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Heavy trucks cause vehicular traffic after police lifts night ban
Barely less than five hours after it was announced by the police administration yesterday February, 2, 2011 that it has lifted the ban that stopped heavy duty trucks from moving on the highways after 1800 hours, many heavy duty trucks were…
Ghana can learn from Trinidad & Tobago’s oil and gas success story
The Caribbean island state of Trinidad and Tobago is a success story and good example of a developing country that has made the most from its oil and gas industry.
The country is among the world’s five leading exporters of natural gas and…
Ivory Coast crisis: ECOWAS has eggs on face, West Africa Central Bank lies about freezing account
The drama that is going on in Ivory Coast is becoming farcical, as the actors each look ridiculous and unfit for their roles.
The actor with the worst act in the drama has turned out to be ECOWAS, the West African regional grouping made…
The Ivorian crisis and President Mills’s ramshackle Pan-African calculus
Whatever others may make of him, John Atta Mills continues to see himself in the mirror of Pan-Africanism, a philosophy that seeks cultural, political and economic unity of Africa. From his teaching years at the University of Ghana to his…
UK authorities shelve report on e-waste dumping in Ghana
It is unbelievable that British government authorities are shelving the outcome of an investigation into allegations of e-waste dumping into Ghana by some British companies.
The Environment Agency (EA) of the UK confirmed to me in October…
Free markets can still feed the world
Nicolas Sarkozy, France's president, has rightly identified food price volatility as a priority for his country as it chairs the Group of 20 leading economies this year.
Figures released on Wednesday by the UN's Food and Agricultural…
Questions on agric, employment creation, energy missing at Mills’s media encounter
President John Atta Mills met with journalists and editors at the Castle in Accra to review his government’s performance as he marks his second year as president of Ghana.
Over 20 questions were fielded and the President answered them as…
The TOR debt, fuel price hikes and petro-economics in Ghana – a perspective
The Tema Oil Refinery (TOR) debt is a shifting target. Without it’s interest element, the current principal debt is estimated at Gh¢1.5 billion. This figure includes balances due to Ghana Commercial Bank (GCB), Barclays Bank, Standard…
de Bono says what he knows about Spio-Garbrah
In 10 days, Christmas will be here again, a time of good tidings towards all men. For us Christians, a time of merry-making but also a time for reflection, introspection, of atonement, and for forgiving those who may have offended us during…
The limits of Laurent Gbagbo’s idiocy
Cote d’Ivoire’s President Laurent Gbagbo uses the country’s Constitutional Council, with the backing of the military and some southern ethnic groups and elites, to cling to power. The opposition candidate Alassane Ouattara defeated him on…