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 […]
President John Mahama has said the brochure gaffe was avoidable. According to him, the Chief of Staff is making efforts to ensure the incident of having a mistake-riddled brochure for celebrating Ghana’s Independence Day anniversary does not happen again. The Acting Director of the Information Services Department, Francis Arthur, was fired for the gaffe. He
President John Mahama has said his government will bridge the gap between the south and the north through development projects in the Savannah Accelerated Development zone. Speaking at the 20th Ghana International Trade Fair in Tamale on Saturday March 5, he said government was investing in the health sector to transform the lives of the
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
