COMMENTARY

The enlightenment & the Ghana culture day

By Kofi Akosah-Sarpong

Wednesday, 14th March, 2012 was Ghana Culture Day. Authorities say the day is to promote “mainstreaming of the culture in national development.” This has been going on over the years – basically pandering the same thinking. 

LEGAL AFFAIRS

 Woman fakes kidnapping, cons her family
By Bernard Momanyi 

Police have arrested a woman who faked her own kidnapping and solicited Sh200,000 as ransom from her friends and relatives.

COMMENTARY

Okonjo-Iweala was warned on world bank

 By Odimegwu Onwumere

Okonja-Iwela

The one-sided choice of Jim Yong Kim on 16^th April 2012, as the World Bank president, by President Barack Obama of the USA, resulting to Nigeria’s Finance Minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, being dropped, has further exposed America's democracy, as shenanigan’s, where Kim, a health expert, was preferred to Okonjo-Iweala, a renowned economist.

NEWS & REPORT

The selection of Jim Yong Jim as the world bank president

By David Theis

Editor's note: He was selected ahead of Nigeria's finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala to become the 12^th World Bank Group President in a process Dr. Iwela described as favouritism. The other contestant, Colombian Ocambo, withdrew for what he described as unfair selection

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The Executive Directors followed the new selection process agreed in 2011 which, for the first time in the Bank’s history, yielded multiple nominees.

OPINION

Reality of marriage (2)

By Aidy Thomas 

 READ PART (1)
Marriage is one place where your dreams give way to reality. All the wishful thinking meets with ‘what would be’. Different areas unfold their unique challenges:

OPINION

Indecent dressing

By Stella Damasus

I was at a popular shopping mall with my kids a while ago buying pizza. My children decided to go into the department store so they could see the latest “wii” game if any.  As I was about to join them, someone tapped my shoulder and said please Madam Stella, forgive me for being so rude I would like to talk to you and it’s urgent.

PRESS RELEASE

Governor initiates reality TV show for orphanages

By Nkemjika Chileetam

In a unique show of concern for the less privileged, Prince Tonye Princewill, a PDP Chieftain and Leader of Princewill Political Associates (PPA) has pumped in the sum of N120M in collaborate with Adonis Productions to organize the first ever Reality TV show for orphans under the umbrella of Melody Shelters.