The Country Director of International Christian Ministry Ghana, Reverend Phillip Tutu, has urged engineering students to come out with innovative ideas that would help in national development.

Last Wednesday as I was reading the Daily Graphic, I was struck by the following words by the Chinese Ambassador to Ghana in his concluding statement on the occasion of the 64th anniversary of the Peoples’ Republic of China which fell on the preceding day, October 1: “Ghana is a shining star in Africa, featuring a sound democratic dispensation, fast economic development and favourable investment environment.

When I lived at Labone, there was a church somewhere near my house; I never bothered to find out exactly where, but every Sunday morning and whenever else services were held, it sounded as though the entire congregation was standing at the foot of my bed.