By Andrew Solomon Feb. 9, 2013 Image Supporters of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community at a gay pride parade in Hyderabad, India, Feb. 3.CreditCreditMahesh Kumar A/Associated Press WHEN my husband-to-be and I met the Ghanaian politician John Dramani Mahama at a friend’s wedding near Accra eight years ago, I liked him immediately. I kept up with his fortunes mostly ...

Former President Jerry John Rawlings has bemoaned the fact that some NPP appointees are still in office when corrupt allegations have been levelled against them. In a keynote address delivered at a conference of cadres and activists of the revolution in Kumasi on Saturday, the former President while counselling the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to tread carefully in some of ...

A former Chief of Defence Staff, Brigadier General Joseph Nunoo Mensah has condemned the government for what he believes is the hasty announcement of an attempted overthrow of the government without evidence. According to Mr. Nunoo Mensah who once headed the Defense Intelligence Unit of the Ghana Armed Forces, no civilian can single-handedly overthrow a government in the fashion announced ...

The Editor-in-Chief of the New Crusading Guide Newspaper, Abdul Malik Kweku Baako, has revealed how the five ‘coup plotters’ planned on taking over the country from the Akufo-Addo-led government. According to Kweku Baako, the suspects, in a bid to kidnap President Akufo-Addo, the Vice President; Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, the Chief of Defence Staff; Lt. General Obed Akwa, and other top ...

The coup suspects being held in the custody of the Bureau of National Investigations after a 15-month-long surveillance led to the scuttling of their alleged treasonable intentions by the security agencies, had contemplated “kidnapping” President Nana Akufo-Addo and detonating explosives around the President, the Vice-President, the Chief of Defence Staff as well as “top shots”, as part of the execution ...

Editor-in-Chief of the New Crusading Guide Newspaper Abdul Malik Kweku Baako has revealed that the alleged failed coup plotters actually planned to kidnap President Akufo Addo. According to the veteran Journalist who claims he’s had the opportunity of watching and listening to video and audio recordings of the ‘coup plot’, the conspirators intended to carryout out their attack at an ...

The Director-General of Police in charge of Research and Planning, COP Nathan Kofi Boakye, has urged the public to report activities of errant and corrupt police officers for action to be taken against them. According to him acts of corruption, extortion, human rights abuses and irresponsible policing which in recent times have characterized the activities of some police officers is ...

More details emerge on how suspects being held for plotting what the government calls an elaborate plan to destabilise the country. As government investigates three persons being held for crimes including unlawful possession and manufacture of explosives, details are emerging as to how the team was close to executing their alleged plan against the Presidency. It has also emerged, several ...

More than 300 dams spread across various rural communities in the northern part of the northern part of Ghana are at various stages of completion, the Ministry of Special Development Initiative (MSDI) has revealed. The number comes out of a projected 560 small earth dams that are expected to be contstructed in 56 out of 57 constituencies in the five ...

The Australian High Commissioner to Ghana, Mr. Andrew Barnes has expressed shock at the level of corruption in Ghana, a nation dominated by Christians. To Mr. Barnes, corruption should not be an issue eating up a country which Christian population constitutes approximately 71.2% of the entire population. Christianity is the largest religion in Ghana followed by Muslim that makes up ...