As I am being driven home from Kotoka International Airport, one thing strikes me ? the conversation in the car hardly touches on the coming, December 2012 election! Is it conceivable that Ghanaians who live abroad are more perturbed by fear that the election will be bitterly fought, than those at home? I meet a couple of friends for drinks. The place is well-packed and the laughter is ?normal? for a Ghanaian gathering. The TV is showing an international football match. Roasted ... Read More

DISCIPLINARY proceedings have been opened against three clubs, players, team officials and fans for their actions during and after match-day-3 in the Glo Premier League. The Disciplinary Committee will commence proceedings against Asante Kotoko, Wa All Stars and Real Tamale on Friday, November 2, at 14:00 GMT. Three players of Kotoko Soulama Abdoulaye, Kwabena Adusei and Ransford Osei, RTU's CEO Abu Nurudeen and Yunus Papa, a masseur of Wa All Stars, have all been charged for improper ... Read More

Kingsley E. Hope, Kumasi Money collected from an appeal for funds at a praise worship held at the Wesley Cathedral Methodist Church at Adum last Friday could not be found after the service. The total amount realized miraculously vanished in the church. The problem was deepened when a pastor decided to perform a ritual to find out who among the congregation took the money. A reliable source told the ?Times? that the unspecified amount was in a polythene bag and deposited under a high ... Read More

The Vice President, Paa Kwesi Amissah-Arthur, yesterday moved to the Flagstaff House in Accra to use as his office. The Vice President?s relocation from the State House where he has been operating since taking office in August, follows an approval by the National Security apparatus. The approval came after National Security addressed security inadequacies in and around the palace, in addition to fixing some structural defects on the building. Christened the Jubilee House by the former ... Read More

The Brong-Ahafo Regional Command of the Customs Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has impounded 79 smuggled vehicles in the region.    Mr Seth Tetteh, Collector at the Patrol Unit of the Command who announced this at Abesim last Thursday, said preliminary investigations indicated that the vehicles were smuggled into the country and most of them had been fraudulently registered.    Speaking at a Tax Seminar organised by the Division for importers, traders, manufacturers and ... Read More

The Institute of Accountancy Training at Asylum Down in Accra has held its 25th matriculation at which 146 students were admitted to pursue various courses, in the 2012/2013 academic year. Addressing the ceremony last Thursday, the Principal of the institute, Mr. Theophilus Hanson, said the institute ?is one of the human resource development arms of the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning, committed to providing financial and administrative management training and education for the ... Read More