Archive for March, 2011
Posted by Contributor on March 30, 2011 at 9:12 am in Football, Other Top Stories, Sports
Ghana’s Asamoah Gyan scores against England during their international friendly football match at Wembley Stadium in London, March 29 2011. — Reuters pic LONDON, March 30 — Asamoah Gyan scored a superb last-minute equaliser to earn Ghana richly-deserved 1-1 draw with a second-string England in a memorable, all-action friendly at Wembley yesterday. Ghana’s 20,000 fans, [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 9:10 am in Football, Other Top Stories, Sports
credit: Mike Collett Asamoah Gyan said he wasn’t sure what he was doing before scoring his stunning equaliser for Ghana against England at Wembley — but wished he could have celebrated his “historic goal” with a dance afterwards. The 25-year-old striker, who moved to Sunderland after his outstanding performances for Ghana in last year’s World [...]
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Posted by Contributor on March 28, 2011 at 9:17 pm in Other Top Stories, Sports
During the international friendly with England, Ghana’s football team, the Black Stars, are to wear the United Nations’ new road safety Decade ‘Tag’, the official symbol for a 10 year effort to save millions of lives on the roads particularly in developing countries. In a joint initiative between the Ghana National Road Safety [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 1:33 pm in Business, Other Top Stories
Washington, DC — Hanna Tetteh has been Ghana’s minister for Trade and Industry and a senior advisor to President John Evans Atta Mills since February 2009. The country has recorded steady economic growth for the past decade. The Economist has included Ghana in its list of the top 10 fastest growing economies worldwide in 2011 [...]
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Posted by News Desk Report on at 1:21 pm in Business, Top Story
The U.S. Department of Commerce, with little fanfare but apparent significant effort to camouflage its actions, has decided to close its office in Ghana, citing budget cuts.
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Posted by Contributor on at 1:18 pm in Business, Other Business Stories
Trade And Industry Minister In Sheep’s Clothing Sierra Leone’s Minister of Trade and Industry, Dr. Richard Conteh has a lot of explanation to give his colleague ministers now that they know that he used an official government trip approved by Cabinet to engage in an unofficial and unapproved arrangement outside Cabinet assignment with Mr. Mike [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 1:15 pm in Business
credit: Amponsah, John The promoter of Monsanto-Cargill’s genetically modified crops is back at it again. This time his title and role seem to be slightly different but the message and the mission remain the same. I guess he is still on their payroll. This article is a response to an earlier one published on Ghanaweb [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 1:14 pm in Health & Lifestyle
A urologist at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, Dr J.E. Mensah, has cautioned the public, especially men, against the regular use of painkillers such as Ibuprofen and Aspirin because of their increased risk of causing erectile dysfunction. In an interview with the Daily Graphic in Accra on Saturday, Dr Mensah said “the side effects of the [...]
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