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President John Mahama says the power plants that rely on gas from the West Africa Gas Pipeline have been shut down as a result of Nigeria's failure to provide enough of gas in accordance with the contract.

he said Nigeria has paid to Ghana an amount of $10 million in penalties for failing to deliver the quantity of gas spelt out under the West African Gas Pipeline project.

The populous West African country was expected to provide at least 120 million cubic feet of gas daily but it has consistently defaulted.

The failure of Nigeria to meet its contractual obligations to Ghana has led to a protracted power crisis in the country.

Officials of the Ghana Grid Company earlier this week indicated they have been forced to shed between 400 and 600 megawatts of power due to the inconsistent and reduced supply of power from the local power generators who also blame their inability to generate more power on the insufficient supply of gas from Nigeria through the West African Gas pipeline.

Speaking to the Ghanaian community in Germany, President John Mahama said some power plants have been shut down because there is no gas.

While complaining about Nigeria's failure to meet its contractual obligations and its attendant effects on power supply in Ghana, the President confirmed the country has received an amount of $10 million in penalties from Nigeria.

He said that amount is nothing compared to the cost of the power crisis Ghana has been saddled with as a result of Nigeria's failure to satisfy the contractual terms.

President John Mahama said the country is looking at developing its own gas reserves.

"Potentially we can get 150 million standard cubic feet from the Jubilee field, we are developing the TEIN field which will come on stream in 2016 and that again can provide us with between 50-80 million standard cubic feet.

"So going forward we are looking at about between 300-350 million standard cubic feet which will be very important in generating power and ensuring energy security for us," he stated.


http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/business/artikel.php?ID=343436

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[b]The former National Youth Organiser of the Convention People's Party (CPP), James Kwabena Bomfeh Jnr. has hinted that, despite the electricity crisis Ghana is still supplying neighbouring Nigeria with power.

Kabila as he is affectionately called says he believes the allegation is untrue but if otherwise, heads must roll at the energy sector.

“I don’t want to believe it is true. Is it true that despite the limited power that we are generating here in Ghana; we still divert some to Nigerians because their president [Goodluck Jonathan] wants to win election? I just believe this will be a hoax,” he said on Peace FM’s Kokrokoo.

Government is working with the Electric Company of Ghana as well as other entities in an effort to improving the infrastructure and add more Megawatts to the country’s power grid before next year.

But Kabila insist the Minister of Energy and Petroleum, Emmanuel Armah-Kofi Buah must be fired if the president really wants to do enough to help solve the power problem.

“If the president is really serious about solving the energy situation in this country, then he [Kofi Buah] shouldn’t be at post. He should be sacked to pave the way for a better person with vision. He has less knowledge about energy,” he fumed
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http://news.peacefmonline.com/pages/news/201412/224379.php

One of the three Nigerian students who were reportedly attacked by armed robbers at their residence at Accra New Town, leading to the death of one, has confessed to staging the attack.

Mustapha Musa Osmani, 22, a student of the Sikkim Manipal University, near the Kwame Nkrumah Circle in Accra, who broke down in front of a television camera and journalists, said when he did that he was under the influence of a drug.

“I was out of control. I do not know why I did that. I have never quarrelled with my brothers since we arrived in Ghana two years ago to further our education,” he said while sobbing.

Osmani had reported to the Kotobabi Police last Friday, November 28, 2014, that three masked men had attacked him and his two brothers, Nazifi Osmani Mohammed, 23, and Jamiru Osmani, 27, in their room in a compound house at Accra New Town.

He also told the police that they struggled with the masked men who had demanded the $4,000 meant for their registration fee at the Sikkims Manipal University, where they were pursuing a course in Information Technology (IT).

According to Osmani, his brothers were stabbed in the chest and stomach, while he was injured in the right hand.

Later, when some Good Samaritans took them to the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra, Mohammed was pronounced dead and Jamiru was admitted, while he was treated and discharged.
Overdose

At a press briefing, Osmani pleaded for forgiveness from his family and friends.

The Accra Regional Police Commander, Deputy Commissioner of Police Mr Christian Tetteh Yohuno, told journalists that one of the Osmani brothers, Jamiru, told police investigators that he had been stabbed by his brother while he was sleeping at dawn last Friday.

He said when Osmani was questioned over his brother’s revelation, “he confessed to committing the offence and said he had taken an overdose of a medication”.

Mr Yohuno said Osmani claimed he had been taking some doses of Daizepam every day to enable him to stay awake and study for more than five hours, “but on Thursday night he took 20 tablets instead of two”.

Osmani, according to Mr Yohuno, also said he became hyperactive after taking the medication and “he took a knife and stabbed Jamiru in the chest in the living room and moved to the bedroom where Mohammed was sleeping and stabbed him in the stomach and chest”.

When Mohammed’s intestines gushed out, Mr Yohuno said, Osmani went back to the sitting room and when he found Jamiru still alive, “he asked Jamiru if he knew the person who had attacked him, but Jamiru said he didn’t”.

According to the police, the suspect subsequently raised an alarm that he and his brothers had been attacked by armed robbers.
Nigerian community

When asked about the wound on his left hand, Osmani claimed he had recovered shortly after stabbing his brothers and had attempted to take his own life, but Mohammed, before his death, had prevented him from doing so, which resulted in a struggle over the knife, resulting in the cut.

The police said Mohammed, who was wounded in the right and left chest, with some portion of his ear chopped off, was responding to treatment at the Hospital.

A provisional charge of murder and causing harm has been preferred against Osmani. A total sum of GH¢800 being part of the registration fee was retrieved from Osmani.

Later in an interview, the President of the Nigerian Community in Ghana, Mr Moses Owhara, who described the incident as unfortunate, said “it is a very disturbing incident which will tarnish the good name of the Nigerian community”.

He pledged the support of the Nigerian community in assisting the police in their investigations and urged all Nigerians resident in Ghana to be law-abiding.



Source: Daily Graphic

http://news.peacefmonline.com/pages/social/201412/224434.php

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A Nigerian student Mustapha Musa Osmani, 23 has been arrested and provisionally charged with murder after stabbing his two brothers killing one.
It was widely reported on Friday that three Nigerian students were attacked by armed robbers around 3:30am at New Town, a suburb of Accra.
But investigations by the police took a different turn when one of the surviving victims told the police that their brother Mustapha Musa Osmani attempted murdering he and his late brother Nazifi Osmani Mohammed over a reason yet to be established.
Speaking to Citi News the Greater Accra Regional Police Commander DCOP Christian Tetteh Yohuno said on Friday November, 28, 2014 “around 3:30am, Mustapha Musa Osmani stabbed his two brothers when the two were watching a movie in their living room.”
After stabbing the two, DCOP Yohuno said the suspect shouted for help and with the help of their neighbours the victims were rushed to the hospital.


Nazifi Osmani Mohammed died on arrival at the hospital and Jamiru Osmani sustained severe injuries in the chest and is currently on admission at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital.
“So the story is not robbery but murder and another case of serious bodily harm. Mustapha Musa Osmani who is in our custody confessed to committing the attack on his brothers. He said that night he took twenty pills of a drug called Diazepham. So when they were watching a movie in the living room he took a knife and stabbed Nazifi Osmani Mohammed in the chest,” DCOP Yohuno explained.
The police however suspect that the victim might have stabbed his two brothers over an amount of GH4000 which was sent to them by their brother in Nigeria for their school fees.
While admitting to committing the murder, the suspect Mustapha Musa Osmani told Citi News that he nearly committed suicide after the truth was uncovered.
The suspect would be arraigned before court as investigations continue.
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http://www.citifmonline.com/2014/12/01/nigerian-arrested-for-killing-brother/

Africa spring

Embattled Burkina Faso President Blaise Campaore has stepped down, an army spokesperson has said.
The army spokesperson according to the BBC, told the crowd gathered in front of the army headquarters on Friday that Mr Compaore had left office.
According to the Agence France-Presse (AFP), there were cheers and jubilation from the crowd after the announcement.


Blaise Campaore on Thursday said he would serve the rest of his tenure which officially ends in November 2015 and promised not to contest again.
But the opposition and the protesters rejected his proposition until the latest development.


http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-29851445

The African Development Bank (AfDB) has said that more than 57 per cent of the people in West Africa are without access to electricity.

The bank stated this in its “West Africa Monitor Quarterly,” for the second quarter of 2014 report, which was made available to the News Agency of Nigeriaon Friday in Abuja.

It said that the percentage approximated the average for sub-Saharan Africa, “but extremely low compared with 23 per cent in the developing world and 18 per cent globally.”

According to the report, with inadequate generation capacity, low electrification, and sporadic, unreliable and expensive service, energy is at the top of questions requiring adequate policy intervention.

It explained that access rates varied from country to country, with eight per cent in Niger and 15 per cent in Burkina Faso, Liberia, Guinea, Sierra Leone and Guinea Bissau.

The report added that about 70 per cent of the population in Ghana had access to electricity while 87 per cent were hooked to supply in Cape Verde.

It also said that there were disparities in access to electricity between rural areas and urban centres in the sub-region, with urban dwellers having more access than rural people.

According to the bank, the trend is more glaring in Ghana where 87 per cent of urban dwellers have access to electricity, compared with the five per cent in rural areas.

It disclosed that West African countries had joined the Sustainable Energy for All Initiative towards achieving universal energy access by 2030, with renewable energy shared improvement and efficiency.

It pointed out that the sub-region had great potential to expand its use of renewable energy sources, which included modern biomass, hydropower, solar, and wind and had remained untapped.

“Using such sources would help to expand access while reducing reliance on traditional biomass, increase reliability and affordability, and contribute to climate change mitigation.

“Hydropower in West Africa has an estimated potential of 25,000 megawatts, yet only 16 per cent has been exploited and despite its wealth in waterways, it only holds 214 dams out of 1,282 dams in Africa.

“In addition, several in-country lakes and dams hold promise for renewable energy development,” it said.

The report said that the Volta River held great potential for Burkina Faso, Ghana, and Togo while Lake Chad could be used to serve Niger, Nigeria, Cameroun and Chad.

It acknowledged that solar power projects were spreading across the sub-region, including the 155 MW Nzema solar power plants in Ghana, one of the largest in Africa.

The bank revealed that Burkina Faso, Ghana and Guinea had potential for hydropower while Mali and Niger had for solar energy, and Cape Verde, Gambia and Senegal for wind resources.


http://www.punchng.com/news/57-west-africans-without-electricity-afdb/

By Michael Eboh, With Agency Report
Ghana has announced plans to significantly reduce the quantity of gas it purchases from Nigeria in the next couple of months through increased local gas production.

President of Ghana, Mr. John Mahama, who was responding to questions on the economy at the Global African Investment Summit in London, said the country is working hard to court more private investors to shore up local production of gas to solve the country's power crisis.

He said this will end the country's over-reliance on the West African gas pipeline which has been inconsistent with supplying gas to the country.

He said, "We had a lot of excitement when the gas pipeline was built hoping that the abundance of Nigerian gas will flow through the pipeline to help all the four countries signed onto the pipeline, but the volume has been very disappointing."

He, however, expressed the hope that the country's current energy crisis will stabilise when works on the Atuabo gas processing plant is completed, adding that the plant should start producing gas for power generation by the end of November.

Mahama said the facility, which has the capacity to generate about 140 million standard cubic feet of natural gas a day, is estimated to save the country more than $500 million annually when it is substituted for light crude oil in the generation of power.

In addition, he stated that the facility will produce more than 70 per cent of the estimated 240,000 tonnes of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) required annually for domestic use in the country.

A Ghanaian news website, Ghanaweb, said at least three power plants in the country were taken offline in September, after Nigeria stopped supplying gas to Ghana over a strike by oil workers.

The news website said this has been a regular tale which plunges the country into black-outs almost instantly.

According to the news website, the Electricity Corporation of Ghana (ECG) had a couple of days ago, announced a 48-hour-on; 24-hour-off load shedding regime after it was forced to shed over 500 megawatts of power.

It said, "That led to an emergency meeting by stakeholders with a plan to purchase crude oil at a cost of $120 million to power the thermal plants.

"The ongoing load shedding programme across the country may soon improve considerably following measures taken by power producers to increase generation capacity. The Bui Dam is now operating at full capacity following a slight improvement in the water level."


http://allafrica.com/stories/201410280502.html

hahahaha Nigeria wont make it this is football and not kidnapping or generator business.

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What is this ghanian saying sef


I have a minimum of 15hours of electricity daily and I stay in Kaduna now. And I when I was in onitsha, in a week, light would only go out for an hour or 2 combined.

The first time a reporter asked a CDC representative whether Thomas Duncan — the first patient to receive an Ebola diagnosis in the US — was an American citizen, the question seemed pretty tame. One could excuse it as a general inquiry about the Duncan’s nationality during the first press conference announcing his diagnosis. But after the CDC declined to answer, the question kept coming. "Is he a citizen?" reporters repeatedly asked. "Is he one of us?" they meant.

""Is he one of us?" they meant."

The current Ebola crisis has been tinged with racism and xenophobia. The disease rages in West Africa, and has therefore largely infected people of color. But somehow Americans were among the first to get a dose of Zmapp — the experimental anti-Ebola drug — this summer, despite the fact that Africans have been dying from the current Ebola epidemic since its emergence in Guinea in December. There are a lot of reasons for that, of course. The drug is potentially dangerous and only exists in short supply. It’s also extremely costly. And it originated in Canada, so it's unsurprising that North America controls its use.

And now that Ebola has "reached" the US, American privilege — white privilege, especially — is floating to the surface, in even less subtle ways.

The difference in treatment for US patients and African patients is stark, beyond the use of experimental drugs. Some Ebola-stricken regions in West Africa don’t have access to fuel to power ambulances, and many health workers lack the protective gear to stave off infection. Which is why it's so strange that Duncan's health has been used as an excuse to voice concerns about the presence of foreigners in Dallas. Instead of asking government officials why the WHO has a much smaller budget than the CDC or why it has suffered massive cuts in the last two years, Americans have preferred to focus on themselves.

"Duncan’s health is an excuse to voice concerns about foreigners"

Yesterday, The Raw Story wrote about how immigrants living in the same neighborhood as Duncan’s family were facing immense discrimination. Some have been turned away from their jobs, David Edwards writes, while others have been refused service in restaurants. The color of their skin and their accents makes them a target, even though they never came into contact with Duncan, and therefore pose zero risk. It doesn’t matter: they’re dark-skinned and foreign. They’re in Dallas. They might be infectious.

Now, an ugly new hashtag has emerged: #Obola, a coinage that was popularized thanks to a tweet by conservative writer Dinesh D’Souza, and a Michael Savage radio segment. If you don’t get the reference, I don’t blame you. The President’s name doesn't exactly resemble "Ebola." But D’Souza, a known "birther," has somehow managed to liken a name like Obama with a disease that’s raging in Africa — not in the US. Predictably, this has given racist xenophobic Americans a banner to rally around.


http://www.theverge.com/2014/10/8/6941749/ebola-panic-is-getting-pretty-racist

The Ghana Air Force has begun the airlifting of about one hundred tons of humanitarian food relief items to three Ebola affected countries, Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone.

The relief items include three thousand (3,000) bags of rice grown and packaged in Ghana, three hundred (300) cartons of Ghanaian produced cooking oil, three hundred (300) cartons of Milk manufactured in Ghana and three hundred (300) cartons of Made in Ghana cocoa drinking products.

The items, a donation from President John Mahama on behalf of the government and people of Ghana will help feed persons in treatment centers and others currently on quarantine in isolation centers.

During his three-nation visit on Monday, President Mahama made a symbolic presentation of some of the items to the Presidents of the countries, noting that the gesture "was a symbol of solidarity with the affected countries."

He stated that Africans don't have to always wait for the developed world to come to our aid in times of crisis.

"We must show love to each other in our own small way, Mr. Mahama said.


http://reliefweb.int/report/liberia/ghana-air-force-airlifts-relief-assistance-three-ebola-affected-countries

http://graphic.com.gh/news/politics/30682-president-donates-to-ebola-victims-in-3-countries.html

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Gambia has passed a bill that allows some homosexual acts to be punished with life imprisonment, potentially worsening the climate for sexual minorities in a country led by one of Africa's most vocal anti-gay leaders.

The bill amending the criminal code was passed last month and brings life sentences for “aggravated homosexuality”, minority leader Samba Jallow said. The charge is levelled at repeat offenders and people living with HIV/Aids.

Jallow said that, while his National Reconciliation Party did not condone homosexuality, he voted against the bill along with one other lawmaker. “In our view, [homosexuals] did not commit a crime worthy of life imprisonment or any treasonable offense,” he said.

Homosexual acts were already punishable by up to 14 years in prison under a Gambian law that was amended in 2005 to apply to women in addition to men.

The bill now awaits approval by president Yahya Jammeh, an autocratic ruler who in 2008 instructed gay men and lesbians to leave the country or risk having their heads cut off.

Speaking on state television in February, Jammeh said, “We will fight these vermins called homosexuals or gays the same way we are fighting malaria-causing mosquitoes, if not more aggressively.”
National Assembly speaker Abdoulie Bojang confirmed the new bill was passed last month but would not provide further details.

A draft seen by the Associated Press contains language identical to a controversial anti-gay bill signed into law in Uganda earlier this year.

In addition to “serial offenders” and people living with HIV/Aids, both pieces of legislation say examples of “aggravated homosexuality” include when the suspect engages in homosexual acts with someone who is under 18, disabled or has been drugged. The term also applies when the suspect is the parent or guardian of the other person or is “in authority over” him or her.

Gambia has previously launched occasional crackdowns on the country’s gay people. A 2012 raid at a poolside birthday party in the capital, Banjul, led to the arrests of 18 men, some of whom said they were interrogated and beaten before undergoing a public trial that destroyed their reputations.

Source: The Guardian

http://thisisafrica.me/gambia-passes-bill-imposing-life-sentences-gay-acts/

Jiggaman101: Think, What r u talking about?

I know that Nigeria will not make it. Their strikers can't score

hahahaha Nigeria wont make it this is football and not kidnapping or generator business.

Princecalm: Aw many times av u been told that it is quality nd nt quantity,if quantity or the population really matters then tell me why China or India have not qualified for a single WC cup in the last 40years nd still counting.

So nigayria wont qualify for 2015 AFCON?

overhypedsteve and safarigirl how market?

SA has improved greatly under Shakes.