Archive for January, 2009

Rear Admiral Nuno, Acting Chief of Defence Staff

Posted by on January 28, 2009 at 8:05 pm in Profiles

Rear Admiral Nuno, Chief of Naval Staff, who has been named as the Acting Chief of Defence Staff on Monday was commissioned into the Ghana Navy, Executive Branch on November 14, 1970. Rear Admiral Nuno’s military training and qualifications include an Anti-Submarine Warfare Course in the United Kingdom from February to May 1974, Long Torpedo [...]

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MOFA, Libya Government to help boost agriculture in the North

Posted by on at 8:03 pm in Business

The Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MOFA), in collaboration with the Libyan Government, is providing free tractor services to farmers in the Northern Region to help boost agricultural production.    The project was initiated by President Muamar Gaddafi of Libya, in fulfilment of a promise he made in Cotonou, Benin in July last year that [...]

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Cedi weakens by 21.60%, the worst since redenomination

Posted by on at 8:01 pm in Business

  The Ghana cedi overwhelming decline against the major currency since Monday, has seen the local currency weakened to a level of 121.60 points, the worst since the redenomination exercise.     Mr Collins Appiah, Head of Research at the Gold Coast Securities (GCS) told the Ghana News Agency on Wednesday following the company’s analysis of [...]

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Four NDC supporters granted bail for alleged assault

Posted by on at 7:57 pm in Local News

A Goaso magistrate court in Asunafo North District of Brong Ahafo, has granted GH¢300 bail each to four supporters of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), who allegedly assaulted a New Patriotic Party (NPP) supporter.     Sumaila Ishak, Adams Yakubu, Shaibu Ali and Kwabena Kontor pleaded not guilty to the charge of assault and would reappear on [...]

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First Africa meeting on conservation biology opens

Posted by on at 7:56 pm in Science

  Professor Fredrick K. Rodrigues, Dean, Faculty of Science of the University of Ghana, on Wednesday called for a new partnership to utilize and manage the natural resource base of the continent.     He said the partnership should offer opportunities of experience sharing, building of consensus and capacity whilst working with the communities.    Speaking at the [...]

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President asked to be firm in taking decisions

Posted by on at 7:55 pm in Politics

Alhaji Alhassan Oppong, a member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) at Nkoranza, has urged President Evans Atta Mills to remain firm in taking decisions that would promote national development.     At a special prayer session, organised for President Mills at Kranka in Nkoranza North District, Alhaji Oppong advised the President not to be worried about [...]

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Ghanaian to participate in Film festival in Berlin

Posted by on at 7:54 pm in Entertainment

Mr. Anthony Prince Tomety, a staff at the Design Department of the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC), has been selected to represent Ghana in the Berlinale Talent Campus 2009 in Berlin.    Tomety, who attended NAFTI, was invited to participate in the Berlinale Talent Campus by the Federal government of Germany, a statement issued by the German [...]

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Why Waste Time Thanking God?

Posted by on at 7:53 pm in Feature Articles

A GNA News Feature by Boakye-Dankwa Boadi The decision of President John Evans Atta Mills to consult with the Leadership of the Ghanaian religious organisations to observe Sunday February 1 2009 as national day of prayer and thanksgiving struck a harmonious note in some ears while others rather heard a dissonance.      The GNA reported: [...]

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