Ghana’s former President, Flt Lt Jerry John Rawlings, has admonished the new leadership in Mali to use the transition period to exhibit exceptional leadership for the country and usher her into a prosperous era. The former President made the call when a four-man delegation of the National Committee for the Salvation of the People (CNSP) led by its Chairman, Colonel Assimi …

President of the Republic of Ghana and Chairman of the Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS), Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo says the political stalemate in the West African state of Mali cannot continue beyond the deadline that was set by ECOWAS heads of state at their last meeting on the 28th of August 2020 in Niamey, Niger and that …

Ghanaian President, Nana Akufo-Addo, has been elected as the new chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). He was elected in Niamey, the capital of Niger, on Monday, September 7, 2020, at the 57th extraordinary summit of the sub regional bloc. President Akufo-Addo departed Ghana today for the summit. Mr Akufo-Addo takes over from President Muhamadou Issoufou …

Renowned Kenyan pan-Africanist Professor Patrick Loch Otieno Lumumba has acknowledged the leadership qualities of President Akufo-Addo by saying the Ghanaian president will make his list of exclusive African leaders. Speaking to Kweku Sakyi Addo in an exclusive interview on Assase Radio’s Sunday Night Live, the renowned Kenyan orator named the creme de la creme of visionary African leaders in what …

The government of Ghana has expressed condolences to the government and people of Lebanon over the lives lost in Beirut following an explosion at a warehouse near a seaport. Some 154 persons lost their lives and 5,000 others we’re injured in the ammonium nitrate explosion that occurred last Tuesday evening in Beirut. Ghana’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, …

The Winneba District Magistrate Court, presided over by His Worship, Isaac Oheneba Kuffuor, has ordered Kofi Annan, the Effutu Constituency Parliamentary Candidate of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), to deposit an amount of GH¢100,000.00 to the Court as a condition for aligning same to his bail. The Court on April 21st, 2020 admitted Kofi Annan to a self-recognisance bail …

When US Democrats in Congress proposed legislation to reform the police following weeks of protests over the death of African American George Floyd at the hands of a white officer, commenters on social media only wanted to talk about one thing: what they were wearing. Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and other Democratic lawmakers were draped …

The funeral of George Floyd, an African American whose death in police custody spawned global outrage, has heard impassioned pleas for racial justice. Speakers in the church in Houston, Texas, lined up to remember a man whose “crime was that he was born black”. Mr Floyd died in Minneapolis last month as a white police officer held a knee on …

Zoomlion Ghana Limited has been commended for using World Health Organisation (WHO) approved standards, and state-of-the-art equipment, in its dis-infection and dis-infestation exercises. Deputy Minister of Defence, Major (Rtd) Derrick Oduro, made the commendation when he launched the nationwide disinfection and dis-infestation of military facilities and Garrisons at Burma Camp, Accra, on Monday. According to him, the use of such …

“I think it’s very, very important that we tailor a specific Ghanaian, African response to the handling of this pandemic, and not necessarily copy blindly the methods that are being adopted by countries to the north of us and elsewhere.” These were the words of the President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, yesterday, when he joined colleague West …