Articles from the ‘Politics’ category
Posted by Contributor on March 25, 2008 at 8:05 am in Politics
The Kwahu West District Chief Executive, Nana Kofi Kesse has been dismissed by President John Agyekum Kufuor. The dismissal of Nana Kesse, who allegedly took President Kufuor’s name to a jujuman, was contained in a statement announcing a nominee for the recently elevated Kwahu West district, which is now a municipality. A Ministry of Local [...]
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Posted by GNA on at 7:34 am in Politics
Professor John Evans Atta Mills, National Democratic Congress (NDC) Leader and its Presidential Candidate has asked the renowned Carter Center to keep this year’s election on its radar. Making the call, when a delegation from the Atlanta based Centre called on him at his Kuku Hill office to discuss matters relating to the upcoming election [...]
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Posted by GNA on March 22, 2008 at 6:31 pm in Politics
Mr Joe Sam, New Patriotic Party (NPP) parliamentary candidate for Upper Manya Constituency in 1996 and 2000, was on Thursday confirmed as the District Chief Executive for the newly created Upper Manya District Assembly. All 36 members of the Assembly present voted in his favour in an election conducted by the District Electoral Commission. In [...]
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Posted by GNA on at 6:27 pm in Politics
Mr Andy Appiah-Kubi, an aspiring New Patriotic Party (NPP) parliamentary candidate for the Asante Akim North Constituency, has called for a clean campaign by the various contestants to ensure peace in the Party. He said the unity in the Party was paramount than individual interest hence it was incumbent on all to conduct campaigns devoid [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 6:12 pm in Politics
Over NDC Running Mate Palaver *Choice of woman running mate dominates regional tours *Chief Imam too calls for woman Vice President THOUGH THE National Democratic Congress (NDC) has adopted a deliberate policy not to name their running mate until the New Patriotic Party has named theirs, information trickling to GYE NYAME CONCORD from the corridors [...]
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Posted by Contributor on March 20, 2008 at 5:55 pm in Politics
The Head of the Anaesthesia Department of the La General Hospital, Accra, Dr George Ben Crentsil, has been returned unopposed to be the Convention People’s Party (CPP) parliamentary candidate for the Ajumako-Enyan-Essiam Constituency in the Central Region. At a short ceremony at Enyan Denkyira Thursday, the Ajumako-Enyan-Essiam (AEE) Constituency Chairman of the CPP, Mr Kwesi [...]
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Posted by GNA on at 4:07 pm in Politics
Four parliamentary aspirants, including incumbent MP Ishmael Ashitey and former Mayor Samuel Ashong Narh are vying for the Tema East constituency seat on the ticket of the New Patriotic Party (NPP). The other two are Mr Ramseyer Agyemang Prempeh, 35, Proprietor of Tema High school and Mr Daniel Titus-Clover, 42, a Labour Consultant. While they [...]
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Posted by GNA on at 9:22 am in Politics
The Suame Constituency branch of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) on Wednesday described as false allegations by a group calling itself “Patriotic Citizens of Suame constituency†that the Member of Parliament for the area, Mr. Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, was not performing. A statement signed by Mr. Badu Aduboahen, Constituency Chairman of the party and issued in [...]
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