Archive for March, 2009

Ex-Factory Prices Up to 12.27 Percent

Posted by on March 30, 2009 at 6:25 pm in Business

  Masahudu Ankiilu Kumateh Statistics released by the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) showed that Ghana’s annual percentage change in the Producer Price Index (PPI), (that is percentage change for all industry, between February 2008 and February 2009), which measures inflation in prices of goods at ex-factory recorded 12.27% in February 2009 as against 11.19% in [...]

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Veep Lauds BOG for Introducing Electronic Payments

Posted by on at 6:16 pm in News From Other Newspapers

  Chris Twum The Vice President, Mr. John Mahama, has commended Bank of Ghana (BoG) for introducing a common platform for electronic payments and transactions through e-Zwich into the country. Mr. Mahama said the use of any electronic transaction as a common platform for financial sector would reduce the need for cash as well as [...]

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Student stabbed to death over girl

Posted by on at 5:43 pm in Local News

    A student in his late 20s has been murdered in cold blood over a girl on Monday morning. He was stabbed in his lower abdomen at his residence at Abora, a suburb of Cape Coast in the Central Region. The boy, name withheld, a student of a private school in Cape Coast, was [...]

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Ghana-Togo row over gate proceeds

Posted by on at 5:42 pm in Sports

    Refurbished Ohene Djan Sports Stadium The Togo Football Federation (TFF) is demanding a GH¢ 40,000 refund of gate proceeds allegedly deducted by the Ghana National Sports Council after the Hawks of Togo stunned the Lions of Cameroon by a lone goal at the Ohene Gyan Stadium in Accra. The Sports Council deducted the [...]

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Vice President Office refutes allegation

Posted by on at 4:53 pm in Top Story

…Mahama does not own a gun
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An aide to the Vice President John Jinapor has refuted media publication that Vice President John Mahama pulled a gun at former President Rawlings at the castle after the two engaged in some brawl two weeks ago

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Former President Rawlings attacks President Mills

Posted by on at 4:34 pm in Other Top Stories

Former President Jerry John Rawlings says he is not happy with the way President John Mills is running the country. According to him the National Democratic Congress (NDC) is not asserting itself as the ruling party thereby allowing the opposition to undermine its authority. He says President Mills has failed to deliver on his promise [...]

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‘It will be wrong to retrieve items from former Speaker’ – Bagbin

Posted by on at 4:27 pm in Other Top Stories

  Majority Leader, Alban Bagbin The Majority Leader of Parliament, Alban Sumani Bagbin, says it would be improper to retrieve state property taken away by the former Speaker of the House from his official residence. He said Mr. Begyina Sekyi-Hughes at best could be made to pay for the items. The former Speaker took away [...]

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LETTER: TO PRESIDENT MILLS

Posted by on at 2:15 pm in Other Top Stories

  Hello your Excellency, I presume you are fine as I am here in my small crib. I have always harbored the feeling and perception that you contain some inherent degree of charisma and “venom” and I feared you could display it outwardly when the need be. Your Excellency, you would recall that the statesman [...]

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