Akufo-Addo Meets the Press Today
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has scheduled a media encounter at the Flagstaff House to tell Ghanaians about his six-month stay in office. President Akufo-Addo took over the presidency on...
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Special Prosecutor Bill To Be Laid Before Parliament Today
The bill of the Office of the Special Prosecutor is expected to be laid on the floor of Parliament later today. The Presentation of the bill by the Attorney General begins the process of legislative...
Prez Meets Press Today
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo will today meet a section of the press to brief them about government’s activities for the first half of the first year of the New Patriotic Party (NPP)...
Ghana Has Become Lawless Under Akufo-Addo – A.B.A. Fuseini
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament for Sagnarigu, A. B.A. Fuseini, has criticized President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s performance in office in the last six months....
Journalists To Grill Nana Addo Today
President Akufo-Addo will today , answer questions from journalists at the Flagstaff House, as he opens up himself for assessment of his six months in office. Information Minister, Mustapha Hamid,...
Prof. Oquaye To Deliver Ghana@60 Lecture
As part of activities to mark the year long celebration of Ghana 60 years on, the Speaker of Parliament, Prof Mike Oquaye, has been penciled down to deliver a lecture on the political history of...
NPP Meets Ken Agyapong
Some kingpins of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) led by the Minister of Monitoring and Evaluation over the weekend stormed Assin Dompem, the hometown of maverick Member of Parliament (MP) for Assin...
Indonesia Speaker Named Suspect In Major Graft Case
Indonesia's anti-corruption agency has named the country's speaker of parliament as a suspect in a major graft scandal which is estimated to have siphoned around $170 million out of government...
Philippines’ Duterte Seeks Martial Law Extension
President Rodrigo Duterte has asked lawmakers to extend martial law in the southern Philippines as the initial two-month limit approaches with no end in sight to the battle for control of a major...
Call For Boko Haram Peace Talks Masks Ethnic Tensions
A group of community elders in northeast Nigeria where Boko Haram has waged a bloody eight-year insurgency are urging the Islamists to enter peace talks, a move some see as motivated by ethnic...
Australia Creates Counter-Terror Super Ministry
Australia has created a super ministry combining its security agencies including the domestic spy service, border force and national police, the country's prime minister said on Tuesday, calling the...
‘Spiritual Brothers’ Netanyahu, Orban Meet In Budapest
Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu is in Budapest Tuesday for talks with Hungarian counterpart Viktor Orban, who hopes the visit will silence critics accusing him of leading an anti-Semitic crusade...
Trump Keeps Iran Deal, But Threatens More Sanctions
Donald Trump backed away from a campaign promise to scrap a major nuclear security deal with Iran on Tuesday, with officials announcing the agreement and related sanctions relief will stay in place...
US Health Care Reform Collapses As Two More Republicans Say No
Two more US Republican senators announced their opposition Monday to their party's efforts to revamp Obamacare, derailing the controversial legislation in its current form and potentially dealing a...
US Sending Mixed Messages On Iran Nuclear Deal
Iran is receiving "contradictory signals" from the US administration about the fate of the nuclear deal but Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said Monday he has yet to discuss it with US...
Aid and Conditionality: Enhancing Good Governance In Sub-Saharan Africa
The persistent low state of development in sub-Saharan Africa has become a global challenge. Academics and think-tanks continue to search for solutions to Africa’s longstanding problems....
Two Iranians Charged In US Over Hacking Defense Materials
Two Iranians were indicted Monday in the United States with hacking a defense contractor and stealing sensitive software used to design bullets and warheads, according to the Justice Department....
Malala Meets Her Chibok ‘heroes’ In Nigeria
Nobel peace laureate Malala Yousafzai on Monday called for a "state of emergency for education" in Nigeria, as she visited the country and met some of the Chibok schoolgirls whose cause she...
Youth, Women Empowerment Top Priority of NPP Gov’t – Dr.Bawumia
Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has reiterated that creating job opportunities for Ghanaian youth and women is a top priority for the Nana Akufo-Addo government. In line with this, government is...
Chief Justice Sophia Akuffo Intervention Stalls Judicial Staff Strike
There seems to be tension and anger creeping within judges and magistrates with some of them threatening to go on strike over long-standing salary arrears not yet paid them. In an exclusive interview...