Only A Chief Contractor
Some Ghanaians harbour a sophistic view that we (Ghanaians) should all join hands together and carry an elected government aloft in palanquin for putting up both epochal and inconsequential...
Tag: governance
African Union Commission Pushes For Ratification of AU Charters
Constitutionalism and rule of law remains vital in entrenching a culture of democratic governance on the African continent, officials said Wednesday. This was at the closure of a three-day regional...
Common Sense Appraisal Of Mahama’s “Massive” Projects
THE NEWLY CONSTRUCTED KWAME NKRUMAH INTERCHANGE The initial title of this article was, “Any idiot can borrow money and build projects.” I had to change it because those who might not read beyond...
Common Sense Appraisal of Mahama’s ‘massive’ Projects
The initial title of this article was, “Any idiot can borrow money and build projects.” I had to change it because those who might not read beyond the headline would, as usual, accuse me of...
Journalists To Be Trained On Reporting With ICTs
While Ghana has been lauded for electoral success in times past, there are challenges with participatory, transparent and accountable governance which have accounted for poor public service delivery...
BoG, IFC Launch Partnership On Corporate Governance
The Bank of Ghana (BoG) and the International Finance Corporation (IFC) of the World Bank Group yesterday launched a partnership to strengthen corporate governance practices within the country’s...
Bank of Ghana Rolls Out Corporate Governance Guideline Next Year
The Bank of Ghana (BoG) will from next year introduce a Corporate Governance guideline that will ensure financial soundness in the banking sector and improve economic efficiency and growth, the...
Media Accountability Forum To Hold Symposium Today
The Forum for Media Accountability and Democratic Governance will today organize a symposium on the theme: ‘Redefining our ethos as a society. The event will be held at 4:30pm at the Christ the...
BoG Teams Up With IFC To Encourage Corporate Governance
The Bank of Ghana (BoG) has entered into a partnership with the International Finance Corporation (IFC) to promote sound corporate governance in the country’s banking sector. “I believe this...
The Politics We Have Vs. the Politics We Need
Anyone who claims Ghana has had its politics and governance right is only peddling fiction. We’ve had terrible politics and governance, at least since the Fourth Republic. Yes, it’s been terrible...
CPP Manifesto Launch In 90 Secs.
The Convention Peoples party on Saturday October 29 launched its manifesto ahead of the 2016 general elections. Key amongst the issues the party wants to tackle in its administration include job...
Women Bring Diverse Experiences Into Decision Making
Women’s representation in decision-making positions in corporate organisation, especially as board members in companies, is key for such boards to get diversity of experience and perspectives to...
The Role Of Inter-Party Dialogue Committees In Ensuring Peaceful And Violence- Free Election In 2016
A feature by Akolgo A. Samuel, Senior Civic Education Officer of National Commission for Civic Education, Bolgatanga Regional office A key indicator of democracy and good governance in the developed...
Mo Ibrahim Survey Not True Reflection
Government has rejected the latest Mo Ibrahim Index on governance arguing that it is not a true reflection of the picture on the ground. “We do not need the survey to actually know how we are...
Ghana Ranks 7th On Latest Mo Ibrahim Governance Index
The 2015 Mo Ibrahim Index of African Governance has ranked Ghana 7th for the second time. The Index, which seeks to assess the performance of various countries by measuring the extent to which they...
56th Independence Anniversary
Imagining the imagination Picturing the pictorials And videoing the videos of the glorious past I am torn apart yet More drifted away as though This parcel never had begotten My country, O Nigeria!...
The Rules of the (online) Game
The rules of the (online) game Massively multiplayer online (MMO) games are now an established segment of the global entertainment industry. In MMO games, gamers create alter egos in virtual worlds,...
Help Clean Country of Financial Rot — Accountants Charged
The Chief Justice, Mrs Justice Georgina Theodora Wood, and the President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, Ghana (ICAG), Mr Christian Tetteh Sottie, have called on professional accountants...
Too Much Power In the State Bad For Democracy – Prof Agyemang-Duah
A Senior Governance Adviser to the United Nations has observed that heightened tension that characterise political discourse in the country is the result of the nature of the governance system. He...
Extend Presidential Term To Six Years – Abu Sakara
A former presidential candidate of the Convention People’s Party (CPP), Dr Michael Abu Sakara Foster, has joined calls for an extension of the tenure for presidents of the country. Recently, former...