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 Ben Brumfield and Bharati Naik They brave the risk of drowning, drifting endlessly or dying of thirst to make it illegally to a better life in Europe. Migrants traveling, often on overfilled boats, usually make it. But last year, 3,419 didn’t. They perished in the Mediterranean Sea, the United Nations Refugee Agency said Wednesday. […]
Ghana’s opposition has called for a parliamentary inquiry into allegations that a suspected cocaine trafficker had access to the presidential lounge at the country’s main airport. The alleged trafficker was arrested in the UK, while three officials have been charged in Ghana. The case has gripped Ghanaians, as the opposition and governing party trade accusations […]
By Patricia Alex It costs more than $44,000 in tuition to attend Kean University for four years, and many of the school’s students struggle to pay the bill. But the taxpayer-supported school in the township of Union spent $219,000 so far and has authorized up to $270,000 — about the average price of a house […]
By: Efua Idan Osam The leadership of Parliament has explained that it imported furniture from China because it was impossible for a local company to produce the over 300 furniture pieces within a limited time. The Deputy Majority Leader in Parliament, Alfred Kwame Agbesi stressed that Parliament in no way ignored the President’s directive to […]
By Dr. Peter Ikre The 2nd Open Enrolment Period (OEP) of the Affordable Care Act (ACT) aka Obamacare kicked off as earlier publicized on the 15th of November, 2014. This phase of the enrollment exercise is expected to end on the 15th of February, 2015. Aside from the fact that Obamacare is here to stay, […]
This is not a pathway to citizenship. “This deal does not apply to anyone who has come to this country recently. It does not apply to anyone who might come to America illegally in the future. It does not grant citizenship, or the right to stay here permanently, or offer the same benefits that citizens […]
America’s warped race relations The conscience of America was pricked once again with the killing of an unarmed black man by a white police officer in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson. Quiet Ferguson was not prepared for such instant trauma so when it happened it shook the community and the entire nation. The incident […]
by Kofi Ayim The Most Reverend Charles Gabriel Palmer Buckle, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Accra, Ghana has urged Ghanaian Catholic academia in the Diaspora to come home to at least assist a semester or two in any one of the Catholic universities in Ghana. The affable religious leader made this pronouncement November 29 during the […]
By Kristen Clark In Adaya Restaurant, Ibrahima Bah recently sat under a flat-screen TV as it alternated between CNN and France 24’s coverage of the Ebola outbreak. For most New Yorkers, fears of an Ebola outbreak have ebbed noticeably since late last month, after New York’s single confirmed Ebola patient was released from Bellevue Hospital. […]
By Gwynne Hogan, Pamela Granda On the evening of Nov. 20, President Barack Obama took executive action to ease the lives of millions of U.S. workers and residents. Immigration relief will be provided to parents of children who were born in the U.S. and have lived here for at least five years and pass background […]