By Francis Kobena Tandoh The opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) has elected former Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia as its presidential candidate to lead the party in the next general election, the Electoral Commission (EC) announced late Saturday. According to the EC, Bawumia polled 110,643 total valid votes, representing 56.48Continue Reading
Russia strongly condemns the latest restrictive measures imposed by the United States on Cuba, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said Saturday. Zakharova made the remarks in response to a media question regarding a U.S. executive order published on Thursday, which threatened to impose tariffs on countries that sellContinue Reading
Multiple people were feared killed and others injured after a suspected Boko Haram terrorist attack on a group of laborers in Nigeria’s northeastern state of Borno, multiple sources said Friday. About a dozen bodies were buried after the incident at Wajirko, a village along the Maiduguri-Damboa road on Thursday,Continue Reading
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), in a communiqué issued on Friday in Abuja, welcomed recent measures taken by the transitional authorities of Guinea-Bissau, saying they are aimed at fostering an inclusive political environment and advancing the country’s return to constitutional order. The bloc said the developmentsContinue Reading
The African Union (AU) has condemned two successive “heinous” terrorist attacks in Niger in January. The AU, in a statement issued late Friday, said the AU Commission Chairperson Mahmoud Ali Youssouf has learned “with deep concern” of the attack carried out against the Diori Hamani International Airport in theContinue Reading
The governments in West Africa and the Sahel region late Friday announced a multipronged approach to combating terrorism and violent extremism, which have become a major worry to their countries. The governments said in a communique at the end of a two-day Consultative Conference on Regional Cooperation and SecurityContinue Reading
The Confucius Institute at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in collaboration with the Chinese Embassy in Ghana on Friday awarded 71 KNUST cadets the Chinese Ambassador’s Scholarship in Kumasi, Ghana’s second-largest city. Ke Ningli, the Chinese Director of the Confucius Institute at KNUST, said theContinue Reading
