Politics

New Chamber Block Planned For Parliament
23rd February, 2013
The government has decided to construct a new Parliamentary Chamber Block for the Legislature. President John Dramani Mahama, who disclosed this yesterday in his State-of-the-Nation Address to ...
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Govt To Purge Small-Scale Mining Sector
23rd February, 2013
President John Dramani Mahama yesterday announced that drastic measures were being taken by the government to purge the small-scale mining sector of all irregularities. He said the decisive ...
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Minority Leader Explains NPP MPs Boycott
22nd February, 2013
THE Minority Leader, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, has explained that their decision to stage a walkout during President John Mahama’s maiden state-of-the-Nation Address yesterday, was in conformity with ...
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Ghana To Continue To Exhibit True Democracy Tendencies In Africa - President Mahama
22nd February, 2013
President John Mahama has pledged Government’s readiness not to relent in working to ensure that Ghana continues to exhibit true democratic tendencies on the African continent. He pledged ...
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Govt To Mount Nkrumah's Statue At Kwame Nkrumah Circle
21st February, 2013
President John Dramani Mahama last Tuesday announced that the government would this year mount an imposing statue of Ghana's first President Dr Kwame Nkrumah at the Kwame Nkrumah's Circle in ...
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Arrest Pro-NPP Pressure Group - The Young Democrats
21st February, 2013
The Young Democrats, a pro-NDC pressure group, is demanding the arrest of certain members of New Patriotic Party (NPP) as well as of a pro-NPP pressure group; Let My Vote Count Alliance. The Young ...
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Adwoa Safo Calls For National Solid Waste Law
21st February, 2013
Yaw Kyei The Member of Parliament for Dome-Kwabenya Constituency, Sarah Adwoa Safo, has called for the enactment of a National Solid Waste Law to deal with ...
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Vice President Urges NDC MPs To Work Hard To Deliver On Manifesto
21st February, 2013
Vice President Paa Kwesi Bekoe Amissah-Arthur has appealed to the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Members of Parliament to remain focused and work hard on delivering on the party’s ...
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Kufuor Returns From Nigeria
21st February, 2013
Former President John Agyekum Kufuor, returned home from Abuja, Nigeria, Wednesday after addressing two separate conferences on water and the 10th anniversary of the Sun Group of Newspapers. Former ...
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President Nominates VR Minister
19th February, 2013
President John Mahama has nominated the Member of Parliament for Krachi West, Madam Helen Adwoa Ntoso, as Volta Regional Minister. A statement signed by the Executive Secretary to the President, ...
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Electoral Commission Launches Probe Into Savelugu Pink Sheet Case
19th February, 2013
THE Electoral Commission (EC) says it will investigate why its returning officer at Savelugu in the Northern Region, asked presiding officers to validate some unsigned pink sheets containing records ...
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NPP Disgree With EC's Action
19th February, 2013
THE New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) Director of Communication, Nana Akomea, said the attempt to validate the pink sheets was the clearest testament to the validity of the issues raised by the three NPP ...
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NDC Smells Rat Over Savelugu Case
19th February, 2013
THE General Secretary of the ruling National Democratic Congress, Mr. Johnson Asiedu Nketia, ascribed the recent arrest of three officials of the Savelugu District Electoral Commission to ...
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One More EC Official Arrested
19th February, 2013
THE Northern Regional Police has picked up one more official of the Electoral Commission (EC) for allegedly trying to get some presiding officers to sign some pink sheets used for the 2012 ...
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Mahama Promises Sustainable Jobs For The Youth
18th February, 2013
President John Dramani Mahama says his government is willing to cooperate with organized labour in order to create meaningful and sustainable jobs. The President said the demography of Ghana’s ...
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President Mahama To Deliver State Of Nation Address February 21 2013
18th February, 2013
President John Dramani Mahama will deliver the state of the nation’s address in Parliament on February 21. Mr Alfred Agbesi, Deputy Majority Leader, said this when he read the Business ...
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NPP Welcomes Prez’s Comments On Supreme Court Petition
14th February, 2013
THE opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) has welcomed the President’s comment that he will abide by the Supreme Court ruling on an NPP petition challenging his legitimacy. President Mahama at a ...
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Benyiwa-Doe Blows Her Own Trumpet
14th February, 2013
THE caretaker Central Regional Minister, Mrs. Ama Benyiwa-Doe, has expressed her appreciation to the people in the region for their support during her four-year tenure of office in the region. She ...
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19-Member Ugandan Delegation Visits Ghana
14th February, 2013
A 19-member delegation comprising political parties’ representatives in Uganda are in Ghana to understudy her fledging democracy. Impressed by the democratic gains chalked by Ghana, the ...
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Israeli Ambassador Commends Ghana's Democratic Credentials
14th February, 2013
THE Israeli Ambassador to Ghana, Madam Sharon Bar-Li has lauded Ghana’s democratic credentials describing it as worthy of emulation by other countries. “The smooth transition of power that was ...
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