Archive for December, 2010

Nigeria getting it wrong again

Posted by on December 30, 2010 at 10:36 am in Feature Articles, Other Top Stories

“If a people stubbornly refuse to willingly choose a god as a guardian angel of their own choice unto themselves, then the devil will be choosing a god unto them” One thing that is very important of note is that nobody, West Africa or Africa as a whole, will like any self-appointed big brother to [...]

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DAE records 2 out of 2923 registered voters

Posted by on at 10:34 am in Other Top Stories

The District Assembly election (DAE) in the Ashanti Region which was scheduled for Wednesday December 29, 2010 recorded a low turnout according to reports. At the Great Hall Electoral Area located on the campus of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), only 2 people had voted as at 16:30 GMT when Focus [...]

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Ghana Athletics Association seeks Cuba/France assistance

Posted by on December 29, 2010 at 7:47 pm in Other Sports, Sports

Professor Francis Dodoo, President of the Ghana Athletics Association (GAA) says his outfit is seeking collaboration from Cuba and France with coaching experience to enhance the technical capacity of the discipline. He told GNA Sports that “we are in constant discussion with the federations in Cuba and France because they have great track record in [...]

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EC urged to wake-up to mandate

Posted by on at 7:42 pm in Other Top Stories, Politics

The Governance Africa Foundation (GAfF) a think-tank on Wednesday tasked democratic stakeholders to wake-up to their constitutional mandate to maintain the sanctity of Ghana’s electoral systems. It said the Electoral Commission (EC), National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE), the Media and other democratic institutions should join forces to manage the District Level and Unit Committee [...]

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Sunyani West Constituency threaten to sue EC

Posted by on at 7:39 pm in Other Top Stories, Politics

Fifty aspirants of the District Level and Unit Committee elections at Odumase in the Sunyani West Constituency, have threatened to sue the Electoral Commission (EC) if it fails to organise the polls on Thursday December 30. Mr Patrick Kwame Anokye Frimpong, one of the aspirants at Awuah Electoral Area and Spokesperson for the group issued [...]

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Oguaa women aspirants lose in DLE

Posted by on at 7:38 pm in Other Top Stories, Politics

The only two women out of the 131 candidates, who contested for assembly membership in the on-going District Level Elections in the Cape Coast Metropolis lost to their male counterparts in Tuesday’s elections. The Cape Coast Metropolitan Electoral Officer, Mr Anthony Nyame told the GNA in Cape Coast that the women vied for the Tsintsinhwe-Kotokuraba [...]

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Let’s Learn from Cote d’Ivoire election crisis – Nduom

Posted by on at 7:36 pm in Top Story

The 2008 presidential candidate of the People’s Conventions Party (CPP), Dr. Paa Kwesi Nduom, has appealed to Ghanaians to draw lessons from the Cote d’Ivoire election crisis and be thankful to God and appreciate their country.

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Ivorian crowd injure peacekeeper

Posted by on at 7:34 pm in Other Top Stories

A large crowd on Tuesday attacked a three-vehicle convoy of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Côte d’Ivoire in the commercial capital of Abidjan, slashing one soldier with a machete and setting one of the vehicles on fire. The attack happened in the Yopougon neighbourhood of Abidjan when the convoy carrying 22 soldiers of the [...]

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