Boko Haram Crisis: Nigerian Army Chief Ambushed
Suspected Boko Haram militants ambushed a convoy carrying the new head of the Nigerian army, the military says.
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Akua Donkor Kickstarts 2016 Presidential Campaign In New York
The Founder, flag-bearer and leader of the Ghana Freedom Party (GFP), Madam Akua Donkor is currently embarking on a tour of the US to solicit support for her party ahead of next year’s general elections. The outspoken politician popular for her scathing comments against the flag-bearer of the New Patriotic Party, Nana Akufo Addo, was spotted
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Ghanaian Doctors Call Off 3-Week Old Strike
The Ghana Medical Association, GMA, has announced a suspension of its three-week old strike which sought to demand improved and well-documented conditions of service for doctors. A statement issued by the association said the National Executive Council, NEC, considered the appeals from members of general public, the clergy, and the National Council of Chiefs, influential
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EC To Decide On Proposal For New Voters’ Register On Sept. 22
The Electoral Commission has set September 22, 2015, to take a decision on whether or now the country will go for a new voters’ register. At an Inter-Party Advisory Committee, IPAC, meeting, the commission tasked all the political parties to submit their concerns for or against a new voters’ register, after which a decision will
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President Mahama Visits Injured Journalists At 37 Military Hospital
President John Dramani Mahama was at the 37 Military Hospital Thursday night to visit members of his press corps involved in a fatal accident earlier in the day.
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Opinion: The Mandatory National Service Has Outlived Its Usefulness
Putting the mandatory National service as we have it in Ghana now into perspective in terms of the developmental goals of the country on one side and the carrier and professional development of the of the individual service personnel on the other side, one can say that the national service as we have it now
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We Don’t Want An ‘ECOWAS Register’ In Ghana – Nana Addo
The 2016 presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, says the spectre of having non-Ghanaians on the voters’ register, who eventually have a say as to who Ghana’s president should be, must no longer be countenanced by all well-meaning Ghanaians.
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Samuel Nuamah’s Death A Wake-Up Call For Journalists’ Safety – Monney
President of the Ghana Journalists Association, Dr. Affail Monney, has described the death of Ghanaian Times Reporter Samuel Nuamah, as tragic and terrible for the media fraternity. The Times reporter, who was part of President Mahama’s press corps on their way to Accra from the Volta Regional capital Ho, died in a ghastly accident on
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Sierra Leone Offers $1,000 Reward To Find ‘Gang-Rape Killers’
Sierra Leone’s government has offered a $1,000 (£640) reward for information leading to the arrest of a gang suspected of raping and killing a girl.
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Greece Crisis: Syriza Rebels Form New Popular Unity Party
Rebels from Greece’s governing left-wing Syriza are to break away and form a new party.
