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."
Over 240,000 registered outside Ghana but did not vote – E.C. By Kofi Ayim More than 240,000 Ghanaians on official duties or assignments outside Ghana that registered to vote in the December Presidential and Parliamentary elections did not vote, according to Ghana’s Electoral Commission. These include officials and family of the about 60 or so […]
By Andrew Baddoo, MD “Doc, do I have cancer?” is a question that is asked around the world in most doctors’ offices and hospitals. Cancer is a diagnosis nobody would wish on their worst enemy but it is something most of us are not doing enough about or taking the necessary steps to prevent. Cancer […]
Ghana at 56 was celebrated among Ghanaians in the Tri-state area with dances and parties . In Newark, NJ, celebrations began with flag-raising at the City Hall on March 6 and climaxed with a dinner dance organized by the Council of Ghanaian Associations of New Jersey at the Ramada Hotel at the Liberty International Airport […]
By K. Ofosu-Barko, FGCP Your Excellency, I bring you greetings and extend a warm and hearty congratulations to you on your election to the highest office of our beloved country. I join my fellow Ghanaians to wish you the best of luck in the execution of your duties. Mr. President may I respectfully state at […]
By Eun Kyung Kim, TODAY contributor Nigerian novelist and poet Chinua Achebe, whose 1958 novel “Things Fall Apart” addressed colonialism on African society, has died. His publisher, Penguin, confirmed his death, at age 82, his publisher said Friday. Achebe’s breakthrough novel focused on the clash between Western and traditional values. It told the story of […]
Answering questions about what he would do if he lost the then upcoming elections in early March 2013, Raila Odinga, the scion of a prominent Luo political family put Kenya and the world on notice stating as a matter of fact, “If I lose, of course it will be because of blackmail and intimidation and […]
The Council of Ghanaian Associations of New Jersey (COGANJ) received on behalf of Nima Police Station in Accra a number of police paraphernalia from the Essex County Sheriff at Newark, NJ. The presentation made at the offices of County Sheriff Armando B. Fontoura was a follow-up gesture to the visit of Police Superintendent Aduhene, commander […]
By Steve Maggi It was a moment I had anticipated since January, 2010, when my wife and I took the long bus-trip down to Accra from Offinso, solemn and on the verge of tears knowing that our magical time in Ghana was about to end, and even worse, not knowing when we see this sacred […]
The Commission of Enquiry that is investigating the payment of judgment debts yesterday started taking evidence from officials of the Bank of Ghana (BoG), the outfit in charge of effecting the payments. Three top officials- the heads of Foreign and Local Banking respectively as well as the Head of Legal Department- were at the commission’s […]
Counsel for Alfred Agbesi Woyome, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) bankroller, and the state attorney handling the case in which the state is seeking to claim a GH¢51,283,480.83 judgment debt paid to Woyome, yesterday prayed an Accra Commercial Court to adjourn the case. Musah Ahmed, counsel for Woyome, and Dorothy Afriyie Ansah, the state attorney, […]