The father of engineering education on African soil, scientific inventor, institution builder, administrator extraordinaire, adroit negotiator, lover and patron of the arts, leading (pioneer stage) and film actor, sportsman, philanthropist, mystic and family man, DR ROBERT PATRICK BAFFOUR, was born to greatness and achieved greatness. Dr. Baffour was born at Elmina on May 14, 1912. […]
Jun 5 2012 | Posted in
Features |
Read More »
You’re invited to the 2012 Diaspora Media Conference. The conference is an annual gathering of journalists, media scholars, and civil society activists determined to improve reporting in and from countries that are hostile to an open press. At a time when media credibility is very low, the gathering couldn’t be more timely. At: […]
Jun 4 2012 | Posted in
Events |
Read More »
S. Kwaku Asare The Supreme Court recently made several important pronouncements on dual citizenship that has statutory, regulatory, and travel implications. The pronouncements render inaccurate and obsolete information posted on the website of many of our embassies. I discuss the pronouncements and their implications, especially for travelling as a dual citizen. In 1996, the […]
Jun 4 2012 | Posted in
Features |
Read More »
Latest reports indicate tension is escalating in Kpanyili, a village near Nankpanduri in the Northern region following intense fighting between Kokombas and Bemobas there. Eye witnesses say several houses have been set ablaze and there are exchanges of gun fire. Residents are said to be fleeing to neighbouring towns. The clashes are said to have […]
Jun 4 2012 | Posted in
African News |
Read More »
(CNN) — Hours after his family members alerted police to a human head and two hands they discovered stashed in metal tins, a Maryland man admitted killing his housemate, cutting him up, then eating his heart and part of his brain, authorities said. Alexander Kinyua, 21, was being held without bail Thursday at the Harford […]
Jun 3 2012 | Posted in
Breaking News |
Read More »
By M. Alex Johnson, msnbc.com Nigeria’s aviation ministry said Sunday that 147 people were aboard a Dana Airlines passenger jet that crashed into a two-story building in Lagos, the country’s largest city. “I don’t believe there are any survivors,” said Harold Denuren, Nigeria’s director of aviation. The flight originally was reported to have been carrying […]
Jun 3 2012 | Posted in
Breaking News |
Read More »
ACCRA — A cargo plane crash-landed on Saturday near the airport in Ghana’s capital Accra after overshooting the runway and hit a bus on the ground, killing at least 10 people, but the crew survived, officials said. Wreckage from the Boeing 727 Allied Air plane could be seen in an area near the airport along […]
Jun 3 2012 | Posted in
Breaking News |
Read More »
