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“Health is a crown that the healthy wear, but only the sick can see it,” says Imam Al-Shafi’ee, an Islamic theologian and philosopher. That crown is visible to kidney disease patients who are faced with the frightening possibility of…

Ambassador Farhan Laari Bimi, Gone But Not Forgotten! These solemn words still echoed as we mark the 10th anniversary of the departure of the fearless advocate of human rights. As your legacy stands tall in the democratic, political and…

In 2018, a young man attended a job interview in Accra. As he sat at the designated room with others waiting to be called, he took out his phone to browse. For close to 45 minutes of dead silence in the room, he lifted his head out of…

Change in all aspect of life is very necessary to bring sanity into the future, but not everyone embraces it (change). Those who accept change often do so if they think the change would favour their cause of life. It is change in…

Street hawking is one of the vital activities in the informal sector, which serves as a source of livelihood for many people in developing countries across the world. Petty trading on the streets of Africa is an integral part of the…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has appointed Commissioner of Police (COP) Dr George Akuffo Dampare to serve as Acting Inspector General of Police (IGP), effective Sunday, August 1, 2021. This follows the President’s directive…

As families lose their sources of income due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the global economy plunges into a recession, more households are bound for monetary poverty, with dire consequences for the poorest without access to social…

In the second verse of a famous hit song released by the legendary Bob Marley in 1976 titled, "Rat Race", he bemoaned the fact that "in the abundance of water, the fool is thirsty". The context in which he made that profound…

The torrential downpour witnessed in Kumasi and other parts of the Ashanti Region, last Thursday, June 24, 2021, resulted in massive flooding of some areas of the city displacing many residents. The development, a perennial occurrence,…

Ghana’s quest for a national development finance institution to provide critical financing for economic development cannot be overemphasised. This is because the existing commercial banks have over the years not been able to deliver and…