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22nd September, 2009
They didn’t understand why they were falling ill unexpectedly.
They didn’t realise some of them were going to die just like that. But die they did. At least sixteen of them. 95,000 ...
11th September, 2009
The 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall will be marked in November this year.
For many, it symbolises the end of the Cold War, at least in Europe.
The subsequent break-up of the ...
10th September, 2009
While adults who grew up in an abusive environment face a higher risk of perpetrating the mistreatment experienced, very often those with no prior exposure often end up as victims of domestic abuse. ...
8th September, 2009
The former Minister of Information, Asamoah
Boateng, will go down in history as ‘the Ghanaian Marie Antoinette.’
This is because he said on Peace FM that those who claimed to be ...
25th August, 2009
The thrill which athletics provides to its spectators is of a peculiarly beautiful nature.
Mankind loves stories that have a beginning, a middle and an end. Athletics provides this in short bursts, ...
4th August, 2009
Someone who read my article on President Barack Obama’s speech to the Ghana National Assembly on 11 July (Ghanaian Times 14 July 2009) expressed the view – in so many words – that I ...
28th July, 2009
I am at a loss for words with which to describe how I felt when I drove on the Accra-Kumase road by way of Nsawam.
The Achimota – Ofankor road, which was being reconstructed when I last drove ...
21st July, 2009
In case you didn’t know, ‘Ogyakrom’ (Firetown) is the name given by Diasporan Ghanaians to their beloved country. They all somehow seem to “melt” in its heat – ...
14th July, 2009
Air Force One has carried President Barack Obama and his family out of the skies of Ghana back to Washington, after a whirlwind visit to the first sub-Saharan country he has gone to since ...
9th July, 2009
Now my major peeve. Years before I took a shine to KLM, my affair, to gild the lilly, had been with British Airways.
It was an affair born on New Year’s eve in 1987, at JFK airport, where ...
7th July, 2009
When Ghanaians say “anaaa!” after your name, then, to them, you have taken off into outer space.
The word is normally a rhetorical question, meaning “Not so?” But when they ...
7th July, 2009
When Ghanaians say “anaaa!” after your name, then, to them, you have taken off into outer space.
The word is normally a rhetorical question, meaning “Not so?” But when they ...
6th July, 2009
In today’s Africa, most of the institutions of higher education can only provide places for only a small percentage of those who qualify.
This is because Africa does not have adequate ...
4th July, 2009
The British Labour Party was once counted among the most principled parties in the world. Formed by intellectuals (mainly grouped in the Fabian Society) and trade unionists, it fought for the welfare ...
23rd June, 2009
Every now and then, efficiency demands that one should avoid trying to re-invent the wheel. So today, we shall glide in the slip stream of the World Health Organisation (WHO).
In health issues, ...
8th June, 2009
In this new knowledge-based society, access to information and knowledge have become essential resources for development.
As a continent, our future and survival depends upon our willingness to ...
21st February, 2009
Last March, I saw my urologist for the annual check up suggested by him. When I retailed to him a report I picked up from Ghanaian newspapers, putting the incidence of prostate cancer in the country ...
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A nine –member committee has been constituted to plan this year’s Afigya-Kwabre District home coming festival under the theme: “Leadership and ...
