Britain woke Friday to the scene of a political earthquake. The opposition Labour Party, after 14 years in the political wilderness, has handed a brutal defeat to the ruling Conservatives.

Retired Rear Admiral Alison Madueke has petitioned the Lagos State High Court in Igbosere to stop his ex-wife and former Petroleum Minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke, from using his surname.

When Martha Karikari Asiamah felt a harsh substance on her face and body four years ago, she screamed in pain. 
Her skin, she said, was literally boiling and melting away and to her dismay the cause was acid. 

All three constituencies in Bono Region’s Dormaa areas have offered favourable reception to the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) over the years, despite Dormaa West swinging between the NPP and the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in three elections.

The Ghana Statistical Services (GSS) reported last week on multidimensional poverty in Ghana which showed that overall, a little over seven million (7,317,555) or twenty-four per cent (24%) Ghanaians are multidimensionally poor.

Election 2024 is five months away. As candidates for President and Parliament travel the length and breadth of the country and respective constituencies, several promises are being made to voters. It is sometimes intriguing to hear some of the promises as it begs the question of whether it is the supply side (candidate-initiated) or demand side (voter-initiated). Whether candidate or voter-initiated, election promises assume that there is a fair sense of what voters want.

The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has named its national campaign team for the upcoming December 7 general election.

Seen as a swing constituency since acquiring its current name, the Tain Constituency in the Bono Region has contributed its fair share to shaping the local political landscape.

“I have slaughtered a ram every year starting from 1976 but this year I can't, I just can't.”

Like many other Muslims in Nigeria, 78-year-old Mallam Kabiru Tudun Wada is not celebrating Eid al-Adha as he normally would because of the cost-of-living crisis.

The leading presidential candidates are keen to stress the importance of Ghana’s churches for the country’s development.

THE board of governors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved a fresh general capital of $117billion making the lender’s capital reach a historic $318 billion.

It is absolutely okay for anyone to criticise the operations of the Electoral Commission (EC) provided it is balanced and constructive, the Majority Leader in Parliament, Alexander Afenyo-Markin has said. 

The International Association of World Peace Advocate (IAWPA-Ghana) has launched an Election 2024 Peace Awareness Campaign
Dubbed the Africa Peace Advocate Award, it is scheduled to take place on September 21, 2024 to coincide with the United Nations International Day of Peace.

The National Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketiah has asked the police not to discriminate in applying the law.

A Ghanaian businessman was found dead in his hotel room in Seoul on Tuesday while attending an event related to the Korea-Africa Summit, according to South Korean police.

South Africa elections: Zuma’s MK Party steals the ANC’s thunder with provocative rhetoric and few clear policies

Former President John Dramani Mahama has alleged that the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) was seeking to transfer voters from NPP strongholds in the Ashanti, Eastern and some areas in Greater Accra regions in an attempt to offset NDC’s gains in strongholds.

When Michael Gyamfi Sekyere lost his hearing and speech from complications of measles at three years old, the path of his life and that of his mother, Mrs Vasti Agyeiwaa Sarkodie, changed.

As he returned to the throne in a colourful ceremony, Nigeria's influential Emir of Kano addressed the people who deposed him four years ago.

Fifteen-year-old Remember Akakpo is defying all odds to complete her junior high school (JHS) education in spite of the horrific memories of the canoe disaster that claimed the lives of nine schoolchildren at Faana, an island community at Bortianor in the Ga South Municipality in the Greater Accra Region, last year.

Nigerian students have been thrown off university courses and ordered to leave the UK after a currency crisis left them struggling to pay tuition fees on time.

A fundamental part of a wedding celebration for many Nigerians is under threat.

South Africa's highest court has barred former President Jacob Zuma from running for parliament in next week's general election.

The Chairman of the Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote has announced that Nigeria will no longer need to import gasoline by June thanks to the Dangote Refinery.