Archive for February, 2011

Rodolfo Zapata may be Fair Point FC new coach

Posted by on February 28, 2011 at 11:14 am in Football, Sports

Fair Point FC (Ghana) see coach Rodolfo Zapata as a candidate to be their next manager. “We are close to an agreement and the result may be in the near future” said Palmer Ofori, one of Zapata’s agents. “I love the challenge of building winners team every year” Rodolfo Zapata said. He already has experience [...]

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Markets experience different commodity price pattern

Posted by on at 11:09 am in Business, Other Top Stories

Covered markets by Esoko witnessed varying degrees of commodity price movements in the week ending February 25. Whereas some commodities enjoyed massive price drops, others enjoyed worrying levels of increases. Wheat prices continued the upward swings we reported the previous week, closing the week under review at an average wholesale per kilo price of GHC2.19, [...]

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Arsenal 1 – 2 Birmingham

Posted by on at 11:06 am in Football, Sports

Obafemi Martins pounced on a calamitous Arsenal defensive mix-up two minutes from time as Birmingham City claimed their first major silverware since 1963 by winning the Carling Cup at Wembley. Martins, on loan from Rubin Kazan, took advantage of a fatal communication breakdown between Gunners goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny and defender Laurent Koscielny to strike the [...]

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2 PNC IMC members languishing in police cells

Posted by on at 11:02 am in Politics

Baba Gana Seidu and Ahmed Gado, two members of the disputed Interim Management Committee of the People’s National Convention who were arrested by the Police last Thursday are still in police custody. The two were picked up after an Accra district magistrate court revoked a bail granted them. The two reportedly flouted a court order [...]

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Ashanti region NPP pledge transparent parliamentary primaries

Posted by on at 11:01 am in Politics

The Ashanti Regional and constituency executives of the opposition New Patriotic Party have resolved to bury their differences as they prepare for the party’s parliamentary primaries. Nominations for the April primaries are opening today and the executives believe the party needs a united front more than ever to ensure only winnable candidates who will bring [...]

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Loan facility on Western, Central rail lines before cabinet soon

Posted by on at 10:56 am in Business, Other Business Stories

The Minister of Transport, Collins Dauda says a loan agreement to provide funds for the reactivation of the existing rail network will soon be placed before cabinet for consideration. According to him, the project should result in a major transformation of the road-transport-dominated sector which is over-burdened because of the virtual collapse of the rail [...]

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Kwesi Pratt is a hypocrite – CPP group

Posted by on at 10:48 am in Top Story

The Former Tertiary Heads and Associates of Teschart of the CPP, has criticised a member of the party for his statement made concerning power jostling .

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The Fatalism of Muammar al-Gaddafi

Posted by on at 10:43 am in Feature Articles, Other Top Stories

The February 2011 major political protests that broke out in Libya against Muammar Gaddafi’s government – inspired by recent similar events in Tunisia and Egypt – reveal not only the artificiality of Gaddafi’s Libya but also the irrationalities and superstitions that have been running the country for the past 42 years. No doubt, over the [...]

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