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 Kwabena Opong Ghana’s biggest opposition party, the New Patriotic Party hit the streets of the nation’s capital February 18 with a massive demonstration against the ongoing energy crisis in some parts of Ghana. Led by Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo, the party’s flag bearer for the 2016 presidential elections accompanied by his running mate […]
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe was on Friday January 30, elected as the new Chairperson of the African Union (AU). Mugabe took the rotating chairmanship of the pan-African bloc at the opening of the 24th AU summit at the AU Headquarters in Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa. Mugabe took over from Mauritania’s President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, […]
ABUJA, Nigeria — Nigeria is postponing presidential and legislative elections until March 28 because security forces fighting Boko Haram extremists cannot ensure voters’ safety around the country, the electoral commission announced Saturday in a decision likely to infuriate the opposition. Officials in President Goodluck Jonathan’s government have been calling for weeks for the postponement, saying […]
By Ian Hughes Goalkeeper Boubacar Barry saved and scored the crucial spot-kicks that handed Ivory Coast a dramatic 9-8 penalty shootout win over Ghana in the Africa Cup of Nations final. Barry, who appeared to cramp up during the shootout, denied fellow keeper Brimah Razak – one of five efforts missed – before slotting in […]
HE was the king of kings, the god of gods. Now archaeologists believe they have found the “tomb” of the Egyptian supreme deity, Osiris. Egyptian media is reporting two new tombs were announced at the weekend, one of which belonged to a previously unknown queen. But it the ominous blackened ‘tomb’ of Osiris — the […]
The Ghanaian/Austrian who pleaded guilty to carrying 12 kilos of cocaine to the United Kingdom has been sentenced to eight years, eight months’ imprisonment. Nayele Ametefe was sentenced on her own plea by the Isleworth Crown Court in London Tuesday afternoon. The sentence was discounted because of her early guilty plea. Luv FM’s Kwabena Ampratwum, […]
by Kofi Ayim The Mayor of the City of Newark, New Jersey has called on religious bodies to go out on the street to give hope to the hopeless and faith to the faithless. Mayor Ras Baraka, known in some circles as the Peoples Mayor made this clarion call December 14 as Guest of Honor […]
by Kofi Ayim The Most Reverend Charles Gabriel Palmer Buckle, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Accra, Ghana has urged Ghanaian Catholic academia in the Diaspora to come home to at least assist a semester or two in any one of the Catholic universities in Ghana. The affable religious leader made this pronouncement November 29 during the […]
By Kristen Clark In Adaya Restaurant, Ibrahima Bah recently sat under a flat-screen TV as it alternated between CNN and France 24’s coverage of the Ebola outbreak. For most New Yorkers, fears of an Ebola outbreak have ebbed noticeably since late last month, after New York’s single confirmed Ebola patient was released from Bellevue Hospital. […]
By Gwynne Hogan, Pamela Granda On the evening of Nov. 20, President Barack Obama took executive action to ease the lives of millions of U.S. workers and residents. Immigration relief will be provided to parents of children who were born in the U.S. and have lived here for at least five years and pass background […]