Michael Kenetey Kofi

                              THE MEDIA AS THE HEADACHE TO THIS COUNTRY                           The Ghana Media The media in Ghana have been accorded the fourth estate of the realm which means after the Executive which includes the President and the Ministers, the Judiciary which includes the Judges, the Legislators which is the Members of Parliament who are the Lawmakers and the Media then comes forth as the arm of government. Among all these arms of government, the media is the most powerful in the sense that the media is the only arm of government that put to check the actions and activities of the rest of the arms of government. The media serve as the conduit of communication in the political and the democratic discourse which has made the media a very influential component in the development of this country. The media are to do their p...

FREE SHS:VISIONARY POLICY,POORLY IMPLEMENTED. Dr. Kwame Nkrumah has been the first president that started the free education from the formerly elementary school getting through to the Secondary and the Technical schools to Universities. Most of the leaders we have in the country who were in the secondary school in the mid-1960s benefited from such free elementary and secondary school education. However, this education policy was overthrown together with Kwame Nkrumah government in the year 1971. Since from the overthrow of Kwame Nkrumah, our education has passed through many hands of governments till the civilian government under the ex- President Rawlings in the year 1996 who implemented the Free Compulsory Universal Basic Education (fCUBE). Ex-President Mahama also started some secondary education policy called the Progressively Free Secondary School Policy by building the E-Block school facilities and admitting a high number of students into the Teacher Training Institution...