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Wednesday, November 18, 2009 |
The police are permitted to employ reasonable force in combating crime and effecting the arrest of hostile suspectsIn recent months the police have been criticised by many for returning fire for fire when attacked by suspected armed robbers shooting their way from arrest resulting in the deaths of a good number of the suspectsThe critic ... Read more |
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009 |
Freedom of speech and expression including freedom of the press and other media are among the general fundamental freedoms enshrined in the constitution of GhanaThe fruit of this constitutional provision is seen in the proliferation of media houses across the country and the attendant participation of all and sundry in the articulation of view ... Read more |
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009 |
On Wednesday October Accra residents watched in hopeless awe as the storey Ministry of Foreign Affairs building was in flames It brought back sad memories of the events of September during which the twin towers of the World Trade Centre WTC in New York came down under the impact of two aircraft which crashed into them ... Read more |
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Tuesday, November 17, 2009 |
In the early part of as the then Senators Barack Obama and Hilary Clinton tried to outshine each other to get the nomination of the Democratic Party as its presidential candidate the latter landed in hot waters when she made the infamous claims about sniper fire in Bosnia The former first lady of the United States of America said of an ear ... Read more |
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Tuesday, November 17, 2009 |
There is a saying that if poverty sends you on an errand it gives you no options The earlier you put on your tattered sandals and trek through the warped clefts of life the slighter your miseries With regards to Zoe Clark an English lady from Lincolnshire it was love not poverty that sent her across the English Channel to the shrub lands of Accra ... Read more |
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Friday, November 13, 2009 |
After my piece in the last edition on the Jubilee House Im afraid Im not done yet with buildings and citiesThe Accra Mall in the national capital is arguably the most popular place in the city Built only in the last three or years it is attracting huge numbers of visitors daily and the numbers keep on growingI can tell you why A ... Read more |
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Thursday, November 12, 2009 |
Its become a question stuck to tongues of most mouths shy to come out What is that red flower most people seen on International Television stick to their lapels The answer its a poppy a symbol that signifies Remembrance DayRemembrance Day also known as Poppy Day Veterans Day Armistice Day its original name is a day to commemorate ... Read more |
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Thursday, November 12, 2009 |
Empowering the Youth through Service LearningBy Anis HaffarAccepting the need to bring innovation and efficiencies into government structures should be a foregone conclusion In Bill Gates sounded the way forward in his transformational bestseller Business the Speed of Thought In a chapter titled Information Flo ... Read more |
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Thursday, November 12, 2009 |
Occasionally we hear protests from some militant womens groups complaining about the portrayal of women as sex symbols by advertisers and corporate institutions which exploit the female body for commercial purposesThere is also this complaint against what has been described as stereotyping that reinforces the perception that the only place fo ... Read more |
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Thursday, November 12, 2009 |
While trudging under the cascades of the Wli waterfalls in Ghanas Volta region I found myself at a standstill I was attempting to navigate the crushing torrent of white water to a tiny enclave behind it when the deluge engulfed me like a pair of fizzcolored blinders As I clung anxiously to the slick rocks underfoot I spied a phantasmagoria o ... Read more |
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Thursday, November 12, 2009 |
Everestheight heap of evidence abounds in the historical trek of humanity attesting to the fact that whatever is adjudged supreme and immaculate would be consigned to the realm of ordinary through the function of timeFrom perusal of religious beliefs that were once immune to commonmind curiosity to messiahac political ideologies that peopl ... Read more |
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Wednesday, November 11, 2009 |
The CPPs agenda to wrest for itself a leading role in Ghanas governance and set the agenda for social transformation towards a just and fair society is in motion despite significant challenges and moves by its detractors to stop the forward march The CPP is playing a pivotal role in restoring sanity to Ghanas political discourse by offering ... Read more |
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Wednesday, November 11, 2009 |
When Rawlings was president there were some elements in the society who claimed he is not a Ghanaian They claimed he is either from Scotland or may be from Togo At present there are some other group of people who claimed JA Kufuor is not a Ghanaian They claimed Kufuor is from Congo or Sudan In the remote past it was the great Kwame Nkrumah who ... Read more |
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Tuesday, November 10, 2009 |
The VicePresident rightly laments the dysfunction in the educational sector Vicky Wereko moans in the Daily Graphic about Ghana coming last in a maths and science quiz employers shudder at the inability of some employed graduates to put their thoughts if any together on paper The future of education appears gloomy What should we do Conve ... Read more |
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Thursday, November 05, 2009 |
Are Things Falling ApartHow optimistic or pessimistic are you about life in Ghana nowIf you were to interview people in Ghana chances are you would not find more than one in hundred who would tell you that he or she was happy with life as a citizen of a land that otherwise should have been of flourished life and hope Each would describe hi ... Read more |
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Thursday, November 05, 2009 |
The Progressive Nationalist Forum PNFis disturbed at the state of mismanagement of the countrys petroleum sector especially with regards to the importation of crude oil and Petroleum products into the country There are serious questions bordering on accountability which have not been answeredSince the Tema Oil Refinery stopped production o ... Read more |
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Thursday, November 05, 2009 |
Should a a platform be created for Ghanaians resident in Toronto Canada to come and share their life experiences that they have gone through here in this country listeners would be shocked of the bitter stories that they would be toldAbout percent out of the total population of thousand Ghanaians resident here have gone through certain ... Read more |
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Thursday, November 05, 2009 |
Countries in general award scholarships and assistance to their citizens to pursue studies in different fields of specialisation so that they in turn can invest the knowledge gain to the benefit of their nations In line with the state duty in this direction I was lucky to be part of the group of students awarded scholarship to pursue furthe ... Read more |
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Wednesday, November 04, 2009 |
I had not visited for nearly thirty years It is the place of my birth where I took my first tottering steps in life I had only a rough idea of what I was going to meet there and as the rickety bus approached the town I was filled with a heightened sense of anxiety There is now a new road which doesnt pass through town It is tarred but like tho ... Read more |
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Tuesday, November 03, 2009 |
The approval by Parliament of the three nominations by the President to the Supreme Court on Friday October has resurrected the debate of whether or not there should be an upper limit to the number of Justices on the Supreme Court This debate engaged the minds of most Ghanaians and sparked off heated political vituperation across the nati ... Read more |
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Tuesday, November 03, 2009 |
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The sale of Ghana Telecom to Vodafone received several public oppositions and criticisms in view of the perceived massive improprieties that coupled the deal It has been recently established by an InterMinisterial Committee report that most of the terms of the Sale and Purchase Agreement SPA were inimical to Ghanas interest with the committee ... Read more |
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Saturday, October 31, 2009 |
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Behind every foreign produced item on the Ghanaian market and in your home is a foreignbased factory that sucks away our meagre foreign exchange creates jobs improves technology gives tax revenue swells bank accounts of insurance firms adds to GDP growth transports these products and reduces crime in favour of a foreign nation at great exp ... Read more |
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Saturday, October 31, 2009 |
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Rejoinder toHow Mills scuttled Kufours AwardToday November My attention has been drawn to an article headed How Mills Scuttled Kufours Award on page of the November issue of the TODAY Newspaper which contained the strange allegation that I had led a government delegation including General Arnold Quainoo to meet the ... Read more |
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Saturday, October 31, 2009 |
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This week Dibussi Tande reviews blogs on Maneno a relatively new blogging and communication platform specifically designed for the subSaharan blogger and writer According to its founders Maneno allows those with limited or narrowbandwidth internet to use a system that is lightweight and straightforward in functionalityThis week we wil ... Read more |
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Saturday, October 31, 2009 |
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Recognizing the need to assist impoverished nations move vigorously in the area of development member states of the UN on the th of September adopted the MDGs aimed at improving the social and economic conditions of the worlds poorest countries With only six years until the deadline to achieve the MDGs there are clear and vivid evi ... Read more |
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Friday, October 30, 2009 |
For some time now it has been very difficult for me and I believe a good number of people out there to understand what at all is causing the two former presidents Mr John Agyekum Kufuor and Mr Jeremiah John Rawlings of our great nation Ghana in a beautiful coast of West Africa not to see eye to eye wherever they meetSuppose they were yo ... Read more |
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Friday, October 30, 2009 |
The last thing I ever wanted to do is to cast a slur on any country or persons let alone a man of God but unfortunately my patience has wore so thin and I have no option than to go on an all out assault to put some things in their right perspectivesOne doesnt need to be a rocket scientist to know that Nigeria is far bigger than Ghana in s ... Read more |
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Saturday, October 24, 2009 |
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This is one of the nicest emails I have seen and is so trueI dreamt that I went to Heaven and an angel was showing me around We walked sidebyside inside a large workroom filled with angels My angel guide stopped in front of the first section and said This is the Receiving Section Here all petitions to God said in prayer are received ... Read more |
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Monday, October 19, 2009 |
By Nii Moi ThompsonThe welcoming ceremony for world champions Black Satellites at the Kotoka International Airport on October was not as chaotic as the recent one for US President Barack Obama or the presidential swearingin ceremonies of and But it was chaotic nonetheless and that must serve as a wakeup call for us to dea ... Read more |
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Monday, October 19, 2009 |
Key proven strategies for the futureIntroductionAs a young boy travelling outside the city was always exciting As we drove past the stone quarry next to Achimota School the cacophony of sounds would be noticeably replaced by the beauty and serenity of the countryside Today that countryside has been replaced with a haphazard a ... Read more |
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Monday, October 19, 2009 |
In every activity there is the central core and in every social setup there is a decision making body It is said that one cannot make a knob without the thumb Ghana has of late been recognized worldwide for extraordinary exhibition and performance of events that every country would want to be associated with This has made Ghana popular and a uni ... Read more |
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Monday, October 19, 2009 |
The Ghana celebrations might have focused the worlds attention on Ghana as a beacon of hope in Africa and a strong statement of purpose that years down the line Ghana is showing the way for the rest of Africa to emulate That is beautiful However an angle of this project has raised several issues about the processes through which co ... Read more |
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Friday, October 16, 2009 |
Sometime last week a radio station broadcast a bribery scandal involving Mabey Johnson and some former officials of the past NDC Government including myself and thereafter other media houses ran with the same storyI found the story laughable and so I decided to ignore it and treat it with the contempt that it deserved However I have rea ... Read more |
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Friday, October 16, 2009 |
I am pleased to publicize the formation of the first true party in the fiftytwo years history of Ghana The Chop and Quench Democratic Party is set to take the country by storm and we are on the cliff of history For far too long we Ghanaians have been too divided and complacent The CQDP is designed to overcome these twin malaisesThe CQD ... Read more |
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Sunday, October 11, 2009 |
I have been wondering what Ill be doing when I retire from active service It is a long way off but the reality is that time flies like a jetliner and I might as well get prepared for that beautiful letter from my employers telling me in the face that my time is up And so what And so vamoose You have outlived your usefulnessFor a good numb ... Read more |
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Saturday, September 12, 2009 |
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You would agree with me that no individual serves as the repository of wisdom Permit me to draw your attention to some unpardonable statements and comments you have made about the Information Minister Mrs Zita Okaikoi since she assumed officeAto your write ups against the Information Minister and many other highly placed government officia ... Read more |
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Friday, September 11, 2009 |
What on earth could have compelled some Nigerian government officials to make such unguarded and reckless statements about another sovereign country as was reported by Ghanas high commissioner to that country While it may be considered ok for one country to compare itself to another it does not necessarily suggest that any country could run down ... Read more |
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Friday, September 11, 2009 |
Recently the Daily Graphic Tuesday May pp reported that only two out of the nine medical doctors posted to the Upper West Region last year reported for duty For this reason only six doctors are manning all the health facilities in the nine districts and the regional hospital I cannot but congratulate the reporters for the ... Read more |
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Wednesday, September 09, 2009 |
The question of low performance of BECE students in the schools should be the countrys focus aside the number of years one should spend during senior high education which has generated a lot of controversies on airwaves and the print media There are people who feel that the fault is from the teachers and on the other hand others feel is from th ... Read more |
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Tuesday, September 08, 2009 |
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The third Ferdinand Ayim Memorial Lectures has rekindled the debate about competence loyalty and sycophancy within the body politic of our nation I therefore feel compelled to contribute to the debate so that hopefully we can all learn lessons that will serve our nation in the near futureFrom all the discussions that have taken place so far ... Read more |
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Tuesday, September 08, 2009 |
Winning is sweet Definitely when you are playing a game you want to win Politics may be considered a game but unfortunately this game affects real people and sometimes politicians lose sight of that I love my country to death I am patriotic but I am also the biggest critic when it comes to saying it as it is in order to put things in ... Read more |
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Tuesday, September 08, 2009 |
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Theyd been dating for four months and everything seemed alright until he dropped the bombshell He needed a breakup Ama didnt know what to do Kobby just stopped calling me I felt helpless I kept asking myself what I did wrongA breakup can crush you It can also replace your joy with sadness In fact it can numb you with shock Usually ... Read more |
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Sunday, September 06, 2009 |
Address by Flt Lt Jerry John Rawlings Rtd former President of Ghana at the University of Oslo Norway on the topic Achieving human centred development in Africa Possibilities and challenges Thursday September Distinguished guestsLadies and gentlemen I have been asked to address you on the topic of Achieving human centred deve ... Read more |
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Sunday, August 30, 2009 |
The British Broadcasting Corporation BBC once reported live from the campus of the University of Ghana Legon Those were the days when the campus wars raged and hall masters had to run for cover leaving their wives behind They had forgotten they were married The Supreme Viking Revolutionary Council had set up a counterintelligence outfit ... Read more |
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Friday, August 28, 2009 |
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The production and use of polythene products in the country have become a bane on the environment and headache many a people who are concerned about the environment In this era of global warming we need not be told again that we have to do something in our own small way in this country to slow down the rate at which the world is becoming warmer ... Read more |
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Friday, August 28, 2009 |
It is indeed a sad and unfortunate incident of violence that took place at the Agbogbolshie Market on Tuesday th August resulting in the loss of livesSome of us as Northerners are ashamed of ourselves not only because of the people who were involved but also that it involved Northerners fighting in the capital city of a nation that has r ... Read more |
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Monday, August 24, 2009 |
Any consequences for international relations and diplomacyOn the th August the only man who was imprisoned for life over his involvement in the Lockerbie bombings of in which persons were killed mostly from the USA and the United Kingdom Abdul Bassit Ali Megrahi was released from jail in Scotland under what the Scottis ... Read more |
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Friday, August 21, 2009 |
Years back the Ghanaian culture was adjudged the best in the western part of Africa in terms of dressing dancing and talking to our eldersBut thanks to mixculture our brothers and sisters have started to copy alien cultural practices the respect that our own cultural practices were accorded has now been subsided as the foreign ones have n ... Read more |
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Friday, August 21, 2009 |
I have a strong conviction that the NPP Constitutional Amendment proposals are in the supreme interests of the Youth of NPPPresently no group or special organ of the Party has its own rules and regulations The amendments will make room for the Youth Wing of the Party to have its own rules and regulations to govern its activities including th ... Read more |
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Wednesday, August 19, 2009 |
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The crowning and expectant moment for every effort is the reward we receive for providing value added goods and services to our clients and customers These are translated into payments in terms of cash cheques shares equity and other forms of monetaryfinancial mechanism meant to reward our efforts as well as appreciate our contribution We all ... Read more |
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Wednesday, August 19, 2009 |
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Those of us who had the benefit of a sound and solid uninterrupted educational system definitely will be worried about how the system is being tuned in and tuned out for the young ones todayThe technocrats who have run the economy of our beloved country up to this ninth year of the new millennium are all beneficiaries of a system that was buil ... Read more |
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Wednesday, August 19, 2009 |
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Have you ever conjectured why the creator of the heavens and earth created a woman Indeed when I was in elementary school my class one teacher told me that God took a rest after He had completed the creations and could have decided to continue with his rest since all he had created was pronounced good and beautiful but He felt a void in his maki ... Read more |
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Friday, August 14, 2009 |
It seems to me that the New Patriotic Party NPP is at a cross road and does not know exactly where we want to go It is not entirely unusual for a Party that just suffered such a crushing defeat as an incumbent Party to experience such crisis Likewise it is also not unusual for a defeated party to learn quickly from the fact that we lost an ele ... Read more |
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Tuesday, July 21, 2009 |
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President Obamas recent first visit to SubSaharan Africa and Ghana in particular since taking office seeks to boost the continent of his ancestorsoutlining his hope for a future Africa prospering in democracyI witnessed this historic episode as I was part of a visiting delegation from the Parliament of Uganda to the Parliament of Ghana Ind ... Read more |
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Friday, July 10, 2009 |
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Barack Obama son of AfricaA new hope for this eraA real change for the betterYou courted the world And won their heartsSo filled with passionTo achieve your missionYou forged through the mazeTo bring a world of changeBarack ObamaMany are they that thoughtHow can it beMany are they that soughtBut could not seeThis s ... Read more |
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Friday, July 10, 2009 |
United States President Barack Obama should use his visit to Ghana on July and to encourage its new president John Atta Mills to take a leadership position in Africa on issues of democracy and justice Human Rights Watch said todayAtta Mills of the National Democratic Congress took office in January in a peaceful transition ... Read more |
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Thursday, July 09, 2009 |
Ghana is undeniably one of the leading countries in the transshipment of cocaine and other narcotic drugs in West Africa The Narcotics Control Board NACOB which is the leading agent in combating the drug problem is faced with pitiful staffing hindrance which is affecting the BOARDs operational activities Although NACOB alone cannot stem the ... Read more |
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Wednesday, July 08, 2009 |
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In just two days US President Barack Obama will touch down in the capital for a days visit his first to a sub Saharan African country He wants to showcase Ghana as a good example of democracy and good governance on the African continent attributes which attract the US to engage in trade with its less developed counterparts Mr Obama wi ... Read more |
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Saturday, June 27, 2009 |
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We have a bad past that we must acknowledge a past of political victimisation political vindictiveness and intolerance a past of political stigmatisation a past that had rendered our political terrain unstable over the years and which made it difficult to promote national cohesion progress and developmentSince the violent overthrow of th ... Read more |
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Saturday, June 27, 2009 |
President Mills got himself a brand new Inspector General of Police Some people had complained that former acting IGP Elizabeth MillsRobertson looked too much of a genial comely goodygoody grandma to frighten the newest recruit in an armed robbery gangThey preferred a guy with muscles like timber logs a chest like a gas tank a murderous ... Read more |
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Saturday, June 27, 2009 |
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It is wonderful that we survived that extremely competitive sometimes acrimonious and in some cases brutal political campaigning towards the presidential and parliamentary electionsAny sincere appreciation should confirm that it was a touch and go brinkmanship situation that could have plunged the nation into senseless lawlessness ... Read more |
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Friday, June 05, 2009 |
In many of IICDs projects internet connection is often unreliable too slow and too expensive An answer to this problem could be a high quality direct satellite connection but for most project partners the monthly fees for such connections are too high The PayAsYouGo system used in Ghana could be a solution for these problems At the IIC ... Read more |
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Friday, June 05, 2009 |
Message on World Environment Day by the SecretaryGeneral June The economic and financial turmoil sweeping the globe is a true wakeup call sounding an alarm about the need to improve upon old patterns of growth and make a transition a new era of greener cleaner development The theme of this years World Environment Day Your plane ... Read more |
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Friday, June 05, 2009 |
But First let us set the records straight onWhat June Is NotJune was not against the wealthy or the privileged There were many wealthy and privileged people who were not touched by the fury of June June was not a mission of blind vengeance against people who did personal wrong things against us Those who took advantage of the exp ... Read more |
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Friday, June 05, 2009 |
Africans are among the most likely of the worlds citizens to be forced to pay bribes but they are also the most confident that their governments are trying to stop the practice according to a new studyThe study the only worldwide public opinion survey on peoples experiences with corruption was published on Wednesday by the antigraft ... Read more |
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Thursday, June 04, 2009 |
A large neon digital counter in the bustling walkways of Oliver Tambo International Airport at Johannesburg reminds visitors that the FIFAWorld Cup is just less than four hundred days away Even as one floats down M freeway towards the misty central business district scores of billboards scream the message of South Africas readi ... Read more |
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Wednesday, June 03, 2009 |
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by Leonard Picker Publishers Weekly Kwei Quartey the son of an AfricanAmerican mother and African father is a doctor in the US but he grew up in Ghana where hes set his first novel Wife of the GodsHow did the idea come to you of setting a whodunit in contemporary GhanaI was visiting Paris for a few daysat the time Id been ... Read more |
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Monday, May 25, 2009 |
The significance of Asantehene King Otumfuo Osei Tutu IIs yearslong th anniversary festivity on his ascension to the Asanteman Golden Stool goes beyond the remarkable cultural displays the high sounding speeches the need to deepen the Ghanaian democracy and the bestowing of honours on persons deemed to have contributed to Ghana and human ... Read more |
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Sunday, May 24, 2009 |
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Institutional and Individual Corruption Causes and How to Deal with CorruptionBy Vitus A AzeemExecutive Secretary Ghana Integrity Initiative GIIAt A PANEL DISCUSSION ORGANIZED BY THE COMMITTEE FOR JOINT ACTION CJAACCRA Tuesday th May IntroductionMr Chairman Distingui ... Read more |
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Wednesday, May 20, 2009 |
The Majority Leader in Parliament Hon Alban Bagbin has been quoted by the media as saying that Members of Parliament would demand from the government to buy them cars for their official duties instead of giving Parliamentarians loans to buy cars which always generates controversyHon Bagbin who was addressing a news conference in Accra l ... Read more |
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Tuesday, May 19, 2009 |
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By Michael Weingartner Paul Macey has no patience for all the excuses all the longwinded contorted explanations as to why there are so few journalists with a migrant background in the mainstream media In Britain his voice of conscience is heard as a steady prod to the powers that be and things are beginning to changeIts about time ... Read more |
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Saturday, May 16, 2009 |
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It is five months now since power changed hands from the NPP to the NDC but the issues bothering on the transition will remain very controversial and divisive in the days and years ahead It all boils down to the manner past and present transitions have been handledIt is for this reason that this newspaper associates with the Churches and oth ... Read more |
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Monday, May 11, 2009 |
The First Lady Her Excellency Ernestina Naadu Mills and Mrs Lordina Mahama wife of the Vice President have sent a Special Mothers Day Congratulatory Message to all mothers across the country They congratulated mothers for their love and commitment to the development of their children noting that the Day provides us all with an opportunit ... Read more |
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Tuesday, May 05, 2009 |
It is only an opportunist who teaches children how to swim when the basement is flooded author Unknown If politics is about governance and governance can be equated to management of state resources then the focus should be on the good people of Ghana the holders of power Surprise surprise they say is inevitable in politics as goals ... Read more |
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Tuesday, May 05, 2009 |
The recent Graduate Student Association of Ghana GRASAG elections held on the th April from which Mr Moses AduGyimah and Miss Davida Borteley emerged as Presidents for local and national levels respectively will go down as one of the most interesting if not controversial in the recent history of graduate students politicsThis fa ... Read more |
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Sunday, May 03, 2009 |
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Focusing on satisfying local markets rather than foreign demand may be the best way to start the virtuous circle that farmers need in order to expand but similar tools are needed for both There are a few truths about African agribusiness that tend to undermine the flickers of optimism that followed the hunger riots of An increase in dem ... Read more |
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Tuesday, April 28, 2009 |
Hello Madam IGPI am a legal practitioner based in Takoradi and I wish to draw your attention to a very worrying and devastating situation currently prevailing at the DOVVSU division of the Ghana police in TakoradiThe basic problem is that the alleged conduct and actions of the unit commander ASP Cecilia Arko has resulted in the breakdown o ... Read more |
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Wednesday, April 22, 2009 |
I am worried about the factionalism within the NDC There is the Rawlings faction There is the Mills faction There is the Mahama faction And there may be others These factions are going after one another viciously Since President Mills assumed office he has probably faced more severe criticism from former President Rawlings than ... Read more |
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Tuesday, April 21, 2009 |
A lifetime of selfless devotion to educationThe Persistence of Paradox Memoirs of FL Bartels set a national milestone It was first published by Ghana Universities Press Accra and a fresh edition is available through wwwlulucom The energies from Mr Bartelss trials and successes in education in Ghana throbbed from the col ... Read more |
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Saturday, April 18, 2009 |
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According to researchers in the US people with pot bellies are more at risk of having heart disease than those whose fat is spread evenly over the rest of their bodyThe scientists from the University of Texas say this applies to people with even small pot belliesIn a study involving men and women between the ages of and the ... Read more |
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Thursday, April 16, 2009 |
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Dear friends I have been deeply touched by the outpouring of support for me in these my moments of need It sounds incredible but its very true that carpet sellers radio DJs office cleaners shoe repairers and a few latrine boys among several others have decided to come together to contribute towards buying me a plush armouredplated ... Read more |
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Thursday, April 16, 2009 |
All legitimate governments have a responsibility to be answerable to their electorate at all timesFor this reason a responsible opposition party or parties must act in a manner shows constructive criticism of government policies and also suggest alternatives to issues of national interest The public must also demand that both governmen ... Read more |
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Wednesday, April 15, 2009 |
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It was sad unbelievable but real to see men and women sharing a common ward at a hospital each battling for survival against various ailments And the problem is whether that facility qualifies to be called so The place was overcrowded the stench of medicines laundry and various forms of excretions toiletries was very repulsive and the ... Read more |
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Wednesday, April 15, 2009 |
No matter how it is counted in the next week or so all will agree that President John Evans Fiifi AttaMills has been in office for a hundred daysOver the weekend on some TV stations there were hints of the Public Relations campaign being planned to convince Ghanaians that this has been the best hundred days in Ghanas history In clips ... Read more |
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Tuesday, April 14, 2009 |
Any democratic country would invariably go through elections to elect its leaders All political parties for this reason must craft a manifesto as basis of its agenda to ameliorate the ills of society jumpstart the economy of the country and provide a better tomorrow for the electorateHowever incumbent governments more often than not have be ... Read more |
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Friday, April 10, 2009 |
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One of the regular visitors to my blog Adamu Abdallah Awudu sent me this letter He stated that he did not intend it for publication as such It was in response to my stating that I am a liberal Muslim I have published it nonetheless and issued an attached response because I believe that the matter in issue goes beyond the two of us Please read ... Read more |
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Wednesday, March 25, 2009 |
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My interest in the ex presidents ex gratia award is not derived from the appropriateness of its content but the importance of building a constitutional precedence that is not inimical to the constitutional development of our nation as a young democracyTherefore I have chosen to look at the legality of the suspension of the award and its rev ... Read more |
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Monday, March 23, 2009 |
From until the late s he performed as Guy Warren of Ghana He then became Kofi Ghanaba although his name at birth had been Kpakpo Akwei To this his teacher father had added Warren Gamaliel Harding in honour of the then US president At the Ghana jazz festival he premiered his Voices of Africa drum suite After a spiritual que ... Read more |
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Saturday, March 21, 2009 |
PAPER PRESENTED by Dr Sebastian K Bemile AT THE SYMPOSIUM ON NATIONBUILDING ORGANISED BY THE KONRADADENAUERSTIFTUNG ACCRA TH MARCH HRS ALISA HOTEL NORTH RIDGEACCRA THEME YEARS OF GHANAS INDEPENDENCE AND YEARS OF GERMAN UNIFICATIONTOPIC NATIONBUILDING IN GERMANY AND GHANA LESSONS FROM HISTORICAL EXPERIENC ... Read more |
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Thursday, March 12, 2009 |
It is without a doubt that president Mills is determined to reduce government expenditure and possibly save resources for national development Some argue just reducing the number of ministers would not be enough but if the reduction could even save just enough to build one classroom to provide better teaching and learning environment in a deprive ... Read more |
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Tuesday, March 10, 2009 |
The Gender and Documentation Centre under Dorcas CokerAppiah and Kathy Cusack decided to undertake a national research project called the Nkinkyim project to collate data on genderbased violence This was a major project that provided very much need data on the prevalence of genderbased violence in Ghana It established that everyone out ... Read more |
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Tuesday, March 10, 2009 |
Fiftytwo years ago that is the day that Ghana gained its independence March I thought the whole world loved our new nation that had just been born Representing the worlds richest country the United States at our celebrations was Richard M Nixon then VicePresident who was later destined to feature hugely in history Out ... Read more |
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Friday, March 06, 2009 |
There is no use screaming about how independent you are by driving away colonialists if you do not make independence meaningful Ama Ata AidooImagine fellow Ghanaians what a society it would be A society where the people are sound in their consciousness A society where logic brings the tools and resource endowments together to produce t ... Read more |
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Wednesday, February 18, 2009 |
Economic stimulus is the order of the day This is as it must be as governments around the world struggle to jumpstart the global economy But even as leaders address the immediate need to stimulate the economy so too must they act jointly to ensure that the new de facto economic model being developed is sustainable for the planet and our future ... Read more |
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Monday, February 16, 2009 |
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Many individuals and organisations who call on the president to congratulate him mean well But in many cases the calls exhibit the sycophantic side of our characterWhen Kwame Nkrumah was overthrown a senior minister in his cabinet confessed that most of those close to Nkrumah had become gaping sycophants The saying became a joke But it por ... Read more |
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Monday, February 09, 2009 |
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The effect of centuries of domination and exploitation has transformed Africa into a land synonymous with hunger diseases poverty conflict and a host of other social illsThis is why the continent even though the richest in terms of mineral resources is still home to the poorest of the poor on earth What makes it all the more pathetic is ... Read more |
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Sunday, February 08, 2009 |
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Ever since the final results of the presidential election was announced the people trading and living around the Agbogloshie market in Accra have not known peace The area has persistently been recording violence mostly among our northerner brothers and sisters When the violence broke soon after the election there were reports that it ha ... Read more |
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Sunday, February 08, 2009 |
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Our own version of the El classico involving Asante Kototo and Hearts of Oak will be enacted at the Baba Yara stadium in Kumasi on SundayThe last time both teams played out to a pulsating drawn game the main actors in that game were Kotokos prolific striker Eric Bekoe and Hearts gritty defender Dan ColemanWith the exit of Eric B ... Read more |
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Sunday, February 08, 2009 |
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For John Kofi Agyekum Kufuor becoming the president of Ghana has been a longheld ambition comparable to that of a barefoot child who kicks a rotten orange about in the backyard and sees himself as a soccer star say George Weah or Abedi PeleHe grinds slowly but extremely fine He keeps an open mind but once his mind is made up he close ... Read more |
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Sunday, February 08, 2009 |
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A storm has erupted over the payment of exgratia award to exPresident JA Kufuor in the last few dayson the blind side of President Atta MillsThe Chronicle learnt that the authorization for the release of funds through the Accountant General had been authorized by Togbe Afede and has sparked off massive tonguewagging within the corridors ... Read more |
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Sunday, February 08, 2009 |
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There are many lessons in practical journalism The first lesson I learnt effectively was from the then deputy editor of the Spectator Joseph Dominic AndohKesson The name sounds like that of a Catholic priest J D was a practising Catholic and now lies smiling in the bosom of the Lord JD was once planning a page on which I had a sto ... Read more |
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Monday, February 02, 2009 |
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There is not likely to be much of a honeymoon period when Zimbabwes new unity government takes office in February both the international community and citizens demand urgent action to tackle the countrys humanitarian disasterThe outline of a powersharing deal between President Robert Mugabe and the opposition has existed since September ... Read more |
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Monday, February 02, 2009 |
Within seconds one can pass on vital information send invitation conduct business and make an appointment miles and miles away either by speech or text message This is made possible by what an industry expert describes as a technological marvelthe mobile phone It is estimated that about billion messages are exchanged worldwide each yea ... Read more |
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Monday, February 02, 2009 |
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When I was at school there was only one Architect T S Clerk in the whole of the Gold Coast Houses were designed and built by draughtsmen But building regulations were enforced and town plans respected Charles Deakin who taught R P Baffour and our first engineers at the Achimota Engineering School paid tribute to the countrys craft ... Read more |
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Thursday, January 29, 2009 |
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The recent elections in Ghana have generated intense debate in Nigeria ranging from sober reflections about what Nigeria could have been to the mindboggling refusal to tell ourselves the truth That truth is that the problem of Nigeria remains as Achebe said many years ago the problem of leadership Nigeria s unique brand of leadership ... Read more |
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Thursday, January 29, 2009 |
Historians have divided western history into epochs that represent the culturaleconomic and political values of the time Thus we have the Dark Ages the Renaissance the Reformation and the Age of Reason How will the first half of the st century be defined Will it be an Age of Reversal as countries retreat into national solutions behind nati ... Read more |
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Thursday, January 29, 2009 |
In July Mr Kwadwo Mpiani the Chief of Staff at the Presidency in Mr Kufuors New Patriotic Party NPP administration appeared before parliament to answer questions on the expenditure on the presidential palace and the Ghana project respectivelyMr Mpiani reluctantly appeared before parliament only after his brotherinlaw Dr Charles ... Read more |
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Thursday, January 29, 2009 |
Farmer John Osei Kamkam paces the hallway of Ghanas Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice waiting his turn to file a complaint He is one of an estimated smallscale farmers who say their land was destroyed after Newmont one of the worlds leading gold mining companies headquartered in the United States cleared ... Read more |
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Sunday, January 25, 2009 |
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This extraordinary article by the editor of the Sri Lankan Sunday Leader was published three days after he was shot dead in Colombo This is an edited version of an article published in the Sunday Leader editorial column on January Its author who cofounded the paper in was killed three days earlier by unidentified gunmen as he drove ... Read more |
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Friday, January 23, 2009 |
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Public disenchantment with Nigerias elections was so widespread that in his inaugural address on May President Umaru Musa Yar Adua said his administration would embark on electoral reform to put an end to the endemic flaws that plague our electoral processThree months later he appointed a member Electoral Reform Comm ... Read more |
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Friday, January 23, 2009 |
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The issue of the golden parachute for exPresident John Agyekum Kufuor and his fellow exPresident JJ Rawlings has made headline newsNews of such nature presidential privileges is grist for the media in every jurisdiction more so when the substance of these perks soar well above those of almost every public servant but well benea ... Read more |
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Wednesday, January 21, 2009 |
It is now official that all the operators in the mobile telecom industry in Ghana particularly the GSM service providers are multinationals MTN TIGO ZAIN GLO KASAPA and GTVODAFONE as they are ordinarily referred to are all either wholly or largely owned by foreign multinational telecom companies The simple history of their comin ... Read more |
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Friday, January 16, 2009 |
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The winnertakesall syndrome in Nigerias political system must be jettisoned if democracy is to be strengthened in this country former Secretary General of the Commonwealth of Nations Chief Emeka Anyaoku said in Abuja WednesdayThe idea that the winners have it all should be ignored Anyaoku said at the th Annual Trust Dialogue organised ... Read more |
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Friday, January 16, 2009 |
A debonair something Senator with a toothy smile and a lofty turn of phraseA madefortelevision First Family A fashionforward First Lady Generational change at a time of national selfdoubt No wonder the chatter in Washington is of a Black Camelot with Barack Obama cast as Jack Kennedy and his wife Michelle playing JackieStep ... Read more |
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Wednesday, January 14, 2009 |
Professor Kwesi Yankah takes up the issue of the staggering number of spoilt ballots and concludes it was an embarrassment to Ghanas democracyThis was a paper Professor Yankah presented on January at the closing of the th Annual New Year School held at the University of Ghana LegonBelow is the full paperCLOSING ADDRESS ... Read more |
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Wednesday, January 14, 2009 |
Congratulations on your hard fought victory I know the Campaign has not stopped flowingSir I have noticed with grin interest the number of articles popping up the internet and the media at large painting your predecessors with the darkest charcoal pigment Well all too soon you and your party are the purest angles in bright white satins in ... Read more |
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Tuesday, January 13, 2009 |
On behalf of the national president of National Union of Ghana Students NUGS Russia the executive board and the entire student body we write to congratulate His Excellency the President of the Republic of Ghana Professor John Evans AttaMillsWe Ghanaian students in Russia have keenly followed the elections from the onset to the final declar ... Read more |
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Saturday, January 10, 2009 |
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Ghanaians and friends of Ghana finally found reason to thank God for averting what would have been an unmitigated disaster as the new President John Evans AttaMills and Vice President John Mahama finally took their oath of office before an unprecedented crowd of joyous Ghanaians on January They had every cause to be so elated Only ... Read more |
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Saturday, January 10, 2009 |
Jake Okanta ObetsebiLamptey an NPP presidential aspirant has challenged the media to open its doors to all the presidential aspirants rather than focusing on some selected few who are perceived to be using money to influence journalists to get their messages across to the electorateMr Obetsebi Lamptey was addressing members of his campaign ... Read more |
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Saturday, January 10, 2009 |
As Professor John Evans Atta Mills takes office as President of Ghana Amnesty International is calling on the new president to place human rights at the top of his political agendaThere have been considerable improvements in the human rights situation in Ghana since However there remain a number of human rights problems which require i ... Read more |
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Friday, January 09, 2009 |
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After a long wait requiring a lot of equanimity and patience Mrs Joyce Bamford Addo has just been appointed the third most powerful person in Ghana Speaker of the member of the th parliament of the th Republic In more simple terms she will be the first woman in the West African subregion to hold such an honor joining Betty Boothroyed ... Read more |
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Friday, January 09, 2009 |
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Rainbow coalition it was Fiftyeight people from countries mobilised by The Carter Centre to observe Ghanas December runoff election It was a privilege to be among those invited by TCC to participate in the democratic exercise Prior to being invited I had followed the Ghana elections with keen interest It was soullifting ... Read more |
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Friday, January 09, 2009 |
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In the end the presidential runoff proved to be every bit as tight as the first round of voting on December th On that occasion the candidate of the ruling New Patriotic Party NPP Nana AkufoAddo triumphed by a very small margin over his main rival John Atta Mills of the National Democratic Congress NDCbut not by enough votes to avoid ... Read more |
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Friday, January 09, 2009 |
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What a healthy political competition ever to come out of our Godforsaken Africa The recently concluded Ghanaian poll was an experience to beholdOnce again Ghana could be showing the way for the beleaguered African democracies Ghana was the first subSaharan African country to gain independence in It could as well be the first Afr ... Read more |
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Wednesday, December 31, 2008 |
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AkufoAddo will get a taste of his own Nduro and by nduro I mean medicine with no sarcasm intendedAkufoAdo NPP is currently trailing AttahMills NDC by votes with one constituency yet to vote Tain in the Brong Ahafo Region because of the late arrival of electoral materials on December  In the Tain presidential electio ... Read more |
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Sunday, December 28, 2008 |
Fellow Ghanaians as the title of this article suggests I was in Nairobi on th December as a student by then I schooled in Nairobi for four years and I was preparing to runoff things when the politically motivated violence occurred And I will like to share with you some things leading to the violence and how we can learn from itFirst bef ... Read more |
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Saturday, December 27, 2008 |
It was one of those regular days back on campus when you are only three steps away from tipping over the Broke Hill and you are at that snug place where you feel you are entitled to some me time its an Oprah thing And yes the lecturers can go hangNews came through that a former president of Botswana was coming over for one of Legons vai ... Read more |
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Saturday, December 27, 2008 |
For how long will J J Rawlings remain a critical factor in Ghana politics and what is his place in the December elections I will answer this question in due course I will in the meantime share some thoughts with you which will provide a meaningful context for my answerI campaigned for the NPP in as an apostle of CHANGE This chan ... Read more |
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Thursday, December 25, 2008 |
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There is no denying the importance of the December runoff election to our democracy as a country and stature on the continent of Africa Whereas others on the continent have misbehaved and in the end brought immeasurable suffering to large sections of their people Ghana over the past years has used patience and the court system to resolve is ... Read more |
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Thursday, December 25, 2008 |
I am saddened by the realisation that the chief campaign weapon of the NPP especially in the runoff is to visit the sins of the PNDC on the NDC by painting the party as one which will behave as a military government when elected into power The NDC is being maliciously discredited with any human rights abuse and untoward event that occurred during ... Read more |
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Wednesday, December 24, 2008 |
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With all the upheavals and turmoil in the world today how much peace do we have to be able to enjoy the Christmas of December If your fear of the worlds present and future economy inability to overcome your financial problems inability to marry or have a good marriage have children get healed of a troubling sickness resolve a politi ... Read more |
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Saturday, December 20, 2008 |
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Why I think the NDC is not an optionWe here in the diaspora are very distressed to hear that Ghana is going on a runoff but we are equally delighted to hear that because of the opportunity to voice our ideas too The National Democratic Congress and the New Patriotic Party are parties that have stayed in the race for that long Wit ... Read more |
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Thursday, December 18, 2008 |
On the occasion of International Migrants Day UN GenSec Ban KiMoon is urging the world to become parties to the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of all Migrant Workers and Members of their FamiliesBelow is a statement from the General Secretary to mark the dayTHE SECRETARYGENERALMESSAGE ON THE INTERNATIONAL ... Read more |
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Thursday, December 18, 2008 |
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Every electioneering year witnesses floods of promises into the national conscience aimed at canvassing votes in favor of a particular party or candidate But the question is those who make these promises do they intend to honor these promises or they just want a vote From records we can affirm the later that they just want our votes But then ... Read more |
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Thursday, December 18, 2008 |
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Desperate for party to retain power amidst fuel price reduction and decisive war on pair trawlingThe aftermath of the justended Presidential and Parliamentary elections which virtually ended up in a deadlock has sent shivers down the spines of President Kufuor and his government This has left the New Patriotic Party NPP administrati ... Read more |
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Wednesday, December 17, 2008 |
Thirtythree yearold Babs Hammer the video cameraman working for exPresident Rawlings who was set upon by security men traveling with New Patriotic Party Presidential Candidate Nana Addo Dankwa AkufoAddo last Sunday and given a beating of his life has a new lookBabs wears dressings on his head covering the wound bequeathed him from the ... Read more |
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Wednesday, December 17, 2008 |
Have you seen the latest campaign message from the NDC doing the rounds via sms messages Divine Change is hereThe process of change has begun Change we must Yes we canG GodH HasA AlreadyN NominatedA AttaMillsGo spread the good news and we will fulfill GHANA ... Read more |
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Wednesday, December 17, 2008 |
The leadership of the Foundation of Leadership Excellence FLEX wishes to remind all Ghanaian at this time that the hopes of many Africans and the eyes of people all over the World are resting on this Great Nation Many people our members have interacted with across many nations of the World have expressed their pride in Ghana as a Beaco ... Read more |
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Wednesday, December 17, 2008 |
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Ghana our beloved country the shinning Black Star of Africa is losing its place position and golden name The best chance Ghana had to transform its economy and improve the living conditions of its citizens since independence came during the regime of Mr JA Kufuor His NPP government claimed Ghanas GDP has quadrupled and the economy had incre ... Read more |
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Sunday, December 14, 2008 |
I will turn the Northern Region into Mecca I will Turn Ghana into a First World Country I will provide free education to Ghanaians up to the University These are some of the big promises that Nana AkufoAddo has been making during his campaign stops just to convince Ghanaians that he is the real deal Talk they say is cheap so he keeps sp ... Read more |
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Saturday, December 13, 2008 |
I envy Ghanaians Since Sunday they have been the cynosure of all eyes From all corners of the globe accolades meant for Ghanaians and their leaders have been pouring into Accra since that countrys presidential and parliamentary elections held on that dayAt the current rate the international community the media and election observers m ... Read more |
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Wednesday, December 10, 2008 |
The trial of the former boss of GNPC Mr Tsatsu Tsikata has elicited various responses from the public and this reached its zenith when the trial judge found him guilty of the charges preferred against him and sentenced him to a term of imprisonmentIn a recent article one commentator lambasted the Supreme Court for its refusal to up ... Read more |
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Wednesday, December 10, 2008 |
In Ghana even civilian security services in the form of The Ghana Police Service has been privatised and you have an accident at your peril Because if you do you will bear the cost privately yourself You will pay for the police to attend the accident You will pay for your vehicle to be towed You will pay for all communications costs You will ... Read more |
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Saturday, December 06, 2008 |
Considering all the bad news about recent elections in Africa rigging violence and bogus powersharing agreements one may be tempted to expect more of the same from Ghana The West African nation is going to the polls on Sunday to elect a new president and members of the parliament Its western neighbour Ivory Coast has y ... Read more |
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Friday, December 05, 2008 |
Nana AkufoAddo and the New Patriotic Party deserve our votes to maintain the party in power for another term Our reasons for this call are neither born of mischief nor partisanship A sober and careful evaluation of the Kufuor led administration will leave no voter in doubt that the party that gave birth to that government and the ... Read more |
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Friday, December 05, 2008 |
I have a strong feeling that the New Patriotic Party NPP might win this election albeit by a small fraction and may possibly force a second round but the National Democratic Congress NDC might dispute the results should the NPP win and push for a power sharing deal I have applauded Prof Evans Atta Mills for the way he conducted ... Read more |
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Thursday, December 04, 2008 |
Any attempt to describe a political giant whose towering intellectual prowess and professional accomplishments defy words time and space is a monumental task at best It might be tantamount to gross arrogance and a defense of the obvious at worst so why should I spend time to do that I am however constrained to pick up my pen in the face of ... Read more |
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Tuesday, December 02, 2008 |
TAKE NOTICE that HON JAKE OBETSEBILAMPTEY of Accra has applied to be registered as proprietor of the under mentioned land granted by the President of the Republic of Ghana and the I intend to register him as proprietor of the said land if no objection is lodged to the registration in accordance with Regulation of Land Title Registration Regul ... Read more |
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Sunday, November 30, 2008 |
Ghana has embarked yet for the fifth time in the th Republic on another painstaking and politically charged path to proving her democratic credentials and maturity to the rest of the continent Decisions made both collectively and individually before and on December th can go a long way to define permanently our common destiny of a ... Read more |
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Saturday, November 29, 2008 |
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Cleanliness is next to godliness If you have ever stood next to a woman who has armpit odour you would realise that it is very much nauseating Most of the time it is very difficult to tell the person what she should do because you do not want to embarrass or offend her Armpit odour is an embarrassing problem a lot of women have to deal with ... Read more |
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Saturday, November 29, 2008 |
The madrush for the shares of UT Financial Services which ended in an oversubscription has offered The Spectator good enough reason to barge in on Ghanas Most Admired CEO Prince Kofi Amoabeng first to unlock his mind on the financial political and social issues and second to understand the concept underlying his Midas Touch continuum Pr ... Read more |
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Saturday, November 29, 2008 |
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Spectator investigations have uncovered an emerging phenomenon where opportunistic and unscrupulous ladies harness spiritual powers to milk wealthy men to the point of financial hopelessness In return they offer irresistible romance and sex to seal the spiritual deal after which the victim is enslaved Some residents of the capital call ... Read more |
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Thursday, November 27, 2008 |
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Politics comes from the Greek word politicos or politics which means a citizen It should therefore be understood that politics has to do with citizenship so in a sense any citizen of a nation is a political being or a politicianFrom the above definition asking a person to stay off politics amounts to asking him or her to cease to be a ci ... Read more |
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Wednesday, November 26, 2008 |
The ace novelistpoet Thomas Hardy once hinted at the voiceless ghost inferring that many accomplished people having already honoured their duties to society slacken exhaust their inspiration in some way or at least firmly stop thinking Not Francis L Bartels In his younger years he served in various capacities First the illustrious ... Read more |
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Tuesday, November 25, 2008 |
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Thanksgiving Day is this Thursday and in keeping with their tradition Americans are going to spend the day with their families and loved ones over tsofi and lots of food This is the season for turkeys They are the prized asset of the weekSeeing turkeys receive so much attention reminds me of AdoagyiriNsawam where women sell colored tso ... Read more |
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Saturday, November 22, 2008 |
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In a significant proportion of relationships partners live in pain and almost lifeless relationships They live in fear instead of love Why fear in your relationship Fear is a protective mechanism of the unconscious mind For example if your partner reacts in an unhealthy manner you may defend yourself by a wrong strategy This may lea ... Read more |
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Saturday, November 22, 2008 |
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My mum used to tell me about Christmas as it was celebrated in the good old days The gramophone had to be wound by manpower before it gave off sweet music to which young girls in miniskirts the not too young in midiskirts and the overs in maxi danced The young men were either in pimpinis or bellbottom trousers The popular haircut was term ... Read more |
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Saturday, November 22, 2008 |
Taking up the example of the small village of Dumasi in Ghanas Western Region and drawing upon her experience of filming a documentary entitled When Silence is Golden Alexandra SicotteLévesque discusses the destructive action of the Canadian Golden Star Resources mining company and its pressure on local people for forcible resettlement While Ca ... Read more |
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Thursday, November 20, 2008 |
The studios of Joy FM on Wednesday were turned into the Madison Square Gardens when two doctors turned political pugilists decided to slug it out in one of the most competitive exhibition bouts ahead of the main bout on December At the blue corner was the defending champion Dr Arthur Kennedy from the stables of the New Patriotic Party w ... Read more |
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Tuesday, November 18, 2008 |
In this computerized and information era where almost everybody is striving to catch up with the global trend of development with whatever means available through selfhelp initiatives political lobbying NonGovernmental Organizations etc it is very surprising and heartbreaking some people including very educated ones still live and think like ... Read more |
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Sunday, November 16, 2008 |
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Everyone occasionally feels blue or sad but these feelings are usually fleeting and pass within a couple of days When a woman has a depressive disorder it interferes with daily life and normal functioning and causes pain for both the woman with the disorder and those who care about her Depression is a common but serious illness and most w ... Read more |
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Friday, November 14, 2008 |
Political parties should note that the success or failure of this years presidential and parliamentary elections does not depend upon the Electoral Commission EC the media and the security agencies alone See the front page report of the Daily Graphic of Saturday November Of course it has to be admitted that the role of the EC ... Read more |
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Wednesday, November 12, 2008 |
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The series on the procurement and supply chain evolution in Ghana and Africa in general continues this week with the emphasis on the Procedural stage which is a graduation from the chaotic stage we discussed last week The procedural stage within the procurement and supply chain segment proposes an orderly and structured system where the rules ... Read more |
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Monday, November 10, 2008 |
The various party manifestos can be criticised from many viewpoints But on the whole they are acceptable if only the proposals can be implemented To borrow from Disraeli they are organised opinions and the public would generally applaud their own expectations Many have however questioned the availability of resources both human and ... Read more |
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Monday, November 03, 2008 |
Power is sweet Once you taste it you dont want to let go off it You become addicted to it Said the man seeking reelection You dont want to lose all of that deification and recognition when you visit places do you He asked Thats quite difficult I saidOn December Ghanaians will go to the polls to elect a president and two hundre ... Read more |
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Monday, October 27, 2008 |
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Have you ever found yourself wondering why you are here on earth Have you identified your God given talent Do you find yourself doing things youre passionate about Anyway in this article I suggest two interesting things that could help identify your potential and make use of it to the maximumI like to define potential as untapped inne ... Read more |
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Monday, October 27, 2008 |
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In todays globally competitive economy it is totally impossible to excel without consistently updating oneself with quality information Money used to be the life blood of a business today it is information Do not deceive yourself information has become the greatest asset that runs a business With information personal lives have been tra ... Read more |
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Monday, October 27, 2008 |
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What comes to mind when you hear Rolex Nestle McDonalds or Johnson Johnson These are brand names which have been very successful in the market Their names stand out from the other products The moment you hear such names qualities such as durability excellence and value comes to mind What brand do you stand forAs an outstanding stude ... Read more |
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Sunday, October 12, 2008 |
God will surely be waiting patiently to see those who will forsake the Sabbath on December and instead go worshipping their thumbs The Catholics do not want to be found complicit in the mass rejection of God on polling day and have announced that Catholics will not hold mass on voting day December In other words God doesnt matter on th ... Read more |
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Tuesday, October 07, 2008 |
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Being in a foreign country has its own challenging and funny moments but it is a completely different ball game when you realize how people from different cultural backgrounds attempt to devise solutions to the simplest issues that have to be dealt withI woke up one night to use the bathroom and saw something running over the cooker in our Ame ... Read more |
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Tuesday, October 07, 2008 |
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For the first time the mounting of exPresident Jerry Rawlings presidential candidate Prof John Atta Mills and vice presidential candidate John Mahama on the same platform to sell the main opposition National Democratic Congress NDC social democratic program in its manifesto for the December general elections reveal a new chemistry among ... Read more |
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Friday, September 26, 2008 |
In the wake of recent serial killings and severe discrimination of the Africans by mainly the Malaysians I wish to advice my fellow Africans who were made to believe that Malaysia is a humble destination for foreigners to consider Malaysia as not a place to go Malaysia appeared to be a country of mixed races namely ... Read more |
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Wednesday, September 24, 2008 |
Ben Owusu Boakye affable loveable kindhearted and full of life and a father to boot was found dead September a day after Fathers DayHis body was discovered by the AccraTema Motorway with what appeared a bullet wound and an autopsy confirmed he was shot apparently for no reasonNo one leaves their country of birth to seek green ... Read more |
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Wednesday, September 24, 2008 |
If I hadnt seen it with my own eyes I would have dismissed it as politicallymotivated deceit But I saw it for myself and I tell you it was a refreshing sight Can you believe it The Convention Peoples Party drew quite a large crowd to the Holy Gardens in Accra to launch its campaign for the December elections The occasion also mark ... Read more |
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Saturday, September 20, 2008 |
And why not Whoever counts his life shorter than the next neighbour especially when that neighbour is older even if by hoursFact is everyone thinks some other person in the family must die first the unpredictability of life and death being a reality often lost on us allOnly last year Metropolitan Life Ghana a joint venture of Metro ... Read more |
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Friday, September 19, 2008 |
The recent comment by The US Secretary of State Dr Condoleezza Rice that her country was proud to be a close partner of Ghana and to stand by its side has been one of the biggest signposts of the respect that Ghana is enjoying in the comity of nationsDr Rices comment was rooted from the US governments genuine conviction that Ghana has mad ... Read more |
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Monday, September 15, 2008 |
Saul on the road to Damascus became converted to Paul a spiritual transformation which made him the one of the greatest apostles of GodJoseph Hubster Yorke grew up as such and attended St Augustines College in Cape Coast After his OLevels he got an opportunity to visit the USA on the AFS programme Twelve months in the USA had rema ... Read more |
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Monday, September 15, 2008 |
The impending general elections are generating a lot of anxiety and excitement Whilst the flag bearers and other party officials are crisscrossing the length and breath of the country with their messages to Ghanaian some followers of these parties are spewing falsehood to the electorates and discrediting other personalitiesRecent dev ... Read more |
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Monday, September 15, 2008 |
My aim in Part of this article is to refute the oftrepeated false claims Dr Nduom and his supporters have been making about landmark events in the CPP in recent years I intend to demonstrate that Dr Nduoms version of events is not a slip of the tongue but a deliberate misrepresentation of the factsFor a variety of reasons individuals ... Read more |
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Sunday, September 14, 2008 |
The sentencing of Tsatsu Tsikata to five years imprisonment for willfully causing financial loss to the sate and misapplying public property must be a wake up call to our leadersI have no doubts and here I want to be absolutely clear precise and categorical leaving no room for any ifs or buts In my humble opinion the law of causing finan ... Read more |
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Sunday, September 14, 2008 |
In eightyseven days Ghanaians will be going to the polls to elect both the next president of Ghana and members of Parliament who will serve them for at least four years There are two main outcomes Ghanaians will be expecting on the one hand they will attempt to either retain the ruling New Patriotic Party NPP or give the National Dem ... Read more |
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Tuesday, September 02, 2008 |
This is the concluding part of Godwin Agbokas writeup on fixing Ghanas Criminal Justice System The first part was published yesterdayClick on this link to read Part I httpwwwmodernghanacomnewsrestorativejusticeanethicalandpracticalsoluthtmlGhanas criminal justice system draws so much inspiration from th ... Read more |
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Monday, September 01, 2008 |
Over the past years theres been much hue and cry about Ghanas Criminal Justice System or more specifically the justice delivery system Much of this discussion and debate has focused predominantly on sentences given to offenders by judges and on prison reforms People with no criminal history who commit minor offences for instance have ... Read more |
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Sunday, August 17, 2008 |
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THE government of General I K Acheampong was probably the most creative if not imaginative coming to think of it When the rains stopped falling and agricultural production slumped General Acheampong referred his countrymen to God The matter had nothing to do with his government he said Then came the tighten your belt era in the late ... Read more |
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Saturday, July 26, 2008 |
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ONCE when I was feeling very demoralised and in fact almost lost all hope I decided to browse the Internet As if by design the following quotation popped up Enjoy where you are while you are waiting to get to where you want to be I had earlier on stumbled into another quotation which read PERSISTENCE persistence prevails whe ... Read more |
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Friday, July 25, 2008 |
Revolutions are brought about by men by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah First President of GhanaShall I go to Cape Coast or to Elmina Any one who has watched or read considering the decline in theatre in our country Ama Ata Aidoos D ... Read more |
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Tuesday, July 15, 2008 |
In the past week Tsatsu Tsikata has sought to be given the opportunity to prove that Mrs Justice Henrietta Abban who convicted and sentenced him on th June is disqualified by bias from hearing the application for bail pending appeal that Tsatsu Tsikata has filed after appealing against the judgment Tsatsu Tsikata had received written con ... Read more |
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Thursday, July 10, 2008 |
Professor Stiglitz is in Ghana selling his Development State messageHe arrived on the th of July whereupon his devotees briskly convened a gathering of the West African countrys leading businessmen to listen to the famed economist pronounce on the desirability of high taxes in the ultimate quest for sustainable development If any of his ... Read more |
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Sunday, July 06, 2008 |
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Rev Fr Ignatius Amponsah of the St Joseph Catholic Church AdoagyiriNsawam in the Eastern region is happy African Union leaders did not ostracise troubled Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe from their summit and urges them to continue to build peace Read Rev Fr Ignatius Amponsahs letter commending the AU leadersAs you end you ... Read more |
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Thursday, July 03, 2008 |
LUBBOCK Texas A slice of cool fresh watermelon is a juicy way to top off a Fourth of July cookout and one that researchers say has effects similar to Viagra but dont necessarily expect it to keep the fireworks all night longWatermelons contain an ingredient called citrulline that can trigger production of a compound that helps ... Read more |
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Thursday, July 03, 2008 |
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STATEMENT ON THE PRIVATIZATION OF GHANA TELECOM GT BY THE GOVERNMENT OF GHANA TO VODAFONE plcUK READ BY THE MINORITY RANKING MEMBER OF THE COMMITTEE OF COMMUNICATIONS HON HARUNA IDDRISU MPA Distinguished ladies and gentlemen of the press welcome to this press conference We have invited you here this morning to raise issues an ... Read more |
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Wednesday, July 02, 2008 |
The quickest way to cheapen anything is to overproduce it like tomatoes And thats exactly what the president did last week when his office released a laundry list of some Ghanaians himself included whom he intends to present with National Honours and Awards on July Dr Nii Moi ThompsonThe public reaction to Mr Kufuo ... Read more |
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Tuesday, July 01, 2008 |
After a long silence former President Rawlings has for the first time this year given expression to his views about issues in the country amid a mix of phone beeps siren sounds and a lot of fullsize wordsThe Republic Day summit with the press at his Ridge residence got off to an interesting start when few seconds after launching into hi ... Read more |
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Tuesday, June 24, 2008 |
During the s of my childhood the festive season was remarkable older people groaning under the weight of money which they called Bonus were overly generous tossing a coin in ones direction at the slightest provocation You didnt have to spin yet another yarn about your school teacher needing money to buy chlorophyll for a cl ... Read more |
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Wednesday, June 18, 2008 |
Politicians have always been known to be crafty and that should explain why they seem to have answers for almost all situations until the people decide they have had enoughBut the Ghanaian breed are turning out lazy and twofaced as well Did I hear you say they all are alreadyTuesday on Joy FM appeared one of the harrowing days for ... Read more |
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Sunday, June 15, 2008 |
June has become a very important and popular day in the life of the African child According to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Childrens Act of Ghana a child is any person below the age of eighteen years The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child further states that every child shall enj ... Read more |
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Friday, June 06, 2008 |
Two events this year the recent Fourth Tokyo International Conference on African Development TICAD IV and the Group of Eight Summit in July present unique opportunities for Japan to demonstrate its fruitful partnership with the African continent and global leadership on sustainable developmentAt the conference Africas story was the hea ... Read more |
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Thursday, June 05, 2008 |
If you watched a Ghanaian or a Nigerian movie all you get is that you are either a witch or a wizard or everyone around you is And if you escaped this bracket it could be you are suffering from someones bewitching anticsIs our story and identity one of witchcraft and voodoo as persistently portrayed in Ghanaian and African moviesIt ... Read more |
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Thursday, June 05, 2008 |
Have you noticed how nearly everyone has crafted ways to make extra cash from one another It is dishearteningTimes were when trotros operated just as their name determined taking passengers from one stop to the other and taking money reasonable enough for the distance They made their money or sales as they now prefer by hauling passengers ... Read more |
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Saturday, May 31, 2008 |
Elsewhere on this page is the reported case of the repeal of a law requiring Ugandans to seek police permit before embarking on any demonstrations The constitutional court ruled that the law limited the publics fundamental right to freedom of assembly and association and according to the BBCs Sarah Grainger in Uganda the police would come ... Read more |
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Tuesday, May 27, 2008 |
January is harmattan season in Accra Ghana Yellow dust billows off the Sahara but this year from the east the failed nyan elections blew their own hot storm Ghana fifty years independent and proud confidently embraced democracy fifteen years agoNow President John Kufuor who chairs the African Union Assembly was called to Nairobi to sh ... Read more |
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Saturday, May 24, 2008 |
Too much self help is misleading spouses but is it true that marital fights are good for marriages A woman wrote to a marriage counsellor raising concerns over lack of conflicts in their marriage Many people experience confusion when every body around them respect marital wars TV shows selfhelp talk shows magazines and conversation su ... Read more |
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Saturday, May 17, 2008 |
A woman s greatest emotional need is in the security and the quality of her relationship A woman is prepared to commit everything about her life in a relationship to make it work Sadly many Ghanaian men don t want to know They keep many women in frustration suspension anguish despair and loneliness What are Ghanaian men afraid of ... Read more |
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Friday, May 16, 2008 |
Ive always thought that Dr Edward Mahama of the Peoples National Convention was a one of those stubborn guys who will never follow if they are not leading I couldnt understand why after running for the presidency in and and losing so miserably in each race he still wanted to run again this yearI believe that even members o ... Read more |
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