Our means to discuss such aspect of our society is very limited. We have grown very intemperate in so many ways. Our tolerance level is in the reverse gear. Our fellow feeling tendencies have nosedived

We have been snared into extremism of politics that we are being suffocated. If your party is in dismay you are gagged not to talk or express dissatisfaction.

If your party in government is not doing well you are gagged from expressing it. Such examples causes people to be very unhappy and they look for avenues to pour it. It creates frustration and painfully it is contagious.

Indices of economics say we are making progress but in packet logarithms, it is not factual and experiential. Corruption cases makes many who love to see Ghana grow run into despondency and demoralization. The rich and politicians hardly fall on the left side of the law but there is swiftness when it involves ordinary Ghanaians.

The growing of insecurity in the nation but quick politicization dwarfs all measures to curb it. If you want to test if we are happy people, go to the passport offices, DVLA offices, Banking halls, attempt at getting a new or renew any ID card.

Frustration in doing business with the government agency if you know no big man or having your party in power. How driving is done on our street and the almighty sanitation management.

The pain to have your initiative and ideas to get government accent is just frustrating as dealing with tooth decay.

Unemployment has caused chronic headache for parents and migraine for the young people as against affluence exhibition by politicians

Many more experiences have betrayed our empathetic spirit, check Maj Mahama’s death and how it has died out,

Check how heartless many were in sharing the gory of Ebony demise. Check our zeal in fighting the galamsey

There are many of these in the past that shows how we are sliding into heartlessness. Majority of the messages from the pulpit does not edify the soul and spirit into love, hopefulness, laughter, zeal, transformation etc. But fear and blame game to happenings around us.

Many people experience gross neglect in the house of God, some experience deliberate and purposeful segregation in church. We have demonized our extended family and hometown so much so that there is no bond of belongingness. Now we don’t want to travel home to just cool off.

Many recreational parks and avenues have been occupied by huge buildings so no space to even sit at and just observe to distress. The malls, spars and gardens not affordable by many.

There is a certain foul air blowing in the corporate enclave especially telcos, banks, real estate etc called “Pressure” to meet targets. These entities have not assessed the damage ongoing because all they want is more 0s. I found out these when I led Zoweh Glob Consult to conduct interviews and survey when we were developing our training package “Enhanced Workplace Communication Training”.

Our roads have become a pain to travel on and worsen by huge traffic. So our lives are encapsulated by pain to get ordinary things done. Young people don’t know where to turn right after JHS, SHS and university.

As a society we have really not paid critical focus on these situations that cost us our level of happiness.

If we talk of development and growth and it does promote citizenry happiness then I wonder what development is that. As a nation our development is in the opposite direction of our social fiber.

The media is trying but balance, facts, social examples, harmony, right resource persons, unscrewed topics not tainted with political interest and disinterest etc are not up there. The media appear to be more on sensational stories, stories trend and for a week we move to a new one. So we don’t follow up when the fire die down.

Ghana can turn these around if we acknowledge the knowledge made available of how unhappy we are.

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By: Scofray Nana Yaw Yeboah (Transformational Coach and Certified Professional Trainer)

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This is according to the latest World Happiness Report.

The report, which was released by the Sustainable Development Solutions Network for the United Nations on March 14, days before World Happiness Day on March 20, placed Nigeria 17 places above Ghana in the 156-country list.

Ghana placed 108th on the ranking while Nigeria was 91st, with Finland, being named the happiest country in the world.

The report ranked the countries on six main variables that sought to assess the well-being of persons in the focus country.

The indicators include income, freedom, trust, healthy life expectancy, social support and generosity.

The top 10 countries named in the list are; Finland, Norway, Denmark, Iceland, Switzerland, Netherlands, Canada, New Zealand, Sweden, and Australia.

A co-editor of the report, John Helliwell, a professor emeritus of economics at the University of British Columbia said, “The top five countries all have almost equally high values for the six factors found to support happiness, and four of these countries — Denmark, Switzerland, Norway and now Finland — have been in first place in the six World Happiness Report rankings since the first report.”

The top 5 African countries on the list are Algeria, Morocco, Nigeria, Somalia and Cameroon.

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By: Jonas Nyabor/citifmonline.com/Ghana

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Dubbed “World Happiness Report 2017’, the report ranked 155 countries in the world based on key indicators including GDP, healthy life expectancy, freedom of choice and corruption perception.

According to the report, Norway is the happiest country in the world with the Central African Republic (CAR) being the least happy.

In Africa, Ghana was the 25^th happiest country to live in, out of the 44 countries assessed for the report.

It came behind countries like Algeria, Mauritius, Nigeria, South Africa and Sudan.

The report observed that “[The] Twenty-first century Africa is no longer associated only with ‘endless famine, disease, and dictatorship’. The ‘Africa Rising’ narrative, which overturned earlier stereotypes, projected a continent with a growing urban middle class market with new consumer appetites.

“Africa’s youthfulness promised to be an asset in an increasingly ageing global society. The continent’s rich mineral wealth had not been exhausted and its agricultural land was still waiting to be exploited. In the new millennium, foreign direct investment in Africa eclipsed development aid for the first time since the colonial era,” it said.

The report identified Africans to have an “exceptional” level of optimism about their future. It said in spite of the deficiencies realized on the continent, its people demonstrate great resilience.

“Most countries in the world project that life circumstances will improve in future. However, Africa’s optimism may be exceptional. African people demonstrate ingenuity that makes life bearable even under less than perfect circumstances.”

“Coping with poor infrastructure, as illustrated in the case of Ghana…is just one example of the remarkable resilience that African people have perfected. African people are essentially optimistic, most of all the youth who have their lives ahead of them. This optimism might serve as a self-fulfilling prophecy for the continent.”

The 2017 World Happiness Report was developed by a group of independent experts working with some multinationals and UN agencies.

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE REPORT

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By: Jonas Nyabor/citifmonline.com/Ghana
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