The immediate past Attorney-General and Minister for Justice, Martin Amidu, has described government’s intervention in the controversial Jake Obetsebi-Lamptey Bungalow saga as “unconstitutional”. Government last week served notice it is no longer selling the bungalow at No. 2 Mungo Street at Ridge, which has being the subject of a Supreme Court ruling, describing the acquisition […]
May 28 2012 | Posted in
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The opposition Congress for Democratic Change (CDC) through its spokesman, Mr. George Solo, has threatened peaceful street protests against what it calls “nepotism” in the governance of the country’s oils sector as well as other problems engulfing the sector. Mr. Solo asserted that President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf is using “nepotism” in the administration of the oil […]
May 22 2012 | Posted in
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By: Oral Ofori One of this year’s CNN/Multichoice African Journalist Awards nominees, Joshua Anny, is someone I went to the same high school with in Tema; one of Africa’s and Ghana’s premier port city. During our days in school we developed a liking for writing, researching and that strong will to see things done the […]
May 20 2012 | Posted in
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Ghana has failed to achieve the targeted oil revenue of GH¢1.250 billion for 2011 as the nation has only raked in GH¢666 million from the commodity. This represents a shortfall of GH¢583 million, which the Jubilee partners have attributed to the inability of the Jubilee field to produce the estimated 120 barrels of oil daily. […]
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By Orkula Shaagee For the third time in three consecutive months, Nigeria yesterday slumped in the official world football ranking, the worst by the country in the monthly FIFA ranking, as the country dropped three places to occupy number 63 in the world and 12 in Africa. The country was ranked 60 in last […]
May 19 2012 | Posted in
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By Winifred Ogbebo The National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has threatened to employ all machineries at its disposal to protect the interest of its members in Lagos State, if the government remains insensitive and adamant to recalling the 788 sacked doctors. Speaking yesterday in Abuja, the president of the association, Dr. Chiedozie Achonwa […]
May 19 2012 | Posted in
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By Daniel Nonor THE RECURRENT pirate activities in the Gulf of Guinea and the increasing threat of terrorism in neighboring Nigeria has raised grave security concerns to oil shipments in the West African sub-region and these are invariably too close for comfort to Ghana’s oil installations. Target countries of these pirate activities over the […]
May 19 2012 | Posted in
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Kpong — At the Kpong airfield, a few kilometers from Lake Volta in northern Ghana, Patricia Mawuli, pilot and co-founder of Medicine on the Move (MoM), a local NGO, is preparing her plane for takeoff. She is one of four health workers who fly weekly to isolated communities around the lake to raise awareness of […]
May 19 2012 | Posted in
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In its 2012 Human Development Report for Africa, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) says that sub-Saharan Africa cannot sustain its … ( Resource: African Human Development Report 2012 Despite rapid economic growth in some African countries in recent years, no government across the continent can rightfully claim that all its citizens have access to […]
May 19 2012 | Posted in
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The United Nations envoy for children and armed conflict today urged the Ugandan Government bring to justice a senior commander of the brutal Lord’s Resistant Army (LRA), who was captured over the weekend, saying he is responsible for some of the most egregious abuses against children. Ugandan authorities announced on Saturday that the country’s army […]
May 19 2012 | Posted in
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