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Thursday, October 29, 2009 |
IntroductionTelecommunications facilities are important to a school pupil just as it is to the tomato seller or a business tycoon The uses and importance to business people cannot be overemphasized but Devine Ocloo an year old primary six pupil finds it necessary to speak with his mom when the need arises while the market woman can attest to ... Read more |
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Tuesday, September 15, 2009 |
A GNA Feature by Samuel Dowuona Accra Sept GNA So much has been said about fibre optics over the last two years particularly submarine fibre optics communications technology coming to Ghana The hype of the fibre optics talk was particularly fuelled by the sale of per cent of the Enlarged Ghana Telecom to Vodafone at a ... Read more |
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Tuesday, September 15, 2009 |
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A GNA feature by Mohammed Nurudeen Issahaq Accra Sept GNA The vision of a united peaceful and prosperous Africa has been a long cherished but elusive ideal whose early advocates included Marcus Garvey George Padmore WEB DuBois Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana Haile Selassie of Ethiopia Gamel AbdulNasser of Egypt and Jomo Kenyatt ... Read more |
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Monday, September 14, 2009 |
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Accra Sept GNA The Ramadan entered its closing stages on Friday September Laylatul Kadir a period Muslims devote to regular prayers from midnight up to the time of the beginning of the fast at dawn Holy Prophet Mohammed PBUH said The first days of Ramadan are for Mercy Rahmet the second days are for For ... Read more |
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Friday, September 11, 2009 |
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Accra Sept GNA The vision of a united peaceful and prosperous Africa has been a long cherished but elusive ideal whose early advocates included Marcus Garvey President Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana George Padmore WEB DuBois Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia Gamel AbdulNasser of Egypt and Jomo Kenyatta of Kenya among others The idea fo ... Read more |
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Thursday, August 27, 2009 |
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A GNA Feature by Anthony Bells Kafui Kanyi Ho Aug GNA Poverty is said to be a disease but it becomes deadly when one fails or is unable to use resources at ones disposal to turn the situation around to improve ones standard of living Adaklu Mountain arguably one of the tallest and fascinating mountains in the country has been ... Read more |
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Thursday, August 06, 2009 |
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Accra Aug GNA Many an average Ghanaian policy maker would find it very difficult to place the right value on culture in the socioeconomic pursuits of this beloved country of ours Ask an average Minister of State Legislators from both sides of the aisle and District Chief Executives to evaluate the true value of culture in the nat ... Read more |
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Monday, July 20, 2009 |
There is something wrong with the womens movement in Ghana Indeed one gets the feeling that the lobby group no longer appreciates the success of their decadeslong advocacy efforts if not they should not be focusing narrowly on political scraps which can alienate them from forwardlooking feminist enthusiastsAdmittedly the womens moveme ... Read more |
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Tuesday, June 09, 2009 |
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Ho June GNA Hail Hail Mawuli may you grow from strength to strength Hail Hail Mawuli pride of children yet unborn Hail Mawuli Hail Mawuli Hail Mawuli Hail your noble sons and daughters have pledged to protect thee and to serve thee always with head heart hand and soul goes the Mawuli School Anthem Founded on February ... Read more |
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Friday, June 05, 2009 |
Bonn June GNA The world must be ready to invest in good quality journalism worldwide Deutsche Welle Director General Erik Bettermann said at the opening of the Second Global Media Forum in Bonn Germany He argued In the future it will be required for civil society and the peacemaking processes publishers and broadcasters to dr ... Read more |
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Monday, June 01, 2009 |
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A GNA Feature by Paul Achonga Kwode Tamale June GNA Every journalist like the hunter always has a dream while the hunter may dream of big games a journalist always dreams of big stories that would capture the headlines The Media is referred to as the fourth estate of the realm after the Executive Legislature and th ... Read more |
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Monday, June 01, 2009 |
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A GNA Feature by Anthony Bells Kafui Kanyi Ho June GNA One could hear the cries of toddlers from a distance Some so loud to keep one wandering what could be happening to the owners of those voices As one approached where the noise is coming from one realises they belonged the future leaders of this beloved country who ... Read more |
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Wednesday, May 20, 2009 |
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Bolgatanga May GNA Traditionally economic activity in the Upper East Region just as in the other two regions of the Northern Sector of the country is centred on agriculture with about per cent of the population engaged in crop farming For a very long time it has been smallscale subsistence farming except in the cases of rice ... Read more |
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Wednesday, May 20, 2009 |
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Accra May GNA Globalization which is wheeled by ICT and driven by the International Monetary Fund IMF has eased information flow and acquisition of funds The issue now is the operation of ICT and management of the solicited funds To this end most countries have placed premium on the human resource training and the health needs ... Read more |
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Wednesday, May 13, 2009 |
Accra May GNA Tradition now has it that each year the month of May be devoted to the performance of the press and the challenges of journalism worldwide with May rd observed specifically as World Press Freedom Day This time therefore is appropriate for some appraisal on the role of the pressmedia in our national history and s ... Read more |
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Wednesday, May 13, 2009 |
Our cities are littered with billboards and they carry messages for specific target groups Unique among them is the one that invites its patrons to come to where the flavour is Now beneath the façade of that invitation are letters in red print warning the wouldbepatrons that the product on offer is in fact poisonous and therefore ... Read more |
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Thursday, May 07, 2009 |
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London May GNA President John Evans Atta Mills visit the first to Europe since assumption of office in January is at the invitation of British Prime Minister Gordon Brown to strengthen ties and cooperation between Ghana and Britain It is also to advance efforts for British assistance to Ghana in her development and poverty redu ... Read more |
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Thursday, April 30, 2009 |
From a state of near collapse in the Ho Municipal Hospital inaugurated in has bounced back as the first choice health facility for people in the MunicipalityFresh blood has been injected into the Hospital bringing it back to the state of a preferred health facility with a better working attitude of workersUntil April many ... Read more |
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Wednesday, March 11, 2009 |
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There is no doubt that the desire by the Government and its partners to bridge the developmental gap between the North and the South would be a mirage if the people in the area continued to engage in conflicts and violence This is because development no matter what form it takes cannot thrive in an atmosphere of conflict and violence It m ... Read more |
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Wednesday, February 11, 2009 |
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A Ghanaian axiom teaches that those who do not have axes must utilise opportunities offered by those who have them by going along with them into the forest to pick pieces of firewood for lighting their hearths Today public debate is about payments of EndofService Benefits ESBs to the big shots in government ... Read more |
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Wednesday, February 11, 2009 |
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Vice President John Dramani Mahama said I did a good job and did not betray the trust reposed in me Even if you remain a pauper you feel a certain kind of pureness in you The January edition of the The Mirror a Ghanaian weekly reported The Veep was talking about how he felt about himself as Minister in the National Democr ... Read more |
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Tuesday, February 10, 2009 |
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Ghana ranks high in the West African subregion in the Open Budget Survey as one of the few countries which provided some level of information on governments budget and financial activities during the course of the budget year But analysts say more was needed to be done by the governments in the subregion because the inform ... Read more |
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Tuesday, February 03, 2009 |
The issue of the payment of Public Sector salaries based on a singlespine structure effective January had been on the lips of the previous New Patriotic Party NPP government as it went into last Decembers electionsThat government might have perhaps settled on that date for implementing the new salary scheme for good reasons which mi ... Read more |
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Tuesday, February 03, 2009 |
Little Kobby a pupil at the Local Authority Primary One is very intelligent and sociable at home but dull and moody at school He cries on his way to school daily and no amount of pampering or candies could kick him to walk briskly as others He sometimes digs in his feet like an ass refusing to go any further especially when he reached t ... Read more |
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Wednesday, January 28, 2009 |
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The decision of President John Evans Atta Mills to consult with the Leadership of the Ghanaian religious organisations to observe Sunday February as national day of prayer and thanksgiving struck a harmonious note in some ears while others rather heard a dissonance The GNA reported President John Evans Atta Mills in consultation w ... Read more |
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Saturday, December 20, 2008 |
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The silence political parties have fallen into since the declaration of the results of the December general election can be likened to the quiet before the storm For now it is obvious that the two contending parties the National Democratic Congress NDC and the New Patriotic Party NPP have both gone back to the drawing board and are mapping ... Read more |
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Friday, December 05, 2008 |
About million Ghanaians are expected to Vote in another historic election on Sunday December th after a gruelling campaign that was characterised with violence intolerance claims of plots to cheat at the polls a skewed coverage and a court battle over eligibility of a Presidential Aspirant The Ghanaian electorate are expected to c ... Read more |
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Wednesday, October 22, 2008 |
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Whenever you visit Tema Ghanas industrial city and you are hungry you can go to a restaurant a chop bar or eat at the roadside You may like to eat in a restaurant but your pocket may not be able to afford the luxury An option would be the chop bar The chop bar is the Ghanaian nickname for canteen eatery or refectory The plann ... Read more |
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Saturday, October 04, 2008 |
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The Sixth AfricanCaribbeanPacific ACP States Summit has resolved to take a second look at Economic Partnership Agreements EPAs with the European Union EU with a view to making them more inclusive and to foster integration within the Group To this end the Heads of State and Government would engage in highlevel consultations on the E ... Read more |
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Monday, August 18, 2008 |
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The question of whether people really knew about the Millennium Development Goals MDGs arose during the launch of the Global Monitoring Report a programme that sought to monitor the progress or achievement of the MDGs The programme on the theme MDGs and the Environment Agenda for Inclusive and Sustainable Development organized ... Read more |
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Wednesday, August 06, 2008 |
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The avowed aim of Ghanaian journalists to accomplish their role as the Fourth Estate of the Realm is in keeping with their zeal to ensure the survival of democratic rule in GhanaIn fact battle of media practitioners to assert themselves as key players in the political and socioeconomic development of this country is as old as colonial ... Read more |
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Wednesday, July 16, 2008 |
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Ethnicity induced conflicts in Africa keep on recurring in various parts of the Continent and the earlier solutions were found to solve the problem the better it would be for allOne fact that must be accepted is that with the emergence of nation States at the demise of Colonialism people of different ethnic background were lumped together and ... Read more |
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Monday, July 14, 2008 |
The truth is very difficult to ascertain when dealing with nations that have smart citizens with the potency of advancing plausible arguments It therefore demands divine intervention for the truth to be revealed as it was in the case of Solomon a Bible character when he was confronted with the problem of determining who the biological mo ... Read more |
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Sunday, June 29, 2008 |
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Political parties have made invaluable contributions to Ghanas struggle for independence and the promotion of democracy and good governance However military interventions in party politics in the country have intermittently stalled the activities of Parliament the Executive and Judiciary as well as political parties But any time ... Read more |
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Friday, June 06, 2008 |
The news of the reduction of taxes on rice and other agricultural products as well as various mechanisms to cushion the average Ghanaian against the impact of the high oil prices on the world market came with mixed feelings While some people linked this to strictly political reasons others saw a sense in the deal and praised the Government ... Read more |
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Friday, May 23, 2008 |
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Come June to July Heads of State and Government of Africa donor partners and civil society organizations would congregate for the th Summit of the African Union AU at the Egyptian town of Sharm El Sheikh on the theme Meeting the Millennium Development Goals on Water and Sanitation The schedule includes meetings of the Permanent ... Read more |
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Wednesday, May 21, 2008 |
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Saint Marys Seminary Secondary School Lolobi is a hideaway Roman Catholic oriented second cycle school about eight kilometres from Hohoe little heard of in the country but with a rich academic and disciplinary record No wonder therefore that many parents in the country privy to the qualities of the school send their wards there perhaps i ... Read more |
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Wednesday, May 21, 2008 |
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The suggestion that prostitution should be legalized is sure to evoke wild responses from different people Many would condemn it outright and if given the opportunity pack all prostitutes and their clients into the inferno never to come back to live among the righteous Yet there are a few others who would come plain that women who ... Read more |
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Wednesday, May 21, 2008 |
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One by one students from the Jaman North and South Districts rose to introduce themselves to their guests made up of motley of senior citizens of diverse professional backgrounds at the Mensah Sarbah Hall of the University of Ghana Legon These mentors comprised retired and serving public and civil servants and military officers lawyers b ... Read more |
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Thursday, February 23, 2006 |
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A GNA Colour by Samuel OseiFrempongAccra Feb GNA In the early hours of Thursday two days after a street protest against what has come be known as burger votes Policemen with huge muscles watched the gates of Parliament with exceptional scrutinyGuns batons and armoured cars hid among the trees planted along the old long wa ... Read more |
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Monday, February 20, 2006 |
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A GNA Feature by Muniratu Akweley IssahAccra Feb GNA Outrageous but factually the war against filth in Accra is causing the Accra Metropolitan Assembly AMA billion cedis a month although the Assembly receives only eight billion cedis annually from the District Assemblies Common Fund Ninety per cent of cases reported dail ... Read more |
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Thursday, February 16, 2006 |
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A GNA Feature by Mrs Justina PaagaCape Coast Feb GNA Indeed the need to improve basic education in public schools cannot be over emphasised more especially at a time the Government is implementing its threepronged development strategy of human resource and private sector development and continued good governance to meet the Millen ... Read more |
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Tuesday, February 14, 2006 |
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A GNA Feature by Hilda AbbanCape Coast Feb GNA The saying poverty in the midst of plenty clearly defines the fate of the Central Region which in spite of it being endowed with vast natural resources is classified the fourth poorest region in GhanaIt is estimated that five out of every of its population of about ... Read more |
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Friday, February 03, 2006 |
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A GNA colour by Samuel OseiFrempongAccra Feb GNA Red bands made from red calico strips hanged around the necks of an emotionally charged members of the Minority who had painted a spectacle reserved for the strong hearted Their countenance suggested sorrow pain anger and mistrust for a Bill they had long considered as a monster who ... Read more |
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Tuesday, January 31, 2006 |
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A GNA colour by Samuel OseiFrempong Accra Jan GNA An old Tata bus rolled by on a Tuesday with doors and windows shaking and shattering while various dancers security men and dignitaries swamped the frontage of the Parliamentary Chamber No sooner had it spared the glorious occasion its unsavourily spectacle did more beautiful an ... Read more |
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Wednesday, January 25, 2006 |
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A GNA Feature by Benjamin MensahAccra Jan GNA Come this Saturday January the Accra Metropolitan Assembly AMA would lead a massive cleanup exercise to rid the Metropolis of filthAt least on that day God would not be appalled sickened and vomit at the awful sight of the filth that has engulfed the city Rather the ... Read more |
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Monday, January 23, 2006 |
A GNA feature by Francis Ameyibor Accra Jan GNA Dr Hilla Limann Thanks Be To God Dr Hilla LimannThanks Be To God Dr Hilla Limann Thanks Be To God These were the solemn words that echoed through the serene Accra Ridge Church on Sunday January as members of the Former Presidents family friends sympathizers poli ... Read more |
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Sunday, January 22, 2006 |
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also ProPoor A WB research desk report compiled by Francis Ameyibor of Ghana News Agency Accra Jan GNA Whether or not one has access to credit is a litmus test for wealth or poverty If you are rich you have it and can use it to get richer If you are poor you dont have access to it and you remain poor The conventional ... Read more |
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Thursday, January 19, 2006 |
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A GNA feature by Samuel OseiFrempongAccra Jan GNA Beyond the faEade of the Flagstaff House sprawls the ruins of the home of Ghanas Founder Osagyefo Dr Kwame NkrumahThe large tract of land which holds this neglected property has been partly put under cassava cultivation while the rest has been turned into a banana republi ... Read more |
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Friday, January 13, 2006 |
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A GNA Feature by BoakyeDankwa BoadiAccra Jan GNA At cock crow at dawn on Friday January an unusual noise was heard in the neighbourhood of Switchback Road at Cantonments in AccraIt was the baritone voice of a man shouting For how long would you remain in the wilderness as orphans Come back home Your father is back ... Read more |
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Tuesday, January 10, 2006 |
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A GNA feature by Hannah AnnorAccra Jan GNA Travelling on a commercial vehicle especially Trotro can at times be likened to a normal church service or any religious activityThis is the moment when anxious and sometimes quack doctors or peddlers of all manner of products manipulate innocent and sometimes gullible passengers t ... Read more |
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Wednesday, January 04, 2006 |
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By Christian Agubretu GNA FeatureAccra Jan GNA Our Elders say that one does not deny the destitute clothes if one had promised him or her one The Ghana COCOBOD should effect immediate payment for all the cocoa bought to stave off the suffering of our cocoa farmers who have sold their produce and expected immediate paymentRepo ... Read more |
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Tuesday, January 03, 2006 |
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A GNA feature by Hannah AsomaningAccra Jan GNA In front of the Elmina Castle today lies a compass allegedly used by Christopher Columbus to discover America Columbus who visited Elimna on three occasions was accompanied by Don Diego dAzambuja on his first journey to the coast of Elmina and even saw the foundation stone of the Elmin ... Read more |
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Wednesday, December 28, 2005 |
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AN INNOVATIVE MEASURE TO IMPROVE RURAL EDUCATION A GNA Feature by KWABIA OWUSUMENSAH Kumasi Dec GNA The need to improve the quality of education to the Ghanaian child especially those in the rural communities has been the concern of not only the Government but also the entire society Lack of infrastructure such as proper classroom ... Read more |
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Wednesday, December 28, 2005 |
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THE PLIGHT OF THE TEACHER A GNA Feature by KWABIA OWUSUMENSAH Kumasi Dec GNA The quest for quality education to prepare the human capital for an accelerated socioeconomic growth in the country had engaged the attention of governments since the independence The desire had not only engaged the maximum attention of governments but had a ... Read more |
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Tuesday, December 20, 2005 |
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A GNA feature by Mildred AssifuahAccra Dec GNA On December one Esi Atta a yearold seamstress from Gomoa Mozano in the Central Region joined a Benz Bus from Agona Swedru to visit Accra for the first time Her excitement to use her lifetime savings of cedis to buy some sewing materials to boost her business for ... Read more |
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Tuesday, November 29, 2005 |
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that leads to increased productivity A GNA feature by Hannah AsomaningA public toilet was built for a district in the BrongAhafo Region and the Unit Committee of the District Assembly was put in charge to manage itAt the end of the first month when the District Chief Executive DCE of the area visited the toilet to see how the pl ... Read more |
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Thursday, November 17, 2005 |
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Accra Nov GNA Can anyone single out a place or an event where the beep of a cell phones is not heard Different ringing tones high life hippop gospel music and even political slogans are heard at various placesOne recounts a situation where a middleaged man sat at the front seat of a commercial vehicle clinging onto his mobil ... Read more |
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Friday, November 11, 2005 |
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GNA Feature By Ray AnkomahAccra Nov GNA Ghana has for long treasured agriculture as the livewire of its economy contributing some per cent of the countrys labour force and accounting for per cent of its gross domestic product GDP and per cent of its export earnings This makes agriculture assume a critical and strategic ... Read more |
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Wednesday, October 26, 2005 |
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A GNA Feature by Hilda AbbanCape Coast Oct GNA The importance of technological advancement for the development of all countries particularly a developing country like Ghana must be obvious It is said that the developed countries are already light years ahead of the socalled third world countries in this aspectIt is in this ... Read more |
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Wednesday, October 19, 2005 |
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A GNA feature by Hannah Asomaning Accra Oct GNA Wow this is beautiful I exclaimed when I saw the waterfall five minutes walk away from the place and gave a sigh of relief I immediately forgot about the journey which I can conveniently describe as the most tiring I have had in a very long time The waterfall is located at the ... Read more |
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Sunday, October 16, 2005 |
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A GNA feature by Nana Kodjo JehuAppiahAccra Oct GNA Holed up in abject poverty at Nankese Asuoum kilometres of the North East of Accra in the Ga West District Prince Tetteh Eyume year old Odikro Traditional leader of the farming community took a wise decision in to register with the Food Security Programme of the Adve ... Read more |
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Saturday, October 15, 2005 |
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A GNA feature by Mrs Linda Asante AgyeiAccra Oct GNA If houses were boxes which could be moved anyhow to anywhere at anytime housing or accommodation would not be a headache for settlers in the urban areas who have come to seek so called greener pasturesA drama by Osofo Dadzie a popular drama group on Ghana Television a few yea ... Read more |
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Monday, October 10, 2005 |
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A GNA feature by Richard AvornyotseAccra Oct GNA I shall be a doctor when I grow up a little Ghanaian boy or girl would say in answer to his class teachers or parents question about what he or she would be when heshe grew up Others would mention teaching journalism law football nursing engineering surveying driving acco ... Read more |
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Thursday, October 06, 2005 |
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A GNA Feature by Samuel OseiFrempongAccra Oct GNA When the late Former Deputy Minister of Finance Mr Victor Selormey inhaled the pungent odour of his cell in prison for the first time he remembered with regret the countless occasions he had avoided discussions on budgetary support for the Ghana Prison Service A Prison Officer who ... Read more |
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Thursday, September 29, 2005 |
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A GNA Feature by Mohammed IsahaqBolgatana Sept GNA A friend aptly observed the other day that the name of the Chinese capital had at least become synonymous with women activism even if the Beijing International Womens Conference did not achieve anything at allIt pushed forth the agenda of women onto the world stage even ... Read more |
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Thursday, September 29, 2005 |
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A GNA Feature by Esther Amofa AIJC InternAccra Sept GNA Sakina Seidu is another of the evergrowing chain of victims of fake land deals in Accra A fake landowner who is involved in multiple land sales in Accra swerved a young mother who carries a ninemonth old babyHer story is a cold reminder that the fake landowners ... Read more |
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Wednesday, September 28, 2005 |
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A GNA feature by Anwomea Ackah BlayAccra Sept GNA The ninemember Presidential Commission on Pensions under the Chairmanship of Mr Thomas Ango Bediako onetime General Secretary of the Ghana National Association of Teachers GNAT and the All Africa Association of Teachers Organisation AAATO has presented its recommendations at a ne ... Read more |
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Monday, September 26, 2005 |
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GNA feature by Francis AmeyiborAccra Sept GNA Pocket Lawyer What gibberish is that Asked a Professor of law who was visiting Ghana to do a research on the legal culture of the country Of course the term is not only gibberish but also outlandish to nonGhanaiansIn Ghana Pocket Lawyer simply refers to a person who even t ... Read more |
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Friday, September 23, 2005 |
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A GNA Feature By Benjamin MensahAccra Sept GNA The journey from Accra to Paga would be long It would be more than half of a hour day By road travellers would cover kilometres but they will definitely complete the journey And when they do they would make merry They would celebrate The Paramount Chief Pe Charles Awia Awa ... Read more |
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Thursday, September 22, 2005 |
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A GNA feature by Esther Amofah AIJC InternAccra Sept GNA Food safety is increasingly becoming an important public health issue and great concern to everybody This is due to widespread food borne diseases which have affected children and adults due to the mushrooming of wayside food vendors It is public knowledge that food that is ... Read more |
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Friday, September 16, 2005 |
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A GNA Feature by Samuel OseiFrempongAccra Sept GNA An old rusty typewriter sits among a pile of papers that once fed it in a room reserved for the inquisitors of the pastIts teeth rusty a mutilated ribbon and a sheet of paper which time had browned stuck in it preserving the prints of the last strokes of this old faithful ma ... Read more |
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Friday, September 16, 2005 |
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A GNA feature by Miss Grace Alswell Aidoo AIJC InternAccra Sept GNA Women who undertake the biblical assignment to be fruitful and multiply are dying in their numbers in Ghana thus making procreation a very dangerous ventureFive hundred maternal deaths have so far been recorded between January and June this year due to preg ... Read more |
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Thursday, September 15, 2005 |
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A GNA Feature by Hannah Asomaning Accra Sept GNA People do not want to miss the news at hours on the national television Similarly a lot of people spend time listening to the various morning shows on radio and television to be informed People depend on the media for information and people argue based on what is discussed on ... Read more |
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Thursday, September 15, 2005 |
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A GNA Feature by Fauziyah Sai AIJC Intern Accra Sept GNA City dwellers are increasingly being exposed to the danger of large amounts of carbon monoxide in the atmosphere in recent times Carbon monoxide emission from automobiles takes the lives of many people and additionally inflicts incalculable damage on the environment acco ... Read more |
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Wednesday, September 14, 2005 |
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A GNA Feature by Samuel Bruce NyarkoAccra Sept GNA Accra woke up one morning to see that hawkers petty traders and unauthorized structures that once clogged the pavements and other walkways and even streets but cleared have all come backOne thought this time the metropolis had broken the jinx of only being occupied by trader ... Read more |
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Tuesday, September 13, 2005 |
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A GNA Feature by Eunice MenkaAccra Sept GNA With inflows of donor monies into developing countries to fight HIVAIDS including those of President Bushs billiondollar initiative and the Global Fund for Malaria Tuberculosis and HIVAIDS there are now possibilities of scaling up prevention activities to stop the spread of the pan ... Read more |
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Friday, September 09, 2005 |
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A GNA Feature by Miss Anita Sackey AIJC InternAccra Sept GNA It was a gory situation a seller of herbal drugs Abena Twumwaa of Akyem Kwaamang met her untimely death at Akwatia when a vehicle driven by a carpenter without driving experience knocked her downThe vehicle then veered off the road and smashed into the chapel of th ... Read more |
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Tuesday, September 06, 2005 |
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A GNA Feature by BoakyeDankwa BoadiAccra Sept GNA Hippocrates and his students at Cos in Greece keepers of the eternal flame of Medical Practice must be appalled about the level that their profession has fallen to in Ghana Since the publication of the Abraham Flexer Report in one distinctive feature medical education has stre ... Read more |
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Wednesday, August 24, 2005 |
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A GNA feature By Miss Anita Sackey AIJC InternAccra Aug GNA Sahara a sprawling community within Adabraka in the Osu Klottey Sub Metro of the Greater Accra Region is gradually degenerating into a slumTypical of every unplanned large human settlement like Sodom and Gomorrah Sahara is a cluster of wooden structures and other ... Read more |
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Wednesday, August 24, 2005 |
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A GNA feature by Fauziyah Sai AIJC InternAccra Aug GNA Our markets our food our health may sound like a slogan or a poem but that should be the national focus in the forward march to control communicable diseasesMalaria diarrhoea hepatitis and dysentery among other diseases are hardly associated with the filth that h ... Read more |
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Tuesday, August 23, 2005 |
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A GNA feature by Samuel Bruce NyarkoAccra Aug GNA Looking for shelter in the big cities is getting sour and disheartening at every tick of the clock Landlords and Landladies churn out outrageous tenancy agreements for their prospective tenants There is no clearcut formula to determine rent advances and monthly rents Landlords and ... Read more |
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Thursday, August 18, 2005 |
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A GNA feature by Miss Fauziyah Sai AIJC InternAccra Aug GNA Kpobiman is a typical Ga community in the Greater Accra Region where poverty is endemic The problem is compounded by lack of basic amenities like schools potable water and toilet facilitiesThe unsanitary conditions that welcome visitors to the community of about ... Read more |
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Wednesday, August 10, 2005 |
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A GNA Feature By George Ramsey BenambaWa Aug GNA The perennial shortage of staff especially teachers in the rural areas of the country has for years now been a major impediment to the development of all levels of education in the countryRight down from the basic to tertiary levels there are either lack of qualified teachers o ... Read more |
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Monday, August 08, 2005 |
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A GNA Feature by Samuel OseiFrempongAccra Aug GNA Sounds of drums tamtam and high pitch songs audible at a distance led the way for a busfull of unusual visitors who struggled on a rocky and dusty road to Sanga a small community in the Volta RegionThe people of Sanga were celebrating the new water system provided them re ... Read more |
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Tuesday, July 26, 2005 |
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A GNA Feature By Eunice MenkaAccra July GNA The debate as to whether a scienceled campaign involving condoms use or moral calls for abstinence and fidelity is the key to the effective HIVAIDS control continues to take centre stage as experts say this unresolved issue is hampering prevention strategies within the communitiesSci ... Read more |
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Friday, July 15, 2005 |
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A GNA Feature by Eunice Menka Accra July GNA With inflows of donor monies into developing countries to fight HIVAIDS including those of President Bushs billiondollar initiative and the Global Fund for Malaria Tuberculosis and HIVAIDS there are now possibilities of scaling up prevention activities to stop the spread of the pand ... Read more |
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Thursday, July 14, 2005 |
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Recently even the church was not spared the acrimonious debate on the propriety of ordination of gay bishops all on the altar of the vexed debate on the absolutes of sexual preferences even when such violate Gods normative orderThe focus is no doubt about the context of civilisation and mans ultimate freedom to make the choice that see ... Read more |
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Wednesday, July 13, 2005 |
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A GNA Feature by Rex Annan Accra July GNA It has become necessary to draw attention to the ubiquitous billboards littering in the urban landscape of Ghana particularly the ones that invite its patrons supposedly the young and upwardly mobile professionals to come to where there is flavour Beneath the faEade of that invitation ... Read more |
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Monday, July 04, 2005 |
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A GNA colour by Samuel OseiFrempongAccra July GNA When temperatures had dropped in and around the parliamentary chamber sweat passion and accusations possessed both old and new members as solved and unsolved murders dominated their parleyAn elderly unassuming member had made a statement on the murder of the three High Court Ju ... Read more |
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Monday, June 20, 2005 |
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A GNA Feature by Benjamin MensahAccra June GNA The roar of the breaking waves of the blue Atlantic echoed the deprivation of Africas children The children walk barechested barefooted along the beaches and in the dilapidated classrooms they crouch over kitchen stools to write while about high profile personalities sat in a sw ... Read more |
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Saturday, June 18, 2005 |
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A GNA Feature by BoakyeDankwa BoadiAccra June GNA In the late s when there was the oil boom in Nigeria and the petronaira held sway many Ghanaians left for Nigeria to assist their Economic Community of West Africa State ECOWAS brothers and sisters to savour their new found wealth The first impression one got upon entering Nig ... Read more |
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Thursday, June 16, 2005 |
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A GNA Feature by BoakyeDankwa BoadiAccra June GNA The G spearheaded by the United Kingdom on Saturday June announced the cancellation of the debt owed it by countries to the tune of billion dollars with Ghanas portion standing at billion dollarsThe affected debts are those owed to the International Monetary ... Read more |
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Tuesday, June 07, 2005 |
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A GNA feature by Caesar AbagaliTamale June GNA On the June the whole world would focus attention on child labour This is because children have been abused maltreated and misused by subjecting them to various inhuman treatments But it is the use of children for various labours which is the most pervasive and cruel even though it a ... Read more |
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Monday, June 06, 2005 |
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A GNA Feature By Benjamin MensahAccra June GNA The pains were piercing The scars were deep The tears were emotional and the narrations chilling Some could not live long enough to tell their stories for society to appreciate the ills it committed against them They died both silently and violently gaping in agony as life ebbed out ... Read more |
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Monday, May 30, 2005 |
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A GNA Feature by Rex AnnanAccra May GNA Examinations are here again and students have many challenges to face ranging from personal academic goals parental expectation peer pressure panic and fear of failure Really it is natural for individuals to have stress over exams but the tension can be minimised through workable strategi ... Read more |
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Tuesday, May 24, 2005 |
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A GNA Feature by BoakyeDankwa BoadiAccra May GNA Our elders say nsuo taa aponkyereni a ogye woo literary meaning if the frog takes in too much water it belchesKofi Coomson and his lackeys at The Chronicle have been ridding the tiger and must know that they would end up in its bellyThe Chronicle in its lead sto ... Read more |
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Thursday, May 19, 2005 |
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A GNA Feature By Maxwell AwumahHohoe May GNA The Sister Cities International SCI movement developed out of an idea mooted by President Dwight D Eisenhower of the United States in It aimed at encouraging people of the world and different cultures to reach out to each other as a means of strengthening international cooperation a ... Read more |
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Friday, May 13, 2005 |
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A GNA FeatureBy Benjamin Mensah Accra May GNA The debate about fuel prices rages on Whether Government reduces prices of petroleum products or not travelling on the Barnes Road from the New Tema Station to the Kwame Nkrumah Circle is smooth The road is modern first class Whether in a rackety jalopy or a latest brand of autom ... Read more |
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Friday, May 13, 2005 |
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A GNA feature by Emelia EnninAccra May GNA It was a bright sunny Saturday at a farming community along the Accra Kasoa road Typical of people living at the countryside a number of households have heaped huge earthen bowls with peeled cassava and plantain on coal pots ready to exert energy to transform the boiling foodstuff into ... Read more |
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Thursday, May 12, 2005 |
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A GNA Feature by By Maxwell Awumah The Sister Cities International SCI movement developed out of an idea mooted by President Dwight D Eisenhower of the United States in It aimed at encouraging people of the world and different cultures to reach out to each other as a means of strengthening international cooperation and peace ... Read more |
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Tuesday, May 10, 2005 |
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A GNA feature by Beatrice Akua AsamaniAccra May GNA After three decades of shuttling between Ghana and Botswana Mrs Julia SarkodieMensah could no longer stand the misconceptions held by citizens of the two countries about each other In Botswana she heard people talking about Ghana as if it were an extension of Nigeria with its citiz ... Read more |
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Wednesday, May 04, 2005 |
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A GNA Feature by Samuel OseiFrempongAccra May GNA Along the AccraTema Beach Road the presence of a huge sparkling brick work saves the image of abandoned wooden houses and a large tract of land littered with refuse and human excretaSplendid architectural edifices made of smooth bricks enveloped in well kept lawns is a hive of ... Read more |
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Tuesday, May 03, 2005 |
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A Ghana News Agency Feature By BA Adom Accra May GNA It has often been said that there could be no development without women This is a remarkable statement with sociobiological underpinnings in that though men play a crucial role in procreation women are endowed with a capacity to conceive babies nine months until delivery In t ... Read more |
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Saturday, April 30, 2005 |
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A GNA feature by Hannah AsomaningAccra April GNA Akosua Mansah realized she was pregnant and for a moment she thought there was no meaning to lifeShe has not been promiscuous but just one affair with Kwesi and this is the result she said loudly to herselfA myriad of thought went through her mind what would happen to ... Read more |
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Friday, April 22, 2005 |
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A GNA Feature by Samuel OseiFrempongAccra April GNA Along the long tiny Spintex road where urban road planning and population growth have nothing in common bad tampered drivers add to the frustration of workers who commute daily on the zshaped roadWhen the huge population of old Accra and Tema started moving towards the are ... Read more |
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Wednesday, April 13, 2005 |
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A GNA Feature By Rex AnnanKumasi April GNA The main objective of higher education is to equip the student with the requisite knowledge and skills to enable him or her to contribute effectively to the national development effort This training demands periodic assessment and evaluation in form of examinations in order to ascertain the l ... Read more |
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Tuesday, April 05, 2005 |
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A GNA feature by Patricia Akpene Tegbe Accra April GNA Life Sages say is full of surprises Human beings have explored are exploring and will continue to explore as far as they continued to exist Such explorations invariably yield discoveries which more often than not add so much difference pleasant flavours and sweet memories to o ... Read more |
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Friday, April 01, 2005 |
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A GNA feature by Caesar AbagaliTamale April GNA The Budget Statement read by the new Minister of Finance and Economic Planning Mr Kwadwo Baah Wiredu amply demonstrated the significance of the fishing industry to the Gross Domestic Product GDP of GhanaThe importance of the fishing industry as a source of protein in the die ... Read more |
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Wednesday, March 30, 2005 |
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A GNA feature by Samuel OseiFrempongAccra March GNA Five years ago a small group of Ghanaian Members of Parliament MPs took a stroll in the heart of Lagos the sprawling Commercial Capital of NigeriaThis overcrowded city has a lot of things that pleases and displeases the eye so they set out to catch a glimpseThe grou ... Read more |
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Tuesday, March 29, 2005 |
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A GNA Feature By Abigail AddoQuaye Naa Dede Wusu IFor three days QueenMothers put aside their roles as ceremonial partners accompanying their chiefs to functions and brainstormed on effective mediation skills to enable them to resolve disputes and conflicts in their communitiesThe QueenMothers drawn from the GaAdangme Tradi ... Read more |
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Thursday, March 17, 2005 |
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Accra March GNA Domestic and international trade over the years have seen significant increases in the volume of export and import of goods This has led to increased opportunities for countries to earn revenue from the collection of taxes Customs is cut to do this onerous job All businessmen do not like to pay readily Some would like to ... Read more |
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Friday, March 11, 2005 |
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One is compelled to comment on the outcome of Ghana Football Associations GFA press conference The piece is based on the assumption that what the Chronicle reported was the true account of what Dr Nyaho Nayaho Tamakloe GFA Chairman saidThat through the assistance of the Divestiture Implementation Committee DIC the GFA acquired Plot Nu ... Read more |
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Thursday, February 24, 2005 |
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A GNA Colour by Samuel OseiFrempongAccra FebGNA As the sun smite the weathering grass lawns around Parliament House rose flowers refused to blossom because their tenderness could not stand the heat of the sunBut in the cool Chamber of Parliament beautiful and tender looking female members of Majority in Parliament spared lavi ... Read more |
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Thursday, February 17, 2005 |
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A GNA feature by Eric Kwao SowahKoforidua Feb GNA I could hardly understand the drivers mate as he refused to accept the money handed to him by the passenger I looked at him with disbelief I said to myself I would have refused to pay him had it been meI then took a five thousandcedi note from my pocket and looked carefully at ... Read more |
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Thursday, February 10, 2005 |
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Accra Feb GNA Human beings were made to live as one and recognise each other as the same but the achievements of some people and the privileges they enjoy either through illegal or legal means place them in a better position in society than others in terms of shelter food and clothing which are the basic necessities of lifeFor this ... Read more |
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Thursday, February 03, 2005 |
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A GNA feature by Stephanie QuaysonAccra Feb GNA A fast growing practice that seems to have taken roots among Ghanaians especially women is the supposed beauty enhancement through bleachingThough women are most guilty men cannot be left out of the picture as some of them also bleachBleaching involves the removal of the ... Read more |
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Monday, January 31, 2005 |
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By Kwabia OwusuMensahKumasi Jan GNA Mankind since time immemorial had struggled in diverse ways to make ends meetIn the Bible for instance after Adam had eaten the forbidden fruit God told him that he would eat from the sweat of his labour This commandment of God ushered mankind into the world of hard work to enable him to ... Read more |
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Saturday, January 22, 2005 |
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A GNA feature by BoakyeDankwa BoadiAccra Jan GNA Is Journalism a trade vocation or profession It is a profession WhyOh I asked because there is an ongoing debate on the issue in this countryJournalism is one profession that can easily bring the practitioner into conflict with governmentsThis was a ... Read more |
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Thursday, January 06, 2005 |
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A GNA colour by Samuel OseiFrempongAccra Jan GNA Somewhere in the vast fields of Osu people who consciously defined the storyline of a nations drama saw the curtain drawn on their last performanceIt is called Parliament and the people who took its stage were chosen for four years and no moreAlong this long and s ... Read more |
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Tuesday, January 04, 2005 |
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A GNA feature by Samuel OseiFrempongAccra Jan GNA In a near bleak dry season when the harmattan wind had begun its assault on the countrys coastal plains the First Gentlemen of Ghana glowed offering hope for years to come He had a date with the people of Ghana in their House of Representatives to account for his stewardship for th ... Read more |
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Monday, January 03, 2005 |
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A GNA Feature By Samuel DowuonaAccra Jan GNA In Ghana the Gender Studies and Human Rights Documentation Centre otherwise known as the Gender Centre recently organised a workshop for various womens groups in the country to deliberate on how to deepen local efforts at empowering women to negotiate safe sexThis article is dedicat ... Read more |
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Tuesday, December 14, 2004 |
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A GNA Colour by Samuel Osei FrempongAccra Dec GNA On the long and expansive lawns adjoining the walk ways to Parliament vultures and crows share companionship around an artificial water jerky planted to nourish the withering grass coverAs the black and white feathered birds cool off in the high temperatures with unusual compan ... Read more |
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Thursday, December 02, 2004 |
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A GNA Election News Feature by Francis AmeyiborAccra Dec GNA Elections is some few days away very critical on the electoral process is the period between casting of votes and declaration of resultsVoting on Tuesday December by official calculations is expected to start at all polling stations at hours to end ... Read more |
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Saturday, November 20, 2004 |
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A GNA Feature by Sammy VeddiHo Nov GNA Bad roads have been identified as a contributing factor to the poor development in rural areas in the country It is in this vein that most of the rural communities are calling for rehabilitation of both their feeder and trunk roadsThe roads in the Central Volta to the Northern sector of th ... Read more |
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Thursday, November 18, 2004 |
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Tamale Nov GNA The sad news from home is that your wife has produced her own picture again This is the way the news is broken to husbands whose wives give birth to baby girls during their absence by family members of certain ethnic groups in the countrySometimes the husbands react violently to such news as Bawa one of the halfbr ... Read more |
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Thursday, November 18, 2004 |
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A GNA feature by Nana Kodjo JehuAppiahAccra Nov GNA Typical of every major election year in Ghana is the ritual of beating the drums of war by some politicians who perhaps enjoy the disharmony associated with political violence The cacophony of war drums tends to affect the symphony that should be the birthright of the countrys f ... Read more |
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Saturday, October 23, 2004 |
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A GNA Feature by BoakyeDankwa BoadiAccra Oct GNA The Royal Dutch Airline Flight KL took off from the Accra Kotoka International Airport on Friday September on schedule On board were six Ghanaian Journalists including this writer whom the German Government was gratuitously sponsoring to witness state elections in the Free Sta ... Read more |
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Saturday, October 16, 2004 |
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GNA Feature By Ray AnkomahAccra Oct GNA Twenty years down the lane Ghanaian farmers who have distinguished themselves in their various vocations have received a wide range of awards for feeding the nation and boosting its revenue and foreign exchange baseThe designation of the first Friday of December each year as National F ... Read more |
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Tuesday, October 12, 2004 |
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A GNA feature by Benjamin Mensah Accra Oct GNA The weather when the end came was dull The Hall of the Old Parliament House was just at room temperature It was not hot as when it began when programme schedule printouts were distributed and plastic fans fluttered in the filled to capacity chamber in attempts to keep the sweltering war ... Read more |
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Monday, October 11, 2004 |
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BY CHRISTIAN AGUBRETUAccra Oct GNA The National Planning Committee of this years World Food Day which falls on October must be constrained indeed to find a venue to celebrate the Day so as to make it participatory and to bring the theme Biodiversity for Food Security closer home to as many people as possibleIt is in the ... Read more |
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Sunday, October 03, 2004 |
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A GNA feature by Hannah Asomaning Women are not allowed to visit the Tano Sacred Grove when they are in their menstrual period But the irony is that the people of Tano and Bono are promised a good rainy season when virgins in their menstrual period pour water into the Odomankoma Ahina The Pot of the Creator and it overflows Odomankoma ... Read more |
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Saturday, October 02, 2004 |
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A GNA Feature by BoakyeDankwa BoadiAccra Oct GNA The Royal Dutch Airline Flight KL took off from the Accra Kotoka International Airport on Friday September on schedule On board were six Ghanaian Journalists including this writer whom the German Government was gratuitously sponsoring to witness state elections in the Free St ... Read more |
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Wednesday, September 29, 2004 |
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A GNA feature by Lydia Ofori AbakahAccra Sept GNA A story about a widower and a father of two recounted in a taxi had it that he recently lost his job because he was found to be HIV positive His plight became compounded when he was fired again after he secured a new job because his first employer revealed his HIV status to the new emp ... Read more |
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Wednesday, September 29, 2004 |
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A GNA Feature by Samuel OseiFrempong Accra Sept GNA Not too long ago a television station showed on its screen a Nigerian comedy titled Mr Ibu with the popular Nigerian Actor John Okafor as the lead actor In this comedy many scenes sought to portray persons with disability as indecent wild mischievous and not good enough ... Read more |
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Monday, September 27, 2004 |
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A GNA feature by Francis AmeyiborAccra Sept GNA Kwami You cannot ask me such a question How can you call me on the air and begin to ask me questions about my company Am not under any obligation to answer your questions or tell you whether my institution is making profit or notJournalists in their quest to secure informatio ... Read more |
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Wednesday, September 22, 2004 |
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A GNA Feature by George WiafeStudent JournalistAccra Sept GNA Ten years after the liberalization of the airwaves one wonders whether the spate of Radio phoneins has been a blessing or a curse to Ghanas democracyRecently many Ghanaians have expressed their misgivings about phoneins especially in this election year Phon ... Read more |
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Wednesday, September 22, 2004 |
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A GNA Feature by Maxwell AwumahHo Sept GNA This years yam festival of the Chiefs and people of Asogli State under the distinguished patronage of Togbe Afede XIV the Agbogbomefia commenced from Friday September and would end on Sunday October The festival which seeks to highlight unity reconciliation stocktaking and dev ... Read more |
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Monday, September 20, 2004 |
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A GNA Feature by Richardson BaidooTakoradi Sept GNA To the hard working and peace loving people of the Western Region the most significant aspect of the just ended Homecoming Summit dubbed Nkabom Afahye of the Region was the Unity Pact that was signed and ratified by all the Paramount Chiefs in the RegionAmong the dignita ... Read more |
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Monday, September 13, 2004 |
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A GNA Feature by AUDREY DEKALUAccra Sept GNA The birth of a baby is celebrated world wide since society expects women to procreate to continue the biological line of replenishing the earth While the celebration of the fertility of women has been going on for ages only few people pause to consider the perilous nature of pregnancy and ... Read more |
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Friday, August 20, 2004 |
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A GNA Feature by William Dodzi EzahAccra Aug GNA Viewed against the backdrop that per cent of those who contract HIVAIDS in the country do so through sex anyone with enough insight taking a casual look at the communal life in Accra especially at night would appreciate the formidable task that confronts the national programme to ... Read more |
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Wednesday, August 18, 2004 |
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A GNA feature by Osei Akwasi GIJ Intern Accra Aug GNA Ghanas lunching of an Accelerated Development Programme ADP of Telecommunications in and the subsequent implementation of an economic liberalisation policy in created an environment that facilitated the country becoming an active player in the global network of the te ... Read more |
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Friday, August 06, 2004 |
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GNA Feature By Hannah Asomaning Accra August GNA Driving through the Lobi Community in the Upper West Region of Ghana one thing that catches the eye are wooden poles along the main streets They signify the various marriages that have been contracted in the community In accordance with custom marrying someones wife is a mark of braver ... Read more |
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Monday, August 02, 2004 |
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A GNA Feature By BoakyeDankwa BoadiAccra Aug GNA Busumuru Kofi Annan SecretaryGeneral of the United Nations last Friday took a onekilometre stroll along an Accra avenue in what could be described as a search for peace The stroll by Busumuru accompanied by his wife Nane took him to the Department of Parks and Gardens at Cantonme ... Read more |
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Monday, July 26, 2004 |
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A GNA feature by Lydia Ofori AbakahAccra July GNA The Ministry of Food and Agriculture MOFA has good news for the public The general food outlook for the year is healthy following carryover stock from last years good supplies For although there were slight reductions in production of certain crops in compared with sto ... Read more |
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Monday, July 26, 2004 |
A Ghana News Agency feature By Dzifa Azumah Accra July GNA The statistics are cold There are only nine women holding ministerial and deputy ministerial positions in the present government against men There is only of one woman Deputy Regional Minister in the Regions and there are only women parliamentarians in the member Hous ... Read more |
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Monday, July 19, 2004 |
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A Ghana News Agency Feature By BoakyeDankwa Boadi Accra July GNA Every mornings mathematics class at the Asem Local Authority Primary School in Kumasi in the s started with mental arithmetic while the afternoon English Language class began with dictation The teacher would start by asking X D and the pupil was expecte ... Read more |
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Saturday, July 10, 2004 |
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A Ghana News Agency News Feature By BoakyeDankwa Boadi Eureka Eureka Eureka Elated Archimedes is reported to have shouted when he discovered a way to determine the purity of gold by applying the principle of specific gravity The Minister of Finance and Economic Planning Mr Yaw OsafoMaafo went into the same mood when he was informed on F ... Read more |
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Thursday, July 01, 2004 |
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Relationship Approach A GNA Feature By Kwabia OwusuMensah Kumasi June GNA African countries have since the attainment of independence tried to come together to form a formidable union that would help promote unity among them and speed up their socioeconomic development and growth They have also tried in various ways to int ... Read more |
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Friday, June 18, 2004 |
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Tamale June GNA Tamale the capital of the Northern Region and one time Rice City now cannot boast of a single supermarket where one can confidently go and buy locally produced rice What a pity All its markets streets and supermarkets are flooded with all kinds of imported rice from America China Brazil Vietnam and ThailandPeo ... Read more |
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Monday, June 14, 2004 |
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A GNA Feature by Gideon SackiteyAccra June GNA In the last week of May the picturesque lakeshore resort of Speke Resort Munyonyo in Kampala Uganda hosted over African Finance Ministers Governors of the African Development Bank Group officials of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund Financial Experts Rating Agencies ... Read more |
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Friday, May 28, 2004 |
A GNA News Feature by Abigail AddoQuaye Accra May GNA Child trafficking has been termed as the Mother of the worst forms of child labour It is estimated that people are trafficked internationally every year Child prostitution slavery practices particularly in the fishing industry child domestic servitude exploitation of ... Read more |
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Friday, May 21, 2004 |
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A GNA Feature by Ms Beatrice Akua AsamaniAccra May GNA At about hours some three hours ahead of Ghanas time on Monday May Vice President Aliu Mahama arrived at the Doha International Airport with a Government Delegation for a threeday State visit which was at the invitation of the Heir Apparent to the Qatari Throne Shei ... Read more |
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Thursday, April 29, 2004 |
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A GNA Feature by Linda Asante Agyei Accra April GNA If Money were all it takes to be pregnant and have babies the rich would have gotten all the children with the poor having none Bur since it takes more than just that rich women with millions of cedis are hovering around the hospitals churches shrines babalawos and native doctors ... Read more |
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Friday, April 23, 2004 |
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A GNA Feature by Hannah AsomaningAccra April GNA We need to learn more about the slave trade find out the roles of our ancestors in its perpetration use it as a basis to understand our brothers and sisters in the Diaspora the more and find out how to turn that tragedy into something more positive for our country our continent and ... Read more |
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Tuesday, April 13, 2004 |
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A GNA Feature by Clemence OkumahAccra April GNA African Leaders at the end of a twoday Second Extraordinary Summit of Heads of State and Government of the African Union AU recently advocated the immediate establishment of an African Common Market for agriculture produce and commodities Member states of the Union were requested to ... Read more |
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Saturday, April 10, 2004 |
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A GNA FEATURE by EMMANUEL PK AUBINACCRA April GNA African countries should strive for tobacco free continent by enforcing the fight against the use of tobacco with new legislations and continuous price hikes to make it more difficult for smokers to keep puffingMany countries across the continent have enacted or are formulating l ... Read more |
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Monday, March 15, 2004 |
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A GNA feature by Hannah AsomaningAccra March GNA The traffic was unusually heavy with a lot of people moving about One could not easily manoeuvre through the crowd Then suddenly this writer heard an old man saying Please help me Today is Friday Help me with something for the weekendLooking at this beggar a myriad of tho ... Read more |
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Saturday, March 06, 2004 |
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A GNA Feature By B D PobiaTamale March GNA Ghanaians are fond of sighing They sigh in the streets in schools at workplaces marketplaces and home and on the farmsMany Ghanaians are sighing to express their feelings of disappointment tiredness or displeasure Sighing has become a characteristic of GhanaiansAfter sighi ... Read more |
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Wednesday, February 25, 2004 |
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The Guinea worm diseases is one of the menacing problems that inhibit the socioeconomic development of Northern Ghana This awful disease which is water borne has its roots deeply in the lack of potable water for the people in the Region Most communities in the Northern Region and northern parts of the Volta Region depend solely on dams an ... Read more |
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Tuesday, February 24, 2004 |
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A GNA Feature by BD PobiaTamale Feb GNA If there is an organization that is working hard to promote agriculture and improve the socioeconomic life of farmers in the three Northern Regions then that should be the Savanna Agricultural Research Institute SARIThe SARI with its headquarters in the Northern Region is one of the ... Read more |
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Monday, February 23, 2004 |
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A GNA Feature by BoakyeDankwa BoadiAccra Feb GNA Was it Macbeth who said something to the effect that all the waters of the oceans could not wash clean his hands which he had soiled with the blood of King DuncanIn the same vein the huge reputation of Unilever Ghana Limited and all the Omo Super Stain Remover it produces coul ... Read more |
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Saturday, February 21, 2004 |
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From Linda Asante Agyei GNA Special Correspondent Dakar Courtesy Plan International GhanaDakar Feb GNA Over per cent of children in the subSaharan Africa have not had their births registered and this has denied many of them entry into the formal school Senegal UNICEF Regional Advisor Mrs Evelyn Pressoir said on Friday in Dak ... Read more |
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Tuesday, February 17, 2004 |
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A GNA Feature By BD Pobia Tamale Feb GNA Dogs in Daashei a village in the East Gonja District of the Northern Region now have an additional role to play they follow the scent of water instead of the scent of animals If a dog had never led one to a water source to drink then rush to Daashei and just follow any dog that comes in th ... Read more |
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Tuesday, February 10, 2004 |
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A GNA Feature by Benjamin MensahAccra Feb GNA Big Brother HIVAIDS is very wicked It has no mercy for anybody even little helpless children Adults moan children cry but the ubiquitous wailing would not discourage Master HIVAIDS to relent on its mass and premature killingThe disease kills without mercy mothers too make ... Read more |
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Tuesday, January 27, 2004 |
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A GNA feature by Nana Kodjo JehuAppiahAccra Jan GNA One Theresa a yearold lady who was using a public transport from Taifa to the Accra Business District on a Monday morning slept throughout the oneandahalf hour journey in perfect peace oblivious of the bustling human activity around her When the bus made a final stop at ... Read more |
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Friday, January 16, 2004 |
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Feature by GB OSEIANTWI Kaiser International owners of the Volta Aluminium Company VALCO is reported to have made an offer to sell the company to the Government and people of Ghana President John Agyekum Kufuor who announced this on December said a Memorandum of Understanding MoU to this effect was to be signed later i ... Read more |
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Friday, January 09, 2004 |
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A GNA Feature by BoakyeDankwa Boadi One would have thought that the days when pupils at the basic school level were taught that Mungo Park discovered the River Niger and had to reproduce this fallacy in order to obtain distinction at the Middle School Leaving Certificate Examinations were gone but alas those days are still with us Indeed Gha ... Read more |
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Thursday, January 08, 2004 |
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A GNA feature by Christopher Arko Accra Jan GNA Governments over the years have paid lip service to the water sector especially with regard to the protection and management of the various water bodies in the country Time and again people from all walks of life among them politicians declare loudly that water is vital for life but it a ... Read more |
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Friday, January 02, 2004 |
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A GNA Feature by Edmund QuaynorKoforidua Dec GNA The rains have stopped Some years back this was the time that farming activities were at their lowest ebb as farmers waited for the drying up of their grains to be harvested while those who had planted perennial crops weeded under them to protect them against bushfiresHowever ... Read more |
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Thursday, January 01, 2004 |
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A GNA Feature By Mrs Justina Paaga Cape Coast Dec GNA Many Ghanaians on Wednesday November received the news of the creation of new more districts with mixed feelings Some took the announcement as a new plan of the government to win votes in those areas and others too as the execution of Section One of the local government ... Read more |
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Tuesday, December 02, 2003 |
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A GNA Feature By Muhammed Nurudeen Issahaq Bolgatanga Dec GNA Some call it the intruder in the home Others too refer to it as the wonder box but whatever name you may decide to give it does not alter the fact that the television set has revolutionized the information world more than any other medium of mass communication in ... Read more |
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Sunday, November 30, 2003 |
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A GNA Feature By Christian Agubretu Following the passage of Act of the Export Development and Investment Fund EDIF was born as a facility to assist those in agriculture manufacturing and export services providers and thus give impetus to the industrialisation of the country The satisfaction of the farmer would be that the industrial ... Read more |
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Sunday, November 16, 2003 |
A GNA Feature by Hannah Asomaning Accra Nov GNA Many residents know the Accra Metropolitan Assembly AMA as being responsible for keeping and maintaining a clean environment in the city of Accra It is therefore commonplace to hear people blame them for not keeping the Metropolis clean Many people complain of filth in the ... Read more |
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Sunday, November 16, 2003 |
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A GNA Feature by BD Pobia Tamale Nov GNA There is a place in Ghana where Nature First Made People still live Life in this world depends on prophecy and the people there find it difficult to adjust themselves to modern trends In this world prophecy is the determining factor in the life of the people When the day breaks e ... Read more |
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Wednesday, November 12, 2003 |
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A GNA Feature by Andrew AwonnoreAccra Nov GNA If there is any topical matter that cuts across all the boundaries of politics economics and social environment then it is the issue of women and childrens total libertyGlobally women and children predominantly continue to face almost all of the worlds problems which include HI ... Read more |
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Thursday, November 06, 2003 |
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A GNA feature by Caesar Abagali Tamale November GNA The crocodile regarded in many parts of the world as one of the most uncompromising and wild creatures that can cope with water and land conditions is indeed an intriguing animal It is interesting both in its variety and lifes existence the way it has shown remarkable contrasting ... Read more |
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Wednesday, November 05, 2003 |
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Accra Nov GNA Agriculture the mainstay of the national economy after more than four decades of independence still remains the single most attractive and important sector that seriously engages the attention of every Government no matter its ideology and political manifestoThe Ministry of Food and Agriculture MoFA states that the ... Read more |
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Tuesday, October 21, 2003 |
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A GNA News Feature By BoakyeDankwa BoadiAccra Oct GNA Ghana celebrated her rd anniversary of Republican status on July and as it has been the practice over the years President John Agyekum Kufuor pardoned a number of prisoners including Francis Ababio alias DjithiandaBut as our elders say Yafun bone nnim se wo as ... Read more |
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Friday, October 17, 2003 |
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A GNA Feature by Philip J ForsonAccra Oct GNA Once again the celebration of World Food Day WFD is here with us and regrettably more than million people remain hungryThe International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights recognizes that everyone must have the fundamental right to be free from hungerIt is ... Read more |
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Friday, October 10, 2003 |
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Attaining Quality Education In Rural Deprived Communities Ghana News Agency Feature by Ms Josephine Naaeke Accra Oct GNA Attaining quality education in rural and deprived areas of the country is the hope and expectation of the people living in those areas The few schools that exist in rural communities are faced with problems of f ... Read more |
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Thursday, October 09, 2003 |
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A GNA feature By Francis AmeyiborAccra Oct GNA The conclusion of a recent survey by African Women Lawyers Association AWLA Ghana on incidence of sexual harassment in Ghana that only women are subjects of sexual persecution is in a bad tasteThe report launched on September was based on responses of women in fo ... Read more |
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Wednesday, October 08, 2003 |
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Feature by Philip J Forson Accra Oct GNA One of the factors that has enhanced Globalization is the Internet Indeed Marshall Mcluhan a communication scholar predicted more than three decades ago that the world would turn into a Global Village His prediction has been realized through the World Wide Web WWW and the Internet B ... Read more |
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Wednesday, October 08, 2003 |
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A GNA Feature by Mrs Emily NyarkoAccra Oct GNA The World Habitat Day is with us once again to remind governments and the governed that the right to adequate housing as set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human rights should not become a mere sloganThat declaration which recognized access to safe and healthy shelter and b ... Read more |
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Saturday, October 04, 2003 |
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A GNA Feature By Francis Ameyibor Accra Oct GNA With the sound of the trumpet reminiscent of biblical story of the triumphant second coming of Jesus Christ a bee of Judges snail into The Cathedral Church of The Most Holy Trinity in Accra on Saturday to attend the th Legal Year Service The Chief Justice Mr Justice Gorge Kingsley ... Read more |
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Friday, October 03, 2003 |
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Accra Oct GNA BoabengFiema Monkey Sanctuary is unique It is the only place where two different species of monkeys regarded as sacred the Campbells Mona and the Geoffroys Columbus live together within the same habitat in peace and in harmony with human beings Monkeys around the world do not enjoy this status according to Wildlife Ex ... Read more |
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Tuesday, September 23, 2003 |
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ChangeA GNA Feature by Kwabia OwusuMensahKumasi Sept GNA Building on access roads waterways and unauthorised places had remained one of the major problems confronting city and town managers over the yearsThe situation is more disturbing in major cities such as Accra Kumasi Takoradi Tamale and other emerging periurba ... Read more |
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Sunday, September 21, 2003 |
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A GNA News Feature By BoakyeDankwa BoadiAccra Sept GNA With the successful election of a Presidential candidate for the Red Rooster Party along with its National Executives as prelude a to the Elections is there the hope that the cock would crow at dawn and come to roost at sundownOr are we going to be treated to the caw ... Read more |
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Friday, September 19, 2003 |
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A GNA News Feature By Samuel OseiFrempongAccra Sept GNA Parliament bustled with life and brotherhood as the Minority walked in elegantly to fill the seats they vacated last monthTheir colleagues in the Majority had long booked their places buoyed by the ripples of the Dagbon crises which had engulfed the Chamber of the People ... Read more |
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Monday, September 08, 2003 |
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The GNA GJA Chapter paper on who is a JournalistAccra Sept GNA We have been called upon by destiny to help shape the future of our cherished professionWe are all aware of the debate and argument that have erupted in the last few weeks following our rejection of the Journalist of the Year and the call to define who a Jou ... Read more |
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Sunday, September 07, 2003 |
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GNA Feature By Hannah AsomaningAccra Sept GNA Ghana noted for its political stability in the West African subregion is blessed with a lot of tourist sites scattered all over the entire country making it a good destination for thousands of local and foreign visitors each yearTourism which constitutes a significant contribu ... Read more |
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Thursday, September 04, 2003 |
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A GNA feature by Lawrence QuarteyAccra Sept GNA The heated argument as to whether African governments would be able to rise above the shackles of poverty and marginalisation still rages onWhilst some hold the view that the continents resuscitation is buried only in the commitment of African governments to forge a united front t ... Read more |
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Sunday, August 31, 2003 |
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A GNA Feature by BoakyeDankwa Boadi Who is a Journalist A Journalist is a person who has undergone formal training and has been certificated as such The qualification might range from a Certificate through Licentiate Diploma Bachelors Degree PostGraduate Diploma and Masters to Doctorate Degrees A Journalists work entails the gathering wr ... Read more |
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Saturday, August 30, 2003 |
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A GNA feature by Francis AmeyiborAccra Aug GNA Hey My Brother Are you sure Ghana has registered political partiesYes sirThis was a dialogue between a sceptical Chief Editor and a Reporter who was very sure of his factsAre you sure there is a Ghana Democratic Republican Party GDRP Yes sir Mr Kofi Amoah a ... Read more |
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Friday, August 29, 2003 |
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A GNA feature by Nana Kodjo JehuAppiahAccra Aug GNA We wonna go home we wonna go home angry Liberian women yelled their hearts out to press home their frustrations for staying in Ghana for far too long as refugees The foreboding women clad in white Tshirts and chanting a mantra for a quick return to their homeland were at the ... Read more |
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Monday, August 18, 2003 |
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A GNA feature By Ekuba QuarmineAccra Aug GNA The streets in cities in the country are dotted with extravagantly decorated and stylishly mounted kiosks from which young men dish out fast foods popularly called CheckCheck to regular customers especially in the eveningsThe scene is usually noisy with people in a queue waiting an ... Read more |
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Sunday, August 10, 2003 |
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GNA Feature By Clemence OkumahAccra Aug GNA Child trafficking is becoming a serious problem in the country in spite of efforts to curb the menace The practice is not only dehumanising but also amounts to abuse of the legal rights of children and a waste of human resource potentialArticle of the UN Convention on the Rights o ... Read more |
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Friday, August 08, 2003 |
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A GNA Feature By Benjamin Mensah Accra Aug GNA The incidence of noncommunicable diseases is rising in recent years Indeed the World Health Organisation WHO estimates that by the year noncommunicable diseases would be the cause of over per cent of the global burden of disease and this should be a cause for concern Th ... Read more |
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Tuesday, August 05, 2003 |
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A Ghana News Agency Feature by Samuel OseiFrempong Accra Aug GNA When an old and dilapidated Willowbrook bus roars honks and spews carbon from its rear around the Kwame Nkrumah Circle in Accra at anytime of the day they take one route the KaneshieOdorkorMallam road If the road were a river it would have been one of the mos ... Read more |
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Thursday, July 24, 2003 |
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A Students Tribute to DOK Dankwa Former Headmaster of Ghana Secondary School KoforiduaAccra July GNA The return to eternity of Mr Daniel Ofori Kwame Dankwa former Headmaster of Ghana Secondary School Koforidua at the ripe age of marks the end of an epoch in secondary school education in the New Juaben Municipality Eastern ... Read more |
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Monday, July 21, 2003 |
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A GNA Feature By Dzifa AzumahAccra July GNA Yes Ice water Yes Pure water shouted year old Amina as she went round the Koforiduabound bus As the passengers boarded the bus one after the other Auntie Akua who was struggling to occupy the front seat asked for the price of the sachet of waterIt is cedis sa ... Read more |
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Wednesday, July 09, 2003 |
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A GNA Feature by Agnes BoyeDoe Accra July GNA Rape and defilement have become household words in the country due to the high rate at which they occur Indeed hardly would a day pass without the newspapers the radio stations or the television reporting on these criminal acts Statistics from the Women and Juvenile Unit WAJU of ... Read more |
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