Новости за 03.07.2019

Anas Aremeyaw Anas Reports From Echoing Hill Village, Accra, Ghana Echoing Hills Village, a high hill echoing to a vertiginous whirl of vices, venom, villainy and voracious avarice; a moral vacuum, a village vacant of virtue, vitiated by vitriolic abuse; the victims, very often, the very vulnerable vagrants the Village vouches to rescue from the vicious vagaries of life Prison, Detention and Neglect thought to be words connected to criminals in our society are gradually becom ...

The Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection, Cynthia Morrison has petitioned the police to investigate the General Manager of Echoing Hills Village orphanage over an alleged maltreatment of the inmates. Speaking on Accra-based City FM yesterday, July 2, this year, Ms Morrison, said personnel from the Department of Social Welfare had been sent to the orphanage to monitor the situation. She added that she personally visited the orphanage and interviewed some of the children ...

The President, His Excellency, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has commissioned a state- of- the-art artificial park constructed by Wembley Sports Construction Company Limited at the University of Professional Studies (UPSA) in Accra. Addressing a durbar to commission the Astro Turf park project, the President averred that government is committed to sports development hence, is prepared to collaborate with the private sector to ensure that. President Akufo Addo also stressed the need fo ...

The Chief Executive Officer of the Nation Builders Corps is on a nationwide monitoring tour to ascertain for himself first-hand how the implementation of the programme has been after institutional placement of trainees to various module implementing partners, interact with some of these trainees to see how they are doing at their various workplaces, interact with module implementing partners, the media and staff of the Nation Builders Corps in the region. The Chief Executive Officer spent two ...

Dr Kwaku Anane-Gyinde, a Lecturer at the GIMPA Faculty of Law has noted that Christians in Ghana have a critical role to play in the fight against corruption, indiscipline and other social vices creeping into the fabric of the Ghanaian society. Dr Anane-Gyinde, who was the Guest Speaker, made these comments at the Fundraising Harvest in aid of a church Building at Kunsu organised by the South District of the Mid- North Ghana Conference of the Seventh Day Adventist over the week. He said Ch ...

Member of Parliament for Salaga north constituency in the Savannah region, Alhaji Alhassan Mumuni has supported 40 needy but brilliant students in his constituency. The beneficiary students were drawn from across the entire constituency A total cost of twenty thousand Ghana cedis ( GH 20000 cedis) was disbursed to the students from his share of the MPs common fund. Alhaji Alhassan Mumuni encouraged the beneficiary students to take their studies seriously and also return to serve the con ...

Echoing Hills Village, Madina, Accra Yaw Twumasi (not his real name), an orphan and inmate in the Echoing Hills Village Orphanage, has said in an interview that he has been beaten, arrested, detained and forced to write a statement at the Madina Police Station to admit that he helped Tiger Eye PI and some German volunteers in secretly filming the recent investigative piece, TORTURE HOME rdquo; Tiger Eye PI had a call from Yaw Twumasi of issues relating to its newly released investiga ...

Immediate past first runners rsquo; up, West African Senior High School have been ousted from the ongoing National Science and Maths Quiz in the last one-eighth stage contest Wednesday. Takoradi SHS scored 25 points to reduce WASS, a fierce opponent just a year ago to nothing more than staring at the exit door. Sogakope SHS who also featured in the contest has been eliminated as well. A disappointing result for the Adentan-based school, they must now go back to basics if they would feat ...

The ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) Bono Regional Chairman, Kwame Baffoe popularly known as Abronye DC has described the Coalition of Social Justice 39;s (CSJ) Kum yen Preko demonstration slated for July 9 as a scam. According to the NDC 39;s National Communications Officer, Sammy Gyamfi who is an Executive Member of CJS, said the date for the demonstration has moved from July 2 to July 9, 2019 which will start at Obra Sport, Accra. To Sammy Gyamfi, the march against lsquo;Hardship a ...

The District Chief Executive for the Kwahu Afram Plains North District, Hon Samuel Kena has presented a set of school furniture to the District office of the Ghana Education Service at Donkorkrom. Making the presentation, Hon Kena said the practice where buildings are commissioned before furniture are procured are a thing of the past and that the government would ensure that completed buildings are equipped with furniture before commissioning. The furniture comprising 200 mono desks, ...

Senior Citizens in the Bono Region have been urged to inculcate in the current generation moral consciousness and the spirit of patriotism. The call was made during this year rsquo;s mini durbar of Chiefs, Queen mothers and religious authorities for the commemoration of the 59th Republic Day in honor of retired workers for their selfless public service to the nation. The Deputy Bono Regional Minister (MP) Siaka Stevens as Guest Speaker for the occasion expressed worry about some ir ...

A year after the Nana Addo Dankwah Akufo-Addo led NPP administration took over the mantle as the president of Ghana, the member of Parliament for Assin central Hon. Kennedy Agyapong vowed to exposed some top police officers who links with land guards in the country. COP Bright Oduro the then CID boss was accused by the MP for allegedly abusing his office by using land guards to take over lands that doesn 39;t belong to him. I will give the police service a crusade for everybody to ...

The chiefs and elders of Buem, remind Government of their request to host the University that government may wish to locate within the Oti Region. This was said during a courtesy call to the Oti Regional Minister on Monday, July 1, 2019, at the Regional capital, Dambai. Aburam Akapanja V, Paramount Chief of Buem Traditional Area, expresses his gratitude to the President of the Republic of Ghana for the bold step taken in the Creation of the Oti Region and assures full support and cooperati ...

Nigeria is in the grip of a kidnapping epidemic. Thousands of people have been taken, millions of dollars in ransoms paid. What began as a protest against the unequal distribution of oil wealth has now become a major security threat to Nigerians at all levels of society. The Intelligence Response Team, or IRT, were set up specifically to tackle kidnapping and armed robbery. Led by Commander Abba Kyari, known by many as ldquo;Nigeria rsquo;s Super Cop rdquo;, the unit have tracked down ...

The launching ceremony of the FSPI PISCCA programme dubbed laquo;Strengthening of Civil Societies in Ghana rdquo;, was held at the Alliance Fran ccedil;aise in Accra on the 1st of July 2019. The programme aims at structuring and strengthening the capacities of Ghanaian civil society organizations. Chaired by the Ambassador of France, Madam Anne Sophie AV Eacute;, the event brought together the 14 winning Ghanaian associations. These organizations were chosen by a selection committ ...

Dr Clement Abasenab Apaak, Deputy Ranking Member on Education Committee of Parliament, has described President Nana Akufo-Addo 39;s response to critics against the Universities Bill as intolerant and hypocritical leadership. He told Journalists in parliament he believed the President response to critics of the bill is an insult to academia. President Akufo Addo in response to critics claimed that the arguments over the University Bill are borne out of mischief. According to Presiden ...