The Daily IIJ

TWENTY FOUR survivors of last week Monday’s carnage on the Volta Lake at Wusuta in the Kpando District of the Volta region have narrated to DAILY GUIDE the circumstances which led to the fatal accident.

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National Electoral Independent Commission (CENI) held yesterday in Lomé, a meeting with political party leaders. The aim was to disclose the electoral proceedings that are to be followed, for the presidential election set on February 28, 2010.

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DEPUTY DIRECTOR at the Institute of Local Government Studies, Dr. Mahama Callistus says in order to perform its constitutional mandates effectively various reform initiatives such as budgeting procedures should be linked to the overall decentralization policy. He added that funding arrangements for Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDA) ought to be improved to match new [...]

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IN THE wake of clearing the capital city of unauthorized wooden and metal structures, the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) has conspicuously began pulling down embarrassing arrangements without prior notification to the affected persons.

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A declaration from the just ended Second African Parliamentarians’ Summit on Climate Change held in Nairobi, Kenya has called on rich nations to set aside 1.5 percent of their GDP to support climate change mitigation and adaptation in Africa. The continent also demanded that industrialized countries reduce their green house gas (GHG) emissions by at [...]

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Inspite of the global financial crisis, Ghana’s economy is expanding at a moderate pace, says IMF Staff Mission to the West African state. Areas of particular strength cushioning the Ghanaian economy according to the IMF include Cocoa, the country’s number one export product and gold exports.

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President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf  says the lack of manpower development for media practitioners in developing countries has affected the media’s ability to effectively perform its watchdog role.

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CHIEF OF Air Staff, Air Vice Marshal Michael Samson-Oje has lamented the premature loss of trained airmen and women in the Ghana Air Force to the economy’s private sector and other multi-national entities.

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 One of this country’s socially paradoxical interest groups is the PUL; the umbrella organization of journalists in our country. It is a toothless bulldog and the debate will become interestingly relevant in our encountering experiences and complexities. It is everyone’s guess that the Press Union of Liberia has been largely a talking shop-based organization, which [...]

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THE MINISTER of Foreign Affairs, Alhaji Mohammad Mumuni, has stated that he suspects foul play over the 12-hour inferno that devoured his ministry’s building Wednesday night, as the police have arrested three persons on suspicion of having a hand in the incident.

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