When I heard that the Ghana Education Service (GES) had released the 2026/2027 academic calendar for basic schools in Ghana, I found myself wishing that equal attention would…
Opinion
Every year, thousands of children in Ghana sit for the BECE under fear, pressure, and exhaustion. For many families, five days of exams seem to decide a child’s…
A growing number of people in Ghana are calling for mandatory DNA testing at birth as a solution to disputes over paternity. The argument is emotionally compelling. No…
Every time news breaks that someone has taken their own life, society responds in a familiar way: people revisit old conversations, scroll through old photographs, reread messages, and…
A few weeks ago in Ghana, some concerned teachers staged a demonstration to protest unpaid salaries. The words of a teacher, who happens to be a nursing mother,…
The images are now painfully familiar. Shops ransacked. African migrants chased through streets. Voices raised not in unity, but in rage. In 2026, videos once again surfaced of…
Reliable electricity supply is no longer only a question of generation capacity. A country may have enough installed megawatts and still suffer outages if its grid is weak,…
The speed with which we criticise should match the speed with which we acknowledge success. Public debate over the Bank of Ghana’s 2025 financial results has been dominated by…
The last time I resolved to examine the tissues in the issues of paternity fraud and the chaos it has brought on African families, especially those domiciled in…
As the current government seeks to roll out a system that links salaries to employee productivity, care must be taken to ensure that targets are not used as…