Ghanaians waiting to be issued with National Identification Cards this month, April, would have to wait a while longer. According to a Deputy Minister of Communications, George Andah, registration for the cards will begin in May. The Vice President, Dr. Bawumia had earlier said at a forum in Accra that the new ID card would…
Medical officers at the Afari Community Hospital in the Atwima Nwabiagya District of the Ashanti Region have referred the 17-year old final year student of the BeneAfan International Junior High School, who was allegedly gang-raped by five young men at Nerebehi, to the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital. This is to enable doctors at the hospital…
Four years ago, Nigerian activists issued a simple demand: Bring Back Our Girls. They demanded the Nigerian government rescue 276 school girls taken in the night by Boko Haram from their dormitories in the northeastern town of Chibok. As another anniversary of the mass kidnapping looms, activists say Nigeria’s government must do better. Since their…
Google is releasing an app in Africa that will help internet users overcome obstacles such as the lack of high-speed connectivity and the cost of data on the continent. The release of Google Go is the U.S. technology giant’s latest attempt to extend its reach into emerging markets such as sub-Saharan Africa, where Facebook Inc.…
This BBC Pidgin documentary about Chinese miners who fathered children with local women while working and living in Ghana cracks open a problem that has escaped the illegal mining discourse. Since 2017 when anti-galamsey campaign started with force by President Akufo-Addo, the Chinese illegal miners fled, leaving their racially-mixed children behind. But all this while,…
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo left Accra last Saturday to attend the 25th Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in London, United Kingdom.The meeting which will take place from Monday to Friday on the theme “Towards a Common Future,” will afford the heads of government the opportunity to “address the shared global challenges we face,…