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."
By Daniel Nonor THE RECURRENT pirate activities in the Gulf of Guinea and the increasing threat of terrorism in neighboring Nigeria has raised grave security concerns to oil shipments in the West African sub-region and these are invariably too close for comfort to Ghana’s oil installations. Target countries of these pirate activities over the […]
Kpong — At the Kpong airfield, a few kilometers from Lake Volta in northern Ghana, Patricia Mawuli, pilot and co-founder of Medicine on the Move (MoM), a local NGO, is preparing her plane for takeoff. She is one of four health workers who fly weekly to isolated communities around the lake to raise awareness of […]
In its 2012 Human Development Report for Africa, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) says that sub-Saharan Africa cannot sustain its … ( Resource: African Human Development Report 2012 Despite rapid economic growth in some African countries in recent years, no government across the continent can rightfully claim that all its citizens have access to […]
The United Nations envoy for children and armed conflict today urged the Ugandan Government bring to justice a senior commander of the brutal Lord’s Resistant Army (LRA), who was captured over the weekend, saying he is responsible for some of the most egregious abuses against children. Ugandan authorities announced on Saturday that the country’s army […]
By Abbas Jimoh The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has asked the National Assembly to commence impeachment proceedings against President Goodluck Jonathan for openly admitting that he solicited for a church built in his home town, Otuoke, from Gitto Construzioni Generali Nigeria Ltd (GCG). National publicity secretary of the party, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said […]
By Abiodun Oluwarotimi The Cameroonian government has blacklisted Prophet Temitope Balogun Joshua of the Synagogue Church of All Nations, saying that he is an agent of Satan hoodwinking unsuspecting members of the public with “diabolical miracles”. Cameroon Foreign Affairs Minister, Mr. Henri Eyebe Ayissi, in an official communiqué he issued titled: “The Devil Is In […]
By Felex Share CHURCH leaders yesterday said controversial Nigerian prophet Temitope Balogun Joshua was not welcome in Zimbabwe. The churches argued that prophet TB Joshua’s teachings were of no help to the country as they were judgmental, partisan and unorthodox. TB Joshua heads the Synagogue Church of All Nations in Nigeria and was said […]
Yolande Knell By Yolande Knell BBC News, Cairo Egypt set to hold its first-ever live debate between presidential candidates. It features the two expected front-runners in the presidential vote later this month – former Arab League head Amr Moussa and moderate Islamist Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh. Millions of Egyptians are expected to tune into the […]
A British man on trial in Kenya for an alleged bomb plot was linked to the widow of one of the 7/7 London bombers, the prosecution has said. It says Jermaine Grant, aged 29, was working with fugitive Samantha Lewthwaite, the widow of London underground bomber Jermaine Lindsay. The charges come as Grant’s trial opened […]
Murtala Mohammed Kamara, AfricaNews reporter in Freetown, Sierra Leone Annette Sam, now 13 was diagnosed with a hole in the heart in 2006. His father a teacher by then could not afford funds to treat the young Annette. Nearly at the point of death, a local charity organization Pikin Bizness gave Annette another chance to […]