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NDC SWEATS UNDER GIPIC GATE … One Week To Polls

Daniel Nonor   With just a week to the December presidential elections, the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) government is again bleeding from another scandal, after the gargantuan GH¢51 million dole-out to businessman Alfred Agbesi Woyome. At a time when most Ghanaians cannot afford two square meals a day, with electricity and water being rationed, [...]

Aspiring MP On Murder Threat Enquiry

The Police at Saltpond in the Central Region are investigating allegations that the aspiring Member of Parliament (MP) for the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Ekumfi Constituency, formerly Mfansteman East, Mr. Abeiku Crenstil, also known as Samuel Arthur, has conspired with a man of Northern Ghana origin, who simply gave his name as Azuri, [...]

Mahama Promises Insurance Policy For Fishermen

President John Dramani Mahama, on Thursday gave the assurance that the government would in the next four years introduce life insurance policy for all fishermen in the country. The facility, he said, would serve as cover for the families of fisherfolk in times of serious disasters to the fishermen. President John Dramani Mahama announced this [...]

Political Youth Activists Affirm Commitment To Peace

From Sebastian R. Freiku, Effiduase-Ash   POLITICAL YOUTH groups in the Sekyere East District of Ashanti have affirmed their commitment to ensuring peaceful elections next month.   The youth activists drawn  from the National Democratic Congress (NDC), New Patriotic Party (NPP), Convention Peoples Party (CPP), People’s National Convention (PNC) and the National Democratic Party (NDP) as [...]

Media Urged To Display Nationalism

By Phyllis D. Osabutey   AN EMINENT Persons Group, under the auspices of the Christian Council of Ghana (CCG) has called on journalists to put the national interest above personal and business interest, in the run up to the December 2012 elections, next Friday. The group believes that although journalists and media organizations operate in [...]

Nterm-Ghana Donates Books To Needy Students In Saboba

As part of its educational programme initiative, Nterm-Ghana, a non-governmental organisation (NGO), is aiming at complementing the existing efforts of all stakeholders to improve the standards of health, education and development in rural Ghana, hand has donated sets of books worth GH¢1,200 to seven students in Saboba. At a short presentation ceremony at Saboba on [...]

BUSAC Fund Supports Guinea Fowl Rearing In Saboba

For many decades now, the Newcastle disease has been the major setback to productive guinea fowl rearing in Saboba, a predominantly farming town in the Eastern corridor of the Northern Ghana. The annual mortality rate of guinea fowls in the Saboba District ranges from 95 to 100%. Several attempts to revert the trend have been [...]

Visiting German Lauds Ghana’s Social Order … It’s Peaceful And Culturally Rich

From Sebastian R. Freiku, Kumasi     A visiting German Sales Executive has lauded Ghana’s social order seen as real, and a contributing factor to the stability she has enjoyed all these years. Ms. Claudia Newiger, who stays for a month on each visit every year for the past four years, says the base of Ghana’s prosperity is [...]

Nurse Calls For Crises Response Team …At Mental Care Facilities In Ghana

From David Allan Paintsil, Ankaful   A United Kingdom-based Ghanaian mental health worker, Mr. Ebenezer Akonnor Fianko, who is also the Founder of Volunteer Nurses, Ghana, has called on the government, especially the Ministry of Health, to establish Crises Response teams in all the mental facilities across the country, so as to reduce overcrowding in [...]