President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo left Ghana last Saturday for a six-day working visit to France. President Akufo-Addo will receive an Honorary Award of Doctor Honoris Causa from Sorbonne University in Paris, France today. A statement issued by the presidency said the award would be the third Honorary Doctorate Degree to be conferred on him. […]
French President Emmanuel Macron has put his country into full lockdown, declaring ‘we are at war with the coronavirus.’ He also announced a suspension of rent, taxes and household bills. The minute details of the lock-down outlined tight controls over residents’ civil liberties unprecedented in peacetime. The French will be required to download a form […]
Franck Riester, the Minister for Culture in France has reportedly tested positive for Coronavirus which is fast spreading across the globe. BestNewsGH.com reports France’s Minister for Health, Olivier Veran as positing on French news channel BFMTV on Monday evening that Mr. Riester is not in hospital, but rather confined to his home. “He is not […]
For the first time a Head of State from Africa’s CFA currency region has openly spoken about a very politically and economically sensitive subject that could ruin relationship with colonial master, France. President Patrice Talon has ordered that his country’s foreign currency reserves colonially deposited in French Central Bank be immediately withdrawn. Such a decision […]
65-year-old inventor Christian Poincheval, from the French village of Gesvres, is becoming a household name around the world for his incredible creation, a pill that makes your farts smell nice. The capsules can be purchased online at his website pilulepet.com. The product is very affordable too, a 60 pack of pills costs about $23. Poincheval […]
A rooster named Maurice can continue his crowing after a judge rejected a lawsuit filed by some unhappy neighbors’ lawyer, Vincent Huberdeau, in France. Maurice’s owner, Corinne Fesseau, told a court in Rochefort, western France, in July, that nobody else had complained about the noise at her home, except a couple of retired summer vacationers. […]
A man was on Sunday arrested in the French Alps after his wife’s body was discovered in a suitcase in the boot of his car as his two young children sat in the back seat, a source close to the case said. Police acting on a tip-off had put out an alert for the arrest […]
Naomi Campbell has opened up about a ‘revolting’ incident in which she was banned from a hotel in France because she is black. The 49-year-old supermodel recalls how she and a friend tried to attend a party at the unnamed hotel in the South of France recently, but was blocked from entering by door staff […]
Meet Maurice, the rooster whose early morning crowing has divided French opinion. His fans, including a chicken called Pompadour and a rooster called Jean-Rene, showed their support outside the court as his trial began. Maurice, a cockerel who ruffled his neighbors’ feathers, is on trial on the French island of Oleron over claims that he has been crowing […]
“Ghana is a haven of peace, security and stability, indeed, the safest country in West Africa. Legitimate investments are protected. We are a country where the principles of democratic accountability and respect for the rule of law, individual liberties and human rights are now firmly entrenched in our body politic, and where the separation of […]
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has stated that his administration was on track in fulfilling many of the promises it made to Ghanaians in the run up to the 2016 elections. “We are two and a half years into a four-year mandate, and what I continue to insist and tell the people of Ghana is […]
Togolese officials who were in France for some official engagements had the shock of their lives when nationals of Togo descended on them and poured flour on them. Their anger stems from the recent amendments in the country’s constitution which allows current president, Faure Gnassingbe to stand for elections two more times or ten more […]
