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Mr Iver Høj Nielsen, Head of Press, State of Green Consortium, a public-private partnership in Denmark leading in the transition to a green growth economy, has said that Ghana has the potential for wind energy. “South Africa and Ghana have lots of wind,” he told a group of 12 environmental journalists from Ghana, South Africa and Kenya on a Green Growth study tour of Denmark, who visited the office of the consortium referred to as the ‘House of Green’.The week-long tour is being organised

An Accra  Circuit Court Monday sentenced two ex-convicts and another person to a total of 100 years’ imprisonment for robbing a family at their residence at Teshie near Accra. They are Dominic Kofi Anim and Stanley Goka, alias Gameli, both ex-convicts, and Yaw Berko. Anim and Goka were each sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment for conspiracy to rob and 40 years for robbery, while Berko was sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment for conspiracy to rob.  The sentences are to run concurrently. They

The Controller and Accountant General’s Department (CAGD) will roll out a new electronic salary payment system for all ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) by the end of July, this year. Dubbed the Electronic Salary Payment Voucher (E-SPV), the system seeks to address issues of bloating of the public payroll and eliminate ghost names associated with the current manual payment voucher system The system has been piloted at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra and the CAGD as a department.  A

Residents of the Guinness Depot lane, Gbawe, and Mallam are calling on local authorities and the government to sit up and fulfil several broken pledges of preventing perennial floods in the two areas. The Gbale tributary extends to the Guinness Depot Lane and has been blocked at the point of its entry into the sea at the Mallam Intersection by a filling station.  A resident who agreed to speak on record on the matter, ex- WO I Abraham Agyen Tettey, said they had tried to get their assembly member

The Chinese Ambassador to Ghana, Mr Gong Jianzhong, has cut the sod for a $10-million aquaculture and mechanised farming project for the Anyanboni community and its surrounding villages in the Upper Manya Krobo District in the Eastern Region. Two hundred hectares have been acquired for the project, which is an initiative of the Member of Parliament for Upper Manya Krobo, Mr Jeff Tetteh Kavianu. Speaking at the ceremony, Mr Jianzhong described agriculture as a necessity for economic development,

A 19-year-old man has been arrested by the Kwabenya Police for allegedly stealing an unregistered Honda Civic saloon car. Ibrahim Kasim, a washing bay attendant, absconded with the car belonging to Mr Frank Atakora, who had sent it to be washed.  He had demanded the keys to the car from Mr Atakora, with the excuse of parking it properly. Suspect Arrested Kasim was arrested  at Tsopoli, near Aflao and on the Accra-Aflao road, last Sunday by a police patrol team which had been alerted by the Kwabenya

The government has planned to implement a free secondary education system in accordance with the 1992 constitution, President John Mahama has announced. Delivering the 2014 State of the Nation address Tuesday, the President said the Ministry of Education has already drawn up a road-map to this effect. “The Ministry of Education, following consultations with stakeholders has prepared a report on the roadmap for a progressive introduction of free secondary education in Ghana as required under the

Owners of about 200 houses at Amrahia in the Adenta municipality have expressed worry over cracks which keep developing in their buildings following vibrations, the source of which they are unable to locate. Residents complained about loud noise, followed by vibrations and cracks on their buildings, which have gone on for over two years now. “We hear loud noise and feel the vibrations and then the cracks follow,” Mr Seth Amoah Ashirifi told the Daily Graphic. Houses in the community, as well

Four women’s rights non-governmental organisations have collaborated to implement a one-year project aimed at promoting equity, accountability, transparency and greater responsiveness from critical actors in the oil and gas industry. The groups are Network for Women’s Rights in Ghana (NETRIGHT), in partnership with the Women in Law and Development (WiLDAF), FIDA-Ghana and Abantu for Development, with support from Star-Ghana. The project, dubbed, “Women’s agency strengthened to demand accountability,

A year-long sensitisation programme on how to reduce market fires has been drawn up for market women in Accra. The programme was jointly put together by the Greater Accra Regional Co-coordinating Council, the Ghana National Fire Service, (Accra Regional Command), the Ghana Police Service, the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), the National Lotteries and a private insurance company, Insurance Plus. It is expected to equip market women with the requisite knowledge on how to avert market fires. For

The timely intervention by the Swedru Police last Sunday evening foiled reprisal attacks by two youth groups at Mahodwe at Agona Swedru in the Central Region. The two groups had been allegedly hired by two individuals to attack each other after a misunderstanding ensued between them. The confrontation is alleged to have started when a motorbike belonging to one of the two individuals, identified only as Emma, was destroyed by a friend whose name was given as Kofi. Kofi is said to have pledged to

Vice-President Paa Kwesi Amissah-Arthur  has called on Human Resource (HR) practitioners in the country to develop a self-motivated human resource base to achieve productive employment and decent work for all by 2015. “The significance of human resource development in Ghana today, as a factor in the overall national development agenda, cannot be overlooked. A developed and self-motivated human resource base is extremely critical to achieving full and productive employment and decent work for

Motorists moving in and out of the campus of the University of Ghana, Legon now have unhindered access, as the authorities of the premier university have made good their word to suspend the collection of road tolls as directed by the government. Motorists were made to pay various charges, depending on the type of vehicle they drove, before accessing the campus roads prior to the suspension of the toll. The university authorities on Friday announced that they were going to suspend the collection

The Anlo Rural Bank has donated 5,000 exercise books worth GH¢ 8,000 to five basic schools in the Keta Municipality. The books were presented as part of the Valentine’s Day activities. The beneficiary schools were the Abor Evangelical Presbyterian Junior High School, Abor Roman Catholic JHS, Srogboe East Ridge JHS, Dzelukope RC JHS and the Anyanui Basic School. Each of the schools was presented with 1,000 exercise books embossed with the bank’s logo. Corporate social responsibility The Vice-Chairperson

A survey conducted by the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) has revealed that about 6,000 people access the Aflao border  daily. Out of  the number, about 3,000 people cross without proper identification and this poses a major security threat in the area. A commander of the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS), Mr Julius Gboglah, made this known when the Volta Regional Minister, Nii Laryea Afotey-Agbo, and members of the Volta Regional Security Council, met security heads at the border during a visit

More than 2,000 government vehicles have been re-registered by the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA) from January this year. Under the government vehicles re-registration exercise, which began in January this year, vehicles from about 10 ministries, departments and agencies have been registered. The vehicles have their number plates changed into a green background, a GV prefix, the year of registration and a code identifying the ministry, department or agency to which they belong. Some

More than 25 members of the Union of Industry, Commerce and Finance Workers have been educated on the new three-tier pension scheme. Members of the union from Merchant Bank, SIC Life, ARB Apex Bank and Ghana Commercial Bank were educated on the migration of provident funds to the three-tier scheme and how unions should implement or manage their funds.  While the first-tier basic national social security is managed by a restructured SSNIT, the second-tier mandatory occupational scheme and the third-tier

President John Dramani Mahama has stated that the choice of Ashanti Region to pilot the capitation of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) was not meant to discriminate against the people of the region, as is being speculated. He said the choice was informed by the diversity of the population in the region and its density and, therefore, the likelihood of the pilot scheme yielding findings that would guide future decisions. President John Mahama stated this in a speech read on his behalf

The Okyenhene, Osagyefo Amoatia Oforipanin II, has called on the government to decentralise education, health and water for people at the local level to manage their own resources and be involved in making their own decisions. He said ministries needed to be relocated to the regions so that government business would be closer to the people.  He wondered why the Ministry of Lands and Forestry, for example, must be located in Accra where there were no forests. Osagyefo Amoatia Oforipanin made the