Elmina Chief Fisherman, Nana Akonu, speaking to journalists Fishermen in the various landing beaches in the Central Region are divided over whether government should hold on to its ban on light fishing or amend it. Hard-liners pushing for the revision of the law have threatened to vote out the Mills administration, if their wishes are not adhered to whereas the moderates are asking government to stick... 

Mr. Asare Bediako, a.k.a Yesman The complainant in the case of the Republic versus Mr. Michael Amoah Awuku at the Nkawie Circuit Court in the Atwima Nwabiagya District of the Ashanti region, has taken a new dimension. Mr. Asare Bediako, a.k.a Yesman, has now sought refuge at the palace of the Abuakwa Chief, Nana Appiah Boateng II, to plead with the chief to soften his stance and withdraw the matter... 

The hapless body of Nii Quartei Adjin in a pool of blood Reports reaching Today as at press time on Monday indicated that the chief of Achiaman in the Amasaman municipality of the Greater Accra region, Nii Quartey Adjin1 has been murdered in cold-blood by unknown assassins. Family sources told the paper in a telephone interview yesterday that the chief was crushed by a green-yellow taxi cab with... 

Newly constructed court building at Kpando In line with President John Evans Atta Mills’ year of action and also under the NDC Better Ghana agenda, the Kpando District Assembly in the Volta Region has earmarked eighteen areas as its development target to transform the socio-economic fortunes of inhabitants in the area this 2011. The Kpando District Chief Executive (DCE), Hon. Francis Komla Ganyaglo,... 

“The tools of economic management are a means to end and a no longer define the paradigm for development, rather the social objectives of a people have proved to be the enduring determinant”. 1.      PREAMBLE Fellow Ghanaians, Members of the Press and Comrades good morning.   I hope 2011 will bring us greater happiness and prosperity throughout our land. Since the inception of How the CPP... 

“I have a dream that one day my two daughters will live in an America where they will be judged not by the colour of their skin, but by the content of their character.” – Martin Luther King Jr., at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington DC., USA, on August 28, 1963. Martin Luther As a prelude to conquering Europe, the German Chancellor, Adolf Hitler, had put forth his concept of a pure Aryan race... 

IGP Paul Tawiah Quaye A seemingly scary ethnic conflict akin to the devastating tribal conflicts in the northern part of the country is looming in the Krachi West District of the Volta Region, Today has gathered. This follows the arrest of some Kokomba indigenes by the Paramount Chief of Kete Krachi, Nana Mprah Besemuna III. The crime of the Kokombas, according to a close confidant of the paramount... 

AMA Mayor, Dr. Alfred Vanderpuije Encroachers at the Kwame Nkrumah Circle, precisely the Railways, have vowed a showdown should the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) attempt to clear them from their places of habitat for a railway transport project. The concerned encroachers argued that they have every right to shelter hence they had rights as human beings to live there. The squatters led by the President... 

Dr. Tony Aidoo The Movement for Social Justice (MSJ), a pressure group, has added its voice to calls for President John Evans Atta Mills to immediately withdraw the appointment of Dr. Tony Aidoo from serving on the AU Advisory Board on Corruption. In a press release signed by the Coordinator of MSJ, Mr. Paa Kow Ackon, the group registered its displeasure against the president’s role in the appointment... 

President John Evans Atta Mills Followers of the pro-Mills sect in the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) were reportedly bewildered when representatives of the president could not tell the party’s National Executive Council (NEC) why their mentor [President Mills] failed to attend the crunch meeting. They also could not offer any meaningful explanation as to whether the President will...