Mr onsy Nkrumah, a Pan Africanist, has appealed to the government to drop the idea of Founders Day, slated for August 4, since it is more divisive.
He has, however, supported the government’s stance that September 21 should be renamed K…
The Alliance for Accountable Governance (AFAG) has observed that gas explosions in the country are gradually becoming a regular phenomenon in recent times.
It stated that from 2014 to date, there had been a total of eight gas explosions…
The Agricultural Development Bank (adb) has announced the re-constitution of its Board of Directors effective August 1, 2017.
A news release from the Corporate Communication Department of the bank said the nine member Board which is ch…
Zambia will effective from midnight tonight end the emergency powers invoked by President Edgar Lungu three months ago, the Reuters news agency quotes the justice minister as saying.
Given Lubinda told parliament said that the end of th…
There were clashes over the poll delay last year
Elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo cannot be held until at least April 2019, the Electoral commission has said.
But in a statement, the commission said it would need at leas…
Kenya's High Court has ruled that all candidates who participated in the 8 August presidential election can now stand in the re-run later this month.
This comes a day after the main opposition candidate, Raila Odinga, announced that he …
Provisional results from Liberia’s presidential election are expected tomorrow, the electoral comission’s director of communications has said. Henry Boyd Flomo told BBC Focus on Africa the vote went “very well” despite a few problems.
E…
About 20 people have so been found guilty in Nigeria for involvement with the Islamist militant Boko Haram group at closed-door trials taking place at a military facility in Kainji in north-central Niger state, a source has told the BBC.
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The United Nations has announced that its top official in Myanmar is being recalled to headquarters in New York.
Renata Lok-Dessallien was the focus of a BBC investigation last month in which she was accused of suppressing internal disc…
US President Donald Trump has raised the prospect of challenging media licences for NBC News and other news networks after unfavourable reports.
He took aim at NBC, which made him a star on The Apprentice, after it reported he wanted to…
The Minister of Parliamentary Affairs, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, has debunked perception among legislators that his ministry was re-created by the President to emasculate the work of Parliament.
Instead, he said his ministry was created t…
The Ghana Centre for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana) is organising capacity-building workshops for all female district assembly members in the Western Region.
In addition, a number of selected aspiring assembly women in the region wi…
Beninoise President Patrice Talon arrived in Ghana on Wednesday for a day’s State visit that is expected to boost ties between both West African nations.
He was met on arrival at the Jubilee Lounge of the Kotoka International Airport by…
A court in Australia has accepted an unsent, draft text message on a dead man's mobile phone as an official will.
The 55-year-old man had composed a text message addressed to his brother, in which he gave "all that I have" to his brothe…
Togo’s government has banned week-day protests.
Since August, the opposition has been holding big demonstrations against President Faure Gnassingbe and to demand political reforms.
Home Affairs Minister M Payadowa Boukpessi made the …
India's Supreme Court has struck down a legal clause that permits men to have sex with their underage wives.
The clause, which was part of India's law on rape, said intercourse between a man and his wife was permissible as long as she w…
Nana Okofo Katakyi Eku X, Omanhen of Agona Nyarkrom Traditional Area has appealed to the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to carve a new District out of the current Agona West Municipality and name it Agona Central
The move accord…
The Municipal Chief Executive for Agona West, Mrs Justina Marigold Assan, has indicated that the government, through the municipal assembly, will forge a good partnership with Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) towards improving the liv…
Thailand is introducing a smoking ban on beaches across the country with those caught violating the law facing up to a year in prison.
The measure will apply to up to 20 beaches in areas including the popular tourist destination of Phuk…
Moored ships were blown away as a "supercell thunderstorm" swept through South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal region, killing at least eight people.
The dead include a child swept away by rising waters and two patients killed when a wall collap…
Spain's prime minister has put Catalonia on notice that it could impose direct rule on the region.
Mariano Rajoy said he had asked Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont to confirm whether or not he has declared independence.
The move is a…
Claims by Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, Minority Spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, that Ghana is the second highest country that contributes fighters to ISIS in Libya, smacks of mischief, Frank Annor Dompreh, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Comm…
Ranking Member on Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee, Mr Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has said information gathered from Libya suggests that Ghana is the second highest country that contributes fighters to ISIS in Libya.
“Rather worryin…
Police in the Indian capital Delhi have arrested five people after a video circulated showing what appears to be a mob severely beating a Nigerian man.
They have also detained the Nigerian, whom some residents accused of theft.
The v…
At least five people have been killed in southern Malawi after they were accused of behaving like vampires.
The UN says it has pulled staff out of two districts as the vampire scare sweeps across the south of the country.
According t…
Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga has pulled out of October's election re-run.
Mr Odinga said his withdrawal would give the electoral commission enough time to introduce reforms that will help deliver a more credible election.
Th…
Nana Kwasi Brebo III, Acting President of Nkusukum Traditional Area has appealed to the Government to take immediate measures to build a museum at Anomabo, the birth place of the first political party in Ghana, the United Gold Coast Conven…
The leader of the Progressive People’s Party (PPP), Dr Papa Kwesi Nduom, has advised Ghanaians not to take the rule of law for granted.
He warned that we would have social problems and the consequences to nation would be dire.
Spe…
Thailand's military government has announced the country will hold a general election in November 2018.
The military has repeatedly delayed a vote since seizing power in 2014, citing concerns such as changes to the constitution and secu…
Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont is due to announce his plans for the future of the province amid growing pressure to drop plans to break away from Spain.
There is speculation he may announce a unilateral declaration of independence fol…
The Minister of Health, Mr Kwaku Agyeman Manu, says the quota system introduced this year for admitting students to nursing and midwifery training institutions is to address the issues of equity, quality and capacity in the training instit…
The Central Regional Minister Mr Kwamena Duncan has urged technocrats in Effutu be Citizens and not spectators by contributing effectively towards the development of the area.
He stated that the Assemblies had the Legislative powers to…
The Chiefs and people of Ekumfi have lauded President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo for delivering on his promise to start the national engine of industrialization at Ekumfi in the Central Region.
"We are sincerely grateful to him for pro…
The Office of the Special Prosecutor's (OSP) Draft Bill if passed into law, would have the Special Prosecutor (SP) drawing its powers from the Attorney General (AG), Mr Kofi Bentil, Vice President, IMANI Ghana, has stated.
He explained …
The Institute for Democratic Governance (IDEG), a Ghanaian politically inclined non-governmental organisation has repeated its call for the establishment of Multi-Party Democracy Commission (MDC) to strengthen and consolidate the country'…
Liberians are going to the polls to choose a successor to Africa's first elected female president and Nobel Peace laureate Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.
Ex-football star George Weah and Vice-President Joseph Boakai are the main contenders in t…
A former President of the Ghana Baptist Convention (GBC), Rev. Dr Steve K Asante, has described the Nana Akufo-Addo led government as “godsend to save the nation from collapsing from corruption and mismanagement by the John Dramani Mahama …
A former Minister of State in President John Agyekum Kufuor's government, Christine Churcher has been appointed board chair of the Ghana Gas Company.
The board was inaugurated by the Minister of Energy, Mr Boakye Agyarko on Monday.
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The Minister of State in charge of Public Procurement, Ms Sarah Adwoa Safo, has issued a warning to all public and civil servants involved in procurement processes in their respective institutions to be mindful of the Public Procurement Ac…
Over 28,500 members of the Nigerian military have received UK training and Defence education in this time
UK Minister for the Armed Forces Mark Lancaster visited Nigeria this week, marking the strong Defence relationship between the two…
Hackers from North Korea are reported to have stolen a large cache of military documents from South Korea, including a plan to assassinate North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un.
Rhee Cheol-hee, a South Korean lawmaker, said the information w…
The deputy Chairperson in charge of Corporate Services at the Electoral Commission (EC) of Ghana, Madam Georgina Opoku Amankwaa, has revealed her intention to seek legal redress against the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) over i…
Turkish prosecutors are seeking a US consulate worker for questioning as a suspect, the state news agency reports.
The detention of a member of staff, a Turkish national, in Istanbul last week triggered a diplomatic row, prompting both …
The proposed creation of new regions in the country rests largely on the inhabitants of the areas who have submitted petitions and made demands for their creation, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has said.
He said he had done hi…
The Member of Parliament (MP) for Agona East, Mrs Queenstar Maame Pokuah Sawyerr, has said it is not acceptable for assembly members to be overly interested in their personal benefit while the myriad of problems confronting their constitue…
Former President John Dramani Mahama has called on Liberian authorities to deal with outstanding electoral issues before the polls on Tuesday, October 10. The issues, he mentioned, were logistics and deployment, security, and extra ballots…
The French government has said it will not recognise Catalonia if it declares independence from Spain and such a move will mean expulsion from the EU.
European Affairs Minister Nathalie Loiseau said the crisis following the banned 1 Oct…
The outbreak started following the death in late August of a 31-year-old man in the central highlands where plague is endemic
The Malagasy Red Cross is scaling-up community surveillance, contact tracing and communication in an effort to…
A deputy Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection, Mrs Gifty Twum Ampofo, has said the government recognising the importance of access to quality health care for the elderly had collaborated with the National Health Insurance Aut…
The government will work to improve the health sector of the Upper West Region by increasing the number of personnel and completing the new regional hospital, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has announced.
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