Feature Articles

Mr Sulemana Imoro, 45, is an opinion leader at Bagurugu in the Karaga District of the Northern Region. He is  dedicated to working towards the modification of an old traditional practice called ‘Pa Prigibu,’ which forbid first time…

Opanyi Kodjo Attah (name not real), a farmer at Matimeho, residing in the Afram Plains of the Eastern Region, says he has for several years concealed the corrupt practices of a public officer, who stays in the same area with him. The…

The celebration of newly commissioned roads in the country has gradually become a norm, particularly in the small towns and rural communities. Its main competitor, perhaps, is the celebration of newly appointed ministers and district chief…

The annual growth rates of mobile phone penetration in the developing world have ranged between 30% and 50% or higher, and penetration has been rapidly increasing. In Africa, mobile phone penetration has exploded during the last ten years.…

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) provides enormous opportunities and avenues for national development. Women in particular are not supposed to use ICT for marketing and advertising alone, but to use the technology for…

Many educated women today will scowl at the idea that “a woman’s place or office is the kitchen”. In fact there has been vigorous campaigns that aims at erasing that notion to replace it with “what a man can do a woman can do even better”.…

Ghana has an energy crisis. Electricity is being rationed, homes and businesses can’t have sufficient electricity and some are racking up extra costs in finding alternative energy sources by themselves. The government has been talking…

Last year, as rebels captured the main towns in Northern Mali, UN Women registered a sudden and dramatic increase of rapes in the first week of the takeover of Gao and Kidal, in places where most women never report this violence to anyone,…

Light crude oil popularly known as “black gold” is a precious commodity that brings a lot of hope and high expectation of economic prosperity for most countries that discover it. Ghana discovered oil in commercial quantities Offshore West…

Poverty has always been a part of the world; even in the developed world where it is assumed that everyone is well-to-do, some of the people find themselves living on the streets due to poverty. The under-developed countries, which find…