President John Mahama Is 57 Today
President John Mahama turned 57 years today (Sunday November 29, 2015). He was born in 1958, a year after Ghana’s independence. Mr Mahama is currently in Malta attending a three-day 2015...
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Zanetor’s Eligibility as Ghanaian Voter Challenged
A legal practitioner Gary Nimako has written to the electoral commission seeking to find out if NDC parliamentary candidate-elect Dr Zanetor Rawlings is a registered voter in Ghana.
The letter is...
Tanzania Scraps Government Christmas Cards to save Cash
Tanzanian officials will not be allowed to send out the usual government printed Christmas and New Year cards this year as part of belt-tightening measures by the new president.
John Magufuli has...
Hanna Tetteh as Veep – NDC Faithfuls Petitions Mahama
A group of faithfuls of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) are calling on President John Mahama to select foreign affairs minister Hanna Tetteh as his running-mate for the 2016...
Boko Haram Kills at Least 18 on Nigerien Border
Niger's government said on Thursday that Boko Haram militants killed 18 people, including a local religious leader, in an attack on a village in Niger's southern border area of Diffa on the Nigerien...
I Will Leave a Lasting Legacy That NDC Will Be Proud of – Mahama
President John Mahama has given the assurance that he will leave a lasting legacy that members of the ruling National Democratic Congress will be proud of.
In a message on his Facebook wall Monday,...
Suspected Boko Haram Suicide Attack Kills 8 in Cameroon
Four civilians were killed in northern Cameroon on Saturday in a suicide bomb assault by suspected Boko Haram militants in which three female attackers and one man blew themselves up, security...
Boko Haram Kills More People in Terror Attacks than ISIS – Global Terrorism Index
This week, the world’s deadliest terror group wrought extraordinary carnage on crowds of people going about their daily lives.
The fruit and vegetable market in the northern Nigerian city of Yola...
Mahama Will Lose 2016 Elections – UK Based Intelligence Unit
Ghana’s major opposition party the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has been highly tipped to win next year’s general elections, the latest report of the UK-based Economist Intelligence Unit...
New Case of Ebola Confirmed in Liberia
A new case of Ebola has been found in Liberia, a country declared free of the disease on Sept. 3, a senior United Nations official said on Friday.
The patient is a 10-year-old boy who lived in the...
NDC Won’t Repeat past Mistakes – Mahama Promises
President John Dramani Mahama said the expansion of the National Democratic Congress electoral college is to purge the party of the past mistakes that dwindled their votes.
He said the NDC lost a...
Ghana Police Deploys 7,000 Personnel for NDC Primaries
The Ghana Police Service has given the assurance that adequate measures have been put in place to ensure maximum security during Saturday’s parliamentary and presidential primaries of the ruling...
1.3 Million Illicit Weapons Circulating in Ghana
Over 1.3 million weapons believed to have been smuggled into Ghana are not registered, according to preliminary investigations conducted by the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training...
Let’s Pray for NPP; Mahama Tells NDC Supporters
President John Dramani Mahama is rallying supporters of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) to pray for their bitter rivals, the NPP which has been enduring protracted internal...
No Ghanaian Reported Dead or Injured in Paris Attacks
Ghana’s Foreign Affairs Ministry has disclosed that no Ghanaian has been reported dead or injured in the gun and bomb attacks in Paris, France on Friday.
The French authorities, families and...
It’s Only “Logical” to Re-Elect Me in 2016 – President John Mahama
President John Mahama has stated that it is only "logical" for Ghanaians to re-elect him in next year’s presidential elections.
According to him, a second term in office will offer him the...
Dumsor Gets Worse – VRA Shuts down Power Plants over GHC1.3Billion Debt
The Volta River Authority (VRA) has shut down all of its thermal plants at Tema due to the company’s inability to buy fuel to power them.
The company, according to Accra-based Joy FM, is riddled...
University of Ghana Freezes Staff Recruitment
The University of Ghana has put a temporary freeze on the recruitment of new staff. This was revealed by the Vice Chancellor of the university, Professor Ernest Aryeetey, at the November 2015...
Ex-Prez Kufour Is Not Part of New Labour Party – Listowell
Even though some political bigwigs in the Kufour regime are reported to be the brain behind a new political party christened “New Labour Party” with the “Hand” as its emblem – a leading...
Power Crisis ‘Dumsor’ Will End before 2016 Elections – President Mahama
A month to end the power crisis as Ghanaians were promised, President John Mahama appears to have shifted the goal post saying the crisis (dumsor) would end before the 2016 general elections.
The...