The National Youth League of the Convention Peoples’ Party (CPP) on Wednesday affirmed support for the National Executive Committee of the party’s quest to revamp it as a vibrant political entity in the country.
The CPP National Youth…
The Member of Parliament (MP) for Manhyia North, Mr Collins Owusu Amankwah has advised government to tread cautiously with its quest to stop illegal mining in the country.
He explained that if care was not taken, such outright ban would…
The General Secretary of the People’s National Convention (PNC), Mr Atik Mohammed, has re-echoed the need for political parties in the country to disband all political vigilante groups to sustain Ghana’s democracy.
He noted that the con…
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has re-echoed the many challenges facing Ghana’s development drive but said the people must have confidence as the country commands enormous goodwill to develop its huge potential.
He said what …
The Electoral Commission’s (EC) public relations machinery broke down during the election period and when it even functioned, it was weak and wobbly, Mr Richard Adongo, a Convention People’s Party’s (CPP) stalwart, has said.
Mr Adongo,…
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has cautioned deputy regional ministers against acts of disloyalty and urged them to team up with their superiors to advance the interest of the government.
He warned that “subversion won’t be count…
Mr Peter McManu, Campaign Manager of Nana Akufo-Addo in the 2016 Presidential Elections, says all constituencies must have the same population size to give true meaning to fairness and the equal representation of the people.
Making his…
The British government said on Tuesday it would not be entering into negotiations on the Scottish government's proposal to hold a new independence referendum in late 2018 or early 2019.
It was reacting to a vote in the Scottish parliame…
A spirited Hillary Clinton took on the Trump administration Tuesday in one of her first public speeches since she lost the presidential election, criticizing the country's Republican leaders on everything from health care to the shortage o…
Hundreds of supporters of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Ejisu-Juaben Municipality have staged a street protest as tension over the appointment of the Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) escalates.The placard-carrying party members said …
The Brong-Ahafo Regional branch of the National Service Personnel Association (NASPA) has elected Mr Ferdinand Anane Frimpong as its president for the 2016/2017 service period.
Mr Frimpong who is rendering his national service at the R…
Sarah Adwoa Safo, President’s nominee for Minister of State in-charge of Public Procurement has defended the decision of President Akufo-Addo’s government to create the new position.
She said that her responsibility was to advise gover…
President Donald Trump's elder daughter, Ivanka Trump, announced today that she will take an official position in his administration, according to a statement.
Her unofficial role has grown in recent weeks, and she was granted security …
Congolese police fired shots and tear gas on Tuesday to ward off protesters after Catholic bishops pulled out of their mediation role in talks meant to pave the way for President Joseph Kabila to step down after an election.
Sporadic un…
Violence in Paris over the police killing of a Chinese man has left three police officers injured with at least 35 people detained.
Demonstrators had gathered outside a police station on Monday to pay homage to the dead man.
His fami…
A powerful cyclone has pummelled the north-east Australian coast, causing major damage, torrential rain and power cuts to tens of thousands of homes.
Cyclone Debbie made landfall between Bowen and Airlie Beach in Queensland as a categor…
Six people were killed when a small plane crashed in eastern Zimbabwe near the border with Mozambique, a state-owned newspaper said on Tuesday.
The Mozambican-registered eight-seater plane crashed into the Vumba mountains near the Mozam…
The Council of State will focus its activities on issues that will have a long-term effect on national development, instead of the outcomes of general elections.
Accordingly, the council will help create awareness of factors which posit…
The Minority in Parliament yesterday criticised the government for allocating GH¢132 million to the Office of the Chief of Staff for goods and services for the 2017 financial year when less than GH¢5 million was earmarked for some ministri…
India's Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj has promised an "impartial" inquiry into attacks on Nigerian students living in Noida, near Delhi.
The attacks were prompted by the death of a local teenager due to a drug overdose. His parents bla…
Forty former Members of Parliament (MPs) have sued the government for GH?233,495 each, being their accrued monthly pension pay since January 2009.
The amount being claimed works out to GH?13,735 per person per month, but interest accru…
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Monday reviewed the ceremonial change of the guard at the Flagstaff House in Accra. The ceremonial parade is an old tradition inherited from the British during the period of colonialism. The ceremon…
Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has said government would soon enact a legislation to provide permanent funding for the Zongo Development Fund to ensure its sustenance.
He said the legislation would enable successive governments to …
US President Donald Trump has vowed to wipe Islamist terrorism "from the face of the Earth" and says he wants the US to "start winning wars again" -- but he's gotten off to a rocky start in the Middle East.
The US and Iraq are investiga…
Spare a thought for those who are bestowed with troublesome names. That can happen anywhere, of course. But, in Zambia, Chris Haslam came across some very surprising choices.
Under a darkening sky on a dusty, potholed track in eastern Z…
A Rwandan court has released a pregnant woman from the United Kingdom who was accused of involvement in a plot against Rwanda's government.
Violette Uwamahoro appeared last week in court in Rwanda's capital Kigali, charged with spreadin…
The Chief of Akyem Asene and the acting Adontenhene of Akyem Kotoku Traditional Area in the Eastern Region, Nana Karikari Apau Frimpong III, has appealed to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to appoint Mr Samuel Kyei-Boateng, a veteran…
A University Professor has blamed Ghana’s slow pace of development on its political party driven development approach and was gradually losing quality in its development path.
As a result, he said the institutions that existed at the na…
The Minister designate for Public Procurement, Ms Sarah Adwoa Sarfo has explained that her role will in no way conflict with that of the Public Procurement Authority (PPA).
There have been concerns that the new portfolio created by Pres…
The European Union (EU) is celebrating 60 years of the signing of the treaties of Rome to reaffirm the commitment to the values and objectives on which the European project was founded.
In a statement signed by Mrs Rejoice Esi Asante, t…
The Tema Traditional Council (TTC) has threatened not to work with any non-indigene appointed by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to the position of the Tema Metropolitan Chief Executive officer.
The TTC at a press conference on Su…
Aid agencies say the "shocking" killing of six aid workers in South Sudan on Saturday is causing them to re-assess how and when they can deliver supplies.
The victims were ambushed by unknown attackers when travelling between Juba and t…
An Egyptian court has sentenced 56 people to prison over the capsizing of a migrant boat that killed more than 200 people in September.
They were given sentences of up to 14 years, and the convictions included murder, manslaughter and n…
South African President Jacob Zuma's decision to call Pravin Gordhan back home from an investor roadshow in London marks a major setback for the economy, the Democratic Alliance opposition party said in a statement on Monday.
The presid…
Six aid workers have been killed in an ambush in South Sudan, the UN says, in the deadliest single incident for humanitarians since the country's civil war began.
The "heinous murder" occurred on Saturday, said Eugene Owusu, the UN's hu…
Civil society and non-governmental-organisations have been encouraged to demand accountability from various governmental institutions. That, the Director in charge of Human Rights at the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justi…
The Kremlin has responded to mass protests on Sunday by accusing the opposition of encouraging lawbreaking and provoking violence.
Some young people were paid to attend, a presidential spokesman said.
But defiant opposition leader Al…
The Kwesi Botchwey Committee commissioned by the leadership of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to investigate the cause of the party’s defeat at the 2016 polls has called for a truce after weeks of bickering and mud-slinging.
“Th…
The Ghana Human Rights NGOs Forum and Kasa Initiative Ghana in Partnership with the Universal Peer Review (UPR) Info, Africa has called on government to adopt all the recommendations peered reviewed by the United Nations.
Mr Jonathan O…
(US Marines fire artillery to break up ISIS fighters attacking Kurdish and Peshmerga forces.Cpl. Andre Dakis/US Marine Corps)
The offensive to destroy ISIS in Syria took a big step forward recently with US military advisers, helicopters, …
The Member of Parliament (MP) for Atwima-Nwabiagya South, Mr. Emmanuel Agyei-Anhwere, has pledged increased support for science, technology and mathematics (STEM) education in the area.
He indicated his determination to go the extra mil…
Vetting of the last batch of 54 ministers of state and deputy ministers-designate will start on Monday, March 27, 2017, with the appearance of the four ministers of state-designate before the Appointments Committee of Parliament.
The Ch…
Before he killed at least four people in Britain's deadliest attack since the 2005 London bombings, Khalid Masood was considered by intelligence officers to be a criminal who posed little serious threat.
A British-born convert to Islam,…
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) set up a committee to do a post-mortem on why it lost the 2016 general election. But even before the Professor Kwesi Botchwey committee could finish its work, leading members of the party in various m…
The Gambia will set up a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to investigate abuses committed during ex-President Yahya Jammeh's rule, the justice minister has said.
The finances of Mr Jammeh would also be investigated, Abubacarr Tambado…
The Divisional Council and the Ga-Dangme Movement of Ashaiman have reiterated their appeal to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to select a Ga-Dangme as the Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) for Ashaiman.
The appeal was made in a stat…
Apostle Dr Stephen Owusu Jackson, Chairman of the Christian Praise International Centre has called on Ghanaians to support the government to speed up national development.He said there was the need for all political parties to come togethe…
A documentary on Ghana’s political history screened last Wednesday as part of the country’s 60th Independence anniversary has generated a heated debate between the Convention People’s Party (CPP) and producers of the film.
But the Speak…
More than 200 migrants are feared dead after five bodies were discovered off the Libyan coast, a Spanish aid organisation says.
Proactiva said the bodies were found floating near two capsized boats which could each hold more than 100 pe…
Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has been freed from detention, six years after being overthrown.
Mr Mubarak left a military hospital in southern Cairo and went to his home in the northern suburb of Heliopolis, his lawyer said.
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