Author: TNRgh

Esenam is one of the few women in Ghana who are daring to survive in the male dominated taxi business in the country. He has very amazing academic credentials holding a Master’s degree in Family Resource Management and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Social Work both from the University of Ghana, Legon. On a regular day, Esenam sets out to work at 8 am after dropping off her children at school and washing her car a washing bay. According to Esenam, it is challenging task being a woman in a male dominated business but she says she is poised…

Christian Morgan of Talented Kidz fame has officially released a song to create awareness of Glaucoma, a disease that caused his visual impairment at birth. ‘Glaucoma’, produced by Quansty K Beat features Naquel, Tony Zee, Lotty Green and Efua Praba all from Season 8 of TV3’s reality show – Talented Kidz. First stage performance of the composition will be held at the Cape Coast Town Hall during the Glaucoma Concert on Saturday March 17, 2018 with free eye screening for children as side attraction. Glaucoma is a group of eye diseases which result in damage to the optic nerve and vision loss.  The most…

Edem[/caption] Rapper Edem has debunked insinuations about  him  not getting nomination in the 2018 VGMA’s,  clarifying that he didn’t submit any of his songs for nominations. In an interview with Kenneth Addo on Showbiz927 on 3FM 92.7, Edem said he didn’t make up his mind to submit any entry for this year’s Vodafone Ghana Music Awards. According to him, submission of songs for nomination depends on the artiste. He therefore advised Ghanaians to stop criticising artistes when they do not appear in categories that they otherwise expected to see them in. The rapper also talked about how some of his colleagues…

The Ghana Judicial Service has announced that the 2018 Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Week will take place nationwide from Monday, 12th- 16th March. Alternative Dispute Resolution is the procedure for settling disputes without litigation, such as arbitration, mediation, or negotiation. ADR has been adopted by the Judicial Service of Ghana as part of its adjudication process. Accordingly, a statement from the Judicial Service indicates that the ADR week dubbed ‘Court-Connected ADR’ is aimed at ensuring that “access to justice in Ghana is made easier, cheaper, non-adversarial, expeditious and flexible to all, particularly the poor and vulnerable”. The statement further states…

The Minority Leader in Parliament, Haruna Iddrisu has described as “sacrilege”, the burning of trucks by members of Operation Vanguard in the Kumbungu District of the Northern Region. The lawmaker also indicated that the right to ownership of property of the affected persons has been trampled on. To this effect, the minority caucus from the Northern Region has vowed to pursue the actions of the Operation Vanguard team to its logical conclusion. Fourteen tipper trucks, one excavator, and four motorbikes were set ablaze on March 3, 2018 in Nawuni, a suburb of Dalung in the Kumbungu district by some soldiers…

Patience had no plans of becoming a cobbler, but fate always has its own way of making the untended happen. Such is the story of 35 year old Patience who trades as a cobbler for a living. Patience was once married to a Cobbler. Being a cleaner at the time, she would occasionally assist her husband in her spare time to mend shoes. Her husband passed away in 2014. She has since quit her job as a cleaner and taken over her late husband’s as a cobbler to fend for her family. Patience lives at Adentan in the Greater Accra…

Kim Jong-un and Donald Trump: From enemies to frenemies?[/caption] North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and US President Donald Trump are to meet in person by May, it has been announced, an extraordinary overture after months of mutual hostility. News of the meeting was delivered by South Korean officials after talks with Mr Trump at the White House. They passed a verbal message from Mr Kim, saying the North Korean leader was “committed to denuclearisation”. Mr Trump hailed “great progress” but said sanctions would remain in place. South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in said the news “came like a miracle”. “If President…

The Komenda Sugar Factory, set up to provide 7,300 direct and indirect jobs, remains shut, two years after its inauguration. Sugar cane farmers and the people of the Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abirem municipality in the Central Region have been hoping that efforts by the Ministry of Trade and Industry to reactivate the multi-million dollar factory will bear fruits. But the enthusiasm among farmers that they will get a ready market for their produce at the factory is fast waning. The chiefs and people of the area feel disappointed with the current situation, as the government still cannot concretely tell them when the factory…

Last Sunday was the maiden show of a news program on GhOne TV hosted by Nana Aba Anamoah. Normally our media houses do not have very rich current affairs programs for their viewers on Sundays, so this program caught my attention right from the start. The truth however is that, during the headlines, I heard the term “belly schooling”, a term I was hearing for the first time in education literature, so I decided to listen to what the story was about. That story broke my heart. Pupils in a school in Yikurugu in the Northen part of Ghana lie…

Ashok [in brown], his Indian wife [R] and two children[/caption]The Supreme Court has quashed an order by the High Court ordering the restoration of the residence and work permit of Indian Businessman Ashok Kumar Sivaram. According to the Justices of the Supreme Court, the high court judge erred in granting the order of mandamus. The apex court also indicated that the judge exceeded her jurisdiction in making the order. The justices further added the order for mandamus could not be granted in this circumstance when the businessman has not gone through the administrative processes of getting the revocation addressed. This…