Articles from the ‘Local’ category

Stop politics of acrimony and divisiveness – Nunoo-Mensah

Posted by on March 14, 2011 at 10:58 am in Local, Politics

Brigadier-General (rtd) Joseph Nunoo-Mensah, National Security Adviser to the President, has warned that the country risk being destroyed if immediate measures are not taken to sanitise the politics of acrimony and divisiveness taking place in recent times. “Let us take away politics from issues of national development and come together as one people to build [...]

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CPP commemorates February 24 coup d’etat with a vigil

Posted by on February 23, 2011 at 9:56 pm in Local, Politics

The Convention People’s Party (CPP) will organise a candlelight vigil at the Party’s Headquarters in Accra on Wednesday, February 23 at 7pm. This is to commemorate the overthrow of the Government of Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah on February 24, 1966. A statement issued in Accra on Wednesday by Mr William Dowokpor, CPP’s Director of Communications [...]

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NPP, NDC slug it out over ambulance

Posted by on at 9:56 pm in Local, Politics

The Communication Secretariat of Sunyani West Constituency of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has raised serious concerns about the purchase and presentation of an ambulance by Mr Ignatius Baffour-Awuah, MP for the area, to the people of Nsoatre. A statement signed by Mr Abubakar Ibrahim Mensah, constituency secretary and made available to the Ghana News [...]

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NDC foot soldiers are threat to national security-Nana Akomea

Posted by on at 9:55 pm in Local, Politics

Nana Akomea, Communications Director of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has described the increasing acts of lawlessness by NDC Foot soldiers as a threat to the nation’s security. He said it was therefore important for President Mills and the NDC government to take a hard look at how to rein them in and rather stopped [...]

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Political stability, gift of political discipline – Prez Mills

Posted by on February 18, 2011 at 8:59 am in Local, Politics

President John Evans Atta Mills on Thursday called on political leaders to exhibit politcal maturtity and avoid statements and actions that would undermine the politcal stability and peace of the nation. He stated in the 2011 State of the Nation Address to Parliament in Accra that political stability was a gift of political discipline, and [...]

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NDC is bent on retaining Ashaiman Seat-Gomda

Posted by on at 8:55 am in Local, Politics

The on-going development projects within the Ashaiman Municipality in the NDC’s two years reign is a sign that the party would retain the constituency seat in the 2012 Parliamentary Election. Mr Mohammed Gomda, Constituency Chairman, the GNA in an interview that the government was providing Ashaiman residents with schools, roads, markets and water. Mr Gomda [...]

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New NPP group supports Akufo-Addo

Posted by on at 8:54 am in Local, Politics

Members of the “Nana Addo for President” (NAFOP), a group of supporters of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), have pledged to stand with the party’s flagbearer every step of the way to promote true democracy in Ghana and remove political intimidation. They said they had been inspired by Nana Addo Dankwah Akufo-Addo’s admonition to the [...]

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Gomoa East constituency Executives of NDC condemn rape allegation

Posted by on February 17, 2011 at 2:42 pm in Local, Politics

The Gomoa East Constituency Executives of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) have condemned a rape allegation against Mr Kingsley Ahunu Armah, the District Chief Executive. This was contained in a statement read by Mr Kwesi Peter Essel, the Constituency Chairman, at a press conference at the party’s office in reaction to a publication in a [...]

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