Portugal’s former Prime Minister Antonio Guterres has been officially appointed as the next UN secretary general. Mr Guterres, 67, will become the world’s top diplomat on 1 January when Ban Ki-moon’s second five-year term ends. The Portuguese, who led the UN refugee agency UNHCR for 10 years, was chosen from among 13 candidates last week. … Read more
The Kenya Airways Board has threatened to stop selling tickets on its networks if the Kenya Airline Pilot Association (KALPA) does not withdraw its strike notice. In a statement to newsrooms, the airline says that the move will save them the costs associated with selling tickets and not carrying these passengers noting that the last … Read more
Kapital Radio’s source close to the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly has revealed that the Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II has decided to intervene in the protracted KMA impasse to get Kumasi a Presiding Member to enable the Garden City fully function. The source says all assemblymen of Kumasi met the King and Kumasi Traditional Council at … Read more
Theresa May has rejected a claim by Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn that she is overseeing a “shambolic Tory Brexit”. During Prime Minister’s Questions she said she wanted “maximum possible access” for the UK to the single market after leaving the European Union. Mr Corbyn said the government had “no answers”, but Mrs May promised to … Read more
Outspoken Ablekuma West MP Ursula Owusu-Ekuful says Ghanaians should remember Fifi Kwetey as the politician who had to eat back his words after making wild claims against the NPP. She said Ghanaians should treat Fifi Kwetey’s political commentary with ‘the contempt that it deserves’ because he is a ‘serial liar’. The Transport minister Fifi Kwetey … Read more
The District Chief Executive (DCE) of the Bole district in the Northern region, James Jaaga has discredited claims by Samira Bawumia wife of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) vice presidential candidate that people in President Mahama’s hometown (Bole) cannot get water to drink. While addressing supporters of NPP at the Trade Fair Centre during the … Read more
Well, the news is out now so permit me to celebrate the life of, now, my former client Eva Lokko by reproducing this post from 13th February 2014. A brave woman, who took on the system and whipped it well and proper. That is a life worth celebrating, and this life is poorer without her. … Read more
The Komenda Sugar Factory in the Central Region will resume operations in November, Secretary to the Board of Governors of the company, Ransford Vanni-Amoah has said. According to him, the factory, which has been shut down for the past three months, is set to be transferred to a new Chief Executive Officer and a Ghanaian … Read more
Even though the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) has enjoyed tremendous support from Muslim communities, popularly known as ‘Zongos’, the party does not have policies to develop such areas, the Zongo Movement for Change (ZOMOC) has said. The group’s accusation of the NDC stemmed from what it said was the failure of the NDC to … Read more
The assembly members at the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly are calling on the former mayor, Kojo Bonsu to evacuate from the assembly’s bungalow with immediate effect. The aggrieved assembly members say the Mayor is yet to vacate the assembly’s residence three months after he resigned from office. They have expressed disappointment over why the former mayor … Read more
The leadership of the Convention People’s Party (CPP) say its chances in the upcoming elections will not be affected by the open announcement of its Vice Presidential nominee that he is still a member of the opposition New Patriotic Party. The Youth League of the Convention People’s Party (CPP) is calling for the immediate removal … Read more
The Youth League of the Convention People’s Party (CPP) is calling for the immediate removal of the Vice Presidential nominee of the party, Nana Gabby Nsiah Nketia. The Youth League say the nominee’s recent confession that he was a card-bearing member of the New Patriotic Party undermines the party’s credibility and puts his loyalty to … Read more
Bishop Titi Offei can’t think far; I also can’t think far I read an interesting piece from Reverend Titi Offei of the Sheepfold Ministries titled from Bole Bamboi to Kyebi. It was an interesting write-up and it details the yawning gap and inequality between the voter or ordinary Ghanaian and the political elite. Indeed it … Read more
Irate supporters of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) in Afram Plains South in the Eastern Region on Monday locked the offices of the District Chief Executive of the area, preventing him from working. The group having stormed the offices, met the DCE’s Secretary, drove her away and then shutdown the place. They resorted to … Read more
Mahatma Gandhi (b. 1869) was shot dead in India on 30 January 1948. “We too mourned his death”, wrote Kwame Nkrumah, “for he had inspired us deeply with his political thought, notably with his adherence to non-violent resistance.” [1] As one writer would put it : “The message cabled by the National Council of Nigeria … Read more
Mahatma Gandhi (b. 1869) was shot dead in India on 30 January 1948. “We too mourned his death”, wrote Kwame Nkrumah, “for he had inspired us deeply with his political thought, notably with his adherence to non-violent resistance.” [1] As one writer would put it : “The message cabled by the National Council of Nigeria … Read more
Brexit: PM to trigger Article 50 by end of March Theresa May will formally begin the Brexit process by the end of March 2017, she has told the BBC. The PM’s announcement on triggering Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty – which begins the formal negotiation process – means the UK looks set to leave … Read more
Source: Permanent Mission of Ghana to the United Nations Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration Minister Hanna Serwaa Tetteh has briefed Ghanaians working with the United Nations headquarters in New York on the situation at home. The meeting held on the side-lines of the 71st UN General Assembly was attended by members of the UN Social … Read more
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Ningo-Prampram Constituency of the Greater Accra region has debunked media reports that its parliamentary candidate, Sam Nartey George was behind the disruption of the durbar of chiefs during the Homowo festival by some machomen on September 17 at Ningo. At a press conference on Tuesday at Prampram attended … Read more
A longstanding land dispute which continues to brew raw tensions in the Bole district of the Northern region has threatened the survival of a $3,139,383 poverty alleviation project. The project, Babator Irrigated Farming Hub, an initiative of the Africa Agriculture Development Company (AgDevCo) a social impact investor and project in Agriculture sector missioned to reduce … Read more