Editorials/Opinion

On this 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001, we remember that 9/11 was not only an attack on the United States; it was an attack on the world and on the humanity and hopes that we share. We remember that among the nearly 3,000 innocent people …

It is established that there is a telecom domestic calls price war in Ghana. But the war extends to data services as well, which is where the industry is moving to now. There is no doubt that Mobile Number Portability (MNP) has a lot to do with the current price …

The National Road Safety Commission (NRSC), the Commission mandated by law to promote road safety in Ghana is organising a beauty pageant to select a road safety ambassador. The NRSC says in a press statement that it is organising the pageant in collaboration with event planner Functional Keys Ltd. This …

Days ago, the Network of Communications Reporters (NCR), a group of journalists who have specialized in telecoms and ICT reporting, called on the National Communications Authority (NCA) to sit up. The call was in respect of the NCA updating its website, publishing authentic Mobile Number Portability (MNP) figures and also …

Either in Libya, Nigeria, Chad, Egypt or Tunisia, the African nation-state, from its birth, has been in some sort of undeviating inanimate democratic revolution. The reason is that the African state, as a political entity, is yet to have everlasting grip with the African nation, as a community, hence the …

China’s voracious appetite for energy from anywhere has led most oil-producing nations to attempt to feed the dragon, including Russia. But a curious situation has developed as regards Russian oil exports to the Celestial Kingdom, underlining that the two nations, which fought for global supremacy over the Communist movement for …

More than ever as Africa gets entwined in the international system, the international community is becoming increasingly part of Africa’s development. Ever more, the international community includes the ever-growing Africans working in numerous international organizations and diasporan Africans across the world’s capitals whose transmission of billions of dollars annually to …

Muammar Gadhaffi’s 42 year-old regime is in its death rattle – maybe today, maybe tomorrow, his administration that has ruled Libya with a quixotic and brutal hand is about to pass, in Trotsky’s piquant phrase, “into the dustbin of history,” prompting the question “what next?” The glittering prize is Libya’s …

The current market turmoil, marked by a huge spike in uncertainty, has shaken confidence across the global economy and prompted many to conclude all policy options have been exhausted. That impression is wrong – and could lead to paralysis. After the crisis unfolded in late 2008, global policymakers came together …

For sometime, the centre of Africa’s anarchic one-party systems, gory tyrants, brutal dictatorships, self-serving military juntas and hideous civil wars, West Africa is changing and indisputably sowing democratic seeds. Whether in Cape Verde, Liberia, Guinea-Conakry, Niger, Nigeria or Guinea Bissau multi-party elections are blowing across the once politically sick region. …