President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has challenged the Accra Initiative to pursue a comprehensive programme that will promote social intervention initiatives in member states. That, he said, was to help address development gaps in vulnerable communities within the member states which contributed to insecurity and threats of terrorism in Africa. He made the call at […]
Ghana has denied issuing a travel advisory against non-essential travel to Abuja, the capital of Nigeria. The advisory circulating Wednesday (November 16, 2022) and bearing the name and logo of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration had indicated that Nigeria had directed some hotels to shut down, citing “the directive by local authorities […]
South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa has withdrawn controversial perks for cabinet ministers and their deputies that saw their homes supplied with free electricity and water. The benefits caused a public outcry as they were considered insensitive at a time South Africans are struggling with daily power cuts and rising cost of living. In a press […]
The Government of Ghana has been urged to urgently contact families of victims of the 2005 Yahya Jammeh-inspired massacre in The Gambia, of a number of Ghanaians and other West Africans to pursue reparations due them. The Jammeh2Justice Ghana Coalition, a coalition of civil society organisations led by the Ghana Center for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana), […]
Rwandan President Paul Kagame on July 4, conferred the country’s National Order of Bravery (Indengabaganizi) on Maj. Gen. (rtd) Henry Kwami Anyidoho and Maj. Gen. (rtd) Joseph Narh Adinkra, for their decision to stay back and save people during the 1994 Genocide. A report by Rwandan daily, The New Times said the President commended both […]
An official burial ceremony is taking place on Thursday for the tooth of the Congolese independence leader Patrice Lumumba in the capital Kinshasa. The relic is all that remains of the African country’s first prime minister, who was murdered in 1961 by separatist rebels in collusion with Belgian mercenaries. His body was dissolved in acid […]
Ghana will host the 61st Ordinary Session of the Authority of the ECOWAS Heads of State and Government in Accra on July 3, 2022 at the Kempinski Gold Coast Hotel. The Summit will mark the end of the second-year stewardship of President Akufo-Addo. President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, who is also the Chair of the Authority […]
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has said ECOWAS is determined to restore constitutional rule in Burkina Faso, Guinea and Mali. He said the regional body would also work assiduously towards impressing on the countries to do better with the security and humanitarian challenges they were facing. President Akufo-Addo said this when he opened the sixth […]
The Chief of the Defence Staff (CDS), Vice Admiral Seth Amoama, has expressed worry that West Africa’s potential to develop has been saddled with the unpleasant reputation of being the most dangerous region in recent times. Apart from coup d’etats, the constantly evolving terror threat in the region made it even more worrying for governments […]
Nigerian Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo has formally declared his intention to contest in next year’s presidential election. He hopes to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari whose tenure ends in May next year. Prof Osinbajo, a lawyer, was elected as Mr Buhari’s deputy in 2015. In a short video posted on social media, he promised continuity in improving […]
The Prime Minister of Barbados, Mia Amor Mottley, has encouraged the youth to reject the impression that there are first- class and second-class citizens being created by the inequalities and inequities in the world. Ms Mottley stressed that despite the inequalities and inequities that posed a challenge to developing countries, there was no first-class or […]
Nigerian authorities say they have seized 120 tonnes of imported animal hides and skins in Lagos city. They were intercepted on suspicion that were already processed with chemicals for use in leather industries yet they were being sold as foodstuff, the national food and drug agency, NAFDAC, said. In Nigeria, cow hides are cooked as […]
