Homowo turns bloody at Achiaman![]() The Homowo celebrations at Achiaman, a suburb of Amasaman in the Ga West Municipality of the Greater Accra Region, turned bloody when two factions in a chieftaincy dispute in the area took to stones and machetes to settle scores. Nine people including one of the chiefs, Nii Achia Ankomah II, sustained various degrees of injury. An eyewitness who spoke to the Daily Graphic on condition of anonymity said fighting between the feuding parties broke out when Nii Kwartey Adjan II, the other chief in the dispute, started sprinkling Kpoikpoi in the community, contrary to a directive from the police that activities to ... Full Story Greater Accra News | Daily Graphic | Tuesday, 31 August 2010 | COMMENTS |
No grace period for old passports - Alhaji Mohammed Mumuni![]() The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Alhaji Mohammed Mumuni, has said there will be no grace period for the conversion of old passports into biometric ones after 2015. Addressing Ghanaian residents in Switzerland in Bern last Sunday, Alhaji Mumuni said the next five years was enough for Ghanaians holding the old passports to convert them into the biometric ones, which possessed all the security ... Full Story Inside Ghana | Daily Graphic | Tuesday, 31 August 2010 | COMMENTS |
Tool-making and meat-eating began 3.5 million years ago in Africa![]() Researchers have found evidence that hominins - early human ancestors - used stone tools to cleave meat from animal bones more than 3.2 million years ago. That pushes back the earliest known tool use and meat-eating in such hominins by more than 800,000 years. Bones found in Ethiopia show cuts from stone and indications that the bones were forcibly broken to remove marrow. The research, in the journal Nature, challenges several notions about our ancestors' behavior. Previously the oldest-known use of stone tools came from the nearby Gona region of Ethiopia, dating back to about 2.5 million years ago. That suggests ... Full Story Africa | By Jason Palmer/BBC | Wednesday, 18 August 2010 | COMMENTS |
BNI seizes cartridges in Gushegu from 'NDC activist'Officials of the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) have intercepted cartridges on a Tamale-Gushegu bound passenger Benz bus at Gulugu near Gushegu in the Northern Region.The reports, though sketchy, have it that the BNI in Gushegu accosted the said Benz bus upon a tip off and took away the cartridges in large quantities without arresting the ... Full Story Northern News | citifmonline.com | Saturday, 7 August 2010 | COMMENTS |
Photo Credit: Steve Adusei, Spectrum Photographics
Photo Credit: Steve Adusei, Spectrum Photographics
Photo Credit: Steve Adusei, Spectrum Photographics
Photo Credit: Steve Adusei, Spectrum Photographics
Photo Credit: Steve Adusei, Spectrum Photographics
Photo Credit: Steve Adusei, Spectrum Photographics
Photo Credit: Steve Adusei, Spectrum Photographics
Photo Credit: Steve Adusei, Spectrum Photographics
Photo Credit: Steve Adusei, Spectrum Photographics