Blog of the UG-LSU
Success as we know does not come by accident. In order for you to become successful in any area or field, you have to be knowledgeable in that area or field. Same can be said for “financial independence.” Financial independence can be achieved when you are first, financially literate. Most generation “Zers” (Gen Zers) erroneously […]
I am Frederick Agaaya Adongo. I am from Zorkor, a village in the Bongo District of the Upper East Region. Permit me to use this platform to share a brief story about the trajectories of my academic journey. It may inspire someone never to give up. I started my basic education at Goo D/A Primary […]
This will be the fourth and the shortest paper I have authored. And if I am not sheepishly hiding my feelings as Okwonko did, I must say, that I could not help but be emotional in the course of putting down this opinion. Before relocating from the Great Akuafo Hall(Annex B, Gonja) to TF Hostel, […]
I want to begin this epistle with how Dr. J. B Danquah, as captured by Magnus Sampson in his Introduction to Gold Coast Men of Affairs, summarised the heroic life of John Mensah Sarbah. He said, “[A]nd a great saviour the Gold Coast can never have for unless our right to our land be attacked […]
Are there any defences available to GOIL? Satisfying the Rylands rule, as we have aforementioned, does not take away any “defence” available to a Defendant. In the Rylands case, Blackburn J after stating the rule added that a defendant may “excuse himself by showing that the escape was owing to the plaintiff’s default; or perhaps […]
On 3rd June 2015, Ghana recorded one of its most tragic events in history. There was a downpour in the country’s capital, Accra which resulted in the flooding of some areas of the city. At the GOIL filling station located at the Kwame Nkrumah Circle, was a fire explosion that caused substantial damage to neighbouring […]
“1-9-1 what’s your emergency?” Female speaking: “Please…please help me. He-he raped me.” 1-9-1: “calm down, we’ll help you” “It’s because of what she was wearing” “What was she doing there at that time?” “Who are her parents?” “oh! What will her parents say? How will they feel?” And the most popular slang, “Men […]
Last Saturday, I had a discussion with my friends on the ideals of feminism and what it has to do with sugar daddies. We began by addressing the issue from a gender and the law perspective but soon deviated because feminism, I have come to believe, hangs on the shoulders of hypocrisy often shrouded […]
Yet again, the time has come for us to select capable men and women of poise to lead our beloved union. Fasten your seat belts for the annual ride of political gymnastics. First, get ready for what I call the battle of the photoshoots. We are going to be overflooded with posters filled with all kinds […]
The rule of binaries is such that there is always a conflict of opposites, evident in the very structure of reality. That is to say, to every phenomenon that arises there would be an “other”. Succinctly put, To every action, there is a reaction. But that is science and we are not here for that. […]