Ghana’s pineapple industry collapsing

Pineapple exporters have been chided by government for contributing to the collapse of fruit processing factories in the country. Minister for Agriculture, Kwesi Ahwoi, said though Ghana has the capacity to process its raw produce, Ghanaian farmers have not made enough inputs into developing the manufacturing sector. This, he said, has rendered many factories idle. [...]

The Analogue Politicians of a Digital Age

TIME with the GOVERNOR Last Tuesday during a reaction to a grading system by the Africawatch magazine on the performance of President Mills, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) General Secretary, Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie, (Sir John) chose to use the medium to run the Mills administration down by insisting that the government deserved aggregate A for [...]

Konadu 2012 Posters…

…Win more sympathy for Mills

The Cape Coast Metropolis on Tuesday nearly turned upside down when former first lady Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings’ posters saga won a lot of sympathy for President John Evans Atta Mills.

The terrifying prospect of election stealing in Africa

There is no political event more dangerous than a general election. Even in what are called the ‘mature democracies’, elections bring out hidden weaknesses in a nation’s structure that can be stretched to breaking point, and if wise counsels do not prevail, no one can predict what might happen. The best example of this sort [...]

Essence of being bi-lingual: Are Ghanaians doing enough to speak French?

In my quest to find out efforts being made by Ghanaians in the area of speaking French, I spoke to Arnaud Dornon, Counselor of Cooperation and Cultural Service, Scientific Cooperation, and Isabelle BOKHARI, Linguistic Attaché (Secondary and Higher Education Level) Project Coordinator – French language, at the Embassy of France, Accra, who both shared their [...]

Kotoko-Arsenals pay the price; but who takes the blame

The Disciplinary and Grievances Committee of the Ghana Football Association (GFA) on Tuesday ruled that the abortive sixth week Glo Premier League match between Kumasi Asante Kotoko and Berekum Arsenals should be rescheduled. The Committee therefore directed the Professional League Board to fix a tentative date for the rescheduled match. As usual parties involved in [...]

US$19.2 million IFAD loan to Cameroon to improve food security in rural areas

A US$19.2 million loan from the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) to the Republic of Cameroon will help improve the livelihoods of poor rural people in the Extreme-North, North, North-West and West regions of the country, the UN rural poverty agency announced today. The loan agreement for the Commodity Value-Chain Development Support Project was [...]

‘NDC In Troubled Times’

General Secretary of the ruling National Democratic Congress, Johnson Asiedu Nketia, has admitted that the NDC is in difficult times. “The NDC is experiencing difficult times. What is currently happening in the NDC has never happened in the history of the party,” he noted. Speaking on Kokroko, the flagship program of Accra based Peace FM [...]