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NMC commissions boreholes for three communities in North East Region

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The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) has commissioned boreholes for three communities in the North East Region to provide portable water for residents.
     
The beneficiary communities were Sakogu and Nalerigu Senior High School (SHS) in the East Mamprusi Municipality and Wungu in the West Mamprusi Municipality.
     
They were constructed at an estimated cost of about GHS39,000.00, with funding from the NMC’s internally generated funds.
     
Reverend Veronica Darko, Chairperson of the NMC’s 14th Governing Board, addressing chiefs and people of the beneficiary communities, said the construction and commissioning of the facilities formed part of planned activities to celebrate the Council’s 50th anniversary.
     
She noted that the gesture was also part of the Council’s corporate social responsibility and in line with the Sustainable Development Goals of ensuring that people get access to potable water.
     
“This year has been declared by the World Health Assembly as the year for Nurses and Midwives and fortunately we are also marking our 50 years anniversary so these projects are part of activities in that accord,” she added.
     
Mr Felix Nyante, Registrar of the NMC, expressed confidence that the facilities, apart from providing portable water, would also promote handwashing hygiene protocol among residents to help mitigate the spread of COVID-19 in the communities.
     
Chief Akara Wanimpa Mahamadu, Chief of Sakogu, who spoke on behalf of the people, expressed gratitude to the NMC for coming to their aid with the initiative.
     
He said water had been a major challenge in the Community as they had to walk long distances in search of water.
     
“We had to wake up as early as 04:00hours and walk about three kilometres into the bush to get water from a stream. This has come as a big relief for us and our children and we are happy.
     
“We plead that a lot more of such kind gestures will come to our Community,” he said.
     
Mr Mohammed Tibila, Headmaster of Nalerigu SHS, thanked the donors for the intervention, and said it came at a time when it was needed most.
     
He said the project would enhance hygiene and sanitation in the school, and gave the assurance that they would take proper care of the facility to prolong its lifespan.

We need accurate and reliable data to accelerate development – GSS

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Mr Christopher Amewu, Volta Regional Statistician, Ghana Statistical Service (GSS), has said that the country needs accurate and reliable data to enhance its socioeconomic growth and development.
     
He said data had taken centre stage of the global development discourse, and the United Nations (UN) 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, left no doubt that data was crucial to helping societies make real and meaningful progress.
     
Mr Amewu said this when he launched Solid Waste Management and Gender-Based Violence APPS under the Citizen-Generated Data Project in Ho, an initiative of GSS with support from GIZ.
     
The APPS – “Let’s talk and Clean up Ghana” aims to provide a platform for the citizenry to report cases of gender-based violence and indiscriminate dumping of wastes to help authorities have accurate data regarding such issues and take pragmatic measures to address them.
     
The Citizen-Generated Data will serve as a complementary data source to the GSS traditional data source and its usefulness will be tested with two pilot projects in the thematic areas of Gender-Based Violence and Waste and Sanitation.
     
The two projects will be piloted in three selected districts across the main ecological zones of the country and their implementation will heavily rely on district-level partners in the form of “District- level Technical Teams.”
     
Mr Amewu said the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), made up of 17 goals, 169 targets and 231 indicators created incentives for closing global data gaps and collecting new data to help achieve a transformative and universal agenda, improving well-being and leaving no one behind.
 
   
The Statistician said Citizen-Generated Data were data that people or their organisations produced to directly monitor, demand or drive change on issues that affected them, adding that it was actively given by citizens which provided direct representations of their perspectives.
 
     
“All human activities and events around us, have data inherent in them; they are either derived from data, or potentially generate data. Sometimes consciously but often times we are oblivious to the relevance of these data. Citizen-generated data is a problem-focused type of data that can take many forms,” he added.
 
     
He said the Apps had come at the right time as they would add to GSS resolve and efforts to strengthen the national statistical system to be responsive to national data needs to drive policy and programming, adding that GSS would document all learnings from the collaborative work between them and shared the results with communities.
 
     
Mr Amewu who deputised for the Government Statistician, Professor Samuel Kobina Annim, said data needs in countries all over the world were changing rapidly to address intertwined global and local challenges, ranging from climate change to the spread of infectious diseases and the effects of instability and vulnerability, policy action must be informed by reliable and timely data.
 
     
The Statistician noted that data revolution offered governments and national statistics offices a welcome opportunity to produce more useful data by generating data from new sources that could complete and strengthen, though not replace official statistics.
 
     
Mr Amewu said technology held great potential for data production and usage, thus it must be deployed for administrative processes, enhance possibility of generating data from them in real time.
 
     
“I must admit this collaboration has once again demonstrated our abilities as a people and we at Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) are pleased to be working alongside all of you, especially, the District Technical Team for the Citizen Generated Data (CGD) project,” he stated.
 
     
Mr Prosper Pi-Bansah, Ho Municipal Chief Executive (MCE), said the country was facing a challenge of non-existence of credible data which were prerequisite for effective and efficient work delivery.
 
     
He said the various sectors of the country’s economy would win to witnessed massive development and positive change if the country continued to improve on its data system.
 
     
Mr Aaron Amedzro, Ho Municipal Environmental Health Officer, said the Solid Waste Management App would help improve sanitation within the Municipality as it provided avenue for people to report issues related to waste management.
 
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Rawlings’s death changes mood in Kpando

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The death of former President Jerry John Rawlings has changed the mood of people within the Kpando Municipality.                                  
 
Most of the people that the Ghana News Agency (GNA) spoke to said the news of the passing of the ex-President was the last they expected to hear today.            
 
Mr. Linus Deladem Gaga, Municipal Registration Officer, National Identification Authority (NIA), said he was still in shock and that it will take days for him to accept the news.                  
 
He said though the former President was very strict on matters of the nation, he was also very affable and approachable.                        
 
Mr. Gaga added that Ghana, Africa and the world at large had lost a freedom fighter.
                     
Madam Lydia Ago, a businesswoman said she wasn’t expecting to hear such news taken into cognisance the closeness of the upcoming election.              
 
She said though the news was shocking she believed that God knows best.
                                       
“He will solely be missed but we thank him for the huge footprints he has left behind,” she said.
 
Mr. MacMilan Kitsi, an astute NDC sympathizer, said the former President was his role model and he still had a lot to learn from him, but “death laid its icy hands on him”.          
 
He said “his role model had gone to sleep and that he remembered the fallouts he had with some party members because he defended his role model”. 
 
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Ogyeahohuo Gyebi is new President of National House of Chief

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Ogyeahohuo Yaw Gyebi II, the Paramount Chief of Sefwi Anwiaso, has been elected as the new President of the National House of Chiefs at a meeting of the House in Kumasi on Thursday.
 
     
He obtained 47 votes to beat the incumbent, Togbe Afede XIV, Agbogbomefia of the Asogli State who secured 25 votes.
 
     
The election, which was supervised by the Electoral Commission also saw Naa Puowele Karbo III, Paramont Chief of Lawra Traditional Area being elected Vice President of the House after polling 44 votes as against 28 garnered by Daasebre Kwebu Ewusi VII, the Abeadzehen.
 
     
Prior to the election, members of the newly constituted house were sworn into office by Mr. Justice Kofi Akrowia, a High Court Judge.
 
       
Meanwhile, seven members of the house, including all five representatives from the Western Region, the Ga Mantse and the Paramount Chief of Nkoranza Traditional Area were not sworn in for various law suits restraining them to be members of the House.
 
     
While the legitimacy of Nana Kwame Baffoe IV of Nkoranza and King Tackie Adama Latse, the Ga Mantse were being challenged by rival chiefs, the representatives from the Western Region were being challenged by the Regional House of Chiefs on the grounds that they were not selected through a fair process.
 
   
They are Tetrete OkuamoahSkyim II, Paramount Chief of Wassa Amenfi Traditional area, Awulae Angama Tu-Agyan II, Paramount Chief of Gwira Traditional Area, Obrempong Hima Denkyi Paramount Chief of Upper Discove, Osaberima Kwaw Entsie, Paramountg Chief of Mpohor Traditional Area and Awulae Annor Adjae, Paramount Chief of Western Nzema Traditional area.
 
     
Ogyeahohuo Gyebi, in a speech called for a united front to build a strong chieftaincy institution to contribute meaningfully to national development.
 
     
He said he would not only be a leader of the House but also the chief servant and pledged to involve members in all decision making in order to build consensus on issues tabled for discussion.
 
     
He urged the chiefs to play their respective roles as traditional leaders effectively to ensure a peaceful election in December.  
 
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FIFA salutes former President Rawlings

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The Federation of International Football Association (FIFA) has expressed their deepest condolences to the Ghana Football Association (GFA), the government, and the people of Ghana following the demise of former President Jerry John Rawlings.
 
             
The highly cherished leader died on Thursday at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital after a short illness.
 
             
In a joint statement signed by FIFA President Mr. Gianni Infantino and its’ General Secretary Fatima Samoura, said there were saddened by the death of the former President.
 
             
“It was with emotion and sadness that we learned of the passing of His Excellency Jerry Rawlings, former President of the Republic of Ghana.
 
               
“Tribute are flowing from the African continent and elsewhere to salute his memory, and we would like herewith to join them.
 
               
“As President over the the destiny of Ghana from 1993 to 2001, the statesman recognised for his passion discipline and values, the charismatic leader having liberalised Ghana’s economy, encouraging investment in key economic sectors, H.E Jerry Rawlings will not be forgotten,” the statement said.
 
             
Notably, the Black Stars during Thursday 2-0 win against Sudan wore a black hand band in memory of the departed former President as well as observing a minute silence.

PPP SYMPATHIZES WITH THE FAMILY OF FLT LT JERRY JOHN RAWLINGS

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The Progressive Peoples Party (PPP) has sent condolences to the family of the late former President Jerry John Rawlings whose sudden demise occurred yesterday Thursday November 12.

The party says the former President will forever be remembered as a legendary revolutionary leader, a nationalist, disciplinarian, pragmatist, and a defender of social justice.

In a statement signed by the General Secretary of the party Paa Kow Ackon, he said Rawlings‘ integrity, sublime leadership and contribution to the socio-political development of Ghana and the continent at large are imprinted in the sand of time.

The former President died at age 73 after battling a short illness at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital.

Read full statement below:

13th November, 2020

For Immediate Release

PPP SYMPATHIZES WITH THE FAMILY OF FLT LT JERRY JOHN RAWLINGS

We have learned with great sadness today of the untimely death of Mr. Jerry John Rawlings, Ghana’s longest serving President.

We fondly remember Mr Rawlings as a legendary revolutionary leader, a nationalist, disciplinarian, pragmatist, and a defender of social justice who devoted his entire life to the development and empowerment of Ghanaians.

 

His integrity, sublime leadership and contribution to the socio-political development of Ghana and the continent at large are imprinted in the sand of time.

 

Our thoughts and prayers are with the family members, friends and his political associates; particularly, leadership and members of the National Democratic Congress (NDC). May the members of the NDC find solace in the memory of the deep devotion and contributions of their founder.

 

May God grant his soul a peaceful rest.

 

SIGNED

Paa Kow Ackon

National Secretary

SAD DAY FOR GHANA

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Former President Jerry John Rawlings is dead marking a sad day for Ghana.

The former president according to sources passed on today November 12, 2020 after a brief illness.

Jerry John Rawlings was born in Accra on 22nd June, 1947, to a Ghanaian mother from Dzelukope, near Keta, in the Volta Region, and a Scottish father.

Stay tuned for more information.

MTN Hitmaker S9: Kwacy Boat, RBJ sent packing

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Season nine of the MTN Hitmaker continue to produce some exciting and thrilling performances.
 
         
The only rapper in this season’s reality show Kwacy Boat was evicted after a poor showing in his performance last week and was joined by Ronnie Bryan Johnson also known as “RBJ”.
 
           
The remaining eight contestants in their fourth live performances did produce some exciting performances with judges Kaywa, Eazzy and Rex Omar giving their verdict on respective performances.
 
           
The likes of Gabby Nova, Bryan, Kobby Tuesday and Adepa did great in their respective performances having received commendations from judges.
 
         
Other contestants including Nessa Cute, Mimi and Achiaa also did well in their performance but had to step up their performances in the next contest according to the judges.
 
         
For Josh Blakk it was an emotional performance for him as he took the opportunity to propose to his long-time girlfriend in romantic fashion.
 
         
This year’s competition themed “Unlock your flow” would see the remaining eight contestants battle it out for the GHS120,000 recording deal.
 
         
You can vote for your favorite contestants via MTN Pulse App or texting their names to shortcode 1470 across all networks.

Plying on Chuchuliga-Sandema road is not safe– Police Commander

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The Commander of the Builsa North District command  of the Ghana Police Service in the Upper East Region, Mr Francis Kwasi Amankwah has cautioned members of the public against travelling during late hours on the Sandema-Chuchuliga stretch of road.
 
He said in spite of the dangerous nature of the road, Police officers on night patrols found travellers on motorbikes parked to receive calls in the middle of the road, “Forgetting that where they are is a potential place that anybody can rob them.
 
“We must note that Chuchuliga-Sandema road is a potential road for attacks, We have no Automated Teller Machine (ATM) here, anybody who needs money goes to Navrongo if you are trailed, you are doomed,” he said.
 
The Commander gave the caution when he addressed stakeholders at a debate programme for Parliamentary Candidates (PCs) in the Builsa North Constituency organised by the Justice and Peace Commission of the Christ the King Catholic Church in collaboration with the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE).
 
The programme, which received funding support from the European Union and the Konrad Adenuer Stiffing, a German Non-Governmental Organisation, brought together PCs from the People’s National Convention (PNC), the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and an Independent Candidate.
 
“The criminals prepare their minds to attack a particular place, but if they go there and the resistance is high, they decide to attack vulnerable people in the area. So if you are riding on that road and you get a call, get to a safer place before you stop to receive the call,” he advised.
 
Mr Amankwah also expressed concern about the attitude of some journalists who were quick to report on security issues in the District and in the process, exposing security lapses, cautioning them to be circumspect in their reportage on matters of security.
 
“Please you are rather doing a disservice to the community because you are inviting criminals to come and operate because you have told them Police is vulnerable here, journalists should stop that,” he emphasized.
 
The Commander, who is an Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP), said the slightest hint of any security challenge could breach the peace and security architecture of the District and make it vulnerable to all forms of crimes.
He recounted that a journalist called on phone to question him about some security issues in the District, “I told him to come to the office, he never came, only to report in the media that Sandema Police saw armed robbers and run away.”
 
ASP Amankwah said immediately after the publication, some mobile money vendors were attacked, and on Sunday, November 8, 2020, some people attacked a church in the District and made away with some money.
 
“Don’t try to portray the picture that something worse is happening in Sandema. We are to reduce crime to the barest minimum not the total elimination of crime, so some few journalists who want to be in haste to make security challenges known to everybody are rather doing disservice to the community.”
 
ASP Amankwah advised  the public to be security conscious, as it was a shared responsibility, adding that even though police personnel were available, they could not be everywhere, and should therefore not be blamed for some crimes in the District.

UHAS graduates first cohort of medical doctors

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The University of Health and Allied Sciences has graduated its first cohort of 41 medical doctors after undergoing six years of rigorous training in the Ho Teaching Hospital.  
 
The medical doctors, who have already started their housemanship in various hospitals in the country after being sworn-in earlier by the Medical and Dental Council, participated in the University’s official graduation last Friday.
 
At the same ceremony, 30 medical biochemists and molecular biologists also graduated for the first time from the University.
 
Professor John Gyapong, Vice Chancellor of UHAS, said degrees and awards were conferred on deserving students, who have fulfilled all the academic requirements of their programmes of study.
 
He charged the graduands to demonstrate the University’s values and ethos of excellence, integrity, innovation, service and care.
 
He said: “We have done our best to instil these in you so you must exude them wherever you go and be true ambassadors of this noble institution”.
 
Dr Kofi Antwi Agyapong, the best graduating doctor won five of the twelve academic prizes that were on offer.
 
Ms Rosina Afua Ampomah Carr won the Vice Chancellors prize for the overall outstanding graduating UHAS student, with Mr Victor Loglo receiving the Professor Fred Binka prize for outstanding graduating student with demonstrated service to the UHAS community.
 
The guest of honour for the ceremony was Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, who congratulated UHAS for being a key player in the training of health professionals in the country, and urged the doctors to work diligently wherever they were posted to help alleviate the suffering of Ghanaians.
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