The word “profession” according to Webster’s Night New Collegiate Dictionary is “a calling requiring specialised knowledge and often long and intensive academic preparation.”   The Oxford Advance Learner’s Dictionary also defined “profession” as “a type of job that needs special training or skill especially that needs a high level of education.” One would agree that there are several... 

Exclusive: New Iranian Commando Team Operating Near US   Many people believe the latest round of sanctions against Iran constitute an 'act of war' (Tehran, FNA) The Fars News Agency has confirmed with the Republican Guard’s North American Operations Command that a new elite Iranian commando team is operating in the US-Mexican border region. The primary day-to-day mission of the... 

Awesome universe EVERY morning is a miracle. Deep inside the morning sun, hydrogen is being fused into helium at temperatures of millions of degrees. X rays and gamma rays of incredible violence are pouring out of the core into the surrounding layers of the sun. If the sun were transparent, these rays would blast their way to the surface in a few searing seconds. Instead, they begin to bounce from... 

The US embassy has been conducting 'outreach' with mosques, such as London's Finsbury Park mosque  As the presidential campaign begins in earnest, Republican contenders are stirring up racial animosities: Newt Gingrich calls President Obama a “foodstamp president”, and demands a federal law to preempt sharia; Santorum makes derogatory remarks about “blah” people... 

The Ga-Adangbe are an ethnic group in Ghana. It is part of the Dangme ethnic group. The Ga people are grouped as part of the Ga–Dangme ethnolinguistic group. They speak Kwa languages   The Ga-Adangbe people inhabit mostly the Greater Accra Plains. Some are found in the Eastern Region at Akuse, Somanya, Dodowa, Akwapim, Akwamu and surrounding areas in Ghana. Others live in the Anecho area in... 

The birth of the 'Bills Gates of Africa' Known by many as Africa’s “father of technology,” software pioneer Herman Chinery-Hesse has been spawning innovations for two decades, helping to break down tech barriers between the continent and the rest of the world. The Ghanaian innovator and visionary founded SOFTtribe in 1991, one of the largest and most successful software... 

AUTHOR: NAJLA ABDURRAHMAN Iranian nuclear scientist Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan's killing was 'a cold-blooded act of terror' On a recent trip to Libya, I was staying at the Corinthia Hotel in Tripoli at the same time that Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir was meeting with members of Libya’s transitional council in the same hotel. Like many other Libyans I spoke with during the course... 

AUTHOR: DANNY SCHECHTER  Protesters took to the streets across Nigeria after government removed fuel sudsidies on January 1 Even as the Occupy movement recedes in size, if not in activism, in the global North, it has, to its own surprise, opened up a new front in Africa’s most populous country, Nigeria – where tens of thousands have occupied and paralysed the economy in a protest against... 

ARTICLE: KOFI BAAH-BENTUM        It is a normal working day and as I meander through heavy traffic to get to work, I am also listening to one of the legion of radio morning shows that inundate our air waves every morning. It is the phone in segment and this is what transpires between the host of the programme and a caller. “Hello, hello, my name is Ali Baba.” “Yes Ali, how are you today... 

Koku Anyidoho The Director of Communications at the Presidency, Koku Anyidoho is sending a strong signal to all Ghanaians that President Mills will not hesitate to crack the whip where necessary and that “nobody takes the president for granted”. According to him, President Mills has the mandate of Ghanaians to take the affairs of the country and better the lives of the people so anyone who misbehaves...