Ghana Abroad News

Hi-tech gathering lets Newark students interact with counterparts in Ghana

Thursday, 07 January 2010 22:22 Star Ledger

African-American elementary students from a Newark charter school imagined children in Ghana killing zebras and tigers for food and wearing the animal pelts as clothing, said Kwame Batts, manager at Newark’s Akoma Ntoso Cultural Center.

Ghana Nurses Association of Virginia Celebrate One year Anniversary

Thursday, 10 December 2009 08:18 Afrikan Post

The Ghana Nurses Association of Virginia celebrated their one year anniversary on Saturday November 21 with a host of activities. Under the leadership of Dr. Daniel Ampom...

Last Updated ( Thursday, 10 December 2009 08:28 )

Ghanaian Boy dies after plunging 21 floors in Bronx horror

Thursday, 10 December 2009 08:10 NY Daily News

A 13-year-old boy jumped to his death from the balcony of his high-rise apartment in the Bronx Monday after he was sent home from school for not paying attention, family ...

Delta's Nonstop Service between Accra and Atlanta

Thursday, 10 December 2009 07:59 GW

Delta Air Lines today announced it will launch the only nonstop service between Accra’s Kotoka International Airport and Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airpor...

Last Updated ( Thursday, 10 December 2009 08:06 )

Inauguration & Fundraising of Mampong Kontonkyi Assoc of New Jersey

Monday, 19 October 2009 20:48 Erick Osei

The New Jersey charter of the Mampong Kontonkyi Association held it’s inaugural event and fundraising in aid of the Mampong Orphanage and children’s ward. Eight officers ...

Last Updated ( Tuesday, 20 October 2009 17:35 )

Ghanaian teens jailed for life in London for murder

Friday, 17 July 2009 15:44 Erick Osei

Two Ghanaian teenage brothers, residing in the United Kingdom with their parents, have been jailed for life by a court in London, after finding them guilty of murder of a...

Last Updated ( Friday, 17 July 2009 16:36 )

Ghanaian women in credit card fraud?

Monday, 01 June 2009 04:45 MetroWest Daily News

Two women who police said were caught on video last week using a lost credit card to buy two purses worth more than $3,000 turned themselves in on Friday.

Ghana dancers treated as slave laborers still awaiting visas

Monday, 25 May 2009 11:17 Yuval Goren, Haaretz Correspondent

Two Ghanaian dancers who were treated as slave laborers are still awaiting the Interior Ministry's response to their visa application, six months after the Justice Minist...

Last Updated ( Monday, 25 May 2009 11:29 )

Immigration Officials May Have Let International Fugitive Into U.S.

Monday, 11 May 2009 22:23 FOX NEWS

An international fugitive may have entered the United States last month after promising immigration officials he would show up for a closer screening a few weeks later. T...

Last Updated ( Monday, 11 May 2009 22:26 )

Ghana national arrested, cocaine worth Rs 12 lakh seized

Saturday, 11 April 2009 14:57 The Times of India

BANGALORE: A Ghanaian national has been arrested and cocaine worth Rs 12 lakhs recovered from his possession, police said on Saturday. Acting on a tip-off that drugs wer...

Last Updated ( Saturday, 11 April 2009 20:14 )

Ghana man in custody for Cascade counterfeit activity

Friday, 10 April 2009 21:12 Montain News

A West African man who used counterfeit money in Cascade and Teton Counties is now in custody in Denver.
On March 16th, Godford Sumabe of Ghana arrived in Great Falls; the...

Teaneck parents meet with federal officials about 'Phylicia's Law'

Saturday, 04 April 2009 06:09 Erick Osei

The parents of Phylicia Moore, who died two years ago on a school-sponsored trip to Ghana, met with federal officials today about legislation named in their daughter hono...

Last Updated ( Saturday, 04 April 2009 06:54 )

2 men charged in slayings Eunice Baah & Seth Aidoo at upscale Md community

Friday, 13 March 2009 06:24 MD News WTop

UPPER MARLBORO, Md.- Prince George's County police have arrested two men in the January killings of a Ghanaian immigrant and his pregnant girlfriend.

Last Updated ( Friday, 13 March 2009 11:28 )

Lawyer: How did Ghanaian health aide end up with $1.7M?

Tuesday, 10 March 2009 15:55 Erick Osei

The lawyer for the estate of a deceased Pequannock woman told a judge Thursday that he wants answers to how a home health aide and her husband obtained at least $1.7 mill...

Ghanaian charged in credit theft of equipment

Tuesday, 10 March 2009 05:31 Kathryn Gregory-WVgazzete

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Police arrested a man from Africa in Point Pleasant last week after he allegedly received nearly $6,000 in computer equipment purchased with a fake c...

Last Updated ( Tuesday, 10 March 2009 05:39 )

Charleroi(PA) man accused of check scheme, automatic weapons smuggling

Friday, 27 February 2009 05:52 Scott Beveridge - Observer Reporter

A Charleroi man whom police describe as an immigrant from Ghana was arrested Thursday following a seven-hour police standoff outside his home on accusations he orchestrat...

Last Updated ( Friday, 27 February 2009 06:03 )

Ghanaian shot dead in gangland execution on a busy street in suburbia

Wednesday, 25 February 2009 22:57 Mark Blunden and Robert Mendick-Evening Standard

A young man was shot dead in an execution-style killing as he walked along a suburban street.

Larry Safie, 25, who came to London from Ghana for a better life, was killed ...

Last Updated ( Wednesday, 25 February 2009 23:15 )

911 MAN WAS LEFT 'TO DIE'

Saturday, 21 February 2009 08:52 DOUGLAS MONTERO and JEANE MacINTOSH

A Bronx man who made a desperate 911 call for medical help was "abandoned" and left to die last year when emergency re sponders couldn't figure out how to get into his ap...

Last Updated ( Saturday, 21 February 2009 09:02 )

London Mortgage Broker Gets 4-Year Jail Term, FSA Ban

Monday, 16 February 2009 11:13 Caroline Binham - Bloomberg

Feb. 16 (Bloomberg) -- A London mortgage broker who sent the U.K.’s financial regulator a “bizarre handwritten letter from Ghana” in an effort to evade authorities was se...

Last Updated ( Monday, 16 February 2009 11:52 )

British woman raped on gap year work scheme in Ghana

Saturday, 14 February 2009 18:07 Mail Online

A British woman has been raped while working on a Government-funded gap-year scheme in Africa.

The woman was allegedly assaulted last week in a remote part of rural Ghana....

Last Updated ( Saturday, 14 February 2009 18:46 )

Ghana's rocket man

Wednesday, 11 February 2009 23:28 BBC

On the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth, BBC News asks one of Africa's pioneering scientists, Dr Ave Kludze, of the US space agency Nasa what inspired his stel...

Last Updated ( Thursday, 12 February 2009 13:44 )