For sometime now the popularity of highlife has been contested with pundits questioning its attractiveness and ability to survive the changing trends on the music landscape. With the deluge of western music forms like reggae and dancehall along with the development of hiplife music, it appeared as if highlife was dying. Added to this is […]
In about six month’s time, we will be celebrating winners of the biggest awards event on the Ghanaian entertainment calendar, the Vodafone Ghana Music Awards (V.G.M.A) organized by Charter House. This awards event is certainly the most anticipated awards event of the year, not for entertainers alone but workers in a various sectors. From
Time and again, creative people throw away their works unknowingly. Take this instance of a painter who was out on the streets hustling his works and someone buys one. After paying for the painting, the buyer asked the painter to sign a small paper for him. Unwittingly the buyer signed away a fortune. A couple
Yippee!!!!. I am happy to read that Ghana’s media have found another “former Chief Executive of the VRA’ besides me. Twelve years after I left the position, and no matter what I do or talk about, from the doctors’ strike to abolishing TV licence fees, every reportage starts with ‘the former Chief Executive of VRA…..
The Ghana Medical Association (GMA) is undoubtedly one of the most powerful professional associations Ghana has ever known. Unmatched in its lack of tolerance for government’s halfhearted posturing towards workers’ demands for fair wages, and brutal in the ways and means they force the hands of the state to pay them their due. It has
For someone, who has worked closely with the late Ghanaian Times reporter, Samuel Nuamah, it is with a mix of anger and immense frustration that I write this piece. Unlike many, I wasn’t surprised when the event that led to Sammy’s death was told, because I have witnessed even more dangerous speed rage on presidential
It might not have been my colleague fisherman who has passed but we, the fishermen of Oguaa, feel the pains of the family and friends of the presidential reporter. Telling your wife and your child that I am headed for work and would be back and returning never seems possible must have been a prayer
African continent could become a gold mine for renewable energy due to abundant solar and wind resources. The continent is endowed with substantial renewable energy resources. It has 1.1 gigawatts of hydropower capacity, 9000megawatt of geothermal potential and abundant biomass, solar and significant wind potential. According to UNIDO, about 50% of Africa’s hydropower potential of
Putting the mandatory National service as we have it in Ghana now into perspective in terms of the developmental goals of the country on one side and the carrier and professional development of the of the individual service personnel on the other side, one can say that the national service as we have it now
Dear Mr. President, I must confess I was one of the Ghanaians tremendously pleased when you reiterated your pledged to solve our current energy crisis by FIXING it at the just-ended 20th GJA awards. For this assurance and your willingness to help end “dumsor”, I say Thank You Mr President. It is said that “it’s
