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…
The Brong-Ahafo Regional Executives of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has condemned the attack on Mr Kwame Baffoe, the Regional Youth Organiser of the Party over the weekend at Atebubu in the Atebubu-Amantin District in the Region.
They …
Dr Kwabena Sarfo-Kantankah, a political analyst, has described President Akuffo-Addo’s appointment of Mr Martin Amidu as the Special Prosecutor as apt and sincere.
He said the aura surrounding his persona, public utterances and resolve …
Nana Obiri Boahen, the Deputy General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has called on the Ghana Medical Association (GMA) to institute punitive action against Dr Lawrence Edusei, a pathologist, who conducted the autopsy on the Mem…
The Brong Ahafo Regional Minister, Mr Kwaku Asomah-Cheremeh, has denied allegations that he has a hand in the assault of Mr Kwame Baffoe, alias Abr)ny3 DC, which has resulted in his hospitalisation.
“Let me state emphatically that I h…
The Minority in Parliament is challenging Vice President Dr Mahammudu Bawumia’s claims that government has met the fiscal deficit target for 2017.
A statement by James Klutse Avedzi, deputy minority leader issued Tuesday, said the vic…
The Government under President Akufo-Addo in 2017 chalked a historic feat in the macroeconomic sector by achieving its Fiscal Deficit Target.
This is the first since 2006. A visibly elated Dr. Bawumia said the achievement was historic…
This year promises to be a very busy year for the largest opposition party, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) politically. The reason is quite simple. After the earlier failed attempt to kick-start the much-awaited branch re-registr…
Vice-President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has stated that the creation of the Nation Builders Corps to employ 100,000 people this year, with a budgetary allocation of GH¢600 million, was on course, coupled with other intervention initiatives to…
A prominent Kosovo Serb politician, Oliver Ivanovic, has been shot dead outside his party offices in the Serb-run north of Mitrovica.
Ivanovic, seen as a moderate Kosovo Serb leader, was shot four times in the chest and died later in ho…
Zimbabweans in the Namibian capital Windhoek say they are "shocked" and "embarrassed" to have been charged by the "cash-strapped" embassy to see visiting President Emmerson Mnangagwa, reports Namibian news site The Villager.
The site go…
Officials from the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) Monday afternoon stormed the office of the Deputy Chairperson in Charge of Corporate Services at the Electoral Commission (EC), Mrs Georgina Opoku Amankwaa with live TV cameras.…
The Senior Paster of the First Baptist church, Tema. has admonished the newly nominated Special Prosecutor, Mr Martin Amidu, to be fair and bring justice to the people of Ghana,
“ Corruption is not just a perception, corruption is real.…
Dr Vladimir Antwi-Danso, a Researcher and International Consultant, says the derogatory and racist comments US President, Donald Trump, used to describe Africans, blacks and others were unpardonable, especially coming from a president rega…
Mr Edem Agbewornu, the Keta Municipal Chief Executive, has called on government to stop expanding settlements at Gakli Kologa and other communities along the Ghana-Togo border at Aflao for security reasons.
He described the communities …
The MF-UM collaboration formalised today will facilitate academic support to post-graduate medical trainees in the fields of diabetes, oncology and infertility
From India to Malaysia, Merck Foundation continues their collaborative ef…
Maverick Brong Ahafo Regional Youth Organiser of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Kwame Baffoe, popularly known as Abr?ny? DC, was last Saturday assaulted at Atebubu where he was scheduled to meet with some executive members of the party.
…
The Coalition of Democratic Governance (CDG), a political pressure group has described the first year rule of the Akufo-Addo-led New Patriotic Party government as “riddled with bullet shots of corruption, nepotism, incompetence, lies, insi…
President Donald Trump has denied that he is racist, after a row broke out over his alleged use of the word "shithole" to describe African nations.
Mr Trump reportedly used the term last week during a bipartisan Oval Office meeting on i…
It's a quarter of the way through Donald Trump's presidential term - long enough to judge his performance so far.
There have been promises kept, promises broken and promises ignored. But how much have his policies changed things?
A b…
Kenya has cut the share of revenue communities receive from local oil discoveries to 20 percent from an earlier offer of 30 percent, a senior government official said on Friday.
The move will hit the northern county of Turkana, where Tu…
The Asante-Akim Central Municipal Assembly on Thursday failed to elect a Presiding Member (PM) after two rounds of voting. The incumbent and sole candidate, Robert Yaw Kwakye, could not secure the mandatory two-thirds majority votes.
He…
Jonathan Moyo, a minister who served in Robert Mugabe’s government, has said he will not discuss an immunity deal with the new Zimbabwean government.
“When the devil offers you immunity, you would be a fool to enter what is called a Fau…
U.S. President Donald Trump canceled a trip to London scheduled for next month to open a new embassy, blaming Barack Obama for selling off the old one for “peanuts” in a bad deal.
The American flag was this month removed from the U.S. e…
Four of India's most senior Supreme Court judges have publicly challenged the authority of the head of the judiciary - in an unprecedented move.
In a letter and a press conference, the judges said Chief Justice Dipak Misra was assigning…
The Greater Accra Regional Minister, Mr Ishmael Ashitey, has called on government officials within the various departments and agencies to judiciously guard the public purse against malfeasances and leakages.
He said this was not only n…
Action Voices, an NGO, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the National Association of Local Authorities of Ghana (NALAG) to implement and replicate a Citizen-Government Engagement project.
Dubbed “Action Voices” the pro…
One of France's main publishing houses has suspended plans to republish a collection of anti-Semitic writings by author Louis-Ferdinand Céline.
After a public outcry, Gallimard said the "conditions were not right" for the texts to be is…
The chiefs and people in Amansie South have hailed President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo for the decision to give them their own district and promised to unite their efforts for its smooth take off.
This was at a stakeholder forum held …
German politicians have achieved a breakthrough in talks aimed at forming a new coalition government.
A blueprint for formal negotiations was agreed between Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU) and their former coalition…