Using the appropriate word or expression poses a big challenge to many writers and speakers of the English language. Choice of words plays a key role in the Queen’s language,
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Every true leader is able to rally a team of people around himself. Jesus gathered a team of twelve people around himself. He lived with them and fellowshipped with them
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This column began on Monday, November 16, 2009. It wasn’t expected to run for 10 good years. Over the 10-year period, one has come to know that virtually everything we,
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The year under review was generally positive for me. But for the failure to secure scholarship from my government to pursue a doctoral programme in a top notch foreign university,
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I happened to teach in a certain senior high school in a town in the Volta Region. This town also had a nursing training college. As part of the recruitment
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What makes a year new? In fact, a new year is nothing, but a change in number or an upward review of number, according to the Gregorian calendar. So man
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It takes a person with a heroic or warrior spirit to give hope to others, to inspire and motivate others who are enduring pains, depression and huge financial burden because
How NDC Belied The Ethos Of Probity, Accountability, Transparency (2)
John Mahama I have, in fact, stressed severally that some of us regrettably witnessed the squeamishly ugly events which took place over a period of three decades (1970-1990s), and therefore
Leaders Learn To Interact With The Great And The Small
A good leader learns to interact with two main groups of people: the great (humanly speaking) and the small (humanly speaking). The great people are the nobles, the rich and
Disability Not Inability
‘Disability is not inability;’ although that is dictated by a society. Whether a person with some kind of disability gets so recognized as a complete individual with other human functional
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“An open foe may prove a curse but a pretended friend is worse” -Benjamin Franklin. There is this popular Akan saying which literally translates, “If nakedness
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“YAW, what is it like to get drunk?” I asked Yaw Charles. He was about ten years older than me. But more important, he had worked for five years or
How Special Is 31st December For Christians?
OF THE 365 days in a year, 31st December is considered an extraordinary day by most members of the Christian community. It is the last day of the last month