http://news.peacefmonline.com/rss/editorial.xml Visit Peace FM Online for latest news, breaking news, audio and feature stories in Ghana en-us Peace FM Online 2009 2013-05-14T10:35:50+01:00 Michael Ofori Amanfo Boateng Ghana News http://news.peacefmonline.com/editorial/201305/164145.php Some deviants in the country are trying to create a state of insecurity among the populace. http://news.peacefmonline.com/editorial/201305/164145.php http://news.peacefmonline.com/editorial/201305/163408.php Last Friday, fire swept through Accra’s biggest slum - Sodom & Gomorrah – destroying properties, rendering thousands homeless, and leaving many others in a more deplorable slum condition. http://news.peacefmonline.com/editorial/201305/163408.php http://news.peacefmonline.com/editorial/201304/162224.php The profundity of the place of freedom of expression in civilized societies should not be compromised under any circumstance. http://news.peacefmonline.com/editorial/201304/162224.php http://news.peacefmonline.com/editorial/201304/161134.php Corruption continues to taunt us as a people, eluding all attempts to uproot it, the negative fallouts thereof notwithstanding. http://news.peacefmonline.com/editorial/201304/161134.php http://news.peacefmonline.com/editorial/201303/159862.php The Rt. Hon Speaker’s description of the Maputo Report as damning is an apt summary of the mismanagement of the public purse in the country in recent times. http://news.peacefmonline.com/editorial/201303/159862.php http://news.peacefmonline.com/editorial/201303/159132.php Senility is definitely taking a toll on a retired Supreme Court judge. The negative cognitive challenge the retired Supreme Court judge, Mr Justice Francis Y. Kpegah, now suffers started soon after he exited the highest segment of the bench a few years ago. http://news.peacefmonline.com/editorial/201303/159132.php http://news.peacefmonline.com/editorial/201303/159131.php Being part of a country’s political fault-line is a sure way of writing one’s name in the dark pages of her history. http://news.peacefmonline.com/editorial/201303/159131.php http://news.peacefmonline.com/editorial/201303/158776.php A 31-year-old cook of the Emmanuel Preparatory School at North Kaneshie in Accra met her untimely death when two armed robbers attacked and shot her in the ribs in the wee hours of yesterday. http://news.peacefmonline.com/editorial/201303/158776.php http://news.peacefmonline.com/editorial/201303/157436.php Learning the ropes of an institution, especially one steeped in convention like the legislature, is critical for new entrants. It is for this reason that we find it useful and commendable the orientation programme initiated for fresh parliamentarians. http://news.peacefmonline.com/editorial/201303/157436.php http://news.peacefmonline.com/editorial/201302/157002.php None of the entities in the electricity supply chain wants to be isolated as the source of the now aggravated power outages. http://news.peacefmonline.com/editorial/201302/157002.php http://news.peacefmonline.com/editorial/201302/156773.php Nothing perhaps sums up the state of Ghana’s economic and governance travails than the recent remarks by Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia. http://news.peacefmonline.com/editorial/201302/156773.php http://news.peacefmonline.com/editorial/201302/156733.php These are not steady times for the Electoral Commission (EC), as the once revered independent elections management entity struggles to hold its head above the water of integrity. http://news.peacefmonline.com/editorial/201302/156733.php http://news.peacefmonline.com/editorial/201302/156613.php The price hikes were long predicted. They were thought of even before the psyching up exercise which saw, among others, the National Security Council raising the alarm of sorts about an intensified smuggling of Ghana’s so-called subsidized petroleum products. http://news.peacefmonline.com/editorial/201302/156613.php http://news.peacefmonline.com/editorial/201302/156355.php President John Mahama missed the point when he hosted the latest in the long list of traditional rulers calling on him to pay obeisance to him at the Flagstaff House. http://news.peacefmonline.com/editorial/201302/156355.php http://news.peacefmonline.com/editorial/201302/155754.php While we congratulate Mr. Mohammed Alhassan for ascending the highest position in the country’s foremost internal security organization, we empathize with him over the hugeness of the challenges that await him. http://news.peacefmonline.com/editorial/201302/155754.php http://news.peacefmonline.com/editorial/201302/155657.php The muffled national conversation on gays has claimed its first victim. Interestingly, the victim fell during his first major official assignment as Information and Media Relations Minister when he sought to parry the negative repercussions of the President’s alleged association with gay activist Andrew Solomon. http://news.peacefmonline.com/editorial/201302/155657.php http://news.peacefmonline.com/editorial/201302/155340.php It appears many Ghanaians are losing interest in vote. The cynics among them have always asked what their reward would be after, in their own words, “voting one of their compatriots to power.” They add, “When they get to the top they think about themselves only.” http://news.peacefmonline.com/editorial/201302/155340.php http://news.peacefmonline.com/editorial/201301/154991.php All may not be very well with the country’s power generation, transmission and distribution. http://news.peacefmonline.com/editorial/201301/154991.php http://news.peacefmonline.com/editorial/201301/154789.php The Solicitor-General is reported to have told the Commission of Inquiry into payments of Judgement Debts that lack of coordination among key stakeholders resulted in either double payments or over-payments. http://news.peacefmonline.com/editorial/201301/154789.php http://news.peacefmonline.com/editorial/201301/154626.php Ghana, in the 1970s, experimented with the idea of national ID cards which were issued in the Volta Region on a pilot basis. http://news.peacefmonline.com/editorial/201301/154626.php