Monthly Archives: September 2018

Lage decolletés zitten priester hoog: ‘Betalen voor te blote trouwjurk in de kerk’

Een priester uit het Italiaans Oriago, nabij Venetië, is het zat om nog langer in de bodemloze decolletés van trouwlustige dames te moeten staren. De roomse geestelijke ziet met afgrijzen de halslijn van trouwjurken lager en lager worden en stelt daarom voor een fatsoenstaks in te voeren. Hoe lager het japonnetje, hoe hoger de prijs. De door het celibaat gebonden prelaat Cristiano Bobbo kan het niet ...

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Bekende Franse slangentrainer overleden na slangenbeten

Frankrijk is in de ban van het mysterieuze overlijden van een bekende slangentrainer. Enrico Horn werd vorige week dood aangetroffen in het huis in een voorstad van Parijs waarin hij met zijn moeder woonde. Het overlijden van de 46-jarige slangentrainer, die een show begeleidde in het bekende cabarettheater Moulin Rouge, wordt met raadsels omgeven. Het was zijn moeder die Horn ...

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3 words describe Kwame Nkrumah: ‘Africa must unite’ – Samia

The daughter of Ghana’s first President says her father’s vision to see a united Africa is relevant today as it was some six decades ago. “’Africa must unite.’ Not ought to, not should; a must. Africa must unite,” said Samia Nkrumah in reference to three words that describe her father. Samia was speaking Friday on the Super Morning Show on ...

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Mahama girl in trouble over GHC3.1m MASLOC cash

The immediate-past Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Microfinance and Small Loans Centre (MASLOC) under previous Mahama administration is likely to face prosecution for alleged corruption. Sedina Tamakloe Attionu, according to a forensic audit report, allegedly misappropriated GH¢3,193,592 and is therefore expected to account for the huge amount of money. Ms Attionu and other former heads of six state-owned agencies have ...

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NDC accused of bussing Juaboso minors for voters registration exercise

The governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) has accused the opposition National Democratic Congress in Juaboso in the Western region of bussing minors to register for a referendum. Director of Elections Evans Nimako posted pictures of a pick-up with registration number GX 696-16 with a number of young people on board, one of them in school uniform. “They are just bussing ...

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Full text: First independence speech by Kwame Nkrumah

First President Kwame Nkrumah delivered the first independence speech on March 6, 1957, to hundreds of participants including representatives from the British monarch. “We have won the battle and again rededicate ourselves,” he had said, adding “Our independence is meaningless unless it is linked up with the total liberation of Africa.” Today, Ghana celebrates Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Day (a.k.a Founder’s ...

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Minority to campaign vigorously against special petroleum tax

The Minority National Democratic Congress [NDC] in parliament, will from October 2018, roll out a national outreach program to engage Ghanaians on their position on the recent fuel price hikes. This according to them, is an attempt to explain the issues plainly to the citizenry, and further press home their demand for the scrapping of the special petroleum tax. The ...

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Ghana to receive $10billion to improve road projects

Ghana’s roads are to undergo a major reconstruction with modern all-season road network linkages to spur economic and social development through easier access to and from rural areas to the main population centre. The $10 billion project will include undertaking a thorough assessment of the current road network in Ghana to identify and build roads, from scratch, expand some existing ...

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Politie gaat vol weekend staken: ‘heftigste politieactie ooit’

Politieagenten gaan van vrijdagavond 14 september tot zondagnacht 16 september staken en uitsluitend werk met spoed oppakken en ander werk laten liggen. Daartoe roepen de verschillende politiebonden vandaag op in het slepende conflict rondom het cao van de politie. ,,Het is de heftigste politieactie ooit”, aldus Jan Struijs van de Nederlandse Politie Bond (NPB). ,,We hebben nog nooit eerder in de ...

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