Do you know the name of the street you live on? Can you direct people to your house in Ghana using just the street names? There is a major exercise underway to name all streets and number houses in ...
Finding your way around Ghana
How can the people of Ghana ensure that the discovery of oil is beneficial to them?
The Omanhene of Essikado Traditional Area, Nana Kobina Nketsia V speaks to David Ampofo about the balance between the interests of oil investors and the benefits of Ghana’s oil to its people. “Before we get this oil the most important thing that we have to do is to ...
Will TOR rise above the challenges facing the oil and gas industry?
In this interview with David Ampofo (first broadcast in 2009), Dr Kwame Ampofo, the Acting Chief Executive of the Tema Oil Refinery (TOR) talks about his vision for TOR and how he intends to deal with challenges facing the Company. “The function ...
What did Ghana learn from the gold mining industry to ensure that oil and gas truly become a blessing to this Country?
Speaking to the Executive Director of the Human Rights and Environmental mining advocacy organization WACAM in this interview with David Ampofo first broadcast in 2009, Daniel Owusu-Koranteng talks about the difficulties Ghana has encountered in gold mining and the lessons ...
What is the future of Ghana’s emerging oil and gas industry?
In this interview with David Ampofo, first broadcast in 2009, the Acting Chief Executive of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) talks about the future of Ghana’s emerging oil and gas industry. ‘This particular discovery of oil is prolific’, Nana Boakye Asafu-Adjaye contends. “In 2007 it was the ...
What are the security challenges facing Ghana with the advent of offshore oil?
In this interview with David Ampofo, first broadcast in 2009, Dr Kwesi Aning explains the security risks facing Ghana in the light of the discovery of oil. “There are multiples of the concerns with respect to the way that we understand security challenges ...
Could Ghana’s discovery of oil be more of a curse than a blessing to the country?
From the archives of Time with David, David Ampofo interviews the President of Free Africa Foundation, George Ayittey, about the discovery of oil in Ghana. “I think it could be a boom to Ghana’s economy. But at the same time we have ...
How easy is the solution to Ghana’s power crisis?
In this interview with David Ampofo, a former Director of the Volta River Authority, Mr D. D. Boateng, offers some practical solutions to the power crisis in Ghana and explains how the current load shedding exercise can be brought to an ...
TWD Archive – Dr Charles Wereko-Brobbey, Radio Eye
From the TWD Archive First published in 1995 The great Dr Charles Wereko-Brobbey, owner of Ghana’s first private independent radio station, Radio Eye, forces the government to allow private broadcasting – a major contribution and milestone along the road to independence of ...
TWD Archive – Prince MacPepple & Geoffrey Stalker
From the TWD Archive First published in May 2010 David Ampofo talks to Prince Emmanuel MacPepple, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of West Lines Shipping Company (Ghana) Limited and Geoffrey Stalker, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Ironopolis Engineering (UK Limited). Have your ...