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A 95-year-old World War Two veteran, Pte Joseph Hammond from Ghana, has sent a video message to fellow Burma veteran Capt Tom Moore, asking him to send a message to other veterans in Africa. In the message he said: “I fought in second world war in Burma, just like you, …

“The inter-party conflict over the ideal register for the December 2020 elections has intensified the political polarization of the nation and driving it toward potential electoral violence and constitutional crisis” and disclosed that “if this trend continues, it could cause the breakdown of multiparty democracy in the Fourth Republic.”(Dr Kwesi …

Affable and Astute Chairman for the National Democratic Congress(NDC) UK & Ireland Chapter Alhaji Alhassan Mbalba  and other benefactors have supported the Youth Wing in the Northern Region ahead of the Eid-Fitr celebrations.   The leader of the Youth Wing, Mr. Ayuba Ahmed Munin, on behalf of his colleagues expressed …

The boss of the UK’s national tourism agency has thrown her weight behind setting up so-called air bridges with countries with low coronavirus rates. Visit Britain chief executive Patricia Yates told MPs it was an “interesting” idea and indicated the US could be open to agreeing a deal. Air bridges …

The United Kingdom (UK) Health Secretary, Rt. Hon Matt Hancock, has announced that Oxford University will begin human trials of the COVID-19 vaccine on Thursday, 23rd April 2020. He announced that a total of about £20m funding has been made available for the research. The United Kingdom has had a …

It is a group of people from the Savannah Region of Ghana, formerly part of Northern Region who reside in the United Kingdom and Ireland. The president of the group Mr Gamel Mahama in his opening address described the group as one of the oldest Ghanaian community groups in the …

Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, says one billion dollars of the country’s recently secured Eurobond money will be used to address issues in the energy sector. This move, the Finance Minister believes, will go a long way to address key bottlenecks in the energy sector. Speaking on Joynews’ NewsFile programme, Ken …

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has earned some points in the books of Ghanaians after adopting an adage from the local parlance. Addressing a gathering at the 2020 UK-Africa investment summit in London, the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson borrowed popular Akan proverb “all fingers are not the same,” to …

Four Ghanaians have found their way into the UK House of Commons after securing a win in the elections held on Thursday, December 12, 2019. The four, made up of two females and two males, won on the tickets of the Labour Party and the Conservative Party respectfully. While, Abena …

Abena Oppong-Asare of the labour party has been elected as the next MP for Erith and Thamesmead. She follows the footsteps of her male colleagues Adam Afriyie, Sam Philip Gyimah, and Kwasi Alfred Addo Kwarteng. Abena makes history as the first female Ghanaian-British MP in the UK. She grabbed the …