History was made yesterday when after a 17-year protracted chieftaincy dispute, the people of Dagbon were able to finally ‘outdoor’ Yaa Naa Abukari Mahama II as the overlord of the traditional area.
The Minister of Roads and Highways, Mr Kwesi Amoako Atta, has stated that the problem of faulty traffic lights in Accra will become a thing of the past by June this year.
The reopening of the AngloGold Ashanti Mine is good news, indeed, for several reasons, with the main cause for jubilation being that it will offer jobs to between 2,000 and 2,500 people, in addition to roles that will be required during the construction phase of the mine’s underground project.
For the second time running Ghana has been shortlisted to compete for the Global Teacher Prize, a US$1 million award presented annually to an exceptional teacher who has made an outstanding contribution to his/her profession.
For the second time in less than a week the Daily Graphic has had to return to the issue of personal security because of the importance it attaches to the lives of citizens and the fact that life, the greatest resource, cannot be replaced once it is lost.
The bold rejection of the refurbished Wassa East District Magistrate Court by the Chief Justice, Ms Justice Sophia Akuffo, last Tuesday because it did not meet the required standard needs commendation.
Ghana’s tag as one of the safest places to live on earth is severely under threat as a result of the recent kidnapping of children and the mysterious murder of people.
The Tax Identification Number (TIN), a unique 11-digit identification number issued to taxpayers for official transactions, made the headlines last year when the government intensified education on it to broaden the tax net.
Prophecies about the end for certain individuals in Ghana in 2019, and also about the year probably being the end (apocalypse) for us all, rage on in January.
Tertiary education, especially university education, is the dream of many a person, and for nations, the role of university education in development cannot be overestimated.
Parent-teacher associations (PTAs) have become an integral part of schools to promote and build strong working relationships between teachers or schools and parents, aimed at enhancing the academic environment to improve learning outcomes.
One of the major setbacks to the country’s accelerated socio-economic development over the years has been the level of indiscipline in all facets of society.
At the onset of the 20th century, Ghana’s land area of 238,537m had a forest cover of 8.4 million hectares. But from that time to 1950, the country lost half of its forest cover, leaving only 4.2 hectares.
Since the “ill-fated” prophecies by Bishop Isaac Owusu Bempah that sent irate, rampaging youth vandalising the Odorkor branch of the Glorious Word Power Ministries International, I have been musing about prophecies and the New Year.
Conflicts have existed in societies since the beginning of time, with some of them being resolved in time to make those societies better places to live.
It was crafted on an image of fiction that all was well with the country’s banking sector until 2017 when the current leadership of the Bank of Ghana (BoG) began a mission to rid the sector of weak and distressed banks.
The government has lifted the ban on small-scale mining operations that have, for several years, been a major cause of most of the negative environmental impacts in most mining communities.
