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120 students graduate from JACCD
120 Students from JACCD Design Institute African formerly Joyce Ababio fashion design have graduated after intensive one year fashion and design course.
The graduation which took place at the premises of the school at North Legon last Saturday saw the students display their beautiful works on the runway telling their love ones and family members who had come to support them what they are capable of designing.
Three students, Dennis Williams, Diallo Binta and Sheena Edem emerged overall best students out of the 120 graduates.
Speaking in an interview with the Anchor, Dennis Williams said he was he happy to be part of the overall three students who took the fashion and design course.
“I have learnt a lot during my one year stay here and I know I am going to do great out there. JACCD is a place I will recommend everyone who had the desire to become a fashion designer to come. The practice and the training here is just too much for anyone to fail. I have benefited a lot and I will soon be one of the great designers in Ghana” he said.
Speaking in an exclusive interview with Joyce Ababio the CEO of JACCD she said 90 percent of the great designers in Ghana and beyond come from her school and she is very confident that this year group will also make her proud.
“You cannot come to JACCD and not do well after an intensive training and practicals. We teach the basics of everything and with the quality teachers we have here we always get the results we need. Apart from fashion offer courses like interior decor, film, Make-up etc and that makes JACCD unique. The students have a fair idea of all the thing we do here and they decide which ones they want to major in” she said
The Managing Director of Tema Oil Refinery (TOR), Edmond Kombat, has outlined a major expansion drive to restore the refinery to full commercial operation.
Speaking at the Government Accountability Series held at the Jubilee House today, Mr. Kombat said in the near term, engineers from Verga Engineering are working with TOR’s technical team to complete the tie-in and commission the F-61 this month.
He explained that this will allow the Crude Distillation Unit to move from its current throughput of about 28,000 barrels per stream day (bpsd) to its nameplate capacity of 45,000 to 55,000 bpsd.
In the medium term, TOR plans to install a new air cooler to raise capacity to 60,000 bpsd and replace the 6,500 barrel-a-day catalytic reformers with a 10,000 barrel-per-day continuous catalytic reformer.
Mr. Kombat added that the new 120-ton boiler has been installed, while work on the RFCC turnaround and SCADA system continues.
He disclosed that on August 1, 2026, President John Mahama directed the Minister for Energy and Green Transition to work with the TOR Board and management on a strategic roadmap to raise processing capacity to 100,000 barrels a day, with a further plan to increase it to 200,000 barrels per day as an end-state.
He also announced plans to restructure TOR so that it can operate on sound commercial principles without undue political interference. According to him, the Ministry of Finance is currently working with TOR to consider writing off $120 million of TOR’s legacy debt owed to the Government of Ghana or converting it into equity.
“TOR is part of a national plan. With the refinery’s expansion from 45,000 to 100,000 barrels a day, Government is targeting about 70 percent of national fuel demand from local refining by 2028,” he said.
By Edem Mensah-Tsotorme
The Managing Director of the Tema Oil Refinery (TOR), Edmond Kombat, has revealed that crude processing at the refinery has resumed after years of dormancy.
Speaking at the Government Accountability Series, Mr. Kombat said crude processing started on December 19, 2025, with all product streams going to storage for the first time in years.
He disclosed that since May 2026, TOR has received four five-million-barrel crude cargoes: Bonga, Baleine, Bonnie Light, followed on July 15 by Ghana’s Jubilee Medium Sweet crude, an indigenous crude delivered aboard MT Apache.
According to him, TOR paid for the Jubilee cargo in full, making it the refinery’s first Jubilee cargo in a decade.
Mr. Kombat added that on August 1, 2026, the President commissioned the refurbished Crude Distillation Unit.
The refinery, he said, then received another parcel of Ghanaian indigenous crude of 950,000 barrels of Sankofa crude on September 25, 2026, from its sister agency, the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC).
By Edem Mensah-Tsotorme
