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President John Mahama says he is working hard to court more private investors to shore up local production of gas to generate electricity. President Mahama says this will end of the country’s over reliance on the West African gas pipeline which has been inconsistent with supplying gas to the country.“We had a lot of excitement when the gaspipeline 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”.The president was responding to questions, Monday on Ghana’s economy during a Presidential Panel discussion with other heads of state to open The Global African Investment Summit currently underway in London.At least three plants were taken off line in September after Nigeria stopped supplying gas to Ghana over a strike by its workers. This has been a regular tale which plunges the country into black-outs almost instantly.
The President is also hopeful the country's current energy supply would improve when works on the Atuabo gas processing plant which will process the country's own gas from the Jubilee oil field is completed. Government has announced that the plant should start producing gas for power generation by the end of November.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, it 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.
Source. Radioxyzonline.com

President John Dramani Mahama joined the people of Akoto Lante and Nima- Maamobi, both in the Greater Accra Region, to help whip up the communal spirit and community clean-up exercises to help clear the filth in our communities.

Electricity and infrastructure producer Prefos Ghana has installed its factory equipment and plans to produce 500 streetlights every day. Prefos Ghana has also won the contract to install streetlights in all cities and urban areas. This is in line with the government’s decision to beautify cities and provide adequate security for residential areas, stated local reports. Prefos Ghana would also impart training to the youth to help design and build solar panels and invertors, which would be installed on the streetslights, particularly those at locations far removed from urban centres and are also not connected to the national grid. Emmanuel Armah-Kofi Buah, minister of energy and petroleum in Ghana undertook an inspection tour of the company, stating that the government is keen to support local industries and manufacturing facilities to make the economy self-sustained.
http://www.africanreview.com/manufacturing/engineering/prefos-ghana-to-produce-500-streetlights-every-day

Mr Ehud Barak, former Prime Minister of Israel, has disclosed that, his visit to Ghana is to explore opportunities for investments in the Energy, Mining and Agricultural sectors of the economy. He disclosed this at a durbar of chiefs and people of the Akuapem Traditional Area, organized in his honour at Mamfe-Akuapem. Mr Barak said, Ghana is a country worth investing in, and hoped his days in Ghana would give him the opportunity to engage with many stakeholders in the various sectors of the economy. Mr Antwi-Bosiako Sekyere, Eastern Regional Minister, said the country and the Region are endowed with a lot of natural resources which can be tapped into to generate income for the economy. He said, the tourism sector can generate more income if much is invested into the sector, adding that as at the end of 2013, the country made 1.7 billion dollars from over one million tourists who visited the country.He mentioned that, by 2016, the country expects to make over eight billion dollars from over four million tourists who would visit the country. Mr Sekyere encouraged peasant farmers in the country to aspire to become commercial farmers, and to take advantage of the vast lands at the Afram Plains that can becultivated, to turn the area into the food basket of the country. Mr. Ernest Lomotey, Ghana Ambassador to Israel, was grateful for the visit and asked the chiefs and people to welcome the good intentions and opportunities the former Prime Minister intends to offer and tap into his rich experience.Osabarima Nana Ansah Sasraku the third, the Chief of Mamfe was hopeful that the visit is the first of many things to come, and hoped the relationship between Ghana and Israel would be strengthened. He appealed to the formerPrime Minister to help link the Region and the Akuapem North Municipality to some investment portfolios in Isreal. He said, Akuapem has the potential to become the tourism capital of Ghana and West Africa looking at the historical and the heritage sites in the area that, can be developed to attract international travelers.The former Prime and his wife Mrs. Nilli Prieli, were given a kente cloth each to symbolize the rich culture of the country and a key on a stool which symbolizes anentry into the Akuapem Traditional Area anytime they are in Ghana.
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