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."
May 2, 2016 (GIN) – Those ringing words– ‘Deal Me In!” – that thrilled fans of presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton in the U.S. could be sending a similar message of hope and change to voters here in Ghana. Although Africa has done better promoting women to the presidency, few Ghanaians were expecting to see the […]
May 2, 2016 (GIN) – Journalism must take a lead in countering hate-speech and propaganda. That’s the message of the Ethical Journalism Network, a press freedom watchdog on the occasion of World Press Freedom Day. Adopted in 1993 by the UN General Assembly on the recommendation of UNESCO at their general conference, Press Freedom Day […]
May 2, 2016 (GIN) – A poorly-constructed Nairobi building collapsed to the ground after days of heavy rain, taking 21 lives with 135 others rescued from the rubble. About 69 residents are still unaccounted for in the April 29 disaster. City officials now say the building had no occupancy permit although a neighbor, Jacob Kiruma, […]
This year marks a turning point for Zimbabwe’s economy and its people. The country is on the brink of finalising an historic deal which will end a decade and half of sanctions and unlock substantial new funds for economic growth and development. At the heart of this are the negotiations between the Zimbabwe government and […]
By Robert Kibet The Kenyan authorities have promised dire punishment for all those responsible for the collapse of a six-storey apartment building in Nairobi’s low-income Huruma suburb on Friday, in which at least 22 people died and scores are still missing. The draconian response is familiar to Kenyans, but it doesn’t seem to put an […]
By Justin Lynch Twitter South Sudan may finally, perhaps, be on the road to peace. Rebel leader Riek Machar is expected in the capital, Juba, next week in the final step towards a government of national unity that seeks to end the fighting and glue together a country torn apart by more than two years […]
by Kwabena Opong When the NPP announced its intention to boycott Neat FM and Okay FM shows of Adakabre Frempong Manso and Kwame Nkrumah Tikesie, it became fodder for political discourse. After a few ten or so days the intensity has died down. No surprises there. That is Ghanaian press. The only media house that […]
Frempong Manso of NeatFM and Kwame Nkrumah Tikesee of OkayFM, all of the Despite Group of Companies, are a throwback to the days of Kofi Batsa, Kofi Badu and Eric Heymann among others. The Evening News then was the most powerful newspaper that chewed up people perceived to be anti-Nkrumaist, including some leading members of […]
The comment by the Minister of the Interior, Prosper Bani, that Superlock Technology Limited (STL) was contracted by Ghana’s Electoral Commission to transmit tallied poll results in the 2012 elections was a “slip”, General Secretary of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) Johnson Asiedu Nketia has said. According to him, Mr Bani’s “mistake” may have […]
President John Mahama has touted Ghana’s economic resilience, despite the global economic downturn. According to Mahama, countries like Saudi Arabia and Nigeria are facing reverse economic growth unlike Ghana which is experiencing robust growth with expected growth rate at four percent. Speaking during his tour of the Eastern region on Tuesday, he attributed Ghana’s feat […]