Rome, 27 January 2017 – The establishment of a new network to help bridge the estimated US$150 billion financing gap that prevents small rural producers and businesses in developing countries from growing their operations and strengthening rural economies, was announced today. The announcement, made by Kanayo F. Nwanze, President of the International Fund for Agricultural … Read more
Maiduguri (Nigeria) (AFP) – The head of the World Food Programme said she was hopeful of continued US funding for the organisation, despite reports that Washington was mulling heavy cuts in financial support. Foreign Policy magazine reported on Thursday it had seen an executive order from President Donald Trump’s administration that proposed cuts of 40 … Read more
Maiduguri (Nigeria) (AFP) – The head of the World Food Programme said she was hopeful of continued US funding for the organisation, despite reports that Washington was mulling heavy cuts in financial support. Foreign Policy magazine reported on Thursday it had seen an executive order from President Donald Trump’s administration that proposed cuts of 40 … Read more
Terrorism has been at the top of US agenda since George Bush but what you don’t realize is that it is nothing but a “cover up” for the debt crisis. Let us assume that there was no terrorism … if we took out terrorism from news headlines from the past decades then do you know … Read more
Folks, folks, folks! I’m going bonkers. What am I reading? “Appointment Committee ‘approves ‘ 8 nominees; freezes Osafo-Marfo and Agyarko’s approval,” or my eyes are playing tricks on me? Really? Someone must be kidding me. Firstly, let’s take a look at Osafo-Marfo’s issue: It is alleged he said something to the effect that those who … Read more
According to the constitution of Ghana, retirement in public service is 60-years. Meaning if Ghana was a woman as we have been referring to our country as Ama Ghana, she would be retiring on 6th March, 2017. I think our greatest achievement is our Democracy. Aside that, our 60years in active service hasn’t been the … Read more
It is said that critiques shape the ideas of leaders and keeps them on their toes in response to their roles and responsibility as leaders. Also, criticism offers you an opportunity to assess your weakness and better appreciate how others perceive you. It is so disturbing, when most student leaders hate to be criticized and … Read more
To fully appreciate the rather embarrassing inter-party battle over the control of public toilets raging between some youthful supporters of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), one may need to go back to events that have transpired between the youthful members and supporters of the country’s two … Read more
The happenings so far indicate an absolute change of government and governance. The NPP scored political capital out of the behaviour of some government appointees in the NDC government, calling them arrogant and so on…. Here we are today, few days into government, we see the militancy tactics by the NPP with the full endorsement … Read more
Obviously, the shock of the 2016 election defeat prompted the leadership of the NDC Party to set up a sleuth-hound Committee to let the “non-existent cat out of the bag.” Apparently, the NDC leadership’s election defeat facts finding Committee would seem puzzling to many discerning Ghanaians, given the irrevocable incompetence, corruption and shenanigans they exhibited … Read more
Johannesburg (AFP) – South African Wayde van Niekerk, the world 400m record holder and Olympic champion, is seeking a World Championships scheduling change so he can race Usain Bolt in London, his manager said on Friday. “We will try to make it happen. That’s the plan. The main goal is to win the 400m title … Read more
Mogadishu (AFP) – Islamist Shabaab fighters attacked a Kenyan military base in southern Somalia on Friday in their latest assault on foreign and national army outposts. The attack on the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) base at Kolbiyow, close to the Kenyan border in Somalia’s Lower Juba region, began with suicide truck bombers blasting their way … Read more
London (AFP) – The magical coaching touch of Australia’s Eddie Jones and New Zealanders Joe Schmidt and Vern Cotter is helping northern hemisphere rugby close the gap on their southern rivals, ex-South Africa coach Nick Mallett told AFP. The 60-year-old Mallett, under whose watch the Springboks went on a record 17-match winning streak in 1997-98, … Read more
Whoever advised Dr Nyaho Nyaho-Tamakloe to come out of hiding to even partake in national discourse, albeit disappointingly, has done him a disservice. When Dr Nyaho-Tamakloe went into hiding after assuring then President John Mahama, his source of gravy, of victory, he did so out of the humiliation he suffered after he flaunted his strong … Read more
“How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?” -Carson McCullers Bismark Bebli, a former staff of The Chronicle and until recently the acting editor of General Telegraph, an Accra-based newspaper met his untimely death in a ghastly accident at Kasoa in the Central … Read more
“I am inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa because all our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours – whereas all the testing says not really…. I hope that everyone is equal but people who have to deal with black employees find this not true…You should … Read more
“Every great dream begins with a dreamer, Always remember you have within you the strength, the patience and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.” Harriet Tubman NANA ABRE, YEN NSO Y’ABRE (Nana has suffered. We have also suffered). Yen na yennie? (Could we be the beneficiaries?). Nana Prempeh of Kitase … Read more
London (AFP) – The magical coaching touch of Australia’s Eddie Jones and New Zealanders Joe Schmidt and Vern Cotter is helping northern hemisphere rugby close the gap on their southern rivals, ex-South Africa coach Nick Mallett told AFP. The 60-year-old Mallett, under whose watch the Springboks went on a record 17-match winning streak in 1997-98, … Read more
I don’t have a problem with celebrating Ghana @60 as long as it is within our scarce means. By all means inspect a guard of honour and make a televised speech hopefully to correct the inauguration saga. But maybe for once it is also an opportunity for use to make an loud statement to the … Read more
Khartoum (AFP) – Sudanese opposition leader and ex-prime minister Sadiq al-Mahdi returned from exile Thursday, more than two years after he fled abroad, saying he wants to “end the war”. Mahdi, whose civilian government was overthrown in a 1989 coup that brought President Omar al-Bashir to power, flew in to Khartoum, said his daughter Mariam … Read more