Tag Archives: NKRUMAH

Back in the day when Dr Kwame Nkrumah ruled as president of Ghana, he ensured that the national senior football team, Black Stars had all the needed motivation and morale for every match they played on the continent especially the African Cup of Nations (AFCON). According to Ghanaian football legend, Reverend Kofi Pare, the …

There’s an interesting narrative surrounding the birth and childhood of Ghana’s first President, Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah. Undoubtedly, Dr. Nkrumah’s role in establishing Ghana as an independent country free from the control of British Colonial rule cannot be understated. With his Pan-Africanism ideals, he fought for the liberation of Ghana, together …

The story has been told about the famous Subile River at the hometown of Ghana’s first President, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah. The River, located in Nkroful in the Western Region is also called Kwame Nkrumah’s River. Oral history has it that, Dr. Nkrumah has great links with this river through which his destiny …

In pursuit of his African Personality concept after independence, Dr Kwame Nkrumah contracted Kofi Antubam, a talented artist, to create the country’s three Presidential Seats for the political authority of the new nation. With the help of some local craftsmen, Kofi Antubam designed and made the seats, a task that …

There is an online conversation growing on what seems to be another feather in the cap of people who believe that the Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo government might be in the business of trying to douse the relevant role and place of Kwame Nkrumah in Ghana’s history. It would be recalled that in 2018, …

Energy Minister, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh, has explained why no group of people in the country can refuse to pay their electricity bills but expect to be supplied with the utility. His comment comes amid the latest impasse between the Electricity Company of Ghana and a section of the people …

Information reaching GhanaWeb is that a mentally unstable woman at Kwame Nkrumah Circle in Accra has killed a man. According to audio and video details from an eyewitness, the mentally-deranged woman used a big stone to commit the crime when the unidentified gentleman was asleep somewhere around the Kwame Nkrumah Interchange. Sharing …

An aide to former president John Dramani Mahama has called out Information Minister, Kojo Oppong-Nkrumah over double standards in the matter of insults directed at presidents. Joyce Bawah Mogtari asked that the Minister learns to take criticism after he lashed out at private legal practitioner, Martin Kpebu, who said on …

Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has described lawyer Martin Kpebu’s comment accusing President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo of spearheading criminal and corrupt activities in his government as unprofessional and shameful. According to him, the accusation was without any factual basis and even though the country upholds freedoms of speech and association, Ghanaians …

In February 1966, Ghana experienced its first taste of a military takeover when the country’s first president, Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, was kicked out while he was on an international assignment in Hanoi, Vietnam. The man touted for gaining independence for the country, was on a peacemaking trip over the Vietnam …