The British government has awarded an $18.5 million contract for the supply of medical equipment and technical support to some Ghanaian health facilities. Under the contract, Cteq, a British small and medium-scale enterprise (SME), would provide the Wa Hospital with 160 beds and the Nsawkaw and Tepa hospitals with 60 beds each under the first … Read more
The Ethiopian ministry of foreign affairs has announced the death of the most prominent historian of the country, the Briton, Richard Pankhurst. The government said he was one of Ethiopia’s greatest friends during his long and productive life. The son of the suffragette Sylvia Pankhurst, he moved to Ethiopia in 1956, the start of a … Read more
The British Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson, has indicated his government’s commitment to ensuring more investments from British firms in Ghana. Addressing the press after private talks with President Nana Akufo-Addo at the Flagstaff House earlier on Wednesday, Mr. Johnson relayed the British government’s desire to deepen ties with Ghana. “We hope to have an even … Read more
By:Yaw Owusu-Frempong The questions that come to my mind in recent times when I am watching television and I hear the word Flagstaff/Jubilee House are: Are there any plans to change the name of ‘Flagstaff House’ to ‘Jubilee House’? Does it mean that any political party that is elected to form a government can change … Read more
The UK-Ghana Chamber of Commerce (UKGCC) is poised to double trade volumes and value between Ghana and the UK in the next four years. Trade volumes between Ghana and UK are currently estimated at just about 3.5 percent of Ghana’s total international trade, and it is valued at about a billion dollars per annum. But … Read more
A petition calling on the British government to cancel a planned state visit to Britain by U. S. President Donald Trump has been signed by more than a million people. The petition grows by thousands of new signatures every hour, but Downing Street has insisted the visit by the U.S. president will go ahead. British … Read more
Attorney General Jeremy Wright (L, front) arrives at the British Supreme Court in London, Britain, Jan. 24, 2017. The British Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled on that Prime Minister Theresa May must consult Parliament before triggering formal negotiations on Britain leaving the European Union. (Xinhua/Han Yan) The British Government laid a brief bill before parliament … Read more
The British Supreme Court has ruled the government must seek parliamentary approval before formally initiating the process to leave the European Union. Tuesday’s decision, which affirms an earlier High Court ruling, is a setback for Prime Minister Theresa May, who intends to invoke Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty to leave the bloc by the … Read more
The Sultan of Sokoto is the father of the Fulani people, the foremost traditional ruler in northern Nigeria and the spiritual leader of all northern Muslims. He is not just a traditional ruler but an all-powerful potentate who represents a strange and mystical power and who heads an ancient and dark empire. Not only is … Read more
Martin McGuinness, former IRA leader turned peacemaker, has confirmed he will not stand in the Northern Ireland Assembly election. He quit as deputy first minister in a row over a botched green energy scheme, sparking an election on 2 March. He had been in the post since entering NI’s power-sharing assembly in 2007 with ex-political … Read more
The British government expects to lose its legal battle to start the Brexit process without going through parliament, and has drafted versions of a bill to put to lawmakers after the ruling, the Guardian newspaper reported on Tuesday. The Supreme Court is expected to rule in the next two weeks on whether the government can … Read more
Last October Burundi, South Africa and the Gambia declared they were withdrawing from the International Criminal Court (ICC), citing reasons that generally have to do with the widely held perception that the ICC is only targeting African leaders. All but one of the ICC’s 10 investigations has been African-based. Taking place within only two weeks, … Read more
INTRODUCTION Historically Chieftaincy was the political and social institution that fully run and controlled various ethnic groupings before the advent of the white man and subsequent colonialism. They also ran as spiritual leaders within a cephalous arrangement. When the British colonized the Gold Coast, they decided to use the well structured Indigenous Chieftaincy Institution to … Read more
A post-Brexit UK-EU trade deal might take 10 years to finalise and still fail, Britain’s ambassador to the EU has privately told the government. The BBC understands Sir Ivan Rogers warned ministers that the European consensus was that a deal might not be done until the early to mid-2020s. He also cautioned that an agreement … Read more
The British government has sent a peace and goodwill message to Ghanaians as the country votes to elect a new president and members of parliament for the next four years. In a video message, the British High Commissioner to Ghana, Jon Benjamin, said whoever the victor maybe is entirely in the hands of the people … Read more
Exactly sixty years (60years) ago, 1956 – 2016, Kotokolis in the then British Togoland, were among some ethnic groups such as Ewes, Akans, Mamprusis, Dagombas, Nanumbas, Bimobas, Konkomba, Chokosis, Kusasis, Basaris,, Bisas (Busanga), Akebus, Adele, Buems, Adwodes, Gonjas of Salaga and Guans among others in the present Volta Region of Ghana, went to the polls … Read more
Lancaster University has developed an award-winning model of eco-innovation, where academics and research students work with businesses to develop innovative products, toolkits and services with a positive environmental benefit. The eco-innovation in Africa will offer new business opportunities and sustainable, equitable growth, more efficient or responsible use of natural resources, a low carbon economy in … Read more
At the end of the Biafran War many experts came to the conclusion that genocide had been committed against the Igbo by the Nigerian government. In an effort to suppress the scandal, the Nigerian government with some help from Great Britain worked frantically to cover up the news about the atrocities. For almost fifty years … Read more
On 4th July 1995, in an important legal precedent, the UK Supreme Court issued a verdict against AMNESTY at the time when only three weeks were left for the organization to conclude an intensive campaign against Sudan. The campaign ‘ the Tears Of Orphans’ started on 25th January 1995 and continued until 31st July 1995. … Read more
President John Dramani Mahama never instigated any clash between supporters of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and those of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) and any “statements of such allegations are ridiculous”, the Accra Regional Organiser of the NDC, Anthony Nukpenu, has said. He was reacting to comments by the Women’s Organiser of the … Read more