5th March, 2010
Ghana to revive choral music to facilitate cultural heritage
Accra, March 5, GNA - The saying that what identifies a group of people is their cultural heritage is becoming real daily in this era when nations are trying to promote their culture internationally. A nation without cultural heritage is therefore without identity and music tha...
Ghana to revive choral music to facilitate cultural heritage
Accra, March 5, GNA - The saying that what identifies a group of people is their cultural heritage is becoming real daily in this era when nations are trying to promote their culture internationally. A nation without cultural heritage is therefore without identity and music tha...
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4th March, 2010 »
Ghanaian Society and the Growing Threat of Indiscipline
Ho, March 4, GNA - At a recent workshop organized by a Ho based NGO, one of the facilitators described indiscipline as a "disease" that has infected the moral fibre of the Ghanaian society.
He said some signs of this disease include jumping the traffic lights, speaking on cell phone while...
3rd March, 2010 »
Tribute to the Late Peter Kweku Abban
Koforidua, Feb. 23, GNA - This Writer first met the late Peter Kweku Abban in 1989 as the Eastern Regional Editor of "The Ghanaian Times" when he was doing his national service with the Ghana News Agency at Koforidua.
It was very refreshing learning from Papa Pee, as the ...
2nd March, 2010 »
The Success Story Of The Physically Challenged in Oncho-Free Zone
Funsi (U/W), March 2, GNA - The Blind and the Lame in the Oncho-Free Zone of the Upper West Region have lived up to the saying that being physically challenged is not a disability.
Unlike the physically challenged persons elsewhere, who are despised, marginalised a...
22nd February, 2010 »
Street begging: Profession or nuisance
Accra, Feb. 22, GNA - A cursory look at the streets, traffic lights and intersections in our cities reveals a disturbing phenomenon - an overwhelming rise in the population of beggars.
So visible are these beggars on our streets in recent times that one would agree with the fact that stre...
12th February, 2010 »
Menace of Fulani Herdsmen is a worry to communities in Upper West
Gwollu (U/W), Feb. 12, GNA - In the Upper West Region there is no community, village or settlement where people are not campaigning for the expulsion of Fulani herdsmen and their cattle from the Region.
Women and children are worried because they are leading a "M...
4th February, 2010 »
To Privatise or not to Privatise ?
Accra, Feb 4, GNA - Every now and then the issue about the dismal performance of state-owned enterprises in Ghana, and in most parts of Africa for that matter, has come up for discussion. The pertinent, double-barrelled question here is: "Why do State enterprises in Africa fail to live up to expec...
3rd February, 2010 »
The text message that robbed Ghanaians of sleep
Accra, Feb. 3, GNA - It was not a good news at all for Madam Mary Akosua Darkwaa, a 63-year-old trader at Abesim, near Sunyani, to wake up in the middle of the night to receive a call from his son, who rang from Koforidua to alert her to vacate her room due to news of an impending earthquake.
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3rd February, 2010 »
Children being exploited as herdsmen in North-Tongu District
Adidome (VR), Feb. 3, GNA - Scores of boys are being exploited by cattle owners in several parts of the North-Tongu District in the Volta Region as they are denied formal education.
These children, mostly between the ages of 10 and 15 years, are engaged as herdsmen by cat...
3rd February, 2010 »
Mills rockets dissolve clouds
Accra, Feb. 3, GNA - The clouds gathered, tension heightened and the political barometer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) rose. Its opponents were expecting that the party would come out from its Tamale National Delegates' Congress bruised and broken.
The polit...
