Archive for August, 2010

Asantehene opens Melcom

Posted by on August 31, 2010 at 3:55 pm in Business, Other Business Stories

The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu, has admonished chiefs to release lands to companies and people who would contribute to the socio-economic development of this nation and not to people with selfish inserts. Speaking at the grand opening of the 23rd branch of Melcom Group of Companies at Ahodwo in Kumasi, the Asantehene pledged his full [...]

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Women urged to live selfless lives

Posted by on at 3:54 pm in Local News, Other News

Madam Theresa Baah, the Brong Ahafo Regional Organiser of the Apostles Continuation Church International Women’s’ Fellowship (ACCIWF), has called on women to allow themselves to be used by the Holy Spirit to propagate the word of God to win more souls for Christ. Madam Theresa called on Christian women in the country to emulate the [...]

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Plan Ghana Donates To Prisons

Posted by on at 3:53 pm in Local News, Other News

STORY: ROSE AMI KPOGOH & SANDRA EFFAH JAYEE INTERNS Plan Ghana, a non-governmental organisation in Ghana, in collaboration with Child’s Right International (CRI) and Ghana National Collation of the Child, yesterday donated items worth GH¢40,000 to the Ghana Prisons Service. Other state agencies that benefited from the donation were the Domestic Violence and Victims Support [...]

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Can CPP win power again?

Posted by on at 3:51 pm in Top Story

There is a school of thought that believes that the pendulum of Ghana’s multi-party democracy is controlled by the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the National Democratic Congress (NDC).

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Campaign against hunger vital

Posted by on at 3:23 pm in Editorial

The Ghana unit of the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) last week launched an international campaign against hunger in Ghana. Dubbed: “The one billion hungry campaign,” the programme highlighted the growing problem of global hunger, which affects more than one billion people worldwide. The aim of the programme, according to the organizers, was to act [...]

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World Bank palm oil strategy is reckless, say NGOs

Posted by on at 3:16 pm in Business, Other Business Stories, Other Top Stories

In advance of a major international meeting about World Bank investments in palm oil, a consortium of indigenous peoples’, oil palm smallholders’, and non-governmental organisations is demanding the World Bank maintains its current freeze on funding the sector until it has a credible strategy to address the sector’s manifold problems. “The World Bank Group says [...]

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Commandos Invade Atiwa

Posted by on at 3:10 pm in Top Story

Today’s bye-election at the Atiwa Constituency in the Eastern Region offers a dress-rehearsal of an anticipated gruel that will not only offer a new definition to the NPP-NDC duopoly, but which of the two parties is well grilled in pure political thuggery as it has been their forte over the years.

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NPP unhappy with Tony Aidoo

Posted by on at 3:07 pm in Other Top Stories

NPP UK and Ireland condemns without reservation the continuous attacks on the Christian Faith by Dr Tony Aidoo and other elements in the NDC Press and in the Office of the President. We are deeply shocked that innocent men and women who are guaranteed freedom of speech and association to worship can be subjected to [...]

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