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."
The United States said on Wednesday it will begin extra screening of passengers arriving at five of the country’s largest airports from West Africa as it increases efforts to prevent the spread of a deadly Ebola outbreak. The enhanced screening will start at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport this weekend and be extended […]
by Dr. Owusu Kizito Credit scores—they’re like report cards for grown-ups. It’s a three-digit “grade” you get on a scale that ranges from 300 to 850. Your score indicates your creditworthiness to potential lenders, banks, landlords, insurance companies, and even to some employers, for instance. The higher your score the better. As long as you […]
By Phil Gregory, WBGO News Advocates are urging New Jersey to follow the lead of 11 other states and grant driving privileges to undocumented residents. Udi Ofer, the executive director of the Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey, says the right to drive a car should not be conditioned on immigration status. “Doing so causes […]
AS Ebola spreads around the world with all the spectre of a Hollywood movie plot scientists are working furiously on possible treatments and vaccines to stop the killer virus. And, bizarrely, the much maligned tobacco leaf and beer could hold the key to beating the disease that has claimed over 3,400 lives and is forecast […]
A Texan health worker who treated Ebola victim Thomas Eric Duncan before he died is also infected with the virus, according to a preliminary test. The unnamed woman, who is in a stable condition in an isolation ward, wore full protective gear while treating Duncan, officials in Dallas say. If confirmed, this is the first […]
By William Nana Yaw Beeko he Consular General of the US Embassy in Accra, His Excellency Philip Franz-Seitz, has identified the use of fake documents and papers by applicants to make entries into the Visa Lottery Program as one of the common frauds that usually leads to mass disqualification of most applicants from Ghana. According […]
by Dr. Owusu Kizito Credit scores—they’re like report cards for grown-ups. It’s a three-digit “grade” you get on a scale that ranges from 300 to 850. Your score indicates your creditworthiness to potential lenders, banks, landlords, insurance companies, and even to some employers, for instance. The higher your score the better. As long as you […]
by Scott Neuman Thomas Eric Duncan, the 42-year-old man who contracted Ebola in Liberia and later traveled to Dallas, where he was being treated, has died, hospital officials say. A statement from the company that runs Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, where Duncan was in isolation, read: “It is with profound sadness and heartfelt disappointment that […]
A divided New Jersey Supreme Court [official website] on Monday ruled [opinion, PDF] that requiring a sex offender to wear a GPS tracking device after he has completed his sentence violates the federal and state constitutions. The 2007 Sex Offender Monitoring Act (SOMA) [text, PDF] requires the states highest-risk sex offenders to wear GPS monitoring […]
By Yiqin Shen On a hilltop on Staten Island in the community known as “Little Liberia,” a yard filled with up to 20 stands selling dried fish, seasonal fruit chips, chili sauce and spices – all imported from Liberia – has been the site of a lively market for the past decade. The place to […]