Tag: Africa

Ghana must brace for future calamity and leadership crisis


When Judas Iscariot was asked to join Jesus’ ministry, he was already engaged in money-making. He is thought to have hailed from a family with ties to terrorism, theft, and a fanatical Jewish sect that was obsessed with accumulating fortune at any cost.
Judas humbly made a bid for a more lucrative role in Jesus’ ministry: finance. Judas was given money for the ministry and was stealing from it, according to John 12:6. He had no one to answer to, not even his master, Jesus Christ. Jesus’ ministry was increasingly less concerned with accumulating wealth because it was more concerned with saving souls, changing the law, and laying the groundwork for the gospel to triumph.

Booing Nana Addo Akuffo: Expressing Sentiments of a Failed Leadership and System


Today I am intruding into matters of a national nature: the governance and leadership of President Nana Akuffo Addo. Despite the political climate of fear and institutionalized political terrorism, I am inspired by Nana Addo’s invitation to all citizens to be “responsible citizens; not spectators” to express my opinion.

Ghana Celebrates 60+ years of Evil After Demonizing Dr. Nkrumah


Though we have universities, they produced paper based professionals, we have training colleges, they produce talking teachers not skillful teaching professionals, we have bankers, yet our economic growth is determined by IMF, World Bank, we have political leaders who are concerned with grammatical expressions, we have resources, but not factories, we have fertile lands yet we import food stuff, we have parliamentarians yet foreigners draft our laws and we have technocrats, yet our productivity is at the lowest level in the world, we have security yet our addicted girls could not be found, we have engineers, our roads and bridges remained unconstructed, we have contractors but our building projects lasted less than 5 years, we have lawyers and judges, yet injustice is at peak, we have relatively free press, yet misinformation runs through headlines.

Ghana’s Parliamentary Speaker Professor Mike Ocquaye Enters History as Enemy to Free Press, Democracy and Good Governance


Well, this is not a personal opinion but my constitutional right to contribute to national discourse. The president called me and every other Ghanaian to be citizens and not spectators. Well, maybe this call by the president was declared because it was in a plagiarized or stolen presidential speech. I doubt if the president would have included this important call if he had written his “inaugural speech” all by himself with the support of his advisors. I also doubt if the president went through his “inaugural speech” before delivering it. If the president did, was it to wow citizens and the world because he was being hailed as a “well-educated” person or it was a principle of governance he outlined for Ghanaians?

Effective Use of ICTs Could Halt Needless Mortality of Women and Children


The former United Nations (UN) Secretary-General, Ban Ki-Moon, a few years ago convened a meeting of health leaders and experts … More

The Hidden Cost of Fossil Fuels Part 2: Heatwaves, More Deaths: Let’s Break Free from Fossil Fuels


There is warm and then there is too warm. Scientists have discovered that without the atmosphere’s natural insulating blanket of … More

Climate Change Programme Assembles Research Scientists, Development Practitioners to Make Climate Change Interventions Less Conflictive in Africa


By Francis Npong, Ghana In response to increasing climate variability, national governments, international organizations and NGOs are currently implementing new … More

Environmental Journalists’ Group Protests against Coal-Plant Establishment in Ghana


A journalist group in Ghana, Media Advocates for Sustainable Environment (MASE) is taking on the managers of Ghana’s electricity Company-Volta River Authority (VRA) over plans to construct a coal-fired plant in Ghana.

Changes in Weather Patterns Need Swift Action to Save Ghana’s Agriculture


  Pearl Millet is one of the hunger breaker crops in parts of Northern Ghana. Often referred to as savannah … More