Archive for August, 2010
Posted by Contributor on August 30, 2010 at 1:12 pm in Business, Other Business Stories
The Food and Agricultural Organisation’s office in Accra (FAO) has launched an international campaign against hunger in Ghana. Dubbed: “The One Billionhunngry Campaign”, the programme highlights the growing problem of global hunger, which now affects more than one billion people worldwide. The aim of the campaign is to act as a reminder to world leaders [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 1:03 pm in Business, News From Other Newspapers
On WEdnesday August 18, 2010 Kosmos Energy announced that its sale and Purchase Agreement (SPA) with ExxonMobil has been terminated. No reasons were given although Kosmos has since reaffirmed its intention to stay in Ghana for the foreseeable future and participate in the development and production of the commercial quantity oil that it discovered in [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 1:01 pm in Business, Insurance
Ghana Life Insurance Company, the longest existing indigenous Life Insurance Company in Ghana, has held a Brokers’ Forum at the Coconut Grove Regency Hotel in Accra. The forum, which was under the theme: ‘Group Life, The Needed Incentive’, attracted insurance experts, chief executives of some brokerage and insurance companies, stakeholders and players of the Life [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 1:00 pm in Environment, Local News
GNA – The Paramount Chief of the Bolgatanga Traditional Area, Naba Martin Adongo Abilba III has called on government to consider a pragmatic programme designed to factor in an effective water transport system to northern Ghana, under the Savannah Accelerated Development Programme. He suggested that the Volta Lake and its tributaries could be developed well [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 10:44 am in Top Story
The Kwesi Pratt-led Committee for Joint Action (CJA), a pressure group, was last Thursday at the Takoradi Zenith Hotel given a big jolt when residents in the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis snubbed a forum organised by the CJA at the hotel regardless of series of advertisements that heralded it.
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Posted by JAMES APPIAKORANG JNR on at 10:41 am in Top Story
The desire of two journalists in Kumasi to investigate allegations of abuse of office against the Mayor of Kumasi, Mr. Samuel Sarpong, turned sour as they were tongue-lashed by the mayor for daring to ‘interrogate’ him.
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Posted by Contributor on at 10:34 am in Other Top Stories
A member of the Legal Team of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC), David Annan, has disclosed that in one month’s time, the general public, most especially members of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), will get to know exactly how the NDC will cleanse the judiciary. The legal practitioner, however, stressed that that course [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 10:27 am in News From Other Newspapers, Politics
Aide to former president Jerry John Rawlings says former first lady, Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings is more than qualified to lead the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) to election 2012. Even though the 62 year old woman has not stated categorically whether she will contest or not, there is a supposition that she wants to. [...]
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