Ghanaian Times current news items http://spectator.newtimes.com.gh http://localhost/times/images/pages/Contacts.jpeg http://localhot/times/images/pages/Contacts.jpeg Current news repository for Ghanaian Times Website THE Chief Executive Officer of UT Bank Ghana Limited, Captain Kofi Amoabeng, (Rtd),has welcomed President John Evans Atta Mills, call on banks to reduce their interest rate to enable more Ghanaians to access loans from the banks. He said reduction in the interest rate by the banks would, among other things, reduce defaulters and eliminate situations where persons abscond with bank loans afte,......<a>more</a> http://spectator.newtimes.com.gh/story/331 2010-07-31 LG Electronics, a global leader in home appliances, has introduced a ten-year warranty on the Direct Drive Motor Washing Machines recently introduced on the Ghanaian market. This is in line with its commitment to serve its consumers better and enhance their livelihood in profound ways. The washing machines are driven by a direct drive motor, the latest technology in washing machine produ,......<a>more</a> http://spectator.newtimes.com.gh/story/332 2010-07-31 The Nigerian Movie Industry was recently awash with stories that actress Mercy Johnson may likely face ban from the Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN), following her controversy with Patience Ozokwor, popularly called ‘Muma Gee,’ and hosts of her other colleagues, over her near-nude on-set dressings. There are also widespread allegations that Mercy often exploited her rapport with some top produce,......<a>more</a> http://spectator.newtimes.com.gh/story/334 2010-07-31 THE Hyundai Motor Company is getting close to be coming a global automotive company after receiving the 2009,’ car of the year award’ America Hyundais Genesis brand received the award. Hyundais Tau engine was also voted as one of the world’s 10 Best Engines by Ward’s Auto World for two years in a row. These accomplishments have been made possible despite the difficult economic environment at,......<a>more</a> http://spectator.newtimes.com.gh/story/333 2010-07-29 Ghana is considering the enactment of a tourism law that will ensure that the tourism sector keeps abreast of the best practices in the industry. The law will create a platform for the sector to access the needed funds for accelerated development of the country’s tourism potentials, Mrs. Zita Okaikoi, the Tourism Minister said at an international tourism investment forum which opened in Accra y,......<a>more</a> http://spectator.newtimes.com.gh/story/323 2010-07-24 THE Brong-Ahafo Regional Director of the Department of Education has made a very important observation about corporal punishment in schools. According to Mr. Hammond Oppong Kwarteng, corporal punishment meted out to children in schools continues to be a major obstacle that affects academic performance. In his words: “Corporal punishment has a detrimental effect on the learning of children ,......<a>more</a> http://spectator.newtimes.com.gh/story/324 2010-07-24 While South Africa was warming up to play host to the world for FIFA’s 2010 soccer tournament, a group of environmentally conscious folks were constructing the Plastiki, a boat made from plastic waste bottles that can sail across the oceans. It was an extraordinary exercise in protest against plastic pollution. The Plastiki expedition left San Francisco in California on 20th March this year a,......<a>more</a> http://spectator.newtimes.com.gh/story/325 2010-07-24 ALTHOUGH the Black Stars failed to make it to the semi-final berth, they have proved to Africa and the world that when it comes to football, Africans do not necessarily form the dregs of what is admirable and of good report in the global soccer showmanship. Before the tournament began in South Africa, the Stars were derided as the African team that had no hope of going beyond the first round. T,......<a>more</a> http://spectator.newtimes.com.gh/story/326 2010-07-24 An Accra magistrate court presided over by Mr. Ali Baba Abature has fined a cobbler, Samuel Opoku an amount of GH¢650.00 or in default eighteen months imprisonment with hard labour for conspiracy and fraud by false pretences. The accused, Samuel Opoku and one Naana currently at large, all at Kasoa, on June 28, this year, at about 4.30pm stopped a taxi driver named Kwaku Boateng with registratio,......<a>more</a> http://spectator.newtimes.com.gh/story/321 2010-07-15 BEING A CELEBRITY attracts a number of offers; at times including a wife to marry even when the celebrity is already married. German-born Ghanaian mid-fielder Kevin-Prince Boateng is in a quandary as he has been offered a new wife - a very sexy lady whose beauty can make a gay sack his boyfriend. Reports gathered indicate that Kevin, while in South Africa for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, won the,......<a>more</a> http://spectator.newtimes.com.gh/story/317 2010-07-10 OPRAH Winfrey has been named the world’s most powerful celebrity. The TV star — who fronts The Oprah Winfrey Show and is the president of media company Harpo Productions — has topped the annual Most Powerful Celebrity poll conducted by Forbes magazine, knocking Angelina Jolie off the top spot with earnings of $315 million last year. The 56-year-old star was previously named top of the covete,......<a>more</a> http://spectator.newtimes.com.gh/story/318 2010-07-10 Sixty-four identified cattle owners in the 11 Sub-Metros of the AMA, are to appear in court for non-compliance of notices served them to relocate their animals in the Metropolis. The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) Public Health Department, which issued the summons, said the cattle owners would appear at the Adjabeng Court ‘2’ in Accra on Wednesday, July 21, 2010. Dr Simpson A,......<a>more</a> http://spectator.newtimes.com.gh/story/319 2010-07-10 THEY say Africa was not capable of hosting the world to football’s biggest festival. They say the black continent was not ready. But South Africa has proven beyond every reasonable doubt that the Black man, indeed, is capable of managing his own affairs. From the couleur-de-rose opening ceremony on June 11 that brought together scores of world leaders to the superbly terrific final showpiec,......<a>more</a> http://spectator.newtimes.com.gh/story/320 2010-07-10 Ten lucky customers of Western Union will each receive one Plasma flat screen television set after emerging winners in the second draw of the Western Union World Cup loyalty draw. The 10, Alex Frimpong, Agnes Ofosuwaa, Jacob Gorman, Margaret Wristberg, Enyonam Esi Agbeviade, Forgive Kadiga, Bernard Kantataba, George Broni, Doris Mintah and Claudia Donglabeng were picked in the second of three,......<a>more</a> http://spectator.newtimes.com.gh/story/322 2010-07-09 A final-year nursing student on Tuesday broke down in tears before an Accra District Magistrate Court where she has been hauled by her father for allegedly stealing thousands of dollars given to her for safe-keeping. Miss Olivia Deba, is accused of stealing 5,050 dollars and 300 Ghana Cedis her father, Mr. Emmanuel Deba, gave her to keep until he returned from Pokuase. The monies were meant to,......<a>more</a> http://spectator.newtimes.com.gh/story/327 2010-07-07 A 55-year-old ex-soldier, Francis Dankor Hayford alias “Papa Soldier” has been arraigned before the Takoradi Circuit Court ‘A’ for allegedly defiling a junior high school pupil at Assokor Essaman near Shama in the Western Region. Hayford pleaded not guilty to the charge of defilement. Prosecuting, police chief inspector Alice Parker Wilson told the court that in the morning of February 8, th,......<a>more</a> http://spectator.newtimes.com.gh/story/328 2010-07-07 Ace-broadcaster, Kwame Sefa Kayi’s, loud intermittent shouting of ex-cer-rent, instead of excellent, at the National Theatre in Accra, last week, had nothing to do with his hosting of his popular socio-political morning show Kookrokoo on Peace FM from Mondays to Fridays. Rather, that was how renowned playwright Uncle Ebo Whyte, of the Roverman Productions fame, transfixed the filled-to-capacity,......<a>more</a> http://spectator.newtimes.com.gh/story/335 2010-07-06 SCORES of brilliant girls have been deprived of their education due to pregnancy, but 17-year-old JHS student, Miss Evelyn Teye, would have none of that. Braving the odds, the ambitious teenager wrote all her subjects at the last Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) at Akosombo, while taking time off to suckle her six-day-old baby. Miss Evelyn Teye, a student of Kokonor Local Auth,......<a>more</a> http://spectator.newtimes.com.gh/story/329 2010-06-26 A United Kingdom-based Nigerian who claimed to be an investor and allegedly attempted to use the office of the Vice President to facilitate his fraudulent activities commonly called ‘419’, is in the grips of the police. Dr Wilson Ojomu who managed to pay a courtesy call on the Vice President, Mr. John Mahama and said he was an investor interested in Ghana, allegedly told the Vice’s office that ,......<a>more</a> http://spectator.newtimes.com.gh/story/330 2010-06-26 A collection of 15 documentary films directed by film-makers from the continent and the diaspora, made it to this year’s 5th Real Life Documentary Festival which ended last Thursday. The films engaged the history and culture of people of African heritage globally, and shed light on the changes and dynamics that guided their daily lives. With heroism as a central theme, the producers used dif,......<a>more</a> http://spectator.newtimes.com.gh/story/311 2010-05-22 words http://spectator.newtimes.com.gh?search=1 Search Ghanaian Times News