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Ghana: Adjei Released By Israeli Club
Accra Hearts of Oak are seeking to bring back goalkeeper Sammy Adjei and striker Louis Agyeman to the club.
Source : AllAfrica | 28-Aug-2008 16:38

Ghana: Kuffuor's Russian Deal Hits the Buffers
Russian side Khimiki FC have put the brakes on their bid to bring former Ghana international defender Samuel Osei Kuffuor.
Source : AllAfrica | 28-Aug-2008 16:38

Ghana: Appau Quits Arsenals
Berekum Arsenals coach Ernest Appau has resigned from the club to undertake a training course in Germany.
Source : AllAfrica | 28-Aug-2008 16:38

Ghana: Appiah Back for Country!
Stephen Appiah could make his long awaited from injury in Ghana's world cup qualifier against Libya next Friday.
Source : AllAfrica | 28-Aug-2008 16:38

Ghana: Mensah Blow for Ghana
John Mensah is the latest omission from the Ghana squad for the September 5 World Cup qualifier with the defender yet to recover from the injury that has delayed his Olympique Lyon debut.
Source : AllAfrica | 28-Aug-2008 16:38

Case studies: The young women targeted as mules by cocaine smugglers

Young British women are being targeted as mules on drug smuggling routes from Africa, customs officials believe.

Source : Topix.net | 28-Aug-2008 13:35

Ghana: Condemning Corruption
Last week, Professor Maxwell Owusu of the University of Michigan, a political scientist and researcher, at a public forum in Accra, expressed the view that, after 50 years of independence, Ghana has made little progress. He blamed this largely on the corrupt actions of political leaders and public officers.
Source : AllAfrica | 28-Aug-2008 13:01

Dramani Close to Stoke Move
Ghana international Haminu Dramani will know later on Thursday whether his bid to join English Premiership side Stoke City has been successful.
Source : AllAfrica | 28-Aug-2008 11:37

AMA Sues 4 Companies - For Non-Payment of Property Rates
The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) has dragged four companies before the Accra Circuit Court, for owing the Assembly a total of GH¢7,535.44 in property rates, following persistent demands by the assembly's agent.
Source : AllAfrica | 28-Aug-2008 11:22

Ghana: Osu Enstools New Chief Fisherman
A 44 year old personnel of the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS), Abraham Odartey Lamptey, has been enstooled as the Chief Fisherman "Woleiatse" of Osu Klottey, a suburb of Accra.
Source : AllAfrica | 28-Aug-2008 11:22

Let's Expand Our Agric Sector
The 2006 National Best Farmer, Mohammed Tetteh Akpa has appealed to the government to expand the frontiers of agriculture in the country, by making it more attractive.
Source : AllAfrica | 28-Aug-2008 11:22

Footbridges in Accra Under-Utilised
Information reaching The Accra File indicates that most footbridges in the capital are being misused by citizens.
Source : AllAfrica | 28-Aug-2008 11:22

AVRL Commences Accra East, West Project
Aqua Vitens Rand Limited (AVRL), a water management company in Ghana, has announced the shutdown of the Accra booster station, to enable it commerce an Interconnection West- East project.
Source : AllAfrica | 28-Aug-2008 11:22

Continent Will Continue to Suffer Unless
THE CHIEF Executive Officer (CEO) of Africa Media Aid (AFRIMA), Mr. Raphael Godlove Ahenu Jnr., has stated that despite the abundant natural resources, development will continue to elude Africa unless the continent is blessed with a new breed of leaders who would not be power drunk and greedy.
Source : AllAfrica | 28-Aug-2008 11:22

Anta - NDC is Plotting to Attack Tamale
The Tamale Metropolitan Chief Executive (MCE), Mohammed Adam Amin-Anta has alleged that the National Democratic Congress is planning to launch series of bloody attacks in the Metropolis, and then link him to those nefarious activities.
Source : AllAfrica | 28-Aug-2008 11:22

Ghana: Union Rural Bank Makes Strides
In spite of the volatility on the global economy, as a result of price hikes of food and crude oil, the Rural Union Bank (URB) was able to record phenomenal growth last year, due to prudent and insightful measures embarked upon by the management.
Source : AllAfrica | 28-Aug-2008 11:22

Tigo Open to Rock Tema
The Tema Country Golf Club will come alive next weekend when over 160 golfers battle for supremacy in the tiGo Open.
Source : AllAfrica | 28-Aug-2008 11:22

Ghana: This Year's Hajj Brouhaha
The chief executive officer of Bahmed Travel and Tours, Black Stars' official travel agents, Alhaji Ahmed Bandoh is responding from far away USA, following the seeming controversy creeping into the organization of this year's Hajj.
Source : AllAfrica | 28-Aug-2008 11:22

Ciba to Set Up Endowment Fund to Support Members
The Council for Indigenous Business Associations (CIBA) has started a pilot scheme to set up an endowment fund, to mobilize funds from members to qualify for loans.
Source : AllAfrica | 28-Aug-2008 11:22

Omatek Unveils New Logo
Omatek Computers has unveiled a new logo, as a mark of the company's preparedness to entrench the brand in the market place, as well as position it as a world class brand, in order to compete favourably on the world market.
Source : AllAfrica | 28-Aug-2008 11:22

Mental Illness, Prayer Camps And Society - A Factor of Human Rights Abuse
Mentally challenged people have been viewed diversely as a little bit lesser than human. They are always considered as a burden, a nuisance and pathetic to society.
Source : AllAfrica | 28-Aug-2008 11:22

AngloGold Seek to Calm Ashanti Gold Fears
Gold mining firm Anglogold Ashanti says it is still committed to the future of AshantiGold Football Club but says it wants to draw a clear distinction between the football club and its mining operations.
Source : AllAfrica | 28-Aug-2008 10:26

Ghana: Accra Talks Bode Well for Future Climate Change Negotiations - UN Official
Important progress has been made during the latest round of United Nations-led climate change talks in Accra, Ghana, on key issues relating to a new international agreement to tackle global warming, the world body's top official dealing with the issue said today.
Source : AllAfrica | 28-Aug-2008 07:59

Developing nations need $170 b to mitigate climate change

The World Bank said on Tuesday at the ongoing Accra Climate Change Talks in Ghana that a total of $170 b was required between now and 2030 to enable developing countries mitigate and adapt to the impact of ...

Source : Topix.net | 28-Aug-2008 05:27

U.N. climate talks pick up speed

Talks on a new global warming agreement have begun to resolve some major sticking points, the U.N. climate chief said Wednesday, sounding a promising note after months of sluggish negotiations often marked by ...

Source : Topix.net | 27-Aug-2008 21:15

Sekondi Assembly Divided Over Gladys Asmah's Project
THE protest over market stores being built on a storm drain at Chapel Hill, a suburb of Takoradi in the Western Region, by Mrs. Gladys Asmah, Member of Parliament (MP) for Takoradi, has once again been raised, this time at the chambers of the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolitan Assembly (STMA).
Source : AllAfrica | 27-Aug-2008 17:31

Ghana: SDA Camp Meeting
The 14th annual Camp Meeting of the Euro-Ghanaian Seventh-day Adventist Church has ended in Naples, Italy, with a call on Ghanaians to work hard towards peaceful elections in December.
Source : AllAfrica | 27-Aug-2008 17:31

Ghana: I Will Make C/R One of the Richest - Mills
The presidential candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Professor John Evans Atta Mills, has promised to make the Central Region, his home region, one of the richest in the country when given the nod to be president.
Source : AllAfrica | 27-Aug-2008 17:31

Ghana: Another Hajj Fiasco Looms?
It seems to have become a perennial thing for potential Moslem pilgrims to expect the difficulties and problems associated with the organization of the Hajj in Ghana.
Source : AllAfrica | 27-Aug-2008 17:31

Zaytuna/RTU Legal Tussle - It Will Go Down to the Wire
The Zaytuna United FC and Real Tamale United legal tussle, regarding the eligibility of Komi/Kwame Adzagba in their 30th week Onetouch premier league is set to go down to the wire.
Source : AllAfrica | 27-Aug-2008 17:31

NPP Footsoldiers Protest
Some members of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in Tamale who were used as polling station agents in the 1996, 2000 and 2004 elections, have accused the party leadership of neglecting them. According to the members, they are only recognized or become useful to the party leadership only when elections were approaching.
Source : AllAfrica | 27-Aug-2008 17:31

Ghana: Opposition Supporters Continue to Join Ruling Party
The dream of the biggest opposition party, the National Democratic Congress (NDC), to wrestle power from the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the forth-coming December general elections would be a mirage, judging by the way party supporters continue to switch camp to the NPP, despite the problems the NPP has had with its primaries.
Source : AllAfrica | 27-Aug-2008 17:31

NPP to Win in Round One - Predicts Sheik Mahmoud
A FORMER New Patriotic Party (NPP) parliamentary aspirant for the Ejura-Sekyedumasi Constituency, Sheikh M. Mahmoud, has said the New Patriotic Party (NPP) would win the election in the first round of elections in December.
Source : AllAfrica | 27-Aug-2008 17:31

South Africa: Blue Label Eyes Further Foreign Expansion
TECHNOLOGY and telecoms company Blue Label is getting ever more ambitious in its global expansion plans, by exploring opportunities in Nigeria and Ghana and setting its sights on the huge Chinese market.
Source : AllAfrica | 27-Aug-2008 16:19

Ghana: Climate Talks on Forests End Amidst Fears Over 'Carbon Colonialism'
The United Nations climate talks ending today and focused on 'Reducing Emissions from Deforestation in Developing Countries' risk moving towards 'carbon colonialism', Friends of the Earth International campaigners warned.
Source : AllAfrica | 27-Aug-2008 15:23

Allotey Jacobs Condemns Akufo Addo
The Central Regional National Democratic Congress (NDC) Propaganda Secretary, Mr Ben Allotey Jacobs, has descended heavily on the New Patriotic Party (NPP) presidential candidate, Nana Akufo Addo, describing his strategy of using artistes on his campaign trail, as a hypocritical move to win his presidential bid.
Source : AllAfrica | 27-Aug-2008 13:00

NPP Propaganda Does Not Bother Me -John Mahama
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) vice presidential candidate, John Dramani Mahama, says that the New Patriotic Party (NPP) propaganda about him overshadowing the flagbearer, Prof. John Evans Atta Mills does not bother him the least.
Source : AllAfrica | 27-Aug-2008 13:00

Ablekuma Gets 3 New Sub-Chiefs
The Ablekuma Stool Land has installed three (3) new sub-chiefs to assist in steering the affairs of the Ablekuma community, which is under the supervision of Nii Larbi Mensah IV, Ablekuma Mantse.
Source : AllAfrica | 27-Aug-2008 13:00

Agogo Strikes in Cairo
The Manager of the Black Stars and Zamalek's striker Junior Manuel Agogo, Mr. Ernest Okudzeto, has stated that the striker's first goal for the Egyptian side on Sunday was a foretaste of good things to happen for the striker .
Source : AllAfrica | 27-Aug-2008 13:00

Ghana: Industry From the Bottom Up
Most of Africa is in a deepening state of de-industrialisation. Even mighty South Africa, once a contender in the same leagues as Brazil and Israel, with its nuclear bomb-making antics and machine fabrication edge, is today in a subtle retreat from manufacturing into the comforting arms of financial services and tourism (upswings this year are from a historical low base). What is to account for the rapid shrinking of industrial capacity in sub-Saharan Africa?
Source : AllAfrica | 27-Aug-2008 13:00

Affected Parliamentary Candidate Threatens Court Action
The New Juaben North branch of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) is in trouble as the Parliamentary Candidate (PC), Mr. Joshua Attah Mensah, has threatened to take the party to court, if he is prevented from contesting the election.
Source : AllAfrica | 27-Aug-2008 13:00

Govt Asked to Support Local Farmers
Members, of the Eastern and Greater Accra regions of the Seed Growers Association (EGARSGA), have launched a passionate appeal to the government, especially the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MOFA), to support local farmers, in order to modernise agriculture practices.
Source : AllAfrica | 27-Aug-2008 12:59

Ghana: Two Electoral Officials Arrested for Illegal Registrations
The Wenchi Police in the Brong Ahafo Region has arrested, Mr. Augustine Fordjour, an Electoral Officer at the Banda Electoral Area, for allegedly registering voters after the nationwide exercise embarked upon by the Electoral Commission, had come to an end. The police were also questioning the Electoral Officer for the Tain District, Rudolf Cherie, who allegedly instructed his subordinate to carry out the exercise.
Source : AllAfrica | 27-Aug-2008 12:59

Ghana: DCEs and Elections
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has of late been calling on President Kufuor, to relieve all District Chief Executives (DCEs), who are contesting parliamentary seats in their respective districts, of their positions to ensure a level playing field.
Source : AllAfrica | 27-Aug-2008 12:59

NPP Ejected From Constituency Secretariat
THE AMANSIE East New Patriotic Party (NPP) constituency has lost occupancy of its Secretariat at Bekwai, following the non-payment of rent.
Source : AllAfrica | 27-Aug-2008 12:59

Can Reformers Stop Ceps?
After fighting from a goal down to hold Exchequers to a 1-1 drawn game, in last Saturday's IPMC hockey league, Reformers now come face to face with current league leaders, CEPS this Saturday at the Theodosia Okoh Pitch in Accra.
Source : AllAfrica | 27-Aug-2008 12:59