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PRINCE TONYE PRINCEWILL REACTS TO THE RECONSTITUTED NDDC BOARD BY PRESIDENT YAR�ADUA

Sun, 04 Jul 2009 09:04:43 +0100

Let me be one of the first to congratulate Chibuzor on his nomination by the Presidency to the position of the MD NDDC As a fellow contender based on media reports to the same significant position let me doff my hat and say to us all that the Niger Delta has won With someone passionate about the affairs of the region and stubborn to the ol ...

Adebiyi avails self as solution to Nigeria�s energy crunch

Sun, 04 Jul 2009 09:05:19 +0100

Says he attended same college with President YarAduaProfessor George Adebiyi is a seasoned University doyen in Mississippi State University USA his research interests largely focus on SolarRenewable EnergyFuel Cell applications Mathematical modelling of advanced energy systems including Thermal Regenerators such as Packed Bed ...

Cape Coasters: Have Your Apologies Ready!

Sun, 04 Jul 2009 09:01:52 +0100

In the wake of President Barack Hussein Obamas first official visit to the African continent actually subSaharan Africa since assuming his august and pioneering reins of governance of the United States of America reams of miniessays and articles have been written and published in anticipation of this momentous occasion But that President ...

Antwi-Danso: African federal government idea ridiculous

Sun, 04 Jul 2009 01:54:33 +0100

An international relations expert Dr Vladimir AntwiDanso has described as ridiculous efforts at establishing a federal African governmentMembers of the African Union have agreed a plan to give its executive arm enhanced powers to coordinate common interest policies This has always been the ambition of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi who ...

Ghana@50 Commission to begin public hearing July 20

Sun, 04 Jul 2009 01:54:24 +0100

The Presidential Commission instituted to investigate activities of Ghana will begin sitting on July Prior to the set date the Commission has petitioned some organisations including the Prudential Bank Social Security and National Insurance Trust National Investment Bank and the Agricultural Development Bank to provide details of ...

Three suspected gun men in police grips

Sun, 04 Jul 2009 01:54:19 +0100

Three suspected armed robbers have been picked up on Friday after a bag full of money was snatched at gun point at the Christian Village close to Achimota in Accra Police have confirmedThe money was about to be transferred from a bank into a bullion van when gun men ridding motor bikes popped up and disarmed the lone police man accompanying ...

The Muntaka Saga: Time to Unmask

Sun, 04 Jul 2009 01:52:31 +0100

There comes the midnight hour when all men must unmask These are the very words of Soren Kierkegaard The midnight hour for Muntaka is now and in our bid to unmask I shall try to do a critical and objective analysis without fear favour malice or hatredThere is no doubt that triple M Mohammed Muntaka Mubarak is a lucky man He was tucke ...

HAUSA PROPHET PREDICTION AND ADAGE ON INEVITABLE COLLAPSE OF NIGERIA IN FEW YEARS

Sun, 04 Jul 2009 01:52:31 +0100

Written by Gary Busch Sunday June Theres an old Hausa proverb The cry of the hyena and the loss of the goat are one Nigeria has been celebrating the arrival of the chief hyena and his pack over the last week and has not understood that its goats are in mortal danger The NNPC is deluding itself when it rejoices over ...

�Petropolitics�, NDC and Hypocrisy!

Sun, 04 Jul 2009 01:52:31 +0100

I am tired of the hypocrisy that has so much permeated our political culture I am beginning to wonder whether its even worth continuing to write about it The NDC is in power and they find themselves unable to fulfill some of their preelection promises but instead of coming clean with Ghanaians and conceding the fact that they were wrong about ...

British police investigate discovery of dead body aboard GIA flight

Sat, 03 Jul 2009 20:40:20 +0100

Police in the United Kingdom are investigating the discovery of a dead body aboard a Ghana International Airline flight which arrived at the Gatwick Airport yesterday The body of the unidentified young man was discovered in the undercarriage of the plane He was found by engineers inspecting the aircraft after it landed at the A ...

$90 million for rail sector 'missing'

Sat, 03 Jul 2009 20:40:04 +0100

Transport Minister Mike Hammah says about million the Kufuor administration claimed to have allocated to the railway sector cannot be traced Last year when rail workers went on strike the Kufuor administration said the amount had been voted for the rehabilitation of the countrys rail transport system Government announce ...

Soldier Bar operators 'support' AMA

Sat, 03 Jul 2009 20:40:04 +0100

Operators of the notorious Soldier Bar brothel noted for underage prostitution are pulling down the structure ahead of a day ultimatum which ends tomorrow The Accra Metropolitan Assembly AMA recently demolished several structures at the lorry park including boutiques chop bars drinking spots and part of the brothel The ...

GIA lands in UK with dead body

Sat, 03 Jul 2009 20:40:03 +0100

Police in Sussex London are investigating the discovery of the body of a man allegedly in the undercarriage of a Ghana International Airline upon arrival at Gatwick Airport in West Sussex from AccraThe dead man was said to have been found by engineers inspecting the aircraft after it landed at Gatwick from Accra on Thursday The ...

Rawlings is the Smoking-Gun

Sat, 03 Jul 2009 20:36:23 +0100

We intentionally decided not to comment on it when recently Mr Rawlings and his wife traveled to La C�te dIvoire reportedly at the official invitation of President Laurent Gbagbo on the occasion of the Golden anniversary celebration of the Ivorian National Bar Association It is also interesting to recall that just about the same time the G ...

Review of the 1999 Constitution- Edo Politician tasks National Assembly members from Niger Delta on true fiscal federalism.

Sat, 03 Jul 2009 20:36:23 +0100

In view of the sustained agitation mounted by Niger Delta patriots since the last three decades for the resource control or fiscal federalism of all states in Nigeria which culminated to the militant dimension and the attendant criminal perspectives inform of hostage taking I make bold to say that the destiny of Nigerians and Niger Deltas parti ...

SOS message from Northern Police Give us more men & weapons� To fight against crime & ensure peace

Sat, 03 Jul 2009 19:49:50 +0100

The new Northern Regional Police Commander ACP Angwubutoge Awuni has underscored the need for government to increase the number of Police Personnel in the region and provide them with the requisite accoutrements that would enhance their avowed quest to curtail the frequent conflicts that had bedeviled the region in recent years Apart from the ...

Asabee`s wife charged for assult...granted GH�50,000 bail

Sat, 03 Jul 2009 19:49:38 +0100

The Wife of Former Minister of Information Mr Stephen Asamoah Boateng was yesterday hauled before An Accra Circuit Court to answer charges of alleged obstruction of the duties of Security personnel when they were intercepted at the Kotoka International Airport KIA and prevented from traveling to the United Kingdom in June this year Mrs ...

Muntaka tells Hausa listeners NDC HAS DISOWNED ME ``Even people I was expecting to support me, called for my crucifixion``

Sat, 03 Jul 2009 19:49:38 +0100

THE FORMER Youth and Sports Minister Hon Alhaji Mohammed Muntaka Mubarak must have agreed to be used as the sacrificial lamb in his party as he claims but the young Member of Parliament continues to cry from afar as he feels embittered about the way members of his own party treated him during his ordeal The former Minister disclosed public ...

We disagree with Dr. Duffuor

Sat, 03 Jul 2009 19:49:30 +0100

The Minister of Finance Dr Kwabena Duffuor has told Citi FM an Accra based radio station that the million loan that has been approved for Ghana by the World Bank WB has no conditionalities attached to it because of the prudent financial policies that the Atta Mills administration is pursuing Our fiscal consolidation program that we ...

Protecting the publics` health

Sat, 03 Jul 2009 19:49:19 +0100

Protecting the health of the public is one of the cardinal responsibilities of every government There is hardly anyone who will disagree with this statement The question on my mind today as we celebrate our republic is whether indeed our government is doing an adequate job of protecting our health Are we adequately protected on our roads Ar ...

NDC Propaganda Secretary Attacks AFAG members

Sat, 03 Jul 2009 19:49:07 +0100

The vociferous National Democratic Congress NDC Central Regional Propaganda Secretary Ben Allotey Jacobs has rubbished the noise being made in the country by a group calling itself Alliance For Accountable Governance AFAG that President John Evans Mills has disregarded the rule of law and must be impeached Reacting to the call by AFAG in ...

Deception (1)

Sat, 03 Jul 2009 19:48:33 +0100

Definition What is deception we may ask Deception has to do with the deliberate peddling of falsehood It comes from the word deceive which means to trick someone into believing what is false or bad This means that anything that is not true anything that is dishonest anything that is false but which we tell others with the intention of trickin ...

Motion sickness

Sat, 03 Jul 2009 19:48:20 +0100

Whenever we move walk run swim and so on the brain is informed by several sensors including the eyes muscles and joint sensors and most importantly the vestibular system The vestibular system is found in the inner part of the ear and is made up of semicircular canals with fluids that move to indicate the direction of our movements In th ...

Mills urges African leaders to give attention to agriculture

Sat, 03 Jul 2009 19:48:04 +0100

President John Evans Atta Mills has urged his colleague African leaders to give priority to agriculture to help solve the food deficit in the continent No country or continent has achieved rapid economic progress and improved the lives of its citizens without investing conscientiously deliberately and scientifically in agriculture he said ...

Journalists don`t understand Whistleblower`s Act

Sat, 03 Jul 2009 19:48:03 +0100

THE ACTING Commissioner of the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice CHRAJ Ms Anna Bossman has said the media does not seem to really understand the Whistle Blowers Act which was evident in their reportage of the case involving the former Minister of Sports Muntaka MohammedMubarak and the Principal Accountant Mr Adim Odd ...

`OMANHENE` IN DOCK OF ACCOUNTABILITY...Over GH�6,000 indebtedness to Council

Sat, 03 Jul 2009 19:48:01 +0100

SEEMING CRACKS are appearing in the Mfantseman Council of the Ashanti Region as the Mfantsemanhen of Kumasi who is also President of the Council Nana Arkorful Owese and his Mfantse Nifahen of Kumasi Nana Nanabanyin NinisinImbeah II who is also the Mfantsehen of AnlogaOforikrom have engaged in hostilities over frivolities The situation ...

Gov`t calls for need of new breed of professionals in refining of crude oil

Sat, 03 Jul 2009 19:47:46 +0100

The Deputy Minister of Energy Dr Kwabena Donkor has observed that the refining of crude oil which is a subsector in the oil industry needs a new breed of professionals to improve the quality of fuel being produced for the consumption of customers in the country He said operators in the refining of crude oil should approach the production ...

Business slows down at Tamale CNC

Sat, 03 Jul 2009 19:47:40 +0100

Business activities at the Northern Regional Centre for National Culture CNC near the Tamale Jubilee Park have been very slow and unimpressive Several artifacts including leather sandals leather bags idols wallets carvings ceramics smocks and tie and dye as well as other designs depicting the northern culture and tradition are usually ...

Reconstituted RCC inaugurated in Tamale

Sat, 03 Jul 2009 19:47:36 +0100

The reconstituted Northern Regional Coordinating Council RCC has been inaugurated in Tamale The event was aimed at further strengthening the decentralisation process in the region The Council is however made up of all twenty District Municipal and Metropolitan Chief Executives and their Presiding Members two representatives of th ...

Ghana, Burkina Faso to engage in trade talks

Sat, 03 Jul 2009 19:47:27 +0100

A twoday subregional durbar to deliberate on the issues of trade between Ghana and Burkina Faso has been held at Navrongo in the KassenaNankana District of the Upper East Region The programme was organised by the Ghana Trade and Livelihood Coalition GTLC a civil society organization and a social thinktank group working towards the en ...