Zimbabwe Honors Ousted Leader
Mugabe National Holiday – Zimbabwe has officially declared 21 February to be Robert Gabriel Mugabe National Youth Day, thereby making the former president’s birthday a public holiday. This comes...
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Pomp and Mourning For France On Bastille Day
French President Emmanuel Macron will attend a Bastille Day military parade on Friday alongside his American counterpart Donald Trump, before marking the first anniversary of a deadly terror attack...
Trump Jets Off To Paris As Russia Crisis Plagues Washington
US President Donald Trump departed for France Wednesday, as yet another political firestorm swirled in Washington over allegations that Russia helped the Republican ascend to the White House. Air...
Reflections On Ghana’s Republic Day
Ghana achieved republican status on July 1, 1960, and that marked an event of profound historical and political significance. After three years of independence, Ghana completely weaned itself from...
In Mongolia, Democracy Unfolds In A Yurt
At 6:55 a.m. on Monday, a man in rural Mongolia stood outside a yurt and looked down at his watch. Five minutes remained until presidential election polls opened in the country of just three million...
Do Staff Want To and Know How To Work In Ghana?
Sometimes I write based upon recent events, but I also write about things I see and hear and things relating to my educational or professional back ground. This time I write out of frustration. I...
Do Staff Want To Know How To Work In Ghana?
Sometimes I write based upon recent events, but I also write about things I see and hear and things relating to my educational or professional back ground. This time I write out of frustration. I...
Give Us National Holiday – Traditionalists
It is not enough to have Christian and Islam holidays on the national calendar but holidays for adherents of African Traditional Religion must also be introduced, Osofo Kofitse Ahadzi, a cultural...
South Sudan’s President ‘prays For Forgiveness’
South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir has prayed for forgiveness for what he described as sins he may have committed while exercising his duty as the head of state, reports the privately owned Eye...
US Committed To Israel Embassy Move
While remaining committed to relocating the US Embassy to Jerusalem, the Trump administration is expected to move cautiously on a timeline as it focuses on critical issues in the American...
Final Burial Rites For Asantehemaa Today
The Kumasi metropolis will be without commercial activities today, as businesses are expected to grind to a halt to pave way for the smooth burial of the Asantehemaa, Nana Afia Kobi Serwaa Ampem II....
Old Age Plays Tricks With The Memory of KB Asante
I am not here to argue pointlessly about whether the letter dismissing the Mahama-appointed Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the former Ghana Cocoa-Marketing Board (CMB), presently renamed Cocobod...
Mahama Petitioned To Make December 7 A Holiday
President John Dramani Mahama has been asked to make Wednesday, December 7, 2016, the day Ghanaians will go to the polls, a holiday. A Ghanaian, Derek Laryea who petitioned the President on Monday...
Manhunt Follows French Missionaries’ Home Attack
French police are searching for a masked attacker suspected of stabbing an elderly woman to death in a retirement home for Catholic missionaries in southern France, according to authorities. An...
December 7 Should Be A National Holiday – NPP Communicator
Ghana holds elections every four years to either elect a new President or retain the government in power for its good works. December 7 has been constitutionally designated for both the Parliamentary...
Terror Attack in France, over 70 People Killed in Nice
France’s national holiday turned bloody and violent Thursday night in the southern city of Nice, as a truck drove through crowds of Bastille Day revelers for more than a mile along a...
Ghana Joins African States To Celebrate African Union Day
Today Ghana joins other African states to commemorate African Union (AU) Day Today, with the theme "We are Africa".
On 15 April 1958, in Accra, African leaders and political activists gathered at the...
Why I Did Not Show Up For Occupy FlagStaff House.
There is a story of the cat who made life unbearable for a group of mice so much so that they decided to form a committee to decide on which course of action to take against him. The solution the...