WAEC’s Monopoly Must Be Broken – Napo
The incoming Education Minister Mathew Opoku Prempeh is calling for the monopoly being enjoyed by the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) to be challenged. In the view of the education...
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Biggest Telecom Merger In the Offing As Airtel Engages TiGO For A Deal
The country’s telecommunications sector is set to witness a major transformation as owners of two of the major players in the industry are set to merge. Bharti Airtel, owners of Airtel Ghana, is...
Ivory Coast Doubles Power Exports In 2016
IVORY Coast exported 1,600 gigawatt hours (GWh) of power to neighbouring countries in 2016, about twice what it exported the year before, a senior industry official said. Total output was 10,076 GWh...
Biggest Telecom Merger In the Offing As Airtel Engages TiGO For A Deal
The country’s telecommunications sector is set to witness a major transformation as owners of two of the major players in the industry are set to merge. Bharti Airtel, owners of Airtel Ghana, is...
Akufo-Addo Should Use Independence Celebrations Money To Build Toilets Instead
“Under the past year, headlines have talked of Ghana as the seventh dirtiest country in the world and then we are going backwards compared with other countries… “We were confronted with the...
Airtel In Talks With Tigo For Ghana Merger
Bharti Airtel is in talks with rival Millicom International Cellular for a possible merger in Ghana, as India’s No. 1 telecom operator, embroiled in a brutal tariff war in its home market, tries to...
Stupid Stubbornness Of A Dictator
By the time we finish composing this commentary, it is likely that Yahya Jammeh would have either been captured or made good his promise of vacating the presidency and going into exile. He has so far...
The Gambia Crisis: Akufo-Addo Not Wrong
Dr. Vladimir Antwi-Danso, the Director of Academic Affairs at the Ghana Armed Forces Command and Staff College, Friday said the President did not err by contributing troops to the Gambian cause...
Liberian Presidential Election, October 2017
Often when I listen to Liberian radios or when I read in the papers on this year’s Liberian presidential election, I observe that some supporters of candidates focus on discussing negatively the...
Icom Issues Red List Of West African Cultural Objects At Risk
‘It is indeed unfortunate that so much Nok material has been looted over time to supply the international art market. Properly excavated, such pieces might have shed valuable light on the Nok...
A Missed Opportunity For The 6th Parliament And H.E President John Mahama
The age-long Right to Information (RTI) Bill, which has been described by many as the oldest Bill in Parliament, suffered a major defeat when the Sixth Parliament of the Fourth Republic of Ghana...
Gambia’s President-Elect Arrives In Senegal After Talks Fail
Gambia's President-elect Adama Barrow has left the country for neighboring Senegal, a coalition member and local media said on Sunday, a day after West African leaders failed to persuade President...
Peaceful Elections In The December 2016 Polls
Introduction Greetings fellow compatriots, the general elections (7th December, 2016) in Ghana are over, and for the second time, I am writing you a post-elections analysis article in response to my...
Ghana Draw Ethiopia, Sierra Leone and Kenya
The Africa Cup of Nations will take place in Cameroon in 2019 Ghana have been drawn in Group F with Ethiopia, Sierra Leone and Kenya in the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers. The Black Stars, who...
Black Stars To Battle Ethiopia, S Leone & Kenya For AFCON 2019
Ghana has been drawn in Group F in qualifiers for the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations to be staged in Cameroon. The draw, which was held on Thursday, pitched the Black Stars against Ethiopia, Sierra Leone...
Black Stars To Battle Ethiopia, Sierra Leone & Kenya For AFCON 2019
Ghana has been drawn in Group F in qualifiers for the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations to be staged in Cameroon. The draw, which was held on Thursday, pitched the Black Stars against Ethiopia, Sierra Leone...
Black Stars To Battle Ethiopia, S Leone & Kenya For AFCON 2019
Ghana has been drawn in Group F in qualifiers for the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations to be staged in Cameroon. The draw, which was held on Thursday, pitched the Black Stars against Ethiopia, Sierra Leone...
The December 2016 Elections In Ghana- A Commentary
My non-Ghanaian friends have repeatedly asked with keenness the implications of the recent elections in Ghana. I have sometimes not had the luxury of time to adequately capture the significance in...
For Nana Addo To Succeed, Let’s Change Our Attitude
Last Saturday, before noon, the then President-elect, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, and his Vice President-elect, Alhaji Dr. Mahamudu Bawumiah, were sworn into office at the Black Star Square in Accra...
Al Shabaab Executes Somali Man and Teenager For Homosexuality
A Somali man and teenager were publicly executed by Somali Islamist group al Shabaab on Tuesday for committing a homosexual act. 20-year-old Isak Abshirow and 15-year-old Abdirizak Sheikh Ali were...