Monthly Archives: November 2020

Paus neemt ’Onze Vader’-gebed op de schop

Door MAARTEN VAN AALDEREN 23 nov. 2020 in BUITENLAND ROME – Het wereldberoemde christelijke gebed Onze Vader gaat vanaf aanstaande zondag 29 november bij de Italiaanse missen van tekst veranderen. Met Pasen volgend jaar wordt de nieuwe tekst bij alle Italiaanse parochies zelfs verplicht gesteld. Paus Franciscus vindt dat de vertaling die tot nu toe werd gebruikt onjuist is en geen recht doet ...

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Pope overhauls ‘Our Father’ prayer

ROME – The world famous Christian prayer Our Father will change its text at the Italian masses from next Sunday, November 29. At Easter next year, the new text will even be made compulsory in all Italian parishes. Pope Francis believes that the translation used so far is incorrect and does not do justice to the original intention as stated in the Biblical-Greek text ...

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The Rawlingses to fund agro-vocation factory and training centre in Oti

The ground has been broken at Jasikan in the Oti Region for the construction of an agro-vocational factory and a skills training centre to empower womenfolk for self-reliance. It is an initiative of the Oti Region Queenmothers’ Association with financial support from the Rawlingses. Mrs. Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings, a former First Lady in a speech read on her behalf ...

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Akufo-Addo showed excellent leadership in tackling effect of coronavirus on economy – BoG Boss

Governor of the Bank of Ghana (BoG) Dr Ernest Addison has said the government was very swift in its response to the effect of theCoronavirus pandemic on the local economy. He said also that president Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo provided excellent leadership by rising up to the challenge that the Pandemic had brought to the economy. Dr Addison explained that ...

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Were you voted for proverbs or development? – Bawumia quizzes A.B.A Fuseini

The Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has charged the people of Sagnarigu Constituency to rethink their voting pattern in the impending election, indicating that it could turn their fortunes around in terms of development. He noted that since 1992, the people in the Constituency have voted for the National Democratic Congress but have not seen any changes in development. He ...

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Chairman Wontumi handed $45 million juicy cocoa road contract

Ashanti Regional Chairman of the governing NPP, Bernard Antwi-Bosiako, popularly known as Chairman Wontumi, is allegedly involved in a US$45 million cocoa road project awarded to him by the Ghana Cocoa Board. Some screenshots of documents cited online by GhanaWeb indicate that an engineering company with one Bernard Antwi-Bosiako as director registered early 2018 under the name Hallmark Civil Engineering ...

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FDA boss files defamation suit against major media entities

The CEO of the Food and Drugs Authority, Mrs Delese Mimi Darko, has filed a defamation suit against three media houses at the High Court, seeking general damages of 2 million Ghana cedis from each of the institutions and their reporters. She is also demanding a retraction and apology from the media houses’ online platforms with the same prominence within ...

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Government to send ‘brilliant’ Adeiso SHS student to UK university on full scholarship

The Ghana Scholarship Secretariat has announced that it has granted Thomas Amoaning, a student of Adeiso Presby SHS who excelled in his WASSCE, full scholarship for studies in the United Kingdom. The award package, according to the Secretariat, entails full tuition, monthly stipends, return air tickets, accommodation, health insurance and any other benefits given to foreign scholarship beneficiaries. The Head ...

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Mahama’s claims on separatists attacks disappointing – Gov’t

Government has described as disappointing former President John Mahama’s claim that national security is behind the Volta separatists agenda. Speaking in an interview with Pan African TV, Mr Mahama said that information available to the NDC indicates that the attacks were not carried out by members of the Homeland Study Group Foundation. He said the attacks were done at the ...

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Japan Motors to assemble Nissan vehicles in Ghana from 2021

Japan Motors Trading Company Ltd. (JMTC) is to begin assembling Nissan vehicles in Ghana by the first half of 2021. This is a result of an assembling agreement between Nissan and Japan Motors, which was announced at a ceremony in Accra in line with Ghana’s automotive development agenda. According to the Managing Director of Nissan South Africa, Shinkichi Izumi, the ...

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