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."
Malawi’s new leader Joyce Banda has sacked her foreign minister, Peter Mutharika, the brother of the late president who recently died in office. He had been anointed as heir-apparent for the 2014 elections when Bingu wa Mutharika was due to retire. The dramatic cabinet reshuffle comes days after the burial of the former president at […]
A Deputy Minister for Information, James Agyenim Boateng, on Wednesday morning sought to discredit a picture accompanying a story published by the Daily Guide newspaper and reproduced on Peacefmonline, claiming it was a fake. The story, headlined “PHOTO: NDC Goons On Rampage?”, was published on Friday, April 13th. According to the publication, “hundreds of […]
The age old saying that “Nkrumah never dies” seems to carry much more weight than many may think. Just when almost all Ghanaians have come to accept that Ghana’s first President, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, has four children, a fifth child has surfaced and says he is a true son of Osagyefo. His name is Dr. […]
Ghanaian striker Asamoah Gyan has announced he will take an indefinite break from international football. In Gyan’s last appearance for his country, he missed a penalty in a 1-0 semi-final defeat at the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations against eventual champions Zambia. The forward also missed a late penalty in Ghana’s 2010 World Cup […]
RFA Fort Victoria and a US Navy vessel intercepted the pirates’ boat, which had refused to stop despite warning shots from a Royal Navy helicopter. Royal Marines in speedboats approached the vessel and boarded it, capturing 13 pirates and seizing weapons. Defence Secretary Philip Hammond said the UK personnel, part of a Nato-led force, could […]
Some 57 people, mostly women and children, have been killed in a revenge attack in South Sudan, officials say. Information Minister Barnaba Marial Benjamin said members of the Murle community had attacked their Lou Nuer rivals in Jonglei state. Earlier this month, a force of some 6,000 Lou Nuer fighters went on the rampage, forcing […]
Archaeologists working in Egypt have discovered the tomb of a female singer in the Valley of the Kings. The tomb was found by a team from the University of Basel in Switzerland who came across it by chance. The woman, Nehmes Bastet, was a temple singer during Egypt’s 22nd Dynasty (approximately 945 – 712BC), according […]
The strike was called after prices doubled when President Goodluck Jonathan removed a fuel subsidy on 1 January. Earlier on Monday, he announced that he would restore part of this subsidy. Nigeria is Africa’s biggest oil producer but it imports almost all of its refined fuel. Correspondents say many Nigerians see cheap fuel as the […]
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