I’ll Be Retained On December 7 – Woyongo
The National Democratic Congress parliamentary candidate for Navrongo Central, Mark Owen Woyongo is hopeful he would be retained as a representative of the people in Parliament in the upcoming...
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Catholic Bishops Advise Media, Political Parties
The Ghana Catholic Bishops Conference (GCBC) has advised all political parties, the media and all Ghanaians to refrain from announcing any results of the December general election before they are...
Atheists Wants ‘God’ Removed From National Anthem
Atheists in Kenya are demanding that the word 'God' in the National Anthem be expunged. They argued that having the word ‘God” in the first stanza of the anthem does not promote the spirit of...
ISIS In Hot Water As Battle For Mosul Begins
ISIS in hot water as battle for Mosul begins The offensive to liberate Mosul from ISIS control has begun, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said in a televised statement early Monday. The fight is...
Icelandic Lawmaker Breastfeeds Her Baby While Addressing Parliament
When Icelandic Member of Parliament Unnur Brá Konráðsdóttir was unexpectedly called upon to defend a bill in the middle of breastfeeding her infant daughter, the politician confidently strode up...
Election Prophesies and Vote Buying Must Stop – Catholic Bishops
Archbishop of Accra Diocese of the Catholic Church, Most Reverend Palmer Buckle With barely two months to the December 7 polls, the Catholic Bishops Conference has unequivocally condemned reports of...
Why Our Electoral System Has Failed
An Electoral Commission should ideally, exist only to facilitate the free expression, by the populace, of its political preferences in an election. Facilitating the free expression of a people’s...
The Public And Peaceful Order Responsibility Of The Electoral Commission
The Electoral Commission (EC), above all else, is an enabling public institution with a constitutional mandate to conduct free and fair elections (in keeping with the dictates of our national motto...
Nyantakyi Attends First Meeting of Newly-Formed FIFA Council Meeting
Newly-elected CAF representative Kwesi Nyantakyi will attend the first ever FIFA Council meeting in Zurich which starts today (Thursday) and ends tomorrow. Nyantakyi and 36 other influential persons...
Government To Achieve Local Dollar Bond Target
The transaction is going on very well and the target of between 25 and 50 million dollars will be achieved. This is the assurance from the joint book runners of government’s first local dollar...
Gov’t Urged To Formulate Girl-Child Dev’t Policies
Country Representative of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Babatunde Ahonsi has charged government and civil society organizations to formulate policies that would champion the holistic...
Trump’s Threat To Jail Clinton Invites His Own Prosecution
Trump’s threat to jail Clinton invites his own prosecution The verbal knife fight between Clinton and Trump at their 2nd debate Because my teenage daughter needed a ride home from her friend's...
How Access To Information Aids The Work Of Parliament
The discourse around access to information has often focused on how it helps in the fight against corruption and in enhancing citizens’ capacity to exercise other rights. A lot has been said about...
Burundi Bars UN Investigators
Burundi has banned three UN investigators from entering the country after they accused the government of gross human rights violations. The investigators said in a report last month that thousands of...
Make Our Nation Great and Strong
By Nii Kwate Quartey It is not a marching song. It is not necessarily defiant. . ‘We shall overcome someday’. Deep in my heart do/must believe. It has been a civil rights song for 50-years...
Local Investors Lap Up First USD Bond
The subscription period ends Thursday, October 13, 2016, but the first ever USD-denominated domestic bond issued by government and targeted at investors resident in Ghana and Ghanaians abroad, has...
Disqualified Aspirants Have Themselves To Blame
The Electoral Commission has suggested that parties whose flagbearers have been disqualified from contesting the 2016 elections have themselves to blame and not the Commission. Director of...
‘Afrocentric Obama’ Book To Be Launched In Ghana Tonight
A book that seeks to answer questions pertaining to Obama’s legacy, African heritage and values is set to be launched in Accra on October 8, 2016, at the British Council. The book, titled ‘The...
Amend New BoG Act
Barely two months after parliament passed the Bank of Ghana (BoG) Amendment Bill, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has punched holes into the Act and is demanding fresh amendments to introduce a...
AG Assumes Prosecution In Murder of 7-Year-Old
A 22-year-old mason who allegedly strangled a seven-year-old girl to death after having sex with her, would be tried summarily for defilement a representative from the Attorney General (AG) office...