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 actual amount of damage could be up to five times higher than the amount stolen. The attacker uses old-school hacking methods. FAUSTINE NGILA Singapore-based cyber security firm Group IB and Orange CERT, the IT security arm of French telecommunications company Orange have revealed in a new report that 12 African countries lost millions of […]
Uganda is riding on a biofabrication 3D printing technology to print human organs to help thousands of patients who die of organ failure in the country. FAUSTINE NGILA Uganda has gone to space. Despite a fire alarm causing delays on Nov. 6, the country’s first satellite, PearlAfricaSat-1, finally launched successfully into space on the morning […]
KOFI AYIM For the past years, Afrochella has gradually organized events in the last week of December. Now in its 6th year, the cultural festival entity plans to storm Ghana with added value and expanded cultural extravaganza. Founded in 2017 by a group of young Ghanaians living both in Ghana and the U.S., the yearly […]
SIMON JESSOP, KATE ABNETT, VIRGINIA FURNESS Finance took center stage at the COP27 climate talks on Wednesday November 9, with U.N. experts publishing a list of projects worth $120 billion that investors could back to help poorer countries cut emissions and adapt to the impacts of global warming. A $3 billion water transfer project between […]
RYAN TRUSCOTT Conservationists on São Tomé, a tropical island that is home to a rich diversity of plants, birds, and butterflies, have launched a project to help local farmers breed butterflies to boost incomes and incentivize the protection of the island’s forests. Under a pilot project three farmers on the island, located around 200 kilometers […]
Love it or loathe it, one of the hallmarks of the current NPP administration is its propensity to become a major driver of Ghana’s digital revolution. From healthcare delivery through drone technology to Global Positioning System (GPS) of house identification and street naming, among others, the NPP government stands tall among its peers in Africa […]
SUNDAY ALAMBA & CHINEDU ASADU Twins appear to be unusually abundant in Nigeria’s southwestern city of Igbo-Ora. Nearly every family here has twins or other multiple births, says local chief Jimoh Titiloye. For the past 12 years, the community has organized an annual festival to celebrate twins. This year’s event, held earlier this month, included […]
The Ghana cedi, since the past three months, has been struggling helplessly against the United States dollar and has received an excessive attention from the global economic media and experts in a way never before experienced. The cedi is now described as the worst performing currency in the world. Its free fall of the cedi […]
MOHAMMED ISSA The retail price of coconut has risen, causing consumer complaints in Unguja Island in Zanzibar. The popular dish content is now selling between Sh1,500 – 2,000 in the Unguja commodity market depending on size and retail location, with the consumers and retailers expressing their fears. The archipelago’s Minister for Agriculture Shamata Shaame Khamis […]
WANA UDOBANG Omitonade Ifawemimo presents as a modern-day sage, with gleaming eyes, a petite frame — and wisdom to spare. She is in fact a 20-something Orisha priestess, with an easy smile and tightly knotted hair. And she has made it her mission to teach and preserve the Orisha and Ifa spiritual practices, which are […]