Justice Dzido

School of Hygiene students are threatening to hit the streets over the failure of government to restore their allowance that was scrapped in 2015. The students from Ho, Tamale and Accra Schools of Hygiene last year, embarked on a series…
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The UN cultural agency, UNESCO has awarded its World Press Freedom Prize to imprisoned Egyptian photojournalist Mahmoud Abu Zeid, despite criticism from the government of Abdel Fattah el-Sisi following the announcement last week. The…
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Inspector General of Police (IGP), David Asante-Apeatu, has said miscreants within the Ghana Police Service will be smoked out in the coming days. The purge, he said, is part of an on-going campaign to redeem the battered image of the…
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President Nana Akufo-Addo has said the Ghanaian people will continue to defend the right to free expression to the very end, because of their determination to build a free, open society with accountable governance. According to President…
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President Nana Akufo-Addo has urged journalists to deal with fake news or risk having the growing phenomenon eroding their integrity.“This is a major threat to the integrity of the news world as we have known it. It is not something to be…
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Kenya’s president, Uhuru Kenyatta, called on Kenyans to forgive him for ‘damaging the unity of the country in any way’ during last year’s heated and contested presidential elections. The president was delivering the first state of the…
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The Minority Spokesperson on Employment, Richard Quarshigah, has suggested that the government’s released breakdown of some one million jobs it has supposedly created within 15 months, should be disregarded. According to him, the data…
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A German nurse working for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) was kidnapped in Somalia's capital Mogadishu, the aid group said. She was seized by unknown armed men from inside the ICRC compound at 20:00 local time (17:00…
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The widow of China's Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo has said she is ready to die in protest at being held under house arrest by Chinese authorities. Liu Xia, 57, has been under house arrest since 2010, after her husband was awarded…
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At least 95 people have died and scores more injured in fierce dust storms that hit the northern Indian states of Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan. The storms on Wednesday disrupted electricity, uprooted trees, destroyed houses and killed…
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