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 Dave Lee Technology reporter, Cyber-security experts have dramatically called into question the safety and security of using USB to connect devices to computers. Berlin-based researchers Karsten Nohl and Jakob Lell demonstrated how any USB device could be used to infect a computer without the user’s knowledge. The duo said there is no practical way […]
25-year old Akosua Ayim (also known by her stage name, Sillage), recently published her first book, entitled “Sometimes the heart breaks”. The 63-page book consists of 27 poems and is a collection of her original poetry that she has written over the past 10 years. The poems range from full-blown spoken word performance pieces to […]
by Drew Hinshaw in Gombe, Nigeria, and Dion Nissenbaum in Washington Recent U.S. surveillance flights over northeastern Nigeria showed what appeared to be large groups of girls held together in remote locations, raising hopes among domestic and foreign officials that they are among the group that Boko Haram abducted from a boarding school in April, […]
By Holly Yan and Josh Levs A nurse in Nigeria. A businessman in Saudi Arabia. A Spanish priest in Liberia. With the World Health Organization announcing Wednesday that 932 deaths had been reported or confirmed as a result of Ebola hemorrhagic fever, Saudi Arabia joined the list of countries with suspected cases. “This is the […]
by Sarah Boseley US tells Nigeria region would have to wait months for supplies because such small quantities exist, says health minister West African patients infected with the Ebola virus will not have access to experimental drugs being used to treat American cases of the disease for several months, if at all, Nigerian health authorities […]
In Uganda, an anti-gay law that triggered cuts in Western aid, has been thrown out on a technicality. Rights groups welcome the move, but say colonial-era penalties on homosexuality remain in force. A Ugandan court struck down an anti-gay law on Friday, saying it had been wrongly passed by parliament and was null and void. […]
By Alanna Petroff Just over two years ago, it was President Obama’s model African nation. Now Ghana is looking for a bailout. The small West African nation won many admirers for growing rapidly and reducing poverty. But the poster child for progress in Africa, hailed by Obama in March 2012 as a “wonderful success story,” […]
The 2012 Vice Presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has alleged that the Bank of Ghana, under governing National Democratic Congress, has spent $6.5 billion from 2009 to date, but has failed to stabilise the value of the Ghana cedi. In a press statement, submitted by the communications team of […]
By Javier Blas In London/Financial Times Ghana, the country that epitomised the ‘Africa rising’ narrative of strong economic growth and improved governance, is to seek help from the International Monetary Fund. The reversal of fortunes underlines the challenges the continent still faces. The west African nation will turn to the fund for financial assistance after […]
by Dr. Owusu Okizito Here’s a look at a few important facets of the housing market that will shape the environment in 2014 and beyond. The buyers: Demand sizzles in Boston, despite higher interest rates In some local housing markets, there are simply more buyers shopping than there are sellers with “for sale” signs at […]