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Ghana's ruling party falls
Ghana's vice president and ruling party candidate, Mahamudu Bawumia, conceded defeat Sunday to opposition candidate and former President John Dramani Mahama in the West African nation's presidential e...Published: 08 Dec 2024 at 17:43hrs | 4136 | by Staff reporter
Ghana's John Mahama projected to unseat ruling party in December election
Ghana's main opposition leader and former president, John Dramani Mahama, appears to be the front-runner in the upcoming December presidential election, according to an opinion poll released on Monday...Published: 11 Nov 2024 at 13:46hrs | 504 | by Staff reporter
Uproar in Ghana after president unveils his own statue
Ghana's outgoing President Nana Akufo-Addo is facing a backlash on social media after he unveiled a statue of himself during a tour of the country's Western Region.The monument is intended to ...Published: 08 Nov 2024 at 07:14hrs | 675 | by Staff reporter
Ghanaian minister resigns over Phala Phala-like scandal
Ghana's sanitation minister resigned on Saturday over reports staff found and stole stashes of local and foreign money from her home, she said in a letter to the president in which she denied any wron...Published: 24 Jul 2023 at 12:19hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt demands gold smuggling evidence from Al Jazeera
PRESIDENTIAL spokesperson George Charamba says government has written to Qatari news network, Al Jazeera demanding evidence of gold smuggling and money laundering alleged in its investigative document...Published: 04 May 2023 at 06:15hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
'Pay Africa reparations for slavery'
Ghana's President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has called for slavery reparations to Africa and the African diaspora.Speaking at the Reparations and Racial Healing Summit on Monday, President A...Published: 03 Aug 2022 at 06:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Marc Holtzman: His axis with Mnangagwa and CBZ Bank
ON Monday last week - 15 November - Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa travelled with a delegation of senior government officials and top business executives to the Intra-African Trade Fair in Du...Published: 27 Nov 2021 at 16:54hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa gets Hichilema invite
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has been invited to attend new Zambian leader Hakainde Hichilema's inauguration on Tuesday.Hichilema's United Party for National Development (UPND) has close...Published: 22 Aug 2021 at 08:16hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Africans have last laugh
Africans are responding to the chaos at the US Capitol with irony, sarcasm and humour. #Trump started trending on Twitter in places like Nigeria, South Africa and Kenya as the platform blocked the US ...Published: 08 Jan 2021 at 07:24hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
5 killed in Ghana election violence - pray not slipping backwards to join likes of Zimbabwe
For many years now, Ghana has successfully held free, fair and credible elections, a successful and stable democracy. And the country has benefited greatly for with stable and functioning democracy th...Published: 11 Dec 2020 at 08:44hrs | 2 | by Nomusa Garikai
Mnangagwa gets down to business at TICAD
President Mnangagwa arrived here yesterday to attend the 7th Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) which begins today, with principal focus on business and investment. He joins...Published: 28 Aug 2019 at 07:20hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Gold worth billions smuggled out of Africa
Billions of dollars' worth of gold is being smuggled out of Africa every year through the United Arab Emirates in the Middle East - a gateway to markets in Europe, the United States and beyond - a Reu...Published: 28 Apr 2019 at 08:18hrs | 2 | by Reuters
Only a firm hand benevolent autocratic leader can save Zimbabwe
Eddie Cross's opinion piece of December 29, 2018 titled "How long oh Lord, how Long?", in which he lambasts lousy government, corruption, nonsensical monetary and macroeconomic policies, concludes tha...Published: 06 Jan 2019 at 17:58hrs | 10 | by Makaita Noel Mutasa
Trudy Stevenson quits MDC
Lottie Gertrude "Trudy" Stevenson is a remarkable political survivor, appointed as Zimbabwean Ambassador to Senegal in 2009 during the GNU as a deployee of the MDC led by Welshman Ncube.A form...Published: 04 Apr 2018 at 15:23hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa pledges to remove business restrictions
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has pledged to change the face of the Zimbabwean economy by dealing with red tape in government to lure foreign investors.Speaking at the Africa CEO's Forum in Abi...Published: 27 Mar 2018 at 06:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa addresses Africa CEO Forum
A new era has dawned for Zimbabwe and the country is determined to create an open, free and transparent economy.This was the message relayed by President Emmerson Mnangagwa when he addressed m...Published: 26 Mar 2018 at 11:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Less talk, more action in Zimbabwean fight against corruption
The Zimbabwean masses have implored the Mnangagwa government to ride on the current public support and take significant action on pervasive corruption in the country. This is the time to take ...Published: 24 Dec 2017 at 11:09hrs | 1 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Bob and Grace Mugabe's Muppet Show is in full swing
Get ready to salsa to the sounds of party-political kongonya when Grace Mugabe takes centre stage at the Zanu-PF special congress scheduled for December. So I hope Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa ca...Published: 20 Oct 2017 at 09:59hrs | 2 | by Tafi Mhaka
Tsvangirai lobbied to step down for Chamisa to take over
FIERCE jostling for power has reportedly erupted in the opposition MDC-T, as party hawks were lobbying for ailing opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai to step down on health grounds and hand over power...Published: 18 Sep 2017 at 06:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Hillary Clinton coming to Zimbabwe?
Former U.S. Secretary of State, and First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, is reportedly coming to Zimbabwe next year, as an invited "special guest" to mark the inauguration of MDC-T leader, Morgan Tsvang...Published: 17 Jun 2017 at 22:48hrs | 3 | by Itai Mushekwe/Nancy Mabaya
Africa's jobless youth cast a shadow over economic growth
Leaders put job-creation programmes on the front burner African governments are confronting unemployment in many different ways. In Senegal, with 200,0...Published: 02 May 2017 at 16:25hrs | 2 | by Kingsley Ighobor
Mugabe struggles to walk, snoozes in Ghana
President Robert Mugabe was this week once again the focus of international media attention after a video showing him apparently struggling to walk went viral on social media.He was also p...Published: 08 Mar 2017 at 06:00hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Rousing welcome for Mugabe in Ghana
President Mugabe's popularity as an African icon continues to rise with delegates who attended Ghana's 60th independence celebrations here yesterday rising to their feet, cheering and clapping han...Published: 07 Mar 2017 at 06:11hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe flies out
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe yesterday made a stop-over in Harare from Singapore where he had gone for medical attention, but immediately left for Ghana early this morning.Mugabe, the only leader Z...Published: 06 Mar 2017 at 05:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Infantino galvanising support against Issa Hayatou?
Fifa president Gianni Infantino was in Ghana on Monday and rubbished claims that he is galvanising support against Issa Hayatou.The world football governing body head was in the west Afric...Published: 01 Mar 2017 at 05:54hrs | 1 | by Agencies
Ghana set for free high school education
ACCRA - The President of Ghana Nana Akufo-Addo has assured Ghanaians that his government will fund the cost of public Senior High Schools (SHS) for all those who qualify for entry beginning from t...Published: 13 Feb 2017 at 05:34hrs | | by Agencies
Tsvangirai's 'diplomatic offensive' futile
YESTERDAY readers woke up to a screaming headline extolling MDC-T leader Mr Morgan Tsvangirai's so- called diplomatic offensive during which he called on foreign nations to intervene in Zimbabwe's sup...Published: 10 Jan 2017 at 05:58hrs | | by Nduduzo Tshuma
Ghana to help Tsvangirai against Mugabe?
Ghana's newly-inaugurated leader Nana Akufo-Addo has apparently pledged to help opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai to ensure that Zimbabwe stages both free and fair polls in 2018.This emerged...Published: 09 Jan 2017 at 14:32hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
New Ghana president begin his tenure on quite an embarrassing note
GHANA's new president, Nana Akufo-Addo, has begun his tenure on quite an embarrassing note after being fingered in plagiarising his inaugural speech.The president who gave the speech on Saturd...Published: 09 Jan 2017 at 10:33hrs | | by This article is taken from Naij.com
Tsvangirai courts African leaders
MDC-T leader, Morgan Tsvangirai at the weekend held marathon meetings with several African leaders attending Ghanaian President Nana Nankwa Akufo-Addo's inauguration ceremony and pleaded with them...Published: 09 Jan 2017 at 07:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ghana president inauguration envy of Africa- Knight
Former ZBC presenter Eric Ramsley Knight has said the newly inaugurated Ghana President Nana Akufo-Addo is the envy of Africa after he gave a mature statement following his installation.Akufo-...Published: 09 Jan 2017 at 03:56hrs | 2 | by Stephen Jakes
Tsvangirai meets new Ghana President in private after inauguration
The MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai who attended the inauguration of the new Ghana President Nana Akufo Addo later met the new leader in private after the inauguration.Party officails posted on...Published: 07 Jan 2017 at 21:31hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Chamisa in Ghana for inauguration of new President
MDC-T Vice President Nelson Chamisa is in Ghana today attending the inauguration of the new president of that country.Chamisa revealed that he was in Ghana through a tweet."I'm in Accr...Published: 06 Jan 2017 at 07:27hrs | 2 | by Stephen Jakes
Opposition leader Akufo-Addo wins Ghana poll
Opposition leader Nana Akufo-Addo won Ghana's national election, becoming president elect at the third attempt and cementing the country's reputation as a standard bearer of democracy in a region ...Published: 11 Dec 2016 at 08:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Why not ask Prophet T. B Joshua?
Some readers of My blog cannot fail to recall that four years ago, in an electioneering season, this author wrote an article with the above title. Today, the political cycle of elections has reached a...Published: 17 Apr 2016 at 18:25hrs | | by Hughes Boateng
Ghana swears in vice-president John Dramani Mahama as new leader
Ghanaian Vice-President John Dramani Mahama has been sworn in as the West African nation's leader following the sudden death of President John Atta Mills, in line with the country's constitution....Published: 25 Jul 2012 at 10:22hrs | | by AL
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