Minister of Education, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh sat down for our Cam-To-Face Series in New York. In the interview with Kwesi E. Baako, the Minister answered questions ranging from achievements being chalked with the Free SHS programme to rumors that the curricula is being revised to prop up JB Danquah and diminish Ghana’s first president […]
By Ekow Nelson The Kyebi Ritual Murder and the protracted legal battle that followed it had more influence on Ghana’s politics than many appreciate. For some inexplicable reason, and rather worrisomely, not much is written about it in Ghana and it is hardly ever discussed – not even in the context of the biography of
A statue of Emperor Haile Selassie I was unveiled on Sunday, February 10, at the African Union headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.The commemoration was part of events marking the 32nd Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the African Union (AU). The assembly meeting is a culmination of statutory meetings where heads of state discuss AU
By Yaw Nkunim. CPP, Convention Peoples Party is presently as paradoxical as the country and continent it lighted. Africa and Ghana, the wealthiest continent and country respectively, yet their scarred history has frozen their reality. Only now a potential, thawing tortuously but surely with time. Such is the story of unambiguously, the greatest political party,
The dream of a united Africa started way before the formulation of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) in 1963 following an intervention by the Emperor of Ethiopia, Haile Selassie I in Addis Ababa. In the early 1960s, when independence was sweeping throughout the colonized continent, liberation fighters and independence heroes were loosely speaking about a
Retired Ghanaian diplomat and statesman Dr. KB Asante says the transfer of 2 Guantanamo Bay detainees to Ghana is not strange. He says it is a normal diplomatic transaction that could take place between any 2 friendly nations. He however criticized the Ministry of Information and Media Relations for not being on top of their game by making
By Kpakpo Addo – Tema, Ghana Tema township is a place built by Ghana’s first president Kwame Nkrumah to house the workers of the burgeoning industries that he had set up. Among some of the places built as residential complexes for workers of these industries were site 20, site 2, site1 etc. This news letter
By Yaw Nkunim (CPP Parliamentary candidate for Manhyia South) As a heartbeat of the nation, the current poor showing of the CPP especially in Ashanti/BA is merely a reflection of the state of the nation. It must be promptly added that even in its scattered form the CPP has consistently been the ‘kingmaker’ of
