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What is the OSP Whingeing About?

The usually energetic and ready-for-action Special Prosecutor of Ghana, Mr. Kissi Agyebeng on Wednesday, November 29 looked downcast and capped an unusual press conference with the singing of a dirge after wailing about the dismissive attitude of the judiciary towards anti-corruption cases and actions taken by his office. Two days before his press conference, a High Court nullified an indicting […]

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Can You Swim All of River Volta?

If you had a boat weighing in at 4.5 tonnes built in Accra and needed to get it to the confluence of the Black and White Voltas for an expedition, the riverine port at Buipe is where you’d have to get your boat to. The logistical conundrums of moving a solar-powered boat up from Tema to the Savannah Region is […]

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Fact: Government is not to Blame for our Economic Challenges. Still fact: Government Is!

In the past four months the average household in Ghana paid two-thirds more than it did the year before for fuel, food and flour. The Akufo-Addo (mis)led government blames the Russo-Ukraine war for Ghana’s economic hardships, and he mentioned same in his address to the United Nations in September of 2022. While true that Vladimir Putin’s intransigence has contributed to […]

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Adwoa Yankey: A Song for Akufo-Addo

Tucked beautifully away in the forests between Akyem Asafo on the Apedwa-Bunso stretch of the Accra-Kumasi highway and Akyem Kukurantumi on the Koforidua-Nsutam road is the village of Addo-Nkwanta. This village could only correctly be called a Ghanaian village. Unlike other Akyem villages where Akyem Twi was the lingua franca, Addo-Nkwanta has a healthy mix of just about every Ghanaian […]

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The Gods Must Be Crazy

Before moving to permanently settle at Odumase and Somanya, the ancient Krobos lived in the beautiful outcrops called Klowem, located just near the Akuse junction on the Akosombo Road. Every avid hiker, mountaineer or trekker worth his rank under the professional OAG knows the Klowem outcrops. The moderately challenging 10km diameter wilderness has steep trails, grassy passes, rocky valleys and […]

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So Ghana Go Be?

In 2007, after the new Landcruiser had rolled out of Toyota’s factories with its 5.7-liter V8 engine and the resultant 381 horsepower and 401 pounds of torque, the company presented less than a dozen of the units to its sales offices in Ghana. Toyota Global was not sure that citizens of our highly indebted poor country could afford the new model’s sound-absorbing […]

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To Marry or Not to Marry?

It depends largely on one’s perspective, but a Professor friend of mine, bemoaning the abysmal lack of intellectual acuity in today’s young couples said to me in response to the question, “Anyone that goes C-minus in logical reasoning has no business getting married.” A few acquaintances disagreed with him. “Who cares about brains?” One asked me when I reported the […]

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Is 5G the Mark of the Beast?

To answer this question the logical way, we will have to first find out who or what the Beast is, what it means to acquire its mark, and then expose any connection both may have to the much touted 5th generation wireless communications technologies supporting cellular data networks. Of course, neither of the constructs mentioned in the question is without […]