Features and Opinions

The rapid collapse of the Afghan state and the undignified and hasty retreat of old allies who had provided security force assistance (SFA) over two decades raises critical questions over the operational effectiveness or otherwise of such support.

Accra is fast becoming a home to young women who mostly migrate from the Frafra, Gonja, Kotokpoli, Dagomga, and Mamprusi ethnic groups located in the Northern parts of Ghana in search of work to survive, popularly known as Kayayei (Kayayo for singular).

I do try to keep up with changing practices in our society. I try even harder not to go on and on about how things used to be done in the old days.

After 26 years in the sport, is it time for Manny Pacquiao to bid farewell to boxing? Will Caleb Plant be the man to overcome superstar Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez? 

Our onetime friend in the Ghanaian Civil Society Movement, the Founder of the Danquah Institute and strategist behind a dozen activist fronts, from Let My Vote Count Alliance to Alliance for Accountable Governance, has some advice for those of us still on the frontlines: keep your shirts on!

The raging impasse between the University Teachers’ Association of Ghana (UTAG) and the Government of Ghana is another reminder of one of the many things that we in Ghana have become all too familiar with, namely, the frequent use of strike actions by various labour unions to drum home their demands for better conditions of service from Governments.

We have a ritual in Ghana. Every once in a while, the country’s Auditor General compiles the highlights of what she found when her battalion of public auditors went through the books of various public sector institutions in line with the Constitution and various laws requiring this undertaking on a periodic (usually annual) basis.

Every once in a while, something brings you down to earth and you are forced to reassess the things you have been taking for granted.

Rethinking their relationships with private lenders is key to achieving sustainable debt for African countries, say Isaac Fukuo and Bathsheba Asati of Botho Emerging Markets Group.

My last encounter with my brother Samuel Marful-Sau was when the two of us decided to attend the funeral of another dear brother, the late Charles Obeng- Mensah, the former Chairman and Managing Director of Union Oil, at the company’s head office in Accra on 29th August 2020.

After a summer spent winning silverware, perhaps it was fitting that Jorginho returned to Chelsea's training ground recently with silver hair.

INTRODUCTION

From my experience working with President Akufo-Addo I can bet my last pesewa that the report of the adhoc parliamentary committee on the Sputnik V – Covid-19 vaccine procurement was just a smokescreen behind which to exonerate and whitewash all the suspected unconstitutionalities and illegalities committed by the Government in the procurement contract and payment for the vaccines.

Andrew Mbabila Amuna had missed his mother and father, so he invited them to visit him in the United States. Some months earlier, William and Genevieve Amuna had missed the graduation ceremony of Andrew, a young and promising engineer, who secured a job at Sweitzer Engineering Laboratories, USA, immediately after that graduation.

The goal of every business unit should be to gather data, turn these data into information then use this information as insight to drive the decision of the business.

I went on a pilgrimage last Thursday to the sea defence project at Axim. This was a very personal and emotional journey, so maybe I need to declare my interest.

Fittingly, it began and ended with a napkin. Lionel Messi’s first Barcelona contract was signed hastily on a restaurant serviette.

Good morning, Mr Ken Ofori-Atta.

Retirement is one conversation many young people will shove under the carpet when it comes up. To them, pension seems like a million years away.

In the coming week, several matters related to the oil and gas industry in Ghana will hog the airwaves. For us in Ghana, we have prided ourselves in the fact that we are a small but prosperous country, but one that has not been able to maximize its divine providence of natural resources.

Do you know that Ghana will save millions of dollars because the Sputnik vaccine deal has been canceled? Each dose of the vaccine costs $10 but Ghana was paying $19 per dose because we went through a middle man, a Sheik from the Gulf states.

After years of pressure, Germany recently announced that an agreement had been reached to return hundreds of priceless artefacts and artworks that had been looted from Nigeria in colonial times and were on display in German museums.

The Dutch investigative journalist, Peter de Fries, died on July 15, 2021, nine days after being shot in Amsterdam for his writings.

Something interesting is happening at the University of Ghana. I don’t think there was any big, strategic plan. It certainly has nothing to do with quotas or affirmative action. But the University of Ghana has suddenly turned very feminine.

Ghanaians living in the Diaspora have had a rough week at the hands of our kinsmen at home.

The COVID-19 Delta variant (also known as B.1.617.2 variant) was first seen in India in December 2020, and later detected in the United States in March 2021.

A leader is someone who is trying to get people to follow him. That is what makes you a leader — when you have followers!

INTRODUCTION

A lot has changed since the digital revolution began in the 1980s with the launch of the “Internet”. Subsequently, technological developments on the back of the internet such as mobile devices, social media networking, big data, clouds services among others have led to disruptive experiences to our traditional, pre-internet ways of work and life.

We have in the last few weeks been following the heated debates that have arisen as a result of some passengers challenging the outcome of their COVID-19 test results at the Kotoka International Airport (KIA).