The World Food Programme (WFP) in collaboration with Ghana Education Service (GES) at the weekend, awarded scholarships to 14 girls who excelled in last year’s Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) in the Northern Region. The package meant to get disadvantaged girls to school to increase enrolment, school attendance and reduce disparity between boys and girls, […]
ACCRA, Ghana – Two Nigerians, Victor Aniete Solomon, 21 and Michael Udoh, 14, have found themselves in the grips of the Ghana police for allegedly kidnapping an eight-year-old boy. The suspects were said to have kidnapped the boy (name withheld) at the Achimota/ABC branch of the Jesus Christ of Latter Days Saints Church in the capital
Darryl Wharton-Rigby, an award-winning US writer is reportedly working on a script for a Hollywood thriller based on the story of the fiasco in the Black Stars camp at the World Cup that saw the government airlifting $3million to pay appearance fees to the players in a bis to ward off a boycott of their
The Police Intelligence and Professional Standards Bureau of the Ghana Police Service says 108 Police Officers were dismissed between January 2011 and June 2013 after they were found guilty of various offences. The Ghana Country Report of the Human Rights Commission available to the Bureau said 132 officers were reduced in rank and 239 received
NAIROBI, Kenya – After a hectic week of discussions on the environment in Nairobi, Kenya, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon adopted a 6-month-old lion cub on Saturday. The young lioness, which was found abandoned in Nairobi National Park, will be raised by the Nairobi Animal Orphanage on behalf of Mr. Ki-Moon who named it ‘Tumaini’, meaning
By Simukai Tinhu Earlier this year, the age-old rivalry between Morgan Tsvangirai, the leader of Zimbabwe’s opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), and Tendai Biti, the party’s secretary-general, bubbled to the surface in dramatic fashion. The MDC’s two leading figures had long held together an alliance at the heart of the party, but this arrangement
Accra, Ghana- President John Dramani Mahama has reassigned Youth and Sports Minister Elvis Afriyie Ankrah to the Presidency as Minister of State after a woeful World Cup campaign. Information Minister, Mahama Ayariga (MP) is to replace him. Even though no mention of the issues at the World Cup was mentioned it is widely believed that
African leaders called on Thursday for firm action against the rising Islamist militant threat stretching across the continent from Kenya to Mali and pledged to provide the tools for Africa to police its own conflicts. Violence cast a shadow over the opening of the two-day summit of the 54-nation African Union (AU) as Nigerian President
In an effort to interrupt further spread of the Ebola virus in the shortest possible time, the World Health Organization is convening a special meeting of Ministers of Health of eleven (11) countries and partners involved in the Ebola outbreak response in Accra, Ghana from 2-3 July 2014 to discuss the best way of tackling
