Severe flooding has hit Ghana’s capital city of Accra and its surroundings Wednesday morning following a heavy downpour last night. Property worth thousands of Ghana Cedis have been destroyed and the number of missing and dead is unreliable. Eight people were reported dead but the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) confirmed only two, as at [...]
Accra hit by floods; Schools closed down
October 26th, 2011 · No Comments
Tags: Climate Change · Environment
Doctors; and a nation divided
October 24th, 2011 · No Comments
Ghana today is a nation divided, paradoxically not along partisan political lines but along the lines of those who support the doctors’ current industrial action and those who do not. There is deep distrust as accusation and counter accusations are being hurled around. The President of the Ghana Medical Association (GMA) Dr. Emmanuel Adom Winful, [...]
Tags: Health
US$48,000 Obama wrist-watch sparks outrage in Ghana
January 21st, 2011 · No Comments
A US$48,000 Backes and Strauss watch reportedly presented to Michelle Obama by wife of Ghana’s President John Evans Attah Mills -during the American first couple’s visit to Ghana in July 2009- has sparked a nationwide public outrage.
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Internet Romance Scam Epidemic Hits Ghana
January 13th, 2011 · 47 Comments
Ghanaian youths are gaining notoriety for the country in connection with internet scams. The Accra Daily Mail (ADM) newspaper, which this writer works for, is daily inundated with sad stories from abroad of how men and women who believe they are getting the love of their lives end up being bilked of huge sums of [...]
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