While growing up as a teenager, I used to have a small savings box, popularly known as ‘susu box.’ It was given to me by my mother and I saved money that came my way through gifts, tips, pocket money, etc.

For most people who attended school in the Garden City in the Ashanti Region, she is a household name synonymous with academic laurels and discipline.

One of the very popular adages in the Ghanaian society is that: “When the last tree dies, the last man dies.” 

On Monday, February 6, 2017, I was called upon by the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to serve as the Executive Director of the Ghana National Service Scheme (NSS).

It is said that passion is a powerful force in accomplishing anything you set your mind to and in experiencing work and life to the fullest extent possible.

Dear Mirror Lawyer, I am a popular waakye seller in Accra. I have been in this business for over 10 years and it has been going well. But just a few months ago, another woman started selling waakye very close to my stall.

A Study done on our daily thought revealed that 12 per cent of the content of our daily thoughts are futuristic. The concept of unconsciously travelling into the future has been proven to be an adaptive feature of human beings. Whilst some of the travels we make into the future are anxiety triggered, traveling into the future proves to be a helpful mechanism for forestalling pleasure. 

Our Ghanaian and African communal traditions make the family context an important setting for dealing with the COVID -19 situation. “I AM BECAUSE YOU ARE, YOU ARE BECAUSE I AM” — “UBUNTU” (in Swahili) is deeply meaningful to us and must be called into play at this time. Families, both nuclear and extended, need to communicate openly about COVID-19, what it is, how it spreads and how the family unit could be a major channel for the spread as well as how the family unit can be used to combat the pandemic.

The upsurge of COVID-19 has certainly forced Ghanaians into discovering new ways of doing old things. As the cases begin to plateau around the world and countries start to ease restrictions, what we all keep wondering is when we will get back to normal and what normalcy will now look like.

I do not intend to remind the country of that ‘Black Wednesday’, June 3, 2015, when a dark cloud eclipsed the soul of the nation.

Ghana’s COVID-19 pandemic response has been largely anchored by the two foreign-funded medical research centres.

Although virtual AGMS are not well charted occurrences in the life of Ghanaian companies, our story begun in 2019, when Npontu together with Novelty partnered with MTN to organize its first partial virtual AGM for its shareholders.

ALBUM reviews was one of the things I used to work on for Graphic Showbiz when I started writing for this paper. Back in the late 90s and early 2000s you would have to either buy a cassette or CD or get a demo copy from the artiste or producer/executive producer to do a review.

BRILLIANT lyricist. Those are the first words that come to mind when one tries to describe composer, guitarist and singer Nana Kwame Ampadu, a household name in Ghana and beyond who turned 75 on Tuesday, March 31.

IT has always been said that tourism is very resilient and that even when disaster in any form hits a destination, it doesn’t take long for the destination to bounce back and churn out numbers close to or even more than the previous numbers.