Archive for October, 2010

Prez Mills summons security chiefs

Posted by on October 29, 2010 at 7:01 pm in Local News

President John Mills has summoned all his security chiefs and is currently locked up in a crunch meeting with them at the Castle, Osu. According to Citi News sources, the President will inspire and challenge the security heads to do more in reducing crime and as well, demand explanations for the recent happenings on the [...]

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Arms seized in Naija possibly for Hamas

Posted by on at 7:00 pm in Other Top Stories

A shipment of 13 containers of weapons, disguised as building materials and seized in the Nigerian port of Lagos, may have been on its way to Hamas in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli Ha’aretz daily reported, citing Israel defence officials.. The 13 containers, whose bill of lading listed construction materials, when opened on Tuesday was [...]

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VC bans hugging of female students

Posted by on at 6:58 pm in Health & Lifestyle, Other Stories

In line with the provision of the Islamic legal code, the Vice Chancellor of the Niger State government-owned Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University, Lapai, Professor Ibrahim Adamu Kolo, has outlawed hugging of female students in the university. Kolo said that anyone caught “embracing or hugging” any female students would be severely dealt with. The vice chancellor [...]

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Mills and Rawlings urged to resolve differences

Posted by on at 6:56 pm in Politics

The Tertiary Education Institutions Network (TEIN) of the NDC has appealed to ex-President Jerry John Rawlings and President John Evans Atta Mills to resolve any differences between them for the sake of the party. A statement signed by Dr David Sunu, President of the Greater Accra regional TEIN to the Ghana News Agency, reminded the [...]

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Mass rape on passenger bus report is false – Police

Posted by on at 6:55 pm in Other Top Stories

The Director of Public Affairs of the Ghana Police Service, Superintendent Kwesi Ofori has dismissed as false, reports that a gang of armed robbers attacked a Tamale bound bus and at gun point forced male passengers on the bus to rape their female colleagues. Speaking on the Citi Breakfast Show on Friday, October 29, Superintendent [...]

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Prez Mills declares war on crime

Posted by on at 6:53 pm in Other Top Stories

President John Evans Atta Mills has expressed utmost disgust at the recent spate of robbery cases in the country making special reference to the Tamale-Kintampo road incident during which some passengers were allegedly forced to have sex with each other, including a man and his daughter. The President met with his security chiefs on Friday, [...]

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Prez Mills Has Moral Right To Call For Cessation Of Political Insults – NPP MP

Posted by on at 6:48 pm in Politics

The NPP Member of Parliament (MP) for Okaikoi South, Nana Akomea, has categorically stated that President Mills has the moral standing and right to call for a cease fire on political insults in the country, since in his estimation, he has not been guilty of indulging in the practice. Commenting on the recent statement by [...]

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Okudjeto Ablakwa Condemns Footsoldiers

Posted by on at 6:47 pm in News From Other Newspapers, Politics

Deputy Minister of Information, Samuel Okudjeto Ablakwa has condemned the phenomenon of foot soldiers in Ghana’s body politic. Mr. Okudjeto who was delivering a lecture at The decade celebration of the University of Cape Coast House of Parliament Thursday on the theme, Mobilization of Ghanaian youth for nation building: The role of the tertiary student [...]

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