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."
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 […]
The 2012 vice presidential candidate of Ghana’s New Patriotic Party, Dr Mahamadu Bawumia has dismissed as laughable, miserable and without merit, the argument by the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) that the protracted economy of Ghana is the result of the 8-month long Supreme Court petition by the New Patriotic Party. Dr. Bawumia pointed out […]
A staunch member of the main opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) of Ghana and Member of Parliament (Assin North) has called on his party to eschew corruption and all forms of socio-political negativity within the party. He also challenged the entire membership of NPP to be guided and guarded by truth and honesty at all […]
BBC TV presenter Komla Dumor has died suddenly at his home in London at the age of 41, it has been announced. Ghana-born Dumor was a presenter for BBC World News and its Focus on Africa programme. One of Ghana’s best-known journalists, he joined the BBC as a radio broadcaster in 2007 after a decade […]
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: […]