Archive for June, 2009

Relocate major bus terminals, markets — Ashitey

Posted by on June 30, 2009 at 10:38 am in Local News, Other News

Mr Nii Armah Ashitey, Greater Accra Regional Minister, on Monday said the more sustainable way of decongesting the city was to relocate the numerous bus terminals and major food markets out of the city centre. “I am of the firm belief that the removal of traders alone from the streets will not solve the problems [...]

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AG takes over case of forgery against lawyers

Posted by on at 10:37 am in Other Top Stories

The Office of the Attorney General has taken over the case involving two legal practitioners standing trial at an Accra Circuit Court for forgery and fraud. The two, Joseph Kwame Owusu Asamani and Ekow Amua-Sekyi, are jointly charged for conspiracy, forging judicial service writ of summons, deed of assignment documents and uttering forged documents. They [...]

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Police refute claims of assault

Posted by on at 10:35 am in Other Top Stories

Chief Inspector Thomas Adu, one of the six policemen and five others, charged for robbing a Ghanaian businessman of 53,000 dollars and other personal effects at a Dzorwulu Hotel, on Monday denied claims by the complainant, Mr Kweku Duah that he was assaulted by the police until he bled. He said he was ordered by [...]

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Embark on demonstrations – President Mills

Posted by on at 10:34 am in Other Top Stories

President John Evans Atta Mills has instructed the Inspector General of Police, Mr Paul Tawiah Quaye, to provide all groups wishing to embark on demonstration or protest march with all the necessary security and logistical support to do so. The order from the president followed reports that a grouping of pro-opposition NPP supporters, Alliance for [...]

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President Mills to visit Libya

Posted by on at 10:33 am in Other Top Stories

President John Evans Atta Mills would be absent from Ghana from Monday, June 29 to Saturday July 4, to attend the 11th Summit of the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) and the 13th Summit of Heads of State and Government of the African Union in Sirte, Libya. President Mills would make a brief statement at [...]

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Forty per cent of Assembly’s Budget to be used to revamp education

Posted by on at 10:30 am in Local, Politics

Mr. Daniel Appau Ohyeaman, Asante-Mampong Municipal Chief Executive (MCE), has said 40 per cent of the assembly’s development budget would be used to revamp education in the municipality. He also mentioned the need to resource the Non Formal Education Division of the Ministry of Education (MOE) in the Municipality to help reduce the high level [...]

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NPP should elect Nana Akufo Addo as party’s flagbearer- Mr Nyarko

Posted by on at 10:29 am in Local, Politics

The Vice- Constituency Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) for Mfantseman West, has suggested the need for the party hierarchy to present only two presidential candidates, during the upcoming National Delegates Congress. Mr. Felix Nyarko, who made the suggestion, said Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo should be made the party’s flagbearer by popular acclamation, [...]

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DCE’s urged to eschew self-aggrandizement

Posted by on at 10:29 am in Local, Politics

Alhaji Gado Sulemana, a leading member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in Kumasi, on Monday appealed to District Chief Executives (DCE) to eschew self-aggrandizement in the discharge of their duties. He said this was very crucial because such behaviour or attitude could lead them to make certain promises they would not be able to [...]

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