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."
United States President Barack Obama has had high praise for Ghana’s economic transformation and democratic credentials, pointing out that while it is important and right to focus on Africa’s challenges, it is equally important focus on the good news. “There are sometimes — there’s sometimes a tendency to focus on the challenges that exist in […]
LONDON (AFP) – The Libyan transitional government on Friday won possession of a plush London mansion belonging to a son of the late Libyan dictator Moamer Kadhafi. High Court judge Andrew Popplewell said he was satisfied that the swanky eight-bedroom neo-Georgian house was “wrongfully and unlawfully” purchased by 38-year-old Saadi Kadhafi’s company using Libyan state […]
The Advertising Association of Ghana (AAG) has expressed grave concern over campaign advertisement by political parties during general elections, pledging it would organize ethical tutorials for the parties to moderate the already charged atmosphere. Mr. Joel E. Nettey, Vice President of AAG gave the assurance when the Executive Council of the Association paid a courtesy […]
A campaign by US activists to capture alleged Ugandan war criminal Joseph Kony has gone viral on the web. Invisible Children’s half-hour film on the use of child soldiers by Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army has been viewed nearly 10 million times on YouTube. The group aims to bring Kony to justice at the International Criminal […]
Justice Emile Short, former Commissioner for Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) has called on all political parties, especially the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and New Patriotic Party (NPP), to urge their party supporters to conduct themselves in accordance with the electoral laws and to act in a peaceful and lawful manner during the […]
THE DESIRE of the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) to get more assets and accounts of Alfred Agbesi Woyome, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) financier frozen, yesterday yielded results. This follows a ruling by an Accra Fast Track High Court Financial Division presided over by Justice Bright Mensah granting the investigative body the power […]
March 6, 1957 has a significant impact on the history of colonialism in Africa. For the first time a black African colony broke the yoke of European domination of the continent. Ghana, formerly called the Gold Coast attained its political independence under the leadership of Kwame Nkrumah, an American educated African from a small village […]
By Kwabena Opong Ghanaians in Newark were among a number of Newark residents who thronged the Newark Court building on Monday, March 12 to view the body of U.S. Congressman Donald M. Payne who died on Tuesday, March 6. Rep. Payne was the chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus foundation whose mission is to advance […]
By Nana Asirifi Twereboo and Kwabena Opong The National Council of Ghanaian Association, (NCOGA) of New York inaugurated its new Executive Secretary General in a colourful ceremony March 3 at the Polish Center, Yonkers. Mr. G. Ofori Anor who succeeds Ms. Ivy Quarshie was sworn in as part of the activities marking the 55th anniversary […]
Nguruman — The repeated hooting of the Ostrich bus announces the break of dawn in Nguruman, a pastoralist village about 150 kilometers south of Nairobi near the Tanzania border. It also stirs Kipaa Ole Kitesho from sleep to answer the call of a new day. On any other morning, Kitesho, 24, would be rounding up […]