News From Ghana http://www.graphic.com.gh/business 2012-05-17T00:49:28+01:00 http://www.graphic.com.gh http://www.graphic.com.gh/_assets/images/logo.gif text/html 2012-05-16T12:05:41+01:00 http://www.graphic.com.gh Musah Yahaya Jafaru2012-05-16 http://www.graphic.com.gh/news/page.php?news=20998 The factory will buy shea nuts from pickers in the three Northern regions, Brong Ahafo, Volta and Ashanti Regions and produce quality butter with a low free fatty acid, water and impurities content, but high in kernel fat. text/html 2012-05-16T12:05:41+01:00 http://www.graphic.com.gh Dominic Moses Awiah2012-05-16 http://www.graphic.com.gh/news/page.php?news=20999 Former President Jerry John Rawlings has accused the government of abandoning the tenets of the 31st December Women's Movement. text/html 2012-05-16T12:05:41+01:00 http://www.graphic.com.gh Emmanuel Adu-Gyamerah2012-05-16 http://www.graphic.com.gh/news/page.php?news=21000 Parliament reconvened for business Tuesday, only for the members to be met with overpowering stench in their washrooms. text/html 2012-05-16T12:05:41+01:00 http://www.graphic.com.gh Alice Aryeetey2012-05-16 http://www.graphic.com.gh/news/page.php?news=21002 The Reconstructive Plastic Surgery and Burns Centre of the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital is collaborating with the Ministry of Health and the Tamale Teaching Hospital (TTH) to begin an initiative that would train medical students and health personnel to provide surgical services for patients at the TTH. text/html 2012-05-16T12:05:41+01:00 http://www.graphic.com.gh Seth J.Bokpe2012-05-16 http://www.graphic.com.gh/news/page.php?news=21003 A Communications engineer at the Ghana Grid Company, Mr George Sasraku-Nipah, has revealed that the company continued to provide maintenance services on the 10 fibre optic cores ceded to Vodafone during the sale of government's 70 per cent shares in Ghana Telecom in 2008. text/html 2012-05-16T12:05:41+01:00 http://www.graphic.com.gh 2012-05-16 http://www.graphic.com.gh/news/page.php?news=21005 Ghana's ranking was based on four main indicators, Safety and Rule of Law; Participation and Human Rights; Sustainable Economic Opportunity and Human Development. text/html 2012-05-16T12:05:41+01:00 http://www.graphic.com.gh Mary Mensah2012-05-16 http://www.graphic.com.gh/news/page.php?news=21006 An amount of $I45 million has been sourced by the government from the World Bank and the United States Agency for International Development for the implementation of the Ghana Commercial Agricultural Project (GCAP) to address food security in the country. text/html 2012-05-16T12:05:41+01:00 http://www.graphic.com.gh 2012-05-16 http://www.graphic.com.gh/news/page.php?news=21008 Mr Cletus Apul Avoka, the Majority Leader, has denied stories in sections of the media that the Right to Information Bill currently before Parliament was not of the priority to the House. text/html 2012-05-16T12:05:41+01:00 http://www.graphic.com.gh Kwame Asare Boadu2012-05-16 http://www.graphic.com.gh/news/page.php?news=21011 The Rector of the Law Institute, Ms. Hilary Gbedemah, is calling for more pragmatic approaches to reversing women's under-representation in public life. text/html 2012-05-16T12:05:41+01:00 http://www.graphic.com.gh Emmanuel Bonney2012-05-16 http://www.graphic.com.gh/news/page.php?news=21012 In the past decade, USAID said, ""Ghana had made great progress in improving access to education”. text/html 2012-05-16T12:05:41+01:00 http://www.graphic.com.gh Nana Konadu Agyeman2012-05-16 http://www.graphic.com.gh/news/page.php?news=21013 Lack of knowledge about the purpose of the Heads of State Awards Scheme, among private and public enterprises has caused such entities to close their doors to thousands of young students ready to render voluntary services to such enterprises. text/html 2012-05-16T12:05:41+01:00 http://www.graphic.com.gh Chris Nunoo2012-05-16 http://www.graphic.com.gh/news/page.php?news=21014 The Upper West Regional branch of the June Four Movement has waded into the NDC emblem saga and said Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings must see the logo, which she claims to be her intellectual property, as her contribution to the party. text/html 2012-05-16T12:05:41+01:00 http://www.graphic.com.gh 2012-05-16 http://www.graphic.com.gh/news/page.php?news=21015 The chairman of the Bolgatanga Central Constituency of the People's National Convention, Mr Lawrence Anamolga, has joined the Progressive People's Party (PPP). text/html 2012-05-16T12:05:41+01:00 http://www.graphic.com.gh A. Kofoya-Tetteh2012-05-16 http://www.graphic.com.gh/news/page.php?news=21016 Commercial activities in the central business district of the Eastern Regional capital, Koforidua, came to a standstill Monday as hundreds of people lined up the main Asafo Adjei Street to welcome Nana Akufo-Addo, the New Patriotic Party presidential candidate, to the municipality. text/html 2012-05-16T12:05:41+01:00 http://www.graphic.com.gh Vicky Wireko2012-05-16 http://www.graphic.com.gh/news/page.php?news=21018 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 2012-05-16T12:05:41+01:00 http://www.graphic.com.gh Musah Yahaya Jafaru2012-05-16 http://www.graphic.com.gh/news/page.php?news=21019 EDITORIAL: Industrially, shea butter is a key ingredient in most cosmetics, moisturising creams, hair conditioners for dry and brittle hair and emulsions. It is also occasionally used in the preparation of chocolate. text/html 2012-05-16T12:05:41+01:00 http://www.graphic.com.gh 2012-05-16 http://www.graphic.com.gh/news/page.php?news=21021 A teenager who survived Anders Breivik's attack on Utoeya island has told his trial in Oslo that she only lived because she hid under another victim's body. text/html 2012-05-16T12:05:41+01:00 http://www.graphic.com.gh 2012-05-16 http://www.graphic.com.gh/news/page.php?news=21022 Petrol was used to start a fire in a house in Derby in which six children died, police said. text/html 2012-05-16T12:05:41+01:00 http://www.graphic.com.gh 2012-05-16 http://www.graphic.com.gh/news/page.php?news=21023 text/html 2012-05-16T12:05:41+01:00 http://www.graphic.com.gh 2012-05-16 http://www.graphic.com.gh/news/page.php?news=21024 Delivering his statement from a witness box Wednesday, Taylor said,'Witnesses were paid, coerced and in many cases threatened with prosecution if they did not give statements,' he said.