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OBAMA AWAY FROM THE PEOPLE?
Tuesday July 07, 2009
The itinerary of the American President during his visit to Ghana, as published on our front page yesterday, attracted angry phone calls from the public. If the 20 or so people who called to the offices of the Times are representative of the voice of the 25 million Ghanaian population, then we can conclude that Ghanaians are not happy with...read more
Judicial Service Condemns Attack On Registrar
Tuesday July 07, 2009
The Judicial Service has condemned the mob attack on the court registrar and the premises of its district offices in Dzodze. Some youth invaded the premises of the court and beat up the registrar who, they alleged, was morally bankrupt and corrupt. A press release signed on July 6, by the Judicial Secretary, Justice Alex B....read more
AMA, Zoomlion Beautify Accra For Obama
Tuesday July 07, 2009
In preparation for the visit of U.S. President Barrack Obama to the country, the Accra Metropolitan Assembly ( AMA) and Zoomlion, a waste management company, have intensified their efforts to beautify the city’s ceremonial and principal streets.
Some of the streets are the Olusegun Obasanyo Road, the 37-El-Wak road; Ako-Adjei...read more
Private School Heads Go To School
Tuesday July 07, 2009
A pilot training programme for private schools titled, ‘Developing skills in financial and credit management for private school owners’ is underway in Accra.
It is being sponsored by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), and The Mitchell Group Incorporated (TMG).
The programme which has attrated over...read more
Prestige Gateway Academy Holds Graduation Ceremony
Tuesday July 07, 2009
The Director of the Prestige Gateway Academy (PGA), Mrs Herty Nancy Sackey, has advised students in the country to be punctual to lectures to enable teachers complete syllabus on time. She said a lot of students don’t attend classes on time which affects the academic work in various schools. Mrs Sackey gave the advice at the...read more
Barclays Donates To Sch For Life
Tuesday July 07, 2009
Barclays Bank of Ghana has donated a cheque for GH¢43, 923.00 to the School for Life (SFL) towards the provision of educational support to deprived children under its school programme in the three northern regions. The educational support is for the provision of community based functional literacy classes to under privileged children...read more
Govt To Invest In Infrastructural Development Of Schools
Tuesday July 07, 2009
Government is committed to mobilising re-sources to upgrade the infrastructure of schools in the country, Mr Kofi Opoku Manu, Ashanti Regional Minister, has said.
He said education was a vital tool to ensuring that Ghana developed its human resource base and that the only way this could be achieved is to give a face-lift to dilapidated...read more
P.C. APPIAH OFORI MAINTAINS STAND
Tuesday July 07, 2009
P.C. Appiah-Ofori, Member of Parliament (MP) for Asikuma-Odoben-Brakwa, has rubbished the denial by former Chief of Staff, Kwadwo Mpiani and the Minority caucus in Parliament of bribery allegation over the Vodafone deal.
He insists that those NPP MPs who voted to approve the deal were given 5,000 dollars each.
Speaking to the Times in...read more
Minority Walks Out Of House
Tuesday July 07, 2009
THE Minority caucus in Parliament yesterday walked out of the House in protest against a comment by Felix Twumasi-Appiah (NDC-Sene) over a 5,000-dollar bribery allegation scandal against some Members of Parliament (MPs) in the sale of Ghana Telecom to Vodafone. This was during the debate on the Economic Governance and Poverty Reduction...read more
Obama, Anaaaaa?
Tuesday July 07, 2009
When Ghanaians say “anaaa!” after your name, then, to them, you have taken off into outer space.
The word is normally a rhetorical question, meaning “Not so?” But when they are conversing about an exciting football match and one of them says of a goal-scorer, “Muntari anaaaa!” he is not asking any...read more
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