On Thursday February 12, 2025, President John Mahama convened an emergency cabinet meeting to discuss what has emerged as an unprecedented crisis in the cocoa sector. For the first time since independence in 1957, a government has failed to pay cocoa farmers after buying and stocking their cocoa for four months. As if the failure […] The post Development Discourse

Independence. Why can’t everyone be free? Certainly, everyone deserves to be free; after all, freedom is widely recognized as a fundamental human right. Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) declares, “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.” Freedom, therefore, is not merely a political aspiration—it is […] The post The

By Samuel SAM The MTN Ghana Foundation has donated more than 7,000 pints of blood to support the National Blood Service and regional hospital blood banks across the country. The donation formed part of its annual “Save a Life” Blood Donation Drive, organised in collaboration with Cal Bank. The exercise was held at 44 designated […] The post MTN Foundation donates

By Bertie Jacobs Football. The Beautiful Game. The World Game. It is no overstatement to say that our continent adores football, with an estimated 59% of Africans watching the sport more than once a week. Africa’s sporting picture is, however, much more inclusive than that. Athletics enjoys a large following, especially in East Africa where […] The post Africa must utilise sport tourism appeared

By Samuel SAM The MTN Ghana Foundation has donated more than 7,000 pints of blood to support the National Blood Service and regional hospital blood banks across the country. The donation formed part of its annual “Save a Life” Blood Donation Drive, organised in collaboration with Cal Bank. The exercise was held at 44 designated […] The post MTN Foundation donates

By Professor Felix Nikoi Hammond Last week, I visited a supermarket in Shiashie for a brief errand. The experience was routine until it deviated; the POS system was non-operational, and the young shop attendant, who assisted in carrying my groceries to the vehicle, accompanied me on a brief journey to a nearby ATM to complete […] The post The talent balance sheet: Is Ghana subsidising