My Scripts

In the last five or so years, our education sector appears to have been buffeted in several ways – both for good reasons and the reverse. For reasons that appear not too clear, almost every level of the education ladder has had some attempt being made to make major...

This week has been the examinations week to close up the Second Term for the private school where my two children are enrolled. As usual, I had been following up with keen interest the various papers as they had partake in. Fully aware that the examinations were to...

Whoever got His Excellency the President to switch from his western-style dress sense in the initial days of his presidency to shirts from these locally-designed fabrics deserves tonnes of applause.  Beyond his sense of fashion for dashing western-styled dark...

I recall that back in the day in College, our sports team had won the Inter-Schools and Colleges Athletics. The excitement had been massive and students opted to process all the way from the Mfantsipim School Park (which was host for the festival) back to the College....

The commemoration of Ghana’s Independence activities has conventionally been heralded by the events of Saturday, 28thFebruary shooting incident at the Christiansburg Castle crossroads when ex-servicemen who had fought for the British Government in World War II were...

On my way back from the centre, I reflected soberly on the trajectory of the application process, I was more than convinced that systems can work in our country if we really do determine it to be so.  We have a penchant in this country to criticize leadership when...

Having been born and raised in Cape Coast for almost twenty years in addition to having my secondary education in that great College has imposed a certain obligation of having to trek to the ancient town from Accra on countless occasions. For instance, I recollect...

The Setting Anumle was established about the early 1920s during the colonial era. It was initially intended to serve as a Workers’ village for the non-teaching staff of the then Prince of Wales College and School (later to be known as Achimota School). The first...

It has been announced that this week will witness the issuance of Constitutional Instruments (CIs) to give effect to the creation of six new administrative regions. This follows the successful constitutional processes that were required for the creation of the six...

Having been nurtured in the home of educationists, the maxim, ‘If you can read this, thank a teacher’was one I grew up appreciating.  My admiration for my teachers was inaudible yet so strong. When I started engaging in social media activities at about 2006...

Did I hear right? As though, I was dreaming, I woke up over the weekend to a story about the Minister of Education announcing at a Lecture that government intends to engage authorities of the country’s universities about reducing the length of undergraduate university...

Last Sunday, February 10, 2019, my attention was drawn to a story on Citi News Room online portal. The headline was ‘JHS, SHS Certificates to be upgraded to Diplomas – Education Minister’.  My first instinct upon reading was to recheck the portal to assure myself...

I needed to renew my Ghanaian Passport which expires sometime this year. Last Tuesday, I made payment at the Labone branch of the Zenith Bank and obtained my transaction details for completing the online forms. Getting the forms filled was pretty simple, something...

Have you ever wondered why only roofs of public buildings get ripped off? This was a question my Project Supervisor asked me once during my undergraduate days as a Building Technology student. So many years later as I watched a TV3 news in the evening sometime in...

Just chanced on circulation of these two cheques as purported payment of Ibrahim Mahama's indebtedness to the Ghana Revenue Authority. Much as it's refreshing that that money has finally been paid, I don't think that it is proper to have cheques of corporate entities...