http://www.mediaonweb.org PT#3 RSS Copyright PT#03 en Campsite RSS 1.0 http://www.ghanapnp.com/en/gh/9/331/?tpl=104 Ato Kwamena Dadzie(a Journalist with Joy99.7FM, a private radio station in Accra), when you spew out so much insult, write independent of the facts and make a mockery of important national debate, it becomes an undignified job for one to spend quality time and efforts mopping the mess you have created. It is even worse when you arrogantly refuse to repent, despite being rebuked of your transgressions. Perhaps it is either a case of ‘old habits dying hard’ or a case of one refusing to ‘understand you when his /her pay depends on not understanding you’.

http://www.ghanapnp.com/en/gh/9/330/?tpl=104 http://www.ghanapnp.com/en/gh/9/329/?tpl=104 Ghana Post Company has been on the blind side of any public scrutiny for over a decade, until recently its old management practices were not questioned. The recent allegation of embezzlement of GHc20,000 (September 2009) by the manager at the Kumasi office is only one of the few tangibles that government has been able to identify and put into the public domain. But to the millions of customers of Ghana Post throughout the country and around the world there is no respite because they can only count their losses running into billions of cedis as intangibles. This came about essentially because incoming mails were not received and outgoing ones abroad sometimes did not reach the intended destination. This situation makes all customers helpless and hopeless even if you pursue it, so most people will tell you to forget it. Since there will not be respite from any quarter. I have talked to many people who have had similar cases and the boldest of them have approached authorities at Ghana Post to seek redress. But they are quickly turned off with a disappointing response that nothing of the sort has happened at their end. They often insist that unless an officer is caught red handed they cannot do anything about it. Incidentally, one is compelled to ask what systems have been put in place to arrest the situation. In fact, no effective systems have been put in Ghana over the years at most organisations. Privileged workers at state-owned enterprises have become sole owners of such institutions. Oblivious of the fact that, the organisations they work for were built with the tax payers' money. But they continue to do what pleases them at work and we pay them salaries while the masses of our people suffer.

http://www.ghanapnp.com/en/gh/9/328/?tpl=104 MATCH THEM ONE TO ONE TO GET THE TWIST.
http://www.ghanapnp.com/en/gh/9/327/?tpl=104 The Executive and the entire membership of the UK and Ireland Branch of the NDC wish to unequivocally disassociate itself from an article published on Ghana web on Monday 5 October 2009, captioned “Alex Segbefia walks out on NDC”

http://www.ghanapnp.com/en/gh/9/326/?tpl=104 Accra, Oct. 7, GNA - Mr. Seth Terkper, Deputy Minister of Finance and Economic Planning (MOFEP), said in Accra on Wednesday that Government would strengthen its development agenda and take the lead in defining a budget which donors can support.

http://www.ghanapnp.com/en/gh/9/325/?tpl=104 Accra, 0ct. 8, GNA- Former President John Agyekum Kufuor has assumed chairmanship of the Governing Council of Interpeace, an international non-governmental organisation, based in Geneva, Switzerland, that operates in conflict societies and aims at building peace around the world.

http://www.ghanapnp.com/en/gh/9/324/?tpl=104 There is no doubt that there is some grand scheme to tarnish my image even as I make benevolent efforts to ensure that farmers in the part of the country where I hail from have access to cheap tractor services to improve upon . If there was any doubt about this agenda it was put to rest in the Wednesday 7th October 2009 edition of The New Crusading Guide and the Daily Guide two newspapers that have sought to give prominence to the misguided vile campaign against my reputation by the so-called “Progressive” National Forum (PNF).

http://www.ghanapnp.com/en/gh/9/323/?tpl=104 The Daily Graphic and its Editor Ransford Tetteh became topic for virulent discussion on Radio Gold's Alhaji vs Alhaji last Saturday.

The Graphic's problem was for first publishing Ekwow Spio-Grabrah's article accusing President Mills of wasting Ghanaians time, fielding a Team B, disrespecting party Founder Rawlings and driving the NDC bus recklessly into an electoral accident in 2012.
http://www.ghanapnp.com/en/gh/9/322/?tpl=104 Konongo (Ash), Oct. 8, GNA - Dr. Francis Appiah, Executive Secretary to the National African Peer Review Mechanism-Governing Council (NAPRM-GC), has expressed worry that the politicisation of national issues was affecting the country's development. He called for efforts to stop the practice whereby people supported national policies based on which political party was in government, saying "it is a drawback to the nation's quest for accelerated development."

http://www.ghanapnp.com/en/gh/9/321/?tpl=104 The Maybey and Johnson bribery scandal, which is threatening to bring down a number of top officials in the Mills administration, appears to have claimed its first casualty. Alhaji Baba Kamara, one of the top names on President John Mills’ list of Ambassadors and High Commissioners, appears to have lost his job as High Commissioner designate to Nigeria http://www.ghanapnp.com/en/gh/9/320/?tpl=104 Accra, Oct. 7, GNA - The UN-HABITAT has published a 306-page Global Report on Human Settlements for sustainable development of cities around the world.

The 2009 report titled "Planning Sustainable Cities: Policy Directions," assesses the effectiveness of urban planning as a tool for dealing with the unprecedented challenges facing the 21st Century and to enhance sustainable urbanisation.

http://www.ghanapnp.com/en/gh/9/319/?tpl=104 million grant to the previous Kufuor-led administration to start the project has started mounting pressure on the Mills-led government on the issue.

The Indian government officials, the paper said, have issued a December ultimatum to the Mills-led government to occupy the $82 million mansion christened Golden Jubilee House or they take the necessary actions against the government.

http://www.ghanapnp.com/en/gh/9/318/?tpl=104 RE: I HATE KUFUOR

Daily Guide, in its lead caption of Wednesday, October 07, 2009, screamed thus: I HATE KUFUOR, SAYS KOKU ANYIDOHO.

The caption and story was anchored to an interview I granted London based Radio Focus.

On several networks in Ghana, the recording has been replayed, and at no time during the interview did I say that I hate former President Kufuor.

http://www.ghanapnp.com/en/gh/9/317/?tpl=104 The simmering unease within the New Patriotic Party (NPP) surged to the fore yesterday when two outspoken founder members of the party, Mr Akenten Appiah-Menka and Dr Nyaho Nyaho Tamakloe, articulated sharp and contrasting views on the developments that threaten to split the party along a Nana Akufo-Addo/Alan Kyeremanten divide.

http://www.ghanapnp.com/en/gh/9/316/?tpl=104 The decision by the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to amend part of its constitution to give greater representation to the foot soldiers seems to have rather brought confusion into the party ranks. Reports reaching The Chronicle from three regions - Ashanti, Eastern and Central speak of massive protests by the foot soldiers who claim that their desire to contest for the polling station executive positions are being thwarted by some of the leaders of the party at the constituency and regional levels.

http://www.ghanapnp.com/en/gh/9/314/?tpl=104 Canada celebrated her fifth National Punctuation Day last Thursday. The day saw newspapers and scholarly magazines devoting precious news space to articles on grammar and many of the things E.B. White so eloquently discusses in The Elements of Style. White’s treatment of the rules of writing has mostly been judged dictatorial and very uncompromising. Perhaps, that is because he wrote those rules in 1959, a pre- Facebook age where scholarship was valued, because staccato text messages on a mobile phone had not been imagined. Like William Strunk, Jr., the original author of The Elements of Style, White was mostly impatient with people who misuse the semicolon and other punctuation marks. And like Pierre Ankomah, my English master in secondary school, he would take time to explain how and where the dreaded tool should be used. http://www.ghanapnp.com/en/gh/9/313/?tpl=104 in the three northern regions

A GNA feature by Nathaniel Glover-Meni

Accra, Oct. 5, GNA - If you are longing to become one of Ghana's latest "nouveau riche", then go the nine yards as a shea farmer or producer of the crop.

For, small and medium scale shea farmers and producers will soon advance to the rank of the rich as the product evolves as the nation's newest economic mutt's nut. And this is no day dreaming though it sounds like a stunt.

http://www.ghanapnp.com/en/gh/9/312/?tpl=104 There are two kinds of men – brave once and cowards. The brave ones exude confidence, fearlessness, and strength. Because of their confidence in themselves, they rarely take advantage of the weak and unarmed. In the movies, when they have cornered their unarmed adversaries, they have been known to put their weapons down and duke it out mano-a mano. Those are brave men.

http://www.ghanapnp.com/en/gh/9/311/?tpl=104 Jerry John Rawlings a man who has used the Ghanaian Armed Forces to become affluent has the audacity to disrespect the Ghanaian Army, which complies with the navy, by referring to them as “criminals”. This knucklehead Jerry John Rawlings made these statements in front of a national television audience at New York City’s channel 7 News station popularly known as the ABC news channel. However, it is rather unfortunate for an American television station to allow Ghana’s Adolf Hitler to make derogatory comments about the Ghanaian forces. Its wholly unethical and outrageous to allow the murderous Jerry John Rawlings to appear on their television; and use their station to condemn our nation’s hard working Armed forces and again use the station to advance his tribal political sentiments against the Ashanti’s.

http://www.ghanapnp.com/en/gh/9/310/?tpl=104 The bedrock of Flight Lieutenant J J Rawlings’ coup d’états in both 1979 and 1981 supposedly was to eliminate corruption; then commonly referred to as ‘Kalabule’. Well, so we were made to believe then. For this reason, some former heads of state and other people in the army were shot at stake. Some entrepreneurs who were perceived as corrupt lost their companies throughout the country; market women in Makola and Kumasi lost their wares, stalls and in some cases, their lifetime savings. Some women were publicly humiliated by being canned in their private parts all in the name of phasing out corruption; call it the peak of depravity if want. Many things were done in those times which were at variance with our Ghanaian beliefs, principles, custom and tradition. In spite of the atrocities associated with this crusade, students and the common man joined the crusade to rid our country of its corrupt elements in pursuance of fairness in our society. To ensure “Probity and Accountability” took roots; Ghanaians buried their long held beliefs and principles to sing along the “Let the blood flow” chorus.

http://www.ghanapnp.com/en/gh/9/309/?tpl=104 Dear President,

In the year 2001 barley one y ear one after assumption of power, NPP terminated the jobs of NMP workers; nothing was paid to them as compensation.

Mr. President, you made this a campaign issue, and promised that you will re-engage these unfortunate souls who lost their jobs as a result of their loyalty to the NDC party.

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FRIENDS DEFEND SPIO Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 23:44:52 +0000

*ON RECENT ALLEGATIONS AGAINST EKWOW SPIO-GARBRAH*
http://www.ghanapnp.com/en/gh/9/307/?tpl=104 Accra, Oct. 7, GNA - The Ministry of Environment, Science and Technology (MEST), would soon present a draft report on climate change to Parliament.

http://www.ghanapnp.com/en/gh/9/306/?tpl=104 Koku Anyidoho, President John Evans Ata Mills’ Director of Communications at the Osu Castle, has downrightly stated that he hates ex-President Kufuor more than any other person in the country.
http://www.ghanapnp.com/en/gh/9/305/?tpl=104 ...Accuses Energy Ministry Of Robbery!
Political maverick Charles Kofi Wayo has suggested that President Atta Mills is spineless! He has therefore told the President to develop some 'spine' to deal with all the errant people in his government who are exploiting the people of Ghana. "We have to support this guy, but he got to get some http://www.ghanapnp.com/en/gh/9/303/?tpl=104 “This is my humble question to the Police Council (especially IGP), the President of the Republic of Ghana and the honourable people of Ghana” Issues concerning the state of policing are ostensibly the most controversial that should take shape in the country simply because the available facts of the situation are justifiable. It is incredible to fathom the present state of policing in the country. In Ghana, the commendable visibility and quick response to crime scenes and robbery cases by the Ghana Police Service are no news to the ordinary people and leaders of government. In a time crime is getting sophisticated and raging where the indispensable services of the police would be highly needed, undoubtedly, conditions of service of police officers continue to get worse and worse. Under no circumstance can the significant role of the police be written off even in a situation where there are no crimes. Development efforts as a country are given the essential boost by serene atmosphere all led by the police and no wonder the country is touted as one of the peaceful region in Africa and the world at large.

http://www.ghanapnp.com/en/gh/9/302/?tpl=104 I refer to the purported “peace brokering” and so-called “nation unifying” postings by John Afoun who also signs off as Komla. Ironically, I noted a very interesting sarcasm in his posting of September 17th, 2009 entitled “Tribal Unity is the Key to Ghana’s security and Future”.

http://www.ghanapnp.com/en/gh/9/301/?tpl=104 Ordinarily, I would not be commenting on this patently pedestrian aspect of Ghanaian politics; this is what New Yorkers call “Monday Morning Quarterbacking.” The Quarterback is, of course, the most cardinal player in the American game of Football, which is to be readily distinguished from Association Football or, more appropriately, Soccer. The latter never, really, caught on with the American public, which is far more into Baseball, Basketball and, of course, Football.

http://www.ghanapnp.com/en/gh/9/300/?tpl=104 In recent weeks, there has been a lot of brouhaha concerning the Ghana School Feeding Programme (GSFP) throwing the programme into a crisis across the country. Once again, the various political divides have gotten into the argument each taking very staunch stance without compromise. Those in the opposition believe that all that has gone on with the programme since the NDC took power in December 2009 is bad and those of us within the NDC also seem to be saying that we have done no wrong on the issue of School Feeding since we won power.

http://www.ghanapnp.com/en/gh/9/299/?tpl=104 I would have left this article from debate through absurdity to the dust bin. I have decided to respond because some of us were invited to a ‘private meeting’ to discuss how we can cut down the fortunes of Nana Akufo Addo; slam Isaac Osei with his ‘notoriety’ at Cocobod and encourage Frimpong Boateng to set fire in the system leaving Allan Kyeremanteng the blue eyed boy of J. A. Kufuor, the candidate for 2012.

http://www.ghanapnp.com/en/gh/9/298/?tpl=104 Greetings in the name of the silent observers in this Land of Our Death. I am compelled to address you herein, largely because of the conviction that this way, I would definitely reach you, either directly or indirectly, for many of those whose statements and observations have prompted me to write this letter to you verily believe and perhaps rightly so, that a formal note to you through the regular channels would yield no fruitful results. Although I disagree with many of them, I am inclined to conform to their wishes, for very senior members of that group, some of who doubled as good friends of yours prior to your election as the leader of this nation are complaining publicly that documents, memoranda, suggestions and proposals they have submitted to your high office through the regular channels have not received either the expected response or a simple acknowledgement. What worries most of these observers is the growing belief that there are some people around you who are deliberately hiding very important documents from you. Why they do so, maybe only the invocation of your constitutional authority can tell. Sir, this is frustrating so many well-intentioned citizens and legal aliens alike and thus a tendency for them to pour out their perplexed souls in the eateries and recreational spots of Accra when they would otherwise be generating ideas that would in turn enhance their businesses or promote their rapid rise in various fields of endeavour.

http://www.ghanapnp.com/en/gh/9/297/?tpl=104 Fact check: there are still men, in this day and age, who believe that women are less competent than men and that men are superior to women. Such men do not only frown on efforts aimed at ensuring equality for women, but aggressively use their positions of power to diminish the dignity, value and accomplishments of successful women. Recent successes in an unprecedented number of women attaining high political positions and exercising political clout in arenas heretofore monopolized by men, is bound to trigger an even more vicious reaction from such men.
http://www.ghanapnp.com/en/gh/9/296/?tpl=104 In light of the recent Southwark Crown Court ruling, it leaves one to wonder who, and which of the two main political parties can be trusted. The NPP faithful are claiming that Rawlings and the NDC party are corrupt therefore not fit to govern. The NDC faithful is also claiming that the NPP under the Kufuor administration was corrupt therefore has no moral grounds to accuse the NDC and the Mills administration of corruption. Now that both sides are blaming and accusing each other of corruption, the question is who is telling the truth? And which party should we believe?

http://www.ghanapnp.com/en/gh/9/295/?tpl=104 The United States branch of Ghana’s New Patriotic Party has closely monitored events leading up to the prosecution and conviction of Mabey and Johnson, an engineering company based in the United Kingdom for bribery of government officials in Ghana and Jamaica by the Serious Fraud Office. As alarming as those events are, they pale in comparison to how the Mills administration has conducted itself since the British court ruling establishing beyond any reasonable doubt that members of the previous NDC government some of whom still hold high level positions in the current Mills administration..

http://www.ghanapnp.com/en/gh/9/294/?tpl=104 Kumasi, Oct. 6, GNA - The National Vocational Training Institute (NVTI), has been urged to modify its proficiency examination to ensure that candidates undergo compulsory implant training before writing the examination.

http://www.ghanapnp.com/en/gh/9/293/?tpl=104 Newark, NJ—Today, Special Agent In Charge Weysan Dun announced that Edmund Osei ( also known as Jamal Michaels ), age 32, a citizen of Accra North in the Republic of Ghana was arrested early this morning by the Ghanaian Police pursuant to an FBI warrant charging Osei with unlawful flight to avoid prosecution. The federal charge was filed in connection with Osei’s failure to appear for a January 10, 2000 arraignment to answer a New Jersey State indictment for numerous violations that included seven counts of first degree armed robbery, eight counts of terroristic threats, three counts of hindering apprehension, and seven counts of possession of an imitation firearm -all felonies under the laws of New Jersey.
http://www.ghanapnp.com/en/gh/9/292/?tpl=104 The 2010 Population and Housing Census will create more than 45,000 temporary jobs for the enumerators and supervisors in 36,000 areas across the country.

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An interview with Ms. Busia Based on articles written by Nana Frema Busia, and assertions made in at least one press conference, members of the Ghana Community Forum (an Internet Bulletin Board) submitted questions for Ms. Busia to answer.

http://www.ghanapnp.com/en/gh/9/290/?tpl=104 Ghana's full season 2008/09 cocoa harvest was 703,000 tonnes, up from 680,000 tonnes in the previous season and the third highest since 1965, an industry source said on Monday.
"This year, the season has been good and we have hit the 700,000 (tonnes) mark," the source said.
The cocoa season in Ghana, the world's second largest producer http://www.ghanapnp.com/en/gh/9/288/?tpl=104 The initiative of His Excellency the President, Okunyin Professor John Evans Atta Mills, to revive the beleaguered local textile industry has taken-off from the industrial floors of Printex Ghana Limited, today, where the productions plants have been re-tooled, and will be sparked and warmed this morning, to print the specified fabric, chosen for the Free School Uniform Programme.

http://www.ghanapnp.com/en/gh/9/287/?tpl=104 I do thank you all so very much for coming to my ‘Return from exile’ press conference. I am afraid I have received a national security directive from the National Security Coordinator Lt. Col. Larry Gbevlo Lartey to call off this press briefing. I shall honor the directive with due regard to the challenges posed by the security sensitivity of some of the issues and refrain from making the anticipated substantive address. I shall make some brief remarks however. I believe I have earned that indulgence http://www.ghanapnp.com/en/gh/9/282/?tpl=104 There is no doubt that sex do play a very important role in human relation. The success or even the failure of marriages could come about as a result of sex. Advertising companies have long discovered that consumer products, when associated with sexual images do sell better. Indeed, the power of both sex and sexual images are now being exploited to optimize corporate sales everywhere. For awhile now, the food manufacturing industries around the world have been treating their products with an illegal substance called food trail pheromone. In fact, food trail pheromones could be found in most of the products meant for human consumption. However, food manufactures have cleverly hidden this vital information from the consumer. Of course, with the intent not to alarm the consumer of the hazardous nature associated with this substance.

http://www.ghanapnp.com/en/gh/9/281/?tpl=104 A Ghanaweb .com article dated Thursday 22, September 2009 NPP-USA calling for intra- party unity is a Political smear tactic from the self proclaimed “ public relation committee” against Alan Kwadwo Kyeremateng. These members are all Akufo Addo’ s cronies in North America, where they don’t represent, anybody as far as I’m concerned. Many of them have miserable lives over here. They think their Akufo Addo the 70- year- old man will win the 2012 presidential nomination in order for them to go back home and fulfill the dreams they could not fulfill over here.

http://www.ghanapnp.com/en/gh/9/280/?tpl=104 We Ghanaians are much too kind. Too kind to the very extent that when our kindness is being taken for granted, we simply choose not to react out of kindness. We also don't like to complain that much. I guess none of us want to come across as ungrateful. So of course, when something is bothering us we simply allow it to take its own natural course. We would sometimes whisper about it, dance around it, go on our knees about it, and then pass it on to the next generation to figure it out. It's quite obvious that Ghanaians like to talk about problems rather than finding solutions to these problems. http://www.ghanapnp.com/en/gh/9/279/?tpl=104 All Concerned, Our attention has been drawn to what is being described by Cadbury’s promotion managers in London as a “Giant tribal head” starring “in new Cadbury chocolate advertisement.” We call that “Cadbury's African-Gorilla Personality Tribal Head.” http://www.ghanapnp.com/en/gh/9/278/?tpl=104 Part I of this article was published on Monday, September 28, 2009. In it, I took a miserable stab at trying to explain our two-part marital system (traditional wedding and western wedding) to Karen, my American friend. While I sought to use humor as a way to drive home my point, my ignorance of our customary marriage was no laughing matter; and many elders and passionate Ghanaians (including a reverend) sent personal emails – besides the comments on the article - seeking to educate me on the issue. For that, I am eternally grateful because it showed that there are Ghanaians out there well-versed in our cultural practices, willing to lend a listening ear and a wise word to the lost amongst us. Part II was supposed to be a conclusion of the conversation explaining why my cousin was having two weddings. But, instead, I have chosen to conclude on a different note - by sharing with you the beauty of what I witnessed this past weekend, and what I learned from those who sought to educate me with their words of wisdom.

http://www.ghanapnp.com/en/gh/9/277/?tpl=104 In March 2007 people from all corners of the globe trooped to Ghana to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of her independence. Fifty years since Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah fought hard against opposition from within the country to realise the dream that we Ghanaians and Africans in general should be responsible for our own affairs without outside influence.

http://www.ghanapnp.com/en/gh/9/276/?tpl=104 First of all let me say I love the man Ekow Spio-Garbrah. I fell in love with him several years ago. In fact, I took the decision to go to journalism school after reading his profile in the Daily Graphic. I still have a cutting of that piece with me. http://www.ghanapnp.com/en/gh/9/275/?tpl=104 Tamale, Oct. 02, GNA - Yagbonwura Doshie Bawa Abudu, President, Northern Regional House of Chiefs, has raised concerns about the region's poor roads and called on government to urgently construct and maintain them for easier commuting of people and carting of foodstuffs. He also called on government to explore the region's potential tourist sites that could be developed to contribute meaningfully to national development.

http://www.ghanapnp.com/en/gh/9/274/?tpl=104 PRESS RELEASE: BARCLAYS WORKERS ANGRY WITH MD

October 1st, 2009, Accra: Workers of Barclays Bank Ghana Limited are in hush-hush and murmuring unhappily about the role played by the managing director of the bank, Mr Benjamin Debrah to lay off Mr. Gayheart Edem Mensah as the Communications Manager of the bank.

http://www.ghanapnp.com/en/gh/9/273/?tpl=104 Former Chief of Staff Kwadwo Mpiani has challenged the necessity of a residential facility in presidential palace for guards. Deputy Information Minister, Okudzeto Ablakwa had hinted government needed an additional $50 million, 35 million of which would be used to construct a security residence in the presidential palace-the Golden Jubilee House, before President Mills could move in.
http://www.ghanapnp.com/en/gh/9/272/?tpl=104 Plans by the police administration to expand the police hospital to encompass the location occupied previously by the headquarters of the Forestry Commission have been halted by the castle.

http://www.ghanapnp.com/en/gh/9/271/?tpl=104 Martin Palermo scored twice to hand Argentina a confidence-boosting 2-0 victory over Ghana in a friendly international at the Olimpico de Cordoba stadium on Wednesday night. Argentina, who turned out with a home-based side, completely dominated a lackluster Ghana side with some incisive attacking football. The Africans were also without their regular first-team members. Los Albicelestes created several goal-scoring http://www.ghanapnp.com/en/gh/9/270/?tpl=104 The NDC dreaded 25th September us upon us and the Political fallout is yet to hit them, but folks, believe me, this is a corruption case that even murderer Rawlings is not going to escape without some wounds inflicted on him and his Accountability and probity nonsense being called into question. If Rawlings was really in control of his administration, how come he didn't know what was going on right under his nose? Rawlings was in the loop on this corruption case and the British Government is shielding him to avoid the Political upheaval that might descend on our country if he is named, why do I believe that?' The eating is in the pudding'.

http://www.ghanapnp.com/en/gh/9/269/?tpl=104 Mr. K. B. Amissah-Arthur has assumed office as the Governor of the Bank of Ghana following his appointment by His Excellency the President, Professor John Evans Atta Mills. His appointment is effective today, October 1, 2009.
http://www.ghanapnp.com/en/gh/9/268/?tpl=104 This is a refrain often heard from the lips of delegates at the Methodist Synods and Conferences. These Synods/Conferences are organized yearly or biennial at chosen locations in the Methodist Connexion. The refrain as I choose to call it has become a shibboleth among Synod/Conference members. http://www.ghanapnp.com/en/gh/9/267/?tpl=104 When our nation on the 6th of March 1957 decided to part ways with the British, many people questioned the soundness of this action. "Why independence?" some inquired. "Surely, the country can wait." "This Nkrumah fellow is going to damn us all." "He thinks that he knows it all" said some politicians. "We are just not ready for self governance." "The country needs time." "I've tried to talk to Kwame Nkrumah about this, yet he refuses to listen to me."

http://www.ghanapnp.com/en/gh/9/266/?tpl=104 Getting solid waste especially waste plastic bags cleared off our cities and towns is a big problem confronting not only Ghana but almost all developing countries. The problem is equally of worrying concern in the cities and towns of the developed world. But the difference lies in the ability to take decisive measures to deal with this urban waste problem.

http://www.ghanapnp.com/en/gh/9/265/?tpl=104 The grave issue regarding the incessant road accidents which have broke into full view recently has dominated not only headlines but also government deliberations. The profound darkness and horror which has clouded road transport in Ghana claiming sizeable numbers of innocent souls still remains a mystery. Obviously, all forces operating on our roads now seem completely uncontrollable. The spate at which people are being annihilated on our roads has simply attached the state of normalcy to these deaths http://www.ghanapnp.com/en/gh/9/264/?tpl=104 The bribery scandal involving the British construction firm, Mabey and Johnson, and some Ghanaian government officials (past and present) has confirmed my long-held opinion that singing “Halleluia” everywhere does not prove piety. Our political leaders have for far too long stung our ears with their cacophonous chorus of fighting corruption when indeed that vice persists, especially in the corridors of power from where they make the loudest anti-corruption noise. Now, the truth has emerged, and it hurts http://www.ghanapnp.com/en/gh/9/263/?tpl=104 Auntie Adwoa, as she was affectionately known, was born in the 1940’s in Sekondi-Takoradi, but she was whisked to Accra on the wheels of marriage. She was the kindest, altruistic and decorous person to ever walk the Earth, according to those who knew her intimately. Auntie Adwoa, even well into her 60’s, would address any male figure as “me wura” (translated “my lord”), irrespective of his age. http://www.ghanapnp.com/en/gh/9/262/?tpl=104 The decision by the government of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to honour Ghana’s first President, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, by declaring his official birthday, 21st September, a national holiday has been welcomed by all-true Nkrumahists and Pan-Africanists around the world. http://www.ghanapnp.com/en/gh/9/261/?tpl=104 Former First Couple, Jerry Rawlings and wife, Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings were last week honoured by the Institute of Global Understanding of the University of Monmouth in New Jersey, United States.
http://www.ghanapnp.com/en/gh/9/260/?tpl=104 Akropong, Oct. 01, GNA - Osahene Ofei Kwasi Agyemang, Krontihene of Akuapem Traditional Area, has expressed worry about the insatiable craving some churches have for money and urged religious bodies to initiate steps to curb the desire.

http://www.ghanapnp.com/en/gh/9/258/?tpl=104 Accra, Sept. 30, GNA - The President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Dr. Susan Hockfield, has expressed the hope that Ghanaian students at the university would return to help contribute their quota towards the development of the country.

http://www.ghanapnp.com/en/gh/9/256/?tpl=104 Last year, when he won the Nkawkaw parliamentary seat as an Independent candidate, I exploded with jubilation even while also wondering why he had not run on the ticket of the then-ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP).
http://www.ghanapnp.com/en/gh/9/255/?tpl=104 Washington DC, Sept 30, GNA - Government is to set up a Growth Fund to manage oil revenue to ensure that the oil find makes a positive impact on Ghanaians and bring about a better standard of living. President John Atta Mills said this when he met World Bank President Robert Zoellick at the bank's headquarters in Washington DC on Tuesday. Briefing journalists after the meeting Minister of Finance and Economic Planning, Dr Kwabena Duffuor, said the World Bank President expressed admiration for the economic reforms that government had pursued to tighten up and stabilize the economy.
http://www.ghanapnp.com/en/gh/9/254/?tpl=104 You can read all about the Mabey and Johnson judgment from the leading websites on Ghana. Each carries the story and details what I said in an earlier breaking news alert of August 7th. At the time, I wrote about the impending implosion and chronicled the history of the Mabey and Johnson bribery of NDC executives in another Guide to Corruption (http://www.thenewghanaian.com/viewnews.asp?id=3264&page=news). Since then we have waited patiently for September 25th and this is just the beginning. I will dare to suggest that President Mills will make a show of investigating the issues involved and former President JJ Rawlings will pretend that all this happened under his nose and he knew nothing of it, even though his senior cabinet http://www.ghanapnp.com/en/gh/9/251/?tpl=104 Wherever we presently reside –whether in Ghana or in the diaspora-- all we Ghanaians have relatives by blood or marriages and friends and acquaintances in Ghana. At one point or the other in our lives, some of us, our loved ones, or acquaintances have visited or will visit our hospitals for treatment. On many occasions, the experiences of these people are, might have been, or will be normal warranting no comments or cause for passionately calling on our Government and countrymen to join hands to help make our system better. Sometimes, however, the experiences are, have been, or would be anything but normal necessitating the harshest possible criticisms and clamor for all Ghanaians to help salvage the health care system from its downward slide. For these latter situations, objective on-lookers raise questions about the quality of our health care system and the ethical standards undergirding it.
http://www.ghanapnp.com/en/gh/9/249/?tpl=104 It is rather ironic that just about the same time that President John Evans Atta-Mills was calling on Ghanaians, irrespective of ideological suasion, to harmoniously rally around the non-birth centenary celebration of former President Nkrumah’s birthday, a woefully misguided and, perhaps, fanatical traditional ruler in the Brong-Ahafo Region was fervidly engineering the execrable removal of a bronze statue bearing the image of the region’s most distinguished citizen and former Ghanaian prime minister Dr. Kofi Abrefa Busia, from Sunyani’s Golden Jubilee Park, in order to replace the latter with one in the image of Mr. Kwame Nkrumah, postcolonial Ghana’s first premier. http://www.ghanapnp.com/en/gh/9/248/?tpl=104 Time, it has been said, has a way of healing even the most painful and traumatic wounds. In Ghanaian political circles, however, time seems to be more of a stupefying anodyne to the most fundamental truth of the well-examined life, as it were. And so 37 years after the demise of our country’s most notorious tyrant, and 43 years after his landmark overthrow, quite a remarkable percentage of Ghanaian citizens continue to wallow in an abject state of denial, even to the damnable extent of stolidly claiming that the coup d’étàt that liberated the erstwhile Gold Coast from the insidious clutches of home-brewed neocolonialism was an egregious mistake as well as counterproductive.

http://www.ghanapnp.com/en/gh/9/247/?tpl=104 The Progressive Nationalist Forum has petitioned the Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice, (CHRAJ) over the alleged illegal acquisition of tractors by Mahama Ayariga, government spokesperson, from the Ministry of Food and Agriculture.

http://www.ghanapnp.com/en/gh/9/246/?tpl=104 The National Democratic Congress (NDC) candidate for the Chereponi bye-election, Samuel Abdulai Jabanyite, was yesterday, Tuesday, September 29, 2009 declared winner by the Returning Officer, Alex Wada.

http://www.ghanapnp.com/en/gh/9/245/?tpl=104 Ghana is to receive a total of £658,000 from the corrupt United Kingdom-based construction firm, Mabey and Johnson (M&J), as ‘reparation’ for causing financial loss to the country through over-pricing of contracts and bribing public officials and politicians belonging to the National Democratic Congress (NDC), between December 1994 and August 1999. President John Evans Atta Mills, DAILY GUIDE learnt, has directed officials of the Ghana High Commission in London to accept the reparation awarded by the British Crown Court to the country for the corruption of NDC officials who are still part of his government.
http://www.ghanapnp.com/en/gh/9/244/?tpl=104 Ghana made sure of their place in the last 16 of the Under-20 World Cup with a crushing 4-0 win over England in Ismailia. Two goals from Dominic Adiyiah, a stunning strike from captain Andre Ayew plus a late goal from Ransford Osei gave them the victory. England have yet to register a point and must win their http://www.ghanapnp.com/en/gh/9/243/?tpl=104 Satellites gear up for England
Black Satellites are in upbeat mood following their 2-1 win over Uzbekistan at the U-20 World Cup on Saturday. However their next task is to beat an England team who are licking their wounds after defeat at the hands of Uruguay. Ghana came from a goal down to beat the Uzbeks who took the lead on at the start http://www.ghanapnp.com/en/gh/9/242/?tpl=104 As it was in the olden days when the Whiteman scrambled for Africa, so it is in the present day Ghana where the NDCs are viciously vying for the occupation of public toilets as probable Sakawa proprietors. The Whiteman partitioned Africa, weakened it by so doing, and was able to explore and exploit it to the maximum. http://www.ghanapnp.com/en/gh/9/241/?tpl=104 The government’s response was unsurprisingly typical. http://www.ghanapnp.com/en/gh/9/240/?tpl=104 Vice President John Mahama has directed the Ministry of Education to immediately place an order for the production of the materials for the take off of the free school uniform programme.

http://www.ghanapnp.com/en/gh/9/239/?tpl=104 The people of the Northern regional town of Chereponi would today go to the polls to vote for a replacement for the late Member of Parliament for the constituency, Doris Seidu who passed away about two months ago http://www.ghanapnp.com/en/gh/9/238/?tpl=104 Koforidua, Sept 28, GNA - Three basic schools in the Eastern Region have received 90 laptop computers under the "one laptop per child project" instituted last year, to enhance the teaching and learning of Information Communication Technology (ICT) in basic schools. The schools are Akropong Salem in the Akuapem North District, Kodjonya Presbyterian School in the Lower-Manya District and Nana Kwaku Boateng School in New Juaben District.
http://www.ghanapnp.com/en/gh/9/237/?tpl=104 The Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Mrs Betty Mould Iddrisu says the bribery scandal that has hit some present and past government officials does not warrant any special commission to investigate.
http://www.ghanapnp.com/en/gh/9/236/?tpl=104 Some participants of the American Visa Lottery are expressing doubts over the manner the American Embassy in Accra is dealing with them. According to them, the embassy is all out to deny some of them the chance of travelling to the United States of America (USA) without any tangible reason.

http://www.ghanapnp.com/en/gh/9/235/?tpl=104 Tamale, Sept. 28, GNA - Over 121,000 people in 26 districts in the three northern regions remain in distress following recent floods that claimed eight lives and left in their wake huge material losses. At least 24 communities are still cut cut-off from the rest of the country and the National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO) is commandeering aid for distribution to the affected persons http://www.ghanapnp.com/en/gh/9/234/?tpl=104 Accra, Sept. 28, GNA - A delegation from Trinidad and Tobago, arrived in the country at the weekend, to explore the oil and gas industry.

http://www.ghanapnp.com/en/gh/9/233/?tpl=104 Accra, Sept. 28, GNA - Rev. Dr. Cyril Fayose, President of the Trinity Theological Seminary, at the weekend, observed that the benefits of the country's democratic dispensation are being marginalised by the ethnic sentiments and chieftaincy disputes that characterise the partisan nature of the process.

http://www.ghanapnp.com/en/gh/9/232/?tpl=104 Mobilising African Women for Economic Development – Address by Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings at the New York University under the auspices of the Africa House Faculty and the Wagner School of Public Service (Thursday September 24, 2009) http://www.ghanapnp.com/en/gh/9/231/?tpl=104 http://www.ghanapnp.com/en/gh/9/228/?tpl=104 A South African man married four women at the same time during a ceremony attended by hundreds of people. http://www.ghanapnp.com/en/gh/9/180/?tpl=104 Broadband promised to unite the world with super-fast data delivery - but in South Africa it seems the web is still no faster than a humble pigeon.