Archive for December, 2009
Posted by Contributor on December 31, 2009 at 8:17 pm in Other Top Stories
GNA – Some school children in the Jirapa District have commended President John Atta Mills and the National Democratic Congress (NDC) government for initiating policies and programmes that are impacting positively on their welfare and development. The children mentioned the capitation grant, school feeding programme, the free school uniform and textbooks programmes and the construction [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 8:16 pm in Politics
GNA – Long-time Volta Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr Kenwuud Nuworsu, has won another four year term at the Party’s Regional Delegates Conference on Wednesday. This extends Mr Nuworsu’s mandate up to 2013 from 2001, when he stepped into that position as acting Regional Chairman and won subsequent elections into that [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 8:15 pm in Politics
GNA – The Ashanti Regional Chairman of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr Yaw Owusu Obimpeh, has urged the party’s supporters in the region to prevent petty squabbles and factionalism from eating it up. They should forge a united front and focus on preparations towards improving the party’s electoral performance in the 2012 polls. [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 8:15 pm in Local News
GNA – A child-focused non-governmental organisation (NGO), has called on government to step up efforts to ensure the survival, protection and development of children in the Upper West, Upper East and Northern regions (three northern regions). The Ghana Media Advocacy Programme (G-MAP) has also appealed to the authorities to expand the School Feeding Programme and [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 8:13 pm in Dinning and Wine, Other Top Stories
Article By: Bryony Whitehead Are you going large over the New Year’s weekend? Here are some awesome hangover cures, remedies and preventative methods that will have you back in the game and remembering New Year’s Eve with fondness rather than with mild nausea. The day after the night before… Liquid and loads of it — [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 8:12 pm in Other Top Stories
Source: Time.com Forget 2012. As far as many Mexicans are concerned, the ancient Mayas were being generous: the sky’s actually going to fall next year. Why? Because it’s 2010, Mexico’s bicentennial, and Mexican history has an eerie way of repeating itself. Mexico’s 1910 centennial, after all, saw the start of the bloody, decade-long Mexican Revolution, [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 8:11 pm in Other Top Stories
Who will win the World Cup? And can Roger Federer avoid the curse of Gillette? Kwame Nkrumah-Acheampong of Ghana How will Ghanaian skiier Kwame Nkrumah-Acheampong fare in the Vancouver Winter Olympics? Photograph: Mike Hewitt/Getty Images Sport loves new years – and new decades even more. New years appeal to sport’s sense of constant renewal, its [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 8:11 pm in Top Story
Revellers across the globe on Thursday prepared to ring in the New Year with fireworks and festivities under tight security after a narrowly-averted Christmas Day airline bomb plot in the United States.
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