Presidential candidate for the People’s National Convention (PNC), Dr. Edward Nasigri Mahama has been accused of usurping powers of party executives.
“He has been contemptuously disregarding the constitution of the PNC in pursuit of his…
The Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service has cleared the two Deputy Chiefs of Staff, Samuel Abu Jinapor and Francis Asenso Boakye of all corruption allegations made against them by Kwame Asare Obeng popularl…
As part of his commitment to improve the standard of education in his constituency, the Member of Parliament for Ofoase-Ayirebi and Deputy Minister for Information, Mr Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, has awarded scholarships to 200 students in the ar…
The Commissioner of the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), Mr Joseph Whittal, has said the whole structure of the Old Parliament House has not been pulled down, thus the allusions by Ghanaians to CHRAJ destroyin…
The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has stated that African countries would have to change the structure of their economies, from raw material dependent economies to industrialised, value-added economies if they are to fully financ…
The President said investment in the four critical areas including in ICT would reduce the cost of electricity and business transaction in Uganda and promote industrialisation as Uganda moves to becoming a middle income country
Pres…
Soremekun further noted that peace was at the centre of development, from the family level to the global stage
The National Information Officer of the United Nations Information Centre (UNIC) Nigeria, Oluseyi Soremekun, has enjoined…
Prime Minister Theresa May is due to travel to Canada to discuss plans for a post-Brexit trade deal.
She said the two countries held "shared values" ahead of meeting Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Mrs May is also expected to…
The Majority Leader in Parliament and Minister for Parliamentary Affairs, Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu says Ghana has failed to progress partly because of substandard ministers appointed by successive governments.
According to the Suame Membe…
Security forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo have shot dead 37 Burundian migrants who were protesting after four of their countrymen were expelled, the UN says.
Its peacekeeping mission Monusco said another 117 were injured durin…
The Free Senior High School (SHS) Policy is ambitiously selfless and the righteous system for Ghana and Africa, the 2016 independent presidential candidate, Mr Jacob Osei Yeboah, has stated.
In his view, the free SHS programme is a mean…
The high youth unemployment should not be seen as an economic and social issue anymore, but a security threat to the country’s very existence, Ignatius Baffour-Awuah, Minister of Employment and Labour Relations has cautioned.
He said th…
The First Lady, Mrs Rebecca Akufo-Addo, is to participate in a high-level Organisation of African First Ladies Against HIV and AIDS (OAFLA) meeting in New York.
The meeting, themed: “Global Partnership towards harnessing the demographic…
A teacher who takes in orphans of both Islamist fighters and Nigerian army soldiers has won this year's UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award.
"They are the best of friends," Zannah Mustapha says of his pupils. "This should be a template for world…
The Members of the Yendi Catholic Church have organized a special church service at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Lourdes at Yendi to give praise and thanks to God for His care for the nation.
They also prayed for the President, politica…
Togbe Afede XIV, Agbogbomefia of Asogli and President of the National House of Chiefs, has reiterated the call on the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to play a lead role in restoring peace to the Republic of Togo.
He…
Hurricane Maria is expected to strengthen further as it nears the Leeward Islands in the Caribbean.
It has been upgraded to a category two hurricane, and is forecast to hit the islands late on Monday, the US National Hurricane Center (N…
The Youth of Sombo in the Nadowli/Kaleo District have hailed Mr Alban S.K. Bagbin, Member of Parliament (MP) for Nadowli/Kaleo Constituency, for his dedicated service to his constituents.
They said Mr Bagbin’s stewardship for the then N…
The Executive Director of the Rural Initiatives for Self-Empowerment- Ghana (RISE-Ghana), a Bolgatanga-based non-governmental Organisation (NGO), Mr Awal Ahmed Kariama, has stressed the need for citizens participation in the governance pro…
The governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) national council has approved the nomination of Hajia Saudatu Saeed as the acting Women’s Organiser of the party.
Hajia Saudatu, who is the National Deputy Women’s Organiser, replaces the Minister…
Mr Francis Nyonyo, Member of Council of State representing the Volta Region has said he would be an active advocate of the Region and not just a ‘representative.’ Mr Nyonyo who is on a familiarization tour of the Region said the visits gr…
Staff of the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) have been asked to step-up their effort at assisting the people to have better understanding of the their civil responsibilities.
Mr. Samuel Akuamoah, the Commission’s Deputy D…
Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) in the Volta Region have called on the African Union (AU) and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to immediately step in to avert explosion of political violence in the Republic of Togo…
A former Chief of Staff under the government of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) led by President Jerry John Rawlings, Nana Ato Dadzie, has urged African countries to establish clear regulations and administrative structures to ensur…
Mr Neenyi George Andah Member of Parliament (MP) for Awutu-Senya Constituency has urged the Chiefs and People of Awutu Bereaku to bury their differences and forge ahead as one people with a common destiny to develop the area.
He said it…
Ex-acting CIA director Michael Morell has resigned from his post at Harvard over its hiring of Chelsea Manning.
Announcing his resignation as a senior fellow, Mr Morell said he could not be part of an institution "that honours a convict…
The Speaker of Parliament, Professor Mike Oquaye, has underscored the need for donor partners to support Africa to consolidate economic and political development on the continent.
He described the consolidation of the economic and polit…
A British man has died in Sri Lanka after being attacked by a crocodile, his employer has confirmed.
Paul McClean, 24, from Thames Ditton in Surrey, was dragged into a river near Arugam Bay, witnesses said.
Fawas Lafeer, who owns the…
The Minister for Parliamentary Affairs, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu has disclosed that Parliament will cut down the size of committees in the House since some members in a single committee is too much.
The leadership of the House, he noted, …
The latest missile test by North Korea, one of its furthest-reaching yet, has split world powers who united behind new UN sanctions just days ago.
The US said the burden of responding to the North should fall on China, its main ally, an…
ormer African Union Chairperson, Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma on Wednesday called on former President Jerry John Rawlings and his wife Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings at their office in Accra.
Dr. Dhlamini-Zuma and the Rawlingses discussed t…
Former Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Mr Martin Amidu and the Member of Parliament for North Tongu, Mr Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa have been back and forth this week about the authorship of an article which Mr Amidu insists insulted…
Russia and Belarus have launched a large-scale joint military exercise, called Zapad-2017, which has made nearby Nato countries nervous.
It is one of Russia's biggest military exercises since its 2014 annexation of Ukraine's Crimea peni…
The Economic and Organised Crime Organisation (EOCO) has stated that it intends to collaborate with the Office of the Special Prosecutor to carry out its mandate. According to EOCO, the setting up of the Office of the Special Prosecutor …
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Wednesday presented letters of credence to three Ambassadors and a High Commissioner at the Flagstaff House in Accra.
They include Mr. Edwin Nii Adjei, who is going to Canberra as High Commission…
Member of Parliament (MP) for the Lower Manya Constituency in the Eastern Region, Ebenezer Okletey Terlabi, has expressed worry regarding the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP’s) free Senior High School [SHS] even though he describes the policy a…
At least 50 people have been killed in two attacks in southern Iraq, health officials say.
In the first attack, a suicide bomber detonated his vest and gunmen opened fire inside a roadside restaurant near Nasiriya, the capital of Dhiqar…
At least 23 students and teachers have died in a fire at a religious school in Malaysia's capital, Kuala Lumpur.
The fire at the Tahfiz Darul Quran Ittifaqiyah broke out in the early hours of Thursday morning.
The victims are thought…
President Nana Addo Danquah Akufo-Addo has been reminded of his promise to Ghanaians to prosecute corrupt past government officials who are alleged to have embezzled state funds.
Mr. Stephen Kojo Arhin, Cape Coast North constituency Tre…
The government is committed to deepening the decentralisation process in the country to promote accountability.
It is in this respect that the government mooted the idea of electing metropolitan, municipal and district Chief Executives …
The US State Department will from September 14, 2017 (Wednesday) stop issuing certain kinds of visas to selected citizens of Cambodia, Eritrea, Guinea and Sierra Leonem due to the affected nations refusal to take back US deportees.
Reut…
Grief, in the form of anger consumed Amivi. She is still unable to endure the death of her husband in a road crash during a recent political protest in Lome. The bitterness she had kept erupted, “he is gone. My house is empty. My children …
A two-member delegation from the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has returned from Namibia after participating in an international dialogue by African and European parties that believe in the left and centre of the political divide.
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Mr Francis Nyonyo, Member of Council of State representing the Volta Region, has said he would be an active advocate of the region and not just a ‘representative’.
Mr Nyonyo, who is on a familiarization tour of the region, said the visi…
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Tuesday paid a visit to his Nigerian counterpart, President Muhammadou Buhari in Abuja, Nigeria. President Akufo-Addo’s call is the second visit to the Nigerian President by a foreign Head of State,…
The Kadjebi District Director of the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE), Mr Daniel Agbesi Latsu, has appealed to Ghanaians to protect the country’s forest cover from further depletion.
He said as a civic duty, there was the …
The Member of Parliament for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has said he never attacked former Attorney General, Martin Amidu, in any article for which reason the latter has replied attacking him.
Mr Amidu has described the former…
Mr John Kofi Donyinah, the Techiman Municipal Chief Executive, has called on the youth to register and benefit from the "planting for food and jobs", initiative to improve their lot.
He said the government's "planting for food and jobs"…
Former President Jerry John Rawlings has said the situation in Togo has raised a great concern for the number of people injured and the increasing death toll.
He said the description of an eminent civil war by some commentators showed t…
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has rallied the support of the Ghana Bar Association (GBA) to deal with the challenges of corruption and environmental degradation, saying the nation could only develop when those two are confronted he…
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