The late South African president and global icon, Nelson Mandela, once said “education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can
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CAN A person be highly educated and yet behave stupidly? Some men and women boast of being lettered, informed, exposed and enlightened. They brag that they live by common sense.
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A portion of our lead story yesterday regarding the fatality originating from a falling wall in Accra said it all about how negligence on the part of officialdom can be
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A paradise is classically a place where no sorrows abide; a place where happiness abounds; a place where want is unwanted and needs are bountiful. That the place has not
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Effah Dartey (R) in a photo with Ghana’s Ambassador to Germany, Gina Blay (middle) I was in my law office at Asylum Down when two visitors suddenly walked in. “Captain,
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Jean Mensa Honourable Madam Jean Mensa, I admit you’re not one of my students in the American Government/Political Science class in order to subject you to these long and boring
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Much water has passed under the bridge since President Ogwanfunu’s shocking and humiliating defeat received at the hands of then Candidate Nana Dee. We all saw how Candidate Nana Dee
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At independence in 1957, we assumed we were all “equal” citizens in the country of our birth, which we were to strive to build into a “nation”. But that notion
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By the Grace of God, I was called to the Bar in 1986 and harsh economic conditions compelled me to plunge into private legal practice like how a person jumps
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Nicolas Pompigne-Mognard is the founder and the chairman of APO Group, a company that provides media relations consultancy and press release distribution services in Africa and in the Middle East.