Traditional leaders of Takoradi Amanful and its adjourning communities have expressed displeasure at the sale of public lands for private use in the area. They said though the government compulsorily acquired lands for public purposes, they were not being used and instead sold to private developers by the city authorities. Nana Obo Atta Esuon 11, [...]
By Helena Selby The two Nigerians, who allegedly imported cocaine concealed in a cosmetic cargo, were yesterday brought before an Accra Fast Track High Court and detained over the accusation leveled against them. The accused persons, James Elekechukwu, 47, and Sunny Ekechukwu Benji Eke, 53, are alleged to have conspired and conceal 200 kilogrammes of cocaine, [...]
From Ernest Best Anane, Mampong-Ashanti Mr. Ernest Owusu, Officer in Charge of Education, and Samuel Yeboah, in Charge of enforcement in the Ashanti Regional Zonal office of the Narcotics Control Board (NACOB), have said fighting against drug abuse in the country is a shared responsibility, for which reason everybody is expected to get involved in [...]
From Isaac Akwetey-Okunor, Adedietam Information reaching The Chronicle indicates that two galamsey (illegal) miners at Adedientam, a farming community in the East Akyem Municipality of the Eastern Region, were reportedly shot and wounded on Wednesday, following a clash between the youth and the security personnel of Extra Gold Mining Limited, which operates in the area. [...]
By Phyllis D. Osabutey IN RECENT times, there have been much concern about the re-naming of the then Ministry of Women and Children’s Affairs, into the Ministry for Gender, Children and Social Protection. On one hand, there were concerns about the minister designate, a human rights advocate, Nana Oye Lithur, for what people say is [...]
Continued from yesterday issue In the course of this year, and under the policy on public private partnerships, feasibility studies will commence on the dualisation of the Accra- Cape Coast- Takoradi road, and the rehabilitation and expansion of the Accra- Tema motorway. New interchanges are also planned for the Tema end of the motorway and [...]
One of the sources of government revenue is borrowing (domestic & external). Since independence to the year 2001, Ghana’s overall public debt stock was $7.5 billion. This is what Jerry Rawlings’ NDC left for the Kufuor government. In the year 2009, the total National Debt left by Kufuor’s NPP administration was GH¢9.6 billion and this [...]
Never believe Joy FM’s Kojo Oppong Nkrumah if he says he dresses well only when he is broke! Ensconced in the relatively blind comfort of radio and free from the glare of cameras, the host of the award winning Super Morning Show (SMS) has all but succeeded in hood winking listeners! After more than a [...]
It was on a night-duty at the “Intensive Care Unit” of the Department of Brain Surgery at the Heinrich Heine University, Dusseldorf, Germany, that I once encountered a “youngish” male nurse, who politely requested I assist him translate some text from German into English. The young man was “a free lance columnist” for a newspaper [...]
Gold gave this nation its pre-independence name, the Gold Coast. It was the search for gold that brought the white man to this soil to begin the process that was to lead several years of suppression, code-named colonisation. A number of people abroad, especially in Her Majesty’s Great Britain, still have fond memories of this [...]