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CPP Wins More Souls

Posted by on January 10, 2008 at 3:10 pm in Other Top Stories

FOLLOWING THE perceived reinvigoration of the Convention Peoples’ Party (CPP), members in the Ashanti Region who abandoned the party are considering reaffirming their commitment to support Dr. Paa Kwesi Nduom to win the 2008 elections. A number of people in the regional capital who spoke to DAILY GUIDE recently, disclosed that although they used to [...]

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Spio Garbrah On the Offensive

Posted by on at 2:41 pm in Other Top Stories

AS THE main opposition party, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) is setting up its campaign machinery to fully go into this year’s election battle, Dr. Ekow Spio-Garbrah, the defeated presidential aspirant of the party has set the ball rolling by oiling the campaign team of Prof. John Evans Atta Mills with ¢100m with a pledge [...]

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Nurses and Midwives Council denies allegations

Posted by on January 9, 2008 at 12:42 pm in Other Top Stories

The Registrar of the Nurses and Midwives Council, Mrs Veronica Darko, on Wednesday denied charges that her outfit was deliberately stalling efforts in setting the licentiate examination for students who just graduated from Nursing Training Schools nationwide. Mrs Darko told the GNA in an interview that the council was merely following a directive from the [...]

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British Teens To Be Sentenced For Cocaine Smuggling In Ghana

Posted by on at 10:12 am in Other Top Stories

Two 16-year-old girls from Britain are to be sentenced for smuggling cocaine in Ghana. Yasemin Vatansever and Yatunde Diya were caught with 6kg of cocaine in two laptop bags as they tried to board a flight to Britain from Accra on July 2. The haul would have had a potential street value of more than [...]

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President Kufuor leaves for Kenya

Posted by on January 8, 2008 at 4:19 pm in Other Top Stories

President John Agyekum Kufuor left Accra this morning for Kenya at the invitation of President Mwai Kibaki as part of an international effort to end the post elections violence in that country. The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Akwasi Osei Agyei and other government officials accompanied President Kufuor. President Kufuor is expected to extract from both [...]

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Nduom Picks David

Posted by on at 9:07 am in Other Top Stories

David Ampofo, Executive Director of Channel Two and host of hard-hitting, and at times, controversial talk show ‘Time with David’ has joined the Dr. Paa Kwesi Nduom Convention People’s Party (CPP) Presidential Campaign Team as its political strategist. The media colossus, who is credited with enviable international academic profile, according to official sources, is participating [...]

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Pan African Parliament President in Ghana

Posted by on at 8:32 am in Other Top Stories

The President of the Pan African Parliament, Dr. Gertrude Mongella, on Monday said there was the need to move the continental body from its current advisory role to a legislative body to speed up the development of Africa through common laws. She said the Pan African Parliament, as it stood now, had only advisory responsibilities [...]

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PNC willing to merge with CPP-Bernard Monarh

Posted by on January 7, 2008 at 11:09 am in Other Top Stories

The People’s National Convention (PNC) has stated that the various Nkrumaist parties should forget about winning the 2008 elections unless they take concrete steps to unite ahead of the December polls. Bernard Monarh, the party’s General Secretary has therefore welcomed what appears to be a renewed commitment for the Convention People’s Party (CPP) towards the [...]

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