Archive for November, 2011

Election 2012… ‘MAKE CPP A WINNER’

Posted by on November 23, 2011 at 10:35 am in Top Story

The 2008 presidential candidate of the Convention People’s Party has once again called on the current national executive of the party to take ‘firm charge’ and work hard to ‘make CPP a winner’ in 2012.

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Akua crowned 2011 Ghana’s Most Beautiful

Posted by on November 22, 2011 at 3:40 pm in Entertainment, Other Entertainment News

The Ashanti regional representative in the 2011 edition of TV3’s Ghana’s Most Beautiful beauty pageant, Salomey Amoakoa Mensah known as Akua, has been crowned winner of the this year’s pageant. Akua, a product of Takoradi Polytechnic, after 13-weeks of grueling competition dazzled not only the judges but the show’s avid viewers to beat three others, [...]

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Oil companies pose no danger to our intelligence – Military

Posted by on at 3:39 pm in Other Top Stories

Source: Joy Online The presence of oil companies in the restricted Ghana Air Force enclave in Takoradi has no security implications whatsoever, Director of Public Affairs for the Ghana Armed Forces, Colonel Mbawine Atintande has said. The air force, according to Col. Atintande, has adequate measures in place to ensure its intelligence information is properly [...]

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Why Daddy Lumba is Second to None

Posted by on at 3:38 pm in Entertainment

It was approaching midday, but the sky was still yet to show a bright and pleasant face. The cold and dry wind was persistently blowing down the withered leaves of the trees in the vicinity. The green leaves that wouldn’t part company with their branches were forced to dance to the tune of the chilly [...]

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D.K Poison: Ghana has failed me

Posted by on at 3:35 pm in Football, Sports

At the height of his professional career, David Kotey, aka D. K Poison, the first Ghanaian to win a world boxing title, was cherished and loved by Ghanaians but since his fortunes plummeted, the one- time hero has been totally forgotten. The Adabraka-born boxer attended the Government Boys School, now Kinbu JSS. D. K Poison [...]

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NLC to doctors: Go to court

Posted by on at 3:33 pm in Other Top Stories

The Chairman of the National Labour Commission (NLC), Joseph Aryeetey, has counseled aggrieved doctors in the country to go to court if they feel dissatisfied with its ruling on the compulsory arbitration between them and the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission (FWSC). According to Mr. Aryeetey, “they have every right, having realised that this is [...]

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Rot, Cover-Up, and Official Ineptitude Running Down

Posted by on at 3:31 pm in Other Top Stories

by: Laud Nartey Perceptions that the attitudes and work ethics of staff of the Registrar General’s Department (RGD) are a major deterrent to doing business with that outfit have been confirmed by Public Agenda’s recent encounters with the Department. The paper can confirm that, staff of the Registrar General’s Department have a poor work culture, [...]

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Germany’s Ambiente Trade Fair opens world market for Ghana’s handicraft industry

Posted by on at 3:30 pm in Business, Other Top Stories

For the first time in West Africa, the world’s biggest consumer-goods trade fair, Ambiente 2012 has been launched in Accra, Ghana November 21, 2011. The launch, according to the organisers – Messe Frankfurt, is to give more insight to Ghanaian handicraft exporters on how to promote their businesses at the world stage and also “get [...]

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