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 […]
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
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
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
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
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
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
The Accra Human Rights High Court hearing the suit against the commercialization of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO) has ruled that the parties go for the determination of the motion to stay proceedings at the Court of Appeal on Wednesday, 28th March. The case, Food Sovereignty Ghana & 3 ors Vs National Biosafety Committee & 4 ors,
“Ghanaians may love Americans, but not to the extent of living with foreign troops on such a scale. Ghanaians have enough foreigners dominating their economic and social life. Former President Jerry John Rawlings has waded into the controversial military agreement between the Government of Ghana and the United States of America. According to the
