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Speakers at a forum have appealed to women in the Upper East Region to vote massively for the six women parliamentary candidates contesting the December election to give the region a good representation in the fight for gender mainstreaming.
Dr. Gladys Ashietey, Deputy Minister of Health, has said the lack of access to medicines has contributed to millions of deaths and untold suffering in Africa. She said "The burden falls particularly on the poor, women and children.
The Managing Editor of the Accra Daily Mail and president of the Ghanaian Center of International PEN, Alhaji Abdul-Rahman Harrunna Attah has called on writers not to allow their personal interests to undermine that of the nation.
If some of the pre-election opinion polls that have come out so far are anything to go by, then both the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the National Democratic Congress (NDC) would win next two weeks' elections "one touch"! It is a statistical absurdity because only one party can go beyond the 50% and get the additional one vote to carry the day.
Governors Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State and Ikedi Ohakim of Imo State shared the podium yesterday as they pointed the imperatives for the future relevance of the African Union (AU).
After our lead story yesterday on the opinion polls in these last couple of weeks to Election Day, ADM has received the following analysis from the Danquah Institute, one of the organizations quoted in the ADM story. It challenges the veracity of the NDC's "reputable" polling firm:
The Presiding Member (PM) of Effutu Municipal Assembly in the Central Region, Mr. Alex Afenyo Markins has called on his colleague PMs to get involved in ensuring a peaceful election.
Nigeria's represen-tatives in the 2008 edition of the African Women Football Championship, the Super Falcons, will today square up against arch-rival, the Black Queens of Ghana as they countenance their 6th African Women championship opening match in the city of Bata, Equatorial Guinea.
Junior Agogo says reports that he made obscene gestures at opposition fans during an Egyptian League game on Friday are wide off the mark.
Hull City's George Boateng says he regrets choosing Holland ahead of Ghana in international football.
Stephen Appiah has admitted for the first time he is getting tired of not playing regular football and says he will be looking to end the wait anytime soon.
Free State Stars defender Jonathan Mensah has rescinded his decision to pull out of the Ghana squad for the international friendly against Tunisia and joined up with the rest of the squad in Accra.
Laryea Kingston is keen to recover from the injury that has kept him out of action for three weeks and feels he can be back playing again in two weeks.
Parliament has approved an amount of GH¢2,218,506,931.00 billion to carry out the services and expenditure of government from January to March 2009.
Dr Anthony Akoto Osei, a Minister of State at the Ministry of Finance, has told Parliament that Ghana's debt, including contingent liability from COCOBOD, at the end of last September stood at US$ 7,652.46 million.
The forthcoming general elections are likely to be marred if the use of aggressive language by the media is not controlled.
For the good part of this Election Year, the talk has been about election violence: who, what are instigating it and how to prevent it.
The Embassy of the State of Palestine in Accra has called on the international community to exert political pressures on the Israeli government to let peace prevail in the Middle East.
The World Bank has presented a total of 35,000 dollars to 10 civil society organisations (CSOs) to undertake social and economic projects aimed at complementing its assistance operations.
Ghana and Nigeria shared the spoils in their opening Group B contest in the 6th African Women's Championship match played here today.
Dear Kwami,
Dr Grace Bediako, Government Statistician has announced last Friday that the annual inflation rate fell to 17.30 per cent in October down from 17.89 percent a month earlier.
A new Ghana Telecommunication Company Ltd. (GT) under Vodacom management is set to take the telecommunication market in the country to a new level.
A former Director of Bulk Oil Storage (BOST) and an Energy Expert, Dr. Kwabena Donkor, is advocating the formation of an oil task force to compile a national register of aspiring local contractors and suppliers for the oil sector.
Your burnt out regular columnist is unable to write this week, but hopes you will enjoy this stand in article. See you next week
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