Politics
NYEP Bill To Go To Parliament
Friday March 12, 2010
The National Youth Employment Programme (NYEP) is to be re-organised to create a continuous avenue for youth employment in the country To this end a bill would soon be placed in parliament known as the NYEP Bill to give real meaning to youth employment in Ghana. Mr. Abuga Pele, National Coordinator of NYEP said this in Accra on Wednesday...read more
Appointments Committee Vets Two
Friday March 12, 2010
The Appointments Committee of Parliament yesterday vetted two Presidential nominees for deputy ministerial positions. They are Dr. Mustapha Ahmed (rtd) for Deputy Minister of Water Resources, Works and Housing and San Nasamu Asabigi as Deputy Minister for the Northern Region. The atmosphere at the sitting was that of Camaraderie as the...read more
Burkinabe Delegation Attends Independence Day Celebration
Monday March 08, 2010
THE Upper West Regional Minister, Mr Mahmud Khalid, has called for effective co-operation and collaboration between Ghana and Burkina Faso to check cross-border crime, especially cattle rustling.
Such co-operation and collaboration, he explained, would also improve bilateral trade between the two countries; enhance disease surveillance and...read more
I believe In The Better Ghana Agenda - Concerned Citizen
Friday March 05, 2010
A concerned citizen, Barima David has expressed his faith in the better Ghana Agenda of President Mills and urged the government to invest more in Agriculture. Speaking to the Times, he said countries like Brazil, United States of America, China and Japan are doing well because they focused on agricultural development “Government...read more
Prez Mills Tasks Youth To Work Hard To Enhance Democracy
Wednesday March 03, 2010
President John Evans Atta Mills yesterday encouraged stakeholders in Ghana’s
democracy to work hard to maintain the democratic credentials gained by the
country, saying \"other countries are looking up to us.\"
He particularly urged the various political parties to work together in enhancing the country’s democracy for the national good....read more
NPP Delegates Congress Takes Off In Kumasi
Friday February 26, 2010
THE Ashanti Regional for the first time, is hosting the National delegate conference of the New Patriotic Party (NPP). The event is scheduled for the Baba Yara Stadium in Kumasi today. The region, the stronghold of the NPP, has never had the opportunity to host the party’s national conference except the delegates conference of...read more
CPP Donates To Ex-Servicemen
Friday February 26, 2010
The Convention People’s Party CPP has, donated food items and toiletries worth GH¢ 3,000.00 (Three Thousand Ghana Cedis) to surviving Ex-Service men who participated in the peaceful demonstration of February 28, 1948 which led to the crossroads shooting, that killed three of them. It is recalled that on February 28, 1948,...read more
Ministers Sworn In By President Mills
Tuesday February 23, 2010
President John Evans Atta Mills yesterday swore into office six newly appointed Ministers, with a charge on them to support the government to achieve its development targets. “This is a year of action,” he told the Ministers, a number of whom were drafted from the leadership of the Majority in Parliament into the Executive. The...read more
DCE Sustains Pressure On Contractors
Tuesday February 23, 2010
Mr. Clement Akugre Atia, the District Chief Executive (DCE) for Bongo in the Upper East Region on Saturday warned that any contractor who executed any shoddy work would lose the contract and be blacklisted. He, therefore, advised contractors to execute their work in conformity with value for money so as to avoid being sanctioned by the...read more
NPP Team Visits Former President Kufuor
Tuesday February 23, 2010
The National Chairman of the NPP, Mr. Peter Mac Manu has led a delegation comprising the national executive officers of the party and members of the Steering Committee to a meeting with the former President J.A. Kufuor at his residence in Accra The delegation was to brief him on the preparation towards the impending national delegates...read more
