Professor John Evans Atta Mills, Presidential candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), on Wednesday said he would equip the youth with employable skills to enable them to find jobs when elected President of Ghana.
He said m…
Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, Presidential Candidate of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) on Wednesday pledged his commitment to build upon the economic foundation laid by President John Agyekum Kufuor over the past eight years.
He …
Dr Edward Mahama, Presidential Candidate of People's National Convention (PNC), on Wednesday said he would ensure justice for all under his presidency, blaming the lynching of suspects on the failure of the criminal justice system.
He…
President John Agyekum Kufuor, has conferred a state honour, Companion of the Order of Volta, on the Chief Executive of the United States Millennium Challenge Corporation, Mr John Danilovich.
This is in recognition of exceptional com…
U.S. authorities, including the Secret Service, are investigating a display that shows a likeness of Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin hanging by a noose, it was reported on Wednesday.
The life-size mannequin of Palin …
The National Media Commission (NMC), on Thursday outdoored its guidelines for reportage of political parties, with the hope that it would address imbalances in coverage of political parties by the state-owned media.
The guidelines s…
U.S. Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin suggested Wednesday that she might be a candidate in the next presidential race if her running mate John McCain is defeated on Nov. 4.
In an interview with ABC News, she was asked…
U.S. Republican presidential candidate John McCain and his running mate Sarah Palin Wednesday criticized the Los Angels Times for not making public a video in which their Democratic rival Barack Obama praised a Palestinian scholar.
M…
Cuban TV channels on Wednesday widely broadcast a UN General Assembly vote on a resolution against a unilateral U.S. embargo against the country.
The resolution cleared the 192-member assembly with a vote of 185 for and three against…
Preliminary statistics released Wednesday from the ongoing early voting of U.S. presidential election showed that Democrats outnumbered Republicans in key states.
With the Election Day less than a week away, registered Democrats in N…
Spain is ready to host the Secretariat of the Mediterranean Union in Barcelona, visiting Spanish Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Angel Lossada said here Wednesday.
After meeting with Algerian Foreign Minister Mourad Medelci, L…
Zambians began to cast votes in the country's first presidential by-election on Thursday to select a successor to late President Levy Mwanawasa, who died in August in France after a stroke.
Mwanawasa was the first Zambian president …
The United Nations Security Council issued a presidential statement Wednesday condemning the recent offensive by Tutsi rebel group National Congress for the Defence of the People (CNDP) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
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With six days left before Election Day, U.S. presidential front runner Barack Obama is making maximum efforts to close the deal as soon as possible, while underdog John McCain remains unyielding and aggressive against all the odds.
O…
The rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) declared on Wednesday a unilateral cease-fire as they threatened to take over a strategic city in the country, reports from agencies said.
Reuters quoted Madnodje Mounoub…
U.S. President George W. Bush will meet outgoing Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in the coming weeks in Washington, White House spokesman said Wednesday.
"President Bush spoke by phone with Prime Minister Olmert today. The two lea…
Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua has relieved 20 ministers of their appointment, as part of efforts to rejuvenate his government, president's Spokesman Olusegun Adeniyi said Wednesday in the country's capital city Abuja.
In a statem…
A total of 18 parliamentary candidates have filed nominations with the Tema District Office of the Electoral Commission to contest the December 7 elections in five constituencies in the district.
The five constituencies are Kpone-Kataman…
One hundred and twenty-one Parliamentary candidates filed at the close of nomination on October 17 to contest for the 27 seats in the Greater Accra Region, Mrs. Philomena Adusie, Deputy Regional Director told the Ghana News Agency in an in…
Sunyani-based National Unity Movement, an NGO, has called for the adoption of a 'homegrown' African model constitution instead of the imported or foreign constitution to eliminate political violence associated with elections in most third …
The ECOWAS Commission is to send a 200-man observer team, headed by former Nigerian Head of State, Gen. Yakubu Gowon, to monitor Ghana's December 7 polls, the body's pre-election fact-finding mission to Ghana disclosed in Accra on Tuesday.…
A Government under the Convention Peoples' Party (CPP) will adopt pragmatic policies and programme to revamp the fishing industry to make it profitable to fishermen and fishmongers.
Some of the policies would be the offering of assi…
The Nkoranza North District Assembly has purchased six tractors valued at about 96,000 Ghana cedis to help farmers in the area expand their activities.
Madam Grace Obeng Donkor, District Chief Executive, announced this on Monday at t…
Mr. Samuel Bannerman-Mensah, Director-General of the Ghana Education Service (GES), has issued directive to all Regional and District Directors of Education to ensure that Heads of schools (private and public) and Training Colleges to educ…
The Presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has called on Ghanaians not to vote the National Democratic Congress(NDC) back into power because "they demonstrated incompetence and inefficiency in…
Mr. Pius Opoku Boateng the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Parliamentary Candidate for Kwabre West Constituency, was on Monday morning arrested by the Police for double registration.
Briefing newsmen, Mr Emmanuel Addai, Kwabre Dis…
Mr Samuel Ayeh Paye New Patriotic Party (NPP) parliamentary candidate for Ayensuano Constituency has urged party supporters not to be swayed by empty promises of his opponents.
He said they should rather remain resolute and vote mass…
Mr. Justice Samuel Adjei, National Democratic Congress (NDC) parliamentary candidate for Sunyani East, has appealed to party members to intensify their campaigns to enable the party to win Election 2008.
He said the NDC had initiated…
Dr. Mahamadu Bawumia, running mate to Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, New Patriotic Party (NPP) presidential candidate for Election 2008, at the weekend said the party would continue to improve the living conditions of residents of zongo comm…
The Commander of the Tonga Defence Services has confirmed that Tonga would withdraw its troops from Iraq before Christmas, Matangi Tonga online reported on Tuesday.
Brigadier Tau'aika' Uta'atu said that Tonga's fourth contingent of 5…
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) on Tuesday said its patience was running out and would not accept the renewal of a ceasefire with Israel.
"We won't allow the continuation of the lull," said Rabah Muhana, a PF…
An extra summit of southern African leaders on Monday failed to bring Zimbabwean political parties to finalize sharing of cabinet posts as part of a power-sharing deal signed over a month ago.
The Southern African Development Communi…
Two U.S. men were charged Monday for plotting a "killing spree" against African-Americans that would have been capped with an attempt to kill Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama.
The U.S. attorney's office in Jackson, Tennes…
Mr Emmanuel Armah-Kofi Buah, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Parliamentary aspirant for Ellembelle constituency, has advised the people in the area to change their voting pattern in this year's election.
He noted that the peop…
Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, Running mate to the New Patriotic Party's (NPP) Presidential candidate, Nana Akufo-Addo, has said that Ghanaians had benefited more from the NPP administration through the implementation of its pro-poor interventions.
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Mr Mark Woyongo, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Parliamentary candidate for the Navrongo Central Constituency in the Upper East Region, said if he wins the seat he would establish an education endowment fund to cater for needy but …
Mr Joseph Yaani Labik, Member of Parliament (MP) for Bunkpurugu Yunyoo, has said candidates who were defeated at the primaries of the various parties had no moral justification to contest as independent candidates in the forthcoming Decem…
Mr Kwasi Aboagye,Volta Regional Vice Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) on Saturday described the campaign tour
of Mr. John Dramani Mahama, Vice Presidential Candidate of the party to parts of the Region as a great succes…
The People's National Convention (PNC) on Friday urged Ghanaians to vote for peace, humane policies and a selfless and dedicated leader with the ability to unite and transform the economy for accelerated growth.
"We need peace, for d…
Mr. John Dramani Mahama, Vice Presidential candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) on Saturday said every aspect of the party's manifesto would be implemented to give relief to Ghanaians.
He said, "what we have in our man…
Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) said he would take Ghana to the next stage of economic prosperity due to the good foundation built by President J.A. Kufuor.
He therefore cautioned …
Mr Kwabena Appiah-Pinkrah, MP for Akrofuom Constituency in the Ashanti Region, has stated that the incumbent and majority New Patriotic Party (NPP) would win the December elections hands down and would not engage in power-sharing with any …
Mrs. Agnes Asangalisa Chigabatia, Member of Parliament for Builsa North, has over the years spent her share of the Common Fund on projects to improve the socio-economic conditions of the people in her constituency.
Last year for ins…
Prof John Atta Mills, presidential candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), was on Wednesday given a rousing welcome by supporters of the party in Kumasi when he visited the metropolis to interact with party faithful.
Clad in…
Mr. Isaac Osei, parliamentary candidate for the Subin constituency in Kumasi, has renovated the palace of the Sarkin Zongo (the Zongo Chief).
He has also given scholarships from a scheme he personally instituted to children of five Zongo…
Mr. Isaac Osei, New Patriotic Party (NPP) parliamentary candidate for Subin constituency in Kumasi, on Thursday called on party supporters to be focused and remain resolute in their political activities as the party seeks to chalk a landsl…
Representatives of seven political parties on Thursday pledged their commitment to peaceful free, fair and transparent elections in December.
At a forum of members of the Council of State and the political parties to identify obstacl…
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) on Thursday launched its industrialization policy with a promise to create jobs by adding value to the country's raw materials.
Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, the party's presidential candidate, said during th…
The Wa Central constituency branch of the National Democratic Congress on Thursday took credit for the peaceful political campaigning that is going on in the Wa Municipality.
Alhaji Seidu Jamatutu, the NDC Chairman of the constituenc…
The minority leader in Parliament, Mr. Alban Bagbin, has assured teachers that a government of the Notional Democratic Congress (NDC) under the leadership of Prof John Atta Mills would improve their living conditions.
Mr. Bagbin sai…
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