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By Eric Bawah   During the 2012 electioneering campaign when Nana Akufo Addo promised Ghanaians that when he got the nod he will introduce the free SHS, I prayed to

The soup just suddenly went cold and tastes tinny.  I am sitting in the Accra Mall, behind a bowl of “Singapore foofoo”.  I call it that for the want of

Last Saturday, I was at Great Hall of the University of Ghana. As an alumnus, I haven’t been there for several years. The drive to the hall was slow, as

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A week ago today many women most of them Muslims converged on the premises of ‘Standpoint’, Gifty Anti’s initiative for championing the cause of women. Although it was a conference

Good day, His deferential Rt. Reverend Prof. Emmanuel Asante of the National Peace Council. I have been compelled, a lowly man that I am, to write this humble letter to your

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During the Bosnian war, dictator, Slobodan Milosevic ordered the massacre of Muslims in Srebrenica.  Thousands of men, women and children perished in that inhuman assault.  When the allied forces conquered Slobodan, he