NBA Africa 2017 To Take Place On August 5
The National Basketball Association (NBA) and the National Basketball Players Association (NBPA) announced today that NBA Africa Game 2017, the NBA’s second game in Africa, will take place...
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Lagos Lawmaker Wants NBC To Put An End To Big Brother Naija
Lagos – A Lagos lawmaker, Mr Segun Olulade on Thursday advised the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed on the negative implications of Big Brother Naija on the nation’s...
Where Does Syria’s Opposition Stand Ahead of New Talks?
Syrian opposition figures will return to Geneva on Thursday for new UN-sponsored talks with President Bashar al-Assad's regime on their country's six-year conflict. Since the delegations last...
Thai Junta Urged To Drop Case Against Torture Activists
Rights groups on Tuesday urged the Thai army to drop defamation charges against three activists over a landmark report on torture in the conflict-hit south, decrying the prosecution as an effort to...
Museveni Launches Refinery For Uganda’s ‘mystery Gold’
Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni has officially inaugurated a gold refinery, mainly owned by a Belgian investor, in the lakeside town of Entebbe, despite concerns about the origin of the precious...
‘I’ll Transform KKA’
One of the candidates vying for the position of District Chief Executive (DCE) of the Kpone Katamanso Assembly (KKA), Mr. Josiah William Nuertey, has hinted of his resolve to turn the fortunes of the...
Ghana Government’s Stance On Superstition and Pseudoscience?
By Stanley Seshie Religion is a tradition of man. Tradition is a collection of traits. Tradition works or many believed it works. So to call for change in what many believed works, delusional or not,...
Mediator Seeks Heads of State Summit On Burundi Crisis
The mediator in Burundi's nearly two-year political crisis on Sunday asked regional leaders to call an urgent summit as deep discord and a government boycott hamper peace talks. Former Tanzanian...
WTC Bombing ‘plotter’ Omar Abdel Rahman Dies In US Jail
Omar Abdel Rahman, who was convicted of conspiracy in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and of planning more attacks as part of a "war of urban terrorism" in the US, has died in a North Carolina...
Blind Sheikh Sentenced For Plotting 1993 WTC Attacks Dies In Prison
Blink sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, who was sentenced to life in prison for plotting the deadly 1993 World Trade Center attacks, has died in prison, authorities have said. The Egyptian cleric died at a...
N/R House of Chiefs Calls On Regent
A delegation of chiefs from the Northern Regional House of Chiefs led by Tulewura, Rashid Mahama, a representative of the President of the House Yagbon Wura, paid a courtesy call on the Regent of...
St. Mary’s SRC Donates To Osu Children’s Home
The students representative council (SRC) of St. Mary’s Senior High School in Accra, has donated assorted food items to the Osu Children’s Home in Accra. The items included cartons of beverage...
Gov’t, Private Sector Sign 27 MOUs With Morocco
The government of Ghana together with some private sector organizations and the Kingdom of Morocco, have signed 27 memorandums of Understanding (MOUs). Five of the MOUs are with the government...
Ghana and Morocco Sign 27 MOUs
The government of Ghana together with some Private Sector Organizations and the Kingdom of Morocco have signed 27 Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs). Government will deal directly with 5 of the MOUs...
Facts About Nigeria’s Pinnick and Benin FA Boss Controversy
The controversial dynamics of the forthcoming CAF exco elections cannot be fully accentuated… It is a tough contest between President of the Nigerian Football Federation (NFF) Amaju Pinnick and...
I Never Paid Nana Addo’s Presidential Filing Fee
The newly-elected Ashanti regional Council of State representative Nana Owusu Akyaw Brempong has dispelled allegations that he paid the 2016 filing fee of the then Presidential candidate of New...
Big Boys Floored In Council Of State Elections
The election of all 10 representatives from the various regions to the Council of State concluded yesterday with intriguing results. All the elected persons were males, with the exception of the...
Ex-Admiral Turns Down US National Security Advisor Job
A former navy admiral reportedly tapped by President Donald Trump to be his national security advisor has declined the post, US media said on Thursday. Robert Harward's rejection leaves President...
GJA Opens Nominations For National & Regional Elections
GHANA Journalists Association (GJA) has fixed Friday, March 31, 2017 to hold for persons vying for national and regional executive positions. Positions to be contested include President, Vice...
UK Hints At New Trade Deal With Ghana
The United Kingdom, as suspected after Brexit, will “do a free trade deal” with Ghana, its Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson, said in Accra, underpinning the argument of those who felt the country...