Burkina Faso holds elections amid fear of attacks
President Kabore has promised to secure the country and is vying for another five years against 12 other candidates. Voters have gone to the polls in Burkina Faso for presidential and legislative elections held against the background of a spiralling conflict and one of the world’s fastest growing humanitarian crises. Insecurity, caused by the devastating […]
BNI changes name to National Intelligence Bureau (NIB)
The Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) has changed its name to the National Intelligence Bureau (NIB). This is in line with Section 12 of the Security and Intelligence Agencies Act, 2020 (ACT 1030). The Director-General of the National Intelligence Bureau asked the public to take note of the change in name which is with “immediate […]
EC ordered to file response to Marricke Gane’s suit challenging disqualification
The High Court has ordered the Electoral Commission to file its responses to a suit challenging the disqualification of an independent Presidential aspirant, Marricke Kofi Gane, by Tuesday November 24, 2020. Mr. Gane, who is one of the five disqualified presidential aspirants, sued to challenge the EC’s decision to disqualify him. The EC’s technical team […]
Turning the iconic “Ghana Must Go” bag into high fashion
Recognized around the world in either its blue-white and red-white varieties, this once-nameless bag in West Africa has long been especially popular in markets across the region. But when in the 1980s hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants, most of them Ghanaians, hurriedly stuffed their belongings into them after being given short notice to leave […]
