The Managing Editor of The Insight newspaper, Kwesi Pratt Jnr., has praised pressure group Occupy Ghana for its unwavering stance against the presence of the two former Guantanamo Bay detainees, Muhammad Bin Atef and Khalid Muhammad Salih …
The National Council of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has refuted claims by its suspended General Secretary, Kwabena Agyei Agyapong, that his suspension was illegal.
The council says it followed all due processes in handing out th…
President Donald Trump has told global finance leaders he will always put the US first when it comes to trade, but "that does not mean America alone".
"The US is open for business," he said in his inaugural address to the World Economic…
The National Organiser of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), has advised party members to chase out aspiring flagbearer candidates who come to them campaigning for a position yet to be opened.
Kofi Adams said the party is …
At least 37 people have been killed and more than 70 injured in a fire at a hospital in South Korea.
The blaze is thought to have started in the emergency room at Sejong Hospital in the south-eastern city of Miryang.
About 200 patien…
Researchers have identified the remains of the earliest known modern humans to have left Africa.
New dating of fossils from Israel indicates that our species (Homo sapiens) lived outside Africa around 185,000 years ago, some 80,000 year…
The Leader and Founder of the United Progressive Party (UPP), Mr Kwesi Addai Odike, has described the late K.B. Asante as a statesman and diplomat who served his country selflessly without blemish.
He said as a secretary to the fi…
The Deputy Greater Accra Regional Minister has asked staff of the Tema Metropolitan Assembly (TMA) to always take initiatives as a way of promoting the work of the Assembly.
Madam Elizabeth Sackey says workers should not wait for somebo…
Mr Emmanuel Otto Bekoe, Presiding Member of Nsawam-Adoagyiri Municipal Assembly, has urged parents and guardians to put an end to child labour and take advantage of government’s free education to enroll their wards in school.
Mr Otto Be…
Nigeria’s anti-corruption agency has arrested and is holding a former top official who served in President Muhammadu Buhari's government.Babachir Lawal's arrest comes 24 hours after former president Olusegun Obasanjo claimed people close t…
Veteran US diplomat Bill Richardson has resigned from an international panel set up by Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi to advise on the Rohingya crisis.
He claimed the panel was a "whitewash" and accused Ms Suu Kyi, his long-time friend…
The La Nkwantanang-Madina Municipal Assembly (LaNMMA) has held a three-day workshop to educate sub-district heads on their roles and duties in the assembly.
According to the Municipal Chief Executive of LaNMMA, Ms Jennifer Dede Afagbedz…
The National Organiser of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr Kofi Adams, has said the party’s re-organisation and re-registration exercise is on course.
The exercise forms part of the recommendations from the Professor Kwesi Bot…
The five-member Ad hoc Committee of Parliament investigating the ‘cash-for-seat’ saga has been given a one-week extension to complete its work and present its report to Parliament for consideration.
The committee was expected to p…
Pope Francis on Wednesday condemned fake news as satanic, saying journalists and social media users should shun and unmask manipulative “snake tactics” that foment division to serve political and economic interests.
“Fake news is a sign…
The Africawatch pan African magazine, has initiated a campaign to discredit the free senior high school (SHS) programme, introduced by the New Patriotic Party (NPP), the Inquisitor newspaper has reported.
The magazine has consequently d…
Mr James Gunu, former District Chief Executive for Akatsi North has called for the decentralisation of the Office of the Special Prosecutor to take the fight against corruption to the doorsteps of the citizenry.
He said opening ‘coordin…
The Minority in Parliament has asked the Government to bring the agreement allowing the two former Guantanamo Bay detainees to stay in the country before Parliament for ratification.
The Minority said the agreement approved by Parliamen…
Venezuela’s presidential election race was underway on Wednesday, with favorite and incumbent Nicolas Maduro signaling an “anti-Trump” platform while demoralized foes scrambled for a candidate and feared an unfair vote.
Foes say Maduro,…
President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda has given a speech declaring his "love" for US President Donald Trump.
Earlier this month, Mr Trump was accused of referring to African nations as "shithole" countries during an immigration meeting.
…
Attackers have detonated explosives before storming the offices of the Save the Children charity in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad.
At least two people have been killed and 12 injured, officials say. It is believed about 50 staff …
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has returned to Ghana after participating in the investiture of Liberian President George Oppong Weah in Monrovia.
At exactly mid-day, the Presidential jet touched down, with the President's e…
Islamist insurgents looted cash, gold and jewellery worth tens of millions of dollars when they occupied a southern Philippines town last year, treasure one of their leaders has used to recruit around 250 fighters for fresh attacks.
The…
The secretary to the Commission of Inquiry into the creation of new regions, Mr. Jacob Saah has revealed that no writ has been served on the commission regarding its public hearings on the proposed new region in the northern part of the …
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo says the peaceful transition of power from one democratically elected government to another in Liberia was a good day for West Africa and Africa.
He said the swearing-in of President George Oppong W…
Mr Mustapha Abdul-Hamid, the Minister of Information has stated that the President Akufo-Addo led government was committed to running the affairs of the state on two important pillars; competence and integrity.
He noted that what was mo…
Vice President Dr Mahamadu Bawumia is doing well on his medical leave and would return soon to resume his duties, Information Minister Mustapha Abdul-Hamid has disclosed.
He said very senior government officials had been in constant tou…
The Ghana Anti-Corruption Coalition (GACC) has scaled up its effort at assisting to give people the courage to report wrongful and improper conduct. As part of this, it has organized a day’s training workshop on corruption reporting for s…
Several roads in the Assin North and South Districts of the Central Region have received a facelift to significantly ease traffic flow.
A tour by the Ghana News Agency on some roads showed that many deplorable roads have been repaired, …
Catalonia’s parliament on Monday proposed Carles Puigdemont as its candidate for regional leader, dealing a blow to central government efforts to derail an independence movement that has plunged Spain into crisis.
As Puigdemont was name…
The National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) is to intensify the campaign on accountability, rule of law and anti-corruption (arap) this year to drum home the need to curb corruption in the country.
The campaign is to complement…
The Speaker of Parliament, Professor Aaron Mike Oquaye, was today (Sunday) sworn in as the acting President of Ghana an emergency sitting of Parliament.
The swearing in administered by the Chief Justice, Mrs Justice Sophia Akuffo, was…
U.S. Governmental agencies and leading businesses unite to explore partnerships that will provide predictability and security in the development phase of energy projects in Africa
The Powering Africa: Summit (www.PoweringAfrica-Summit.c…
THE EUROPEAN Union has suspended a multi-million euro project in the face of mounting evidence that its funds were being used to carry out violent human rights abuses.
The news came less than 24 hours after guards working from the EU-fu…
The Asuogyaman District Assembly has identified five priority areas, it says it is going to invest its share of the one million dollars per every constituency. Mr. Samuel Kwame Agyekum, the District Chief Executive (DCE), said the money w…
Madam Ophelia Philomena AOVARE, a 40 year old gender advocate and a development practitioner, has declared her intention to contest the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) Navrongo Central Constituency Women's Organiser position.
Madam Aovare t…
Mr Dennis Amfo-Sefa, a leading member of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) in Tema West, has saluted President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo for his performance at his second ever encounter with the media.
Mr Amfo-Sefah, who is popular…
The Kwahu South District Assembly for the second time has failed to elect a Presiding Member (PM) to preside over the assembly’s meetings after three rounds of voting.
None of the two contestants failed to obtain the two thirds votes re…
The Conference of Democratic Analysts (CoDA), has called on the former Member of Parliament for the Bantama Constituency in the Ashanti Region, Dr. Henry Kwabena Kokofu to consider contesting for the position of General Secretary in the up…
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Thursday received the letters credentials of the new Japanese and Nigerien envoys to Ghana. The two ambassadors are Mr Tsutomu Himeno from Japan and Mr Alhousseini Ousmane of Niger.
At separate c…
President Donald Trump is scheduled to depart Washington and head to his Florida resort hours before the deadline to avoid a government shutdown Friday at midnight.
The President is planning to spend the weekend at Mar-a-Lago for the on…
The governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) has made some amendments to its constitution, targeted at eliminating strife and internal crisis.
The acting NPP General Secretary, Mr John Boadu, has explained that the changes were contained i…
The United Nations Association of Ghana (UNAG) has commended the exemplary interface among the citizenry, the judiciary and the executive arm of government in deepening good governance and systematic confidence between the ruler and the ru…
Zimbabwe is “open for business” and foreign investment in the southern African country is safe, President Emmerson Mnangagwa said on Thursday at a function ahead of next week’s World Economic Forum meeting in Davos.
Mnangagwa, who swept…
Zimbabwe is “open for business” and foreign investment in the southern African country is safe, President Emmerson Mnangagwa said on Thursday at a function ahead of next week’s World Economic Forum meeting in Davos.
Mnangagwa, who swept…
A performance appraisal survey on members of parliament (MPs) has adjudged MP for Bolgatanga Central, Isaac Adongo as the best performing minority MP for 2017.
The survey, conducted by indigenous research and investigation company, FAKS…
Nigerian militants threatened on Wednesday to attack off-shore oil facilities within days, raising fears of a repeat of a 2016 wave of violence that helped push Africa’s biggest economy into recession.
The Niger Delta Avengers - the fig…
Meghan Markle, the American actress who is engaged to Britain’s Prince Harry, has a new namesake after London zoo named a just-born Okapi after her in honor of her wedding in May.
Meghan the Okapi was born on Dec. 9 2017 to Oni, in a ro…
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni accused the United Nations on Wednesday of “preserving terrorism” in neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo where U.N. peacekeepers have been unable to curb deadly attacks by Islamist rebels.
Museveni…
An executive member of the Tema East branch of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Stephen Ashitey Adjei popularly known as “Mo Shake”, has decried a wave of power play in the party’s build up to the election of various exec…