The Daily Graphic gives banner headline to reports that there has been a sharp increase in prices of some major food items in the country between January and April this year. The paper quotes statistics from the Ministry of Food and Agriculture as showing that items like maize, local and imported rice, millet, yam, cassava, plantain, palm oil, tomato, cowpea and groundnut recorded increases raging between seven point nine-five percent to 124 point five-six percent within the period. Coming with the story is a picture showing a scene at the Agbogbloshie market in Accra yesterday. Also given prominence is a statement by the CPP that it would expel the MP for Ellembele, Freddie Blay if it is established that he publicly called for support for the flagbearer of the NPP, Nana Akufo Addo, consequencsly to party has launched a formal investigation to ascertain the veracity of media reports that last Wednesday Mr. Blay who is also the first Deputy Speaker of Parliament urged the electorate of Ainyinase in the Western Region to vote for Nana Addo. The Ghanaian Times highlights a statement by President Kufuor that pregnant women who attend public hospitals nationwide will receive free medical care. He made the speech at the just ended conference on Public-Private Sector Cooperation for the attainment of the Millennium Development goals in London. Also given front page treatment by the paper is the rejection of an appeal for bail by the Greater Accra Regional Tribunal for a Nigerian drugs dealer on the bans that he had been in custody for over two years. Modestus Nidimakor told the court that he had been on remand for the past two years, and that his wife and family in Nigeria are not ware that he is languishing in a Ghanaian fail as they think he is in Spain where he is domiciled.
