For someone, who has worked closely with the late Ghanaian Times reporter, Samuel Nuamah, it is with a mix of anger and immense frustration that I write this piece. Unlike many, I wasn’t surprised when the event that led to Sammy’s death was told, because I have witnessed even more dangerous speed rage on presidential […]
The UN has said it is ready to “act immediately” unless South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir signs a peace deal with rebels. Mr Kiir is scheduled to sign a deal to end months of brutal civil war later on Wednesday, although his spokesman said he still had “reservations”. Rebel leader Riek Machar signed it last
An attempted attack by a heavily armed man on a train in France last week was premeditated and well prepared, according to a French prosecutor.
A 25-year- old graduate of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) Nazir Nortei Alema, has thrown his family into a health-threatening stress, as he is feared to have joined the swelling ranks of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), a terrorist organisation. With a degree in Geography and Rural Development,
Ghana and Mauritius have agreed to waive visa requirements for holders of either country’s national passports. It follows the signing of an agreement on mutual visa waiver exemption in Port Louis on Monday during the 3-day state visit of President John Mahama to that country. The agreement allows all Ghanaians, including holders of ordinary Ghanaian passports to
The National Peace Council has asked the Electoral Commission to involve civil society organizations in discussions pertaining to the calls for a new voters’ register. A statement issued by the Council expressed concern at what it described as “disturbing,” the partisan nature of ongoing discussions regarding the proposals for a new voters register. The Chairman
The 2016 presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, on Monday, August 24, visited the family of the late Samuel Nuamah, the Ghanaian Times reporter who was killed in an accident involving the presidential press corps last Thursday.
The National Democratic Party (NDP) is strengthening its grass-roots base to build a formidable political party ready for political power in 2016, its founder and leader, Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings, has declared. “Before you can call yourself a serious political party or organisation, you need to build an effective structure,” she told the Daily Graphic
It might not have been my colleague fisherman who has passed but we, the fishermen of Oguaa, feel the pains of the family and friends of the presidential reporter. Telling your wife and your child that I am headed for work and would be back and returning never seems possible must have been a prayer
Kenya’s Supreme Court has said that the government should abide by a lower court’s decision to give teachers a pay rise of at least 50%.
