On a rather quiet Monday night at home, the sound of a neighbour’s scooter sliced through the calm environment and drove nearby dogs into a state of panic and relentless barking.
I completed the Ghana Institute of Journalism (GIJ) in June 2010. I had gone to journalism school after secondary school. Prior to that, I hadn’t received any training in journalism.
I do not pretend to understand what a meme is and as for something called nft, non-fungible-token, I confess freely that whatever it is, I raise up my hand to indicate it is way beyond me.
Two weeks before the claws of covid gripped the throat of Ghana’s tourism sector, Joe Charway, 32, sat on the edge of his anchored canoe in Ada, running me through his business plans.
Suddenly, I find I am hesitating at doing what should be normal, regular and instinctive. Last Saturday, I went to visit Sena and Akua, my favourite nephew and niece who had been away in boarding school and I hadn’t seen for quite a while.
Ghanaian gossip merchants were on Monday called from their brief hiatus to assemble on social media pages especially Facebook for a major assignment, thanks to Chris Rock receiving a hefty slap from Will Smith, at the 94th edition of the Oscars.
There is a growing number of parents who are today engaging their children in their own mother tongue. They recognise English will naturally come to them because of school.
On the 1st of January every year my phone is always flooded with happy new year text messages from friends. I believe you also do receive tons of such messages! Some of these messages are from friends that I rarely talk to.
When Roman Abramovich bought Chelsea in July 2003, the official statement announcing his arrival described the Russian as "a keen follower of sport and international football".
Author Dr Robert Lyman says 2022 is the most dangerous year in Europe since the end of the Second World War. He says parallels between Vladimir Putin and Adolf Hitler are uncanny
Back in the early 1990s in Newtown, a port city in Tema, where I lived with my late mom and younger sister in a compound house, we had a neighbour, a seaman, and his two wives. He was also rumoured to have other “love interests” outside of the compound.
In the 24 hours since my comment on the e-Passport controversy, more information, especially a video of the key ceremony in Montreal, has emerged to show that the situation is even crazier than initially thought.
The first time I read Amartya Sen’s The Argumentative Indian, I laughed and said to myself, “the eminent economist has probably never met a Ghanaian in his life!”
West Africa’s latest successful coup, in Burkina Faso on 24 January 2022, has renewed unease about coups “returning” and democracies “dying” in Africa.
Fisheries serve as a source of employment for millions of people in the small scale sector on the coastline of Africa. Their fishing activities, in turn, provide food security to over 200 million Africans.
Just like our current normal booklet passport, you will need ICAO to approve and capture the data into their Public Key Directory (PKD) for certification before any country can accept it as official travel documents.
French Ambassador to Ghana, Anne Sophie-Avé, aka Akosua, is not your typical diplomat who solely swaddles herself within the confines of diplomatic courtyard, either meeting political figures, smiling before cameras or sipping those famous French wines from the Chateau collections.
Ghana’s recent downgrading by Moody’s and the country’s angry response has triggered a flurry of commentary about the broader issue of bias in the ratings issued for African countries by three large Western corporations.
This afternoon, Evans Mensah, News Editor and Head of the Political Desk at Joy, a subsidiary of the Ghanaian media giant, Multimedia, reached out to discuss the topic he was planning for his PM Express show tonight.
There is no dispute that the Ghanaian economy is in deep crisis, a crisis marked by huge budget deficits, an unsustainable public debt, rising inflation, a rapidly depreciating currency, ever rising cost of living and a loss of confidence by both domestic and international investor communities.
