IN other climes, what Mr. John Agyekum Kufour did by leaving power after eight years would mean nothing. In Africa where leaders are in a race to overstay their welcome, Kufour has created distinctness — even hope.

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EXCITEMENT often overtakes the serious matter of reviewing the Constitution. Many agree, the Constitution in its present state is hugely responsible for various setbacks for the country.

The portions that are readily condemned include those that centralise many functions of government.

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THE permanent cure for a headache is to chop off the head. — Anonymous

THE National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), slipped to near irrelevance before last November’s killing of three youth corps members in the Jos crisis. The deaths form a new anchor for calls to scrap the NYSC, a case of a wrong, permanent cure for a bad headache.

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EVERY new year hatches new aspirations for corporations and countries. Individuals too have their ambitions, mostly called resolutions.

Whether they are kept or not, resolutions help their makers to appraise the past year and decide on areas of improvement.

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