The 21st Century is the era of the knowledge economy in which most countries and organisations are looking for ways to possess information that enables them to improve their performance and Ghana is not an exception.
My household, too, suffered a loss due to the rainstorm of April 7, although nothing like the situation experienced by those who lost family members. There were, in fact, two baffling losses, giving me something to ponder over.
There is a word that now features so frequently in the public discourse of our country that I have had to go and make sure the word means what I thought it did.
It was from 1876 when Ramseyer and other Basel missionaries came to Ghana and established the Presbyterian Church that the commemoration of Easter was introduced as a Christian festival.
Some consumers of electricity and water in Tamale, the Northern Regional capital have attributed the increase in illegal connection of utilities in the metropolis to delays and the cumbersome processes involved in procuring new services and metres.
The Volta River Authority (VRA) has started the implementation of the Pwalugu Multi-Purpose Dam, which covers irrigation, hydropower and flood control.
In a couple of days, Christians across the country and the world will celebrate Easter, a holiday of high religious significance in the Christian faith.
On April 6, 2019, the Vice-President, Alhaji Mahamudu Bawumia, in a speech read on his behalf at the inauguration of a $20-million compost plant by Zoomlion and its partner, was quoted by the Daily Graphic as saying that public private partnerships (PPPs) were essential for the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
On April 4, 2019, I delivered the 60th Anniversary Lecture of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences entitled: “Sixty Years of Scholarly Excellence: Achievements, Challenges and Prospects: Humanities Perspectives”.
Once I asked myself: ‘why are staff of World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) so much interested in the wellbeing of countries far away from their homes and the head offices of their employers?’
I saw a GTV news item in which a woman who was arrested for openly defecating behind the Cape Coast Castle some time last year, looked (and sounded) offended.
Speak with many Ghanaian small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) about green and circular economy business practices and chances are they would be highly sceptical and believe those practices are for advanced companies elsewhere: luxuries Ghanaian SMEs cannot afford and are not ready for.
What is Donald John Trump’s reason for meeting up with the North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un for the second time? A strange tolerance of the North Korean leader for a man who has called him names and had appeared unaccommodating to North Korea and its leader.
While the Criminal Offences Act, 1960 (Act 29) outlines a number of criminal offences and prescribes punishment for offenders, a number of the crimes outlined in Act 29 have some intrinsic inadequacies.
If all goes according to plan, the President of the Republic will be in Tamale this morning, Wednesday, to cut the sod for the construction of an interchange in that city.
