Anthony Albanese, the newly elected prime minister of Australia, has rejected calls for him to publicly demand the United States drop its prosecution of WikiLeaks founder and Australian citizen Julian Assange. Bob Carr, who was foreign minister when Albanese’s centre-left Labor Party was last in power in 2012 and 2013, wrote in an opinion piece in The Sydney Morning Herald on Monday that an Australian request to drop Assange’s prosecution was a “small change” in Australia’s defence alliance

A gold-crowned tooth is all that remains of assassinated Congolese independence hero Patrice Lumumba. Shot dead by a firing squad in 1961 with the tacit backing of former colonial power Belgium, his body was then buried in a shallow grave, dug up, transported 200km (125 miles), interred again, exhumed and then hacked to pieces and finally dissolved in acid. The Belgian police commissioner, Gerard Soete, who oversaw and participated in the destruction of the remains took the tooth, he later admitted.

At least 59 people are known to have died in lightning strikes and landslides triggered by severe monsoon storms in India and Bangladesh. Millions of people have been stranded while emergency workers have struggled to reach those affected. Forecasters are warning that the flooding is expected to get worse over the next few days. Bangladesh government officials have described the recent flooding as the country’s worst since 2004. Unrelenting rains over the last week have inundated vast swathes

China has carried out a land-based missile interception test that “achieved its expected purpose”, its defence ministry said, describing it as defensive and not aimed at any country. In a brief statement late on Sunday, the ministry said that the “ground-based midcourse anti-missile intercept technology” test had been carried out that night. “The test reached its expected goals,” the ministry said. “This test was defensive and not aimed at any country.” It provided no other details.

My Dear Wofa Yaw, Why is it that anytime you confide in people whom you trust, they come out to expose you? You seem to have surrendered yourself with people you trust but it is obvious, they do not like you. Closed door issues are essentially based on loyalty and trust. There are lots of things people say, people in leadership position, be it religion, politics and traditional, among others, that if they are put out in the open, they could wreak havoc and create lots of conflicts and divisions in

Cameroon FA president Samuel Eto’o has received a 22-month suspended prison sentence for tax evasion totalling £3.32 million. Spanish newspaper Sport reports that the former Barcelona and Inter Milan striker admitted the offence but claims he was duped by his former agent Jose Maria Mesalles. The fraud stems from Eto’o’s failure to declare income from the sale of image rights to Puma and Barcelona in his personal income tax returns between 2006 and 2009. The 41-year-old said he

Ghanaian champions Asante Kotoko paid a courtesy visit on former President of Ghana, John Agyekum Kuffour to present their just-won GPL trophy and he also congratulated the entire team for their immense contribution to the club. The Porcupine Warriors arrived early in the capital to set on with their trophy tour and stopped at the humble abode of the country’s ex first gentleman last Friday. The ‘Kum Apem’ lads afterwards got held by Accra Lions to a pulsating 1-1 stalemate at the

Hearts of Oak coach Samuel Boadu believes his team’s failure to defend the Ghana Premier League title was due to injuries. The Phobians’ league campaign came to an end on Sunday with a 4-1 loss to Real Tamale United at the Accra Sports Stadium. Hearts, who started the season as defending champions, finished in a disappointing sixth position. They trailed league champions Asante Kotoko by 19 points. “The injury problem, because lots of players in the first team got injuries, Salifu Ibrahim,

Ghanaian-Dutch footballer and forward for Barcelona FC, Memphis Depay has paid a visit to his roots. He arrived in Ghana earlier this week to enjoy his summer holidays after the end of the European football season and to continue his philanthropic works. Memphis Depay, who is born to Ghanaian father Dennis Depay, and Dutch mother Cora Schensema has been undertaking a series of projects in recent years where he donated sporting equipment and other items to the Cape Coast School for the Deaf and Blind.

The 2022 World Cup is right around the corner.  The tournament gets underway on November 21, with the final taking place under a month later on December 18, 2022. The group stage draw has come and gone, with eight sets of four teams set to compete, with a 32-team format at the World Cup. Here are all 32 teams as the competition edges closer, and we analyze which nations are the favourites to win, who are the star players and managers to watch out for; Group A: Qatar, Ecuador, Senegal, Netherlands

Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection and also Member of Parliament ‘at large’ for Dome-Kwabenya, Sarah Adwoa Safo appears unfazed with the decision by Parliament to probe her continuous absence from the house.  Though the Privileges Committee, which has been given the mandate to probe her is finding it difficult to reach out to her and has now resorted to the publication of her invitation letter though the mass media, the TikTok model has released yet another video dancing and

The Management of the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) has warned the public to ignore an account that has been created on Facebook inviting people to apply for recruitment into the service. In a statement issued in Accra over the weekend, the management said it is NOT recruiting or has hired any agent or persons to conduct recruitment on its behalf. The following is the full statement; It has come to the attention of the Ghana Immigration Service of a fraudulent recruitment exercise on a fake Facebook

The Head of Quality Assurance at the National Petroleum Authority (NPA), Saeed Ubeidalah, has urged consumers of petroleum products to feel free and buy petroleum products from any fuel station in the country. He said, “so far as the fuel station is operating and has not been shut down, you should be assured of high quality product for your vehicle or machine,” adding that, “Ghana is the only country in West Africa which sells petroleum products at 50 parts per million (ppm) since 2017.”

President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has made it clear that the naming of a library at Frafraha after his late father had nothing to do with him and that he did not influence the decision that was taken by the Ghana Library Board (GLB). Speaking at the commissioning of the   project at Frafraha near Adentan in the Greater Accra Region recently, he said, “before I am predictably accused by my political opponents of seeking the unwarranted glorification of my father, it must be put on record

A Sekondi High Court, presided over by Her Ladyship Justice Efya Nyarko Adu Amankwa, has dismissed a motion for stay of execution and extension of time filed by the Chief of Essipong, Nana Kofi Abuna V, to give her ample time to honor the payment of the remaining sum of over GH¢1 million paid into her private account by Ghana National Gas Company as stool lands compensation. The Chief, known in private life as Emma Woode, and a Deaconess at Inchaban Central Church of Pentecost, has currently paid

The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has revealed that the completion of the University of Ghana Medical Centre (UGMC) by his administration was not easy, as people may be thinking. “It is no secret that my government had to navigate several hurdles to ensure successful completion of the project, despite it going beyond its planned schedule,” he said. President Akufo-Addo was speaking at the premises of the hospital last Friday, during a ceremony to commission the phase II of the

The Ashanti Regional office of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has arrested one Christian Osei Asare for posing as staff of the company, who goes about defrauding unsuspecting customers. Mr Sampson Boateng, of the Regional Public Relations department of ECG told newsmen that, the suspect took advantage of the meters being supplied by Assembly members and Members of Parliament (MPs) to defraud unsuspecting members of the public. According to him, the suspect approached one Madam Agnes Frimpong,

Male members of the Greater Accra branch of the Ghana Bar Association (GBA) have marked this year’s Father’s Day celebration by making a donation to Veterans Administration, Ghana (VAG). They presented bags of rice, cartons of milo, milk, sugar, toiletries and others to VAG at the headquarters of the Administration, a day ahead of the celebration. In addition, they served members of the VAG Contingent and VAG staff present a hot meal and dined with them as a sign of appreciating them.

Nana Asante Philip, a safety, health and environment expert, has advised estate developers, individuals and parents against mounting metallic security at home that pose fire and emergency threats to their property and human lives, particularly children. He said when people put up homes for sale or to live in, majority of them are particular about how to prevent criminals from breaking into the house without recourse to fire, health and other safety mechanisms. According to him, some of the homes

The 2022 Citi Business Festival (Cedi Summit) takes on Monday, June 27 with a up of three speakers of repute in the world of banking, economics and law. The June 27 event at the Alisa Hotel will be headlined by Jeff Gable, the Head of Research and Chief Economist at ABSA; Prof Peter Quartey, the Director of the Institute of Statistical Social and Economic Research (ISSER) and David Ofosu-Dorte, a Senior Partner AB & David Law Firm. Also serving as panellists for the one-day Economic Summit being