Archive for November, 2010

CECON donates to accident victims

Posted by on November 30, 2010 at 9:42 am in Local News

STORY: CHARITY A. SACKITEY As part of its corporate responsibilities, Challenge Entrepreneurship and Cooperate Network (CECON), a non-governmental organisation, has donated items worth GH¢500 to the 37 Military Hospital in Accra. The organisation and also promised to help educate drivers and other road users to ensure an accident-free Christmas. The items- which included toiletries, detergents [...]

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Child rights is NDC’s priority – Dep. Women’s Organiser

Posted by on at 9:40 am in Local News, Politics

STORY: CHARITY A. SACKITEY A deputy National Women’s Organiser of the National Democratic Congress- NDC, Hajia Zaynab Joyce Mahama, has stressed government’s preparedness to support actions aimed at protecting rights of children in the country. Speaking to Today, Hajia Zaynab said the Mills administration is doing all it can to uphold the Constitution and also [...]

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EPA, what next after AKOBEN?

Posted by on at 9:39 am in Editorial

Ghanaians were very much startled by the findings of a recent Environmental Protection Agency- EPA’s report that was made public last week. The report dubbed: AKOBEN, which has evolved through various stages, “is an environmental performance rating disclosure” of EPA. AKOBEN enables EPA to assess the environmental performance of mining and manufacturing companies in the [...]

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Papaye rewards brilliant pupils

Posted by on at 9:38 am in Business, Other Business Stories

As part of its corporate social responsibilities, Papaye Fast Foods, the house hold name in tasty and lip smacking dishes, last week rewarded a total number of 810 brilliant pupils who excelled academically in their end of term examinations to motivate them to study hard. The beneficiaries were selected from 30 basic schools in the [...]

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PLOT TO KILL VOLTA CHIEF

Posted by on at 9:37 am in Top Story

The managing director of African Royal Beach Hotel, located at Nungua, Accra, has been arrested by the police.

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Health Minister Turns Dancer

Posted by on at 9:35 am in News From Other Newspapers, Other Top Stories

It has become evident that the Evans Atta Mills-led government cannot and would not fulfill its promise to run a one-time premium payment for the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS). Minister for Health, Dr. Benjamin Kumbuor, has himself confessed that though he is under pressure from government to tell Ghanaians the onetime premium payment would [...]

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There are many more questions than answers.

Posted by on at 9:34 am in Feature Articles, Other Top Stories

Preamble: Whoever sent his son up the palm to gather nuts will take an axe to fell the tree? A god that demands the sacrifice of a chick might raise it to a goat if you went to ask a second time. If the rat cannot flee fast enough, let it make way for the [...]

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DUTCH MAN BUSTED…For murder plot of chief

Posted by on November 29, 2010 at 1:49 pm in Lead Stories

The managing director of African Royal Beach Hotel, located at Nungua, Accra, has been arrested by the police. John Wubbeling- who is a Dutch national- was arrested in connection with his alleged assassination plot attempt on the life of King Arthur Paes, the Progressive Chief of Somey in the Volta Region. Investigations by Today unfolded [...]

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