By David KwakyeThe often ear-disturbing sound of a cockerel’s crow performed the duties of an alarm clock when I was growing up. At the point when the moon was being bullied into submission by the sun, the cockerels would get into a choir, serenading the small village with different pitches of sounds.

Rescue the perishing,Care for the dying,Snatch them in pity from sin and the grave;Weep o’er the erring one,Lift up the fallen,Tell them of Jesus the mighty to save.Rescue the perishing,Care for the dying;Jesus is merciful,Jesus will save.

Ghana’s first and only crude oil refinery was commissioned 50 years ago today, September 28, 2013, and remains one of the country’s most valuable national assets; though it has not actualized Ghana's first President's vision of becoming the base for the petrochemical industry.

The sheer moral personality, academic depth, profound spirituality and the soft serenity of Professor Kofi Awoonor greatly belie the wicked, mindless, cowardly violence that slew him in Kenya days ago.  

I do not belong to the same religion as those evil people," Kenya's Foreign Minister, Amina Mohamed, told Al-Jazeera in an exclusive interview on Monday. Mohamed is a Kenyan Muslim, some 20 per cent of Kenya's 40 million population are Muslim, and she dismissed the now infamous Nairobi shopping mall terrorist attack as "the last kicks of a dying horse."

Poets go home with very telling exclamations in their mouths. What would Kofi Nyidevu Awoonor have said reflexively when he was struck down by the assassin’s bullet in a shopping mall of all places in faraway Kenya?

President John Mahama and his wife, Lordina, are expected in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, on Sunday ahead of a lecture Monday on Democratic Governance & Development in Ghana as a model for Africa at the Kennesaw State University.

My good friends, we have over the years had good cause to complain about the shoddy manner in which our Ghanaian missions abroad deal with Ghanaians living outside the country, especially when it comes to the request for official (travel) documents (passports, especially). And there are many other areas where they are lacking—human/public/working relations, business-mindedness, courtesy, etc.

Nairobi, Kenya (CNN) -- A number of Kenya's Cabinet members and defense officials were warned about the possibility that the terror group Al-Shabaab was planning to carry out a Westgate-style attack a year before gunman stormed the Nairobi mall, according to several police and intelligence sources.

Peshawar, Pakistan (CNN) -- At least 33 people were killed after a bomb exploded at a bazaar in Peshawar, Pakistani authorities said.

A number of students are feared dead after suspected Islamist gunmen struck a college in north-eastern Nigeria.

The World Bank Group has placed a ban on Zoomlion Ghana Limited for two years over alleged bribery in Liberia.