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Also entertainment, business, science, technology and health news. en-uk Sun, 21 Nov 2009 03:07:42 +0100 BO Adamson - info@modernghana.com 11/21/2009 3:07:42 AM Bright Owusu - webmaster@modernghana.com All trademarks and copyrights on this page are owned by their respective owners. 60 http://www.modernghana.com/news/250513/1/africa-must-probe-the-invented-wheel.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/250513/1/africa-must-probe-the-invented-wheel.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/250513/1/#showcomments2 Sun, 21 Nov 2009 00:53:02 +0100 0 Since independence it has been part of every governments policy to explore Ghanas hydrocarbon depositsHistorically exploration for oil and gas reserves in Ghana had been very limited due to the high risk nature of its terrain and low oil price environment in when the Kosmos EO group made initial contact with GNPCBetween to ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/250277/1/history-of-oil-discovery-in-ghana-the-eo-groups-ro.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/250277/1/history-of-oil-discovery-in-ghana-the-eo-groups-ro.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/250277/1/#showcomments2 Sat, 20 Nov 2009 09:11:59 +0100 0 http://www.modernghana.com/news/250270/1/its-not-cool-in-the-north-part-3.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/250270/1/its-not-cool-in-the-north-part-3.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/250270/1/#showcomments2 Sat, 20 Nov 2009 08:52:58 +0100 0 Ive just become aware of a book which discusses one of the curses of our age our inability because of the Internet to prevent people from reading things written about us which are not trueThe book is entitled Delete The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital AgeIt is by a man called Viktor MayerSchönberger and is published by Princet ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/250268/1/an-age-in-which-nothing-can-be-forgiven.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/250268/1/an-age-in-which-nothing-can-be-forgiven.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/250268/1/#showcomments2 Sat, 20 Nov 2009 08:28:08 +0100 0 I listened to finance minister Dr Kwabena Duffuors budget presentation mostly with rapt attention There were a few occasions when I felt myself dozing off especially at those stages when he drifted into calling out numbers that meant nothing to me All those numbers make my head swirl to the point of delirious dizziness Blame it on poor edu ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/250267/1/budget-2010-hard-to-beat-ecomini.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/250267/1/budget-2010-hard-to-beat-ecomini.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/250267/1/#showcomments2 Sat, 20 Nov 2009 08:28:08 +0100 0 I have read your reaction to my writeup on Kwesi Pratt should be the last person to pontificate on national affairs and I must confess I feel sorry for hitting you below the belt by including your name among those I referred to as hypocrites You are indeed like a brother to me and I am sorry for my choice of words and expressions to describe yo ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/250197/1/kwame-my-brother-i-am-sorry-but-.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/250197/1/kwame-my-brother-i-am-sorry-but-.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/250197/1/#showcomments2 Fri, 19 Nov 2009 18:32:38 +0100 0 http://www.modernghana.com/news/250196/1/the-real-cost-of-procrastinating-providing-a-full-.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/250196/1/the-real-cost-of-procrastinating-providing-a-full-.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/250196/1/#showcomments2 Fri, 19 Nov 2009 18:25:29 +0100 0 The social vicissitudes of modernday life is simply unimaginable Where they involve children they have become a headache for families and child rights activists Clearly ours is a generation that has outstepped its bounds as far as concern and care for children are concerned Child injustices of all dimensions keep rearing their head in our ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/250166/1/handling-own-children-does-the-law-prescribe-limit.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/250166/1/handling-own-children-does-the-law-prescribe-limit.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/250166/1/#showcomments2 Fri, 19 Nov 2009 15:50:59 +0100 0 Arsenal striker Robin Van Persie has flown to Serbia for a novel form of treatment placenta fluid is to be dripped on his injured ankle Why is he doing this and will it workIt is not unusual for sports starts to look for super cures for their injuriesEngland footballer Wayne Rooney used an oxygen tent prior to the World Cup to hel ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/250165/1/the-new-miracle-cure-for-injuries.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/250165/1/the-new-miracle-cure-for-injuries.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/250165/1/#showcomments2 Fri, 19 Nov 2009 15:50:59 +0100 0 The NPP are selfdestructing through bickering backstabbing and what may be a vivid display of political immaturity This internal wrangling bizarre as it is is in anticipation of securing the flagbearership of the party for the leader of one faction or the other Certain individuals uncompromising stance to wrestling the presidential candidac ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/250162/1/has-wisdom-evaded-the-book-long-npp.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/250162/1/has-wisdom-evaded-the-book-long-npp.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/250162/1/#showcomments2 Fri, 19 Nov 2009 15:50:59 +0100 0 A few days ago I was wandering from one website to the other to quench my thirst for news especially those that have to do with my dear continent Africa News here is all about the NDC and NPP but if you go beyond the borders of Ghana you are likely to find so many wonders of the worldThere was this story on the BBCs website captioned ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/250161/1/chilubas-trial-and-lessons-for-the-ndc.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/250161/1/chilubas-trial-and-lessons-for-the-ndc.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/250161/1/#showcomments2 Fri, 19 Nov 2009 15:50:59 +0100 0 Friends time to boycott NDCThe time has come full cycle that ProNDC media has to reconsider their unflinching support for the party They will be better off playing a neutral role than to waste their time on a party that has little regard for the mediaMost of their media friends were over the moon that they played a major role in the vic ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/250159/1/the-death-of-mr-essuman-a-wake-up-call-for-all-pro.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/250159/1/the-death-of-mr-essuman-a-wake-up-call-for-all-pro.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/250159/1/#showcomments2 Fri, 19 Nov 2009 15:51:00 +0100 0 Alcohol alcohol everywhere Lets go have a drinkThis is a wake up call Do you know what kind of liquor or alcohol your teenager drinks What is the legal alcohol drinking age in Ghana anyway If you dont know then I have some news for youYes our teenagers are drinking any thing that they can get their hands on but who is watc ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/250158/1/the-voice-of-reason-the-national-ticking-bomb-teen.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/250158/1/the-voice-of-reason-the-national-ticking-bomb-teen.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/250158/1/#showcomments2 Fri, 19 Nov 2009 15:51:00 +0100 0 IntroductionWar as a disorder shall one day receive its treatments And it shall come to pass that one day people with war disorders will travel to certain hospitals at home and abroad to receive treatments from their different disorders that compel them to engage in war disturbances and other minor conflicts Professional psychiatri ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/250046/1/miljdisorder-as-war-disorder.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/250046/1/miljdisorder-as-war-disorder.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/250046/1/#showcomments2 Thu, 18 Nov 2009 23:02:48 +0100 0 On Wednesday October Accra residents watched in hopeless awe as the storey Ministry of Foreign Affairs building was in flames It brought back sad memories of the events of September during which the twin towers of the World Trade Centre WTC in New York came down under the impact of two aircraft which crashed into them ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/250044/1/waiting-for-disaster-to-strike.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/250044/1/waiting-for-disaster-to-strike.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/250044/1/#showcomments2 Thu, 18 Nov 2009 22:05:31 +0100 0 Freedom of speech and expression including freedom of the press and other media are among the general fundamental freedoms enshrined in the constitution of GhanaThe fruit of this constitutional provision is seen in the proliferation of media houses across the country and the attendant participation of all and sundry in the articulation of view ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/250043/1/defamation-free-speech-and-the-press.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/250043/1/defamation-free-speech-and-the-press.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/250043/1/#showcomments2 Thu, 18 Nov 2009 22:05:31 +0100 0 Its hard to believe that Private Seth Goka one of the three soldiers standing trial for the murder of Alhaji Issa Mobila just got up and walked out of the military detention facility he was being kept in He must have been helped Thats my gut feelingAlhaji Issa Mobila who was the Northern Regional chairman of the CPP died in military cu ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/250042/1/who-let-goka-out.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/250042/1/who-let-goka-out.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/250042/1/#showcomments2 Thu, 18 Nov 2009 22:05:31 +0100 0 The police are permitted to employ reasonable force in combating crime and effecting the arrest of hostile suspectsIn recent months the police have been criticised by many for returning fire for fire when attacked by suspected armed robbers shooting their way from arrest resulting in the deaths of a good number of the suspectsThe critic ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/250041/1/how-should-the-police-respond-under-attack-from-ar.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/250041/1/how-should-the-police-respond-under-attack-from-ar.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/250041/1/#showcomments2 Thu, 18 Nov 2009 22:05:31 +0100 0 http://www.modernghana.com/news/249968/1/the-slavery-holocaust.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/249968/1/the-slavery-holocaust.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/249968/1/#showcomments2 Thu, 18 Nov 2009 18:02:32 +0100 0 http://www.modernghana.com/news/249722/1/adieu-prinkroomkan-kofi-akumanyi-by-cameron-duodu.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/249722/1/adieu-prinkroomkan-kofi-akumanyi-by-cameron-duodu.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/249722/1/#showcomments2 Wed, 17 Nov 2009 13:36:07 +0100 0 There is a saying that if poverty sends you on an errand it gives you no options The earlier you put on your tattered sandals and trek through the warped clefts of life the slighter your miseries With regards to Zoe Clark an English lady from Lincolnshire it was love not poverty that sent her across the English Channel to the shrub lands of Accra ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/249659/1/the-experiences-of-a-british-lady-in-ghana.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/249659/1/the-experiences-of-a-british-lady-in-ghana.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/249659/1/#showcomments2 Wed, 17 Nov 2009 08:30:17 +0100 0 In the early part of as the then Senators Barack Obama and Hilary Clinton tried to outshine each other to get the nomination of the Democratic Party as its presidential candidate the latter landed in hot waters when she made the infamous claims about sniper fire in Bosnia The former first lady of the United States of America said of an ear ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/249658/1/bawkus-bunkers-and-baulkers.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/249658/1/bawkus-bunkers-and-baulkers.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/249658/1/#showcomments2 Wed, 17 Nov 2009 08:30:17 +0100 0 Ive had one of the most miserable weekends ever Thanks to the ECG They took out the power in Labone at am on Saturday It was for a scheduled maintenance operation which was very widely advertisedPower was supposed to be restored at pmIt did come back on in good time but just a few minutes later they took it away again It didnt come ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/249657/1/electricity-comes-and-goes.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/249657/1/electricity-comes-and-goes.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/249657/1/#showcomments2 Wed, 17 Nov 2009 08:30:17 +0100 0 http://www.modernghana.com/news/249584/1/dont-promote-national-unity-on-the-basis-of-lies-a.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/249584/1/dont-promote-national-unity-on-the-basis-of-lies-a.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/249584/1/#showcomments2 Tue, 16 Nov 2009 18:05:51 +0100 0 Write todays date down you may never hear this again Akua Bonsu goes on record to agree with some important assertions that former president Jerry John Rawlings has been making When one looks at where Ghana is at the moment and one also looks at the quality of officials populating the Mills administration one cannot help but arrive at the con ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/249575/1/rawlings-is-right-but.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/249575/1/rawlings-is-right-but.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/249575/1/#showcomments2 Tue, 16 Nov 2009 18:06:14 +0100 5 For how long will Kumawuman citizens sit on their lap with their palms folded inbetween their legs I will reiterate once more how certain unscrupulous personalities assuming to be tin gods are still playing God on Kumawuman These persons take Kumawuman citizens for not only fools but also as people unworthy of the provision and the enjoyment o ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/249552/1/asantehene-stalls-kumawu-chieftaincy-case.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/249552/1/asantehene-stalls-kumawu-chieftaincy-case.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/249552/1/#showcomments2 Tue, 16 Nov 2009 16:20:47 +0100 1 The history of the bust of Nefertiti shows very clearly how hollow it can sound when Germans and other Europeans refer to legal principles in relation to the Third World Gert von Paczensky and Herbert Ganslymayr httpimgmodernghanacomimagescontentnefertitijpgNefertiti Egypt now in Neues Museum Berlin G ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/249547/1/nefertiti-idia-tiye-and-others-revisited-nefertiti.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/249547/1/nefertiti-idia-tiye-and-others-revisited-nefertiti.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/249547/1/#showcomments2 Tue, 16 Nov 2009 14:57:03 +0100 0 The purported good macroeconomic performance of the erstwhile NPP administration was an economic illusion which ultimately resulted in their political defeat at the hands of the NDC in the general elections Indeed as the clock ticks on the NDC in Government the economy is becoming more robust and resilient as a result of the ambitious but ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/249491/1/the-better-ghana-agenda-so-far-so-better.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/249491/1/the-better-ghana-agenda-so-far-so-better.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/249491/1/#showcomments2 Tue, 16 Nov 2009 14:58:54 +0100 0 Farmers around the world including those in Ghana are reporting the seasons are changing and experts warn the trend may be one of the most significant impacts of climate change for poor farmersAs weather patterns become erratic scientists suggest adoption of drought and flood resistant crops and diversification of income sources as protec ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/249480/1/changes-in-weather-patterns-what-can-farmers-do.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/249480/1/changes-in-weather-patterns-what-can-farmers-do.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/249480/1/#showcomments2 Tue, 16 Nov 2009 10:45:43 +0100 0 In my recent article about investor protection and financial market size I emphasized the worlds financial system being made up of a cluster of marketbased and bankbased financial systems I reiterated that whilst the US and UK financial systems are predominantly marketbased that of Germany and some other European countries are bankbased ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/249453/1/worlds-financial-system-in-limbo-what-to-expect-.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/249453/1/worlds-financial-system-in-limbo-what-to-expect-.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/249453/1/#showcomments2 Tue, 16 Nov 2009 08:25:39 +0100 0