Feature Articles

Ghana’s quest for a national development finance institution to provide critical financing for economic development cannot be overemphasised. This is because the existing commercial banks have over the years not been able to deliver and…

Despite the country's progress in improving its technological advancements, there are still challenges that prevent thousands of students from fully getting access to facilities needed to learn Information and Communication Technology…

For two months consistently, in the cold of the night, Hanza battled a chronic cough leaving him with a high body temperature and beads of sweat all over his body. In his sleepless nights, the nine-year-old boy coughs for more than 30…

Aku finally nailed it. She got married to the love of her life, a 40-year-old man, after two years of courtship without intimacy. As tradition will have it, the lovebirds went naked the wedding night and started their honeymoon with…

Men have largely dominated journalism in Ghana and women’s voices were not often heard in the media in times of crisis and conflict. These days, however, there is a paradigm shift, and this is no longer the case. Over the years, the…

Ghana joins the rest of the world to observe World Tobacco Day,  a day set aside to sensitize tobacco users of the dangers it poses especially in this COVID-19 era. This year’s World’s Tobacco Day is on the theme “Commit to quit”, The…

The decision by the African Union to make art, culture and heritage the focus of this year’s Africa Day should be welcomed across all quarters. It has been demonstrated in recent times that a lot of success can be achieved in Africa by…

On a mat in a cold and dark corner in her room, she gazes at the ticking clock and wish her last breath will end with the last tick of her counts. To exit the face of the earth is her greatest wish and if she had just a little savings,…

The impact of crisis is never gender-neutral and COVID-19 is no exception, for the single mother in Ghana. For the domestic worker at Nyamekrom, a suburb of Koforidua in the New Juaben South municipality, the toll of the pandemic has…

The Dilemma of a Ghost written by the legendary Ama Ata Aidoo, re-echoes in my ears as I consider the plight of the Nation Builders Corps (NaBCO) trainees as the clock of job placement trickles down towards September. When Ato Yawson, a…