[Ghanaian Chronicle]Ghanaian farmers have vehemently called on the Mahama-led government to include them on boards of the Export Development and Agriculture Investment Fund (EDIF) and the Agricultural Development Bank (ADB) to enable them (famers) offer support and advice to the two companies to boost agricultural production.
[Ghanaian Chronicle]The Lumina Foundation, the Lagos-based leading literary organisation and administrators of the Wole Soyinka Prize for literature in Africa has chosen Accra as the venue for the next awards ceremony in 2014.
[Ghanaian Chronicle]Nazara Technologies, a leading mobile games developer and publisher, and Electronic Arts Inc. has entered into an exclusive business alliance to distribute EA's collection of world class mobile games to over 770 million mobile phone consumers across Africa.
[Ghanaian Chronicle]In an ambitious move to regain her lost formal educational glory, the Cape Coast Education Fund (CCEF) has finally been launched in Cape Coast at the weekend, to achieve this goal among the current and future generations.
[Ghanaian Chronicle]What was billed as 'the clash of the Governors' at the Institute of Economic Affairs organized Vice-Presidential Debate in Takoradi, failed to ignite. Vice-President Paa Kwesi Amissah-Arthur, one-time lecturer in Economics and one-time Deputy Finance Minister, who was expected to bring his immense knowledge and experience as the immediate past Governor of the Bank of Ghana to bear, failed the litmus test when it mattered most.
[Ghanaian Chronicle]After 55 years of political independence, our politicians today are still basing their campaign messages on the provision of basic social amenities such as building of hospitals, construction of roads, eliminating schools under trees, provision of good potable water and a few to the masses just to get the enormous support of the electorates when voting days are drawing nigh which enables them to achieve power through the ballot box to effect social change.
[Ghanaian Chronicle]The Ghana Constitution, 1992, supports the argument that the legal profession has a responsibility to expose unconstitutional and criminal acts or conduct. This raises the question: What are the ethical responsibilities of a lawyer in practice who shoulders the onerous and burdensome duty of being the "gatekeeper" and the "moral conscience" of society under the 1992 Constitution? It is my general contention that several bloody and destructive conflicts in Africa have resulted from a failure of the law and
[This is Africa]Most people who cannot afford a mortgage usually use their savings to buy construction materials to build a home themselves - and are then caught in a lengthy construction period.
[Ghanaian Chronicle]Nine major drainage basins in the Accra Metropolis, namely Odaw, Lafa, Chemu, Kpeshie, Osu Klottey, Morkwei, La, Songor and Korle Lagoon, are about to see a facelift, under the 'Construction of the Accra Sanitary Sewerage and Storm Drainage Alleviation project.'
[Ghanaian Chronicle]The Electoral Commission (EC) has announced that eligible voters who consciously engaged in multiple registrations during the recent biometric registration exercise will not be verified or made to exercise their franchise during the December 7 general elections.
[Ghanaian Chronicle]The moribund economy and particularly, the faltering national currency, the cedi, will be the focus of attention when four of the seven vice-presidential candidates for the 2012 elections clash at the Akromah Hotel in the oil city of Takoradi, in the Institute of Economic Affairs' Vice-Presidential Debate tonight.
[Ghanaian Chronicle]The Inspectorate Division of the Minerals Commission has organised a workshop to sensitise chiefs, assembly members and other players in the small mining sector of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) on minerals and the mining laws.
[AEP]The Presbyterian Church of Ghana has said its basic schools on government's published list of schools removed from under trees were never under trees.
[Ghanaian Chronicle]The Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Prof. Aaron Michael Oquaye, has vehemently descended on the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) over their incessant campaign against the free fee Senior High School (SHS) education policy being championed by Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, presidential candidate of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), arguing that such a strategy "won't work."
[Ghanaian Chronicle]The Savanna Accelerated Development Authority (SADA) quest of reducing poverty and improving the lives of people in its operational areas has yielded a success as a beneficiary of SADA agric product was adjudged the National Best Maize Farmer at the just-ended National Farmers' Day Celebration.
[Ghanaian Chronicle]Obuasi -The Obuasi Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) and National Democratic Congress (NDC) parliamentary candidate for the newly-created Obuasi West constituency, Mr. Alexander John Ackon, has urged the people in the constituency to reject the New Patriotic Party (NPP) parliamentary candidate for the area, come December 7.
[Ghanaian Chronicle]Kamal Alhassan and Abdul Raman Nurudeen (both scrap dealers), have been arraigned before an Accra Circuit court for stealing an abandoned caterpillar, worth ¢ 70,000 in Oyarifa, a suburb of Accra.
[Ghanaian Chronicle]Kumasi -PERSEUS MINING Company Limited, a mining firm based in Anyanfuri, in the Upper Denkyira West District of the Central Region, has offered educational scholarships worth thousands of Ghana cedis to 50 students to pursue various skills and development programmes at the Kumasi Technical Institute (KTI).
[Ghanaian Chronicle]The Controller and Accountant-General's Department's says some employees on the Government of Ghana (GoG) payroll, particularly staff of the Ghana Education Service (GES), have complained about alleged unjustified reductions in their net salaries for October 2012.
[Ghanaian Chronicle]Agona-Ash -MR. EDWARD Kussi Ayarkwa, the parliamentary candidate for Sekyere South constituency in the Ashanti Region, on the ticket of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC), has appealed to the electorate not to vote on the basis of party affiliation but according to the competence of a candidate.
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