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."
Digital dumping ground. World’s largest e-waste dump. Whatever you call it, Agbogbloshie, Ghana, is among the top ten “worst polluted” places on earth where tons of discarded electronics, refrigerators, microwaves and televisions – also known as e-waste – end up decomposing in a massive scrap heap there. “Mercury, lead, cadmium, arsenic – these are the […]
by Kwabena Opong Plant medicine otherwise known as herbal medicine in Ghana has long been and would continue to be the most accessible and reliable component of health care delivery in Ghana. This assessment was made by Mr. Barffuor Osei Akoto, head of Public Relations at the Center for Plant Medicine Research at Mampong Akwapim […]
Ghana’s police chief has said if it gets to the crunch, nothing and nobody can stop him from blocking social media sites on Election Day if that is what it would take to safeguard the peace and security in the country. “I don’t want to use some words, I think everybody has his opinion, everybody […]
Richard Miniter Congo, one of the poorest nations on Earth, offered former President Bill Clinton a speaking fee of $650,000–a sum equal to annual per-capita income of 2,813 Congolese. Indeed, the International Monetary Fund ranks the Democratic Republic of the Congo dead last in its global income rankings. What did it expect in return for […]
By E. Obiri Addo “We live in a troubled world, but it is still God’s world. Humankind should be partners with God to bring peace to the world”. Professor Andrea Bartoli, Dean of the School of Diplomacy at Seton Hall University, South Orange in New Jersey made this urgent call at a recent public lecture […]
Amandla Reporter in Accra Ghana’s Electoral Commission (EC) on April 28, started a limited registration exercise for qualified Ghanaians to have a chance to vote in the November elections. Reports so far indicate that in many places, particularly the NPP strongholds in Ashanti and Eastern regions, there have been incidences of violence in which some […]
The Presbyterian Church of Ghana (PCG) has accepted the resignation of Very Rev. Dr Yaw Frimpong-Manso, the immediate past Moderator of the General Assembly of the church. With this development, Very Rev. Frimpong-Manso would, by implication, forfeit all rights, titles, entitlements, privileges and protocols ordinarily enjoyed by or accorded a former Moderator and/or Reverend Minister […]
Government through the AG has made a sharp departure from their earlier position that the decision to bring in the two former Guantanamo Bay detainees was purely a ‘diplomatic arrangement exercised through an executive power by the President’. In a latest development, the AG has made a U-turn by conceding that there exists an agreement […]
by Kofi Ayim Dr. A. Zachary Yamba, who retired about six years ago after thirty years as President of Essex County College, has been recalled to take the helm of the college. Dr. Yamba has been given a 90-day mandate by the Board of Trustees of one of the most enrolled County Colleges in New […]
By Mike Mcphate As a Long Island high school student checked her phone for the results of her college admissions applications, she was overcome by disbelief. One by one, each relayed the same news: Harvard. Yes. Dartmouth. Yes. Princeton. Yes. The University of Pennsylvania. Yes. Cornell, Yale, Columbia, Brown: yes, yes, yes, yes. It was […]