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 president of the newly formed Ghanaian Engineers & Architects of America (GEAAA), George Korley has urged members of the association to be guided by the acronym M.O.V.E. – , Momentum, Opportunity, Vision and Engagement. Mr. Korley was delivering his welcome address at the official launch of the GEAAA on Saturday, July 28 at the […]
The son of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana’s first President, Sekou Nkrumah has discounted claims that late President John Mills was a great leader. Dr. Sekou Nkrumah who once headed the National Youth Authority rather described him as a good man. Speaking on Joy FM’s news analysis programme, Newsfile, Saturday, he said, “we have heard remarks […]
United States Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, on Tuesday began a 10-day trip to Africa, with stops in Senegal, Uganda, Kenya, South Sudan, Malawi and South Africa, where she is expected to meet visit to the continent’s elder statesman, 94-year-old anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela. During her visit, Clinton would meet with leaders of those countries, […]
Information available to the Daily Guide newspaper indicates that President John Evans Atta Mills might have died before arriving at the 37 Military Hospital where he was rushed to after he slumped at the Castle a week ago. Sources said the late president got to the health facility at around 1:35pm unannounced, looking pale and […]
There is grieving across the country as Ghanaians mark the One Week of the death President John Evans Atta Mills on Tuesday July 24, 2012 at the 37 Military Hospital. The whole country is expected to go quiet for a minute in observation of exactly one week after the passing of President Mills. In almost […]
By Abiodun Oluwarotimi and Chuks Ohuegbe Nigerians resident in the United States of America have scheduled a solidarity march next Thursday at the country’s embassy in Washington, DC, to protest alleged corruption, money laundering, abuse of power and sundry civil rights violations committed by Ambassador Ade Adefuyi, the country’s ambassador to the US. The […]
By Davison Mudzingwa Cape Town — When Junior Mayema boarded a plane to South Africa from his native Democratic Republic of Congo in 2010, he cried tears of joy because he was finally heading to a country where he could live openly as a gay man. South Africa is the only African country to […]
By Kunle Akogun Nigeria is set to get its first female chief justice with President Goodluck Jonathan sending the name of Justice Aloma Mariam Mukhtar to the Senate for confirmation as the new Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN). If confirmed by the Senate, Justice Mukhtar will succeed the CJN, Justice Dahiru Musdapher, who is […]
By Eleanor Whitehead Enase Okonedo is sitting on the terrace in Addis Ababa’s sumptuous Sheraton hotel. She is attending the World Economic Forum on Africa – the first to be held in the continent’s political headquarters, Ethiopia – and in keeping with the big themes of the week, her thoughts are on African growth, […]
FORMER ATTORNEY-GENERAL Betty Mould-Iddrisu is in the news again for another judgment debt scandal as she is said to have negotiated for the payment of $35 million to Rockshell Construction Limited in 2010. The payment of the colossal amount was at the center of controversy at the sittings of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of […]