Features From Ghana http://www.graphicghana.com/business 2012-05-17T00:36:11+01:00 http://www.graphicghana.com www.graphicghana.com/_assets/images/logo.gif text/html 2012-05-16T12:05:41+01:00 http://www.graphicghana.com Vicky Wireko2012-05-16 http://www.graphicghana.com/features/page.php?news=21017 Vicky notes that today, high fence walls with barbed wires and heavy tall iron gates have committed us all into prison sentences. Even those living in compound houses have created their own thick barriers to exclude anyone looking over their shoulders. text/html 2012-05-15T12:05:41+01:00 http://www.graphicghana.com Kofi Akordor2012-05-15 http://www.graphicghana.com/features/page.php?news=20995 If the ICC is there to serve as a bulwark against high-handedness, excessive use of force and arbitrariness, then it must open its doors to receive all and discriminate against none. text/html 2012-05-15T12:05:41+01:00 http://www.graphicghana.com Nana Oye Lithur2012-05-15 http://www.graphicghana.com/features/page.php?news=20996 Though spouses may contribute in indirect ways towards the acquisition of matrimonial property, some spouses work along the lines of 'this is mine and this is yours.' Distribution of property after dissolution of a marriage sometimes turns out to be acrimonious. text/html 2012-05-14T12:05:41+01:00 http://www.graphicghana.com K.B. Asante2012-05-14 http://www.graphicghana.com/features/page.php?news=20934 In a country like Ghana, the freedom to publish and comment carries the added great responsibility to explain and educate. This is not because as a people we lack understanding or education. text/html 2012-05-14T12:05:41+01:00 http://www.graphicghana.com Seth J. Bokpe2012-05-14 http://www.graphicghana.com/features/page.php?news=20941 A phenomenon is emerging on the labour front where female workers in some companies risk being dismissed for becoming pregnant unless they serve a number of years. text/html 2012-05-14T12:05:41+01:00 http://www.graphicghana.com Graphic Ghana2012-05-14 http://www.graphicghana.com/features/page.php?news=20946 Many women, mothers, daughters, die all the time unnoticed in the quiet of their conflicted relationships. In the month of May when mothers are celebrated the world over, some unfortunately are killed by their “loved" ones. As we celebrate motherhood, it is significant that attention is drawn to uxoricides, the lethal victimisation of women by their husbands. text/html 2012-05-11T12:05:41+01:00 http://www.graphicghana.com Graphic Ghana2012-05-11 http://www.graphicghana.com/features/page.php?news=20883 More than half of the national population is non-literate. Of the remaining literate population, not many are enamoured with the printed word and of the few who read, probably a negligible number are disposed to analyze what they read or listen to. text/html 2012-05-09T12:05:41+01:00 http://www.graphicghana.com Graphic Ghana2012-05-09 http://www.graphicghana.com/features/page.php?news=20845 Mrs Okoh refused to accept dictates of economic pressures as any excuse for mothers to delegate their God-given roles to others. She used herself and some of her friends as examples to buttress her point. She told me that she was a teacher and also played the demanding roles of a housewife and a mother. text/html 2012-05-07T12:05:41+01:00 http://www.graphicghana.com K.B. Asante2012-05-07 http://www.graphicghana.com/features/page.php?news=20725 Promises of economic projects and institutions, loans, free schools and hospitals, cheaper food and transport and good housing will not by themselves create the better society all Ghanaians want. A better Ghana requires change in attitudes. text/html 2012-05-07T12:05:41+01:00 http://www.graphicghana.com Godwin S. Locher2012-05-07 http://www.graphicghana.com/features/page.php?news=20726 In any lighting design engineering, great deal of consideration ought to be given to a number of requirements for which if these requirements are met, road accidents and criminal activities in the streets will be substantially reduced text/html 2012-04-30T12:05:41+01:00 http://www.graphicghana.com Graphic Ghana2012-04-30 http://www.graphicghana.com/features/page.php?news=20576 "I have no doubt about the capability of our police and armed forces. I was often congratulated as an ambassador of Ghana for the excellent work done by our soldiers and police on international peace-keeping duties. I felt good as a Ghanaian." text/html 2012-04-30T12:05:41+01:00 http://www.graphicghana.com Kwaku Ofori-Duro2012-04-30 http://www.graphicghana.com/features/page.php?news=20577 Studies have shown that many surveys of business and industry that have been reported verify the wide use of shorthand. The surveys give indications that although computers, dictaphones and fax machines are all the rage, most bosses want secretaries who can use a shorthand notebook. text/html 2012-04-25T12:05:41+01:00 http://www.graphicghana.com Vicky Wireko2012-04-25 http://www.graphicghana.com/features/page.php?news=20414 Ghana has done a lot for some of us. If nothing at all, Ghana has given many of us good education for free and we are where we are now because Ghana cared. What have we done in return for Ghana and which we can stand in public and talk share with others? text/html 2012-04-13T12:05:41+01:00 http://www.graphicghana.com George Sydney Abugri2012-04-13 http://www.graphicghana.com/features/page.php?news=20173 Given the results of the 2008 election and keenness of this year's electoral contest, the likely result of Election 2012 is down to a pesewa coin toss, and in spite of the only certainty in life being uncertainty itself, one thing is dead certain, Jomo: One of the two leading parties will lose the election. text/html 2012-04-13T12:05:41+01:00 http://www.graphicghana.com Graphic Ghana2012-04-13 http://www.graphicghana.com/features/page.php?news=20176 The acquittal of Prophet Kofi Yirenkyi has drawn the ire of The Human Rights Advocacy Centre (HRAC), a research and advocacy organization that protects human rights in Ghana, and Child Rights International (CRI), an organization that protects the rights of children. These groups have both expressed surprise at the acquittal and discharge of Prophet Kofi Yirenkyi. They have even gone to the extent of calling on other civil society groups to join forces to appeal against the acquittal and to get Prophet Kofi Yirenkyi back into jail. text/html 2012-04-11T12:05:41+01:00 http://www.graphicghana.com Vicky Wireko2012-04-11 http://www.graphicghana.com/features/page.php?news=20115 Last Friday as we once again marked the vicarious death of Jesus Christ, many are those who went to Church in mourning clothes. For some people, the tradition is deeply rooted and nothing would change their mind. To them, whether Christ died today or 2000 years ago, His death will always be fresh and would always stay anew in their minds year after year. text/html 2012-04-10T12:05:41+01:00 http://www.graphicghana.com Graphic Ghana2012-04-10 http://www.graphicghana.com/features/page.php?news=20083 The realisation that there could be danger ahead was not lost on anyone and the clergy who stressed that Easter should not only be celebrated but also its message of peace, forgiveness and reconciliation should be observed in its entirety. text/html 2012-04-09T12:05:41+01:00 http://www.graphicghana.com Graphic Ghana2012-04-09 http://www.graphicghana.com/features/page.php?news=20060 A man opens the mouth and you know where he comes from. You may not understand the language but the refinement or uncouthness seeps through. When foul language is traded in the market place, society has lost its bearings and its leaders must sit up. text/html 2012-04-09T12:05:41+01:00 http://www.graphicghana.com Albert Sam2012-04-09 http://www.graphicghana.com/features/page.php?news=20062 "This surely is Senegal's moment of truth... It's victory for democracy and, indeed, a popular vote for total liberation of the Senegalese people from the vicious circle of poverty, oppression, unemployment and illiteracy to usher in an era leading to real economic growth." text/html 2012-04-03T12:05:41+01:00 http://www.graphicghana.com Kofi Akordor2012-04-03 http://www.graphicghana.com/features/page.php?news=19968 A rough democratic path, it has been generally argued, is better than a smooth dictatorship which provides no room for dissent and a multiplicity of ideas out of which consensus could be built.