Month: June 2011

Feverish preparations are on-going at the Sunyani Coronation Park, venue for the upcoming congress of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), slated for July 8 to 9 to elect the party’s flagbearer for the 2012 Presidential […]

The Association of Magistrates and Judges of Ghana (AMJG) and the Judicial Service Staff Association of Ghana (JUSAG) have jointly condemned what they say are unwarranted attacks on the Chief Justice, Mrs Georgina Theodora Wood, […]

The Nigerian government has imposed a curfew on the national capital city, Abuja, following recent attacks by Islamist militants. Nightclubs, beer parlours, and cinemas must close by 10pm local time (2100 GMT) and public parks […]

The conduct and utterances of some political party activists are annoying. Some of those activists are patently undisciplined and have become notorious for either perpetrating violence or acting recklessly to give our politics a bad […]

Anytime that I respond to his running circus of contretemps, his defenders and lackeys accuse me of maligning a decent man without provocation. The irony, though, is that while Ghana’s portly Vice-President, admittedly, sports quite […]

I have read the news report in which a group calling itself the Network of Social Democrats (NESOD) has given Chief Justice Georgina Theodora Wood a 14-day ultimatum to resign “or be pushed through the […]

China’s economic reforms of the last three decades have transformed the pattern and level of material consumption for tens of millions of Chinese families. However, such gains have not been distributed equally throughout the population, […]

The results of Turkey’s 12 June parliamentary elections – despite the challenge from Kemalist and pro-Islamic elements – give the Justice and Development Party (AKP) yet another chance to pursue its foreign policy objectives and […]