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Press Review
| Last Updated 14/11/2009 09:22:00
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 | Vodafone deal, Gbagbo's visit, reward for Satellites on Ghana front pages | | Accra, Ghana (PANA) - The Ghana government's position on the controversial sale
of 70 per cent shares of state-owned Ghana Telecom to communication giant, Vodaf
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ne, the two-day visit of Ivorian president Laurent Gbagbo and reward for the vic
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orious FIFA U-20 team, the Black Satellites, occupied the front pages this past
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eek.
07/11/2009 full text... |
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| Rally against oil deregulation, kidnapping fill Nigerian media | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Thursday's rally against government's move to deregulate
the oil sector, the kidnapping of the father of the ruling party governorship c
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ndidate in South East Anambra State and imprisonment for PDP (ruling Peoples Dem
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cratic Party) stalwart in Lagos were the main stories this week in the Nigerian
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edia.
31/10/2009 full text... |
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| Libyan newspapers feature Kadhafi's son, Seif Ul-Islam | | Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Meetings of popular actors in Libya in response to the p
roposal of the Libyan leader Mouammar Kadhafi relating to the official post to b
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given to his son, Seif Ul-Islam
Mouammr Kadhafi, to enable him to continue the development plans in the country,
were the focal points of Libya's main papers this week.
17/10/2009 full text... |
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| Bribery scandal, rising cost of presidential mansion capture Ghana headlines | | Accra, Ghana (PANA) - A scandal involving the admission of a UK company that it
paid bribes to several government officials and civil servants in the 1990s and
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he huge amount of money being pumped into the controversial presidential mansion
complex began by President John Kufuor under a hail of opposition filled the new
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papers in Ghana this week.
03/10/2009 full text... |
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| Nkrumah's centenary celebration fills the media | | Accra, Ghana (PANA) â" The centenary celebrations of the birthday of Ghana's fi
rst president, Dr Kwame Nkrumah, scheduled for Monday dominated the media in Gha
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a during the week with journalists, politicians and commentators looking at the
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tory from various angles.
19/09/2009 full text... |
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| Arrest of drug couriers hits headlines again in Ghana | | Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Arrest of narcotic drug dealers was one of the major stori
es in Ghana for the second week running, as the Narcotics Control Board (NACOB)
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nd other security agencies step up their vigilance in the West African country a
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d the government pats them on the back for doing a good job.
12/09/2009 full text... |
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| Togolese leader's visit captures headlines | | Accra, Ghana (PANA) - The two-day visit of Togolese President Faure Gnassingbe t
o Ghana, during which he held talks with his host, John Evans Atta Mills and oth
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r top government officials, captured the headlines of Ghanaian newspapers during
the week.
29/08/2009 full text... |
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| Nigerian media highlight crackdown on banks, debtors | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The crackdown on the banking sector by the Central Bank
of Nigeria (CBN) and the hunt,
by the anti-graft Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), for the big d
ebtors responsible for the banks' plight,
dominated newspaper headlines in Nigerian this week.
22/08/2009 full text... |
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| Liberian media play up Clintonâ?s pending visit, armed robbery | | Monrovia , Liberia (PANA) â" Cautioning Liberians to adhere to contents of US S
ecretary of State, Hilary Clintonâ?s anticipated message to Liberia during her v
isit to the country next week, and the rising wave of armed robbery in Monrovia
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nd its environs were key issues prominently featured by editorials in local dail
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es this week.
08/08/2009 full text... |
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| Ghana Appeal Court ruling on convicted drug barons captures headlines | | Accra, Ghana (PANA) - The Appeal Court ruling on Friday quashing the jailing of
two suspected drug barons captured the headlines of newspapers in Ghana, althoug
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the statement of the Attorney-General and Minster of Justice Betty Mould-Iddris
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that the state would appeal against the verdict was too late for them.
25/07/2009 full text... |
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| Nigerian media highlight sack threat on Yar'Adua | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - In a very busy week, filled with stories on politics, ec
onomy and security, the Nigerian media focused attention on the impeachment thre
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t by the Nigerian House of Representatives on President Umaru Yar'Adua and the g
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vernment bailout options for 'dying' Nigerian companies.
18/07/2009 full text... |
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| Obama’s Ghana visit fills the media | | Accra, Ghana (PANA) - The two-day historic visit to Ghana of US President Barack
Obama filled the pages of newspapers
during the week, with the papers competing to outdo one another about informatio
n and photographs of the US president, his family
and the Ghanaian first family.
11/07/2009 full text... |
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