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Also entertainment, business, science, technology and health news. en-uk Sun, 21 Nov 2009 00:33:10 +0100 BO Adamson - info@modernghana.com 11/21/2009 12:33:10 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/250508/1/atwima-mponua-ndc-elects-new-executives.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/250508/1/atwima-mponua-ndc-elects-new-executives.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/250508/1/#showcomments2 Sat, 20 Nov 2009 21:33:19 +0100 0 http://www.modernghana.com/news/250507/1/upper-east-pnc-expresses-shock-at-the-death-of-ban.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/250507/1/upper-east-pnc-expresses-shock-at-the-death-of-ban.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/250507/1/#showcomments2 Sat, 20 Nov 2009 21:33:19 +0100 0 http://www.modernghana.com/news/250506/1/ncce-holds-stakeholders-meeting-on-improving-local.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/250506/1/ncce-holds-stakeholders-meeting-on-improving-local.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/250506/1/#showcomments2 Sat, 20 Nov 2009 21:33:18 +0100 0 http://www.modernghana.com/news/250503/1/nsuta-kwamang-beposo-npp-elects-constituency-execu.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/250503/1/nsuta-kwamang-beposo-npp-elects-constituency-execu.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/250503/1/#showcomments2 Sat, 20 Nov 2009 21:33:16 +0100 0 http://www.modernghana.com/news/250502/1/2010-budget-lacks-sense-of-urgency.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/250502/1/2010-budget-lacks-sense-of-urgency.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/250502/1/#showcomments2 Sat, 20 Nov 2009 21:33:16 +0100 0 Normal false false false ENGB XNONE XNONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer A circuit court at Mpraeso on Thursday placed an interim injunction on the election of chairman for Mpraeso Constituency National Democratic Congress GNA learnt that the action followed a writ filed by Mr Noah Yaw Adjei a supporter of the NDC in the c ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/250442/1/injunction-on-mpraeso-ndc-constituency-election.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/250442/1/injunction-on-mpraeso-ndc-constituency-election.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/250442/1/#showcomments2 Sat, 20 Nov 2009 19:44:39 +0100 0 THE ExSpeaker of Parliament Mr Ebenezer Begyina Sekyi Hughes may not have been the only government official in the previous administration to have emptied his official residence after leaving office as reports available to the paper indicate that a similar property grabbing scandal has hit a former District Chief Executive DCE in the Ash ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/250437/1/ex-dce-loots-bungalowas-dep-minister-orders-his-ar.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/250437/1/ex-dce-loots-bungalowas-dep-minister-orders-his-ar.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/250437/1/#showcomments2 Sat, 20 Nov 2009 19:35:24 +0100 0 Retrieval of state owned vehicles from exMinisters and other former government officials in the immediate past New Patriotic Party NPP administration became a topical issue in Parliament yesterday when deputy Minister of Information Agyenim Boateng appeared in the House on behalf of Zita Okaikoi the substantive Information Minister to answer ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/250429/1/govt-retrieves-99-vehicles-from-ex-ministers.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/250429/1/govt-retrieves-99-vehicles-from-ex-ministers.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/250429/1/#showcomments2 Sat, 20 Nov 2009 19:28:10 +0100 0 Former President Rawlings who is also the Founder of the National Democratic Congress NDC has threatened to quit the party if President Mills and members of his administration do not sit up If we do not wake up to correct the mistakes I will not have anything to do with the party I have died so many times for the party been hu ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/250424/1/rawlings-threatens-to-quit-ndc.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/250424/1/rawlings-threatens-to-quit-ndc.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/250424/1/#showcomments2 Sat, 20 Nov 2009 19:19:14 +0100 1 Dr NyahoNyaho Tamakloe the firebrand New Patriotic Party NPP founding member yesterday launched his campaign to officially declare his intention to contest the Greater Accra regional chairmanship position of the party at Ashaiman Going on record as the first candidate to launch his campaign in the region Dr Tamakloe hinted to a packed ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/250419/1/nyaho-tamakloe-officially-launches-campaign-to-con.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/250419/1/nyaho-tamakloe-officially-launches-campaign-to-con.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/250419/1/#showcomments2 Sat, 20 Nov 2009 19:13:41 +0100 0 The Member of Parliament for Okaikoi South and Minority Spokesperson on Communications Nana Akomea says a major threat to the success of the ruling National Democratic Congress NDC is internal strifeHe said this in reaction to reports in the Friday November edition of The Chronicle newspaper suggesting that the founder of the ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/250391/1/haruna-iddrisuprez-mills-is-not-god-or.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/250391/1/haruna-iddrisuprez-mills-is-not-god-or.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/250391/1/#showcomments2 Sat, 20 Nov 2009 13:14:57 +0100 0 Another campaign fiascoPresident John Evans Atta Mills is still lacking the will required to make use of the many platform promises he made in the runup to the electionsAfter failing rather woefully to reduce petrol drastically as his popular platform refrain suggested the President is reneging on yet another campaign promise of e ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/250380/1/mills-men-refuse-to-declare-assets.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/250380/1/mills-men-refuse-to-declare-assets.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/250380/1/#showcomments2 Sat, 20 Nov 2009 12:45:35 +0100 0 The budget presented to parliament was not without the usual NDCNPP blame game The sheer arrogance and disrespect for Ghanaians characterised this important event when the minister of Finance Dr Kwabena Duffuor continually compared arrears and problems left by the NDC administration in and that left by the NPP administration in ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/250379/1/npp-ndc-refuses-to-think-outside-the-box-cpp.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/250379/1/npp-ndc-refuses-to-think-outside-the-box-cpp.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/250379/1/#showcomments2 Sat, 20 Nov 2009 12:45:35 +0100 0 Normal false false false ENGB XNONE XNONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer The Minority in Parliament on Wednesday gave several names to the Annual Budget presented by Dr Kwabena Duffuor Minister of Finance and Economic Planning as a way of registering their displeasure with the governments economic policies While some ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/250366/1/minority-describes-budget-as-enko-yie-budget.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/250366/1/minority-describes-budget-as-enko-yie-budget.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/250366/1/#showcomments2 Sat, 20 Nov 2009 12:21:44 +0100 0 http://www.modernghana.com/news/250365/1/government-asked-to-act-to-prevent-spiriting-away-.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/250365/1/government-asked-to-act-to-prevent-spiriting-away-.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/250365/1/#showcomments2 Sat, 20 Nov 2009 12:21:43 +0100 0 Normal false false false ENGB XNONE XNONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer THE BUDGET STATEMENT IN PERSPECTIVE ENKO YIE BUDGET In June five months after the NDC assumed office the NDC Government gave the following testimony about the NPPs economic management in its Memorandum of Financial and Economic Policy ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/250360/1/npp-on-2010-budget.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/250360/1/npp-on-2010-budget.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/250360/1/#showcomments2 Sat, 20 Nov 2009 12:21:39 +0100 0 http://www.modernghana.com/news/250315/1/fantseman-west-constituency-of-the-ndc-elects-exec.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/250315/1/fantseman-west-constituency-of-the-ndc-elects-exec.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/250315/1/#showcomments2 Sat, 20 Nov 2009 09:58:36 +0100 0 http://www.modernghana.com/news/250312/1/pan-african-parliamentary-delegation-to-observe-na.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/250312/1/pan-african-parliamentary-delegation-to-observe-na.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/250312/1/#showcomments2 Sat, 20 Nov 2009 09:58:34 +0100 0 Some ministers in the erstwhile Kufuor Administration including the flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party NPP in the last December elections Nana Addo Dankwa AkufoAddo yesterday stormed an Accra Fast High Court trying former Minister of Foreign Affairs Akwasi OseiAdjei for causing financial loss in the importation of rice from India W ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/250285/1/akufo-addo-storms-court-over-india-rice.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/250285/1/akufo-addo-storms-court-over-india-rice.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/250285/1/#showcomments2 Sat, 20 Nov 2009 09:52:07 +0100 0 TWO HOUSES including the house of Salifu Tia the prime suspect in the murder of Moses Alando Banaba have been razed down The burning which is alleged to have been committed by supporters of the deceased was in retaliation to the murder of Alando following the tension that enveloped the Nalerigu township Workers of the Baptist Medi ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/250283/1/2-houses-burnt-over-pnc-mans-death.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/250283/1/2-houses-burnt-over-pnc-mans-death.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/250283/1/#showcomments2 Sat, 20 Nov 2009 09:52:06 +0100 0 Former President Jerry Rawlings has charged NDC party faithful to be courageous in demanding accountability from the government The former President said there was no point in complaining about unfulfilled promises without a courageous attempt to confront government Speaking to NDC constituency chairmen drawn from twentytwo constituencie ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/250227/1/demand-accountability-from-government-rawlings-cha.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/250227/1/demand-accountability-from-government-rawlings-cha.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/250227/1/#showcomments2 Fri, 19 Nov 2009 19:35:44 +0100 0 Mr Joe Donkoh a businessman has retained the chairmanship of the Gomoa West Constituency of the New Patriotic Party NPPHe polled votes to beat his opponent Mr Wallace Clayman who had in the constituency delegates conference to elect executives held at the Jubilee Temple at Mozano on TuesdayMr Edwin Bediako polled as agai ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/250225/1/gomoa-west-npp-elects-executives.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/250225/1/gomoa-west-npp-elects-executives.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/250225/1/#showcomments2 Fri, 19 Nov 2009 19:35:26 +0100 0 http://www.modernghana.com/news/250224/1/mp-gives-support.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/250224/1/mp-gives-support.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/250224/1/#showcomments2 Fri, 19 Nov 2009 19:35:24 +0100 0 Tension is mounting in the HoEast Constituency branch of the National Democratic Congress NDC after the October elections that elected new executives Some of the executives claim the due process was not followed and have therefore vowed never to recognize the new executives In a petition signed by the AdakluWumenu branch Secretary ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/250213/1/confusion-in-ho-east-ndc-over-election.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/250213/1/confusion-in-ho-east-ndc-over-election.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/250213/1/#showcomments2 Fri, 19 Nov 2009 19:19:23 +0100 0 http://www.modernghana.com/news/250212/1/sir-john-launches-bid-for-npp-general-secretary-pr.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/250212/1/sir-john-launches-bid-for-npp-general-secretary-pr.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/250212/1/#showcomments2 Fri, 19 Nov 2009 19:19:23 +0100 0 With effect from next year the Driver Vehicle and Licensing Authority DVLA will introduce a biannual registration of vehicles as a means of validating and updating all genuine registered vehicles The exercise would provide information for efficient planning of road use and monitoring of security threats posed by criminal use of discarded ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/250174/1/2010-budget-in-pictures-car-owners-rice-eaters-hot.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/250174/1/2010-budget-in-pictures-car-owners-rice-eaters-hot.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/250174/1/#showcomments2 Fri, 19 Nov 2009 15:55:51 +0100 0 PARLIAMENT YESTERDAY unanimously approved President John Atta Mills nominees and Joseph Nii Laryea AfoteyAgbo as Minister for Health and Minister of State at the Presidency respectively Making contributions before the approval of the Ministers of State a number of Members of Parliament MPs described the two nominees as affable and hard ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/250173/1/kunbuor-afotey-agbo-approved.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/250173/1/kunbuor-afotey-agbo-approved.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/250173/1/#showcomments2 Fri, 19 Nov 2009 15:55:50 +0100 0 Youth of the opposition New Patriotic Party in Tamale want the Mills government to investigate allegations that the Northern Regional Minister sold four pickups belonging to the RCC to himselfThe group is also asking that Mr Stephen Sumani Nayina be probed over claims that he dabbled in the sale of contracts in contravention of laws which di ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/250170/1/investigate-nr-minister-npp-youth-in-tamale-demand.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/250170/1/investigate-nr-minister-npp-youth-in-tamale-demand.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/250170/1/#showcomments2 Fri, 19 Nov 2009 15:51:55 +0100 0 http://www.modernghana.com/news/250138/1/budget-lacks-ambition-npp.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/250138/1/budget-lacks-ambition-npp.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/250138/1/#showcomments2 Fri, 19 Nov 2009 15:03:17 +0100 0 http://www.modernghana.com/news/250101/1/akwatia-constituency-of-npp-elects-executive.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/250101/1/akwatia-constituency-of-npp-elects-executive.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/250101/1/#showcomments2 Fri, 19 Nov 2009 10:54:48 +0100 0