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Newark Celebration 350 Founders Weekend Festival

A Free and Open To The Public Spectacular Celebrating The Best of Newark’s Arts, Entertainment and Culture. Newark Celebration 350 (NC 350) is proud to present Newark’s local hometown heroes and International recording artists Faith Evans, Naughty by Nature, Cissy Houston and India who are set to headline the Founders Weekend Festival Celebrating 350 Years […]

Temporary Protected Status Extended for Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone for Six Months

Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson has extended the designations of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for an additional six months. Although there have been significant improvements in the conditions in all three countries since their designations for TPS in November 2014, the lingering effects of the Ebola Virus Disease […]

NPP BOYCOTTS OKAY and NEAT FM

PRESS RELEASE The New Patriotic Party (NPP) wishes to inform its members, supporters, and sympathisers that the Party has decided to boycott all political programmes on Okay FM and Neat FM, with immediate effect. Programs on the two stations which are hosted by Kwame Nkrumah Tikesie and Adakabre Frimpong Manso respectively have in recent months […]

As election 2016 draws closer, accusations, insults, intimidations, and lies, have taken front seat in the quest for power, mainly between the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the main opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP). Read on:

Three former South African policemen were arrested March 20 in the Central Region of Ghana by the Bereau of National InvestigationS (BNI), allegedly for illegally training fifteen private security personnel of the NPP, the major political opposition party to engage in acts of terrorism. Also, picked up were two former Ghanaian military men, Capt Edmund […]

Sector Minister contradicts Ghana’s former Electoral Commission Chairman

by Kofi Ayim Ghana’s Minister of interior, Prosper Bani has inadvertently exposed the Electoral Commission of Ghana. He has also contradicted the former chairman of the Electoral Commission, Dr. Afari Gyan .The exposure also indubitably relives the now infamous 2012 Election Petition and vindicates the New Patriotic Party (NPP). In the aftermath of a press […]

How to Avoid Arrest (in Your Own Shop)

By Mike Hong Rui Ling Ma was almost arrested inside his own gift shop on Mott Street in Manhattan’s Chinatown, because of two pairs of $4.99 slide sandals on the shelf. In January, an undercover cop from the NYPD Manhattan South Peddler Task Force showed up in Ma’s gift shop, and told him that the […]

10 countries hoarding enormous piles of gold

10. India Official gold holdings: 557.7 tonnes Percent of foreign reserves in gold: 5.4% 9. Netherlands Official gold holdings: 612.5 tonnes Percent of foreign reserves in gold: 54.6% 8. Japan Official gold holdings: 765.2 tonnes Percent of foreign reserves in gold: 2.1% 7. Switzerland Official gold holdings: 1040.0 tonnes Percent of foreign reserves in gold: […]

US Supreme Court and Crisis of Democracy

By Uchenna Ekwo Unknown to many admirers of the United States is the fact that the country’s democracy faces unprecedented crisis, gridlock, and stalemate. Nothing exemplifies the venomous division and toxicity in the politics of the country than the vitriolic utterances and intransigence of political leaders following the passing of US Supreme Court Justice, Antonin […]

Building walls or bridges: The paradox of faith, politics

By Osmond Ekwueme A lot has been said about Pope Francis questioning Trump’s faith. The controversy over whether Trump is a Christian or espouses Christian values, however, is legitimate because he and virtually every other candidate proclaim that Christianity is their guidepost for public service. As I listen to their racist, sexist, xenophobic and elitist […]

Nigeria’s Economic Crunch: How to Reverse the Neo-liberal Induced Crisis? Massive Looting of the Nation’s Wealth by Global Financial Actors

By Kola Ibrahim 1. Nigeria’s economy is in serious dire strait, no doubt: By the end of this month, ten manufacturing businesses will close shop according to Manufacturers’ Association of Nigeria (MAN), while over 50,000 jobs have already being lost in Abuja, according to Chair of Abuja Chamber of Commerce (Punch, 24/02/2016), all due to […]

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