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Also entertainment, business, science, technology and health news. en-uk Sun, 21 Nov 2009 01:06:15 +0100 BO Adamson - info@modernghana.com 11/21/2009 1:06:15 AM Bright Owusu - webmaster@modernghana.com All trademarks and copyrights on this page are owned by their respective owners. 60 http://www.modernghana.com/news/209983/1/igp-orders-further-probe.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/209983/1/igp-orders-further-probe.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/209983/1/#showcomments2 Tue, 06 Apr 2009 19:12:16 +0100 0 Newly appointed Justice Minister and Attorney General Mrs Betty MouldIddrisu has been asked to apologize to the Ghanaian judiciary over comments she allegedly passed that Ghanaian courts were kangaroo courts She has denied making that commentMinority Leader in Parliament Osei KyeiMensahBonsu supported by some of his members made th ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/202467/1/justice-minister-asked-to-apologise-over-kangaroo-.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/202467/1/justice-minister-asked-to-apologise-over-kangaroo-.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/202467/1/#showcomments2 Sat, 13 Feb 2009 17:43:55 +0100 5 The New Patriotic Party is heading back to court over what it says are a gamut of infractions against its polling agents especially in the Volta Region in the just ended December electionsNana Ohene Ntow General Secretary of the party told Joy News on Friday the party has looked at the incidents and consider them strong grounds to head ba ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/199797/1/npp-goes-to-court-over-election-violence.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/199797/1/npp-goes-to-court-over-election-violence.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/199797/1/#showcomments2 Sat, 23 Jan 2009 23:24:08 +0100 0 http://www.modernghana.com/news/199302/1/coverage-of-elections-in-ghana-and-kenya-lessons-f.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/199302/1/coverage-of-elections-in-ghana-and-kenya-lessons-f.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/199302/1/#showcomments2 Wed, 20 Jan 2009 15:32:35 +0100 0 Presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party NPP Nana Addo Dankwa AkufoAddo has challenged followers of the party to rededicate themselves to unity and work towards bringing the party back to powerHe told a large enthusiastic rally of the party at Abeka in Accra that hopefully God will listen to the prayers of the party an ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/199161/1/akufo-addo-npp-is-still-moving-forward.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/199161/1/akufo-addo-npp-is-still-moving-forward.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/199161/1/#showcomments2 Tue, 19 Jan 2009 07:47:51 +0100 5 The first major salvo at President Mills manner of tackling government business has already been fired by none other but the former President and founder of the NDC FltLt Rawlings Speaking to a group of NDC activists at his Ridge Residence the former President declared that the party would not accept any poverty of inaction from ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/199083/1/should-the-sparks-start-flying-now-part-one.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/199083/1/should-the-sparks-start-flying-now-part-one.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/199083/1/#showcomments2 Mon, 18 Jan 2009 09:02:19 +0100 0 A motion on notice which seeks to restrain Mr Fritz Baffour the National Democratic Congress NDC Member of Parliament for Ablekuma South from taking his seat in Parliament was on Friday put before an Accra Fast Track High CourtA motion filed by Mr Francis Kojo SackeySmith the New Patriotic Party NPP parliamentary candidate f ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/199023/1/defeated-npp-candidate-goes-to-court.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/199023/1/defeated-npp-candidate-goes-to-court.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/199023/1/#showcomments2 Sun, 17 Jan 2009 15:10:52 +0100 0 http://www.modernghana.com/news/198477/1/advocates-for-progressive-change-congratulate-pres.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/198477/1/advocates-for-progressive-change-congratulate-pres.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/198477/1/#showcomments2 Thu, 14 Jan 2009 02:41:11 +0100 0 President John Evans Atta Mills Barely hours after being sworn into office President John Evans Atta Mills has announced what he called interim cabinet appointments to certain ministries The new government says the interim appointments are necessary in such areas that are very critical to the President These include the ministries of De ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/197925/1/mills-picks-5-ministers.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/197925/1/mills-picks-5-ministers.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/197925/1/#showcomments2 Sat, 09 Jan 2009 09:30:43 +0100 0 Professor Mike Oquaye THE RULING National Democratic Congress NDC is under severe pressure to fulfil its campaign promises to the people of Ghana as the opposition New Patriotic Party NPP is bent on scrutinising the governing party Professor Mike Oquaye who is the NPP Member of Parliament MP for DomeKwabenya told DAILY GUIDE immediate ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/197924/1/ndc-under-scrutiny.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/197924/1/ndc-under-scrutiny.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/197924/1/#showcomments2 Sat, 09 Jan 2009 09:30:43 +0100 0 http://www.modernghana.com/news/197846/1/src-of-knust-congratulates-professor-john-atta-mil.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/197846/1/src-of-knust-congratulates-professor-john-atta-mil.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/197846/1/#showcomments2 Fri, 08 Jan 2009 15:08:47 +0100 0 http://www.modernghana.com/news/197845/1/canada-commend-ghanas-electoral-commission.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/197845/1/canada-commend-ghanas-electoral-commission.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/197845/1/#showcomments2 Fri, 08 Jan 2009 15:07:26 +0100 0 http://www.modernghana.com/news/197844/1/parliament-plunges-into-business.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/197844/1/parliament-plunges-into-business.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/197844/1/#showcomments2 Fri, 08 Jan 2009 14:07:04 +0100 0 http://www.modernghana.com/news/197843/1/update-prof-mills-inaugurated-president-promises-t.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/197843/1/update-prof-mills-inaugurated-president-promises-t.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/197843/1/#showcomments2 Fri, 08 Jan 2009 14:07:04 +0100 0 Kenwood Nuworsu A LEADING member of the New Patriotic Party NPP in the Ashanti region George Ayisi Boateng has asked whether the party has true supporters in the Volta region He contended that NPP agents would not have been badly treated in the justended presidential runoff in the region if the party had true supporters there It woul ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/197821/1/npp-doubts-volta-support.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/197821/1/npp-doubts-volta-support.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/197821/1/#showcomments2 Fri, 08 Jan 2009 12:21:13 +0100 0 BJ da Rocha L and Atta Akyea R BJ da Rocha a legal luminary and leading member of the New Patriotic Party NPP has come under intense fire over an interpretation of the Constitution as regards the declaration of election results from a man he taught at the Ghana School of Law Atta Akyea who is also a leading NPP member and newlyele ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/197819/1/npp-lawyers-clash.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/197819/1/npp-lawyers-clash.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/197819/1/#showcomments2 Fri, 08 Jan 2009 12:21:13 +0100 1 NPP supporters join in the celebration SCORES OF New Patriotic Party NPP supporters along the TechimanKumasiAccra road were disappointed when they dashed to the roadside upon hearing Daddy Lumbas Nana Ye Winner song being played to see if their leaders had some good news for them only to see a National Democratic Congress NDC campaign van ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/197804/1/ndc-teases-npp.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/197804/1/ndc-teases-npp.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/197804/1/#showcomments2 Fri, 08 Jan 2009 12:21:13 +0100 0 President John Evans Atta Mills PROFESSOR JOHN Evans Atta Mills has finally taken over the reins of government as the third President of the Fourth Republic following the oaths of Office and Allegiance he took yesterday He was sworn in by the Chief Justice Her Ladyship Justice Georgina Theodora Wood before a mammoth crowd at a ceremony at th ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/197803/1/mills-is-president.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/197803/1/mills-is-president.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/197803/1/#showcomments2 Fri, 08 Jan 2009 12:21:13 +0100 0 http://www.modernghana.com/news/197802/1/we-want-jj-ndc.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/197802/1/we-want-jj-ndc.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/197802/1/#showcomments2 Fri, 08 Jan 2009 12:21:13 +0100 0 http://www.modernghana.com/news/197780/1/after-ghanas-election-2008-call-to-a-new-political.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/197780/1/after-ghanas-election-2008-call-to-a-new-political.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/197780/1/#showcomments2 Fri, 08 Jan 2009 12:17:01 +0100 0 Ghanaians have long had a sense of their own crucial role in the history of postcolonial Africa From the days when Kwame Nkrumah led Ghana to be the first subSaharan African nation to gain independence from its colonial master up to the transition to democracy in the late th and early st centuries Ghana has been at the epicenter o ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/197754/1/ghana-gets-it-right.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/197754/1/ghana-gets-it-right.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/197754/1/#showcomments2 Fri, 08 Jan 2009 08:31:12 +0100 0 Dr Paa Kwesi Nduom the presidential candidate of the Convention Peoples Party in the just ended December general election says the time has come for the newly elected President John Atta Mills to deliver on his numerous campaign promisesThe new President now has to deliver on his campaign promises to meet the expectation of the p ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/197753/1/time-to-deliver-on-your-promises-nduom-tells-mills.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/197753/1/time-to-deliver-on-your-promises-nduom-tells-mills.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/197753/1/#showcomments2 Fri, 08 Jan 2009 08:31:11 +0100 0 Accra Ghana January African Press Organization APO European Commissioners FerreroWaldner and Louis Michel on the Presidential Elections in Ghana Benita FerreroWaldner Commissioner for External Relations and European Neighbourhood Policy saidI am pleased to congratulate the people of Ghana for reconfirming their strong ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/197747/1/european-commissioners-comment-on-ghanas-president.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/197747/1/european-commissioners-comment-on-ghanas-president.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/197747/1/#showcomments2 Fri, 08 Jan 2009 17:21:14 +0100 0 Outgoing President John Kufuor PRESIDENT J A KUFUORS proposal for the nation to consider fiveyear tenure of office instead of four for government has met with a disparate remark by a lecturer at the Engineering Department of Kumasi Polytechnic Delivering his last State of the Nation Address to Parliament on Monday the outgoing President ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/197654/1/kufuors-5yrs-challenged.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/197654/1/kufuors-5yrs-challenged.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/197654/1/#showcomments2 Thu, 07 Jan 2009 10:23:15 +0100 0 http://www.modernghana.com/news/197649/1/mills-to-factor-presidents-comments-into-governanc.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/197649/1/mills-to-factor-presidents-comments-into-governanc.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/197649/1/#showcomments2 Thu, 07 Jan 2009 09:55:17 +0100 0 The National Elections Security Task Force says it has now shifted its security arrangements to the sustenance of postelection peace and stability under the code name Operation Calm Life It has therefore called for the cooperation and support of all Ghanaians to enable the security services to perform their duties for the benefit of all ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/197645/1/election-task-force-shifts-to-operation-calm-life.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/197645/1/election-task-force-shifts-to-operation-calm-life.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/197645/1/#showcomments2 Thu, 07 Jan 2009 09:55:17 +0100 0 Ekumfi Otuam a small fishing town in the Central Region of Ghana which lies kilometres to the left of Esuehyia Junction off the AccraCape Coast highway has become a bee hive of activities following the election of one of its sons Professor John Atta Mills as the next President of the country The result of the election has also raised ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/197644/1/prof-mills-hometown-attracts-activities.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/197644/1/prof-mills-hometown-attracts-activities.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/197644/1/#showcomments2 Thu, 07 Jan 2009 09:55:17 +0100 0 Sulley Alhassan The remains of Sulley Alhassan who was stabbed to death following the December postrunoff violence at the Agbogbloshie Market were interred at the Madina Public Cemetery yesterday according to Islamic rites The solemn occasion attracted a large turnout of New Patriotic Party NPP faithful who accompanied the cortege ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/197636/1/stabbed-npp-man-buried.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/197636/1/stabbed-npp-man-buried.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/197636/1/#showcomments2 Thu, 07 Jan 2009 09:36:34 +0100 0 Kwaku Frimpong Adjei Reports reaching DAILY GUIDE indicate that the National President of the Tertiary Students Confederacy TESCON of the New Patriotic Party NPP Kwaku Frimpong Adjei was on January attacked by irate National Democratic Congress NDC supporters at Techiman in the BrongAhafo region The TESCON president who confir ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/197634/1/tescon-president-attacked.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/197634/1/tescon-president-attacked.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/197634/1/#showcomments2 Thu, 07 Jan 2009 09:36:34 +0100 0 Mahama Ayariga A leading member of the National Democratic Congress NDC has stated that an NDC government would not have built the plush Golden Jubilee House the new seat of government Mahama Ayariga who has been appointed the spokesperson of the incoming President John Evans Atta Mills made the remark in a radio interview in Kumasi on ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/197633/1/jubilee-house-not-priority-ayariga.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/197633/1/jubilee-house-not-priority-ayariga.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/197633/1/#showcomments2 Thu, 07 Jan 2009 09:36:34 +0100 0