THE RULING New Patriotic Party (NPP) has opened more fire on the founder of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Flt. Lt. Jerry John Rawlings over his consistent allegations of corruption against government officials, including the sitting President, Mr. John Agyekum Kufuor. The NPP has also delved into the manifesto of the NDC, describing it as a document that lacks original ideas and has a sense of inertia that presage how they (NDC) will approach

President John Agyekum Kufuor has called for calm in the Asante-Akim North Constituency, as the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) looked for a candidate to fill the vacant seat of the late Finance Minister, Mr Kwadwo Baah-Wiredu. The Minister, he said, was such a good person and that it would be unfortunate to allow the search for his successor to be marred by any unhealthy power struggle, accusations and confusion. Whatever has happened, sad and painful as it was, should be accepted in good faith.

A woman who posed as a Good Samaritan to Ms Abena Amoah, an 18-year-old nursing mother, has absconded with one of Ms Amoah’s quadruplets.  but now resident at Odeikrom near Nsawam, met the woman, who gave her name only as Adwoa, the wife of an elder of a Pentecostal church at Tema New Town, at the Nsawam Government Hospital where they were both receiving ante-natal treatment. The two struck an acquaintance,

Members of Parliament (MPs) have paid glowing tribute to the late former Speaker of Parliament, Mr Peter Ala Adjetey, for the role he played in nurturing the country’s parliamentary democracy. The government has scheduled tomorrow, October 10, for the performance of a state funeral for the late former Speaker. The MPs were contributing to a statement made by the Deputy Majority Leader and MP for Suame,

The Sad Story Of Alhaji Mahama Salifu Of Bole-Bamboi. In the run up to the 1992 general elections, the newly formed political parties embarked on vigorous membership drive through lobbying. Opinion leaders, influential people, former politicians and youth activists were targeted. The NDC especially took the lead in this race in northern Ghana. Through the PNDC, they made use of incumbency by getting most of the influential Northern politicians to its fold.

THE timely intervention by the police averted what could have been a bloody clash between two rival chiefs at Tuobodom, in the Techiman Municipality on Tuesday. The feuding chiefs involved in the skirmishes, pay allegiances to different traditional rulers -the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, and the Paramount Chief of Techiman, Oseadeyo Akumfi Ameyaw IV respectively.  On Tuesday, October 7th, 2008, at about 2pm,

THE House of Representatives Committee on Power, which probed the Federal Government's handling of the sector between 1999 and 2007, has recommended the interrogation of former and serving public officials by the country's anti-graft agencies. Among those the panel asked the House to recommend to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for investigation are former President Olusegun Obasanjo; Governor of Ondo State,

THE Super Eagles' camp came to life yesterday with the arrival of skipper Kanu Nwankwo; Joseph Yobo, Femi Ajilore, Yakubu Aiyegbeni and Ikechukwu Uche at the team's NICON Hotel, Abuja for the last leg of the first round matches of the Africa Nations and World Cup qualifiers against Sierra Leone. Yesterday morning, goalkeepers Austin Ejide and Dele Aiyenugba, defenders Taye Taiwo, Dele Adeleye, Apam Onyekachi, Danny Shittu and Chidi Odiah

A mild drama yesterday trailed the unveiling of the list of chairmen and deputies of the House of Representatives Standing Committees by the Speaker, Hon Dimeji Bankole as two aggrieved members of the House,, Hon Chinyere Igwe (PDP Rivers State) and Hon Herma Hembe (PDP Benue State) reportedly engaged the Speaker in a war of words shortly after the exercise.. This is even as the name of the former Speaker,

Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP), yesterday advised president Umaru Musa Yar’ Adua not to dissolve his cabinet yet, until he resolves the 2008 supplementary budget with the National Assembly. Daily Champion gathered from reliable sources that the advice topped. This is even as the global economic crisis and its effect on Nigeria’s economy was disused. The party’s BOT, which usually meet at the national secretariat of the PDP, was shifted to Aso Rock, the seat of power,

The highly respected Nobel prize for Literature has been won by Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio, a French writer, who lived part of his childhood in Onitsha, Nigeria, and even wrote a book named after the town, recollecting his memories of the city on the banks of the Niger. Nice-born Le Clezio moved to Nigeria with his family at the age of eight when he commenced writing. He wrote his first works – “Un Long Voyage” (A long journey) and “Oradi Noir”

AFRICA'S faltering march to good governance was re-examined yesterday in Lagos at the 25th anniversary lecture lecture of The Guardian newspaper. Kenya's Prime Minister Raila Amolo Odinga with undisputed credential on the subject, just as keynote speaker, Prof. Chinua Achebe, not only elucidated on the causes and pains of Africa's political development, but also proffered solutions.Before the cream of Nigerians and foreign nationals from the political class

WORRIED by the likely impact of the current global credit crisis on Nigeria's economy, both the Upper and Lower Houses of the National Assembly yesterday engaged in marathon debates on how to shield the nation on the economic disaster. This is coming as six Central Banks cut their interest rates. Also yesterday, the House of Representatives absolved the power committee of allegation of bribe-taking in the course of investigations into expenditure

Barely 48 hours aftera bank manager was killed in a  bank robbery  in Alapere, Ketu, Lagos,  another set of four people were feared killed yesterday, in three bank robberies in Lagos. The banks were situated along Ozumba Mbadiwe Street, Victoria Island. According to an eye-witness account, the robbers numbering about 20, rode on 15 motorcycles, stormed one of the banks, a new generation bank around 9:30a.m.,

The twin problem of pipeline breaks and epileptic power supply are taking their toll on the nation’s refining capacity, as activities at all the nation’s refineries have been completely crippled. The Warri and Kaduna Refineries had been shut down for about two years, after militants in the Niger Delta blew up their feeder pipeline, Chanomi Creek Pipeline.  Barely eight months after skeletal activities resumed at the refineries,

SUPPORTERS of ousted South African president Thabo Mbeki have threatened to split from the ruling African National Congress (ANC), accusing its leaders of abandoning democratic ideals. "It seems that today we are serving divorce papers," Agence France Presse (AFP) yesterday quoted former defence minister Mosiuoa Lekota as telling a press conference broadcast on radio. He accused ANC leaders of losing sight of the party's ideals that spearheaded

Oil giant, Royal Dutch Shell Petroleum, will go on trial in the United States on February 9, 2009 for alleged complicity in human rights abuses in the Niger Delta, THISDAY has learnt. The case entitled Wiwa v. Royal Dutch Shell and Wiwa v Anderson concerns the November 10, 1995 hangings of Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other members of the Movement of the Emancipation of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) known as “Ogoni Nine”

President John Agyekum Kufuor has urged contesting political parties in the December 7 polls, to choose dialogue and due process as preferred options for settling and resolving all disputes. "Instead of individuals and groups taking the law into their own hands, let us take full advantage of our institutions of governance to protect the integrity of the elections." He drew attention to wars and civil strife, which plagued the sub-region and other parts of Africa as

Dear Prof. I have looked on and listened with keen interest on your genuine campaign message and sincere desire for peace in our beloved country and change ofcourse from the NPP government. I am a noble Ghanamanba living abroad and love my country so much that I want to come back home and settle, share my knowledge and experience with my people. I believe this is what every Omanba wants and needless to say a peaceful country.

THE Government is releasing 50 per cent of all state acquired lands in Accra, back to their original owners.  To this effect, the Survey  Department  has been directed to undertake survey and demarcation of the portions of land to be released. The Minister of Lands, Forestry and Mines, Esther Obeng-Dapaah, disclosed this at a media briefing yesterday in Accra. The lands to be released include 112.59

Mr. Peter Mac Manu, National Chairman of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), on Wednesday accused the National Democratic Congress (NDC) of plagiarism for stealing the central ideas in the NPP manifesto without out acknowledging them. He told journalists that even though the NDC had in the past kicked against and called for the abolition of NPP policies and programmes, the NDC had stolen those same policies and put them in their manifesto

More than 4,000 Ghanaians have, this year, been issued with resident visas to the United States of America under the US Diversity Visa Lottery.  Another 7,000 Ghanaians have won the lottery for next year’s programme, but a little less than that figure is expected to be issued visas to the US since not all the 7,000 may pass  the interview and qualification process. The lottery, aims at assisting voluntary migrants from developing countries to travel to the US.

Girls as young as 10 are being forced by their teachers to have sex with them in order to pass their examinations. They are threatened with poor grades and failures if they refuse, according to a groundbreaking report on school violence published by Plan, an international children's non-governmental organisation (NGO). The report forms part of Plan's "Learn Without Fear" campaign, designed to end all forms of violence

The body of Finance Minjister, Kwadwo Baah-Wiredu, will arrive at the Kotoka International Airport in Accra from South Africa today. The Speaker of Parliament, Mr Ebenezer Begyina Sekyi Hughes, told parliament yesterday that the Ghana High Commission in South Africa had communicated to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs that relations of the late minister and high-ranking officials of the High Commission would accompany the body from South Africa.

Many of you who are familiar with the core immigration history of our nation will agree with me that the UP tradition has political means of putting the interest of the nation and its citizen first over immigrants. The majority of these immigrants who have now patronized our country are criminals and carpetbaggers who just wanted to seek their egocentric economic opportunities without thinking of our nation’s interest at heart or of the peace that Ghanaians have enjoyed

All schoolchildren aged between five and 12 years would be given personal computers, President John Agyekum Kufuor announced when he addressed the 14th National Best Teacher Award/World Teachers' Day ceremony at Sunyani on Tuesday. He said the Government was in the process of equipping all schools with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) designed personal computers for all school children from age five to 12 years,

Three persons — two women and a three-year-old boy — have been trapped to death by landslide following torrential rains at Adukrom-Yensi, a farming village in the Akuapem North District of the Eastern Region. The bodies of Doris Asantewa, 55, Yaa Oforiwaa, 72, and Kwasi Mantey, the three-year-old boy, were found yesterday and sent to the Tetteh-Quashie Memorial Hospital at Mampong-Akwapim.The incident which occurrred Monday, has thrown the farming village,

Lt. Col. John Lucas Abito, a former Commander of the 2nd Battalion of Infantry at Takoradi, in the Western Region and spokesperson for Peace Seekers International (PSI), an NGO, says former President Rawlings must be closely monitored because his recent meeting with the ex-security capos posed a threat to the security of the country.  He said, during the regime of Dr. Hilla Limann, similar meetings were held, which people took for granted, but to the amazement of the nation

President Kufuor has expressed concern over the way former President Rawlings has been levelling all sorts of allegations against him and his family, but said he has given everything to God.  Speaking to Kwame Sefa Kaye in London recently, and played back on Peace FM yesterday, the interview touched on a wide range of issues including the alleged involvement of his government in the murder of the former Deputy Managing Director

An Abuja High Court has ordered the release of the international passports of Senator Iyabo Obasanjo-Bello and Mrs. Adenike Grange, to enable them undertake international trips. Justice Salisu Garba granted the order following the applications filed by their lawyers, Mr. Oluwole Aladedoye and Oladele Gbadeyan. They were among the 12 accused in the N300 million unspent budget scam of the Ministry of Health. Prof. Grange, the former Minister of Health and Iyabo,

Civil conflict in the Darfur region of Sudan yesterday resurged and killed another Nigerian soldier, who was on the peace-keeping mission in the conflict-ridden country until his demise. Reuters News Agency broke the news of his death, stating that the deceased was killed in an ambush after up to 60 armed bandits ambushed his convoy in the Darfur region. This is coming as  Federal Government  yesterday  called on the 14th annual

IMMIGRATION authorities in Kenya have arrested the United States (U.S.) author of a critical book about presidential candidate Barack Obama before its launch and took him to the airport for deportation, witnesses said. Jerome Corsi arrived at a downtown Nairobi hotel to present his book "The Obama Nation." But he was whisked away by immigration officials and later driven to the airport by police, witnesses said.

THE impact of the suspected explosion tore the side of the wall from top to its foundation. Household items in the kitchen downstairs and unoccupied apartments were shattered. But no life was lost. This is what has become of 6, Delta Crescent, off Ikpokpan Junction in the Government Reserved Area (GRA) of Benin City, the official residence of Justice Roland Amaize of the Edo State High Court. Prior to the sad incident, which occurred at 10.00 p.m. on Monday,

Multi national oil companies may have lost their long battle to extend the deadline for gas flaring in Nigeria, as the bill seeking to outlaw gas flaring after December 31st 2008 received overwhelming support of the senators yesterday on the floor of Senate. The bill which specifically passed second reading yesterday provided three months jail term for owners of any company or person that flares gas in the country after December 31 this year,

Contrary to expectations, Senate yesterday declared that it was yet to get the list of the new ministerial nominees from President Umar YarAdua for confirmation. There was however mild drama yesterday in the Senate as cronies of some serving federal ministers stormed the National Assembly to lobby for the new ministerial nominees. But President Umaru Musa YarAdua in what was considered an anti- climax yesterday only forwarded a list of 11 ambassadorial nominees