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DStv Opens Premium Channels To Compact, Compact Plus Customers In Ghana

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MultiChoice is spreading some love to its DStv Compact and Compact Plus customers by having an Open Window showcasing three top Premium channels. From 29 May to 23 June 2017, DStv Compact Plus customers will be able to enjoy the laughs on Comedy Central (DStv channel 122) some interesting insights and history lessons on History … Read more

Hollywood Star Boris Kodjoe Proudly Celebrates Ghanaian Heritage

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Hollywood actor, Boris Kodjoe, full name Boris Frederic Cecil Tay-Natey Ofuatey-Kodjoe has given a big shoutout to his Ghanaian heritage by uploading a photo on his Facebook and adding a touching history to it. Kodjoe was born in Vienna, Austria to Ursula, a German psychologist of partially Jewish descent and Eric Kodjoe, a Ghanaian physician … Read more

Blacks, Beware Of Racial Criticism

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“To err is human” goes a wise saying; another says that “As you point a finger to criticise someone, three of your fingers point at you;” and another also says, “Too much of everything is bad.” At a time that I wanted to see an agenda for accelerated integration of all races in America, what … Read more

Factually Accurate, Grammatically Inaccurate

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Introduction A friend of mine has described the historic departure of Ghanaian pilgrims from the Tamale International Airport this year as “unprecedented in the ANNALS of aviation HISTORY.” That is factually correct, but grammatically problematic. Yes! Contextually, the construction under review has been attacked by the grammatical virus of TAUTOLOGY. Below is the justification of … Read more

The Determination To Liberate Kumawuman From Injustices Continues Unabated

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Now, discerning Kumawuman subjects all over the world have realised the need to join hands to fight to liberate their ancestral place of birth from the decades-old steady decline in infrastructural development. Come what may, they are resolute in their quest to save Kumawuman from the near-total infrastructural dilapidation; ongoing injustices and corruption in perpetuation … Read more

Are You Sure You Are Ghanaian?

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Silence is the best remedy to a failing tongue, and in that regard we were taught by our elders that sometimes it is golden. Indeed there are those who are adamantly cynical, and will not believe in the good that anyone has to offer. Their yardstick for judging innovative ideas is based on how profitable … Read more

Kufuor Is the Worst President In History – NDC Regional Organiser

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Former President John Agyekum Kufuor’s description of Ghana as a crisis state continue to attract criticism from the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC). Joining the fray is the Greater Accra Regional Organizer of the NDC Anthony Nukpenu who questioned if the statesman has any locus to label present Ghana under John Dramani Mahama as crisis-ridden … Read more

Asante Queen Makes History At Amsterdam Durbar

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The Dutch city of Amsterdam was over the weekend treated to a historic colourful cultural durbar in honour and celebration of the enstoolment of Obaahemaa (Queen mother) Nana Akosua Kusiwaa I, as the Asantefuohemaa of The Netherlands. The durbar which was heralded by a thanksgiving service at the All Saints Catholic Church swung into full … Read more

Akufo-Addo Was An Active Cpp Member, So What? Npp Usa.

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Our attention has been drawn to the above-captioned article authored by NPP-USA and published on Thursday, February 12, 2014. (http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/diaspora/artikel.php?ID=346307). May we begin with a short response that “Yes, it is a big, big deal”. I know some people may want to ask what is the big deal about this story, but we just want … Read more

Mmdces Must Be Schooled In Chieftaincy Matters

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Drama unfolded in Obuasi in the Ashanti region when The Chronicle, in its yesterday’s edition, published a story, which quoted Richard Akwasi Ofori Boadi Agyemang, Municipal Chief Executive for labeling chiefs as “noise makers”. According to the story, the Obuasi MCE said the chiefs, in their bid to ensure moral uprightness among government officials, sometimes go … Read more

Complete Biography & Profile of Albert Adu Boahen, Professor

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Albert A. Adu Boahen is Emeritus Professor at the Department of History, University of Ghana. He is Ghana’s most renowned historian, also noted for both his political activism and international role as a visiting professor to universities throughout the world, and as a consultant to UNESCO. Amongst his many books and papers on modern and … Read more

History Is in the Making as Ghana Starts a Space Program

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Plantain sellers, fruit vendors and market stalls line the road as taxis and local tro-tro buses dart through the busy high street. The lively centre of Koforidua, hemmed in by lush green mountains, appears to be the typical Ghanaian city. A short drive outside town, atop the roof of the All Nations University College (ANUC), … Read more

Suspected Case of Ebola Recorded at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) Hospital – Awaiting Test Results from Noguchi.

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A suspected Ebola case at the University Hospital of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) is causing fear and panic at the hospital and among the university community. The suspect, a man believed to be in his 70s from Sierra Leone, who was rushed to the University Hospital in the late hours … Read more

Jaw-dropping Photos That Expose the Human Cost of South Africa’s Mines

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Talented Photographer Ilan Godfrey, in a photoseries called “For Legacy of the Mine”,explores the human cost South Africa’s monolithic mining industry, tracing the threads of exploitation and oppression that run through the country’s lucrative mineral trade. Pivotal in the nation’s emergence as a global industrial leader, the diamond, coal, and gold mines carry with them … Read more

The Deadliest Disease In History Is Getting Deadlier, And Science Is No Where Near Finding a Cure.

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Mine workers in sub-Saharan Africa have the highest rates of TB in the world, with more than 760 000 new cases per year connected to the mining industry. The video give an exposure of the current stage of affairs. Only Few phrases strike more fear in my heart than “drug-resistant strain.”