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Kwame Nkrumah led Ghana to independence in 1957 – the first country in sub-Saharan Africa to achieve this feat. He’s still remembered for his unrepentant anti-colonial stance and strident Pan-Africanism. Above all, he is regarded as one of Africa’s ablest statesmen of the 20th century. Nkrumah has been ranked among leaders such as Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi and Mao Tse-Tsung. All contributed significantly in shaping the course ...

Energy expert Kojo Opoku says the blame for the failure of due diligence to be done over the concession agreement between government and Power Distribution Services (PDS) Ghana Limited must be laid at the doorstep of the Minister of Finance and not any other. He says it took a Qatari company to alert government of the fraudulent documents tendered in ...

The applicant in a case against the Vice-Chancellor (VC) of the University of Education, Winneba (UEW) and the University Kingsley Amoakwah has withdrawn the case. The  lecturer was challenging the legitimacy of the Vice-Chancellor, Rev Fr Prof Anthony Afful-Broni. When the Winneba High Court presided over by Her Ladyship Janapare A. Bartels Kodwo (Mrs) called the case today, the applicant ...

The Chief State Attorney in the case of the three Takoradi missing girls, Patience Klinogo, has told the Sekondi High Court that the two Nigerians standing trial for the crime, Sam Udoetuk Wills and John Oji, used coded language on kidnapping and other crimes in their conversations on social media networking platform, Facebook. During proceedings in court on Wednesday – ...

John Dumelo has not spent that much time as an official politician and he’s already getting into the politician’s mindset. Lawyers for the actor and NDC parliamentary hopeful have written to editors of Peacefmonline demanding a retraction and an apology over an article criticizing Dumelo. The article was titled “Ayawaso West Wuogon, A Vote for John Dumelo is a vote ...

Happening now is Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta presenting the 2019 mid-year budget review in accordance with Section 28 of the Public Financial Management Act, 2016 (Act 921). The Finance Minister will provide an overview of the 2018 and 2019 macroeconomic developments as well as analysis of the country’s 2019 revenue, expenditure and financing performance for 2019. He is also expected ...

A nine-year-old pupil of Suhum M/A Experimental school in the Eastern Region has died after she choked on a balloon. The deceased identified only as Emmanuella, a class three (3) pupil died within a twinkle of an eye in the school Friday July 26,2019 despite attempts to resuscitate her . Her brain was fatally starved of oxygen before being rushed ...

Ghanaian attacker, Kwabena Owusu has stated categorically that none of his teammates received $80,000 as appearance fee at the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) tournament but rather $20,000. One of the stories that came up during the AFCON in Egypt was that the Stars were paid an amount of $80,000 as appearance fee but the player who was speaking ...

Martin Alamisi Burnes Kaiser Amidu, Ghana’s Special Prosecutor has taken on those persuading him to resign from his current position in the midst of accusations he is not living up to expectation. According to him, he considers anybody who approaches him to persuade him to resign as fuelling corruption by obstructing him from performing his duties. “Those who know my ...

A US congressional delegation led by Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Patricia Pelosi, is in Ghana on a four-day state visit. The delegation includes controversial Congresswoman for Minnesota Ilhan Omar, who together with three other progressive Democrats have been at loggerheads with President Trump. On the trip to Ghana also includes House Majority Whip, James Clyburn and other ...