Archive for February, 2010
Posted by Contributor on February 28, 2010 at 5:12 pm in Other Top Stories
GNA – Colonel Cyril Necku (Rtd), Deputy Volta Regional Minister at the weekend expressed concern at the slow pace at which work on the Regional Library Complex was progressing. He said the library complex started about six years ago, was “only 46 per cent complete denying the regional capital a well stocked library befitting its [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 5:09 pm in Other Top Stories
GNA- The ritual of killing innocent orphaned or disabled children perceived as demons or spirits in some communities in the Upper East Region is fading as a result sustained socio-economic interventions, Mr. Raymond Ayinne, a development activist, has said. “In an unfortunate instance of the death of a woman during delivery, the innocent child who [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 5:07 pm in Other Top Stories
GNA – Former President John Agyekum Kufuor, has underlined the need for the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to resist the emergence of personality cult in the party saying, it was not only alien to its tradition but a threat to its unity. “Personality cult would destroy our party and this must stop”, he said at [...]
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Posted by Contributor on February 27, 2010 at 2:21 pm in Business, Financial Institutions
GNA – Mr. Sam Garba, Administrator of the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund), on Friday said financial indiscipline was the major dilemma of the Fund. He said this when he appeared before the Public Accounts Committee of Parliament to be scrutinized on the disbursement of Fund for 2004 and 2005. He said there was so [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 2:17 pm in Local News, Other News
GNA – The Sekondi/Takoradi Metropolis is experiencing water rationing as a result of the drying up of River Pra and River Anakwa that supplied water to the treatment plants at Daboase and Inchaban. Mr. Mark Teiko Cudjoe, Production Manager of the Ghana Water Company Limited in charge of Western Region, said the water level of [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 2:12 pm in Other Top Stories
Hafiz Bin Salih, a representative of the Youth of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has just collapsed at the ongoing I5th National Delegates’ conference of the party in Kumasi, the Ashanti Regional Capital. The Former Minister for Chieftancy and Culture Rev. S.K Boafo had led the opening prayer for the commencement of the conference. The [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 2:09 pm in Football, Sports
The system for selling World Cup tickets in South Africa was too complicated and inaccessible to attract poor black soccer fans who are the biggest potential audience, a former top player said on Friday. John “Shoes” Moshoeu, who played in the national team that won the 1996 African Nations Cup, said poor South Africans did [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 2:02 pm in News From Other Newspapers
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has expressed concern about an Accra High Court’s conviction of the Ediotr of the Enquirer Newspaper, Mr Raymond Archer, for contempt of court. Mr Archer published a number of articles against a former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr Akwasi Adjei, while he was a Minister of State. “As much as [...]
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