Archive for June, 2011
Posted by Contributor on June 29, 2011 at 12:40 pm in Feature Articles
Columnist: Kanduri, Moses In recent years, the backing of entrepreneurship as a possible source of job creation, empowerment and economic dynamism in a rapidly globalizing world has attracted increasing policy and scholarly attention. However, despite this attention, there has been no systematic attempt to look at it from a youth angle. The tendency has been [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 12:38 pm in Other Top Stories, Politics
Recent World Food Prize winner and former President John Agyekum Kufuor has stated that Ghanaians should assess the Mills-led administration constructively and let their decisions reflect in the outcome of the 2012 General Elections. In an exclusive interview with Joy FM’s Super Morning Show host Kojo Oppong Nkrumah on a wide array of issues, the [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 12:31 pm in Politics
GNA – Dr Ziblim Iddi, a Lecturer at the Political Science Department, University of Ghana, on Tuesday asked political parties to be active and vibrant, to give meaning to the special role reserved for parties under the 1992 Constitution of Ghana. He said the current situation in which some political parties submerge after General Elections [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 12:30 pm in Local News
Through a leadership class, students assist African Einstein Initiative By Whitney Bryen University of Colorado business student Shaun Elley is heading back to Boulder today with an internship already lined up for the fall. Last fall, Elley’s Critical Leadership Skills class worked with nonprofit African Einstein Initiative, which aids education in Ghana. After taking a [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 12:23 pm in Business
By Moses Mozart Dzawu Ghana bought 23,000 metric tons of cocoa from farmers in the week through June 16, the first week of the light crop season, said Kwabena Asante-Poku, the deputy chief executive officer of Ghana Cocoa Board. Purchases from farmers for the 12-week season will probably reach about 80,000 tons, Asante-Poku said in [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 12:21 pm in Business, Other Top Stories
By Moses Mozart Dzawu and Ekow Dontoh Ghana, the world’s second-biggest cocoa producer, is planning a supplementary budget in August to increase government spending, said Fifi Kwetey, deputy minister of finance and economic planning. “We want to increase allocation to some specific areas of the economy,” Kwetey said by phone today, declining to say how [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 12:05 pm in Feature Articles, Other Top Stories
VOICE OF REASON: With the tightening -economy and increased in Ghanaian middle –class’ anxiety and no comprehensive plan for the youth, more and more and more youth are seen on our roads; doing “construction” work on weekends now than ever. Why is that? Just in case you missed it: The filling –of- pot-holes is the [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 9:22 am in Business, Other Top Stories
The National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) has received reports of an increasing panic among its staff members and workers of the National Health Insurance scheme (NHIS) following media reports that the Authority has decided to reduce the salaries of its staff. The Authority is also concerned about the actions of some persons who continue to [...]
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