http://news.peacefmonline.com/rss/features.xml Visit Peace FM Online for latest news, breaking news, audio and feature stories in Ghana en-us Peace FM Online 2009 2010-03-19T16:40:48+01:00 Michael Ofori Amanfo Boateng Ghana News http://news.peacefmonline.com/features/201003/40468.php What is the worth of women, how is the development of any particular society a direct product of how it treats its women? In gathering my thoughts for this topic, I found my mind drifting to one haranguing experience I had, long time ago, whilst working as an expatriate teacher in the Republic of Niger, back in the 1980s. http://news.peacefmonline.com/features/201003/40468.php http://news.peacefmonline.com/features/201003/40466.php Importantly, Ghana’s potential oil wealth continues to gain momentum with the significant discovery by AO Lukoil, Russia’s second-biggest oil producer, and closely held Vanco Energy Company. Ghana is set to become one of Africa’s newest oil exporters in late 2010 when production begins at the Jubilee field, which has potential resources of as many as 1.8 billion barrels, according to Tullow Oil Plc, its operator. http://news.peacefmonline.com/features/201003/40466.php http://news.peacefmonline.com/features/201003/40465.php If there is one reason, apart from the church’s sound biblical doctrine, I will never leave the Presbyterian Church of Ghana, then it is because of the Presbyterian Hymns. In fact, those hymns inspire me more than sermons and going to church without my hymn book is like leaving my Bible at home. There was, however, one day that I had to fumble painfully through one of the hymns. http://news.peacefmonline.com/features/201003/40465.php http://news.peacefmonline.com/features/201003/40463.php In Ghana, there are so many pharmacies that anyone walks in to grab what they think will cure their ailment. Until recently in a TV3 news story, I didn’t know there was anything governing the administration of drugs in pharmacies which specifically states that every drug purchase should be done with a prescription from a doctor. http://news.peacefmonline.com/features/201003/40463.php http://news.peacefmonline.com/features/201003/40461.php The astonishing and consistent attacks on the Attorney General by the Informer newspaper and to some extent the Daily Post leaves a sour taste in the mouth of many people. If people who profess to be professionals behave the way these newspapers are behaving then the journalistic profession needs a lot of refinement. http://news.peacefmonline.com/features/201003/40461.php http://news.peacefmonline.com/features/201003/40456.php Nigerian affairs must be of concern to everyone on the African continent. For without Nigeria‘s diplomatic — and sometimes military — support, at least four African countries would, today, be quite unrecognisable. http://news.peacefmonline.com/features/201003/40456.php http://news.peacefmonline.com/features/201003/40441.php The annual address to Parliament imposed on the President is a good thing. But whenever I read the Presidents statement, I am reminded of one of the funny aspects of our culture. http://news.peacefmonline.com/features/201003/40441.php http://news.peacefmonline.com/features/201003/40436.php The Minister of Communications, Haruna Iddrisu should first express contrition for perfidy before he goes out to display his self righteous hypocrisy. After all his treachery, Haruna has the audacity to accuse Jerry Rawlings of unfairness in his criticism of Prof. Mills. http://news.peacefmonline.com/features/201003/40436.php http://news.peacefmonline.com/features/201003/40432.php A monarch's intemperate response to a senseless crime has raised tensions between two ancient tribes to a boiling point – for the first time in more than a hundred years. For decades the people of the Ashanti and Techiman kingdoms lived their lives without thinking much about what the other was doing. Even in the worst of times, they tolerated each other until the chief of Techiman decided to take matters into his own hands. http://news.peacefmonline.com/features/201003/40432.php http://news.peacefmonline.com/features/201003/40431.php The Takyimanhene decided it was within his 'power' to kidnap and assault another individual (never mind that the individual is also a paramount chief just like him); government and the security forces took no action; the kidnapped and assaulted paramount chief happens to pay allegiance to the Golden Stool; the Asantehene states his displeasure at the inaction of the government and security forces; and now and all hell seems to have broken loose. http://news.peacefmonline.com/features/201003/40431.php http://news.peacefmonline.com/features/201003/40429.php Ghanaians like to think of themselves as a special breed of people. They like to think of themselves as the most peace-loving, God-fearing, hardworking, decent and honest people, and they like to think that they are in some fundamental way different from any other people as far as human decency is concerned. http://news.peacefmonline.com/features/201003/40429.php http://news.peacefmonline.com/features/201003/40399.php The centre appears not to be holding and things are expectedly falling apart as most Ghanaians ask “what is happening?” This description of the Ghanaian situation might be unwelcome to the palate of National Democratic Congress (NDC) activists for whom realism is anathema. http://news.peacefmonline.com/features/201003/40399.php http://news.peacefmonline.com/features/201003/40353.php Not so long ago the Akan saying that ‘Dinpa yè sen ahonya’ (literal translation: ‘good name is better than riches’ used to be the one useful piece of advice no well-meaning and responsible parent would leave out when giving a pep-talk to a child or ward. http://news.peacefmonline.com/features/201003/40353.php http://news.peacefmonline.com/features/201003/40350.php 18th August 1955, the Asantene addresses the Confederacy Council that “the Kumawuhene … did not want anything to do with the National Liberation Movement (NLM), which was fighting for the preservation of our traditions and culture. The Kumawuhene believed that a pipe-borne water supply was of more importance than the preservation of our culture” (Austin, Politics in Ghana, 1946-1960, p.291). http://news.peacefmonline.com/features/201003/40350.php http://news.peacefmonline.com/features/201003/40260.php I am glad that, finally, the Ivorians are beginning to assert their right of access and enjoyment of Ghana’s purportedly new-found oil wealth. http://news.peacefmonline.com/features/201003/40260.php http://news.peacefmonline.com/features/201003/40254.php The University of Ghana campus at Legon was a bee-hive of activities over the weekend. Legon held its 2010 congregation, sending out as many as 5,000 graduates to the job market. http://news.peacefmonline.com/features/201003/40254.php http://news.peacefmonline.com/features/201003/40147.php “Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked. Leadership is defined by results not attributes” – Peter Ferdinand Drucker. The word ‘arrogance’ was one of the strongest weapons used by Agya Ofuntuo’s campaign team against opponents during the Zu-za primaries and general elections. http://news.peacefmonline.com/features/201003/40147.php http://news.peacefmonline.com/features/201003/40110.php A whopping $2,000,000.00 (Two Million United States Dollars), secured by President John Agyekum Kufuor and the New Patriotic Party (NPP) administration, with a Sovereign Guarantee, to rehabilitate some Ghanaian embassies, appears to have vanished without trace. http://news.peacefmonline.com/features/201003/40110.php http://news.peacefmonline.com/features/201003/40093.php He is a good man, but I think he doesn’t get it. In his State of the nation address delivered on 25.2.2010 on the floor of parliament, the president surprised almost everybody when he declared that he never promised to put money in the pockets of the citizenry. http://news.peacefmonline.com/features/201003/40093.php http://news.peacefmonline.com/features/201003/40092.php My attention has been drawn to a new form of fraudulent (419) deals going on among three of the well known major telecommunications companies in Ghana over the construction of telecommunication mast. http://news.peacefmonline.com/features/201003/40092.php