Mr Thomas Silberhorn, the Deputy Minister in the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, has reaffirmed Germany’s commitment to support measures to ensure transparency in Ghana payroll system and other development…
The UN refugee agency has criticised Cameroon for the forced return of hundreds of refugees to north-east Nigeria after they had fled from the Islamist Boko Haram insurgency.
The UNHCR said forced returns had "continued unabated" despit…
Mr Ishmael Ashitey, the Greater Accra Regional Minister has urged the staff of the Ga South Municipal Assembly to work hard to generate enough revenue for development.
He said the Municipality had more tourist attractions, which co…
Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari condemned a spate of killings in different parts of the country and ordered an investigation into a raid by gunmen that killed 17 people on Monday night.
The motive for the attack on a market in the …
Government borrowing fell last month to its lowest amount for February in 10 years, according to official figures.
Borrowing, excluding state-owned banks, was £1.8bn, down from £4.6bn a year earlier, the Office for National Statistics s…
Juba (AFP) - At least 37 people were injured when a passenger jet crash-landed in South Sudan's northwestern city of Wau on Monday, government and airport officials said.
There were 40 passengers and five crew members on board the South…
Mr John-Peter Amewu, the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Tuesday inaugurated and sworn in an eight-member Ministerial Advisory Board for the sector.
He said the inauguration of the Board was imperative as it complied wit…
Pope Francis will visit South Sudan in October if the security situation in the country stricken by civil war and famine does not worsen, a bishop from the country said on Tuesday.
The pope has said several times that he wants to go to …
Damascus (AFP) - Syrian government forces clashed with rebels and hammered opposition-held areas of east Damascus on Monday, before calm returned to the capital after a surprise assault.
In the north of the country, meanwhile, a Kurdi…
Six weeks ago, a young woman called Zed (not her real name) was in a meeting at work when a message popped up on Facebook Messenger from a distant friend.
"Hey babe," it began.
The friend asked Zed to vote for her in an online modell…
French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen, the leader of the far-right Front National (FN) party, is making a rare visit to Africa, a party official said.
She is in Chad to meet French soldiers based there as part of the Barkhane anti…
A video of a white man threatening a black woman inside a popular restaurant has caused outrage in South Africa.
The film of the incident at a Johannesburg branch of the Spur chain of restaurants has been widely shared.
In it, the tw…
A Michigan lawyer and Republican activist has died, a day after hundreds of people responded to his published invitation to attend an open house to celebrate his life.
Bob Eleveld died Sunday at age 80. He was too ill from cancer to at…
At least 26 people have died of starvation in Somalia's southern region of Jubaland, the government-owned Radio Mogadishu website has reported.
It quoted regional interior minister and drought committee chairman Abdirahman Mohamed Husse…
The First Lady Mrs Rebecca Naa Okaikor Akufo-Addo has empathised with the bereaved families and the wounded in the Kintampo rainstorm tragedy.
The tragedy which, occurred on Sunday afternoon at the Kintampo Waterfalls in the Brong- Ahaf…
President Donald Trump's daughter Ivanka Trump is to have an office in the White House, her lawyer says.
The 35-year-old will have security clearance and access to classified information.
But she will not have an official title or sa…
The delay in the release of the Joe Ghartey Committee Report on the bribery allegation against some members of the Appointments Committee of Parliament (ACP) is said to have been occasioned by the decision of the committee to allow for mor…
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo may have genuine concerns of appointing a record number of 110 ministers to help him administer the country for the next four years, however, it is not the most convincing indicator of government’s wil…
The governing Conservative Party in the UK has been fined a record £70,000 by the Electoral Commission for failing to report accurately on how much it spent on campaigning at three by-elections in 2014 and the general election in 2015, wh…
Some youths in the Shai-Osudoku District have appealed to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to consider appointing Mr Stephen Nene Oyortey as the District’s Chief Executive Officer.
Mr Oyortey, who is an Assembly Member for the Ada…
The Sissala East District in the Upper West Region will be benefiting from the “Planting for Food and Jobs” project.
The Sissala East District, whose people are predominantly farmers, would be provided with certified seeds, fertilizers,…
Electoral Commission (EC), chairperson Charlotte Osei has urged Ghanaian women to cultivate an unshakable confidence in the plans and purposes of the Almighty God in their lives.
Mrs Osei said she was of the belief that women must dedic…
Dr Archibald Yao Letsa, Volta Regional Minister has said the region would gain from the creation of a new region for the northern sector.
He therefore urged chiefs in the region to support and co-operate with the government in its reorgan…
Four people were killed on Saturday evening when suicide bombers blew themselves up in a village on the outskirts of Maiduguri city in northeastern Nigeria, police said.
Borno state police spokesman Victor Isuku said the incident occurr…
At least four passengers were injured in South Sudan on Monday after bad weather caused their plane to crash into a fire truck upon landing, bursting into flame and plumes of thick black smoke, an official said.
There were 44 people on …
A group calling itself the Concerned Youth of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Bawku Central constituency of the Upper East Region, has expressed its displeasure over what it considers a neglect of the constituency by President Nana Ak…
A local governance expert, Dr. Eric Oduro-Osae, says the appointment of deputy regional ministers is irrelevant in the current political dispensation.
He said the size of the current government would definitely have some implications on…
The Ghana Centre for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana) is dismayed by reports that President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has nominated an additional 54 people to serve as ministers or deputies in the various ministries.
A statement iss…
With barely 73 days in office, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo granted the Political Editor of the Daily Graphic, Mr Kobby Asmah, and an Editor of Ghana Television (GTV), Mr Abdul Moomen, an exclusive interview.
The interview cent…
Ghana’s wish to have a new Parliamentary Chamber to accommodate more people could soon materialise, following the decision of the Indian government to extend its assistance in that regard.
The 400-seater capacity new chamber will replac…
A senior research fellow of the Institute for Economic Affairs (IEA), Dr Michael Ofori-Mensah, has observed that the transition challenges encountered in 2017 are for the most part a manifestation of a breakdown of state institutions.
H…
The ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) will on Monday March 20, 2017, mark the one year passing of their former National Chairman, Mr Jake Otanka Obetsebi- Lamptey.
The former National Chairman of the NPP passed away on Sunday, March 20t…
The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has dismissed suggestions that he is running a parallel Civil Service with his appointment of 110 ministers to steer the affairs of state.
The President, who rejected the suggestions in an int…
The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, left Ghana on Sunday, March 19, 2017, to attend the 5th edition of the Africa CEO Forum, which is taking place in Geneva, Switzerland.
The Forum will bring together CEOs of the largest African…
The Center for Democratic Development (CDD) Ghana, has asked the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to downsize his government.
In a statement issued on Thursday, the CDD said President Akufo-Addo’s 110 ministers and deputies was ‘u…
The US has agreed not to repeat claims the UK's communications intelligence agency wiretapped Donald Trump during the presidential election campaign.
GCHQ rejected allegations made by White House press secretary Sean Spicer, that it spi…
Mr Patrick Kwadwo Tabiri, an Electrical Engineer was on Thursday elected as the Presiding Member of the Sunyani West District Assembly by a popular acclamation.
For his confirmation, the Assemblyman for Gubre Electoral Area, secured 48 …
Two members of pressure group, Occupy Ghana, George Andah and Yoofi Grant have resigned their positions as members of the group’s Executive Council, a statement issued by the group has said.
According to the statement, even though the t…
Professor Justice V. C. R. A.C. Crabbe, a retired Justice of the Supreme Court, has said Ghana must replace the support from the International Monetary Fund and donor partners with a strong sense of responsibility and individual initiative…
Indonesia has summoned the British ambassador after a ship operated by a British company ran aground on a coral reef, causing extensive damage.
On 4 March, the 4,290-ton Caledonian Sky hit reefs off an island in Raja Ampat, Papua prov…
Dr Callistus Mahama, the Head of the Local Government Service (LGS) has underscored the necessity for continuous operationalisation of the LGS policy frameworks for improved, effective and efficient service delivery at the sub-national le…
Iraqi forces battling Islamic State in Mosul edged into the Old City and around the al Nuri mosque on Friday trying to seal off a main road to prevent militants sending in suicide bombers to attack their positions.
Troops are meeting fi…
A local Governance Expert has taken a swipe at the Government for the appointment of deputy regional ministers describing it as irrelevant. He said the size of the current government would definitely have some implications on the public p…
A former Rector of the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), Professor Stephen Adei, has urged government to provide a proper justification for the appointment of 110 ministers – the highest-ever by any administr…
Development Partners (DPs) in the Decentralisation Sector in a memoir lauded Dr Callistus Mahama, the Head of the Local Government Service (LGS) for the critical role he played as Chairman of the Decentralisation Sector Working Group (DSWG…
The Prof. Kwesi Botchwey-led committee investigating the defeat of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the 2016 general election had a hectic time undertaking a planned meeting in Koforidua yesterday when it was met with protests by …
Four officers of the Progressive People’s Party (PPP) will represent the party in a Congress of the African Liberal Network (ALN) in Nairobi, Kenya.
They are Ms Belinda Bulley, the 2nd Vice Chairperson, Richard Nii Amarh Nkunim, the Exe…
The former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Ghana Gas Company, Dr George Sipa-Adjah Yankey, has denied reports that he intends to contest the flagbearership of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) for the 2020 presidential election.
…
The creation of new regions as promised by the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) will not be an easy task due to the required voter turnout in the referendum, a deputy chairman of the Electoral Commission (EC), in charge of Operations, A…
Members of The True Patriots, a body affiliated to the New Patriotic Party (NPP), have endorsed Madam Dorcas Elizabeth Amoah, as the right person to be the Nzema East Municipal Chief Executive.
A statement issued at a meeting convened b…
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