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Nancy Pelosi elected House speaker as Democrats prepare to wield new powers
Nancy Pelosi has been officially elected House Speaker. The results of the vote on House floor: 220 votes for Pelosi. Republican leader Kevin McCarthy got 192 votes, 18 members voted ...
05 January, 2019
Iran to ban Instagram over “immoral content”
Iran is set to ban popular social media platform, Instagram over “immoral content”, a platform which the President has over two million followers. Iran’s president Hassan Rouhani is a major ...
05 January, 2019
Saudi prosecutor seeks death sentences as Khashoggi murder trial opens
Saudi Arabia's attorney general sought the death penalty for five of 11 defendants charged with the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi as their high-profile trial opened in Riyadh on Thursday. ...
05 January, 2019
Ghana defender Andy Yiadom excels in Reading's loss to Manchester United
Ghana defender Andy Yiadom starred for Reading in their loss against Manchester United at Old Trafford in the FA Cup. Yiadom was a thorn in the flesh of Manchester United ...
05 January, 2019
Diego Maradona released from hospital after internal bleeding
Argentina legend Diego Maradona has been released from the hospital after being admitted with internal bleeding in his stomach, his daughter said. The 58-year-old was having a routine medical in ...
05 January, 2019
Transfer: Gideon Baah rejoins former club FC Honka
Former Asante Kotoko defender Gideon Baah has completed a move to Finnish top-flight side FC Honka. FC Honka, who are preparing for the second consecutive league in the Finnish premier ...
05 January, 2019
RESTRUCTURING THE RHETORICAL POLITICAL LANDSCAPE OF GHANA; '?'
Prior to Dr Abrefa Busia becoming the president of the second republic of Ghana in 1969, he had written a number of books and articles chastising the previous administrations and ...
05 January, 2019
THE SPITTING GALORE; WE ARE ALL AT RISK
Is it anger, disgust, violence, frustration or just normal social behavior that leads people to openly spit in public? As much as I don’t want to kiss anyone in public, ...
05 January, 2019
‘PROSTITUTIONAL’ CORRUPTION; THE MEDIA MUST ACT
In a country where the media only move from one issue to another without actually following up the former to see justice done to them, leaders are given the opportunity ...
05 January, 2019
MANASSEH’S FOLDER: Why guinea fowl jab exposes Akufo-Addo as an opportunistic politician, not a leader
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo met with journalists at the Jubilee House yesterday. For the first time, the focus shifted from the criticism of journalists for their poor questions to ...
05 January, 2019
MANASSEH’S FOLDER: Akufo-Addo’s appointees deny his Attorney General information to prosecute corruption cases
In the 2016 election, one factor that distinguished candidate Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo from his political opponents was his perceived incorruptibility and non-nonsense approach to graft. Two years into his ...
05 January, 2019