Dr. Kwegyir Aggrey "Only the best is good enough for Africa."
Kwame Nkrumah "The independence of Ghana is meaningless unless it is linked up with the total liberation of Africa."
27 April 2012 As reported by Al Arabiya News, the women of Egypt are up in arms with two proposed controversial laws: legalizing the marriage of girls starting from the age of 14, and permitting husbands to have sex with their dead wives within the first 6 hours following their deaths. Controversial in this […]
By Wesonga Ochieng CHIEF Justice Willy Mutunga has warned that Chapter Six of the new constitution will be strictly enforced in the next general elections. “That chapter (Six on leadership and integrity) talks about leadership across our society. The values are clear. Those husbands who are beating their wives must know that you cannot […]
By Owen Gagare/Wongai Zhangazha Harare — SECUROCRATS are increasingly tightening their grip on Zanu PF amid further indications several members of the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO), police and retired army officers are battling to become candidates in the next general elections President Robert Mugabe wants this year. The securocrats are challenging Zanu PF heavyweights whom […]
Ondo State Governor, Dr Olusegun Mimiko yesterday condemned the bombing of the Abuja Corporate office of Leaders and Company, Publishers of ThisDay newspaper, submitting that it’s high time perpetrators of the dastard act have a change of heart and allow Nigerians enjoy their freedom. Two persons were confirmed killed and six injured in the explosion […]
By Chika Otuchikere, Abiodun Oluwarotimi, Isaiah Benjamin, Nanna Selkur, Bode Gbadebo, Omotola Oloruntobi, Kehinde Ajobiewe, Ruth Tene, Pembi Stephen-David, Midat Joseph, Usman Ahmed, Geoge Agba, Patience Obhafuoso, and Zoe Attat, 27 April 2012 For the first time since it began a series of deadly bomb attacks, the Boko Haram sect yesterday turned its attention […]
International judges have found former Liberian leader Charles Taylor guilty of aiding and abetting war crimes during the Sierra Leone civil war. Taylor, 64, has been on trial in The Hague at the UN-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone for almost five years. He was accused of backing rebels who killed tens of thousands of […]
Malawi’s new leader Joyce Banda has sacked her foreign minister, Peter Mutharika, the brother of the late president who recently died in office. He had been anointed as heir-apparent for the 2014 elections when Bingu wa Mutharika was due to retire. The dramatic cabinet reshuffle comes days after the burial of the former president at […]
A speech delivered at the 55th Anniversary Celebration of Ghana’s Independence Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Dr. Kwabena Osei-Bonsu Introduction When approached by friends to give a presentation on Ghana, the initial idea was to shed light on the much heralded status of Ghana, joining the exclusive club of oil producers and what would be the development […]
From African Services Committee March 14th, 2012 (New York, NY) On an unseasonably mild March day, 1,300 immigrants and their allies representing 94 organizations warmed up Albany even more. Coming from all corners of the state, they converged on Albany for the New York Immigration Coalition’s 15th Annual Immigrants’ Day of Action. The day […]
By Kwabena Opong Nima Police Station in Accra, Ghana’s capital won an award as the best police station in Africa following a program initiated by the Altus Police Station Visitors Week (PSVW). The award was received on behalf of the station by the District Commander of Nima Police, Police Superintendent Justice Anthony Aduhene-Benieh. Prior […]