IN reaction to fears that the Owabi Dam would dry up anytime soon, the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, has fined eleven sub-chiefs for illegally allocating lands within the catchment area of the dam belonging to the Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) in the Kumasi metropolis. The sub-chiefs, who have oversight responsibility over the area, were given seven days to pay 22 sheep. GHANA seemed to be... 

THE cocaine menace is a global problem that has gained the attention of World leaders, because of its dire implications, especially on global youth. GHANA, as a global player, is no stranger to the growing apprehension that the cocaine problem is causing the world. It is therefore disheartening that as countries struggle to tackle the problem collectively and head-on, Ghana, in discussing the menace... 

THERE is no denying the fact that education is the key to our country’s development. This fact is even buttressed by the pace of development that has taken and continues to happen in advanced countries like the United States of America, Britain, France, Germany among others. AND even in advanced countries they are not even content with what they have been able to achieve through education. And that... 

THE coach of the national football team, the Black Stars is expected to announce Thursday, his provisional team for the January African Cup of Nations (AFCON) in Gabon-Equatorial Guinea. As anticipated, there had been varied views on the player selection to the extent that some had even called the 23 man provisional team. For now, these are individual views and we want to review them from that basis.   THE... 

This statement was released by the Office of Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom on December 1, 2010. To all those who have been mischievously campaigning that Dr. Nduom is only interested in using the CPP to seek his parochial political interest, we believe the statement will not only expose their wicked lies, but also show how Dr. Nduom has been a chief advocate of restructuring the CPP at the grassroots level.  ... 

ON Wednesday, December 7, 2011, a group of unidentified irate youth laid virtual siege at Zamanshigu, a farming community, near Gushiegu in the Northern Region, and reportedly attacked Fulani herdsmen and in the process killed 12 of them. THE Gushiegu Hospital admitted eight of the Fulanis, who sustained varied degrees of injury, while security personnel have deposited the bodies of the deceased, including... 

THE exploratory group of the Nduom 2012 presidential campaign on Tuesday gave hints of a possible exit of Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom from the Convention People’s Party (CPP). THE group was first mandated by Dr. Nduom to explore his viability as a CPP presidential candidate for the 2012 elections. IT was based on the findings of the group that Dr. Nduom finally decided to run for the presidential nomination... 

THE Asantehene, Nana Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, over the weekend stated the obvious political machinations by the two leading political parties in the country which consequence, the great Kings says, is continually stalling the peace process in the Dagbon chieftaincy dispute. SOME nine years ago, the King of Dagbon, Ya Na Yakubu Andani, and forty others, were cruelly murdered in broad daylight under some... 

LAST week Friday the state-owned newspaper, Daily Graphic, carried a story on its front page with the headline: FM stations scare people from yellow fever vaccination. THE report which was filed from Suhum-Kraboa-Coaltar District in the Eastern Region pointed out that some residents in the district have refused to be vaccinated against the Yellow Fever disease. THIS followed somewhat reports that some... 

A report in the Friday, November 25, 2011 edition of the Daily Graphic that residents in Obom Road- a suburb of Kasoa- are living in fear flowing incessant harassment by land guards is indeed worrying. According to the said news item the land guards often attack residents by beating them to the extent that they even issue death threats. THE land guards, according to the state-owned newspaper, harass...