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."
By Bartholomäus Grill The skirt? Much too short! And those loud colors! Two older women at a table in the back of the room begin to whisper to each other. A stout woman is standing at the front of the room. She is wearing a tomato-red dress and a knit bolero jacket in cobalt blue. […]
Group A Brazil, Croatia, Cameroon, Mexico June 12: Brazil vs. Croatia at Sao Paulo June 13: Mexico vs. Cameroon at Natal June 17: Brazil vs. Mexico at Fortaleza June 18: Cameroon vs. Croatia at Manaus June 23: Cameroon vs. Brazil at Brasilia; Croatia vs. Mexico at Recife Group B Spain, Netherlands, Chile, Australia June 13: […]
The Ivory Coast and Manchester City midfielder, who had been nominated in each of the past four years, beat Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Victor Moses, John Mikel Obi and Jonathan Pitroipa to this year’s crown. The 30-year-old told BBC Sport: “I think I’ve been nominated for five years in a row and finally winning the award is […]
By M.O. Ene Life is so simple a story it is worth repeating whenever a great person departs our world: If you are born, you will die. This is the first law of nature, the ironic law of life. Life itself is a set of personalized variables bracketed in a basically dormant domain by two […]
by J. Dana Stuster During his imprisonment on Robben Island, Nelson Mandela found inspiration in what has come to be one of the most hackneyed poems in the English language. Mandela is hardly alone in his admiration for the Victorian-era poem ‘Invictus’ — other fans included John F. Kennedy and Timothy McVeigh — and Mandela […]
by Evelyn Latse, Esq. It is no news that the U.S. housing market has suffered a devastating decline in the past few years. One of the most hard-hit segments of the housing crash is the immigrant population. From lack of information to a lack of understanding of the U.S. housing market, many immigrants find themselves […]
by: Dr. Peter Ikre This piece marks the culmination of a 3-part series on the audit or examination procedure of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) designed to sensitize taxpayers (individuals and businesses) to the need for scrupulous preparation toward the yearly tax filing exercise. It is pointless attracting the attention of the IRS due to […]
Ghana has been ranked 63rd out of 177 countries surveyed in this year’s global corruption perception index (CPI). According to the index released yesterday by Transparency International, the country scored 46 out of 100 on the scale from zero to 100. But the government has reacted to the corruption index, saying the report might not […]
Andy Kiersz, Business Insider Some jobs intrinsically have more health risks than others. A nurse working in a hospital is far more likely to catch an infectious disease than a lawyer working in an office. To rank the most unhealthy jobs in America, we used data from the Occupational Information Network (O*NET), a U.S. Department […]
The centenary Symposium on Rev. Theo Opoku was held October 28 -29 2013, at the University of Ghana, Legon. The event was a collaborative effort of the Department of Archaelogy and Heritage Studies, the Insttitute of African Studies, and the Department of History. The Rev. Theophilus Opoku was the first African to be ordained by […]