Ghana Association of the Blind eyes joint business enterprises

Mr Wilson Anku, Volta Regional President of the Ghana Association of the Blind, on Thursday urged its members to engage in joint business enterprises to attract financial support. Mr Anku was addressing a delegates’ meeting of the Ho Municipal branch of the Association on the theme: “2009, an action year for the implementation of the [...]

Ahantaman prepares to receive head of slain King.

The Ahanta Traditional council in the Western Region has began feverish preparations to receive the head  of the late King Otumfo Badu Bonsu II, which had been in the Netherlands for the past 171 years.      Members of the council held an emergency meeting on Wednesday at Busua, the traditional capital, to deliberate on an [...]

EPL Gossip Corner

1208: Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp says he is still interested in signing Real Madrid striker Klaas-Jan Huntelaar, but any move for the Dutch international will depend on Darren bent leaving White Hart Lane. (Press Association) 1148: Bayern Munich rejected Real Madrid’s offer of 80m euros (about £68m) for French winger Franck Ribery. (L’Equipe) 1048 BST: [...]

Zimbabwe/Ghana: Letter From Accra

by: Augustine Hwata FIFA instructor Ben Kouffie believes Zimbabwe is blessed with rich football talent, but administrative shortcomings – which date back to the time when he was the Warriors coach – have hampered the senior national team’s transformation into a powerhouse on the continent. The Ghanaian coach was in charge of the Warriors’ failed [...]

  By: Davidson Iriekpen and Ejiofor Alike Ghanaian Deputy Minister for Energy, Dr. Kwabena Donkor yesterday said if Nigeria wants to tackle the problem of erratic power supply it must show seriousness by separating electricity from partisan politics and make it a national priority. Speaking in Lagos at the 5th annual lecture of Aelex law [...]

Former Minister, Deputy Took Ghana @ 50 Clothes for Free

  By: Charles Takyi-Boadu Questions have started emerging about the ‘strange’ circumstance under which the Director of the Eastern Regional Coordinating Council (ERCC) shared eight bales of Ghana @ 50 cloths among the then Regional Minister, his Deputy and the staff of the Coordinating Council. This came up at the ongoing Ghana @ 50 probe [...]

Investigate Country at 50 Celebrations, Pressure Group tells President Mills

  Issah Alhassan –Chronicle A pressure group in Kumasi, Democracy and Freedom Alliance (DFA), has urged President Mills to give true meaning to probity and accountability, by setting up a commission of enquiry to investigate the country’s 40th Anniversary celebration, which was held in the year 1997, under the previous reign of the National Democratic [...]

DI Calls for a Maximum of Five Presidential Aspirants for NPP, Not Three

  By: Asare Gabby Otchere-Darko   The Danquah Institute (DI) has followed with keen interest the constitutional reform proposals that will be put before the National Conference of the New Patriotic Party at their extraordinary conference to take place in August and we are of the view that the decision to limit the number of [...]