WASHINGTON — African American Liberation icon Harriet Tubman’s image will soon adorn the face of the new American $20 bill. She replaces former US President Andrew Jackson. This was made known by Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew on Wednesday in what has been dubbed “the most sweeping and historically symbolic makeover of American currency in a […]
“Surely, an individual with 5GHC worth of vegetative material on his or her person cannot be considered a danger to anyone” Issued By The Rastafari Council Of Ghana Today marks the International Day of Marijuana dubbed 4/20, a day set globally by marijuana advocates to call for the legalization of the herb. The Rastafari Council
By Kwame Anyane Yeboa [Anyane Photos] I had the pleasure of attending a fashion show of Nigerian designer Chuks Collins; the 1st Annual Fashion Vie Runway Show. The event, which attracted many celebrities music artists, and socialites to Bleecker Event Hall showcased some of Collins’ recent designs. The show featured, of course, talented male and female
The Deputy Chairman of the Electoral Commission in-Charge of Operations, Alhaji Amadu Sule has tasked the media to have the nation at heart and exercise circumspection in the discharge of their duties to ensure peace during, before and after the forthcoming elections. He said the media can break the country through their reportage and entreated
The United Statesof America(USA) is hopeful of doubling its bilateral trade with the country from the current US$1.2billion within the next three years as it seeks to push job-creation as well as unearthglobal trade potentials. “Last year the bilateral trade was about US$1.2billion,and I would like to see that double; I believe that it is
The Manhyia Palace Museum stands among the revered structures in the dome of the magnificent Manhyia Palace, the seat of the Asante Kingdom and home to the occupant of the sacred ‘Asikadwa’ — the Golden Stool that unifies the industrious people of Asanteman. Accounts have it that one of the greatest fetish priests ever to
The occupant of the much revered Golden Stool Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, will mark the 17th Anniversary of his ascension to the Golden Stool on April 26, 2016 in Kumasi the Ashanti Regional Capital. The event which is expected to be climaxed with the Grand Akwasidae on April 24 at the forecourt of the
After Beasts of No Nation movie hit the cinemas, one child actor who has not gained international recognition, as Abraham Attah is Strika, a child soldier who never spoke in the movie. The young boy who was picked from the streets of Sodom and Gomorrah, a suburb in Accra did not get the shine due
The Northern Region has recorded a rise in fire outbreak within the first quarter of 2016 with 135 fire outbreaks within the first quarter of this year as compared to 103 recorded in 2015. This is as a result of the severe hamattan that hit the region early this year and negligence of some people.
An abandoned palace at Esreso in the Ashanti Region has collapsed and killed two people who were seeking refuge from Thursday’s torrential downpour in the area. Two others- a lotto operator and food seller- who were in the building at the time, also sustained various degrees of injuries with one said to be in a
