Archive for July, 2009
Posted by Contributor on July 31, 2009 at 12:08 pm in Business, Other Business Stories
Vodafone says the exercise will be fair Some 950 workers of Vodafone Ghana will be laid off in a compulsory redundancy programme. The lay-off to be implemented at the end of November will affect all departments and could also lead to the closure of non-core departments. This is different from the voluntary retirement package [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 11:12 am in Court News, Local News
A Nigerian Pastor who appeared before an Accra Circuit Court on Thursday declined to swear by the Bible. Pastor S. Ovia said he preferred to affirm in open court that he was going to produce Bertha Akosua Boatema, a trader who is accused of defrauding 36 persons of GH¢ 13,500.00 under the pretext [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 11:11 am in Court News, Local News
A lecturer based in the US, who was allegedly defrauded by Ms Anna Jane Ghartey, a magistrate of an amount of GH¢18,000.00, to sell a parcel of land to him, said he paid all the money to the accused. Professor Emmanuel Kwasi Adjaye, told an Accra Circuit Court on Tuesday that he paid all [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 11:01 am in Court News, Local News
The Office of the Attorney General (A-G) has directed the Police to conduct further investigations into the case involving two legal practitioners put before 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 [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 11:00 am in Health & Lifestyle, Other Stories
By Sue Shellenbarger Associated Press President Barack Obama, first lady Michelle Obama, fourth from left, and their daughters Sasha and Malia are escorted toward Air Force One for a trip to Russia, Italy and Ghana. Many readers were surprised when President Obama took his wife, kids and mother-in-law along on his [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 10:55 am in News From Other Newspapers
Before the Europeans set foot on this land, our traditional rulers had their own system of dealing with criminals in society. The chiefs served as judges and any one who committed an offence was brought before them for arbitration. The guilty party could in some cases be excommunicated from the traditional area, depending on the [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 10:52 am in Other Top Stories
GNA – Mrs Betty Mould-Iddrisu, Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, on Thursday urged intellectual property owners to make use of the law courts, to seek redress when their works are plagiarised instead of relying on the Copyright Office to remedy the situation. She made the call at a symposium organised by the [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 10:49 am in Education, Local News
Mr Samuel Ablakwa Okudzeto, Deputy Minister of Information, said on Thursday in Accra that more than 100,000 Senior High School (SHS) graduates idle at home annually, a trend that has to be reversed. “Indeed, Ghana faces a youth that is disengaged and lack the necessary skills, knowledge and disposition to participate in and [...]
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