Editorials/Opinion

I have always held that Ghana is a beautiful country, and no matter how bad things get at one or the other time, Ghanaians have a great sense of belief in the future, which makes it easy to contain the pain and stress of living as a…

Welcome to Ground Floor a new column on ghanabusinesnews.com. This column will discuss every topic under the sun, from the sacred to the most mundane. On the floor, the engagement would be in a no-holds-barred fashion and no subject will be…

Not so long ago, the Ghana cedi was considered safe to hold as a store of value - and therefore a good instrument for investment. It was even nicknamed 'Kufuor dollar', reflecting its almost consistent one-to-one parity with the US dollar.…

There is no doubt that cocoa is currently blazing a trail. Now regarded as one of the market's best performing commodities, it has defied the current global meltdown that is sending shivers down the spines of economic policy makers. The…

A bogey everyone engaged in literary creativity dreads more than a highly infectious disease, is the so-called "writers' block." This is a distressing condition in which the writer suddenly and inexplicably becomes incapable of the…

Alhaji Moshood Adebisi’s name might not ring a bell among many journalists in the country. But the former Chief Press Secretary to Chief Oluremi Tinubu, wife of the former governor of Lagos State has, without a doubt, paid his dues in the…

My fellow citizens: I stand here today humbled by the task before us, grateful for the trust you have bestowed, mindful of the sacrifices borne by our ancestors. I thank President Bush for his service to our nation, as well as the…

Recent comments, by functionaries of the new government as well as other notable institutions, such as the World Bank, paint a rather poor picture about the state of Ghana's economy that it is worse than hitherto thought. The World Bank…

This is not a case of dog eating dog- one journalist taking his pen to tear down his profession. No. As you go through this article, I want you to avoid the temptation of making the wrong assumption that journalists are the cause of…

Keguro Macharia’s article “African universities crippling their students’ (The EastAfrican — December 29, 2008-January 4, 2009) pricked me. I found myself agreeing with it as much as I disagreed. I wish to write about my own experience…