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."
Pressure is mounting on President John Mahama to push the Attorney General to prosecute the sacked boss of the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ). Madam Lauretta Vivian Lamptey has been removed from office after an investigative committee established a case of abuse of office against her. The committee following a petition submitted […]
In just two years it will be time for reckoning, when countries belonging to the United Nations gather to compare notes on how they have fared in 25 years since they set targets for themselves with respect to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in 1990. Although Ghana has chalked tremendous progress in some of the […]
By Eugene Okumu A man was “buried” standing while holding a football in Ghana, whose funeral service sector has adopted a new method of preserving corpses. ( Resource: Ghanaian Man ‘Buried’ Standing Up ) A man was ‘buried’ standing while holding a football in Ghana, whose funeral service sector has adopted a new method of […]
By Nana Kwasi, MeridianFM, Tema Dr. (Mrs). Diana Heymann Adu (pictured left) was over the weekend awarded The Most Outstanding Female Media Practitioner at the first ever Feminine Achievement Awards ceremony in Accra. The event which was put together by the Business Executive Magazine was tailored to recognize and reward women who have led exemplary […]
By Jonathan Nda-Isaiah President Muhammadu Buhari has urged the 36 ministers-designate to ensure reduction in government expenditures by avoiding waste and conserving resources. Buhari stated this in Abuja yesterday during a two-day presidential retreat with the ministers-designate at the Conference Hall of the Presidential Villa, Abuja Buhari also tasked the ministers-designate to uphold the high […]
PORT HARCOURT, 4 November 2015 (IRIN) – The thick, acrid smoke billowing above the tree line is the telltale sign of local refining of stolen crude oil in Nigeria’s troubled Niger Delta. It is an environmentally catastrophic business, in a region already fouled by the spills and pollution of the international oil companies, who for […]
Former President Hilla Limann was not a weak leader as he was perceived by his critics, just because he did not arrest coup leader Jerry John Rawlings and “eliminate” him, Prof Ivan Addae-Mensah, former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ghana has said. Limann led Ghana from September 24, 1979, to December 31, 1981. He came […]
“I was surprised that the people of the Eastern Region promised President Mahama 50 percent of the votes but I am promising that we will give the president 80 percent of the total votes in the region.” This is the assurance given to President John D. Mahama by Nana Bosoma Asor Nkrawiri, the Chief of […]
By AFP Abidjan (AFP) – Alassane Ouattara was re-elected as president of Ivory Coast, official results showed on Wednesday, in a vote seen as key to cementing peace in the west African country after years of violence and upheaval. The 73-year-old won a second term outright by garnering almost 84 percent of ballots in the […]
By Kwabena Opong Legon, Nov. 4: The flag bearer for Ghana’s New Patriotic Party, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo, assured students and youths in Ghana Wednesday November 4, not to lose hope “because change is on its way.” Nana Addo was speaking at the 15th anniversary of the NPP’s Tertiary Students Confederacy (TESCON) at the Mensah […]