A parade of security agencies, school children and volunteer organizations to mark 61 years of nationhood, has been held in Kumasi, with a call to Ghanaians to show love and be proud of their country.
Mr. Simon Osei-Mensah, the Ashanti …
The National Peace Council (NPC) has called for the government to focus priority on tackling issues of exclusion in governance, corruption and unemployment to achieve lasting peace and development.
It added that the lack of food, access…
The Ejisu-Juaben Municipal Assembly has made job creation a top priority on its development agenda.
Madam Beatrice Serwaa Derkyi, the Municipal Chief Executive (MCE), said providing employment opportunities for the people, was at the he…
Donald Tusk has insisted the EU "does not want to build a wall", but Brexit means "we will be drifting apart".
The EU Council president said Theresa May wanted to "demonstrate at any price that Brexit could be a success", but that was n…
There has been a significant drop in the number of child marriages worldwide, the United Nations children's agency says.
Unicef estimates that 25 million child marriages have been prevented in the past decade.
One in five girls are n…
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has criticised China's economic engagement in Africa, ahead of his first official visit to the continent.
He said China encouraged dependency, utilised corrupt deals and endangered its natural resourc…
The Mississippi state Senate has passed a bill that would ban abortions after 15 weeks - a move that would give it the strictest limits in the US.
The Gestational Age Act still has to go back to the House for second approval.
If it p…
Archbishop Óscar Romero, who was killed in 1980 while he was celebrating Mass in El Salvador, will be declared a saint, Pope Francis has announced.
Pope Paul VI, who oversaw many of the reforms the Catholic Church underwent in the 1960s…
The Metropolitan Chief Executive of Tema has asked Ghanaians not to allow themselves to be defined by underdevelopment but should rather soar above their challenges and build a better future.
Speaking on behalf of President Akufo-Addo, …
Mr Salifu Saeed, Northern Regional Minister, has said there is the need for all to unite as one people as they take advantage of the several development initiatives of the government.
He said “we must be at peace with one another and w…
Theresa May has warned that "no-one will get everything they want" out of Brexit negotiations but she is confident a deal can be done.
Setting out UK hopes for a future EU economic partnership, Mrs May warned both sides had to accept "h…
Voting is under way in Sierra Leone, where more than three million people are eligible to choose a new president, parliament and local councillors.
In the capital, Freetown, long queues could be seen at polling stations even before dawn…
US President Donald Trump's top economic adviser Gary Cohn is resigning, the White House has said.
It is the latest in a series of high-profile departures from President Trump's team.
There has been speculation that Mr Cohn, a suppor…
The Convention People’s Party (CPP) has enjoined all Ghanaians to use the 61st independence anniversary, which falls today, as a day of solemn reflection.
Ghana’s independence must inspire the citizenry to establish and manage a statecr…
The Editor-in-Chief of the New Crusading Guide newspaper, Abdul Malik Kweku Baako has alleged that a member of the Electoral Commission (EC) was going round clandestinely lying to journalists to win public sympathy in the ongoing removal p…
Former President Jerry John Rawlings has advocated two five-year terms for Presidents serving under a constitutional democracy.
According to him, in most four-year terms, the first year was used for acclimatisation while the last year t…
Parliament has passed the Legal Profession Regulations Bill amidst protests from the Minority caucus in Parliament.
The endorsement means that, the General Legal Council (GLC) would continue to conduct entrance exams at the Ghana School…
The leader of Zimbabwe's newest political party - made up of former Zanu-PF members who were ousted alongside Robert Mugabe - has met up with the former president.
Retired Brigadier Ambrose Mutinhiri says he visited the elderly politici…
The Islamic State (IS) group has published a video purporting to show an ambush in Niger in which four US soldiers were killed last October.
It is not clear why the release of the video - via an IS outlet on messaging app Telegram - was…
Italy's voters have turned to right-wing and populist parties in an election that is set to leave the country with a hung parliament.
The Eurosceptic, anti-establishment Five Star Movement was the biggest party with almost a third of th…
The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mr David Asante-Apeatu, has rounded up his three-day working visit to the Brong Ahafo Region with a pledge to clamp down on electoral violence in the Asunafo South District.
Several acts of p…
Parliament has eulogised the memory of the late Nana Asante-Frempong, former Member of Parliament (MP) for Kwabre East Constituency of the Ashanti region for the passion he had towards the development of his area.
Most members in their …
The Madina Constituency of the New Patriotic Party has elected its executive officers to steer the affairs of the party. Mr Eric Nartey Yeboah polled 372 votes as against 168 by Mr Michael Mackenzie, the incumbent, to win the Chairmanship …
French energy company Total (TOTF.PA) substantially raised its presence in Libya with the purchase of a 16.33 percent stake in Libya’s Waha concessions from U.S. Marathon Oil (MRO.N) for $450 million on Friday.
The deal will…
A letter written by Mahatma Gandhi about Jesus Christ is being put up for sale in the US.
The letter, signed by Gandhi and dated 6 April 1926, was written to Milton Newberry Frantz, a religious elder in the US at the time.
Gandhi wro…
Mr Joshua Aguda, aspiring Youth Organiser for the Tema East branch of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has called on Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia to fix the economy to make Ghanaians comfortable.
He said the widespread hards…
Mr Ustaz Bawa, New Patriotic Party Tema East aspiring Nasara Coordinator has called on former President Mahama and his family to tell Ghanaians whether he would be contesting for the Presidential slot or not.
He said although the former…
Egypt's President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi has said he considers any insult of its security forces to be "high treason", in an apparent warning to the media.
"If someone insults the army or police they're defaming all Egyptians and that's n…
The Nelson Mandela Foundation has asked the courts to ban "gratuitous displays" of the apartheid-era South African flag.
The foundation argues public displays of the flag amounts to "hate speech, unfair discrimination and harassment".
…
Severe weather continues to bring chaos to large parts of Europe, where at least 59 people have died amid sub-zero temperatures.
Most transport and flights have been suspended in Ireland where strong winds brought by a storm left some 2…
A fire has killed 24 people at a drug rehabilitation centre in Azerbaijan's capital Baku, officials say.
Television pictures showed flames leaping through barred windows of a single-storey wooden building.
The fire in a ward for bedr…
A Kumasi High Court has dismissed a petition challenging the confirmation of Ms. Mary Boatemaa Marfo as the District Chief Executive (DCE) for Sekyere East in the Ashanti region.
The court, presided over by Justice Charles Adjei Wilson,…
Kenya’s doctors’ union defended staff at the largest referral hospital on Friday after they were suspended for operating on the wrong patient.
Ouma Oluga, chief executive officer of the Kenya Medical Practitioners, Pharmacists and Denti…
Gunmen have launched an attack in the capital of Burkina Faso, Ouagadougou, with the French embassy and a military HQ among the apparent targets.
Burkina Faso's government said four attackers had been killed at the embassy and at least …
The snap presidential election in Venezuela scheduled for 22 April has been pushed back by a month, the National Electoral Council (CNE) has announced.
The CNE said the poll would now be held on 20 May.
The move came after an agreeme…
Mr Kingsley Nyarko, Executive Director of the Danquah Institute (DI), a Political ideological institute said a functional democracy is built on good governance, transparency, responsibility and accountability which are critical to the prog…
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Okere Constituency has retained its executive members at the end of polling held at the Methodist Church at Adukrom.
In a process conducted by the Electoral Commission, Mr Adu Mante, the Chairman of …
US President Donald Trump has said "trade wars are good", amid controversy over his decision to impose tariffs on steel and aluminium imports.
He tweeted that the US was "losing billions of dollars on trade" and would find a trade war "…
The Police Service, in view of the recent robberies in the country, has come out with the following security tips for personal safety at home and out on the street.
A statement signed by ACP David Eklu, the Director General in charge of…
Mr Benjamin Ashitey, a parliamentary aspirant in the 2015 primaries of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Tema East Constituency, has cautioned Mr Daniel Titus Glover, Member of Parliament for the area, to stop tarnishing his image.
A…
Civilians have been evacuated from the besieged rebel-held Eastern Ghouta area in Syria for the first time since daily "humanitarian pauses" began on Tuesday.
The Syrian Arab Red Crescent confirmed it had helped an elderly Pakistani man…
Fresh heavy snowfalls lashing Europe have caused transport delays, with the deep freeze expected to continue.
The airport in the Swiss city of Geneva has been forced to shut down temporarily and snow ploughs have been attempting to clea…
US President Donald Trump has stunned lawmakers from both parties by accusing them of being "petrified" of the National Rifle Association (NRA).
In a break from his party's anti-gun control stance, Mr Trump urged lawmakers during a tele…
A French judge has opened a formal criminal investigation into Marine Le Pen's publication on Twitter of a series of grisly images in 2015.
The three images referred to the so-called Islamic State group and were captioned "Daesh is THIS…
The Parliamentary Select Committee on Lands and Forestry has said it will hold consultations with actors in the country’s forest sector to address the rosewood challenge confronting the savannah regions of the country.
Mr Francis Manu-A…
Mr Richard Adu, the Wenchi Constituency Youth Organiser of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has called on other political parties in the country to emulate the political maturity and civility demonstrated by supporters of the Party in the ju…
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) delegates in Aowin have elected new constituency executives to oversee the affairs of the party in the next four years.
Madame Joana Morcher, the incumbent Women Organizer, won with 308 whilst Madame Consta…
The Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) says it has not authorized anybody or group of persons to allocate stores in the newly constructed Kejetia market to traders.
It has therefore warned those who are extorting money from traders unde…
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) constituency executives in Tarkwa Nsueam have all been re-elected to serve the party for another four years.
Many of the delegates who participated in the exercise told the Ghana News Agency that they decid…
Authorities released Daniel Elombah the same day he was arrested; Timothy was released on 500,000 Nigerian naira (US$1,400) bail after spending 25 days in police custody
Nigerian authorities should immediately drop plans to charge Timot…
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