The government has been urged to  lay the petroleum exploration and production bill before Parliament. It must also consider developing a master gas plan for Ghana. That, according to analysts, was very urgent because it would provide the framework for the development of Ghana’s gas potential, where incentives that would attract investors to come in, explore and develop gas fields would clearly be stated. According to the Africa Centre for Energy Policy (ACEP), an energy policy think tank in

About sixty teachers from junior high schools in the La Dadekotopon District in the Greater Accra Region have benefited from a training workshop to enhance their proficiency in English Language. The workshop, which was under the auspices of the British Council, with support from Resource Link Centre, an academic support facility, was also geared towards building the capacity of teachers and sensitising them to efficient ways of making the study of English language more appealing to their students.  It

Wienco Ghana Limited, importers and distributors of quality agricultural inputs, has established a fund at the University for Development Studies (UDS) to promote research work at the Faculty of Agriculture. An amount of US$50,000 would be released annually for three years to support both staff and graduate students interested in further research into agricultural growth that would be beneficial to smallholder farmers and the general public. The academic programme is a collaboration between Wienco,

The simmering tension that followed last Thursday’s ethnic clashes in some communities near Sakogu in the East Mamprusi District in the Northern Region, leading to the death of a 28-year-old man, Sakuaka Binja, has now spread to Nakpanduri and surrounding areas. The situation, which has degenerated into an all-out conflict between the Bimobas, on the one hand, and a group of Mamprusis and Konkombas, on the other, has led to the burning down of about 60 houses and several properties belonging to

The Jomoro District Police Command has intercepted large quantities of equipment and accessories meant for the upgrade of the Osagyefo Power Barge. An official of Balkan Energy Ghana, Lonie Peters, is alleged to have sold the equipment and accessories as scrap. Items & Arrest A power generator, many boxes of new filters, electrical cables, large numbers of transformer radiators and other generating units, as well as other fittings, were intercepted last Friday in two articulated trucks by the police. Three

More than 1000 displaced residents of Tema Manhean whose structures were demolished last Wednesday have appealed for help to enable them to cope with the aftermath of the demolition exercise by the Tema Traditional Council (TTC). Some of the victims told the Daily Graphic that they were taken unawares by the taskforce, which descended on them with bulldozers to eject them from the land. Residents of the community have been rendered homeless following the demolition of their houses by a taskforce

­The campaign to encourage Ghanaians to patronise made-in-Ghana goods is gaining momentum. Ever since President John Mahama, in his State of the Nation Address in February this year, appealed to the people to develop the taste for locally made goods and even indicated at that gathering that he was wearing a locally made pair of shoes, the realisation is dawning on many more people that the country’s economic revival lies in our hands. Anytime this topic comes up, the Daily Graphic does not lose

The government has launched a programme to distribute 350,000 liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) cylinders and stoves free of charge in rural districts by the end of 2016. Phase one of the programme involves the distribution of 53,000 six-kilogramme gas cylinders and stoves with all related accessories in 13 districts by the end of 2014. Under the programme, initiated by the Ministry of Energy and Petroleum, beneficiaries will be given 6kg gas cylinders and accessories worth GH¢160 free of charge but

Construction works are on course to complete the biggest marine frontier project in Ghana — the Ada Coastal Protection Works — by the end of 2016. The Government of Ghana project  is expected to reclaim 14.7 km stretch of coastal bed  lost along the Atlantic Ocean in the Ada East District in the Greater Accra Region. The first phase of the project, which involved the construction of 15 groynes and other onshore works, have been completed, while work is progressing steadily on the second phase,

The Ashanti Regional Office of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has given a three-month ultimatum to all ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) and the metropolitan, municipal and district assemblies (MMDAs) in the region to settle all their outstanding bills or risk being disconnected. The directive follows a recent government announcement that it would no longer bear the cost of power used by the MDAs and the MMDAs. The government directive was firmed up by a Ministry of Finance circular

The Ashanti Regional Police Commander, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCOP), Nathan Kofi Boakye, has sent a strong signal to drug barons in the region to put a stop to their activity or face the law. He said he knew all their hideouts and operational areas and it was time they stopped destroying the lives of the youth or face the wrath of the police and the law. According to him, the police would not sit aloof and allow the few selfish barons to get rich at the expense of the youth. Mr Boakye gave

A Nigerian who threatened to shoot a fellow national over a chieftaincy title has been arrested by the police. Eze Samuel Ekezie, who claims to be a traditional ruler of a section of the Nigerian community in Ghana, is alleged to have threatened to kill Eze Geoffrey for parading himself as the king of the Nigerians in Ghana.   Eye witness An eye witness, Chief Agbawodikizu Aaron, a Nigerian businessman, told the police that the incident happened on March 23, 2014 when he organised a naming ceremony

The Odorkor Police Command has invaded a secret brothel and arrested five women suspected to be commercial sex workers, and some male patrons. The women, between the ages of 18 and 36, are Abena Natasha, Peace Adjorlolo, Regina Botwey, Sarah Namisi and Stella Coffie.  The police swooped on the commercial sex workers in a house behind the Odorkor Post Office with the inscription Macoroni House and allegedly caught them in the act. Four men, Frank Aboagye, Ernest Anor, Samuel Ocloo and Charles Sam

The Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in Kumasi has recorded what could be the first case of Ebola virus in the country. A 12-year-old girl referred to the facility from Ejisu exhibited signs of severe fever and bleeding, both of which are symptoms of the dreaded Ebola virus currently causing havoc in the West African sub-region, especially Sierra Leone, Guinea and Mali. The girl died last Saturday. Her blood sample has been sent to the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research in Accra

President John Dramani Mahama has said the government is collaborating with the private sector to establish industries for made-in-Ghana goods to cut down the importation of many of the goods consumed locally and to provide jobs for the youth. He said even though it was impossible for the state to return to the days when it set up factories that manufactured a range of things, including shoes, beer, tobacco, canned food, building materials, cement, bricks, tiles and nails, there was a way out through