by Yinka Adegoke Facebook, Twitter and other social media platforms, played an influential role in driving transparency and change during Nigeria’s elections last year, as citizens shared images of verified results from polling units around the country ahead of formal results being announced. President Muhammadu Buhari’s 10-month old government recognizes both the advantages of the […]
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by Kwabena Opong n general elections is heating up and the political rhetoric is increasingly becoming vitriolic. In most African countries, the name of the game is called “open sesame” in times like these. Ruling parties seek to find avenues to discredit their major opponents, while the latter scrutinizes any misstep by the government in […]
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The Pentagon on Monday April 4 announced the transfer of two Libyan inmates from the Guantanamo Bay detention center to Senegal. “The Department of Defense announced today the transfer of Salem Abdu Salam Ghereby and Omar Khalif Mohammed Abu Baker Mahjour Umar from the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay to the government of Senegal,” the […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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: […]
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