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The New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament (MP) for Subin constituency, Mr Isaac Osei, has called on the party's polling station officers to focus and work hard to return the NPP into power in Election 2012.
The search for a new person to take up the position as Managing Director of the Ghana Commercial Bank (GCB) is gathering a lot of storm after almost a month without the board settling on a successor. Names short listed for the job include Managing Director of Stanbic Bank, Mr. Alhassan Andani and Deputy Managing Director of UniBank, John Kofi Mensah, The Chronicle has learnt.
The president of the Ghana Football Association (GFA), Mr. Kwesi Nyantakyi has expressed worry over yesterday's front page story carried by the Daily Graphic, citing the FA as corrupt. Consequently, Mr. Nyantakyi has dared Mr. Kojo Bonsu to come clear within 24 hours, regarding the allegation leveled against the FA.
Consternation hit fans of Hayford Nuako-Manu and his fellow Ghanaian team mate Raphael Ocloo, when Master of Ceremonies, Eddy "Executioner" Blay announced the end of the road for the duo.
The Catholic Bishop of Sunyani, Most Rev. Matthew Kwasi Gyamfi says the church has grown physically with many Parishes and members, but that is not enough as there is the need for Catholic faithful to deepen spirituality, commitment and embark on a renewed and vigorous evangelization for the total growth of the church.
A LECTURER and Counsel for the Brong Ahafo Regional House of Chiefs, Mr. P.K.O Mensah has urged chiefs to resist every ploy by any government aimed at influencing them directly or indirectly.
The Attorney General has withdrawn an appeal filed at the Court of Appeal against the order of the Human Right Court asking the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) to release the passport of Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Akwasi Osei-Adjei.
Local Governance Network (LOGNet), a network of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) working on local governance issues has undertaken comprehensive zonal knowledge sharing and capacity building programmes in decentralization process for its members and the media throughout the country.
The Omanhene of the Esikado Traditional Area in the Western Region, Nana Kobina Nketsia V has expressed concern about the plight of the communities in the area where the oil has been found. According to him, the region has an abundance of natural resources, yet the people continue to wallow in abject poverty.
NANA YAW Peprah III, Abusuapanin of the royal family of the Fomena Traditional Council has entreated political leaders especially leaders of the various assemblies to reposition themselves and help reduce the increasing political tensions in the country in order to move for development through unity.
An Accra Fast Track High Court (FTC) has quashed the directives of the President, His Excellency Prof John Evans Atta Mills, ordering the interdiction of the Principal Accountant of the Ministry of Youth and Sports, following a National Security investigation report on alleged financial impropriety by Alhaji Muntaka Mubarak, then Minister of Youth and Sports.
The Chief Pilot of the Ghana International Airlines (GIA), Mr. Eric Mills-Lamptey, has resigned from the ailing company, following a misundertstanding between him and the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the company, Ms. Anna-Myers.
An Accra Commercial court looking into disagreements of some members of the Convention People's Party (CPP) on the issue of the seventy percent sale of the nation's Telecommunication Company to Vodafone International Holdings BV of the United Kingdom (UK), has referred certain portions of the sales and purchase agreements of the deal to the Supreme Court for determination.
The Member of Parliament for Sunyani-East, Hon. Kwasi Ameyaw-Cheremeh says the failure of NDC government will not automatically favour the New Patriotic Party to win back power in 2012. To him, it is only unity and hard work that will enable the party to recapture power.
THE TERTIARY Education Institutions Network (TEIN) of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has entreated the government to remain focused and not to be distracted by 'antagonists', whose main objective is to bring down President Mills' administration.
Ghanaian President, Prof. John Evans Attah-Mills has pledged his government's full support to the Association of African Universities (AAU). He made the pledge while receiving the Board members of the association, led by the President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ilorin, Prof. Is-haq O. Oloyede, who visited the President on the African University Day, November 12.
All hell broke loose at Odumaase, in the Lower Manya Krobo District of the Eastern Region, during the wee hours of last Friday, when members of the Pierngua Clan, resorted to the exchange of gunfire to address their long-drawn-out chieftaincy dispute, between the sitting Pierngua Divisional Chief of the Manya Traditional Area, Nene Tetteh Zogli III, and one Martin, a military personnel.
UNDP in Ghana has set up a "communication club" to engage students journalists on development issues.
The Nigeria-Ghana rivalry was rekindled at the weekend in Lagos when the Accra Tennis Club visited Ikoyi Club 1938 Tennis section for the 2009 Nigeria-Ghana International Tennis Tournament.
Portions of a law suit against the divestiture of Ghana Telecom (GT) have been referred to the Supreme Court for hearing.
Air Namibia-Ghana, has commenced direct flights from Accra to Johannesburg, South Africa and Windhoek, Namibia .
Security expert Dr. Emmanuel Aning has called for parliamentary inquiry into allegations of maltreatment meted out to two Bawku residents accused of firing indiscriminately into the air.
The Director General of the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC), Mr. William Ampem- Darko, has promised the people of the Volta Region, to enhance broadcast activities of both radio and television to all parts of the region, and expressed regret that the Volta Star Radio (VSR), which had wider coverage to other regions, was currently not being received by people in some parts of the region.
The Volta Trade and Investment Fair, ended last Sunday, with various expressions from the exhibiters and participants concerning the event. While some described it as very successful, others said, much more needed to be done by the organisers in future, to make it more successful.
The importance of the agriculture sector to the Ghanaian economy was manifest once again in the 2010 national budget statement presented by the Minister of Finance and Economic Planning, Dr. Kwabena Duffuor, to Parliament on November 18, 2009. The sector grew by 6.2 percent, against a target of 5.7 percent, driven largely on account of good rainfall patterns and by extension of the land under ...
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