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MPs FUND TO BE SCRAPPED
23rd August, 2010
The Members of Parliament Common Fund will be scrapped by the end of this year, to be replaced with the Constituency Development Fund, following a memorandum submitted by the Ministry of Local ...
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ATTORNEY-GENERAL FILES APPEAL ...Against Mpiani, Brobby
21st August, 2010
The Attorney General (AG) Department has filed an appeal seeking to overturn the case it lost against the two principal organizers of Ghana’s 50th independence anniversary celebrations, Ghana ...
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METHODIST CHURCH IS NON-POLITICAL
20th August, 2010
The Presiding Bishop of the Methodist Church, the Most Rev. Prof. Emmanuel Asante, has stated that the Church is non-partisan and it is wrong for any member to use it to speak on partisan ...
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KOSMOS STOPS SALE TO EXXON...
19th August, 2010
Kosmos Energy, shareholder in the Jubilee Oil field, has called off the proposed sale of its stake to Exxon Mobil Corporation, putting to rest the anxiety generated by its decision to bypass the ...
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WATER FLOWS FOR 40 COMMUNITIES
17th August, 2010
About 250,000 people in 40 communities in the Central and Western Regions of the country now have access to potable drinking water, thanks to a European Union-funded Small Towns Water and Sanitation ...
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ASOGLI POWER TO FLOW
16th August, 2010
The dream of the Sunon-Asogli Power Plant to supply 200 megawatts of electricity to the national grid, is near realization as the company is expected to get its supply of natural gas from the West ...
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NIGERIA COCOA IN OLD GHANA SACKS
13th August, 2010
Nigeria is bagging cocoa into jute sacks embossed with the name “Ghana Cocoa Board” for export. A Nigeria newspaper “The Guardian” reported, that the jute sacks abandoned in 2006 by the Ghana Cocoa ...
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TOR SHUT DOWN... But No Fuel Shortage
12th August, 2010
THE Tema Oil Refinery (TOR) Plant has been temporarily shut down for lack of crude oil. A source close to TOR who disclosed this yesterday said the refinery has remained shut for the past one and ...
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WEREKO-BROBBEY, MPIANI FREED ... A-G Reacts
11th August, 2010
An Accra Fast Track High Court yesterday, discharged Dr Charles Wireko-Brobbey and Kwadwo Okyere Mpiani, two former officials of the defunct Ghana@50 Secretariat, of all charges of wilfully causing ...
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CHURCH OFFERINGS ARE TOO MUCH - Presby Moderator
10th August, 2010
The Moderator of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana, Rev. Dr. Yaw Frimpong-Manso, has asked the church to move away from dependence on “offerings” and “tithes” to sustain God’s work. “I wish to ...
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COOL CHOP FOR NANA
9th August, 2010
Contrary to expectations that the New Patriotic Party (NPP) national delegates congress for the election of the party’s presidential candidate for the 2012 election was going to be a hot contest ...
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2nd ROUND LIKELY IN NPP RACE ON SATURDAY
6th August, 2010
Tomorrow is the deciding day for New Patriotic Party delegates across the country to cast their votes to elect the party’s flag bearer, ahead of the 2012 presidential election. The campaigns, ...
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MASSIVE FRAUD IN TMA
5th August, 2010
The national security apparatus has uncovered a fraud case involving the alleged payment of more than GH¢ 260,000 to non-existent companies by some officials of the Tema Metropolitan Assembly (TMA). ...
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WE TALK TOO MUCH - Cletus Korsiba
4th August, 2010
Ghana has at it takes to develop and move into a middle income status but the process has been retarded by the lack of commitment to policy implementation. Mr. Cletus Kosiba, a former Executive ...
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AFRICA NEEDS NEW WINESKINS - Pastor Otabil
3rd August, 2010
The primary changes required for Africa’s Renaissance to flourish would have to start with changes in Africa’s core cultural assumptions and thoughts. “An African Renaissance must encourage the ...
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CHILD TRAFFICKING: 25 WOMEN ARRESTED
31st July, 2010
Twenty five women, most of them nursing mothers are assisting the Central Regional Police in investigations into allegations of child trafficking. Three buses, in which they were conveying the 118 ...
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CHIEFS AIDING FOREIGNERS IN GALAMSEY
28th July, 2010
Some chiefs in mining communities are illegitimately issuing mining licences to foreigners to undertake “galamsey” mining. They include Chinese, Malians and Burkinabe who are said to be heavily armed ...
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BIZZARE! Baptist Pastor Takes Own Life
27th July, 2010
Church members of the Calvary Baptist Church at Agric Nzema, near Kwadaso in the Kumasi Metropolis yesterday gazed in awe at the helpless body of their head pastor, Rev. Nicholas Opoku Agyemang, as it ...
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COMPUTERISED TRAINS COMING
24th July, 2010
Accra is to be launched into the modern rail transport system with the planned introduction of mono-rail coaches in the next five years. Feasibility studies for the 1.5 billion dollar project start ...
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ASOGLI POWER PLANT IS IDLE
23rd July, 2010
The Sunon-Asogli Power (Ghana) Limited is ready to supply 200 mega watts (MW) of electricity to the National grid this year, provided it gets its share of natural gas from the West African Gas ...
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