Headlines
Nigerian Oil Ship Detained At Tema Port
A NIGERIAN oil ship believed to have been hijacked and pirated from Lagos, which managed to find its way into Ghanaian territorial waters, has been intercepted by a combine team of the Ghana Navy and the National Security at the Tema port on Thursday.
A source at the Tema Port, who spoke to DAILY GUIDE about [...]
Sport
Rajevac to deal with indiscipline»
Milovan Rajevac says he will address indiscipline that could potentially undermine Ghana’s 2010 Nations Cup and World Cup participation.
The decision by the Serbian to take that line was influenced by the failure of three players – Michael Essien, Sulley Muntari and Asamoah Gyan – to absent themselves from a national game without prior permission.
The trio [...]
Features/ Articles
Kwesi Pratt should be the last person to pontificate on the affairs of the country.»
My attention has been drawn to a feature article published in the New Punch on Tuesday, 3rd November, 2009 which was given wide publicity during the newspaper review segment by a panelist on Peace FM. I received numerous telephone calls from friends and admirers, both known and unknown ones to tune in to Peace FM [...]
Business & Finance
TUC cautions against bogus oil training institutions»
The Ghana Trades Union Congress (TUC) on Friday cautioned the citizenry to guard against the proliferation of institutions claiming to be providing skills training in the oil industry.Mr. Kwabena Nyarko Otoo, Acting Head of the Labour Research and Policy Institute of the TUC, asked the public to report any unaccredited organisation operating in the industry [...]
Health
Govt probes £3.3m fraud at Sunyani Hospital»
The government has launched investigations into an alleged 3.303 million pound sterling contract fraud at the Sunyani Regional Hospital.
The amount was meant to build a 221-housing unit complex for staff of the hospital.
The previous government paid 1.75 million pounds out of the total amount to Messrs International Hospitals Group in 2003 for the project which [...]
Science & Tech
Lift off for Nasa’s lunar probes»
Nasa has successfully launched two spacecraft to the Moon on missions that will pave the way for a return to the lunar surface by US astronauts.
LRO (Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter) and a crater observation mission blasted off from Florida on an Atlas V rocket.
Data gathered by LRO will help mission planners select future landing sites and [...]
Travel / Tourism
British tourists raise funds for NGO»
Two British tourists are travelling by bicycle from London to other parts of the world to raise funds in support of Childreach International, an international non-governmental organization (NGO).
Alan Wells, 25, and Ian Mowbray-Williams, 24, who are expected to raise 10,000 pounds have spent 150 days roving since they left London on May 31, this year.
The [...]
Elections
Akufo-Addo: NPP is still moving forward»
Presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party, NPP, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has challenged followers of the party to rededicate themselves to unity and work towards bringing the party back to power.He told a large, enthusiastic rally of the party at Abeka in Accra that hopefully, God will listen to the prayers of the party [...]
General News
National Security Adviser denies meeting JJ»
National Security Adviser, Brigadier General (retd) Joseph Nunoo-Mensah, has rebutted a media report that his outfit held a meeting with some security heads and former president Jerry John Rawlings on the murder of the former Deputy Managing Director of the Ghana Commercial Bank, Roko Frimpong.The Today newspaper alleged in its Monday, November 30 2009 edition [...]
Politics
ASAWASE NDC ELECTS EXECUTIVES»
Delegates from the various wards and branches of the Asawase constituency of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Saturday met to elect their constituency executives.
The programme which was held at the Asawase community centre saw a total of 240 delegates voting.
Ahmed Abubakar retained his position as chairman with Joseph Bole secretary and one Alhaji Anyass , [...]
Education
University of Ghana cannot enrol more science students – Prof Tagoe»
Accra, Nov. 7, GNA – Professor Clifford Nii Boi Tagoe, Vice Chancell= or of the University of Ghana, said the educational institution’s aim of enrolling more students in the Science than the humanities might become a=
mirage. He observed that challenges such as disparity in cost of courses in the Sciences and the Humanities, lack of [...]
Africa & World
Somali adulterer stoned to death»
Islamists in southern Somalia have stoned a man to death for adultery but spared his pregnant girlfriend until she gives birth.
Abas Hussein Abdirahman, 33, was killed in front of a crowd of some 300 people in the port town of Merka.
An official from the al-Shabab group said the woman would be killed after she has [...]
Religion
Police question Bishop Obinim over juju allegations»
The Suame Divisional Police Crime Officer, DSP Kwaku Duah, has confirmed to PEACE NEWS that he has ordered the General Overseer of the International God’s Way Church to produce two individuals to assist in investigations into a case of conspiracy.
Bishop Daniel Obinim is alleged to be the brain behind a plot to bury dead snakes, [...]
