Exhibition of Voters Register ends

Posted by GNA on 7:51 pm at 7:51 pm

The exhibition of the Voters Register ended Saturday with many exhibition centres across the country recording average patronage.
The weeklong exhibition of the Voter’s Register commenced throughout the country on Sunday October 5 2008 with voters generally showing apathy towards the exercise.
The seven-day event, which formed part of the Electoral Commission’s (EC) efforts to clean [...]

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Veep attends 12th Summit of La Francophonie in Canada

Posted by GNA on 6:46 pm at 6:46 pm

Vice President Alhaji Aliu Mahama, leaves Ghana for Quebec, Canada, on Saturday, to attend the 12th Summit of the Organisation Internationale La Francophonie.
A source at the Osu Castle, told the Ghana News Agency that Alhaji Mahama leads a six-member delegation to the two-day summit, which include Mr Akwasi Osei Adjei, Minister [...]

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Politicians urged to shun deceit, insinuations and verbal attacks

Posted by GNA on 6:15 pm at 6:15 pm

Reverenced Emmanuel Brenya Amoah, Vice Chairman of the Accra Baptist Association on Saturday advised politicians to shun deceit, threats, casting of insinuations and verbal attacks on innocent persons during their political campaigns.
He said the society was moved by what politicians said and so they must go about their campaigns with decorum as [...]

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Police would not countenance activities that may cause mayhem – Botwe

Posted by GNA on 6:12 pm at 6:12 pm

Superintendent Charles Botwe, Sunyani District Police Commander, on Friday said the police would not countenance political activities that had the potential to cause mayhem in the municipality before, during and after the December polls.
He said; “politics of acrimony, rancour and intimidation,” was a thing of the past and that the country’s democratic dispensation had [...]

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Consuls urged to loosen migration laws

Posted by GNA on 6:10 pm at 6:10 pm

Mr Akwasi Osei-Adjei, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Regional Cooperation and NEPAD on Saturday urged the global consular community to loosen harsh consular regulations that erected barriers against immigration.
“This is how you can make an immense contribution to the removal of racism and xenophobia which are fast transforming some communities into hostile and pugnacious environments [...]

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“Flying Coffin” could not make it to Equatorial Guinea

Posted by GNA on 6:08 pm at 6:08 pm

The Presidential Jet on Saturday returned to Accra 20 minutes after it took off for Equatorial Guinea, where President John Agyekum Kufuor was scheduled to participate in the 40th independence celebration of that country.
The temperature within the cabin began to rise a few minutes into the flight, due to what the Pilot, Air [...]

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“Modernizing Multilateralism and Markets”

Posted by Samuel Ampah on 8:36 pm at 8:36 pm

September and October are shaping up to be hard months in a precarious year. A meltdown in financial, credit, and housing markets. The continuing stress of high food and fuel prices and the dangers for poverty and malnutrition. Anxieties about the global economy.
The events of September and October could be [...]

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US judges assist judiciary

Posted by GNA on 8:27 pm at 8:27 pm

A team of American judges and students from the Fordham University Law School on Friday arrived in Accra as part of a one-week Ghana-US judicial exchange programme.
The visit, the first of its kind to be undertaken by American judges to engage in a training session with their Ghanaian counterparts, is part of the continuing training [...]

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