Archive for March, 2009
Posted by Contributor 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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Posted by Contributor 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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Posted by Contributor 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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Posted by Contributor 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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Posted by Contributor on at 4:53 pm in Top Story
…Mahama does not own a gun

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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Posted by Contributor 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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Posted by Contributor 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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Posted by Contributor 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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