PHOTONEWS: Prempeh Assembly Hall 3 Years After Renovation Began
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Prempeh Assembly Hall Overgrown, 3 Years After Closure For Renovation
By Kyidom Bright Three years after the Prempeh Assembly Hall in Kumasi was closed down for renovation, the facility is overgrown and still not finished. The facility was closed down in 2015 for renovations by the then Mayor of Kumasi, Mr. Kojo Bonsu. At the time, Mr. Bonsu said apart from needing a structural upgrade,
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Zimbabwe Frees Up Marijuana For Medicinal, Scientific Use
By Alina Polianskaya Zimbabwe has made it legal to produce marijuana for medicinal and scientific uses. It follows in the footsteps of Lesotho, the tiny nation which last year became the first in Africa to issue a license for medical marijuana. Zimbabwe has been considering legalizing the drug for a number of months, and will now become one of the few countries able to
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List of Ghana’s 998 Presidential Staffers
Ghana’s President Nana Akufo Addo has come under fire under submitting a list of staffers at the seat of government to parliament. The submission of the list is in compliance with Section 11 of the Presidential Office Act, 1993 (Act 463), which requires the President to submit annually to Parliament, a report on the staffing position
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Rastafari Council, Ghana Marks World Marijuana Day With Press Conference
To mark World Marijuana Day, the Rastafari Council of Ghana held a press conference at the Accra Press Center to call for the removal of encumbrances associated with possession and usage of the plant. Below is a full unedited statement issued by the council. PRESS STATEMENT TO MARK 4/20 INTERNATIONAL DAY OF MARIJUANA AT INTERNATIONAL
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Sahara Reporters’ Sowore Causes Stir In Nigerian Presidential Politics
Next year’s race for the presidency in Nigeria just got a lot more interesting as a crusading journalist – an upstart known for exposing the millions and billions stolen by a national “loot-ocracy” – announced his candidacy for the nation’s top job. As news spread that the publisher, Omoyele Sowore, was testing the waters for
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Nigeria, 9 Others Holding Back Africa Free Trade Agreement
In what was described as a “new dawn for Africa,” leaders from 44 of the 55 countries of the continent ceremoniously signed a trade pact creating a huge single market from Cape Town to Cairo. The national leaders agreed to eliminate cross-border tariffs and make border posts more efficient. Twenty seven countries signed an additional
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Liberians At Risk Of Mass Deportation From The US
Liberians living in America since a devastating civil war that took 250,000 lives are now in the crosshairs of the current Trump administration which is threatening to lift their protected status and deport them. Some five thousand people nationally are protected from deportation under the Deferred Enforced Departure or DED program which has been in
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Attorney General, Defense Minister Sued Over Ghana-US Military Deal
The Ashanti Regional Youth Organizer of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) Yaw Brogya Gyamfi has dragged government to court over the Ghana-US military cooperation deal. In a lawsuit filed at the Supreme Court at Accra on the 26th of March,2018, Mr. Brogya Gyamfi is asking the Court to, among other things, set aside the deal that was
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Why Ghana Must Reject The US Military Base Agreement
For the past few days, Ghana has erupted in a frenzied discussion over prospects of signing a military cooperation agreement with the United States of America under which terms the latter country acquires a number of rights which security analysts suggest amounts to ceding space for a military base. The discussion has mostly been in
