Features
16th February, 2012
Ghanaian women are making incredible strides. Of course, we have always done more than our share to nurture new life, create a home, and generate resources with whatever our hands found. Our mothers ...
15th February, 2012
On a radio programme recently, I heard a teaser on an advertisement indicating that a substantial amount of anti-malarial medicines on the Ghanaian market were counterfeits.
Unfortunately, the ...
10th February, 2012
The Corporate world today is characterized by uncertainty, intense competition and above all instability. It suffers failures, bankruptcy, greed and fraud.
Due to these challenges, every now and ...
10th February, 2012
True, globalisation has unleashed a certain ideological onslaught, creating a fertile ground for incepting a global normative ethic. But that normative ethic is more pronounced in political economy, ...
7th February, 2012
When Bill Clinton succeeded George W.H. Bush in the White House, America wanted to invade Iraq again. But the new hardworking Secretary-General of the U.N., Kofi Annan, went to Iraq with lightening ...
7th February, 2012
Inside everyone who writes, author or journalist, lives a subject, sometimes two or three that he or she cannot completely wash out of his system.
He keeps going back to that subject in his books ...
25th December, 2011
Christmas – a time for family, a time for giving thanks, a time to eat too much food and a time that always brings a smile to my face.
In my 20 years, I have experienced Christmas in the heat of ...
29th November, 2011
Nurses and midwives form the bedrock of Ghana’s health delivery system while nursing education is an important tool for effective patient care.
Indeed, the high quality and international ...
28th November, 2011
Scientific journalism is gradually catching up in Third World countries. This is welcome news and a healthy development.
Science, being the basic proven tool that can be harnessed to eradicate ...
6th September, 2011
Various studies have shown that unequal gender relations are prevalent in schools and that males are the greatest culprits of violence against girls and women.
A United Nations study of 46 ...
1st September, 2011
Life at times is very interesting; it is full of uncertainties and challenges. It is never a straight route – full of hills, curves, bumps and potholes. But death ends it all.
Yes, life is ...
31st August, 2011
The ethical review boards across the country provide credible avenues for researchers conducting biomedical research to get ethical approval of their research protocol.
However, there is little ...
31st August, 2011
During the struggle for Ghana’s independence, our leader, Kwame Nkrumah, made a pronouncement which sounded biblical and is memorable. He called on the people to “Seek ye first the political ...
24th August, 2011
By and large, Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings is a popular figure in Ghana. She is the darling wife of the former President J. J. Rawlings, and by virtue of her marital relationship with him as the Head ...
19th August, 2011
There is a puzzling irony about Accra. It is the capital city of Ghana and therefore expected to be the centre of excellence in urban development and life, particularly in the vital area of ...
28th June, 2011
Readers of various newspapers might have noticed it. On Thursday, June 20, 2011, one story dominated the headlines of the front pages. Three of them read: Teenager buries her baby alive … Dogs ...
21st June, 2011
Vesico-vaginal fistula (VVF) is a condition in which the affected women continuously leak urine and sometimes faeces from the vagina. The most common cause is prolonged obstructed labour.
Labour ...
21st June, 2011
Trade Unions operate to three dimensions namely: Trade Unions and members; Trade Unions and Management; Trade Unions and State.
The recognition of a trade union by management and state is usually ...
27th April, 2011
As the world continues to grapple with the search for a permanent cure for the HIV and AIDS pandemic, the government, public and private institutions and NGOs in Ghana have intensified efforts to ...
12th March, 2011
FOR a country like Ghana that imports everything concerning paper, including even toilet rolls, the need for pulp and paper industry cannot be overemphasized.
But, there is not a single pulp and ...