Archive for April, 2010
Posted by Contributor on April 29, 2010 at 11:24 am in Editorial
The news that foreigners, precisely Ivorians, have taken over timber plantations and illegally felling trees at Enchi in the Western Region is very distressing. What makes the situation worse is the fact that some chiefs and opinion leaders within the Enchi Traditional area are abetting these Ivorians to engage in these illegal operations in our [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 11:20 am in Other Top Stories
The Ghana Baptist University College has committed GH¢500,000.00 for the construction of a four-storey block nursing school and health centre at the Abuakwa campus. Professor Edwin K. Wiredu, Chairman of the Governing Council of the college, performed the ground breaking ceremony for the construction work to start. The project includes lecture halls, children’s ward, demonstration [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 11:16 am in Other Top Stories
Some students at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) have called on authorities of the school to, as a matter of urgency, renovate various structures on the campus following a horrendous incident which led to the death of a student on Saturday April 24. The deceased, Miss Eva Agnes Adwoa Alodina, a [...]
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Posted by MAGDALENE SEY on at 11:14 am in Top Story
Chiefs in the Edina Traditional Area have given a one-week ultimatum to the Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) of Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abrem (KEEA) District, Rev Mrs Veronica Essuman Nelson, to explain to the traditional council why she halted the launching of this year’s Bakatue Festival at Benya Lagoon side, near Elmina, in the Central Region.
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Posted by MAGDALENE SEY on at 11:06 am in Top Story
A planning committee which was constituted by the Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) of the Winneba Municipality, Nii Ephraim, last Monday 26th April, 2010 to see to the peaceful organisation and celebration of this year’s Aboakyir Festival was met with massive protestation by some irate Winneba youth.
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Posted by JAMES APPIAKORANG JNR on at 11:03 am in Top Story
A Fast Track High Court in Kumasi has issued a Bench Warrant for the arrest of the former National Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Peter Mac Manu, and some eight others for contempt.
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Posted by Contributor on at 11:00 am in Letters To The Editor, Other Top Stories
Dear Editor, I have come to realize that the movie industry has been turned into a platform of money making for ‘hungry criminals.’ You don’t have to be angry if I call them hungry criminals because that is what they are, claiming to be movie directors, producers etc. extorting monies from desperate and innocent will-be [...]
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Posted by Contributor on April 28, 2010 at 1:51 pm in Education, Local News
Three students have been arrested in connection with violent clashes at the University of Cape Coast (UCC) campus last Sunday night, which left three students injured. The suspects are Daniel Turkson, level 300 student of Valco Hall, who allegedly acted as informant for students of Casely Hayford (Casford) Hall, Michael Selorm and Edem Adzraku, both [...]
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