The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, has rallied Ghanaians to do everything to overcome division and accept to live in total peace and harmony. They should never allow ethnicity, political and religious differences to tear them apart – undermine the unity and cohesion of the society. The Asantehene made the call during a special church […]
In the heat of the exchanges over the transfer of 2 former detainees of the notorious Guantanamo Bay Prison, the Rastafari community has chimed in calling for calm. A statement issued by the Rastafari Council, a representative body of the different ‘mansions’ of the faith in Ghana, said the country must be the first factor
A 70-year-old one-armed farmer has been burnt to death by bush fire, on his own farm, at Abease Komfourkrom in the Pru West District of the Brong Ahafo Region. The incident happened Saturday January 23, as Opanin Kwasi Fi and his two sons, aged 12 and 14, tended their oil palm plantation. Smouldering fire from
REJOINDER: The Rastafari Council of Ghana would like to respond to an article published on the center page in the November 2nd 2015 edition of the Daily Graphic. The title of the article is ‘The myth about Rastafari’ written by James Annan. We would like to appeal that you publish this rejoinder also in a center
Former spokesperson for the Greater Accra regional branch of the opposition New Patriotic Party Michael Ampong has chastised the President of the Catholic Bishops Conference over his remarks on the raging former Guantanamo bay inmates in Ghana. According to him, Bishop Joseph Osei Bonsu’s response to President John Mahama’s reasons for accepting the former terror
The Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection, Nana Oye Lithur has announced that cabinet has approved the justice for children policy, under which all children would be given equal justice through formal and informal structures. That, she said, would ensure that children who came in conflict with the law received justice, saying ” a
Three students who were suspended indefinitely for allegedly engaging in homosexuality at the Opoku Ware Senior High School in the Ashanti Region have confessed to have been in the act since their basic school level according head master of the school Dr Alexis Frimpong Nimoh The students revealed this, when they were summoned by the
Arab nations are looking to Chinese visitors to revive their tourism sectors, battered by security fears, and also need to develop homegrown tourism as a lifeline, ministers from the region say. Bookings to nations in North Africa and the Middle East, which had been recovering after the Arab spring unrest, fell last year following deadly
The Ghana Gas Company says it has resumed operations following the completion of its mandatory maintenance of the Atuabo Gas processing plant ahead of the two-week schedule plan. The plant was shutdown on January 15 by the operators to allow for maintenance work to commence having been in operation for more than 8,000 hours since
Every year, the world loses nearly 1/3 of all food produced on the farm and served on the dining table. This translates into $940 billion per year, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Also, food waste accounts for about 8 per cent of annual global greenhouse gas emissions, the WFO
