On these pages, I explore issues of law, human rights and criminal justice, as my contribution to the development of our young and fledgling democracy.
Let me begin this article by sounding a note of caution or call it a disclaimer. In law there is an offence known as SUB JUDICE which simply means discussing an ongoing case in public with the view to influencing the mind of the jury or the Court.
Children love getting dirty. They are drawn to puddles like muddy magnets, with no regard for footwear or the colour of their clothing. But getting mucky could have a powerful effect on their wellbeing, too.
With films like Do Revenge and Bodies Bodies Bodies, as well as TV series like Euphoria, screen representations of Gen Z are on the rise. But visibility doesn't equate to authenticity, writes Emily Maskell.
At the beginning of this week those of us who live in Prampram and other communities in the Ningo Prampram district, and are regular commuters on the main Dawhenya-Kpone barrier road, flooded social media with complaints of an unbearable vehicular traffic on the stretch.
Said to have been a shy but intelligent boy in school, Burkina Faso's Capt Ibrahim Traoré has become the latest military officer to seize power in a coup in one of France's former colonies in West Africa.
The issue of intellectual property right appears to have dominated the Ghanaian arts and entertainment space, thanks to what appears to be a mistrust between artist Kirani Ayat and the Ghana Tourism Authority (GTA).
Recently, the World Bank Group and McKinsey & Company have released two leading reports on “the Future of Finance” highlighting the current state, opportunities, risks, and/or challenges of the Financial Technology (Fintech) revolution, disruption, or eruption happening across the world and Africa.
I know we are world leaders in funerals, but it seems to me we can learn a few lessons from the British on how they organised and conducted the funeral of their Queen.
On Monday Queen Elizabeth II was laid to rest at a private ceremony at St. George’s Chapel Windsor. She was buried next to her husband, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh who died in 2021, her mother, father, and sister.
The Ladbroke Arms is described by many as a “destination pub” for both British and tourists who want to sample a slice of the nightlife in the English capital, London.
Back in May this year when the people of Prampram celebrated the Kpledoo festival, one of the jama groups composed a song which called for an immediate end to the murder of some prominent elders in the town. Below is:
On the night when Ghana beat Czech Republic in the second group match in the 2006 World Cup, in Bad Godesberg, a borough in the German city of Bonn, which lies south of the North Rhine-Westphalia, Mia Meyer, then 26, sat with her friends at a nearby pub, five blocks from an apartment she shared with grandmother, celebrating.
While musicians from other countries continue to enjoy huge financial benefits from endorsement deals with betting companies, Ghanaian artistes remain unable to access such luxuries.
At one of the departure lounges at John F. Kennedy airport in New York, passengers on their way to Dublin, Ireland, a married couple, both in their late 60s, were locked up in a warm embrace, as other passengers look on. The man placed his leg on the plastic suitcase, stroke the back hair on the back of the woman and winked.
It is the will of God that young Christians enter into marriage as virgins. But this is often not the case. What should young Christians both virgins and those that are not virgins do?
It is interesting how once the count is over and someone is declared winner, all of us insist we voted for that person. You might just have managed to barely scrape through the elections, but when it comes to making demands on you once you are in office, everyone voted for you, or at least they all claim to have voted for you.
About eleven years ago, inside the popular food and beverage café-Smoothies on Osu Oxford Street, I was sat at one of the nicely polished wooden benches and tables, twaddling my thumb around the plastic cup containing my smoothy.
In a recent WhatsApp chatroom conversation, a friend asked a very simple question; what makes one a celebrity in Ghana? Another person attempted an answer others agreed with.
When Maria and Felix Williams embarked on that dangerous journey to Spain through the Mediterranean waters, to make a clean break from poverty, their aim was to share in Spain’s economic wealth.
