Akuffo-Addo convoy in accident
Two members of the campaign convoy of Nana Addo Danquah Akufo-Addo, New Patriotic Party presidential candidate, are reported to be on admission at the Drobo Hospital in the Brong Ahafo Region following injuries they sustained after two cars were involved in an accident on Monday.
Dr. Kobena Arthur Kennedy, communications director for Nana Akufo-Addo’s campaign, told [...]
Our Politicians are Failing Us
For many Ghanaians, reports of a clash between NPP and NDC supporters at the Chief Imam’s residence last week, came as a surprise against the background of promises by the candidates that the campaign would be based on issues.
For me I was surprised not at the clash of the supporters, but at the lack of [...]
OUR POLITICIANS ARE FAILING US…….
For many Ghanaians, reports of a clash between NPP and NDC supporters at the Chief Imam’s residence last week, came as a surprise against the background of promises by the candidates that the campaign would be based on issues.
For me I was surprised not at the clash of the supporters, but at the lack of [...]
UK Rescinds Decision to buy Presidential Jets
Prime Minister Gordon Brown has scrapped plans to buy two private jets to fly him and the Royal Family around the world, the government has said.Instead, only a small plane for use around the UK will be purchased.
The original plan, put forward in 2006 when Tony Blair was prime minister, had been expected to cost [...]
70,000 Pounds Raised for Ama Sumani’s Children
Some seventy thousand pounds raised to support the treatment of Ama Sumani, the terminally-ill Ghanaian cancer patient who was controversially deported from the United Kingdom will be used to support her children.
Madam Sumani died yesterday at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital where she was undergoing dialysis. Her inability to get access to a particular medication, [...]
Kojo Speaks at Missouri University and National Press Club in the USA
JOY 99.7 FM’s Super Morning Show host, Kojo Oppong-Nkrumah is in the United States of America to participate in the joint centennial celebrations of the Missouri School of Journalism in Columbia and the National Press Club.The two institutions were established within days of each other in 1908.Kojo is one of four principal speakers selected [...]
Should Politicians Mudsling during this campaign?
There have recently been calls by some of the ‘heavyweight’ writers on this forum against the dirty politics of mudslinging that is currently rearing its head in the electioneering process in our country. It is timely but not strange. Electioneering has always involved mudslinging. This election is not, and need not, be different. It has [...]
The Story of Eric Frimpong
By Kim A. Seefeld, trial lawyer and former prosecutor
At the bedrock of our criminal justice system is the presumption of innocence. Every person accused of a crime is presumed innocent until proven guilty “beyond a reasonable doubt.” The rules of procedure in our criminal justice system flow from these basic principles, recognizing that “it is [...]
Ghana Prepares To Expel 45 Liberian Refugees
Ghana plans to repatriate 45 Liberian refugees who were arrested earlier this week at a refugee camp outside the capital, Accra.
Authorities say the refugees found their way illegally into the Gomoa Buduburam Refugee Camp. They are among the 600 refugees rounded up for fueling tensions in the camp with a month-long protest.
The refugees had refused [...]
SHOULD STUDENTS CONFORM TO THE RELIGIOUS PRACTICES OF MISSION SCHOOLS?
Last week the nation was consumed by a debate on this subject following the death of a muslim student at Adisadel college who jumped off a fourth floor building in an attempt to escape punishment for not attending a Sunday morning service.Since then, there have been many opinions expressed mostly suggesting that ‘when you go [...]
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