Articles from the ‘Politics’ category
Posted by Contributor on February 7, 2012 at 2:22 pm in Other Top Stories, Politics
The main opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) has rubbished a report published by the Economic Intelligence Unit that suggests that President John Evans Atta Mills will win the December presidential elections by a slim margin. In its country report released on Ghana in January this year, the UK-based specialist publishing company stated that the favourable [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 8:50 am in Other Top Stories, Politics
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told State Department employees Thursday that she will not stay on in the job if President Obama wins re-election, saying that after two decades, she is ready to step off “the high wire of American politics.” “I think I have made it clear that I will certainly stay on until [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 8:38 am in Feature Articles, Politics
ARTICLE BY: FRANCIS DERY The Bible is replete with many examples of simple and complex relationships between nations and religious leaders. To go down the entire litany of instances will take us a lifetime, and obviate the key focus of this matter. So skip all that to the New Testament and to the very [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 8:33 am in Other Top Stories, Politics
US President Barack Obama has said he believes he deserves a second term in the White House. His declaration, in an interview with NBC, came as a new poll showed his approval ratings moving past 50% for the first time since May 2011. The ABC News/Washington Post survey also suggests Mr Obama would beat Republican [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 8:32 am in Politics
Progressive People’s Party (PPP) parliamentary aspirant for Ayawaso West Wuogon constituency in the Greater Accra Region, William Dowokpor, has admonished Ghanaians against the notion that democracy begins and ends with elections only. While elections, if they are free, fair and transparent are part of the features of democracy and good political governance, William Dowokpor insists [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 8:22 am in Feature Articles, Politics
ARTICLE BY: EMMANEUL OSEI, President Movement for Social Justice University of Ghana The politics of insult, the politics of antagonism, the politics of ethnic division and the politics of unnecessary sentiment that has characterised the NPP and NDC is a clear signal of a recipe for disaster in this country. Ghana has come a long [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 8:22 am in Other Top Stories, Politics
The former Attorney General and Minister for Justice, Betty Mould Iddrisu has resolved to submit voluntary statement to the Ghana Police to aid in the on-going investigation in the Alfred Woyome Saga. Mrs. Mould-Iddrisu has come under intense pressure to categorically state her involvement in the payment of the GH¢51 million judgment debt to [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 8:19 am in Other Top Stories, Politics
A deputy Information Minister, James Agyenim Boateng, has hinted that given the instrumental role played by Former Education, Youth and Sports Minister, Yaw Osafo Maafo in the erstwhile Kufuor government on the Woyome saga, he (Osafo Maafo) could be arrested by the police. Agyenim Boateng said Osafo Maafo cannot exonerate himself from the circumstances [...]
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