Rice, a staple food in Ghana, is enjoyed by many Ghanaian citizens. It is therefore not surprising that the ministry of food and agriculture in collaboration with other stakeholders are supporting our local rice farmers to expand production for domestic consumption. However, many a local rice farmers have not been largely motivated to go into large scale rice production. This is because of the lack... 

Education is the key to unlocking the human resource potential of a country. Through quality education a country is able to have qualitative human resource to accelerate its socio-economic development. Many advanced nations could not have gotten where they are now if they had not placed emphasis on education. Examples of some of these countries are the United States of America, France and Britain.... 

Barring any last minute hitch, the people of Atiwa in the Eastern Region will tomorrow, August 31, 2010 go to the polls to elect a new Member of Parliament (MP) following the demise of their MP, Mr. Kwesi Annoh Ankama, whose death occurred in the United Kingdom (UK) where he had gone to seek medical care some weeks ago. May his soul rest in perfect peace! Since Ghana retuned to multi-party democracy,... 

A section of the media has within the week been reporting of an obvious conspiracy by some senior players of the national football team – the Black Stars, to boycott call-up for national duty. It was even suggested by the media that Michael Essien’s decision to take temporary leave of the Black Stars was mainly due to the silent decision by the big boys to quit the team. As it stands, it would... 

One issue that has stirred much controversy and public discourse recently was the statement made by the National Chairman of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) party, Dr. Kwabena Adjei, to the effect that his party will be forced to cleanse the judiciary, for reasons that the judiciary has set its mind towards one direction. Dr. Adjei’s categorical statement, indeed, has caused much apprehension... 

In spite of the fact that the three northern parts of Ghana – Northern, Upper West and Upper East regions – are poverty-stricken, successive governments in this nation continue to pay lip-service towards addressing this problem. It is most unfortunate that our Ghanaian citizens who live in the north continue to be faced with many challenges prominent amongst which is the lack of potable... 

Today is highly disappointed by the Public Utility Regulatory Commission (PURC) and government decision to marginally reduce utility tariffs for residential consumers from 42 per cent to 38.9 per cent in spite of the numerous agitations that the country has recorded in recent past. It is the usual norm in established democracies in the world that governments show concern to its citizens in view of... 

Rev. Prof. Samuel Asante-Antwi, former Ghanaian Methodist Prelate’s endorsement of flag bearer-elect of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has again stirred the debate whether our pastors should be engaged in politics or not. In fact Rev. Samuel Asante-Antwi’s open endorsement of Nana Addo and criticism of government was indeed an admonition that the Mills presidency... 

The future development of a country cannot be achieved meaningfully if the youth are not actively involved in it. The youth constitute an integral part in the socio-economic development of every country in this world. Therefore, it will be out of place to entirely relegate them to the background so far as future development of nations is concerned. It is for the above reason and others that Today newspaper... 

Some media networks on Monday, August 9, 2010, reported that the Western Regional Deputy Minister, Ms Betty Bosomtwi-Sam, has said that poor urbanization planning over the years, has adversely affected the socio-economic development of the country and has endangered the nation’s quest to reach a middle income status by 2015. She was quoted as saying “The lack of urbanization has led to the evolution...