Archive for February, 2011

Cholera outbreak: No cause for alarm — GHS

Posted by on February 25, 2011 at 12:28 pm in Health, Local News

STORY: GIFTY CLARKE AMOAH Ghana Health Services (GHS) has stressed the need for all stake holders to help government intensify education on cholera, which is now prevalent in most urban areas. Speaking at a public forum in Accra on Wednesday, the Director of Public Health Services, Dr. E.K. Dzotsi, outlined possible measures, which could be [...]

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‘Tertiary education is vital’

Posted by on at 12:27 pm in Education, Local News

STORY: BEATRICE DEDE ASIEDU A lecturer at the University of Ghana, Business School (UGBS), Dr. S.K. Buame, has reiterated that programs offered at the universities do not necessary mean that a graduate would be employed in that field after graduating. He explained that courses read at the various universities are meant to nurture students to [...]

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Japan NPP clears air on “all die be die” mantra

Posted by on at 12:26 pm in Other Top Stories, Politics

The Japan chapter of the New Patriotic Party has been compelled to set the records right by wading into the raging controversy and public debate on recent pronouncements by the 2012 NPP presidential candidate, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, that ‘All-Die-Be-Die,’ when he met party faithful in Koforidua in the Eastern region recently. NPP-Japan notes with [...]

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Berekuso Roads In bad state

Posted by on at 12:24 pm in Local News, Other Top Stories

It sits right on top of the hilly mountains of the Akuapim Traditional Area, playing host to an assortment of business and commercial interests and activities, but the chiefs and people of the area take little pride in the road network that virtually links them to the capital, Accra and other adjoining towns. For a [...]

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Will anybody justify coup d’etat against Mills today?

Posted by on at 12:23 pm in Editorial

Yesterday, Thursday, February 24, 1966 is exactly 45 years since Colonel Akwasi Amankwaah Afrifa and Colonel Emmanuel Komla Kotoka of the Ghana Armed Forces took up guns to overthrow our first Prime Minister/President, Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah. Those who lived in those times were observers of events before the overthrow and some among them, interestingly [...]

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SDA Headmaster Reacts To Food Poison Story

Posted by on at 12:23 pm in Education, Local News, Other Top Stories

I wish to state in unequivocal terms that the story put out there is malicious and an intent-to-defame story. [Though school authorities remained tight-lipped on the issue, some teachers of the school who spoke to the paper on condition of anonymity confided in this reporter that there have been several cases of the children being [...]

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12 Okada riders busted

Posted by on at 12:22 pm in Other Top Stories

The Accra-West Motor Traffic and Transport Unit at Odorkor last Wednesday managed to arrest twelve (12) Okada riders. The 12 have since been arraigned before court for trial. In an interview with Today, the Station Master, Inspector J. B. Nsab, contended that all the 12 riders have been charged under Road Traffic Act, 204, Section [...]

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IBM bolster schools’ technology in Ghana

Posted by on at 12:17 pm in Top Story

As it celebrates its Centennial, IBM on Friday announced that Ghana is the destination for its 100th team and 1,000th employee involved in the company’s Corporate Service Corps pro bono community service program.

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