Month: October 2012

When Ghana’s Transitional-President, John “Paradigm-Shift” Dramani Mahama, asserts imperiously that “No individual can claim to be the brain behind [the] fee-free Senior High School [proposition],” and that Ghana’s Fourth-Republican Constitution “makes provision for a progressive […]

The predictable decision by Ghana’s Electoral Commission to summarily disqualify the presidential candidacy of former First Lady Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings and her National Democratic Party (NDP), ought to be hotly contested. It ought to be […]

The widely reported attack on Ms. Eva Lokko, the vice-presidential candidate of the Nduom-minted Progressive People’s Party (PPP), may well be an insider job deviously calculated to attract a direly desired attention for a party […]

Believe it or not, there is wailing, cursing, and gnashing of teeth in the household of the Rawlingses. Why? Because the Electoral Commission has decreed that they do so. By exercising its mandate in the […]

Radioaktive Substanzen als Arzneimittel einnehmen? Das würden die meisten von uns zunächst einmal weit von sich weisen. Aber Radioaktivität kann tatsächlich heilende Kräfte entfalten. „Als Bestandteil einer sorgfältig geplanten und maßgeschneiderten Behandlung bilden Radiopharmaka eine […]

Taking radioactive substances as drugs? At first sight, many would undoubtedly reject this idea. But radioactivity can indeed be a healing force. “As part of a precisely planned and individually tailored treatment, radiopharmaceuticals are a […]

The ugly noise that Rawlings continues to make about his so-called principles of “probity and accountability”—which is the motivation for his persistent undermining of his successors—is more than annoying. According to him, everybody in Ghana […]

In slums around the world, the sight of food vendors along dusty alleys, serving customers as they wave away flies, is common. Many of these consumers do not consider themselves undernourished, but experts say consuming […]