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Gomoa West NPP Retains Joe Donkoh As Chairman
Saturday November 21, 2009
MR Joe Donkoh, a businessman, has retained the chairmanship of the Gomoa West Constituency of the New Patriotic Party (NPP). He polled 451 votes to beat his opponent, Mr Wallace Clayman, who had 89 votes, in the constituency delegates conference to elect executives held at the Jubilee Temple at Mozano. Mr Edwin Bediako polled 406 as...read more
New Executives For Asawasi NDC
Saturday November 21, 2009
THE Asawasi Constituency of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), at its delegates congress in Kumasi, elected Alhaji Ahmed Abubakar as its new chairman. Other officers elected at the polls supervised by the Electoral Commission (EC), were Mr Joseph Bourle Salifu, secretary; Baba Mohammed, organiser; Alhaji Abdulai Anyars, treasurer;...read more
Akwatia NPP Says \'Yes\' To ‘Baba Yenko’
Saturday November 21, 2009
Alhaji Baba Yakubu, popularly known as Baba Yenkro, has been re-elected Chairman of the Akwatia Constituency of the New Patriotic Party (NPP). At the party’s delegates conference, attended by about 500 delegates, Alhaji Yakubu polled 386 votes to beat Lt.-Col. Kwaku Bremeng Andoh who had 76 votes. The position of secretary went to...read more
Kojo Bondzie Maintains Seat At Effutu
Saturday November 21, 2009
THE Effutu Constituency branch of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) at its annual delegates conference at Winneba elected new executives to steer the affairs of the party for the next two years. The incumbent chairman, Mr. Kojo Asmah Bondzie, was elected unopposed in an election conducted jointly by the Effutu Electoral Commission, led...read more
Ministers Advised To Take Business Of Parliament Serious
Saturday November 21, 2009
THE Speaker of Parliament, Mrs Joyce Adeline Bamford-Addo, yesterday urged Ministers to take the business of Parliament seriously and make themselves available to respond to questions. She said in the event of their inability to come and answer questions, they should inform the house well in advance. The Speaker expressed this...read more
Government Reviewing Decentralisation Programme
Saturday November 21, 2009
THE government has embarked on an exercise to review the decentralisation programme and the assembly system of local governance. The Minister for Local Government and Rural Development, Mr Joseph Yieleh Chireh, stated this in a speech read for him at a consultative meeting of Women’s Rights Activist Organisation and Women District Chief...read more
40 Years Slapped On ‘Baba Amu’ For Robbery
Saturday November 21, 2009
Nasiru Mohammed, popularly known as Baba Amu, a 19-year welder, has been sentenced to 40 years imprisonment in hard labour by a Kumasi Circuit Court for robbery. He was a part of a seven-member gang who during a robbery operation attacked and inflicted deep cutlass wounds on the face of a taxi driver that has now left him blind. Mohammed...read more
SMEs In Ho Unattractive To Lending Institutions — NBSSI
Saturday November 21, 2009
Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)rank among the least preferred for credit by lending institutions in Ho, Mr Ransford Kofi Kani, Volta Regional Coordinator of the National Board for Small Scale Industries (NBSSI), has said. This is due to high default risks, high transactions costs of loan and lack of collateral and information asymmetry...read more
AfDB Grants Over $8 Billion Credit Facility To Institutions
Saturday November 21, 2009
The African Development Bank (AfDB) says it has so far granted loans of over $8 billion to institutions in Africa to mitigate the impact of the global financial crisis. AfDB president Dr. Donald Kaberuka said at the just-concluded African Economic Conference in Addis Ababa last weekend that the bank had gone into new areas including trade...read more
IRS Develops Software For Tax Returns
Saturday November 21, 2009
THE Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has introduced income tax software to assist taxpayers to properly file correct monthly income tax returns, Mr James Kwaku Nyantakyi, the acting Western Regional Director of the Service, has announced. He was speaking at a one-day workshop on the application of the software, which was dubbed: “IRS Tax...read more
