Who is the Best Public Sector Leader for 20111- Number 1* Though we at IMANI revel in criticism and wholeheartedly believe that thoughtful, careful, analytical and comprehensive critiques of government policy are the most effective approach to contributing to the growth of governance through the sharpening of institutions of state and the improvement of decision-making, we nevertheless started an experiment... 

In the heated lead-up to Election 2008, his boss loudly, repeatedly and categorically promised to find and severely prosecute the alleged killers of Ya-Na Yakubu Andani II, the overlord of Dagbon, in no time; and so it must have come as quite an insolent surprise and a rude political awakening to the entire Dagbon royal family that Deputy Presidential Chief-of-Staff, Mr. Alexander Segbefia should be... 

Ghana on Friday December 9, 2011 joined the rest of the world to celebrate world anti- corruption day.  The United Nations’ (UN) International Anti-Corruption Day aims at raising public awareness of corruption and what people can do to fight it and is observed on December 9 each year. It is also seen as a time for political leaders, governments, legal bodies and lobby groups to organise events... 

News reports that the NPP’s Nana Akufo-Addo desecrated a mosque in Damongo by urinating on its walls during his recent visit to the area came as no surprise to some of us. The persistent recourse to insults and plain calumny as political tools suggests that such news reports won’t be anything extra-ordinary. Nor will we expect that the spate of pejorative utterances against Akufo-Addo will abate. It... 

Sure, it wasn’t the first time celebrated novelist Chinua Achebe had refused to accept an honorary award. And Prof Kwame Okoampah-Ahoofe puts it most succinctly in his title to an article on the subject: “Achebe merely repeated his perennial political statement”. In that brilliant account, Kwame also refers to his experience in 1989, when he sat under the distinguished lectureship of the Things... 

Having an abortion does not increase a woman’s chance of developing mental health problems, according to a large study that challenges anti-abortion groups’ claims that termination causes trauma and depression. Anti-abortion campaigners picketing a Marie Stopes family planning clinic. The organisation says the review reinforced its views on mental health The research, commissioned by the... 

The last month of last year saw President Mills declare the coming year as his ‘Action Year.’ “2011 is the year in which Ghanaians will see the physical manifestations of the ‘Better Ghana’ agenda. It will be the year when Ghanaians will see the government making judicious use of the country’s resources, especially in the area of infrastructural development, to have meaning in the lives... 

“A sin is an evil which has its ground or origin in the agent, and not in the compulsion of circumstances.” – Samuel Taylor Coleridge, British poet and philosopher The eerie image of a one-month-old baby called Mercy accused of being a witch and afterwards abandoned to die in Ghana’s Upper East Region reminds me of the beginning of the Book of Job, where in the mysteries of evil, God and... 

Time with The Governor At first, it was vaguely original. Now it is almost official – that it is not a man’s world anymore. Not today. Not in the 21st Century. Not even in the 20th Century. Women have proven more than men with wombs; they have mostly outdone their men in many areas of political and social life. Nations that have recognised this have tapped their expertise to turn their countries... 

Elections are around the corner in both America and Ghana and the airwaves are filled with spin. In the United States, former pizza mogul Herman Cain’s campaign is over due to accusations relating to womanizing and harassment. Here in Ghana, every few days, there are accusations about the moral failings of one candidate or another. There are charges of womanizing, homosexuality, drug use and lack...