President John Mahama will on Thursday, February 25, deliver his fourth State of the Nation Address to parliament in accordance with Article 67 of the 1992 Constitution. This was announced on the floor of Parliament by Majority Leader Alban Bagbin. This will be Mr Mahama’s last state of the nation address before his first term […]
Catholic Bishops from across Africa have sent the strongest signal to the West that the continent will not accept any form of dictatorship on the issue of homosexuality. Speaking at a press conference ahead of Tuesday’s 2nd plenary assembly of the group, President of the Regional Episcopal conference of West Africa, Cardinal Theodore Sarr said
The Media Foundation for West Africa, (MFWA) has learnt with concern the threats issued against Ato Kwamena Dadzie, a journalist with privately-owned Joy FM, by the Member of Parliament for the Assin North Constituency of the Central Region of Ghana, Kennedy Agyapong. On February 16, 2016, Agyapong reportedly accosted Dadzie in front of the Joy
President John Dramani Mahama has stated that the first term of his government focused on infrastructural developments and job creation across the country. According to him, his second term will focus on “putting money into the pockets of Ghanaians”. He said having money without basic infrastructure is economically meaningless adding that it is better to
The U.S. House of Representatives have passed the Electrify Africa Act, after nearly two years of trying to get the measure through both chambers of Congress. The bill will provide a framework for a major public-private partnership between the United States and sub-Saharan African countries to help millions of people gain access to reliable electricity.
A driller has died at Gbani, a mining community in the Talensi District of the Upper East region, after he accidentally got buried alive under a stockpile of gold ore.Thirty-five-year-old Samuel Bang, an employee of the Shaanxi Mining Ghana Limited, reportedly was drilling through the stockpile when the area he occupied suddenly caved in along
A Communications Officer of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) Robert Owusu Tilton is expected to be arraigned before court on Thursday January 14, 2016 for his violent related comments on radio. The Criminal Investigative Department (CID) of the Police Service in Kumasi in the Ashanti Region had earlier scheduled to process him for court
Popular Kumawood actor, Abraham Kofi Davies aka Salinko has picked his forms to contest for the Progressive People Party (PPP) Parliamentary Primaries at Atwima Kwawonma Constituency in Ashanti Region. He confirmed his candidacy after his campaign posters went viral on social media. Some influential personalities in the PPP and supporters reportedly convinced the Comedian cum
Somalia has issued a ban on Christmas celebrations in the Muslim-majority country after the Southeast Asian sultanate of Brunei announced a similar prohibition earlier this month with the threat of five years in jail.Sheikh Mohamed Khayrow, director general of Somalia’s religious affairs ministry, said on Tuesday that Christmas and New Year celebrations threatened the country’s
Ghana’s biggest opposition party is in sturdy form for next year’s general elections, flagbearer Nana Akufo-Addo has said.The three-time flagbearer told the New Patriotic Party’s Extraordinary National Delegates’ Conference in Sunyani on Saturday December 19, 2015 that his travels though the 10 regions of Ghana showed him that the party was in “solid shape”, despite
