Articles from the ‘News From Other Newspapers’ category

NDC is jittery–NPP

Posted by on November 8, 2007 at 4:31 pm in News From Other Newspapers

By Bismark Bebli THE CONSTITUENCY Executives of the Sefwi-Wiawso branch of New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Western Region have stated that the National Democratic Congress (NDC) is very jittery over their chances in the 2008 general elections. According to them, because the NDC has become very jittery and panicky, they have resorted to attempts [...]

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Another Police brutality?

Posted by on at 4:24 pm in News From Other Newspapers

Suspect chained to cell wall … with his hands cuffed From Samuel Agbewode, Kpedze | A lecturer at the Department of Pharmaconogsy at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Mr Gustav Komalaga has questioned the level of competence of the police at Kpedze in the Ho municipality as they have taken the [...]

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Mills goes on the offensive

Posted by on at 4:21 pm in News From Other Newspapers

GOV’T IS FULL OF CORRUPT MEN …accuses JAK of failing to deal with mess especially premix From Magdalene Sey, Komenda. The former Vice President and flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Prof. John Evans Atta Mills has stated that ever since NPP assumed power corruption has been on the ascendancy in the country because [...]

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I’ll Take UK Vote – Apraku

Posted by on at 9:57 am in News From Other Newspapers

FORMER MINISTER of Regional Integration and NEPAD and a presidential aspirant of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr. Kofi Konadu Apraku, has stated that he will win the single vote allocated to the United Kingdom branch of the party. He said his conviction was based on the fact that his vision and plans for the [...]

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New Chieftaincy Bill Soon

Posted by on at 9:56 am in News From Other Newspapers

THE GOVERNMENT is currently considering a new chieftaincy bill which seeks to restore the power of chiefs in settling disputes by customary arbitration. The bill, which has already been gazetted and currently before parliament, would enable traditional authorities contribute to the development of customary law by the manner in which they would enforce social justice, [...]

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Lovers Shot Dead

Posted by on at 9:53 am in News From Other Newspapers

RESIDENTS of Awoshie Last Stop, a suburb of Accra, were yesterday petrified by the gory scene of the lifeless bodies of two suspected lovebirds as they lay some 50 metres apart on the street. Whereas Irene Amefia Agbi, 27, was shot in the lower part of her left shoulder, just above her breast, the back [...]

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Addo Kufuor Fights Back

Posted by on November 7, 2007 at 11:45 am in News From Other Newspapers

FORMER MINISTER of Defence and one of the aspirants to the New Patriotic Party (NPP) flagbearership, Dr Kwame Addo Kufuor has categorically denied a statement attributed to him that he had requested other aspirants of the party to submit themselves and their stewardship to forensic audit. At a press conference in Koforidua on Monday which [...]

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Minority calls for Presidential Commission into Anlo clashes

Posted by on at 11:02 am in News From Other Newspapers

The Minority Caucus in Parliament led by their Leader, Alban Sumanu Bagbin are calling on government and the Minister of Interior to as a matter of urgency set up a commission of enquiry to investigate the recent conflicts in Anloga in the Keta District that claimed the lives of four persons including a police officer. [...]

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