CONSUMERS of water and electricity could be paying up to 150 per cent in tariffs, the Public Utilities and Regulatory Commission (PURC) has stated.According to the PURC, currently, the data cropping up after various interrogations and other procedures indicate that there would be 150 per cent increase for electricity and 97 per cent for water.The Director of Public Relations and External Affairs of the PURC, Nana Yaa Akyempim Jantuah,  made this known to the Daily Graphic in an interview in Accra yesterday.

Five nucleus farms currently under construction at different locations in the Northern Savannah Ecological Zone (NSEZ) are progressing steadily.

The introduction of new service rates by the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital (KBTH) without any prior notice to the public has angered most patients who visit the facility for treatment.

MTN continues to sponsor some festivals across the country as part of its Culturefest 2013 programme and it is the turn of Larteh Akuapim in the Eastern Region which celebrates its annual Odwira next week.

No Ghanaian actor can surpass Henry Harding, aka Pattington Papa Nii Papafio when it comes to the use of   big words .

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of L'aine Services Limited and Vlisco Ambassador, Mrs Ellen Hagan, has been honoured by the chiefs and people of Nkusukum Tradition Area in the Central Region during this year's Odambea festival.

A music group from Buenaventura in the western part of Colombia will, from Monday, September 23, start a week’s performance tour of this country.

Four women have been picked up by the Wa police after a month-old baby was severely burnt to death last Thursday in a kitchen.

The Gbese Mantse, Nii Ayi Bonte II, and the Sakumo Wulomo, Numoo Ogbame III, have been sworn into the Judicial Committee of the Ga Traditional Council.

A new board for the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) was inaugurated yesterday with a call on members to make reforms and come up with innovative policies to improve the company.

The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Pentecost University College for  a collaboration between the two institutions at a ceremony in Kumasi.

Having the biological ability to bear children is one thing; knowing how to raise them as properly functioning confident beings is another. Conversely, for teachers, knowing the details of a subject one teaches is one thing; knowing how to raise the youth as exemplary thinking adults is something else.

The United States Government has launched an initiative to double access to power supply in six sub-Saharan African countries, including Ghana.

A survey on the perception about the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) has shown that Ghanaians are more concerned about access to health care, clean water and better job opportunities.

The President, Mr John Dramani Mahama, last Thursday joined other heads of state in Bamako, Mali for the investiture of the Malian President, Ibrahim Boubacar Keita.

A national conference involving all stakeholders will be held later in the year to determine the implementation of the recommendations of the Constitution Review Committee.

The Great Consolidated Popular Party (GCPP) has urged the Electoral Commission to start training electoral officers - presiding officers and polling agents- two years before the general election to make them efficient in the electoral process.

For shooting one Mr Darlington Amaiham unlawfully, a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, yesterday, awarded N10 million as damages against the Nigerian Police Force, the Police Inspector General, and three of its officers, for negligence.

The international chemical weapons watchdog has said that it is studying details submitted by Syria about its arsenal of poison gas and nerve agents.

The presidency of the International Criminal Court has rebuffed the African Union’s request to have cases facing President Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya and his deputy William Ruto halted because it was not properly filed.