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 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 […]
Two Ghanaians have been elected by consensus at the United Nations General Assembly in New York to serve on two expert bodies that will assist the world body in carrying out its oversight responsibilities. Mr. Richard Quartei Quartey, Ghana’s Auditor General was elected to the Independent Audit Advisory Commitee (IAAC) for a three year term, […]
Clement Price, a longtime professor at Rutgers-Newark University who was known for his scholarly works and extensive knowledge of the city and its history, has died. University officials said Price died Wednesday, three days after he suffered a stroke. He was 69 years old. The Washington, D.C. native came to Newark in the wake of […]
By Kofi Ayim An eventful and information-rich forum on Ebola was organized by the West Harlem Development Corporation (WHDC) in partnership with the African Immigrant Task Force and the Office of the President of the Borough of Manhattan, Gale Brewer, on October 30, 2014 at City College, New York. In an introductory speech to a […]