Ghana politicians cannot believe their luck. I believe they wake up everyday with a grateful heart. They struck gold. They are ruling over the finest batch of fools in the milky way galaxy.
You can do 9-5 content without mentioning the name of your company.
Once you mention the name, or show images from the office, your page is now a reflection of the company and you have to stay within the lines of ethics.
Dual citizenship: Vote No.
Five-year presidential term: Vote No.
Increasing the number of MPs to 300: Vote No.
These proposals the executive has accepted in the new Constitution, we will reject them. The youth are sensible and will reject it in the referendum.
One thing I’ve always wondered about Ghana’s approach to public policy is why we rarely pilot major government interventions before rolling them out nationwide.
Why do we rush to legislate and scale policies that have never been tested in the real Ghanaian context?
Take Nkoko Nkitinkiti as an example. Why not begin with a pilot, evaluate the results, identify implementation challenges, and then decide whether the policy should be expanded? A pilot might have revealed, for instance, that some beneficiaries would use the chickens for akokɔ nkwan allowing government to design safeguards before scaling up.
The same question applies to the 24-Hour Economy. Why not start with a few targeted sectors or districts, evaluate what works, measure the costs and benefits, and then decide whether a national rollout and a new statutory authority are justified?
That should be standard practice in evidence-based policymaking: test, learn, adapt, and then scale.
Instead, we often do the reverse. We legislate first, implement nationwide immediately, and only discover the design flaws after spending significant public resources.
For a country with limited fiscal space, we should be minimizing the cost of policy mistakes, not maximizing it. Unfortunately, we seem to have a preference for launching government interventions at full scale from day one. That’s how we create procurement gigs for cronies.
What is happening with Ken Ofori-Atta should serve as a good example of why we should not allow people with dual citizenship to hold political office.
If you want to serve the country, renounce your other citizenship.
“The average Ghanaian man casual statement” My mum sacked my home tutor because of this, he called me his wife in class and I told my mum. These “jokes” are not supposed to be jokes. We have normalised it . I remember what Mighty’s mum said on McBrown’s show.
You people don’t get what “next of kin”means in Nigeria or Ghana… 🤔
It simply means someone who is notified when something happens, like death or illness. Nothing more
This is the best era to know a little about a lot of things but so many people still limit themselves. Even if reading is tedious, you can still learn from YouTube or the internet in general. Most of you haven’t read anything outside your field of work and it shows.
“When I lost someone I loved. I haven’t cried since. People ask why I didn’t cry after losing the 2022 World Cup final to Argentina, but the tears just didn’t come.” 💔🇫🇷
—Kylian Mbappé