Ghana will, tomorrow, assume the presidency of the United Nations (UN) Security Council for a month. As President of the council, Ghana will hold a high-level debate on ‘Threats to International Peace and Security’ on November 10, 2022, to be chaired by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. The debate will be on the theme: “Counter-terrorism in Africa – An imperative for peace, security and development”. A statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration said within the month, Ghana would seek to build consensus in the council and across the UN on the need to ensure that peace…
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Read below the full speech President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo read during his address to the nation on the country’s economic crisis. ADDRESS TO THE NATION BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC,NANA ADDO DANKWA AKUFO-ADDO,ON THE ECONOMY, ON SUNDAY, 30TH OCTOBER 2022. Fellow Ghanaians, good evening. Back in 2020, at the outbreak of the Corona virus pandemic, I started a regular conversation with you that came to be popularly known as Fellow Ghanaians. It was a time of great fear of the unknown, and the entire world felt at risk. I came into your homes regularly to tell you…
An Aspiring Deputy Women Organiser for National Democratic Congress,NDC in the Ashanti Region, Madam Yaa Boahemaa Agyemang has stated that NDC has performed creditably well in terms of development projects than the New Patriotic Party , NPP in the Ashanti region. She reiterated her resolve to increase grassroots support for NDC in the Ashanti region to propagate the message to the people in the region . She noted : ” NDC has done tremendously well in the Ashanti in terms of development projects yet little is always said about them” . She ,therefore ,indicated that when she is given the…
South Korea devastated relatives gathered bodies, parents looked for kids and a nation looked for answers on Sunday after 153 people were killed when a crowd in South Korea surged in a rear entryway during Halloween celebrations. President Yoon Suk-yeol pronounced a time of national mourning and assigned Seoul’s popularItaewon district and a disaster zone after the Saturday night catastrophe. “This news came out of blue sky,” said a father who burst out crying as he gathered his girl’s body from a mortuary in the country’s capital. A huge crowd celebrating in Itaewon surged into a rear entryway, killing at least…
Joe Biden has described the fierce attack on US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband as “vile” – as San Francisco’s police Chief has said it was “not an irregular assault”. Paul Pelosi, 82, is recuperating from a skull break after he was gone after by an interloper with a mallet on Friday. The intruder – David DePape – broke into the couple’s home in San Francisco at around 2.30am, allegedly searching for the US House Speaker. Police said officials were called to the house for a “wellbeing check” and showed up to find the two men holding the sledge. The…
Effutu Member of Parliament , Alexander Afenyo Markin has described Former President John Dramani Mahama’s October. 27 talk as opportunistic . He noted that the Former President was looking to extend himself as somebody who can be a choice to be in charge of government yet unequivocally said “he is certainly not another option” In an interview with Accra-based Citi TV , Afenyo Markin made sense of that Mahama during his tenure was likewise faced with various lesser challenges contrasted with what the NPP government was confronting with yet ‘choked’ He expressed that NPP has a history of being good…
President Akufo-Addo and his Cabinet will today (Thursday, October 27) start a three-day retreat to examine measures to resuscitate the nation’s sickly economy. The commitment will likewise zero in on the Government exchange with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). President Akufo-Addo at a meeting with the leadership of the Trade Union Congress (TUC), on Tuesday was confident the retreat will yield positive results. As indicated by him, his administration is worried about the development. Government is going on a three-day retreat to handle this issue of the discussion with the IMF and the creation of the financial strategies for the…
By Alex Ababio As part of preparation towards impeding Basic Education Certificate Examination, BECE, the African Liberators Economic Institute, ALEI, a Non- Governmental Organization in collaboration with Offinso South Municipal Education Directorate of Ghana Education Service ,GES , has organised a sensitisation Seminar for Junior High School (JHS) students in the Municipality to learn how to solve examination questions during the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) which begins today The three day seminar which was organised for 2500 candidates drawn from various public and private schools located at Abofour , Mpehi, Kayera, Dentin and Namon in the Offinso South…
The Chinese Business man who purportedly cut the throat of a Ghanaian worker at Kweikuma in the Western region on Wednesday is to be summoned today.This follows his arrest on Thursday, September 29. The suspect (Xue Tint) was arrested for using a offensive weapon to harm. “The Police have arrested a Chinese national for using an offensive weapon to truly hurt his Ghanaian worker at a building site at Kweikuma suburb of Takoradi, in the Western region ,” the Police said in an official statement. As per the Police, he is presently in custody and will be put before…
A former bodyguard of Ghana’s most memorable president, Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, has disclosed the days when he would go with his Boss to the beach in the deep of the night . During those outings , Christian Blukoo narrated the former president would engage in a few spiritual demonstrations. Continuously distracted with how to protect the president, the former bodyguard made sense of that and so he and other dependable guards at the Christiansborg Castle (Osu Castle ) – the seat of government at the time-would be dutied to follow him. “After I was effective, I was sent off…