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 Carlotta Gall BANGUI, Central African Republic — When the killing began, Archbishop Dieudonné Nzapalainga did what many would have expected of him: He opened his church to hundreds of Christian families fleeing the Muslim militias hunting them. But he also provided refuge to an unusual friend and partner: the most senior Muslim cleric here, […]
UK business tycoon Richard Branson has called on companies and tourists to boycott Uganda after its parliament approved a bill to toughen the punishment for homosexual acts. It was against his conscience to support a country which carried out a “dreadful witch hunt against the gay community”, he said on his website. The bill proposes […]
By Pam Belluck Two Procedures, Same Result. A study compared a common surgical repair to the meniscus and a simulated surgery. The outcomes matched. A popular surgical procedure worked no better than fake operations in helping people with one type of common knee problem, suggesting that thousands of people may be undergoing unnecessary surgery, a […]
by Vivian Giang We all think our jobs are stressful, but having a job on the extreme end of the spectrum can mean strict deadlines, brutal criticism, and even regularly having other people’s lives in your hands. To find out what the most stressful jobs in America are, we reached out to career information expert […]
by Owusu Kizito, MBA/EA In “weak market” cities, even when some neighborhoods were reviving, overall housing demand remained weak and poverty levels were high. Foreclosures have hit these already-vulnerable regions hard. However, stronger market cities are also suffering. Take New York City for example, although somewhat cushioned by its high rate of renters and its […]
The Christian Council of Ghana (CCG) a body of autonomous Christian Churches and Ecumenical organizations has come out with a comprehensive comunique that it hopes would stem some of the canker that is eating into the socio economical, political, and cultural fabric of Ghana. In the communique of December 2013, the CCG threw an open […]
by Kofi Ayim The anti malaria drug Mefloquine that several Africans use to prevent malaria attacks when they visit their homelands may pose a health hazard. In a CBS Television Evening News Report on December 23, 2013, two U.S. military doctors said deployed Navy personnel suffered a brain injury after taking the anti-malaria drug mefloquine. […]
December 31, 2013 marked 32 years overthrow of President Hilla Limann by Flt. Lt. Jerry John Rawlings. Daily Graphic reproduces an exclusive interview granted to GBK Owusu, then editor of the Christian Messenger in 1980. GBK Owusu: Exactly a year ago you and your People’s National Party won an overwhelming majority in the general […]
Events since 2009 seem to have raised corruption in Ghana to higher proportions. Early in 2011 news broke on the payment of 51 million Ghana Cedis (GHC) as judgment debt to Alfred Agbesi Woyome, a known financier of the ruling party. The recipient could not authenticate the grounds on which the money was paid to […]
Sometime in the 1970s a Ghanaian pop group did a song titled “Afe aso ama makae masεm bi.” Literally translated, it means ‘the end of year brings back some memories.’ Among the Akan of Ghana the end of year is also the time to remember the departed. Indeed the song strikes a chord in the […]