The Ghana Medical Association (GMA) is undoubtedly one of the most powerful professional associations Ghana has ever known. Unmatched in its lack of tolerance for government’s halfhearted posturing towards workers’ demands for fair wages, and brutal in the ways and means they force the hands of the state to pay them their due. It has […]
A man who shot two journalists on live TV in the US state of Virginia has died after shooting himself, police say.
About 50 people have been found dead in the hold of a boat carrying migrants intercepted off the coast of Libya, the Italian coastguard says.
The ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) will from today, Thursday, August 27, open nominations for the party’s November 7 presidential and parliamentary primaries.
The New Juaben Municipal Assembly says it will soon start arresting parents who refuse to enrol their children in school. This has become necessary because of the rising number of children seen loitering in the neighbourhoods whilst schools are in session. This was disclosed during a stake holders’ meeting organized by the Municipal Assembly in
President John Mahama has inaugurated the Mauritius campus of the African Leadership Academy, a private tertiary institution, founded by a Ghanaian entrepreneur, Fred Swaniker. He was joined at the short inaugural ceremony at the Beau Plan Business Park by the Deputy Prime Minister of Mauritius, Hon. Charles Xavier-Luc Duval. “I willingly accepted to include this
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,
