The Gambia says it will pull of the International Criminal Court (ICC) after accusing the tribunal of persecuting and humiliating Africans. The small West African nation joins South Africa and Burundi in withdrawing from the court. The ICC was set up to try the world’s worst crimes but has been accused of unfairly targeting African […]
Your thoughts are powerful. It may sound farfetched to say that what you believe will come true and what you think about will come to you. But it’s not really such a stretch. Your thoughts are directly connected to your actions and therefore to your outcomes. That means they play a significant role in your […]
Apple has reported its third quarter in a row of falling iPhone sales and revenue, but sales beat analyst expectations. The tech giant sold 45.51 million iPhones in the three months to 24 September, beating an average estimate of 44.8 million. The company also forecast higher-than-expected holiday season revenue of between $76bn and $78bn. But […]
President John Mahama has said his government has already invested heavily in socioeconomic infrastructure, something he says, the Democratic candidate in the US Hilary Clinton is now promising to do if elected. According to the President, the magnitude of infrastructure developments Ghana has witnessed under his reign has put the country on a sound footing […]
Pressure group, Occupy Ghana has praised the efforts of the Attorney General’s department for the latest move to retrieve the GHC51 million paid to embattled businessman Alfred Agbesi Woyome. Mr. Woyome was ordered by the Supreme Court in 2014 to pay back ¢51 million judgment debt fraudulently paid him by the state after Mr. Martin […]
“We had preliminary discussion for a loan. They were hit heavily because of the oil prices. A lot of Kenyan businesses are heavily involved in that economy,” Rotich told a news conference. South Sudan sent a delegation to Nairobi for talks on the possible loan of 60 million U.S. dollars to help Juba meet urgent […]
Andrew Mwangura said Tuesday that the three hostages, including a woman, were captured by Somali pirates in November 2014. On Saturday, Somali pirates released 26 crew members of an Omani-flagged fishing vessel FV NAHAN 3, which was hijacked south of the Seychelles in March 2012, following negotiations. Mwangura said the three Kenyans — Lois Njoki […]
According to the Kenya Revenue Analysis Report 2010-2015, Kenya’s tax collection as a percentage of GDP increased from 20 percent in 2010/2011 to 29 percent in 2014/2015. When compared with other economies within the Low Middle Income (LMI) category, Kenya performs impressively,” said the report that was undertaken by the Institute of Certified Public Accountants […]
UNITED NATIONS — The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) said Tuesday that the first voluntary returns of six refugee families returning to Myanmar from Thailand began earlier in the day, UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric told reporters here. There are currently more than 100,000 Myanmar refugees living in Thailand, Dujarric said at a daily news briefing here. […]
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has said Hillary Clinton’s foreign policy plan in Syria would trigger World War Three. He said the US should focus on defeating the so-called Islamic State rather than convincing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to stand down. Mrs Clinton has been proposing a no-fly zone over Syria, which some say could […]
Vice president Kwesi Bekoe Amissah-Arthur has described as “reckless” the manifesto of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) as it holds nothing meaningful for the development of Ghana. He described as populist the party’s policy statement, especially policies on tax reduction, the one-district-one factory idea as well as a million dollar for each constituency for […]
The ruling National Democratic Congress(NDC) has announced it will extend its political campaign to Togo in November to ensure all of its supporters there return home to vote. According to the general secretary of the NDC, Johnson Asiedu Nketia, it is unconstitutional for any political party to stop Ghanaian registered voters living in the diaspora […]
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