Archive for March, 2010
Posted by Contributor on March 31, 2010 at 12:27 pm in Business, Insurance
GNA – The management of Star Assurance Company Limited (SACL), would soon roll out customized insurance products to support large risks in the emerging oil and gas industry, Mr Kofi Duffuor, Managing Director of the company announced on Tuesday. Speaking at the company’s 25th anniversary celebrations in Accra, he said the company would shift [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 12:24 pm in Business, Other Business Stories
GNA – Economists have underscored the need for African countries to diversify and add value to export commodities to compete with the industrialised nations. They stressed that export-led-growth model was the optimal path to development especially for developing countries and called on most countries to improve their export competitiveness. The economists were [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 12:23 pm in Other Top Stories
STORY: EMELIA N. A. ARYEE AND CHARITY A. SACKITEY The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Oxygen Company of Ghana, Nana Kwadwo Duah, has emerged the winner of the British Council International Inaugural Award, which was organised last year to reward entrepreneurial spirits of Ghanaian youth. Mr Duah revealed this during a press conference held [...]
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Posted by George Appiah on at 12:22 pm in Top Story
Hot favourite in the New Patriotic Party (NPP) presidential nomination, Alan John Kwadwo Kyerematen on Tuesday set the Sege, Ada and Prampram townships alight with his infectious smile and pleasant personality.
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Posted by Contributor on at 12:19 pm in Education, Local News
GNA – The Mfantseman Municipal Chief Executive, Mr Henry Kweku Hayfron, has advised parents whose children are enjoying the School Feeding Programme (SFP) to provide them with breakfast before they leave for school. He said it was unacceptable for parents to deny their children breakfast just because they would be served with food at [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 12:19 pm in Local News, Other News
GNA – Dr. Henry Seidu Danaa, the Director of Research at the Ministry of Chieftaincy and Culture, has said for Ghana to attract foreign investors there was the need to codify all customary laws on land in the country. He said if that was done, foreigners would have the full knowledge and be [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 12:19 pm in Environment
GNA – Alhaji Collins Dauda, Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, has cautioned that government would punish any official who would be caught selling or releasing part of forest reserve for illegal farming and small-scale mining. He said government was committed to protecting the country’s forest resources and called on the people to support [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 12:18 pm in Local, Other Top Stories, Politics
GNA – Mr Walter Blege, President of the E.P. University College, on Tuesday called for an amendment of the 1992 Constitution to enable government to swiftly intervene in chieftaincy conflicts. Delivering an address at a day’s workshop on "Chieftaincy Disputes/Conflicts – A major setback to national development," in Ho, he said even though the Constitution [...]
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