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The National Chief Imam, Sheikh Osmanu Nuhu Sharubutu, has observed that the joint celebrations of the Eid-Fitr and the centenary of Ghana’s first President, Dr Kwame Nkrumah, has a religious significance.
A three-piece outfit comprising the smock of northern Ghana, an accompanying trousers and a matching cap is selling at US$150 dollars on the popular Internet auction site “e-bay”.
Vice-President John Dramani Mahama has stated that the government’s decision to celebrate the life of Ghana’s first President, Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah, is a demonstration to the current generation that the country is worth dying for. He noted that Dr Nkrumah might not have been alone in the struggle to attain independence for Ghana, “but in every struggle it is the ideals of an individual that bring the strands of the struggle to the intended climax”.
Akosombo, Kwabenya, Motorway, Tema Township, Tema Harbour, and other enduring high-profile legacies of Nkrumah constituted only the nucleus of a wider range of development initiative
The declaration of September 21 as statutory public holiday in honour of Ghana’s first President, Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah, has renewed an age-old debate regarding the appropriateness of celebrating Nkrumah as the sole founder of the nation.
Eastern Regional Minister, Samuel Ofosu Ampofo, is proposing the study of the ideas and vision of Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana’s first President, in schools, from the basic to the tertiary level.
Dr Paa Kwesi Nduom, Election 2008 Presidential Candidate of the Convention People’s Party, contends that it is not enough to celebrate the achievements of Ghana’s First President Dr Kwame Nkrumah.
The National Democratic Congress (NDC)is asking the security agencies to ensure that persons in the Chereponi constituency who possessed illegal firearms were disarmed before the conduct of the by-election on September 29, 2009.
An oil trading firm has agreed to pay more than $45million (£27million) compensation to people in Cote d’Ivoire who say they are made ill by dumped waste in 2006.
Dr Kwame Nkrumah was not just the first President of Ghana but a very extraordinary man whose life and works contributed significantly to changing the world.
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