“Modernizing Multilateralism and Markets”

Posted by Samuel Ampah on October 10, 2008 at 8:36 pm in More News

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 at 8:27 pm in More News

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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Ghana mourns Ala Adjetey

Posted by GNA on at 8:24 pm in More News

Politicians, lawyers, traditional rulers and people from all walks of life gathered on Friday to bid farewell to Mr. Peter Ala Adjetey, former Speaker of Parliament at a state burial ceremony held in Accra.
President John Kufuor, Vice President Alhaji Aliu Mahama, Speaker of Parliament, Mr Ebenezer Hughes, Chief Justice, Mrs Georgina Wood, flag [...]

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Restrain your party supports from using firearms - EU appeals

Posted by GNA on at 8:21 pm in More News

Ambassadors of the European Union (EU) in Ghana, have urged political party flagbearers and their parliamentary candidates to restrain their supporters from engaging in violent acts, especially with the use of firearms as nation prepares for the December 7, election.
The EU also called on political parties to discuss with the police the best way [...]

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Elections are about responsibility and good governance- French Ambassador

Posted by GNA on at 8:17 pm in More News

Mr Francis Hurtut, the French Ambassador to Ghana has stated that elections were about electing people to responsible positions to ensure the good governance of the country, and not about violence or excluding minorities.
“The impeding elections should not be a moment for violence, intolerance or a matter of life and death,” he said.
Mr Hurtut said [...]

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Watch Rawlings, He Is Dangerous

Posted by Contributor on October 9, 2008 at 3:14 pm in More News

A former Secretary to the PNDC, Benjamin Boansi Donkor Asamoah (aka BBD Asamoah) has warned the government against taking the country’s security for granted especially during the elections.
In an interview with The Statesman newspaper on Wednesday, he cautioned the NPP saying that, “From all indications, the party has a very solid support base; but they [...]

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4,000 Ghanaians Win Visa Lottery

Posted by Contributor on at 3:12 pm in More News

More than 4,000 Ghanaians have, this year, been issued with resident visas to the United States of America under the US Diversity Visa Lottery. Another 7,000 Ghanaians have won the lottery for next year’s programme, but a little less than that figure is expected to be issued visas to the US since not all the [...]

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Ghanaians’ virtues needed in African body politic - GKS

Posted by GNA on at 2:46 pm in More News

Brother Oseghale Emmanuel Aighalua, President of God’s Kingdom Society (GKS), an international Christian Organisation, has praised Ghanaians for their unique virtues such as contentment and love for one another.
He said such virtues are what African governments need to shape their body politic in ensuring political stability, tolerance, good governance and a peaceful society.
Brother Aighalua [...]

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