Sign in
Sign in
Recover your password.
A password will be e-mailed to you.
Browsing Category
Feature Articles
Biofuels have potential to transform global economy
Slowly but surely, an extraordinarily important new industry is slowly taking shape, with the potential to transform the global economy.
After years of existing largely as an environmentalist's fantasy, commercial production of biofuels…
One year to go for London 2012 Olympics
Today, 27 July in Trafalgar Square, London, President Rogge of the International Olympic Committee will address elite sports men and women around the world. He will invite them to form teams ready to compete at the London 2012 Olympic…
Rural banking and agriculture financing in Ghana – FAGRO as a catalyst
Inadequate access to finance in agricultural development and agribusiness is undoubtedly one of the major challenges affecting agricultural innovation systems in Africa. In Ghana like many sub-Saharan countries, inadequate access to credit…
Feeding Ghana’s growing urban population – Is home gardening the answer?
Agricultural Science was not one of my favourite subjects during my upper primary and junior secondary school days in the late 80s and early 90s. But my interest in the subject was always kindled when it was time for practicals.…
Ghana looks to retool its economy as country reaches middle-income status
The recent production of oil in Ghana has led analysts to revise upwards the country’s gross domestic product (GDP), spurring hopes for greater strides in the fight against poverty. On July 1, the country moved from low-income to lower…
Dealing with the filth on our beaches
Simply put, filth can be described as any substance considered as unpleasant, unclean and/or unwanted. Such unclean things could be waste matter, dirt, grease or any other unused and unwanted material.
Filth has lived with us for quite…
Would Africa ever become a world economic power?
A review of the historical antecedents of world economic power indicates the specific times that a number of nations (usually Western) had influenced the world through economic means, dating back to the 13th Century.
In most cases in the…
Telecom promotions, games of chance, lotto and the laws of Ghana
For years telecom operators in Ghana have been organizing text and win promotions but nobody cared to question why some of them charge premium rates of up to 75Gp per text message for a chance to participate until recently when the National…
When Prince William marries Kate Middleton
This Friday, on April 29, His Royal Highness Prince William of Wales, the second in line of succession to the British throne, will marry Miss Catherine Middleton in Westminster Abbey in London.
It will be the most high-profile Royal…
Laurent Gbagbo: The man, his rise and fall
The man Laurent Gbagbo might have gone down in history as one of the people who worked hard to build a political career, reach the pinnacle and come tumbling down through their own making.
Monday April 11, 2011 at about 14:30 GMT Laurent…