Editorials/Opinion

With the current happenings at the Jubilee oil fields, the NPP UK and Ireland would like to    take this opportunity to express our deepest concern about the reports on the dysfunctional ultrasonic export flow meters on the FPSO vessel…

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers – Voltaire, French philosopher Dr. Ekwow Spio-Garbrah, the Chief Executive Officer of the London, UK based Commonwealth Telecommunication Organization, on the surface appears…

BP is suing Transocean, the owner of the oil rig that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico last year, for $40bn (£24.37bn) in damages. BP said safety systems on Transocean's Deepwater Horizon rig had failed. Separately, BP also sued the maker…

News reports today Monday April 11, 2011 say incumbent Ivorian leader Laurent Gbagbo has been captured in his residence by French Special Forces and reportedly handed over to rebel leaders at Ouattara’s hotel headquarters in Abidjan. The…

Just when we thought the nation’s troubles with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) were nearing an end, the former President of the now defunct Ghana Olympic Committee (GOC) B. T. Baba has muddied the waters with claims that the…

The February 2011 major political protests that broke out in Libya against Muammar Gaddafi's government - inspired by recent similar events in Tunisia and Egypt – reveal not only the artificiality of Gaddafi’s Libya but also the…

As I watched a distance learning science program on television recently, I was reminded of my exploits as a science student at St. Augustine’s College in the mid to late seventies. Back then there was no counseling and no mentoring; at…

The President, Prof. John Evans Atta Mills presented the State of the Nation address to Parliament Thursday morning February 17, 2011. It is his third, since becoming President of Ghana. And I guess like many other Ghanaians, I was…

The President will in the course of today deliver his 2011 State of the Nation Address. We in NPP UK & Ireland presume that he will precede his address with an evaluation of his 2010 address. Some key messages that were delivered in…

Conventional wisdom strongly suggests that corruption is a way of life in Ghana. There is perhaps no Ghanaian of adult age who has never paid a bribe for a government service. About 28.5% of households in Ghana live on less than $2 a day.…