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Keguro Macharia’s article “African universities crippling their students’ (The EastAfrican — December 29, 2008-January 4, 2009) pricked me. I found myself agreeing with it as much as I disagreed. I wish to write about my own experience…

An unidentified man, believed to be a Ghanaian has been found dead beside a river Monday January 5, 2009. The man whose name is being withheld, until his family could be contacted was found dead near the Olentangy River in Ohio, US.…

More than US$5 billion have been devoted to new mining projects in Ghana in the past two decades, the President of the International Council on Mining and Metals has said. Dr. R. Anthony Hodge, who is a leading authority on sustainable…

The opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) on Saturday held a thanksgiving service to offer gratitude to God for seeing it through the December 2008 general elections. Hundreds of supporters clad in the party’s paraphernalia who thronged…

Mrs Georgina Asamoah, Chairperson of the Board of Directors of the Awutu Effutu Senya District Mutual Health Insurance Scheme has advised workers of the scheme to be good ambassadors wherever they went. This, Mrs Asamoah said, would…

Dr. Owusu Achaw Duah, Director and Founder of the  Martin Luther Health Training School, has said a more skilled workforce in the health care industry was essential for the growth of the country's economy. "A comprehensive skills strategy…

Danny Welbeck is being offered the chance of a World Cup call-up by Ghana. Both of the Manchester United starlet’s parents were born in Ghana and the national team coaches want him to join their squad for the 2010 qualifying campaign. The…

President-elect Barack Obama countered critics with an analysis Saturday by his economic team showing that a program of tax cuts and spending like he's proposed would create up to 4.1 million jobs, far more than the 3 million he has…

Russia and Ukraine took a major step toward resolving a dispute over natural gas that has left large parts of Europe without heat or fuel for days, signing an agreement with the European Union to establish independent monitors of pipelines,…

French oil services firm Bourbon said on Wednesday nine crew members were released unharmed in Nigeria along with their hijacked vessel, which had been captured by unknown gunmen in speedboats on Sunday. Bourbon did not say how it obtained…