Archive for May, 2009
Posted by Contributor on May 30, 2009 at 1:18 pm in Education, Local News
Over 600 children from four deprived primary schools in the Effutu Municipality have benefited from a four-day programme to improve their reading skills and ability. The programme was undertaken by the Ghana Library Board in collaboration with the America Embassy in Ghana. The schools are Essuekyir Methodist Primary, African Christian Mission Primary, Ansanrudeem Islamic Primary [...]
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Posted by GNA on at 1:16 pm in Business, Other Business Stories
The Kantamanto Traders Association has appealed to the government to stop the Ghana Railways Corporation (GRC) from leasing lands at the Accra Railway Station to individuals. Speaking to the Ghana News Agency in Accra, the Chairman of the Association, Mr. Samuel Amoah, said the Association leased two plots of land from the GRC in 1998 [...]
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Posted by GNA on at 1:15 pm in Other Top Stories
President John Evans Atta Mills on Friday stated that his administration would not renege on any of the promises it made during the electioneering campaigns and urged the people to exercise restraint as everything was orderly placed. “Now we have made a change and we shall move forward, whatever promise that we made during our [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 1:14 pm in Other Top Stories
Participants at a day’s forum on the ECOWAS Protocol on the free movement of people and goods have criticized sub regional border officials for harassment and extortions in contravention of the ECOWAS agenda. This and lack of political will by regional leaders, the participants contended, are the burdens that must be off-loaded towards the realization [...]
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Posted by Stephen Darko on at 1:13 pm in Other Top Stories
…After meeting President Mills. Hours after President John Evans Atta Mills, met with leaders of the Mamprusi and Kousasi traditional groups at Boligatanga on a peace plan amongst the two feuding factions, gun shots were heard. Alhaji Guma, spokesperson for the Bawku Naba, Asigri Abugrago Azoka confirming the shooting incidence on Asempa Fm, an Accra [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 1:00 pm in Other Top Stories
At a time when it seems the mass exit of nurses in Ghana to seek better opportunities elsewhere is being clogged, many nurses pursuing further education at the universities are threatening to leave the profession. “After my degree, I am not going back, it’s a forgone deal,” says one of the nurses, “I have no [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 12:58 pm in Other Top Stories
What was expected to be a peaceful demonstration by women’s groups in protest at the apparent failure of President John Evans Atta Mills to honour his campaign promise to allot 40 percent of public appointments to women failed to take off. Public Agenda has gathered that the demonstration was aborted due to intense lobbying behind [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 12:56 pm in Other Top Stories
The Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) and the Customs, Excise and Preventive Service (CEPS) on Wednesday snubbed a stakeholders press briefing on the ECOWAS Protocol on Free Movement to avoid questions from the media regarding allegations of illegal collection of monies at the country’s borders. It came to light at the event that while it was [...]
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