Articles from the ‘News From Other Newspapers’ category

Intercourse In Parliament

Posted by on November 28, 2007 at 2:19 pm in News From Other Newspapers

The Deputy Minister of the Interior and Member of Parliament for Adansi-Asokwa, Hon. Kobina Tahir Hammond, yesterday caused what might probably be described as a linguistic stir on the floor of Parliament when he used the expression “personal intercourse with Asaga.” That was during the debate on the 2008 budget, which had attracted, as expected, [...]

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NPP`s strength is waning in C/R

Posted by on at 2:06 pm in News From Other Newspapers

Agyarko conducts surgical appraisal From David Allan Paintsil, Cape Coast One of the presidential aspirants of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr Boakye Agyarko,51, says the party’s strength was going down in the Central Region due to the neglect of the foot-soldiers who helped the party to come to power in 2000 and subsequently [...]

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After exposing Minister over Alan

Posted by on at 12:24 pm in News From Other Newspapers

GWOLLU TURNS INTO BATTLEFIELD Executives pounded before Mrs. Aliu Mahama, Hikah Benson accuses Dery From Yussif Shaibu, Gwollu Four constituency executive members of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) sustained various degrees of injury when two factions of the party in the Sissala West Constituency engaged in what could best be described as guerilla war at [...]

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4 Charged For Stripping

Posted by on at 11:35 am in News From Other Newspapers

THREE FARMERS and a student have been hauled before an Accra Circuit Court for their involvement in a riot which led to the destruction of property worth millions of cedis and also injuring a number of people including a police officer. According to the Police, they stripped one of their victims, Isaac Addo naked and [...]

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CHIEFS RUN AWAY

Posted by on at 10:12 am in News From Other Newspapers

•From Witch Tree Elders of the Ofankor Traditional Council who vehemently pressed on for government to cough out ¢100 million before they will allow the felling of the notorious witch tree, have gone underground. Minutes after the job was done free-of-charge the elders could not be traced, as the myth surrounding the abode of their [...]

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Harvest time for Chairmen Exec`s

Posted by on November 27, 2007 at 3:48 pm in News From Other Newspapers

AKUFO ADDO SPLASHES ¢640m Challenges Alan in last minute money game for delegates which ends Dec. 22 From Sebastian R. Freiku, Kumasi IF YOU ever thought that former Minister of Trade and Industries, Mr. John Alan Kwadwo Kyerematen is the only NPP presidential aspirant who sees his bid for the flagbearership as an investment and [...]

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Campaign spending

Posted by on at 12:21 pm in News From Other Newspapers

NDC accuses, NPP fires back But how much is too much? An informal ADM survey in Accra shows that many people are not impressed and are actually put off by all the spending to attract the votes of only about two thousand five hundred people out of a national voter’s register of eight million. Said [...]

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Alan plays his ‘Fante’ card: “Make me first Fante President”

Posted by on at 11:43 am in News From Other Newspapers

Nana Obeng-Danquah Reports picked up by The Statesman indicate that Alan Kyerematen continues to make campaign capital for his presidential candidacy bid on his ‘tribal’ attributes. In soliciting votes in the Central Region last week, he charged the people to make him the first President from the Central Region. Accra”s Joy FM and Cape Coast’s [...]

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