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Leaders of the Zongo Community in Hohoe claim they have exhausted all efforts in finding the missing regalia of the Paramount Chief of the Gbi Traditional Council. The Paramount Chief of Gbi land, Tobega Gabuga VI issued a reminder to the Zongo community to return his missing regalia.   The regalia was reported missing after the palace of the Chief was ransacked during clashes between the Zongo residents and the Hohoe indigenes some two months ago.   According to citifmoline.com, the liaison officer of the two factions, Alhaji Alhassan Batuta said the Zongo leaders have not given up the search for the regalia.   He said “it is not as though it is placed somewhere for us to go and bring it. We don’t know who has taken it and where it has been kept and so we have used every means possible to locate it but to no avail, we are still working on it though.” Meanwhile spokesperson for Hohoe Municipal Security Council, Charles Annan said the Police h...

Government is expected to spend over GHC130 million on 176,000 metric tons of subsidized fertilizers, according to the Director of Crop Services at the Ministry of Agriculture. Mr Emmanuel Asante-Krobea who disclosed this on Awake , Tuesday morning said in 2011, GHC78 million was spent on the same amount of subsidized fertilizers. He said, the increase in expenditure was due to the increase in market prices and cost associated with fertilizer distributions. He said, “The same quantity of fertilizer is costing government about 50 per cent more which is a real task on government. We started from a yeoman’s level to this level. And it’s government’s intention to continue.” Subsidizing of fertilizers began in 2008 with the distribution of 20,000 metric tons of subsidized fertilizers at GHC20, 654 million. Government contributes GHC37 for every bag of compound fertilizer which is sold at GHC39. Recently, it was reported that some distributors in the Upper East Region were sm...

Public Relations Officer of the National Identification Authority, Mrs Bertha Dzeble is entreating all Ghanaians to walk up to the office of the NIA to pick up their “Ghana cards” due to the temporal hold on the mass distribution of the cards. “Mass distribution is on a standstill. But you can walk to our office. If we have already distributed cards in your area, you can always walk in," she indicated. "People do so everyday to pick their cards so we encourage people who haven’t picked their cards in areas where we have distributed the cards to come to our office. We have cards ready for Kpeshie and Ga West as well. So we can give them their cards,” she concluded Mass distribution of the national identification cards began on July 4, 2012 but has currently been on hold due to some financial constraints being faced by the NIA. Speaking on  Awake , Tuesday morning, Mrs Dzeble expressed regret over how budgetary allocation to the NIA had been put on the consolidated ...

Son of Ghana’s first President, Sekou Nkrumah has been described as an attention seeker who would take every given opportunity to make himself popular. Sekou is known for criticizing every politician or government whose ideologies are  in conflict with his. He also came out to challenge claims by Dr Onsy Nathan Nkrumah that he is a son of the late President. Two guests on  e.tv Ghana ’s flagship programme,  Awake , have on different occasions described the utterences by the political activist and former acting coordinator of the National Youth Council as unnecessary. Dr Onsy Nkrumah who made a guest appearance on Thursday, August 9, 2012 told host  Rashida Nasamu  that “Sekou seeks attention at every given opportunity and by him seeking to be controversial, he is always in the news; it’s a counter product when it comes to credibility. He can make sound bites; he can give you headlines if you are selling a newspaper and you want some controversial sourc...

Dr Ernestina Naadu Mills’ tribute to her late husband and President, Prof John Evans Atta Mills, is probably one of the shortest tribute to have ever been written in the world by a wife to her husband. The former First Lady did not mince words to describe her husband. In just twenty words, the Dr Ernestina Naadu Mills’ tribute read: “Fiifi, you were a blessing to me, Ghana, Africa and the world. Thank you. Rest peacefully in the LORD. Ernestina.” Since the death of her husband, Dr Ernestina Naadu Mills has maintained her composure. As a sign of last respect to her husband, she went to the Banquet Hall of the State House in the early hours of today (Friday, August 10) to view for the last time the mortal remain of her husband which had been laid in state since Wednesday. The state funeral of the late President Mills, which has seen an unprecedented outpouring of public sympathy, was culminated in a burial ceremony steeped in distinctive mil...

His Excellency the President of the Republic of Ghana, John Dramani Mahama has expressed the hope that the passing on to glory of the late President, John Evans Atta Mills would be a catalyst for the country to consolidate the peace that his death has brought to the country. In a very brief but touching tribute, HE John Mahama said, “I am in doubt that the unifier and man of peace that our late President was, his passing on to glory will be a catalyst for our country to consolidate the peace and forge ahead in unity. His legacy will live long into eternity.” Before the reading of the tribute, President Mahama in a very symbolic manner filed past the mortal remain of the late president for the last time and lit the perpetual flame. In his tribute, President Mahama described the late president as “a good man, in fact, a very good man.” He prayed that the Lord would find the soul of the late president a peaceful and blissful resting place. President Mahama also expressed gra...

Tributes are pouring in from the length and breadth of Ghana as the country begins the first day of funeral rites of former President John Evans Atta Mills. The tributes which are being sent mainly via social media platforms still express shock on the solemn event which is currently taking place at the State House in Accra. In the early hours of Wednesday morning, major roads in the capital were blocked to allow the free flow of traffic of the remains of the president to his private home at Spintex, then to the Castle and finally to the State House where it is currently being laid in state for the public to pay their last respect to the ex-president. Since the passing away of President John Evans Atta Mills on Tuesday, July 24, 2012, Ghanaians have not stopped paying tribute to the late president. The untimely death of the late president has to some extent unified the country and has calmed the heat which was building up prior to the elections which is almost four mont...