Archive for June, 2009
Posted by Contributor on June 30, 2009 at 3:35 pm in News From Other Newspapers
A law lecturer at the Ghana School of Law has expressed shock over the unannounced destruction of structures at the streets of the Central Business District (CBD) of Accra. Abdul Basit told Joy News the destruction is inconsistent with messages sent out by government officials. The Mayor of Accra, Alfred Vanderpuije on assumption of [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 3:34 pm in Business, Other Business Stories
Millions of Ugandans have mobile phones but no internet A mobile-phone service has been set up in Uganda to give people weather forecasts, farming advice and health information through text messages. US internet firm Google and the Grameen Foundation charity set up the project, which they say will help ease poverty. Google says the [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 3:33 pm in Business, Other Business Stories
President Barack Obama As the US President, Barack Obama prepares to visit Ghana next month, comes a report that Africa faces competition for US capital in a highly competitive global market, but the Continent is also being seen by many American Business Executives as a market that cannot be ignored. The American Chamber [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 3:29 pm in News From Other Newspapers
Poisonous snakes have invaded the Yagaba-Kubori constituency of the Northern Region. Four people have so far died in the last few weeks from snake bites either on their farms or in their homes. Over a dozen others are currently on admission in hospitals in the area receiving medical attention, after having been bitten by [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 3:29 pm in Other Top Stories
Some members of pressure group Alliance for Accountable Governance, (AFAG) are calling for the application of appropriate legal actions, including impeachment to be taken against President John Evans Atta Mills. They say the president has subverted the constitution of the republic of Ghana by instructing the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Paul Tawiah [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 3:21 pm in Business, Other Business Stories
SilverBird Entertainment Ghana Limited Sunday hosted a section of Ghanaian business executives at their multiplex cinemas located at the Accra Mall. The event, which was highly patronized by many top-notch business executives in the country, introduced to them the attractive cinema advertising opportunities and the benefits advertisers stand to gain if they went [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 3:19 pm in News From Other Newspapers
The Alliance for Accountable Governance (AFAG) has called off its planned mass protest scheduled for July 2. The group says it will hold in its place a public forum to among other things, discuss the President’s interference with its planned demonstration. A planned mass protest by AFAG to protest government to consider an upward [...]
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