Akufo-Addo Endorses Kennedy Agyapong’s Call For Slaughtering of Gas & Ewes

Akufo-Addo, the Leader and Presidential Candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has at long last opened his mouth on the reckless genocidal statement made by NPP MP, Kennedy Agyapong.

After a long silence, and quietly supporting the war cry and the call for Ashantis to slaughter Gas and Ewes, Akufo-Addo has finally openly thrown his weight behind Kennedy Agyapong.

Speaking in an “exclusively” orchestrated manner with one of Joy FM’s NPP reporters, Sammy Darko, the NPP flagbearer made his thoughts known.

Ghana: Lawyer In Dramatic U-Turn

…Now ‘Fighting’ for Arhur Paes against His Ex. Client

Lawyer Nana Oppong, of Due Diligence Chambers, has made a sharp u-turn from his client, Eunice Wubbling, whom he was defending in a defilement case and is now defending Arthur Paes, the man at the centre of a civil case in an Accra High Court, for allegedly defiling a minor since she was eight years old.

Nana Oppong was the counsel for Eunice Wubbling all these years until recently, due to what Eunice called “strange straits” exhibited by her attorney, the two parted ways following Eunices’ suspicions that her lawyer may be dealing with her opponent in the defilement case.

Ghana: NPP must take blame for Volta alienation said Nana Addo

The presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) says the party is partly to blame for the seeming hostile attitude by residents of the Volta Region towards the NPP.

Nana Akufo-Addo said the posture and attitude by some party officials have largely contributed to the dwindling fortunes of the NPP in the Volta Region.

The flagbearer was speaking during a meeting with the Volta Region House of Chiefs on Friday.

Obama invites President John Evans Atta Mills to G8 Summit

President John Evans Atta Mills together with three other African leaders has been invited to attend the upcoming summit of the group of eight industrialized countries in the United States of America.

Chairperson of the African Union and President of Benin Yayi Boni, Ethiopia's Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, Tanzania's President Jakaya Kikwete and President Mills will be attending the Group of Eight (G8) Summit at Camp David in the United States of America.

Ghana private universities 'cause unemployment to graduate'

Ghana's minister for employment has blamed private universities for high levels of graduate joblessness.

These institutions take mediocre students who graduate with sub-standard qualifications, Moses Asaga said.
He was responding to complaints by the Ghana's Trades Union Congress about the government's failure to create jobs.
Stephen Adei, a private lecturer, told the BBC these views were "totally wrong" as private universities were affiliated to mainstream institutions.

Frank Odoi: Kenya mourns Ghanaian cartoonist

Tributes are being paid to one of Africa's leading cartoonists, Ghanaian-born Frank Odoi, who died over the weekend in Kenya's capital, Nairobi.

He was killed in a traffic accident involving a minibus tax, known as a matatu, on Saturday but his family only learnt of his death on Monday.

His Driving Me Crazy comic strip that tackled the subject of the matatu's notoriously reckless driving.

Mr Odoi, 64, moved to Nairobi in the 1970s and worked there ever since.

Golgoti - white man in Africa

Mr Odoi was one of two passengers to die when the matatu in which they were travelling veered off the road into a ditch on Saturday.

When the cartoonist did not return home over the weekend, family members searched all the hospitals before finding his body in a Nairobi mortuary on Monday morning.

Mr Odoi was one of the first visual artists to be given a daily slot in Kenya's Daily Nation newspaper about 30 years ago - and he has dominated the Kenyan artistic scene ever since.

His work - fiction and political commentary - was also featured in newspapers all over Africa and the BBC's Focus on Africa magazine.

He was most famous for his Golgoti series, about a white man who comes to Africa, and Akokhan, the tale of two centuries-old squabbling men which was based on the folklore of his native Ghana.

News of this death broke on Monday evening in Kenya.

Fellow cartoonist Paul "Maddo" Kelemba, who was a fellow director of the media company Four Dimension Innovative, was among those to pay tribute to his colleague.

"Looking at the empty desk in the corner and expecting to see Frank has been very difficult, disturbing and has made us very angry," Mr Kelemba told the BBC's Focus on Africa programme.

"It is so sad that he met his end at the hands of the matatus which were the subject of his comic strip," he said.

Ghana appoint James Kwesi Appiah as new head coach

The Ghana Football Association has appointed James Kwesi Appiah as the new head coach of the Black Stars.

Appiah, assistant coach of the Black Stars since 2008, replaces Serbian Goran Stevanovic, who was sacked last month after Ghana's failure to reach the Africa Cup of Nations final.

The former international defender will meet the Executive Committee of the GFA on 10 April to formalise the deal.

Appiah has been given a contract until the end of the 2014 World Cup.

Ghanaian-born former France international Marcel Desailly had been considered for the post, with media reports in Ghana suggesting he was the favourite for the job.

Talks between the parties took place but Desailly was unable to accept the position because of his other contractual commitments.

That led to the surprise appointment of Appiah, who led the Ghana under-23 side to victory at the 2011 All African Games but is inexperienced at the highest level.

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