Ghana progress to next round

Posted by Contributor on 6:56 pm at 6:56 pm

By Ibrahim Sannie
BBC Sport, Sekondi
Ghana have scraped into the final round of the qualifying for the 2010 World and Africa Cup of Nations on goal difference.
The Black Stars progress was marred by a crowd stampede which left at least 15 people injured.
But the match kicked off and Ghana went on to thrash Lesotho 3-0 to [...]

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Veep calls for affordable tractors to boost farming

Posted by GNA on 6:17 pm at 6:17 pm

Vice President Alhaji Aliu Mahama, at the weekend called on the Management of John Deere International, a US-based tractor manufacturers, to supply affordable tractors to the Ghanaian market to facilitate government’s vision of modernising agriculture.
He said although Ghana was inundated by various brands of tractors, what the country really needed were agricultural equipment that [...]

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Affordable Housing in Progress- Boniface

Posted by Audrey Micah on 8:15 pm at 8:15 pm

Works and Housing Minister Alhaji Abubakar Boniface Saddique has stated in an interview that government has not forgotten her promise of providing affordable housing units for workers in the country.
“The housing units have not been completed; we are on schedule we got handicapped with finance”.
According to him government has secured a loan from the Social [...]

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Justice Brings Peace-Mrs. Rawlings

Posted by Audrey Micah on 5:42 pm at 5:42 pm

The former First Lady, Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings stated on TV Africa that a country that stands for justice, triumphs along peace. The former first lady stated that this year’s general elections will be peaceful if things are done properly.
Mrs. Rawlings accused the Electoral Commission (EC) for being the cause of the recent problems related [...]

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Appiah Kubi Invited By Police

Posted by Contributor on 3:35 pm at 3:35 pm

Andy Appiah-Kubi, an NPP parliamentary aspirant for the Asante Akim North contituency, yesterday reported at the Ashanti Regional Police Command where he held a meeting with the Regional Commander, Kwaku Ayensu Opare-Addo.
The meeting bordered on recent developments in the constituency following the death of Mr Kwadwo Baah-Wiredu, the Member of Parliament for the area, in [...]

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Mac-Manu attacks Prof. Mills and Rawlings

Posted by GNA on 6:28 pm at 6:28 pm

Mr. Peter Mac Manu, National Chairman of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), on Wednesday accused the National Democratic Congress (NDC) of plagiarism for stealing the central ideas in the NPP manifesto without out acknowledging them.
He told journalists that even though the NDC had in the past kicked against and called for the abolition of [...]

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Landslide killed three and blocked the main Koforidua-Adukrom road

Posted by GNA on 3:53 pm at 3:53 pm

Three hours of rain on Monday at the Akuapem North District led to a landslide, which killed two women and a child at Yensi , a village off the Koforidua to Adukrom road.
The dead were Doris Yaa Asantewaa, 55, Yaa Oforiwaa, believed to be in her 50s and Kwesi Mantey, a three [...]

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Manifesto Exposes NPP on Promises - CPP

Posted by Samuel Ampah on 6:25 pm at 6:25 pm

The United Kingdom Branch of the Convention People’s Party says the NPP promises made in the manifesto is unattainable and unrealistic and must be rejected by Ghanaians.
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Ladies and Gentlemen, fellow Ghanaians election 2008 is just over 60 days away, and after much delay by the NPP and NDC, they have [...]

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