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 President, Mr John Dramani Mahama, has urged Ghanaians in the diaspora to make a strong case to the Electoral Commission (EC) to implement the Representation of the People Amendment Law (ROPAL) passed in 2006. He said the directive issued by the Supreme Court in its ruling on the 2012 Presidential Election Petition to the […]
by Peter Huck Demographics alone — its 1.1b people will double by 2050 — means African continent can’t be ignored. As Muammar Gaddafi’s regime began to unravel in 2011, amid chaotic fighting between Libya’s military and rebels, foreign nations rushed to withdraw their citizens. The rescued included about 35,000 Chinese workers in an evacuation supported […]
By Randy Sekyi Snr. In a bid to protect the integrity the nation’s communications industry the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) and the Anti-Fraud Task Force with help of some telecommunication group has arrested simbox fraudsters from a location at Dome Pillar 2 on Tuesday, August 26, 2014. Their actions is said to have led to […]
By Julie Zhu in Hong Kong When Xu Jing completed her French degree, she decided not to follow in the footsteps of Deng Xiaoping, the late leader, who worked in France in the 1920s. The young woman from Beijing instead joined a big Chinese construction company that she knew would send her to francophone Africa. […]
By SARAH DiLORE ZO & MARIA CHE G DAKAR, Senegal A surge in Ebola infections in Liberia is driving a spiraling outbreak in West Africa that is increasingly putting health workers at risk as they struggle to treat an overwhelming number of patients. A higher proportion of health workers has been infected in this outbreak than in […]
The Nigerian army has done little to counter the advancing Islamist militia as they head towards the northern city of Maiduguri. With soldiers deserting, residents have fled towns and villages. Over one million people live in thecity of the northern Nigerian state of Borno and Boko Haram fighters are moving ever closer. Gwoza, Bama, Gulak, […]
Barely a week after a major debate about the dwindling quality of education in Ghana, a new survey has also revealed that majority of pupils in basic schools can neither read nor understand English or any Ghanaian Language properly. This was published in the National Education Assessment (NEA) report. The survey was carried out by […]
by Drew Hinshaw in Gombe, Nigeria, and Dion Nissenbaum in Washington Recent U.S. surveillance flights over northeastern Nigeria showed what appeared to be large groups of girls held together in remote locations, raising hopes among domestic and foreign officials that they are among the group that Boko Haram abducted from a boarding school in April, […]
By Holly Yan and Josh Levs A nurse in Nigeria. A businessman in Saudi Arabia. A Spanish priest in Liberia. With the World Health Organization announcing Wednesday that 932 deaths had been reported or confirmed as a result of Ebola hemorrhagic fever, Saudi Arabia joined the list of countries with suspected cases. “This is the […]
by Sarah Boseley US tells Nigeria region would have to wait months for supplies because such small quantities exist, says health minister West African patients infected with the Ebola virus will not have access to experimental drugs being used to treat American cases of the disease for several months, if at all, Nigerian health authorities […]