Archive for March, 2009
Posted by Contributor on March 31, 2009 at 9:45 am in Business
Management of Sethi Brothers Ghana Limited on Monday presented two Mitsubishi Lancer Saloon cars valued at 40,000 dollars to two of its loyal customers. The recipients, China Railways Wuju Group Corporation and M. Barbissoti and Sons Ghana Limited were awarded for being the overall best purchasers in the “Sethi Steel – Always a Winner [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 9:44 am in Education
Professor Stephen Bugu Kendie, a Lecturer at University of Cape Coast has called on university authorities to advocate for a Presidential Special Initiative (PSI) on Education. He said countries that had attained middle income status did so through concentrated attention to human resources development. Professor Kendie made the call when addressing a durbar [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 9:43 am in Politics
President John Evans Atta Mills, at a historic meeting with Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, in Accra, on Monday, restated Government’s commitment to be guided by the interest and improvement in the lives of the people. He underscored a good collaboration between state and traditional rulers, stressing the setting of the right priorities to [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 9:39 am in Business
Management of Vodafone Ghana has began establishing community SIM phone booths in rural and peri-urban communities nation-wide under its “Access to Communications†programme, as part of its contribution to the development of local communities. It has also installed many of those phone booths in several second-cycle schools to facilitate easy communication between students, [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 9:38 am in Business
The main index of the Accra Bourse made a rare gain this year in trading on Monday, gaining 8.51 points on the back of CAL Bank. The GSE All-Share Index, the benchmark measure of performance of the Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE), closed the session at 9,247.17 points 9,238.66 points on Friday. Change for the [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 9:37 am in Politics
Former President Jerry John Rawlings, saying he was concerned by the “slow pace of things†in the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC), said on Monday that the party needed to be more assertive and “show the people that they were elected into powerâ€. He said the NDC government had allowed people “we don’t [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 9:36 am in Politics
Mr Mark Wayongo, Upper East Regional Minister, has called on Ghanaians, especially those in the opposition parties, to stop what he termed the "pull him down" syndrome and help push the nation’s developmental agenda forward. He made the call during a victory rally organized by members of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 9:28 am in Health
The West African sub-region is expected to have a youth-led initiative geared towards supporting the 44 African nations that signed the historic declaration in Abuja in 2000 to scale malaria cases down to 50 per cent by year 2010 and near zero deaths by 2015. A youth led NGO, Volunteer Partnerships for West Africa [...]
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