Group B Outlook
The Lions of Teranga are looking to – at least – make it out of the group stages of the Africa Cup of Nations for the first time in their last six attempts. The Senegalese faithful will feel that...
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Black Stars To Battle Ethiopia, Sierra Leone & Kenya For AFCON 2019
Ghana has been drawn in Group F in qualifiers for the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations to be staged in Cameroon. The draw, which was held on Thursday, pitched the Black Stars against Ethiopia, Sierra Leone...
Dambazau And Nigeria’s Internal Security
The internal peace and security of any nation is key to development and it is the bedrock against external assault. For any external aggression to succeed, the internal harmony and security must have...
More Boko Haram Fighters Surrender
Authorities in Niger have said that around 20 more members of the jihadist group Boko Haram have surrendered in the country. According to Vanguard, the combatants surrendered at Diffa, in...
Biya Promises Crimes Against Anglophone Minority
President Biya of the Cameroun Republic made his New Year wishes to his people promising to deal severely with the uprisings in the Southern Cameroons, AKA Ambazonia. His message came almost three...
Ghana Rugby To Bid For 2017 West Africa World Rugby Tournament
The Ghana Rugby Football Union (GRFU) has been invited to tender to host the Africa Rugby Cup 1D – West men’s 15s Rugby tournament involving Ghana, Benin and Togo in April 2017. According to the...
Neo-Colonialism, Economic Sovereignty and the Imperatives of Socialist Development
Over the last several years along the Indian Ocean coast in East Africa substantial finds of oil and natural gas resources have been under development. A British exploration corporation, Tullow Oil...
Which Way For Yahya Jammeh and The Gambia
In 2004, a high-level panel instituted by Kofi Annan the then UN Secretary General formulated and championed the concept of the responsibility to protect. The panel argued that states have obligation...
The Myanmar Monologue To the VAG
Ashanti: Come, let us talk of what is rarely spoken of: the War in Burma - now known as Myanmar - and those from the Royal West African Frontier Force. They say there is a time and place for...
The Myanmar Monologue To the VAG
Ashanti: Come, let us talk of what is rarely spoken of: the War in Burma - now known as Myanmar - and those from the Royal West African Frontier Force. They say there is a time and place for...
Mali Sends Back France Deportees
Mali has sent back two people who were deported from France on the same planes they arrived on, questioning whether they were even Malian citizens. The pair were flown to Bamako using European travel...
Boko Haram Has Not Been Crushed
Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau appeared in a new video on Thursday to dispute a claim by the Nigerian president and the army that the armed group had been routed from its last stronghold of...
Army Searching For Chibok Girls Seized By Boko Haram
After the Nigerian army claimed victory over Boko Haram in the armed group's forest stronghold, a commander at the forefront of the battle says the search is still on for the missing Chibok girls....
Ogoni In Review
The Ogoninews publisher Mr. Fegalo Nsuke caught up with Mr. Ben Ikari who is a prominent Ogoni activist and the following questions drew his responses below. OGN: What is your assessment of the gains...
Mr. Fegalo Nsuke Caught Up With Mr. Ben Ikari Who Is A Prominent Ogoni Activist?
The Ogoninews publisher Mr. Fegalo Nsuke caught up with Mr. Ben Ikari who is a prominent Ogoni activist and the following questions drew his responses below. OGN: What is your assessment of the gains...
RTI Bill Is Needed To Curb Corruption In the Country
Corruption is a form of unethical or dishonest use of position of authority for personal gain. In the political field, it may linked to the abuse of power, embezzlement and bribery which causes a...
Suicide Bomber Kills 2 In Cameroon Market
A suicide bomber in the northern Cameroon town of Mora killed a young student and a woman in an attack on a market full of Christmas shoppers, an aide to the governor of Far North region said Sunday....
The RTI Bill Is Needed To Curb Corruption In the Country
A GNA Feature by Priscilla S. Djentuh Accra, Dec. 25, GNA - Corruption is a form of unethical or dishonest use of position of authority for personal gain. In the political field, it may linked to the...
Boko Haram ‘ousted From Sambisa Forest Bastion’
The Nigerian army has driven Boko Haram militants from the last camp in their Sambisa forest stronghold, President Muhammadu Buhari has said. “The terrorists are on the run and no longer have a...
More Ghanaian Migrants Languishing In Italy
The number of irregular migrants from Ghana to Italy rose from 4,450 last year, to 5,545 from January to November, this year, Sylvia Lopez-Ekra, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM)...