GUBA awards: Celebrating Ghanaian achievements

Kent Mensah, AfricaNews editor in Accra, Ghana What began as an individual idea two years ago has transmuted into one of the awards that has caught the attention of the movers and shakers. The Ghana UK Based Achievement Awards highlight excellence in an individual or institution doing business in Ghana or for the Ghanaian community [...]

Nduom Offers office for CPP at Winneba

As part efforts to make the Convention People’s Party visible and vibrant to contest the 2012 General Elections, the 2008 presidential candidate of the party last week Friday offered for commissioning a new party office for the Effutu Constituency branch of the CPP at Winneba in the Central Region. The new Effutu CPP office was [...]

Nduom to build University At Elmina

Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom, the 2008 presidential candidate for the Convention People’s Party (CPP), has disclosed that his group of companies, referred to as Groupe Nduom, plans to build a university college in Elmina, his hometown. According to him, the essence of the college will be to promote education in Elmina, its immediate environs, the [...]

POLICE SWOOP ON CRIMINALS

…25 arrested in Kumasi
STORY: FROM JAMES APPIAKORANG JR, KUMASI, A/R

The Ashanti Regional Police Command has arrested 25 hardened criminals at three notorious criminal hideouts, popularly known as Obonsam Gyamu at Amakom, a suburb of Kumasi.

PRINCEWILL AND HIS LOVE FOR THE LESS PRIVILEGED IN NIGERIA

By Chief Chukwuemeka Eze The Melody Shelters Nigeria, a Prince Tonye Princewill backed initiative with a mandate to raise awareness for the plight of the less privileged in the society especially orphans, is set to launch its first TV Reality Talent competition for orphanages in the country. Dubbed the Melody Shelters Singing Talent Show, it [...]

KORLEY CLOTTEY CPP SECURES A BRAND NEW OFFICE

Over the years, the Korley Clottey Constituency of the Convention People’s Party has never had a permanent party office. It is in this vain that a brand new party office was commissioned today by the National 1st Vice Chairperson of the Convention Peoples Party (CPP), Mrs. Susan Adu-Amankwah at a colourful occasion at Adabraka, near [...]

NEW NGO ‘SAVE THE FROGS! GHANA’ FORMED TO PROTECT GHANA’S DISAPPEARING FROGS

An international collaboration to save Ghana’s disappearing amphibian populations is now underway, and is expected to make great strides towards protecting Ghana’s remaining wilderness areas. SAVE THE FROGS! Ghana (www.savethefrogs.com/ghana) was officially formed last week as West Africa’s first nonprofit organization dedicated exclusively to amphibian conservation. The group is the first international branch of USA-based [...]

MEDIAWATCH EXPOSES NDC UK AND USA IMMIGRATION VISA SCAM

Mediawatch Research Associates is calling on the Criminal Investigations Department, the Immigration Service , the British and American Embassies to investigate a visa scam which has been running from the Osu castle since June 2010 last year, involving members of office of the Director of operations, the ministry of foreign affairs and the National Democratic [...]