Articles from the ‘Local’ category

Government to seek out-of-court settlement of injunction

Posted by on June 16, 2009 at 2:36 pm in Local, Politics

  Government is to seek an out-of-court settlement to the injunction placed on the inauguration of the new Biakoye District Assembly, Mr Joseph Amenowode, the Volta Regional Minister, has said.   Speaking during a day’s working visit to the Assembly on Monday he called for mutual agreement among traditional areas constituting the new assembly to [...]

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MP opens secretariat at Bekwai

Posted by on at 2:35 pm in Local, Politics

  The Member of Parliament (MP) for Asante-Bekwai, Mr. Joe Osei-Owusu, has opened a secretariat at Bekwai to facilitate his work in the constituency. Mr. Yaw Bio, a special assistant to the MP, told the Ghana News Agency at Bekwai that the secretariat would collate suggestions, complaints and needs of the people and forward them [...]

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Tamale Peace Council inaugurated

Posted by on at 9:51 am in Local, Politics

Alhaji Abdulai Haruna Friday, Tamale Metropolitan Chief Executive last weekend inaugurated a 24-Member Peace Advisory Council (Blichinsi) to help maintain peace and order in Tamale Metropolis and its environs. It is expected to offer advice and report on early warning signals to help avert constant clashes in the metropolis to ensure lasting peace in Tamale. [...]

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Unity among Nkrumahists will win CPP 2012 general election- Nylander

Posted by on June 15, 2009 at 4:04 pm in Local, Politics

  Mr Ladi Nylander, Chairman of the Convention People’s Party (CPP) on Friday noted that it would be impossible for the party to come back to power without unity among Nkrumahists.      "We must move together with a heightened sense of unity and common purpose to re-define our path and commit ourselves anew to the [...]

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Preserve democratic tenets of Africa – Mumuni

Posted by on at 4:02 pm in Local, Politics

  Alhaji Muhammad Mumuni, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, on Monday called on African countries to join the crusade to preserve the tenets that institutionalised democracy on the continent.      He said recent political upheavals brought about by election disputes were drawbacks to efforts at democratising the governance system on the continent.      [...]

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Prosecute former Speaker – Odododiodioo NDC Chairman

Posted by on June 14, 2009 at 12:27 pm in Local, Politics

The Parliamentary Service Board (PSB) has been criticized for the way it has handled the case in which the former Speaker of Parliament Mr. Begyina Sekyi-Hughes removed certain soft furnishings from his official residence on his retirement from the Service. The NDC Chairman of the Odododiodioo Constituency, Mr Daniel Nii Okai, speaking to the Ghana [...]

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President nominates new DCE for South Dayi

Posted by on June 12, 2009 at 9:20 am in Local, Politics

  President John Evans Atta Mills has nominated Mr Kafui Semanu Bekui as the District Chief Executive of the South Dayi District Assembly.      This is contained in a statement signed by Mr Joseph Yieleh Chireh, Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, in Accra on Thursday.       He replaces Mrs Perpetual Kafui Annan whose [...]

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Statement: CPP protests sale of government bungalows

Posted by on June 11, 2009 at 3:47 pm in Local, Other Top Stories, Politics

  A GNA report of 5 June 2009 from Ho indicates that Government has put up for sale 105 low cost Government houses at Mawuli estates in Ho. The CPP finds this policy direction irresponsible and a breach of faith. The CPP is also disappointed because as opposition political parties, we both criticised the NPP [...]

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