Editorials/Opinion

Martin Amidu, the former Attorney-General who introduced the word ‘Gargantuan’ into popular Ghanaian vocabulary, is no longer in the good books of Ghanaians. The self-acclaimed Citizen-Vigilante incurred the self-righteous…

Card-bearing members of the NPP have dismissed concerns about the growing spate of violence in their party which recently led to the second murder of a member of the party this year. ‘The fratricides occurring in the party will help us…

I have been thinking a lot about shit these past few days. I don’t mean the substance of shit itself. Because, unless you’re an expert in biogas or natural gas or shit like that, the substance of shit isn’t the most pleasant object of…

Ghana has suffered another round of obtuse first half exchange rate depreciation, leaving in its trail a shift in the intercept of all the indicators that affect the citizen’s welfare except that of their income (salaries and wages). This…

Ghana’s economy is in dire straits. A ballooning wage bill, above normal public debt, a never-ending energy crisis and a struggling local currency are crippling growth in a country that was ranked among one of the world’s fastest growing…

The Chairwoman of the Electoral Commission (EC), Mrs Charlotte Osei, has announced that the 2016 presidential and parliamentary elections have been postponed ‘almost indefinitely’ while she assesses the security situation in the…

Urbanization is at a crucial crossroads. We are in a new stage of human history where most of the world's population lives in urban areas. In the early twentieth century, only 20 per cent of the population lived in cities. Today this…

The enactment of Mortal Kombat at the headquarters of the NPP last week has caused anxiety among NPP sympathisers and excitement about NDC loyalists. The NPP Council of Elders has, however, dismissed the concerns of party faithfuls,…

Ghana has a housing deficit, which is leaving tenants at the mercy of landlords, and the government believes that Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) could be the way out of the conundrum. According to the civil society organization, the…

Dubbed the new investment frontier, Africa’s attractiveness is becoming more visible to large corporations, institutions and investors. Reflecting this, foreign investment (FDI) flows have grown exponentially since the turn of the…