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21st February, 2012
Back in Accra, we will go straight to the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital where God will receive prayers for and from the patients before calling on the Chief Executive Officer and the Board Members.
For the sake of the sick, he will settle the misunderstanding between the Board and the management team after which he will hold a seminar on the ...
25th April, 2012
As a young boy growing up at Accra New Town in the late 70s, I used to sit in front of our house in the evenings watching the vehicles of some big companies who had picked their staff to work in the ...
21st February, 2012
The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) chalks 60 years in March this year.
Examination bodies the world over, in the quest for credible examinations and international acceptance, have not ...
20th February, 2012
Last weekend, I had a dream in which God was telling me about his plans to visit Ghana soon for four days to see how his children are faring.
To him, these four days would be very hectic since ...
18th February, 2012
The news about sugar remains bad… Really bad. Over the past five years (and counting), this column has pronounced prophesies of doom on sugar. That sparkling, blushing, crystalline, sweet stuff is a ...
16th February, 2012
In every civilised society, the fair treatment of all the people based on the principle of equal rights and justice is sine qua non (that cannot be done without).
For that reason, the legal system ...
16th February, 2012
Ghanaian women are making incredible strides. Of course, we have always done more than our share to nurture new life, create a home, and generate resources with whatever our hands found. Our mothers ...
15th February, 2012
On a radio programme recently, I heard a teaser on an advertisement indicating that a substantial amount of anti-malarial medicines on the Ghanaian market were counterfeits.
Unfortunately, the ...
10th February, 2012
The Corporate world today is characterized by uncertainty, intense competition and above all instability. It suffers failures, bankruptcy, greed and fraud.
Due to these challenges, every now and ...
10th February, 2012
True, globalisation has unleashed a certain ideological onslaught, creating a fertile ground for incepting a global normative ethic. But that normative ethic is more pronounced in political economy, ...
7th February, 2012
When Bill Clinton succeeded George W.H. Bush in the White House, America wanted to invade Iraq again. But the new hardworking Secretary-General of the U.N., Kofi Annan, went to Iraq with lightening ...
7th February, 2012
Inside everyone who writes, author or journalist, lives a subject, sometimes two or three that he or she cannot completely wash out of his system.
He keeps going back to that subject in his books ...
25th December, 2011
Christmas – a time for family, a time for giving thanks, a time to eat too much food and a time that always brings a smile to my face.
In my 20 years, I have experienced Christmas in the heat of ...
29th November, 2011
Nurses and midwives form the bedrock of Ghana’s health delivery system while nursing education is an important tool for effective patient care.
Indeed, the high quality and international ...
28th November, 2011
Scientific journalism is gradually catching up in Third World countries. This is welcome news and a healthy development.
Science, being the basic proven tool that can be harnessed to eradicate ...
6th September, 2011
Various studies have shown that unequal gender relations are prevalent in schools and that males are the greatest culprits of violence against girls and women.
A United Nations study of 46 ...
1st September, 2011
Life at times is very interesting; it is full of uncertainties and challenges. It is never a straight route – full of hills, curves, bumps and potholes. But death ends it all.
Yes, life is full ...
31st August, 2011
The ethical review boards across the country provide credible avenues for researchers conducting biomedical research to get ethical approval of their research protocol.
However, there is little ...
31st August, 2011
During the struggle for Ghana’s independence, our leader, Kwame Nkrumah, made a pronouncement which sounded biblical and is memorable. He called on the people to “Seek ye first the political kingdom ...
24th August, 2011
By and large, Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings is a popular figure in Ghana. She is the darling wife of the former President J. J. Rawlings, and by virtue of her marital relationship with him as the Head ...