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The news item looked innocuous. A number of Ghanaian returnees from Libya interviewed by e-TV, a popular private television station in Accra, broadcast as part of the morning breakfast news yesterday, said they were unable to cope with the cost of living in the country, and were contemplating returning to Libya or go to any [...]
Read the rest of this story »ISODEC and its partners in the National Coalition Against Water Privatization (NCAP) say NO to renewal of the Aqua Vitens Rand Contract. They argue that, it has failed, and justifiably so, because the problem bedeviling the water sector cannot be resolved with a management contract. They say prescribing a management solution to an investment problem [...]
Read the rest of this story »credit: Samuel Agbewode Fear is gradually mounting in the Volta Region among beneficiaries of the Microfinance and Small Loans Center (MASLOC) loans scheme, as the defaulters of the loans are facing prosecution at a magistrate court in Ho for their inability to pay back loans granted them during the New Patriotic Party (NPP) administration. The [...]
Read the rest of this story »Naa Betty Mingle The Railway Development Authority, together with the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA), has warned hawkers and residents around railway lines to pack and vacate the area, since they would soon embark on a demolition exercise. According to the Chairman of the Railway Development Authority, Mr. Dan Markin, structures and houses should be built [...]
Read the rest of this story »Bismark Bebli Reports gathered by this paper indicate that party gurus have prevailed upon Nana Akomea, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) legislator for Okaikoi South, to step aside and pave way for a female contender. Sources within the party hinted this paper that because of the acrimony that characterised the primary in 2008, and the [...]
Read the rest of this story »The way and manner Laurent Gbagbo is being presented, as if he is a victim of the Ivorian political crisis, cannot be right. From the villain that he clearly is, some media houses in the country, with the tacit support of officialdom, are going overboard in their efforts to let the world believe that the [...]
Read the rest of this story »The protracted dispute over who rules La Cote D’Ivoire, following the refusal of defeated Laurent Gbagbo to cede power, should inform the various African countries to reform their political systems. Africa is a nation where rulers never want to end their reign. From Cairo to the Cape, African leaders have tended to behave as if [...]
Read the rest of this story »credit: Naa Betty Mingle Although the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) task force keeps throwing away and destroying hawkers’ items for selling at authorised places, some traders still remain recalcitrant. The picture shows a trader who has refused to leave the pedestrian pavement at the Kimbu Gardens, around the High Street, and has occupied a part [...]
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