OPINION

Director of the Africa Office of the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative, Mina Mensah, has called for the decriminalization and or reclassification of petty crimes under the laws of Ghana. According to her, the current laws that govern petty offences in the country are largely redundant and disproportionately affect the poor …

Ghanaian plant geneticist and founding director of the West Africa Centre for Crop Improvement (WACCI) of the University of Ghana, Professor Eric Yirenkyi Danquah, says smallholder farmers in Africa need access to biotech crops more than farmers anywhere else in the world. For him, the time has come for African …

Professor Aaron Mike Oquaye (AMO), who is the immediate past Speaker of Ghana’s Parliament, is a distinguished scholar, an academic, a diplomat and a politician. Prof. Oquaye who is also a Reverend Minister was recently honoured by the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) by naming its Centre for Constitutional Affairs …

The Moderator of the General Assembly of Presbyterian Church of Ghana, Rt. Rev. Prof. Joseph Obiri Yeboah Mante thinks that  Ghanaians are being overly critical of the Electronic Transfer Levy. Speaking on the sidelines of the maiden Moderators Academic Excellence Award and Founders’ Day Celebration at the Presbyterian Women’s College …

A former Speaker of Parliament, Professor Aaron Mike Oquaye, has proposed the establishment of an independent National Development Planning Commission (NDPC) that will craft development programmes devoid of political interference. He said the members of such a commission should be appointed from independent sources, including academia, civil society and religious …

A new survey conducted by Global Info Analytics, a polling company in Ghana, has shown that 67% of citizens are of the view that, Ghana is on the wrong developmental path. Whilst 50% of New Patriotic Party (NPP) affiliates approve of the performance of the president, 45% disapprove of his …

The National Communications Director of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Yaw Buaben Asamoa has rejected portions of the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU)’s report which tipped the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) as the party with a higher probability to secure victory in the next general elections. Mr. Asamoa contended that …

The Chairperson of the National Development Planning Commission, Professor Stephen Adei, has added his voice to calls for government to reduce its expenditure in order to improve on the performance of the economy. According to him, the country is experiencing difficulties and to salvage the situation, a possible reduction in …

An overwhelming number of Ghanaians (81.6%) want the Electronic Transaction Levy (E-Levy) to be cancelled and never be introduced, a survey by the Center for Economics Finance and Inequality Studies has revealed. However, 36.4% did not have any knowledge about the E-Levy. The research was carried out by Dr Benjamin …

Looking at how intricately corruption is woven into the moral fibre of Ghanaians, it sounds ambitious to propose tackling it through formal and informal education of children of all ages. Unless some argue, it must start from the corridors of power, policymakers or the government of the day. But is …