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JESUS ONE - TOUCH ARRESTED
Tuesday March 09, 2010
The Head Pastor of Jesus Blood Ministry at Ogbojo in Accra, the Prophet Nana Kwesi Yirenkyi, is in the grips of the police for allegedly defiling his 10-year-old daughter with whom he lives in Accra.
Prophet Yirenkyi is in the custody of the Domestic Violence and Victims Support Unit (DOVVSU) of the Ministries Police Station in Accra and is...read more
A COLOURFUL INDEPENDENCE DAY PARADE
Monday March 08, 2010
It was all colour and splendor at the Independence Square in Accra on Saturday where thousands of Ghanaians gathered to celebrate Ghana’s 53rd Independence Anniversary.
The event, which could best be described as a children’s affair, was remarkable in the sense that the entire parade was conducted by school children drawn from the various...read more
SCHOOL IN CEMETERY
Tuesday February 23, 2010
PUPILS of Labone Presbyterian Primary School at La in Accra live through the daily experience of having an old cemetery for a school compound. These children start their day by sweeping through the graves, sit on them to either eat or chat and look at the graves from open windows while in class. This situation is in sharp contrast with the...read more
THE OIL MAY NOT FLOW IF...
Monday February 22, 2010
DOUBTS have been raised over the country’s preparedness to start the first phase of commercial production of oil from the jubilee field in the last quarter of the year.
The issue has to do with Oil and Gas Draft Bill which is yet ready to be placed before Parliament for passage into Law to pave the way for production to commence as...read more
LAWYER: GHANAIANS WILL SUFFER, NOT THE OIL
Monday February 22, 2010
An Accra lawyer says whether it is passed or not, the Oil and Gas draft Bill, yet to be presented to Parliament, will not have any effect on the drilling of oil in the expected time-frame. Speaking to the ‘Times’ in an interview in Accra yesterday, in reaction to fears expressed by Mr. Akoto Osei at a forum at the weekend, the...read more
CHRAJ WARNS PARLIAMENT...You can\'t Review Ruling On Ayariga
Saturday February 20, 2010
The Commissioner for the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), Justice Francis Emile Short, has indicated to the Appointments Committee of Parliament that the committee does not have the right to review its decision regarding outgoing Presidential spokesperson, Mahama Ayariga’s purchase of 5 Kubota tractors meant for...read more
DEVASTATION...The Rawlingses Lose Official Residence To Fire
Monday February 15, 2010
THE fire that gutted the Ridge office residence of the former first family, the Rawlingses, burnt nearly everything the family had toiled for.
By the time the National Fire Service personnel were done putting out the inferno, everything was down to ashes.
The only items salvaged from the blazing inferno were an ironing table, a standing...read more
INFLATION DROPS FOR THE 7TH TIME
Thursday February 11, 2010
THE Country Inflation dropped from 18.04 per cent in October to 16.92 per cent in November, this year.
This represents a decrease of 1.45 percentage points from the Inflations rate for October, 2009.
Dr Grace Bediako, Government statistician at a press briefing yesterday on the consumer price Index for November 2009 attributed the...read more
FREEDOM: BUT HOW DO WE EAT?
Wednesday February 10, 2010
Africa is at the crossroads of economic development, and requires rigorous strategies to spur its rapid growth, says President John Evans Atta Mills.
“The era of political emancipation in Africa is over, and now is the time to lift the people out of the quagmire of poverty,” he said as he opened the Seventh Africa Investment Forum...read more
GAS GOING TO WASTE AT SALTPOND FIELDS
Monday February 08, 2010
Lawrence Markwei, Saltpond GAS flared at the Saltpond oil field since activities were reactivated in 2002 average two million cubic feet per day. An estimated total of four billion cubic feet of gas has so far been flared, Times investigation has established. Saltpond Offshore Production Company Limited (SOPCL) engaged in the production...read more
