The Chief of Chiraa, Barima Mintah-Afari II, has demanded the replacement of street light poles in the town. He made the demand when the 2nd Lady, H.E. Samira Bawumia, and the Bono Regional Minister, Justina Owusu-Banahene, paid a courtesy call on the chiefs and people of Chiraa. Being grateful to the government for development in the district, Barima Mintah-Afari II added that Chiraa was the gateway to the region and deserves the needed development to give the area a befitting welcome. He said

Alan’s speech on Tuesday, January 10, 2023 continues to rock the Opposition, as displayed by two senior journalists, Ben Ephson and Kwesi Pratt Jnr. I will humbly attempt to respond to them both. Kwesi Pratt Jnr. initially decided to be a beauty critic with the hope of getting a job as a valet for Alan. But I must say his comments were cool and well noted. Kwesi Pratt Jnr. then moved up full throttle in his elements and dove in for the kill. To him, Alan Kyerematen having served under Nana Addo

Presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has asked security agencies in the country to arrest his arch-rival, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, over what he described as #AtikuGate. He cited a video clip made by one Michael Achimugu, said to be a former aide of the PDP standard bearer. Tinubu said Atiku as vice president between 1999 and 2007 colluded with his then boss, President Olusegun Obasanjo, to mismanage the “Special

The Governor of Niger State, Abubakar Bello, has imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew in Lambata, a community in Gurara local Government over the killing of a District Head, Mohammed Abdulsafur. In a statement signed by the Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Ahmed Matane, the governor announced a restriction of movement in the town between 6 p.m. and 6 a.m. from Sunday 15 January, till further notice is given. The governor said the curfew was necessary to assist security agencies bring the tension

The Abuja School of Social and Political Thoughts, ASSPT, has urged the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to ensure all eligible voters collect their Permanent Voter Cards, PVCs. The institution also charged the Commission to do everything possible to conduct free, fair and credible elections. DAILY POST reports this in a statement released Monday by ASSPT Director, Dr Sam Amadi. It stated that a multi-party system is crucial to any democratic process. ASSPT added that INEC needs

Africa’s star musicians hit the red carpet this past weekend at the annual All Africa Music Awards, celebrating the continent’s best talent. The four-day event culminated Sunday evening at an awards ceremony on the outskirts of Senegal’s capital, Dakar. It included performances from some of Africa’s most popular musicians, including Nigeria’s P-Square and Tiwa Savage, Mali’s Rokia Kone and Senegalese singers Youssou N’Dour and Baaba Maal. Ivorian rapper Didi B won best song of the

A French court has ordered a small town to remove a statue of the Virgin Mary, saying the religious display violates the separation of church and state. The statue is located at a crossroads in La Flotte, a municipality of 2,800 inhabitants on the popular holiday island Ile-de-Re, off France’s Atlantic coast. The statue was erected by a local family after World War II in gratitude for a father and son having returned from the conflict alive. Its initial home was a private garden, but the

An Iranian American imprisoned in Iran has started a seven-day hunger strike and appealed to United States President Joe Biden to bring him home. Siamak Namazi made the plea on Monday in a letter to Biden on the seventh anniversary of the release of five US citizens in a prisoner exchange with Iran, choreographed to coincide with the implementation of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal. Namazi was arrested in October 2015 on charges of trying to overthrow the state, accusations Namazi denies. His father

Gunmen abducted some 50 women in Burkina Faso’s northern province of Soum on January 12 and 13, the government says. Armed men seized the women as they were picking wild fruit outside the village of Liki, about 15 kilometres (9.32 miles) from the town of Aribinda, and in another district west of the town. “Searching has started with the aim of finding all these innocent victims safe and sound,” the government statement on Monday said. According to local officials, the army and its civilian

A former Afghan MP and her bodyguard have been shot dead at her home in the capital Kabul, Afghan police have said. Mursal Nabizada, 32, was one of the few female MPs who stayed in Kabul after the Taliban seized power in August 2021. Her brother and a second security guard were wounded in the attack on Sunday. Former colleagues praised Ms Nabizada as a “fearless champion for Afghanistan” who turned down a chance to leave the country. Since the Taliban returned to power in 2021, women

Germany’s Defence Minister Christine Lambrecht has resigned following a series of blunders and PR disasters. It comes as Berlin comes under rising pressure to allow the delivery of German-built battle tanks to Ukraine. Ms Lambrecht was mocked for her announcement that Germany was supporting Ukraine by sending 5,000 military helmets. She was also widely criticised for failing to improve Germany’s notoriously ill-equipped armed forces. This was despite the provision of €100bn (£88bn)

Italy’s most-wanted mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro has been arrested in Sicily after 30 years on the run. Messina Denaro was reportedly detained in a private clinic in Sicily’s capital, Palermo, where he was receiving treatment for cancer. He is alleged to be a boss of the notorious Cosa Nostra mafia and he was tried and sentenced to life in jail in absentia in 2002 over numerous murders. More than 100 members of the armed forces were involved in his arrest. Italian media reported

Asiedu Nketia, the newly elected chair of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), poses an existential threat to the peace and harmony of this country. Going into 2024, we hear the NDC new chair threatening blood, fire and brimstone. Indeed, he and most others must be made to explain their divisive rhetoric at their recent conference that hypocritically flood the political environment. It is poisonous. It continues to infect our politics and set us against one another. Asiedu Nketia hates democracy.

Shakhtar Donetsk president Rinat Akhmetov has pledged to donate £22m to the Ukrainian war effort following the transfer of Mykhailo Mudryk to Chelsea. The Premier League side signed Mudryk from Shakhtar on Sunday in a deal worth up to £89m, a transfer record for Ukrainian football. Akhmetov said the money would help a project named ‘Heart of Azovstal,’ aimed at “helping Mariupol defenders and the families of fallen soldiers”. Ukraine was invaded by Russia in 2022. “I

Chelsea have got a difficult decision to make as they currently won’t be able to register all of their new signings for the Champions League, without removing a member of their current squad. The Blues announced their fifth signing of the January window over the weekend, with Mykhailo Mudryk joining in a stunning £88million move, on a massive eight-and-a-half year deal. However, Chelsea’s busy January window has left Graham Potter’s side with more non-homegrown players than

Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias has announced plans to finance the construction of a basketball court for the St. Nicholas Foundation School, which is supported by donations from Greeks. The Minister made the announcement during a visit to the school, his second, in the last two years and suggested the basketball court be named after “Giannis Antetokounmpo”. “When I come again, I would be very proud to see you playing basketball on that court,” he said to cheers from the students

The Electoral Commission has adjourned the District Level Elections for the Lower Manya Krobo District which was earlier scheduled to take place today, Tuesday, January 17, 2023. The Commission says a new date will be announced for the votes. The change was contained in a statement the EC issued yesterday signed by the Chairperson, Jane Mensah. The reason was that “an application for injunction” has been filed against the Commission at the High Court in Koforidua. The post

An Accra Circuit Court presided over by Samuel Bright Acquah has adjourned the hearing of the assault on the Greater Accra Regional Minister, Henry Quartey, to February 1, 2023. The decision follows a prayer by the prosecution to be granted more time to investigate the case. However, the accused, Nii Odoi Kwao II, alias Robert Koomson, 61, and a retired Computer Programmer, after today’s court sitting, hinted that the case might be settled out of the legal parameters. He explained that the