Political,Sports,Entertainment News From Ghana http://www.graphicghana.com/news 2010-03-09T21:34:47+01:00 http://www.graphicghana.com www.graphicghana.com/_assets/images/logo.gif text/html 2010-03-09T14:05:41+01:00 http://www.graphicghana.com Albert K. Salia2010-03-09 http://www.graphicghana.com/news/page.php?news=6700 The Head Pastor of Jesus Blood Prophetic Ministry at Oblogo, Prophet Nana Kofi Yirenkyi, is in custody for allegedly defiling his 10-year-old daughter. text/html 2010-03-09T14:05:41+01:00 http://www.graphicghana.com Zakaria Alhassan2010-03-09 http://www.graphicghana.com/news/page.php?news=6701 This year’s Damba festival in Tamale has been described as one of the most peaceful and best organised traditional events to be witnessed in the metropolis in recent years. text/html 2010-03-09T14:05:41+01:00 http://www.graphicghana.com Samuel Duodu2010-03-09 http://www.graphicghana.com/news/page.php?news=6702 Five hundred residents of Tuobodom in the Brong Ahafo Region have been displaced as a result of the clashes that claimed three lives in the town. text/html 2010-03-09T14:05:41+01:00 http://www.graphicghana.com Seth J. Bokpe2010-03-09 http://www.graphicghana.com/news/page.php?news=6703 The National Media Commission (NMC) has observed that the lack of a clear-cut policy backed by a structured legal and regulatory framework is hampering the development and regulation of the advertising and media industries in Ghana. text/html 2010-03-09T14:05:41+01:00 http://www.graphicghana.com Albert K. Salia2010-03-09 http://www.graphicghana.com/news/page.php?news=6704 A policeman and an ex-policeman have been arrested for allegedly extorting money from a young man on a frame-up charge of smoking Indian hemp. Incidentally, the ex-policeman, Godwin Prince Yorke, had, on July 31, 2008, been dismissed from the Ghana Police Service for extortion. text/html 2010-03-09T14:05:41+01:00 http://www.graphicghana.com Timothy Gobah2010-03-09 http://www.graphicghana.com/news/page.php?news=6705 Ghana and Japan yesterday opened a new chapter in their relations with fraternal pledges at a luncheon hosted by President John Evans Atta Mills for the visiting Crown Prince of Japan, Prince Naruhito. text/html 2010-03-09T14:05:41+01:00 http://www.graphicghana.com BBC2010-03-09 http://www.graphicghana.com/news/page.php?news=6706 Some 500 people, including many women and children, are now reported to have died in a weekend religious clash near Nigeria's city of Jos. text/html 2010-03-09T14:05:41+01:00 http://www.graphicghana.com BBC2010-03-09 http://www.graphicghana.com/news/page.php?news=6707 Egypt's highest court has ordered the retrial of a tycoon and an ex-policeman who were sentenced to death for killing a popular Lebanese singer. text/html 2010-03-09T14:05:41+01:00 http://www.graphicghana.com BBC2010-03-09 http://www.graphicghana.com/news/page.php?news=6708 After 30 years in power, Zimbabwe's veteran leader Robert Mugabe said this week he was ready to stand for another term as President. It has been a grey, drizzly week here. text/html 2010-03-09T14:05:41+01:00 http://www.graphicghana.com : A. Kofoya-Tetteh,2010-03-09 http://www.graphicghana.com/news/page.php?news=6709 The member of Parliament for Abuakwa South, Mr Atta Akyea, has made a passionate appeal to President John Evans Atta Mills to order the military to clamp down on illegal gold mining, popularly referred to as “galamsey”, throughout the country. text/html 2010-03-09T14:05:41+01:00 http://www.graphicghana.com Kobby Asmah2010-03-09 http://www.graphicghana.com/news/page.php?news=6710 Four Ghanaian members of the ECOWAS Observer Mission, which recently monitored the Togolese presidential elections, have urged Togolese nationals to be proud of themselves and their country as they nurture the multi-party democratic culture and practices. text/html 2010-03-08T14:05:41+01:00 http://www.graphicghana.com Samuel Duodu (Sunyani) & Kwame Asare Boadu2010-03-08 http://www.graphicghana.com/news/page.php?news=6674 A Protracted chieftaincy dispute at Tuobodom in the Brong Ahafo Region turned rather bloody last Friday night when three persons were shot dead, with four others, including a policeman, critically wounded in a shoot-out. text/html 2010-03-08T14:05:41+01:00 http://www.graphicghana.com Chris Nunoo2010-03-08 http://www.graphicghana.com/news/page.php?news=6675 Two students of the Wa Campus of the University for Development Studies (UDS), have drowned in a swimming pool at the Mole Motel at the Mole National Park in the Northern Region. text/html 2010-03-08T14:05:41+01:00 http://www.graphicghana.com Moses Dotsey Aklorbortu2010-03-08 http://www.graphicghana.com/news/page.php?news=6676 The Ghana Navy is to receive more defender-class-patrol boats from the United States under the African Partnership Station (APS) wing of United States Africa Command (Africom). text/html 2010-03-08T14:05:41+01:00 http://www.graphicghana.com Musah Yahaya Jafaru2010-03-08 http://www.graphicghana.com/news/page.php?news=6677 Commenting on President Mills’s address to a parade of schoolchildren to mark the 53rd Independence anniversary in which the President had assured the nation that the government would provide the necessary condition to improve teaching and learning, former President Kufuor said investing in children would “guarantee a responsible and brighter future for the country”. text/html 2010-03-08T14:05:41+01:00 http://www.graphicghana.com Musah Yahaya Jafaru2010-03-08 http://www.graphicghana.com/news/page.php?news=6678 The special Japanese airline carrying the Prince and his 30-member delegation touched down at the Kotoka International Airport (Jubilee Lounge) at 4:30 p.m. text/html 2010-03-08T14:05:41+01:00 http://www.graphicghana.com Timothy Gobah2010-03-08 http://www.graphicghana.com/news/page.php?news=6679 The vision of the government to invest in and inspire the youth in order to accelerate the tempo of development of the nation was given a boost at the 53rd independence anniversary parade Saturday when, in a departure from past anniversary celebrations, the programme was largely conducted by students. text/html 2010-03-08T14:05:41+01:00 http://www.graphicghana.com Kobby Asmah2010-03-08 http://www.graphicghana.com/news/page.php?news=6680 Faure polled 1,243.044 representing 60.92 percent of the total votes to beat his closest rival Mr Jean-Pierre Fabre of the Union of Forces for Change party who obtained 692,584 representing 33.9 percent of the official provisional results declared. text/html 2010-03-08T14:05:41+01:00 http://www.graphicghana.com BBC2010-03-08 http://www.graphicghana.com/news/page.php?news=6683 Witnesses said corpses were piled up in the village of Dogo-Nahawa, a few kilometres south of Jos. text/html 2010-03-08T14:05:41+01:00 http://www.graphicghana.com BBC2010-03-08 http://www.graphicghana.com/news/page.php?news=6684 Some 400,000 health workers and volunteers will go from door-to-door in 19 countries, giving oral polio vaccine to children under the age of five.