SURVIVORS of the recent Achimota Melcom Disaster last Friday brought tears to the eyes of some worshipers at the special praise and thanksgiving church service organized by the Management of Zoomlion and Jospong Group of Companies at their Ashle-Botwe Headquarters near Madina in Accra. The Melcom Disaster Survivors numbering more than 15, showed up at the praise and worship service by the Company to express their thanks and appreciation to the Zoomlion who upon hearing of the collapse of ... Read More

The Action Chapel International has as part of it annual international convention dubbed ?impact 2012? ordained five new bishops into the church at the church?s premises in Accra over the weekend. The bishops elect, James Nana Ofori Atta, Dereck Nunekpeku, Kobby Otoo, Gideon Titi Ofei and Ebenezer Obodai were consecrated by Archbishop Nicolas Duncan-Williams and Archbishop David Huskins of the International Communion of Charismatic churches. The consecrated bishops who took turns to ... Read More

The Agricultural Development Bank (ADB) has opened a new Branch at Apimenim in the Western Region. This forms the 77th Branch of the Bank and the 7th in the Western Region. Performing the opening ceremony, the Chairman of the Board of Directors of ADB, Alhaji Ibrahim Adam said ADB will continue to put more into agricultural production and combine this with the financing of agro-industry to generate value addition. He said the new Branch has been opened in the heart of the rubber industry ... Read More

A 38-year-old welder, Cornelius Ahiabor, who defaced a poster of the NPP Parliamentary Candidate for Anyaa Sowutuom, Shirley Ayorkor Botchway, was convicted by the Amasaman Magistrate Court, last week, for wilfully defacing a public lawful notice. The judge, Mrs Emelia Abruquah on his own plea of guilty with explanation, and sentenced him to 10 penalty Units (GH¢120) or in default, imprisonment of four (4) months. The court rejected his explanation that, he was rather fixing the poster ... Read More

A galamsey miner, Yaw Patakron, 31, had a close shave with death, when an angry mob demanded his blood, for stabbing Kofi Asare to death, over an argument. The Huni Valley Police intervened on time and whisked him to safety Tarkwa. The Police said Patakron after stabbing Asare, reported that he has been wounded by victim but he rather turned out to be otherwise. The Western Regional Police Public Relations Officer, Assistant Superintendent [ASP] Olivia Ewurabena Adiku, told The ... Read More

Flag bearer of the Convention People?s Party (CPP) Dr Abu Sakara Forster, says the Ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the Opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) are not worthy to be voted for. He said both parties have failed and mishandled the resources of the country and should be rejected, come Friday. Dr Sakara who was speaking at a press conference on Monday, said it was time to move the country forward by voting him and CPP into power. ?The NDC and NPP have both had the ... Read More

THE Minister of Defence, Lt. General (rtd) Joseph H. Smith, has repeated his call on military personnel taking part in security duties during Friday?s general elections to be professional, polite and humble in the discharge of their duties. He has urged them to help find solutions to problems that would arise at the centres where they might be assigned to assist the Police. Lt. General Smith gave the advice on Friday at a durbar at the Tema Naval Base during a tour of military facilities ... Read More

CABINET has approved a Science Technology and Innovation C(STI) Policy, to guide science and technology programmes being executed by government, the Minister for Environment, Science and Technology (MEST), Ms Sherry Ayittey announced yesterday. The projects include a Science and Technology Fund and a Ghana Space Science and Technology Centre to pursue the country?s capabilities in space, establishment of radio astronomy under the Africa SKA project. Ms Ayittey disclosed this in Accra when ... Read More

SHOCK greeted the Sefwi Amoaya community in the Western Region, when they went to the Juaboso Government Hospital mortuary for their corpse, only to be given a different one. The corpse of Paul K. Ofori, their family member, had been swapped with a different one, which resembled him. The family therefore reported the matter to the Juaboso Police, who initiated moves to resolve the mystery surrounding the swap. Giving the details of the case to The Spectator, the Police Public Relations ... Read More

The Electoral Commission (EC) will today conduct a Special Voting for security personnel and election officers ahead of Friday?s general elections. More than 41,000 security personnel from the Police, Fire, Prisons and Immigration Services, the Ghana Armed Forces, and other security agencies are expected to cast their vote, according to security sources. The exercise is expected to start at 7:00 am and end at 5:00 pm in all the designated voting centres across the country. The Acting ... Read More

About 250 election observers from the ECOWAS Commission will be deployed throughout the 10 regions of Ghana to monitor the Friday, December, 7, general elections. They include ECOWAS Ambassadors, Members of the ECOWAS Commission of the Wise, Elections Experts, Members of the National Electoral Commission of ECOWAS Member States and Civil Society Organisations. Addressing the Media after a closed-door meeting at the Kotoka International Airport yesterday, the leader of the monitoring team, ... Read More

THE Electoral Commission (EC) has reminded political parties their to end their campaigns at the close of work on Wednesday. This is to ensure the smooth conduct of the general elections. ?By the convention of the EC, campaigning for both the Presidential and Parliamentary elections must end, 48 hours to the election,? Christian Owusu Parry, the Public Relations Officer of EC told the Ghanaian Times in Accra yesterday. He said the convention had been used since 1992, and thus, urged ... Read More

THE December 7 national elections may only be a few days away, but that is not taking anything away from the soaring fever ahead of this year's prestigious Glo-CAF Awards which Ghana is hosting for an unprecedented fourth time since the inception of the Africa Footballer of the year Awards in 2005. The Awards will be staged on December 20. Five final nominees shortlisted by CAF for the ultimate award were unveiled to the Ghanaian public last Friday and only last Thursday, Globacom, the ... Read More

SENEGAL defender Souleymane Camara and Ghana winger Andre Ayew both scored for Olympique Marseille as they edged hosts Brest 2-1 in the French Ligue 1 on Sunday. It was a good response from a side who were trounced 4-1 at home on Wednesday by leaders Olympique Lyon. The victory was Marseille's first at Brest and the hosts' first loss at home this season. The Ayew brothers, Jordan and Andre, played the entire match for the visitors who dominated the game from the start, and deservedly ... Read More

Prayers alone will not save the country unless Ghanaians are committed to protecting the integrity of the electoral process, Reverend Anyani Boadum, Jesus Generation Ministries has said. He said ?prayers won?t save us if we don?t commit ourselves to protect the integrity of the electoral process,? Reverend Boadum stated these in an exclusive interview with ?The Ghanaian Times,? on measures to curb electoral violence as December 7, draws closer. In an apparent reference to the numerous ... Read More

Democracy is not exactly the best system of government in the world. But it is better than almost any other form of government that has been tried by man. That is why we must make it work for us in Ghana, for like an egg, if we allow it to fall from our hands, it will break and leave a total mess. In the absence of democracy, people can be arrested, jailed or exiled, and their properties seized, on the say-so of other citizens, who should be their co-equals. Ghana?s history is replete ... Read More