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: Peter Ikre This article is the first in a series of reports on financial planning intended to familiarize the immigrant communities and the general public on the need to develop the right mind-set and take advantage of the numerous opportunities to establish for themselves and their families a secured and guaranteed financial future. However, […]
by Uchenna Ekwo On July 20, 50 days after taking office, Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari will meet with President Barack Obama at the White House to jump-start frozen bilateral relations. Security is likely to dominate the agenda. Since Buhari assumed office on May 29, Nigeria has seen an escalation of violence and killings by Boko […]
Ukachi Uwadinobi CARLY FIORINA, former CEO of Hewlett Packard and a contender for the GOP primary race for nomination, had a sterling performance in last Thursday’s July 6 first GOP debate among the bottom seven who squared off at the (5 – 6) p.m. time slot before the prime time debate that followed at 9 […]
By Ukachi Uwadinobi FOR A SHORT WHILE, the early morning downpour had threatened to disrupt the highly celebrated annual Harlem Book Fair. Luckily the rain didn’t last long and as it fizzled out, the dark blue image of the sky soon took on a brighter outlook thanks to the emerging rays of the sun. The […]
Nana Asirifi Twereboo, Nkosuohene (Chief of Development/Progress) of Akyem Asafo, has gone to his ancestral village. The passing occurred July 4 at the Harlem Hospital, New York. Born in Atlantic City, New Jersey, in December 24 1943, Nana Asirifi Twereboo (nee Joseph Sargent) graduated from Atlantic City High School in 1962. As a young man […]
by Kwesi Biney If we let this Talensi situation become the norm, what will be the point? Politics of stealing, bribery, violence will lead to more poverty and despair in a nation with no excuse not to be prosperous. What a shame! (Papa Kwesi Nduom). A shame indeed it is and has been over the […]
by Dr. Andrew Baddoo Air travel is a trying ordeal at best—long lines, cramped seats, tiny bathrooms. More people are traveling, using air travel as a means to get to their destination quickly. The utilization of air travel brings forth hazards like deep vein thrombosis (DVT), and pulmonary embolism (PE) if preventable measures are not […]
by Dr. E. Obiri Addo, Accra-Ghana “On March 6, 1957, Ghana’s first president, Osaagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah declared that `Ghana, our beloved country is free forever!’That “freedom”, however, was not necessarily attained with the declaration; it is an ongoing business; every generation must continue the quest for freedom.” Nana Susubribi Krobea Asante, Paramount chief of […]
Professor E. Obiri Addo, a faculty member at Drew University in Madison, NJ, has been invited to join the “New Jersey STEP” faculty beginning this summer. He will teach an African-American history course, “African Origins to 1877”. The New Jersey Scholarship and Transformative Education in Prisons (NJ-STEP) program is an association of higher education institutions […]
By Professor Opoku Asare “Mu kala kintwadi ya tubu i mu zinga” (Bakongo proverb) The man in touch with his origins is a man who will never die. We tend to ignore our history and wisdom heritage as a esult of the relentless indoctrination by others and our own ignorance of the African past and […]