The title of my speech was, “Poverty breeds social unrest, you don’t help the poor by punishing the rich”. Those of you who are old enough will remember that the only independent newspaper then was the Free Press, which carried an editorial with the title, “The golden words of Sam […]
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How Our Society Was Preserved For Us To Inherit
Our traditional society was organised in such a clever way that its survival was safeguarded by utilising, both the psychological power that society can wield over humans, and the deliberate, physical tutoring of humans, against the formidable obstacles thrown across their paths by Nature. Our sages ensured that right from […]
Johnnie Hughes writes: Ghana’s loud galamsey ‘whew’!
On Tuesday 20th April, 2021, the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources , Samuel Abu Jinapor, Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah and the Sanitation and Water Resources Minister, Cecilia Abena Dapaah toured some water bodies and the Sekyere Hemang and Daboase water treatment plants. I must confess, I admired the team […]
The Quran and the miracle of the Big bang theorists
The miracle of the Qur’an is often said to be miraculous because of the Qur’an’s outstanding content that traverses human comprehension. A book that was revealed some 1,400 years ago in the middle of the Arabian desert to an uneducated prophet, yet one will find in this book containing scientific […]
Ghana and the ‘begging culture
By Dr. Kofi Effah It is an interesting ‘culture’. Professionals and other workers who are paid for the work they do, beg people for money and gifts. The policeman may stop me on the road or at the Police barrier. When they notice the Ghana Medical Association sticker on my […]







