The Graphic reports that the Deputy Minister of Communications, Mr John Mahama, has denied that the government has acquired a new Presidential Jet from Nigeria at a cost of 40 million dollars. Mr Mahama was speaking to the press to refute a publication in the "Independent", an Accra weekly, that the government has already bought a 40 million-dollar jet for President Jerry John Rawlings. He described the publication as a downright fabrication and totally false the front page story in the latest edition of the Independent. GRI

The Graphic, in another front page story, says the First Lady, Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings has impressed on fashion designers to use Kente to design simple and easy-to-wear attires, to give Kente a more international appeal and bigger market. She noted with concern that even though the Kente cloth stands out as an internationally-acclaimed national asset of Ghana, only a few Ghanaians wear it. GRI

"SIC to be listed on stock exchange", is the headline of an inside story in the Graphic which quotes the Managing Director of the State Insurance Corporation (SIC), Mr Lionel K. Molbila as announcing that the company would by the end of the year, be listed on the Ghana Stock Exchange, in line with the government's divestiture programme. GRI