The 2017 budget statement read to Parliament by Mr Ken Ofori Atta on 02 March 2017 was a very competent one. It was also quite transparent. It conveyed a clear
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Beneficial Ownership
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“Nkrumah began his political career as a democrat and ended as a dictator… Rawlings began as a military dictator and ended as a democrat…It was an irony for Nkrumah to
Georgina Wood, And The Women Who Rose
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Bishop Dag Heward-Mills If a poor nation’s head of state visits Paris for twenty days; books forty-three rooms in a five star hotel and spends more than one million dollars
Value For Heritage Money
‘Value for money’ featured prominently in a presidential inaugural speech. On hearing heritage fund could rescue education from underfunding, my initial thinking was value for money. Education is about guaranteeing
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Nkrumah’s Political Prison (1)
Dr J.B. Danquah and Tawia Adamafio The darkest human right abuse of the immediate post-independence period was arguably the arbitrary application of the Preventive Detention Act (PDA). It saw many