Ghana has been commended for her contributions to and support for the Association of African Universities (AAU) over the years. Professor George Albert Magoha, the acting President of the AAU, who gave the commendation, could not hide his joy when he ... Read More

President John Dramani Mahama President John Dramani Mahama has said the challenge of his legitimacy at the Supreme Court by the 2012 presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) is not a distraction to his administration. Speaking on a BBC ... Read More

Nigerian lawmakers have approved a bill banning same-sex marriage, setting jail terms of up to 14 years for offenders. The measure backed by the House of Representatives also makes it illegal to form gay groups or organisations. The bill - which was ... Read More

The government of Malawi has defended a controversial deal it struck with South Korea to export up to 100,000 of its young people as migrant workers. Opposition MPs in Malawi have called the deal "slave labour". But the labour minister, struggling to ... Read More

The Eastern Regional Police Command on Wednesday arrested 14 Chinese men and a Ghanaian for engaging in illegal mining at Abasewase near Anyinam. The suspects including Alhaji Mohammed Abdulai, the Ghanaian, were rounded up at their operating site under a special ... Read More

Selorm Galley Selorm (Selly) Galley, one of Ghana’s representatives in the 2013 Big Brother Africa reality show could be on her way home just a week after the show kicked off. During the first nomination session Monday, the housemates in the ... Read More

African Means Business Project, a United Kingdom (UK) based media organisation, is training eight Ghanaian journalists on economic and financial reporting to improve public debate on finance and business issues. The three-day course, being organised at the School of Communication Studies, ... Read More

Six players are expected to join the Ghana camp as the Black Stars set up camp in Ethiopia this week for next month's World Cup qualifiers against Sudan and Lesotho. Nineteen players departed Accra, Thursday afternoon with head coach Kwesi Appiah ... Read More

President John Dramani Mahama President John Dramani Mahama has warned that Islamist militancy poses a threat that could destabilise the whole of West Africa. Mr Mahama told the BBC that although Ghana had not been directly affected, no country was safe ... Read More

The United Nations Peacekeeping Day Celebration has ended with a flag- raising and Wreath-laying ceremony in Accra. In an address, the Minister for Defence, Mr Mark Owen Woyongo, noted that, the International Day for the United Nations Peacekeepers was cerebrated every ... Read More