At the resumed hearing of the on-going trial of Nigeria’s former Head of Service, Mr. Stephen Oronsaye before Justice Olasumbo Goodluck of the Federal Capital Territory High Court, Abuja, Wednesday, counsels to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC and the defendant had a heated argument over the admissibility of documents presented by the EFCC. … Read more
The Hague (AFP) – Kenya failed to work with the International Criminal Court in its probe over post-election violence against President Uhuru Kenyatta, the tribunal said Monday, some 18 months after the case spectacularly collapsed. “The Republic of Kenya had failed to comply with its obligations to cooperate with the ICC,” its judges said in … Read more
Libreville (AFP) – Libreville’s nearly empty streets were under the watch of a heavy police and military presence on Saturday after Gabon’s top court upheld President Ali Bongo’s re-election in bitterly disputed polls. Security force checkpoints dotted routes into the capital’s centre, helicopters hovered overhead and elite troops protected the presidential palace, but no violence … Read more
MAPUTO, Mozambique, 28 September 2016,-/African Media Agency (AMA)/- – Over the next few days Mozambique will play host to a series of train-the-trainer (TTT) workshops during the official build-up to SAP’s Africa Code Week (ACW), taking place in Maputo from 29 to 30 September. Founded in 2015, ACW is a continent-wide initiative to simplify the … Read more
Some students of the University of Ghana have added their voice to the growing controversy which stems from the erection and unveiling of the statue of Mahatma Gandhi. A section of the students GhanaWeb spoke to were as divided on the issue as some of the lecturers at the University. Some of the students suggested … Read more
The Flagbearer of the All Peoples Congress (APC) Hassan Ayariga has said he’ll not stop attacking the Flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Nana Akufo Addo because he is not God. According to him, Nana Akufo Addo is a mere human being and hence finds it difficult to understand why supporters of the NPP … Read more
South Sudan’s rebel leader on Monday accused President Salva Kiir of wanting to turn the country into an “ethnic state” for his Dinka group. Riek Machar’s statement, obtained by The Associated Press, accuses the government of pushing ethnic groups into fighting. Machar is Nuer. The civil war that erupted in December 2013 between supporters of … Read more
The flag bearer of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has vowed to make life comfortable for the ordinary Ghanaian if he wins the 2016 Elections. In a feature in the Financial Times of London titled, “Ghana’s opposition leader taps into the thirst for change,” Nana Addo is quoted on a … Read more
Mr Elvis Afriyie Ankrah, the Minister of State at the Presidency, has said it is the policy of government to expand the cultivation of rice and help reduce the importation of the commodity. He said government deems the expansion rice of production as key to the economic growth of the country. Speaking at the Ghana-Vietnam … Read more
Hassan Ayariga’s All Peoples Congress (APC), is accusing the flagbearer of the Progressive Peoples Party (PPP), Dr Papa Kwesi Nduom of reducing his party to a platform for comedians and half-baked graduates. It states that Dr. Nduom is rather a joker and not Dr. Hassan Ayariga and therefore advised executives of the PPP, to be … Read more
Mahama is in a symbiotic relationship with corruption President John Mahama has given ample catalyst to the deeply rooted impression that he is in a symbiotic relationship with corruption. In a video shamefully depicting the president doling out monies to people who had gathered around his car, Ghana’s president has consolidated ‘the gains’ he has … Read more
Founder and leader of Freedom Chapel International Church, Apostle Amoako Atta, has disclosed that Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings, has done a great deal of disservice to Ghana by allowing her ambition to override the vision which God gave and prepared her for. Apostle Amoako Atta, who was speaking to this journalist in an exclusive interview, … Read more
By Kwasi Ansu-Kyeremeh Without common sense, no motherland ever ably operates a democratic constitution. And when a congresspeople group in our motherland is constantly thinking evilly, an edge towards constitutional crisis is felt. Common sense tells me ‘exclusive’ reference to CHRAJ as an investigating agency borders on the investigative mechanisms under the ambit of the … Read more
There is controversy among the lecturers of the University of Ghana, Legon over the erection and unveiling of a statue of Mahatma Gandhi on the campus. While a section of them is agitating that the statue be pulled down, others insist it should stay. Signatories Those against the erection have collected more than 1,300 signatures … Read more
Without common sense, no motherland ever ably operates a democratic constitution. And when a congresspeople group in our motherland is constantly thinking evilly, an edge towards constitutional crisis is felt. Common sense tells me ‘exclusive’ reference to CHRAJ as an investigating agency borders on the investigative mechanisms under the ambit of the executive branch of … Read more
The General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr Johnson Asiedu Nketia has finally explained his rationale for wearing a political war smock each time the party congregates. He disclosed on Wa-based WFM, that the dress symbolizes authority and to assure party foot soldiers who work for its victory at the grassroots, he is … Read more
Dr Papa Kwesi Nduom’s single-room banks littered across the country do not qualify him as ‘adwumawura’ – creator of jobs, as he has been touting himself to be, flag bearer of the opposition All People’s Party (APC), Mr Hassan Ayariga has said. At an event to introduce his running mate on Saturday, 24 September, Mr … Read more
Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos says the peace deal with the Farc rebel group will boost economic growth and will enable the country to rebuild its social fabric. “War is always more costly than peace,” he said in an interview with the BBC. Mr Santos and Farc leader Timoleon Jimenez, known as Timochenko, will sign … Read more
On March 6, 1957, when Ghana became independent, I was about 10 years old, and in class three at St Peter’s Middle School, Kumasi. On President Nkrumah’s maiden voyage to the Garden City, school children lined up along the principal streets in Kumasi to welcome the leader of the new nation. Our school’s vantage point … Read more
One of Ghana’s legendary musicians, Akosua Agyapong, has revealed how she was approached by a 25-year-old man who had intentions of dating her. Akosua Agyapong is married to the founder and leader of House of God International Prayer Ministry, Prophet Daniel Asamoah-Larbi. The ace musician was once married to Amanzeba Nat Brew of NAKOREX fame … Read more