Archive for August, 2010
Posted by Contributor on August 30, 2010 at 10:27 am in News From Other Newspapers, Politics
Special intelligence report on the performance of ministers of the then ruling NPP’s first term in government showed that Nana Akufo-Addo performed below expectations and scored a woeful C, forcing former President Kufuor to remove him from the office of Attorney General and Minister for Justice. The report, carried out at the early stages of [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 10:26 am in News From Other Newspapers, Politics
Atiwa constituency by-election which would have been a perfect setting for the two main political parties in the country – the NDC and the NPP – to test their supreme standing for the 2012 Presidential and Parliamentary elections, is passing without the active participation of the two surviving ex-presidents Flt. Lt. Jerry John Rawlings and [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 10:25 am in Other Top Stories
President John Evans Atta Mills has said the government will proceed cautious and safeguard revenue from the country’s oil resources from what he describes as “vampires” who want to deny the broad masses of people improved standards of living. Addressing a large section of Ghanaian communities in Bern in Switzerland, President Mills described those who [...]
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Posted by Contributor on August 28, 2010 at 8:57 pm in Business
… by S&P on Deficit, Oil-Regulation Concerns Ghana’s sovereign rating was reduced by Standard & Poor’s, placing it on par with Kenya, Sri Lanka and Bolivia, because of concerns about large fiscal deficits and a lack of clarity on oil-industry laws. The West African nation’s rating was lowered to B, five steps below investment grade, [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 8:49 pm in News From Other Newspapers, Politics
The Deputy General Secretary of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr. Kofi Adams has dared Justice Anthony Oppong to go back and preside over the Ya-Na murder trial if he knows his hands are “clean” over the recent accusations of biased levelled against. Justice Oppong sitting on the murder case of the late overload [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 8:33 pm in Other Top Stories
The Ministry of Employment and Social Welfare has denied alleged plots to smear human excreta around the offices of the Civil and local Government Staff Association (CLOGSAG). Members of the Association have accused the sector Minister, Hon Enoch Teye Mensah of plotting to desecrate the Association’s offices with Human excreta. This follows days of street [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 8:32 pm in Business, Other Business Stories
Article By: Jannie Rossouw (Sanlam Cobalt) Two strategies to consider in order to increase your volume of business are diversification and the forming of strategic associations. Diversification Diversification aims to increase profitability by increasing the volume of sales by offering new products (read also services) to new markets. There are three types of diversification: 1. [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 8:28 pm in Football, Other Top Stories, Sports
Article By:iafrica.com Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has hit back over Arsene Wenger’s taunt about the “dark side” of Paul Scholes. At a time when the football world has been eulogising over the abilities of a 35-year-old who turned his back on England after Euro 2004, Wenger, while adding to the praise for Scholes, [...]
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