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This year our budget must centre on whether we can raise sufficient revenue to cover our full expendi­ture and not rely on donor support to shore up our politically generated deficit gap. In finance parlance, we must cut the deficit…

Last week we were very pleased that Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal, Princess Anne, the daughter of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, visited Ghana as part of a two-country visit to West Africa. It was the most high-profile visit to…

Small-scale mining (SSM) is an activity that has increasingly gained momentum in mining areas in Ghana. It is largely practiced in rural areas and towns by artisans who lack the requisite education, training, management skills and…

New oil, Chinese investment, stable government, highest growth in the world: Ghana is a new success story. But be careful with the exact figures. While all countries revise their GDP numbers and other accounts, Ghana’s revision of the data…

News Flash! Some foot soldiers belonging to Ghana’s leading political parties have become notoriously popular for their proclivity to seize public toilets. Reports say the foot soldiers have largely done the seizure, because they feel they…

Three-year old John the Baptist, who hails from Gnani, a community in the Yendi Municipality of the Northern Region, was born with a vein defect. At the age of two, John’s parents wrapped him in white cloths and left him beside a public…

It was all about buoyancy when human rights activists including journalists and civil society organisations, prompted government about the essence of the Right to Information Bill (RTI), to boost the national fervour to facilitate probity…

As the demand for food, fuel, urbanization and other uses drive up the pressure on land resources across the globe, governments around the world are finding it vital to strengthen land governance. Indeed, better land governance encourages…

“Father we pray and put a stop to this in Jesus Name...NO NO NO”. “Be careful what you ask for” “Please leave the oil and don’t allow shell, BP, Exxon, don’t look too far Nigeria and how much destruction they’ve cause environmentally. Is…

Senior Judicial figures and experienced election commissioners have for some years been working separately to enhance human rights observance and democratic practices around the world. In the discussions it became apparent that there is no…