October 2008 - Posts
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The presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Akufo-Addo, has been advised to take the prophecy on his assassination seriously. A Kumasi based Prophet, Rev. Boakye Ansah, has predicted that the flag-bearer would be assassinated six Read More...
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Contrary to perception that the Greater Accra Region had fallen to the opposition NDC, the NPP presidential candidate, Nana Akufo-Addo, enjoyed unprecedented support during his campaign tour of the Ododiodoo and Korley-Klotey constituencies. Commercial Read More...
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The presidential candidate of the NPP says the NDC demonstrated gross incompetence and inefficiency in managing the economy during its tenure. He explained that, after 19 years in government, the PNDC/NDC government left the country with a national reserve Read More...
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With less than two months to the crucial December general elections, the popularity of Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party, keeps soaring across the country, as the governing party continues to consolidate the electoral Read More...
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The Vice Presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party, Mahamudu Bawumia, has reiterated that a Nana Akufo-Addo led government will do everything within its power to ensure that education up to the secondary level is totally free, as a means of totally Read More...
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Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, the New Patriotic Party's (NPP) presidential running mate, has said it had come to the notice of the leadership of the party that some people had started going round the communities and peddling lies that the NPP was anti-alien. He Read More...
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Kennedy Ohene Agyepong, New Patriotic Party Member of Parliament for Assin North, has predicted a landslide victory for the governing party in this year's presidential and parliamentary elections, especially in the Central Region. The victory will be Read More...
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With barely 73 days to the December 7 general elections, all well-meaning Ghanaians have joined the national peace campaign to educate the electorate to approach the polls with decorum and circumspection for the nation to continue to consolidate her democratic Read More...
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The Greater Accra Regional Commander of Police, DCOP James Oppong Boanuh, has cautioned the leadership of the various political parties not to interfere in the work of the police with regards to perpetrators of political crimes in the run up to the December Read More...
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The people of Mafi Kumasi, in the Central Tongu District of the Volta Region have thrown their weight behind Nana Akufo-Addo and the NPP in this year’s elections .This they say is as a result of the solid socio economic foundation, massive infrastructural Read More...
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The ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) running mate for the December 7, 2008 elections, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, has ended his Ashanti Regional tour with a call on the electorate to ensure that the party is retained in power. He said for nearly eight years, Read More...
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The Electoral Commission (EC) on Thursday re-activated Election 2008 website to serve as information hub for stakeholders in the December polls. The site, www.ec.gov.gh, is classified under five major links - About EC; Electoral Systems; Political Parties; Read More...
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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 landslide victory Read More...
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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 the launch at the Read More...
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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 obstacles to a peaceful election Read More...
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The Vice Presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party, Mahamudu Bawumia, has reiterated that a Nana Akufo-Addo led government will do everything within its power to ensure that education up to the secondary level is totally free, as a means of totally Read More...
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Peter Mac Manu, NPP National Chairman, said when leaders of a national party such as the NDC make it a deliberate policy to spread lies about others without regard for facts, they do the country great harm. Ghanaians want a campaign that will address Read More...
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The national security authorities say the presence of "machomen" as polling agents will not be tolerated during the presidential and parliamentary elections on December 7. National security would also not countenance any deviant behaviour, with the aim Read More...
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Ghana’s Vice-President Alhaji Aliu Mahama has warned that any attempt by anybody to disturb the peace, stability and tranquility of the nation would find himself eliminated first adding that the security of Ghana is the prime importance of the government. Read More...
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Both the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the National Democratic Congress (NDC) parliamentary candidates for Atiwa constituency in the Eastern Region have pledged to ensure that their campaigns were devoid of violence. They have therefore cautioned their Read More...
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Vice President Aliu Mahama on Wednesday expressed the readiness of government to welcome any foreign observer, who wants to police the December 7, Presidential and Parliamentary elections. He said the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) believed in the Read More...
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Mahamudu Bawumia, the running mate of the flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party for the 2008 election, has emphasised that Ghana could not trust the opposition National Democratic Congress as being capable of handling the country's economy. He said with Read More...
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Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, NPP flagbearer is cruising to a 60 per cent win in the Presidential election on December 7, Mr Kwame Ampofo-Twumasi, Deputy Minister of Energy stated at the weekend. He said by the rapturous welcome exhibited by Ghanaians Read More...
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The New Patriotic Party (NPP) yesterday picked the number one slot on the ballot paper, sending followers of the party into wild jubilation. The Campaign Director of the party, Dr. Kofi Konadu Apraku told The Chronicle after the balloting that picking Read More...
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The ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) on Wednesday accused the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) of engaging in dishonest campaign in an attempt to discredit the economic gains of the government. Mr Peter Mac Manu, national chairman of Read More...
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Mr Stephen Asamoah-Boateng, the Minister of Information and National Orientation, has urged members and supporters of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to be conversant with the electoral laws in order to operate within them. Mr Asamoah-Boateng, the Member Read More...
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Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, the presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has called for urgent measures to insulate the country against the financial crisis that has hit the developed world. He said because the developed world would be Read More...
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Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, Presidential Candidate of the New Patriotic Party, yesterday stated that Ghana needs re-assurance of proactive leadership in these critical times of global financial crisis that has thrown the world most powerful economies Read More...
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Yesterday, the 2008 NPP Presidential Candidate, Nana Akufo-Addo once again led the way. He told Ghanaians to not see what is happening in the developed world as not our problem. He said from New York to London through Paris and Frankfurt, from Tokyo to Read More...
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Dr Kofi Konadu Apraku, National Campaign Director of the Nana Akufo-Addo for President has observed that the NPP’s campaign message based on tangible development and achievements over the last seven and-a-half years is what will propel the party to win Read More...
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Nana Akufo-Addo, Presidential Candidate of the New Patriotic Party, at the weekend took his peace and unity message to the Akuapem Ridge when he joined the chiefs and people of the area at a durbar held at Akropong to climax this year's Odwira festival. Read More...
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The Vice-Presidential Candidate of the New Patriotic Party, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has warned Ghanaians that voting for the National Democratic Congress would risk the collapse of the National Health Insurance Scheme under which over 11 millions Ghanaians Read More...
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The Press Secretary to President John Agyekum Kufuor, Andrew Awuni, has described as a "blatant, wicked lie” an allegation by the opposition National Democratic Congress that President Kufuor owes over $5billion to some Kuwait oil suppliers and that his Read More...
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Reliable information available to The Statesman says that there are more CPP parliamentary aspirants campaigning for themselves and the NPP flagbearer in the Western Region than for their flagbearer. Chief among them is no other person than Samia Nkrumah, Read More...
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Nana Adarkwah Yiadom II Paramount chief of Gyapa in the Wassa traditional area has warned Ghanaians against voting the NDC back to power. He said the human rights abuses that were experienced in the P\NDC era under Ex President Rawlings by innocent citizens Read More...
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The 2008 Presidential Candidate of the New Patriotic Party, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, MP, has addressed Accra’s diplomatic community at the NPP Clubhouse, at Ridge, Accra . The NPP flagbearer spoke on the subject of his vision for a peaceful election Read More...
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Hundreds of enthusiastic NPP supporters thronged the streets of Techiman to give a rousing welcome to Mrs. Akufo Addo and her team. The team visited the Techiman Hospital and donated items and cash totaling GH¢3,000to the patients on admission. The team Read More...
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The mining city of Tarkwa and its environs were Tuesday thrown into a state of rapture and wild jubilation when Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, Presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party, took his campaign to the Tarkwa-Nsuaem constituency of the Read More...
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The Vice Presidential Candidate of the New Patriotic Party, Mahamudu Bawumia, has stated that he is all ready for a debate with the vice presidential candidate(s) of his party's major opponents if that arrangement is made. He was answering to a question Read More...
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The campaign team of Rebecca Akufo-Addo, wife of the New Patriotic Party presidential hopeful, has described as unprecedented the massive crowd that turned out at Kintampo, a strong base of the opposition National Democratic Congress, during her second Read More...
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Janet Nyarkoah 23, a resident of Kakasunaka No 1, near Tema, last Wednesday narrowly escaped death after she was allegedly stabbed for singing a campaign song of New Patriotic Party. The victim, who had a wound at her left abdomen, said the timely intervention Read More...
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Dr Mumuni Bawumia, the running mate of the flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), on Wednesday said acts of violence does not play a role in winning an election and must be abhorred by all. He said "winning an election does not mean fighting, provocation, Read More...
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NPP-USA Connecticut chapter has donated 10,000 pieces of bumper stickers to the party in Accra as part of their contribution towards the preparation of the party for victory in December. They have promised to provide more as and when necessary. According Read More...
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With less than two months to the crucial December general elections, the popularity of Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party, keeps soaring across the country, as the governing party continues to consolidate the electoral Read More...
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Teachers in the Kumasi Metropolis on Monday expressed confidence that the teaching profession in Ghana would witness swift transformation under the government of Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and Mahamadu Bawumia, and have therefore indicated their support Read More...
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Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, flag bearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), is sure that his party will win the December polls because of its unprecedented track record of developing the nation, as well as the attainment of economic stability under the Read More...
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Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, Presidential Candidate of the New Patriotic Party, at the weekend observed that with the solid foundation laid by the NPP government under the able leadership of President Kufuor, the nation is now presented with bright prospects Read More...
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Before Alhaji Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, embarked on his Eastern Regional tour, many were those who had spread the news that the Zongo communities in the country were anti-New Patriotic Party (NPP). Contrary to that perception, when Dr Bawumia and his campaign Read More...
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Mr Joseph Boateng, a Ghanaian legal practitioner based in Copenhagen in Denmark said most Ghanaians abroad believed the December elections would be a one-touch victory for the New Patriotic Party (NPP) dismissing a power-sharing possibility. “Ghanaians Read More...
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In a bid to ensure public trust in his leadership, New Patriotic Party Presidential Candidate Nana Dankwa Akufo-Addo has pledged to implement policies and reforms designed to strengthen democracy and tackle corruption in Ghana. According to his political Read More...
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So far four major political parties namely, the People's National Convention, Convention People's Party, New Patriotic Party and the National Democratic Congress, have launched their manifestoes for the December 2008 general elections. Peter Mac Manu, Read More...
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The Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mr. Stephen Asamoah-Boateng, has appealed to the electorate to retain the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in power in appreciation for its achievements. "Transform your appreciation for the achievements Read More...
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The New Patriotic Party (NPP), would embark on a national industrial revolution, starting from Tema, if retained in power in Election 2008. Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, NPP flag bearer, said Tema, would be made the industrial base of the country, which Read More...
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The electorate in the Tema West and East constituencies of the Greater Accra Region yesterday came out massively to indicate their determination to support the incumbent New Patriotic Party to retain power in the December general elections. When Nana Read More...
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The British Government has provided one million dollars towards Election 2008 to ensure peaceful, free and fair Presidential and Parliamentary elections in December. Mr Nicholas Westcott, British High Commissioner to Ghana, announced this during a courtesy Read More...
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Mrs Samira Bawumia, wife of the running mate of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) has told The Chronicle that after the December elections, she was confident that the NPP, led by Nana Addo Dankwah Akufo-Addo would be declared winner. According to the Read More...
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Mr Alhassan Samari, Upper East Regional Minister, last weekend predicted a resounding victory in both the Presidential and Parliamentary elections for the NPP in Garu-Tempane Constituency during Election 2008. "Elections in the area which always favoured Read More...
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Thousands of Ghanaians across the political and religious divides yesterday took part in a solemn service at the Independence Square in Accra to thank God for his blessings and seek his intervention for a peaceful general election in December. The congregation, Read More...
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The opposition National Democratic Congress last Saturday launched its Manifesto which consciously or unconsciously only seeks to endorse most of the major policies and programmes already spelt out in the incumbent New Patriotic Party's Manifesto. The Read More...
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PRESISDENT JOHN Agyekum Kufuor has urged Muslim electorate to exercise their franchise without fear during this year’s general elections. “Nobody can threaten or harm you if yo | |