tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80600686129154889372024-03-14T07:17:49.839-07:00Allotey GodwinWelcome to my my blog. A Resourceful Hub for varied InfoAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12517216053375324129noreply@blogger.comBlogger95125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060068612915488937.post-23992748501596496642016-03-08T07:11:00.001-08:002016-03-08T07:12:21.975-08:008 takeaways from 59th Independence Day parade<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiisMoR9Xrr0e8FaKDO6xsUZdMDCoTe93XpcjNJRuCqjnYmx72uz3VQ2JZiTCNy9cP2Uin-A73Q66k6TrHb2pMPwMsPvu_JBelzu3756SJRq04ssXfoAOP2DxkNcO8g9yKJTTcfPHo31rzn/s1600/jo-620x330.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiisMoR9Xrr0e8FaKDO6xsUZdMDCoTe93XpcjNJRuCqjnYmx72uz3VQ2JZiTCNy9cP2Uin-A73Q66k6TrHb2pMPwMsPvu_JBelzu3756SJRq04ssXfoAOP2DxkNcO8g9yKJTTcfPHo31rzn/s400/jo-620x330.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
I was really excited when my news editor assigned me to cover the 59<sup>th</sup> Independence Day parade at the Black Star Square in Accra on March 6<sup>th</sup> 2016.</div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
Though it was my second time covering the event, I felt it was worth attending.<br />
<a name='more'></a></div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
This year’s anniversary was on the theme: “Investing in the Youth for Ghana’s Transformation.”</div>
<br />
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
<strong>I loved the gymnastics</strong></div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
I remember at a young age, I was fond of Independence Day parades as I stayed glued to the TV in order to catch a glimpse of the match past. My favorite part was the gymnastics which were artistically done to spell the name of the country Ghana, and the age being celebrated.</div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
This time around, as a journalist, I had the opportunity to be present to witness it at first hand instead of watching on TV.</div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
Memories of the 48<sup>th</sup> anniversary parade were still fresh on my mind while I wondered how this year’s was going to be like.</div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
<strong>JJ Rawlings could stand for long hours</strong></div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
I remember a lot of schools participated in the march during former President Jerry John Rawlings' era, but subsequent presidents reduced the number of schools that participated in the parade.</div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
JJ Rawlings as he's affectionately called, could stand on his feet for hours without getting tired [or pretending not to be tired] to receive salutes from all the schools and security personnel who take part in the parade.</div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
<img alt="jj and mahama" class="size-full wp-image-196996 aligncenter" data-mce-src="http://citifmonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/jj-and-mahama.png" src="http://citifmonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/jj-and-mahama.png" height="400" style="display: block; height: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="566" /></div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
One of the things I found inconvenient about this year's 6<sup>th</sup> Mach parade, was the fact that it fell on a Sunday.</div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
I was at the Independence Square on Friday, March 4, 2016, for my accreditation card and for a briefing on security arrangements for the event.</div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
Although I was at the Black Star Square around 9:30am, I had my accreditation around 12:25pm. Together with journalists from other media houses, we were briefed by the Head of Communications at the Presidency, Stan Dogbe.</div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
He told us that two vehicles were to be provided at the left and right wings of the parade grounds to enable journalists capture President Mahama during the inspection of the parade and the lightening of the perpetual flame.</div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
He said platforms were to be mounted for journalists at the right and left wings as well as a scaffold, which was to be mounted at the centre for the TV crew. Mr. Dogbe also noted that journalists who climbed to the top on the day, were only going to be allowed to descend after the whole event was over.</div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
He also told us that military men were going to be in charge of security and would lead journalists briefly to the middle to capture President Mahama as he delivered his speech.</div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
<strong>Event Day</strong></div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
I was at the Black Star Square around 9:30am on Sunday morning. I had attended <strong>Citi FM’s</strong> Music of Ghanaian Origin a night before, and got home around 2:00am. I was very tired but I amassed the little energy left in me to attend the parade.</div>
<ul style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">
<li data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="text-align: justify;"><strong data-mce-style="line-height: 1.5;" style="line-height: 1.5;">Tipper truck row could have been prevented</strong></li>
</ul>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
Half way through my journey to the Black Star Square, I received photos of journalists packed in a tipper truck, from a colleague who was already at the venue.</div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
The photos captured some of the journalists struggling to climb the unkempt vehicle through a ladder that hanged dangerously.</div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
<img alt="b" class="size-large wp-image-196549 aligncenter" data-mce-src="http://citifmonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/b-1024x576.jpg" src="http://citifmonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/b-1024x576.jpg" height="349" style="display: block; height: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="620" /></div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
I laughed my heart out and I was not surprised that the photos went viral on social media. Many have criticized journalists for accepting such an arrangement when they could have rejected the offer.</div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
Well, the journalists couldn’t be blamed. If you don’t join the truck, you won’t get photos or videos of the President lighting the perpetual flame and inspecting the parade. I’m sure the journalists would have no excuse for missing out on such pictures. </div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
But the organisers could have done better. The decision to use a tipper truck for such a job was a poor one and whoever took that decision must be very much ashamed by now.</div>
<ul style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">
<li data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Security scanners </strong></li>
</ul>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
After watching the photos, I hurried to the Black Star Square to witness the event and to my utter dismay, for the first time, there were security scanners installed around the main entrance to the parade ground.</div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
All the attendees had to be screened before they were allowed to enter the premises. Security was very tight as I saw military men standing at obscure places and on top of the Ark at the Black Star Square.</div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="mceTemp" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">
<dl class="wp-caption aligncenter" data-mce-style="width: 610px;" id="attachment_196985" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; width: 610px;">
<dt class="wp-caption-dt" style="-webkit-user-drag: none;"><img alt="Some people going through the security scanners" class="size-full wp-image-196985" data-mce-src="http://citifmonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/security-scanners-at-indepedence-square.jpg" src="http://citifmonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/security-scanners-at-indepedence-square.jpg" height="400" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="600" /></dt>
<dd class="wp-caption-dd" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0.5em;">Some people going through the security scanners</dd></dl>
</div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
My bag which had my laptop, camera, reporters notepad and other equipment were scanned. The security men also made me go through the machine to ensure that I had no explosives or weapons on me.</div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
Such security machines were in the right direction and I think it should be encouraged at other national gatherings in the wake of terror attacks in neighbouring countries.</div>
<ul style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">
<li data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="text-align: justify;"><strong>School children didn't stand for hours in the sun</strong></li>
</ul>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
After the screening, I again hurried to one of the stands provided for the media. Surprisingly, there were no students or pupils standing in the sun as it used to be in the past. </div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
Security vehicles were instead parked around the perpetual flame area. This move enabled the various performers on the day to have a big space to operate in.</div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
Few minutes after I settled down, the MC announced that the parade was about to start. I quickly fixed my camera to capture the parade.</div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
I saw the school kids coming from the left wing of the parade grounds behind the stands meant for attendees. In the past, school kids usually collapsed after standing on the scorching sun for long hours.</div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
<img alt="IMG_8697_800x533" class="size-full wp-image-196480 aligncenter" data-mce-src="http://citifmonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/IMG_8697_800x533.jpg" src="http://citifmonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/IMG_8697_800x533.jpg" height="361" style="display: block; height: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="598" /></div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
This usually took the shine out of the event since journalists reported on such mishaps instead of focusing on the main event.</div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
This time around, after having their turns to march, the students were escorted to their seats except the security personnel who still stood at the parade ground throughout the rest of the programme.</div>
<ul style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">
<li data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="text-align: justify;"><strong data-mce-style="line-height: 1.5;" style="line-height: 1.5;">Carnival treat, masqueraders, taekwondo act was good</strong></li>
</ul>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
Other new things I observed at the parade, were the introduction of taekwondo fighters, carnival treat, comedy by some local (Kumawood) actors and dance by masqueraders.</div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
These acts added color to the event.</div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
<img alt="independence day rehearsal (2)_800x533" class="size-full wp-image-196017 aligncenter" data-mce-src="http://citifmonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/independence-day-rehearsal-2_800x533.jpg" src="http://citifmonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/independence-day-rehearsal-2_800x533.jpg" height="533" style="display: block; height: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="800" /></div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
The local (Kumawood) stars which included comedians, were dressed like ex-security men and they called themselves the colonial Police.</div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
The team was led by Papa Nii Papafie also known as Oesophagus, and included Agya Koo, Kyeiwaa, Kwaku Manu, Mr. Beautiful, Bob Okala among others. While some may not agree with me, trust me; this segment put smiles on the faces of the many who witnessed it including the President.</div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
<img alt="colonial police" class=" wp-image-196896 aligncenter" data-mce-src="http://citifmonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/colonial-police.png" src="http://citifmonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/colonial-police.png" height="379" style="display: block; height: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="536" /></div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
The act by the taekwondo kids, the carnival treat and the masqueraders, also made the event enjoyable.</div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
Another act that was introduced last year, and repeated this year, was the all-female motor riders and the helicopter rappelling. They were fun to watch.</div>
<ul style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">
<li data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Error ridden brochures; an international embarrassment </strong></li>
</ul>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
However, photos of grammatical, typographical and unpardonable errors in the brochure used for the 59<sup>th</sup> Independence Day celebration went viral on social media.</div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
The name of the President of Kenya, Uhuru Kenyatta, who graced the occasion, was captured in the brochure as the president of Ghana. The Coat of Arms was also wrongly spelt among other errors.</div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
<img alt="brochure error (3)" class=" wp-image-196856 aligncenter" data-mce-src="http://citifmonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/brochure-error-3.jpg" src="http://citifmonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/brochure-error-3.jpg" height="404" style="display: block; height: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="539" /></div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
The acting Director of the Information Service Department (ISD), Francis Kwarteng Arthur had subsequently accepted responsibility and apologized for the error-ridden brochures. But workers of ISD had been angered by the apology arguing that they did not print the brochures hence should not be blamed.</div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
Whether it was the ISD's mistake or not; the public anger still remains and I think the one whose negligence led to such an international embarrassment should be punished.</div>
<ul style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">
<li data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Journalists not allowed to capture Mahama</strong></li>
</ul>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
Despite the assurance by Stan Dogbe, Head of Communications at the Flagstaff House, when the President mounted the podium to deliver his address, we were not allowed to get even an inch closer. When we protested, they [security men] told us that “they’ve changed their mind.”</div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
Such show of power must not be condoned. It’s bad. Almost every year, journalists are allowed few minutes to take pictures of the President and later dispersed to their stands.</div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
<del><img alt="Some journalists angry with the military for not allowing them to take photographs of the President" class="size-full wp-image-196993" data-mce-src="http://citifmonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/journalists-protest.png" src="http://citifmonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/journalists-protest.png" height="430" style="height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="768" /></del></div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">
<br /></div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">
I and many journalists left the venue angry with the military for not allowing us to take photographs of the President. </div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">
<br /></div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">
We were not allowed the chance except for the TV cameras who were already on top of the scaffold and the President’s cameraman as well as others given special accreditation. I think this act should not be repeated.</div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
<img alt="journalists at independence day parade" class="size-full wp-image-197000 aligncenter" data-mce-src="http://citifmonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/journalists-at-independence-day-parade.jpg" src="http://citifmonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/journalists-at-independence-day-parade.jpg" height="400" style="display: block; height: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="600" /></div>
<ul style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">
<li data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Another uninspiring speech by Mahama?</strong></li>
</ul>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
President John Dramani Mahama in his address called on Ghanaians to rise up to the task of nation building thrust upon all by the country’s founding fathers.</div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
“The successes and failure of this nation belongs to all to us because this country is for all of us, and we can each choose to play a role no matter how seemingly minor in moving our dear nation forward.”</div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
He charged Ghanaians to commit fully to to the development of Ghana saying, “We must invest ourselves not only in the achievements our nation has chalked but also in the challenges because each of us is the face of Ghana.”</div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
He further extolled Ghana as a nation that continues to epitomize and inspire other Sub-Saharan African countries to strive for better democratic practices.</div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
<img alt="mahama at independence day celebration" class=" wp-image-196623 aligncenter" data-mce-src="http://citifmonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/mahama-at-independence-day-celebration.png" src="http://citifmonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/mahama-at-independence-day-celebration.png" height="389" style="display: block; height: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="582" /></div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
“Despite the political difficulties they have traveled through generations, the citizens of Guinea Bissau also still hold fast to the hope of a continuation of security and continuation of many more peaceful transitions of power.”</div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
Despite such declarations however, critics believe the speech was uninspiring and that the president could have done better.</div>
<ul style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">
<li data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Was President Mahama wearing a bulletproof vest?</strong></li>
</ul>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
Some Ghanaians are also asking questions about whether the President wore a bullet-proof vest to the Black Star Square.</div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
If he did, then it was in order because thousands of people were at the Black Star Square on Sunday and the security of the first gentleman of the land, could not be taken for granted.</div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
<img alt="mahama two days" class="size-full wp-image-196983 aligncenter" data-mce-src="http://citifmonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/mahama-two-days.jpg" src="http://citifmonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/mahama-two-days.jpg" height="401" style="display: block; height: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="600" /></div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
In all, I think the 59th Independence Day Parade was good, but for the few errors that took away the shine.</div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
-</div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
By: Godwin A. Allotey/citifmonline.com/Ghana</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">
<a class="twitter-follow-button" data-mce-href="https://twitter.com/AlloteyGodwin" data-show-count="false" href="https://twitter.com/AlloteyGodwin">Follow @AlloteyGodwin</a></div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
Blog: alloteygodwin.blogspot.com</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12517216053375324129noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060068612915488937.post-28486273355924644592016-03-07T17:30:00.000-08:002016-03-08T00:57:29.442-08:00Agya Koo, Kyeiwaa, Okala others perform at Independence day parade [Video]<div class="" data-block="true" data-offset-key="9n7hi-0-0" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGg2u0Z4DWTXm9p2pux50T-lDQZH-PO80BITxtTBidrH3aJnnLAQZNBxRhGQroljQstEBPLcu6p8tA2xnc8gIO6jnpbu0h9WLxdDK1fG_RjeOtCqQ3nduOCL446gtWCk6u7Jdu3fnyr7eX/s1600/colonial-police.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="282" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGg2u0Z4DWTXm9p2pux50T-lDQZH-PO80BITxtTBidrH3aJnnLAQZNBxRhGQroljQstEBPLcu6p8tA2xnc8gIO6jnpbu0h9WLxdDK1fG_RjeOtCqQ3nduOCL446gtWCk6u7Jdu3fnyr7eX/s400/colonial-police.png" width="400" /></a></div>
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-mce-style="text-align: center;" data-offset-key="9n7hi-0-0" style="text-align: justify;">
<span data-offset-key="9n7hi-0-0">In a bid to add a lighter touch to Ghana’s 59th Independence Day anniversary parade at the Black Star Square in Accra, some popular Ghanaian comedy actors performed a skit as Police officers from the colonial era.</span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-mce-style="text-align: center;" data-offset-key="7eeu8-0-0" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7eeu8-0-0" style="text-align: justify;">
</div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-mce-style="text-align: center;" data-offset-key="e6kk-0-0" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="e6kk-0-0" style="text-align: justify;">
<span data-offset-key="e6kk-0-0">The actors, led by Papa Nii Papa Fio also known as Oesophagus included, Agya Koo, Kyeiwaa, Kwaku Manu, Mr. Beautiful among others.</span><br />
<a name='more'></a></div>
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="e6kk-0-0" style="text-align: justify;">
<span data-offset-key="e6kk-0-0"><br /></span></div>
</div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
The performers, mostly drawn from Ghana’s largest movie industry, Kumawood, managed to put smiles on the face of the thousands of Ghanaians who were present at the event held on Sunday [March 6, 2016].</div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
<strong>Click below to watch the video:</strong></div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
<strong><br /></strong></div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
<strong><br /></strong></div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
<strong><br /></strong></div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
<strong><br /></strong></div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
<strong><br /></strong></div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
<strong><br /></strong></div>
<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/6aJWa3V4M44" width="500"></iframe>
<br />
<div data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
<strong><br /></strong></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12517216053375324129noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060068612915488937.post-87587687252105087692016-03-01T16:36:00.000-08:002016-03-08T00:42:53.579-08:005 things Mahama, Nana Addo said about corruption [Infographic]<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPPdvRI757lFm1hCslQVO5-ElZiP2LKBxdUHsxI-xTg-HZNORHDINOqAcy58WXJB3u25t4EOw7NaO7R7meE1LmI0qk6Uc8E1isqQah-QZ7jPfuZyByunbl-iLAChLxL8-L5gSagrZubtXW/s1600/SOTHGhana-Mahama-and-Nana-Addo-on-corruption-Copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><img border="0" height="233" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPPdvRI757lFm1hCslQVO5-ElZiP2LKBxdUHsxI-xTg-HZNORHDINOqAcy58WXJB3u25t4EOw7NaO7R7meE1LmI0qk6Uc8E1isqQah-QZ7jPfuZyByunbl-iLAChLxL8-L5gSagrZubtXW/s400/SOTHGhana-Mahama-and-Nana-Addo-on-corruption-Copy.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
President John Dramani Mahama and his main contender in the November general elections, Nana Akufo-Addo of the opposition New Patriotic Party, (NPP), have different views about the canker of corruption in Ghana.</div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
The President, during the State of the Nation Address last Thursday, described corruption as a “disease, which if left unchecked can choke and kill a nation.”</div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
He among other things explained how his government is fighting corruption.</div>
<a name='more'></a><br />
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
President Mahama also called on Ghanaians to mobilize their efforts in the fight against corruption saying citizens have an obligation in that regard.</div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
The NPP flagbearer, Nana Akufo-Addo on the other hand, in his delivery of what he called, “The Real State of the Nation” address, downplayed the government's efforts in the fight against the canker.</div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
According him, the President could not “point to one example where an exposure of corruption has come from his government. Each scandal, that has been exposed, has been unearthed by the media, civil society or the Minority in Parliament.”</div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
Below is an infographic of what the two personalities said about corruption:</div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
<img alt="SOTHGhana- Mahama and Nana Addo on corruption new one" class="size-large wp-image-194872 aligncenter" data-mce-src="http://citifmonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/SOTHGhana-Mahama-and-Nana-Addo-on-corruption-new-one-683x1024.jpg" src="http://citifmonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/SOTHGhana-Mahama-and-Nana-Addo-on-corruption-new-one-683x1024.jpg" height="930" style="display: block; height: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="620" /></div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
-</div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
By: Godwin A. Allotey</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<a class="twitter-follow-button" data-show-count="false" href="https://twitter.com/AlloteyGodwin">Follow @AlloteyGodwin</a>
<script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+'://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');</script>
<br />
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12517216053375324129noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060068612915488937.post-65685542398144479562016-02-26T15:20:00.000-08:002016-03-08T00:49:11.630-08:00SOTNGhana: 5 things Mahama said about health [Infographic]<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEDlhK_7-15Ari1XG14gYhTczuWJp7rGIjYK5kcCrNfL6wXOlEDSTZ5t8OA0NbrApT3LB1MZlcTybVEi951B0xUibmVtQlDM-zYz_ty_5qIIbMyDpEcxa-UJe6mggi24ihE9Vf0Y7GUmVo/s1600/What-Mahama-said-on-Health-Copy.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><img border="0" height="202" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEDlhK_7-15Ari1XG14gYhTczuWJp7rGIjYK5kcCrNfL6wXOlEDSTZ5t8OA0NbrApT3LB1MZlcTybVEi951B0xUibmVtQlDM-zYz_ty_5qIIbMyDpEcxa-UJe6mggi24ihE9Vf0Y7GUmVo/s400/What-Mahama-said-on-Health-Copy.png" width="400" /></a></div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
President John Dramani Mahama was in Parliament on Thursday February 25, 2016, to deliver the State of the Nation Address.</div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
Among the many sectors he spoke about, he enumerated a number of interventions and projects carried out by government to improve the country’s health sector.</div>
<a name='more'></a><br />
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
President Mahama said currently the National Health Insurance Scheme's (NHIS) subscription, has increased from 597,000 members in 2005, to 11.2 million in 2015, representing 41% of the country's population.</div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
This he said proved the confidence reposed in the scheme by Ghanaians and in the health sector, contrary to suggestions that the scheme is collapsing.</div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
President Mahama also said Ghanaians are living longer by 14 years.</div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
<strong>Below is an infographic of what the President said about the health sector:</strong></div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
<strong><br /></strong></div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
<img alt="What Mahama said on Health" class="size-large wp-image-193657 aligncenter" data-mce-src="http://citifmonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/What-Mahama-said-on-Health-683x1024.png" src="http://citifmonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/What-Mahama-said-on-Health-683x1024.png" height="930" style="display: block; height: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="620" /></div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
-</div>
<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
By: Godwin A. Allotey/citifmonline.com/Ghana</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">
<a class="twitter-follow-button" data-mce-href="https://twitter.com/AlloteyGodwin" data-show-count="false" href="https://twitter.com/AlloteyGodwin">Follow @AlloteyGodwin</a></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12517216053375324129noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060068612915488937.post-12651554262924464452015-01-26T06:39:00.000-08:002015-01-26T06:40:14.428-08:007 unexpected signs you might be an entrepreneur<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6XykPJDA18t2P8wMaCYzI75qdLL4BiLP72ZbL1u0hlWJJgtwlpCuRNReomg41UStfj_3f76yYfEzy_0m-Z8Nmg1qWppUv4vXnECBvuoN16YEDasFZ9qkEM3M3taRe8tGbjxASIxxTkKtA/s1600/Steve-Jobs-Bill-Gates-600x250.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6XykPJDA18t2P8wMaCYzI75qdLL4BiLP72ZbL1u0hlWJJgtwlpCuRNReomg41UStfj_3f76yYfEzy_0m-Z8Nmg1qWppUv4vXnECBvuoN16YEDasFZ9qkEM3M3taRe8tGbjxASIxxTkKtA/s1600/Steve-Jobs-Bill-Gates-600x250.jpg" height="165" width="400" /></a></div>
Below are seven signs you might be an entrepreneur<br />
<br />
1) <b>You’re restless, and no achievement ever seems good enough</b><br />
<br />
When most people reach a goal they think, “I did it! Time to sit back and enjoy it for a while.” An entrepreneur thinks, “Great, what’s next?” Take the late fashion maven Coco Chanel. She started with a simple hat line, expanded into women’s clothing, and eventually moved into jewelry, accessories and perfume. By the time of her death in 1971, Chanel had not only left behind an iconic brand, but a business empire that was bringing in $160 million annually. Entrepreneurs like Chanel don’t stop with one big achievement. They’re always itching to find and take on the next challenge.<br />
<a name='more'></a><br />
<br />
2) <b>You’re a control freak </b><br />
<br />
Throughout my career, I’ve had to make a conscious effort to strike a balance between controlling my business and letting the talented people around me take the reins. It turns out that many of my entrepreneur friends struggle with the same challenge. It’s great to have a CEO who cares about all the details of a company, but when that person needs to be involved at every level, it can become detrimental to getting things done. It can also stress out employees, who have been brought on precisely so you don’t have to make each and every decision. Luckily, we can take some comfort in knowing that super entrepreneurs like Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, and Bill Gates have all been described as control freaks.<br />
<br />
3) <b>You’re a masochist </b><br />
<br />
As an entrepreneur, you’ve got to love a little pain and a lot of risk. Consider the fact that 75 percent of new startups fail. Only a masochist sets himself up to face those kind of odds, straight out of the gate. And it doesn’t get much better after that, at least not at first. You’ll struggle for money. You’ll work unimaginably long hours. You’ll be lonely, because while everyone else is out partying or watching movies, you’re toiling away … often alone. Serial entrepreneurs—who start and run businesses one after another—could be considered even more masochistic, because they go into each new venture knowing what’s coming.<br />
<br />
4) <b>You have a love-hate relationship with money</b><br />
<br />
Entrepreneurs generally fall in love with making money really early in life. A young Warren Buffett, for instance, had a paper route for the Washington Post and made money selling everything from lost golf balls to gum, stamps and magazines—all before he graduated from high school. I got my start washing windows of local businesses and selling snacks on paintball fields when I was still in elementary school.<br />
<br />
But, eventually, many entrepreneurs are driven less by money and more by the innate thrill of launching a new venture and the freedom and control that come with it. By the time I reached college, my own attitudes had already started to shift. I was on the path to a law degree and a secure, well-paying job. Instead, I dropped out to start a pizza restaurant because it was more of a challenge and I could do it my way.<br />
<br />
5) <b>You’re a black sheep, and maybe even a dropout</b><br />
<br />
Many entrepreneurs describe themselves as not fitting in with the crowd. I definitely felt that way in high school. Lots of notable entrepreneurs have even ended up ditching the traditional education system altogether. Tech titan Bill Gates, billionaires Ted Turner and Li Ka-shing, Richard Branson and McDonald’s founder Ray Kroc are just some examples of widely successful entrepreneurs who all dropped out of high school or college. While it’s not always easy to be the outsider, it’s exactly this quality— seeing things through a different lens from the rest of the world—that can help move society forward and drive innovation.<br />
<br />
6)<b> People think you’re crazy</b><br />
<br />
Because entrepreneurs tend to think along different wavelengths, their ambitions can often come across as crazy to friends and family—especially before the vision has been made a reality. Take, for example, Ruth Handler, who created the world’s most iconic plastic doll: Barbie. In the 1950s, Handler was met with doubt and criticism (including from her own husband) for proposing a doll that looked more like an adult than a baby or child. She came up with the notion after seeing her own daughter playing with paper dolls that looked like adults. Handler, of course, went forward with the idea anyway, and the rest is history.<br />
<br />
<b>7) You’re somewhat introverted</b><br />
<br />
To lead a business, you need to be super outgoing and salesy, right? Not necessarily. It turns out that roughly four in 10 top executives—including Google CEO and co-founder Larry Page—identify as introverts. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is also a well known introvert. Research suggests that introverts in the workplace foster a better team environment than their extroverted peers. And introverts are also known to be good listeners, a greatly overlooked but essential asset for good leadership. Few of the entrepreneurs I know are loud or assertive, especially not in big groups or meetings.<br />
<br />
-<br />
<br />
Source: hootsuite.comAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12517216053375324129noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060068612915488937.post-41334687521809739592014-06-05T06:18:00.001-07:002014-06-05T06:32:12.417-07:00Google launches Street View Service in Greece after 5 years <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_AxxfWP2DmPWIgjackX3aUSvd_rf6LpyucZiIap8ftZMiUgOUWu6hffMKfSnWKlDcUqzYL4tjJFbyYSM5atvS4Em0nI7rhfJ8WrM1SpTLxUghFSezxQhpDenMH6jRnJuhOjiok7NMKQEY/s1600/google_maps_street_view_greece.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_AxxfWP2DmPWIgjackX3aUSvd_rf6LpyucZiIap8ftZMiUgOUWu6hffMKfSnWKlDcUqzYL4tjJFbyYSM5atvS4Em0nI7rhfJ8WrM1SpTLxUghFSezxQhpDenMH6jRnJuhOjiok7NMKQEY/s1600/google_maps_street_view_greece.jpg" height="191" width="400" /></a></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Media Giants Google has finally been given the green light to execute its Street View Map Service project in Greece after winning approval from the privacy authority that blocked the ground-level map application five years ago. </div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
</div>
<a name='more'></a><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">
In 2009, Greece blocked Google Street View from acquiring new images within the country until the company provided more guarantees on privacy.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
After "extensive and detailed" negotiations with the country's Data Protection Authority, which last year lifted objections made to the project years ago, Google officials said the service went live Thursday.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Google's Director in Greece Stefanos Loukakos presented to the media the Street View in Athens on Thursday, June 5, 2014. </div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF24YfmmnqfqLEM45qYLzXuhOph6FwlzmypCZijCcpLiMJVa4owJYCMPSa_QF5XoAraZYVHyo6rLiZQl3lBk47w8n-63IwYB65KLmNfUh9I_46SD0LraGnZIhFqnNsL4EzkZzkHe4glgX5/s1600/google_maps_street_view_greece_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: justify;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF24YfmmnqfqLEM45qYLzXuhOph6FwlzmypCZijCcpLiMJVa4owJYCMPSa_QF5XoAraZYVHyo6rLiZQl3lBk47w8n-63IwYB65KLmNfUh9I_46SD0LraGnZIhFqnNsL4EzkZzkHe4glgX5/s1600/google_maps_street_view_greece_.jpg" height="191" width="400" /></a><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Culture Minister Panos Panagiotopoulos attended the launch event in central Athens and said the map service would help the crisis-hit country's vital tourism industry, describing Greece as an "endless archaeological park."</div>
<br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Google was allowed to gather photos for Street View while waiting for formal approval to start the service, and had been permitted to display cultural sites on a related service.<br />
<br />
mashable.com</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12517216053375324129noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060068612915488937.post-43367972316730656792014-06-04T06:43:00.000-07:002014-08-27T10:48:28.385-07:00Kwame Nkrumah Circle road Interchange project on course<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEhGBamUV-r4HQkjunzrBDiWyehCMV28fxNNHcmnEbt9O5M8YTR1DMKHO7JaHjnvS1j0YDOLMkhG9SGpVyIRLes4VXm26K5E_VxZLhD8DfMrDuc4zQC497WOcGeuqfNBwUV4rKMafxipEU/s1600/circle_road_project.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: justify;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEhGBamUV-r4HQkjunzrBDiWyehCMV28fxNNHcmnEbt9O5M8YTR1DMKHO7JaHjnvS1j0YDOLMkhG9SGpVyIRLes4VXm26K5E_VxZLhD8DfMrDuc4zQC497WOcGeuqfNBwUV4rKMafxipEU/s1600/circle_road_project.jpg" height="191" width="400" /></a><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">
A cruise at the Kwame Nkrumah Circle, arguably the busiest place in the Capital City of Ghana, Accra, shows traders going on as usual with their businesses whilst the portion designated for a major road interchange project was disorganized as workers were spotted on site busily working.<br />
<br />
<a name='more'></a></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Some of the waterproofed concrete pillars to support the interchange has been erected.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Although vehicular traffic has increased in the area, the MTTU of the Ghana Police Service are always around to bring the condition under control.<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgye7mb0qnAOUKXwtVrL3243g_zxDxssigoPtunhkkcISwfKcOey4jCiUQBVUUQBJPebYpxYlhhfrIverERICqqGTBy1CTkKPDg4l47j53Ahyphenhyphenvr0FNDPpI8Liof_477d1SxIVjGvUa1TygE/s1600/circle_road_project_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgye7mb0qnAOUKXwtVrL3243g_zxDxssigoPtunhkkcISwfKcOey4jCiUQBVUUQBJPebYpxYlhhfrIverERICqqGTBy1CTkKPDg4l47j53Ahyphenhyphenvr0FNDPpI8Liof_477d1SxIVjGvUa1TygE/s1600/circle_road_project_1.jpg" height="192" width="400" /></a></div>
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
The 74.88 million euro project which is being jointly financed with credit from the Brazilian Government and the Ghana Government is scheduled to be completed within 24 months.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
President John Dramani Mahama cut the sod for the construction of the three-tier interchange at the Kwame Nkrumah Circle in Accra in October, 2013.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
According to the project design, the first of the interchanges will link the Akasanoma Road to the Nsawam Road, around the Vodafone building.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
The other interchange will link the Nsawam Road to the Nkrumah Avenue, around the Ghana Commercial Bank building, while the third interchange will link Ring Road Central to Ring Road West.</div>
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW2gpIxkAPb90EYvYOTDxiy_GucwYkQ4OjYKDpQEghqCaN8NyDcgh7mwSwoH9mGQZCYjlQnwf4lMLtgpXHfb0UzBP8uALpirpWfZCv_XK3Sd4M2w-3xmJKQI3hSF11AFZrSkUuMl5nrKMF/s1600/circle_road_project1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW2gpIxkAPb90EYvYOTDxiy_GucwYkQ4OjYKDpQEghqCaN8NyDcgh7mwSwoH9mGQZCYjlQnwf4lMLtgpXHfb0UzBP8uALpirpWfZCv_XK3Sd4M2w-3xmJKQI3hSF11AFZrSkUuMl5nrKMF/s1600/circle_road_project1.jpg" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Artistic impression of the Interchange</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Aside from the three-tier interchange, other roads around the Kwame Nkrumah Circle will be improved. These include the rehabilitation of Ring Road East to the Feo Oyo Intersection on Ring Road West.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
The roads will be given asphaltic concrete surface, with pedestrian walkways and bicycle paths.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Besides, the contractors, M/S Queiroz Galvao Constucao from Brazil, will provide passenger sheds and drainage systems at the Neoplan and Odawna lorry stations.<br />
<br />
<a class="twitter-follow-button" data-show-count="false" href="https://twitter.com/AlloteyGodwin"></a><a class="twitter-follow-button" data-show-count="false" href="https://twitter.com/AlloteyGodwin">@AlloteyGodwin</a></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12517216053375324129noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060068612915488937.post-50917271548950120842014-05-30T13:28:00.000-07:002014-06-03T23:03:23.929-07:00PICTURE: Wrongly placed overhead footbridges on N1 highway <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0GjaUTSvyMjgkY6m6V-49mk9nXMcFoXoZRgO6Dp-xA9XM2cJXQoDYzHSHI4OZjmGScv-LkRB7t3KqSou8aKvqCj9E6NS9UbZd4cPfn6inF1aeIoYUwOiHoD4uqK6EmOxp1y0646b1Nys8/s1600/overhead_bridge_n1_highway.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: justify;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0GjaUTSvyMjgkY6m6V-49mk9nXMcFoXoZRgO6Dp-xA9XM2cJXQoDYzHSHI4OZjmGScv-LkRB7t3KqSou8aKvqCj9E6NS9UbZd4cPfn6inF1aeIoYUwOiHoD4uqK6EmOxp1y0646b1Nys8/s1600/overhead_bridge_n1_highway.jpg" height="265" width="400" /></a><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">
This is one of the overhead footbridges on the George Walker Bush Highway popularly known as N1 highway which spans from the Tetteh Quashie roundabout to Mallam Junction in Accra.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
The project was funded by the US from the Millennium Challenge Account some few years ago.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
It is pathetic to note that there </div>
<a name='more'></a>are only 7 overhead footbridges on the N1 highway and the most painful part is that they are positioned at wrong places which do not encourage residents to patronize these footbridges.<br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Because of this most residents cross at dangerous points which usually increase the situation of cars knocking down people on daily basis.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Although metal railings have been fixed at the middle of the highway to deter people from crossing at dangerous points the situation still persists.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12517216053375324129noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060068612915488937.post-13699702997129824382014-05-28T05:02:00.000-07:002014-05-28T05:02:40.316-07:00Google is to start building its own self-driving cars<div style="text-align: justify;">
Google is to start building its own self-driving cars, rather than modifying vehicles built by other </div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5RfoRyH9KteT2U_m4WZGgYh0hbDw0rf2jCnHqpJiasbeaX2sA8lSmhOIfRqYyFeU962ipj7-ShEzwGXs36asIO28svQFYSQobhMTJnlmulnyhigf9i4O4aj6jc9GefoDEX_UmF8KbqK_F/s1600/car_selfdrive_google.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: justify;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5RfoRyH9KteT2U_m4WZGgYh0hbDw0rf2jCnHqpJiasbeaX2sA8lSmhOIfRqYyFeU962ipj7-ShEzwGXs36asIO28svQFYSQobhMTJnlmulnyhigf9i4O4aj6jc9GefoDEX_UmF8KbqK_F/s1600/car_selfdrive_google.jpg" height="225" width="400" /></a></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
manufacturers.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
The car will have a stop-go button but no controls, steering wheel or pedals.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Pictures of the Google vehicle show it looks like a city car with a "friendly" face, designed to make<br />
<a name='more'></a> it seem non-threatening and help people accept self-driving technology.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Co-founder Sergey Brin revealed the plans at a conference in California.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
"We're really excited about this vehicle - it's something that will allow us to really push the capabilities of self driving technology, and understand the limitations," said Chris Urmson, director of the company's self-driving project.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
He added that the cars had the ability to "improve people's lives by transforming mobility".</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
bbc.co.uk</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12517216053375324129noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060068612915488937.post-62657004153708538442014-05-28T04:51:00.003-07:002014-05-28T04:51:33.940-07:00PHOTO: Some Chiefs in the Volta Region<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhme-E53OZ3ZrCuZ_B9kJwZtjf4HBoL0oflnDmssPCrvQ46PTD3R2ZYke8IQl5trY86-6yitQ41XmdqrmJEKCLlKG0bHpFG1BMdNElGrg8U81ts38rR7Xqr6RXK3R81E02fdf84FQBLFUVK/s1600/volta+chiefs.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: justify;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhme-E53OZ3ZrCuZ_B9kJwZtjf4HBoL0oflnDmssPCrvQ46PTD3R2ZYke8IQl5trY86-6yitQ41XmdqrmJEKCLlKG0bHpFG1BMdNElGrg8U81ts38rR7Xqr6RXK3R81E02fdf84FQBLFUVK/s1600/volta+chiefs.jpg" height="300" width="400" /></a></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
In this beautiful picture is some Chiefs in the Volta Region of Ghana at a Durbar...</div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12517216053375324129noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060068612915488937.post-88792664439978985922014-05-28T03:26:00.001-07:002014-05-28T03:26:30.752-07:00Elmina Castle in perspective <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRG1tgtfON6wOanCrm6FvNvy5CXsN_3SHA2Uh0WFb5LK2PKqAsqzUyT6CA0nVnVRRAIqEdqqIx6IjfQ5q1U0PziHJroOxiTii7ef86tJAG0EAeishgO7YeRRlMljb5epG52US2pK5cGLIp/s1600/elmina+castle.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: justify;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRG1tgtfON6wOanCrm6FvNvy5CXsN_3SHA2Uh0WFb5LK2PKqAsqzUyT6CA0nVnVRRAIqEdqqIx6IjfQ5q1U0PziHJroOxiTii7ef86tJAG0EAeishgO7YeRRlMljb5epG52US2pK5cGLIp/s1600/elmina+castle.jpg" height="302" width="400" /></a></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Elmina Castle was erected by the Portoguese in 1482. </div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
It was the first trading post build on the Gulf of Guinea. </div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
And is the oldest European building in existence below the Sahara. </div>
<a name='more'></a><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
It is the oldest European building in existence below the Sahara. </div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
First established as a trade settlement, the castle later became one of the most important stops on the route of the Atlantic slave trade. </div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
The Dutch seized the fort from the Portuguese in 1637, and took over all the Portuguese Gold Coast in 1642. </div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
The slave trade continued under the Dutch until 1814; in 1872 the Dutch Gold Coast, including the fort, became a possession of the British Empire.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Britain granted the Gold Coast its independence in 1957, and control of the castle was transferred to the nation formed out of the colony, present-day Ghana. </div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Today Elmina Castle located in the Central Region in Ghana, is a popular historical site.</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTbVKNYGe-D9Tk6Bx_q2CKDVfriABGCpTIVlKygNyhpr93oky43DWtwU_4sT_vXVKeb-CKu-Bqor7w-POZ33o_FNPnpCKk-c5tm8avUL9ivwP2WXEr8Wa6K3x4BI8xzq7rpL5R5bX94S0k/s1600/350px-St._Georges_Castle_Elmina_Cape_Coast.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTbVKNYGe-D9Tk6Bx_q2CKDVfriABGCpTIVlKygNyhpr93oky43DWtwU_4sT_vXVKeb-CKu-Bqor7w-POZ33o_FNPnpCKk-c5tm8avUL9ivwP2WXEr8Wa6K3x4BI8xzq7rpL5R5bX94S0k/s1600/350px-St._Georges_Castle_Elmina_Cape_Coast.jpg" height="213" width="320" /></a></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
The castle is recognized by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Credits:Wikipedia </div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12517216053375324129noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060068612915488937.post-13849781176991095422014-05-28T02:59:00.003-07:002014-08-27T10:23:09.100-07:00Maths: Find x.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<u>Maths test</u></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
1. Find x.</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZ7QEszvHY_BBFzQvJytuD3nlP1JJ1Aka918Ws_wewrs1JbFdA8aNjCcypihhJBv_hhqi8967FD0snayKnMnUPIpr6odKjNPck1o8fju1eOoXTt-fWrXVKKp1bMW9U0OirR4wzreu_iVxk/s1600/ae1ff32ac8cbe6be2f00ffd7ee6496cb.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZ7QEszvHY_BBFzQvJytuD3nlP1JJ1Aka918Ws_wewrs1JbFdA8aNjCcypihhJBv_hhqi8967FD0snayKnMnUPIpr6odKjNPck1o8fju1eOoXTt-fWrXVKKp1bMW9U0OirR4wzreu_iVxk/s1600/ae1ff32ac8cbe6be2f00ffd7ee6496cb.jpeg" height="310" width="400" /></a><br />
<br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">
</div>
<br />
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12517216053375324129noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060068612915488937.post-45109497527624296292014-05-22T07:31:00.000-07:002014-05-22T07:33:15.678-07:00Report Guinea worm case and get GH¢200 <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwnmR2YD2xTGD2s8WKWNSDlWjaDTWPvENn2qgVeApMD5PO4u5YEKxVY1MBXG71FMAG1IlaQI21GXKqwVhbzHd68dYELsrrv2ynKfOknKyXN3sfeXeH_vQu_bNtpG06a8R0vb9sDy2kad87/s1600/Ghana-Cedis.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: justify;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwnmR2YD2xTGD2s8WKWNSDlWjaDTWPvENn2qgVeApMD5PO4u5YEKxVY1MBXG71FMAG1IlaQI21GXKqwVhbzHd68dYELsrrv2ynKfOknKyXN3sfeXeH_vQu_bNtpG06a8R0vb9sDy2kad87/s1600/Ghana-Cedis.jpg" height="225" width="320" /></a></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Ghanaians who want to boost their livelihood with extra source of income now have the chance for their dreams to be realized by only reporting suspected cases of Guinea worm infestations to health facilities and receive Ghc200 for free.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
The cash reward is part of government’s efforts to completely eradicate Guinea worm infestations from the country.<br />
<a name='more'></a></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Municipal Chief Executive for the Ga West Municipal Assembly, Mr. Sam Atukwei Quaye, who made this known during the Assembly’s General Meeting, held recently said Ghana was at the verge of being certified Guinea worm free country in 2014.</div>
<br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
On improvements being made in the health sector within the Ga West Municipality, the MCE said in 2013 they witnessed improvement in the health services indicators.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
“Just to list a few, coverage of Anti-Natal Care (ANC) was 90%, HIV amongst pregnant women was 1.8%, BCG was 94%, skilled birth attendants was 56%, and malaria case fatality amongst under 5 years old was 0%,” he indicated.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
On challenges the MCE said the nutritional status of the children under 5 years and Anaemia amongst pregnant women continues to be a challenge within the municipality.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
“15% of children under 5 years had some level of malnutrition. 48% of pregnant women were Anaemic at 36 weeks of pregnancy,” he added.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Mr. Quaye further added that Kotoku Health Centre has been added to the number of facilities to serve the communities in the northern part of the municipality adding that community health officers have also been assigned to the electoral areas to work with the Assembly members in addressing some of the health issues that bedevil the communities.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12517216053375324129noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060068612915488937.post-73844444550646981202014-02-26T03:50:00.001-08:002014-02-26T03:50:56.622-08:00HE wanted a Job; But Facebook Said NO!<div style="text-align: justify;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrPKHctQtyRNlLhVLvZXozj6AVwnCbyDkiiEjxyYJY1osbjD4qK5UsPPdodgn9ujVNxsqRxwAYYvF4DdVukDgxe5ymHC6q80KIfhPzVxxeTyg1hLu1YTZLWc9sw2QoSTpHGDCe1UdjrU9A/s1600/fb_whatsapp.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrPKHctQtyRNlLhVLvZXozj6AVwnCbyDkiiEjxyYJY1osbjD4qK5UsPPdodgn9ujVNxsqRxwAYYvF4DdVukDgxe5ymHC6q80KIfhPzVxxeTyg1hLu1YTZLWc9sw2QoSTpHGDCe1UdjrU9A/s1600/fb_whatsapp.jpg" height="250" width="400" /></a>In the middle of 2009, Brian Acton was the software engineer that no one wanted to hire. Despite a </div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
dozen years of experience at Yahoo and Apple, he got turned down by two of the Internet's brightest </div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
stars at the time. First Twitter said no in May. Then Facebook rejected him in August. </div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
When Acton couldn't find work at another big-name company, he took his chances on the start-up<br />
<a name='more'></a></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
route instead. Teaming up with another Yahoo alum, Jan Koum, he helped build WhatsApp, that has </div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
become the king of cloud-based messaging world-wide. </div>
<br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
WhatsApp is in the headlines this week because Facebook has agreed to buy the company for a </div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
stunning $19 BILLION in stock and cash.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
MORAL LESSON</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Failure is not falling down; failure is staying down when you have the choice to get back up. Sometimes </div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
you have to fail a thousand times to succeed. Which means you haven't really failed yet; you've just </div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
found a bunch of ways that don't work. So don't get so hung up on a few failed attempts that you miss </div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
every new opportunity coming your way. All of your ideas that don't work are simply stepping stones </div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
on your way to the one idea that does. </div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Life always offers you a second chance – it's called tomorrow.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Getting a second chance in life is about giving yourself the opportunity to grow beyond your past </div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
failures. </div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
If you are down, Get Up and keep going...</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12517216053375324129noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060068612915488937.post-82165982611147200392013-10-07T02:39:00.003-07:002013-10-07T02:41:11.054-07:00Midwives in Ghana to be scarce in 10 years - practitioner predicts<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">A</span> midwife, Madam Faustina P. Sam, has predicted that it is possible that midwives would be scarce in the country within the next ten (10) years.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh4gnI5PnETuft3EBEhcbyfGKssIwDntdqPt9zvOhfr7TayAjeDu734ZyERD2HgmOgGMX8Qh33kjVVi9WR1expavY-CuX7leWFJmTIAHWZUnzHu3CzcR7GpHCgo90vVJlcef3UFQfxt1e9/s1600/Midwife.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: justify;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh4gnI5PnETuft3EBEhcbyfGKssIwDntdqPt9zvOhfr7TayAjeDu734ZyERD2HgmOgGMX8Qh33kjVVi9WR1expavY-CuX7leWFJmTIAHWZUnzHu3CzcR7GpHCgo90vVJlcef3UFQfxt1e9/s320/Midwife.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">
“Or the ratio of midwives to patients would be minimal,” she intimated.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Madam Faustina P. Sam owns the Paradise Maternity Home near Ablekuma in the Ga Central Municipality in Ghana.</div>
<a name='more'></a><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
According to her, the government has not put in place strategic measure to make the sector enticing enough to lure more youth into the profession adding that most of the youth prefer to do other courses such as accounting, marketing, law, and a host of others and later complain there is no job in the country when they complete the university.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
She said others too who find their way into the profession travel outside where they are paid fat salaries; a situation she describes as a security treat.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Madam Faustina P. Sam who has been a practitioner for more than thirty (30) years said the private ones were the worst affected because the claims received from the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) per head for delivering pregnant women was nothing to write home about.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Madam Faustina who raised the above sentiment in an interaction with Ghanadistricts.com however called on government to increase the premium.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Although she said money should not be the main focus of motivation, she suggested that government could employ other means possible to make the practice more lucrative to encourage more of the youth to ply the profession and hence creating more jobs.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Madam Faustina also revealed that most of the midwives already in the profession were getting old and needed to be replaced.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
“All of the midwives in the country I meet at general meetings are old and young girls in this century would not like to take up this job,” she added.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Paradise Maternity Home at Fanmilk Junction near Ablekuma was established in 2001 when the town was still at its developing stages and was the first health facility to operate in the area.</div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<br /></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12517216053375324129noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060068612915488937.post-29562841819223531982013-09-06T09:10:00.000-07:002013-09-06T09:10:10.969-07:00The Community Hospital is the biggest in Ga East-Pharmacist<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGRqbHhw9NEBM7Yjo2mDYQmg2AqxrZnnQKtn3oo_8oZvsRUA4EHmbPy3aUDJa3h4DwUCAk0kXY4S5AScXLpF433RD7z8rJ8O11oBPCU6w58tdPZ7z5sl5lJNPTQCADn8YBql4sxw62V3yz/s1600/1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGRqbHhw9NEBM7Yjo2mDYQmg2AqxrZnnQKtn3oo_8oZvsRUA4EHmbPy3aUDJa3h4DwUCAk0kXY4S5AScXLpF433RD7z8rJ8O11oBPCU6w58tdPZ7z5sl5lJNPTQCADn8YBql4sxw62V3yz/s320/1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
The Community Hospital sited at Ashognman Estate within the Ga East Municipality of the Greater Accra Region is the biggest health facility in the municipality, Mr. Stomps Wells, a Pharmacist at the facility has said.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
He indicated that the Hospital could boast of qualified and dedicated health professionals who dispense quality services to patients who patronize the facility on daily basis.</div>
<a name='more'></a><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Mr. Stomps said their bed-capacity is comparable to none within the municipality whiles adding that they also provide 24-hour services as well as a wide range of other services including prompt laboratory test result and ambulance.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Mr. Stomps further added that the hospital is equipped to offer all the basic and complicated medical care to clients and also accepts NHIS holders.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
“We are committed to providing high quality, compassionate healthcare and we are also patient sensitive,” he indicated.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
He believes that due to the state-of-the-art facilities they possess, the hospital has the potential to rock shoulders with other advanced health facilities within the country.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
These were disclosed when News personnel from the Ghanahospitals.org visited the Community Hospital at its Ashongman Estate branch to familiarize themselves with best health practices and to also sharpen their knowledge on health.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
The Community Hospital currently has two branches at Ashongmang-Estate and Oda in the Eastern Region and is managed by the Community Group of Hospitals.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12517216053375324129noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060068612915488937.post-9343944986340646222013-09-06T09:07:00.002-07:002013-09-06T09:07:39.194-07:00Techiman South MP urges youth to eschew violence<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
The Member of Parliament for Techiman South Constituency in the Brong Ahafo Region, Hon. Adjei Mensah has called on youths in Ghana especially those in his constituency to eschew any form of deviant behaviours which result in violence.</div>
<a name='more'></a><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
He said some of those social vices have the tendency of affecting the socio-economic development of the country and should be out-rightly ignored.</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
Hon. Adjei made the call when he joined folks of New Techiman to celebrate their annual Munikosea Yam Festival.</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
For his part, Nana Agyeman Badu-Kaakyire, New Techimanhene and Asamanhene of Techiman Traditional Area appealed to the Electoral Commission, to create an electoral area for community.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12517216053375324129noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060068612915488937.post-38933806613054021972013-09-06T08:51:00.000-07:002013-09-06T08:51:00.516-07:00Drivers with fake documents in trouble <div style="text-align: justify;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhe7kreoVOBjYsuAjVLLdV8tTSHcW56X032eWIN-d02L5o1qwzHxrFw5HXce5c2YGMqU35zrKvZlxmYBFdhhZ9quibSSeFGqhdE_Xp5ruCrN00uWsh0dpo6V9d-uO06z1ylSP8EifWOML8a/s1600/trotro.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhe7kreoVOBjYsuAjVLLdV8tTSHcW56X032eWIN-d02L5o1qwzHxrFw5HXce5c2YGMqU35zrKvZlxmYBFdhhZ9quibSSeFGqhdE_Xp5ruCrN00uWsh0dpo6V9d-uO06z1ylSP8EifWOML8a/s320/trotro.JPG" width="320" /></a>Commercial bus drivers (trotro) who usually operate using fake documents and expired road safety gadgets and go scout free without being noticed by road safety regulators should take a second thought.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
This is because the Motor Traffic and Transport Unit (MTTU) division of the Ghana Police Service has vowed to wage war on such persons’ whiles also ensuring sanity on our roads.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
</div>
<a name='more'></a><br /><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Some of these drivers operate vehicles with problems such as expired roadworthy certificates, worn-out parts, expired (or no) fire extinguishers, triangles, first aid, reflectors, among others. </div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Immediately drivers who discover that they have fallen short of the above divert to rough roads immediately they suspect the presence of police personnel in order to prevent being arrested.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
As at now, the MMTTU have dispatched its personnel to major and rough roads where some of these drivers use in order to insist that MTTU road safety measures were adopted and also make sure that Driver and Vehicle License Authority (DVLA) bye-laws were adhered to.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
For instance, the MMTU in the Ga West Municipality of Accra spread their personnel across all major roads in the area as well as hideouts of miscreant drivers with the view of bringing sanity on our roads and reduce the incidence of accidents.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Some of the unsuspecting drivers who were met by the Police personnel were stopped for questioning and further measures applied when they (drivers) were found culpable. </div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12517216053375324129noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060068612915488937.post-26508173216799112272013-09-03T09:21:00.002-07:002013-09-03T09:24:23.892-07:00Dead whale at Kokrobite to boost tourism-Bortianor MP<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH5yMf5LGUhwcCuquXYqfrhfVfn_cDMDqTe6bWxWJe3BZvILRdFsZCTcapePXRUmZDhvGZ7rAY6jTcPpmGJJWW2eFD1zTbcYIroWKDJriqdueyKZVvsNhr_XTJ6dDM6ECiJnLqoHXe36KO/s1600/whale.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH5yMf5LGUhwcCuquXYqfrhfVfn_cDMDqTe6bWxWJe3BZvILRdFsZCTcapePXRUmZDhvGZ7rAY6jTcPpmGJJWW2eFD1zTbcYIroWKDJriqdueyKZVvsNhr_XTJ6dDM6ECiJnLqoHXe36KO/s1600/whale.jpg" /></a></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
The Member of Parliament for Bortianor-Ngleshie-Amanfrom Constituency in the Ga South Municipality of the Greater Accra Region, Hon. Bright Edward Kodzo, has revealed that the whale found lifeless at the Kokrobite sea shore will have its bones extracted, preserved and used for tourism purposes.<br />
<a name='more'></a></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
According to him, measures are currently underway to bury the mammal in order to prevent any stench from polluting the fresh air in the area and its environs.</div>
<br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Hundreds of people trooped to Kokrobite yesterday to catch a glimpse of the strange creature believed to be a whale found dead on the sea shore at Koklobite.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
News about the weird mammal broke in the early hours of yesterday when fishermen in the area found it while returning from their fishing expedition. </div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
This brings to two, the number of such strange creatures found dead on Ghana’s shores in the last three days.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
The first mysterious sea creature also suspected to be a dead whale was reportedly found at Jomoro on the shores of the Ahanta Beach in the Jomoro District of the Western Region.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Kokrobite beach is a popular rendezvous for fun lovers as well as holiday makers.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b>Postmortem</b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Meanwhile, Hon. Kodzo in an interaction with Ghanamps.gov.gh said although he had invited a team from the Environmental Protection Agency as well as the Fisheries commission to carry a postmortem on the huge mammal, it was however difficult because the mammal was already dead and on the verge of decomposing.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
The MP explained that for the postmortem to be effective, the mammal should have been alive or died not too long ago.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
“I believe the whale might have outlived its lifespan or encountered a problem in the aquatic environment or marine pollution leading to its death,” he intimated.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b>Bumper harvest</b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
The indigenes have however expressed happiness over the death of the mammal ascribing that, to them, it was a sign of good omen since it could mean a bumper harvest of fishes this year.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12517216053375324129noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060068612915488937.post-49540186491484113132013-08-29T08:34:00.001-07:002013-09-06T08:55:21.827-07:00Supreme Court rules in favour of Prez Mahama/NDC <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXfE4lJaaMkR52qlZqSxoLdp99U44rnq9z6DPe6-tfliF3oy05nivj5FK_CJyHxyPKqiieL4EL7N9cje06754yuxu5ymOVQjKrQEE_cAzGUc85kOkK8OlxpfOyBXCyuEbcH5dD7J2yqLnq/s1600/swear_prez4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXfE4lJaaMkR52qlZqSxoLdp99U44rnq9z6DPe6-tfliF3oy05nivj5FK_CJyHxyPKqiieL4EL7N9cje06754yuxu5ymOVQjKrQEE_cAzGUc85kOkK8OlxpfOyBXCyuEbcH5dD7J2yqLnq/s320/swear_prez4.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b>Below is how the chips fell:</b><br />
<br />
1. Overvoting: dismissed by 5:4<br />
2.Voting without biometric verification: dismissed 6:3<br />
3. Absence of signature: dismissed 5:4<br />
4. Duplicate serial numbers: dismissed unanimously<br />
5.Duplicate Polling Station Codes: dismissed unanimously<br />
6. Unknown polling stations: dismissed unanimously</div>
<br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br />
<a name='more'></a><br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
The Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed the petition filed by Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and two others against the results declared by the Electoral Commission in the 2012 Election<br />
<br />
The ruling affirmed President John Mahama as the winner of the last general election.<br />
<br />
The petitioners challenged the presidential result declared on December 28, 2012.<br />
<br />
Mr Justice William Atuguba, President of the Supreme Court nine-member panel which sat on the petition read the verdict and said the petition filed by the petitioners had been dismissed and added that a copy of the verdict has been placed at the registry of the court for verification.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12517216053375324129noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060068612915488937.post-47283623348722132642013-08-28T07:02:00.000-07:002013-09-06T08:55:50.959-07:00Courts within Supreme Court to be closed down judgement day<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrkSbtVfTgJJHNr5j52OilVbbchZyOsLP-azamxOAaBn0fQfW1HKIsDYDn1ObLx5V3uMZYKDn-wKDteoXg8fy2LJR-K04VyCZfT-Dqn9814xU9KJAtVBUEzggP2Lo8nlIcVV2lknVZQZnH/s1600/xxJustice,,P20William,,P20Atuguba.jpg,Mic.1WxoGl0vUh.jpg.pagespeed.ic.6d1TdKjsNg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="236" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrkSbtVfTgJJHNr5j52OilVbbchZyOsLP-azamxOAaBn0fQfW1HKIsDYDn1ObLx5V3uMZYKDn-wKDteoXg8fy2LJR-K04VyCZfT-Dqn9814xU9KJAtVBUEzggP2Lo8nlIcVV2lknVZQZnH/s320/xxJustice,,P20William,,P20Atuguba.jpg,Mic.1WxoGl0vUh.jpg.pagespeed.ic.6d1TdKjsNg.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Courts within the Supreme Court building and the Fast Track High Court area will not sit tomorrow, August 29, 2013, the day set aside for the delivery of judgement in the presidential election petition.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
According to the management of the Judicial Service, the decision formed part of security measures instituted to ensure that security on the court premises and inside the courtroom was not compromised in any way.<br />
<a name='more'></a></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
In an interview with the Daily Graphic in Accra yesterday, the Judicial Secretary, Mr Justice Alex Poku-Acheampong, said the Judicial Service was poised to ensure that it conducted its national assignment effectively.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
The affected courts include the Civil and Criminal Divisions of the Court of Appeal, some high courts, offices of judicial staff, Fast Track High Court One to Six and the Commercial Court.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Other affected courts are the Financial, Labour and Human Rights courts, their various registries, as well as offices.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
In effect, non-accredited staff of the Judicial Service and members of the public would not be allowed within the inner and outer perimeters of the Supreme Court.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
A statement signed by Mr Justice Poku-Acheampong and issued on August 22, 2013, urged non-accredited members of the public to monitor the judgement from their radio and television sets.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Accredited persons</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Per the statement, only four groups of persons had been accredited to enter the court premises on judgement day — the parties in the case, lawyers, journalists and representatives of the security agencies.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
The Judicial Service also implored party functionaries, former and current ministers of state, former and current parliamentarians who wished to witness the delivery of the judgement to contact the headquarters of their various parties for accreditation.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Meanwhile, the Police Administration has warned the public to stay a 100-metre radius away from the court premises.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Security will also be beefed up on the court premises on that day.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Daily Graphic</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12517216053375324129noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060068612915488937.post-33717909364782398752013-08-27T09:40:00.003-07:002013-08-27T09:42:06.058-07:0030 MMDCEs nominated<div style="text-align: justify;">
Hon. Oppong Fosu, Local Govt Minister<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> </div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
President John Mahama has nominated about 30 more Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives (MMDCEs).</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
A statement issued Monday said the nominations are in accordance with Article 243(1) of the 1992 Constitution and Section 20(1) of the Local Government Act 1993, Act 462.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
The nominations included:<br />
<a name='more'></a></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
1. Nzema East: James A. K. Baidoe</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
2. Wa Municipal: Issahaku Nuhu</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
3. Jirapa: Vivien Nelly Kunko Banongkore</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
4. Lambussie Karni: Bom kofi Dy-Yaka</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
5. Ada East: Peter Kofi Aduteye</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
6. Ga West: Sam Atukwei Quaye</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
7. Cape Coast: Priscilla Arhin</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
8. Upper Denkyira: Emelia Ankomah</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
9. Asuogyaman: Thomas Ampem Nyarko</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
10. New Juaben: Dr. Kwaku Owusu Acheampong</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
11. Jaman South: Dora Ama Tamea</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
12. Kintampo North: Michael Justice Baffoe</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
13. Bongo District: Alex Ayamdor Adugdaa</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
14. Bawku Municipal: Amadu I. W. Karimu</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
15. Kassena-Nankana East: Dr. Stanislaus Alu Akandingdi</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
16. Kassena-Nankena West: George Nonterah</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
17. Builsa South: Afiuc Elizabeth Jane</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
18. Atwima Mponua: Stephen Yeboah</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
19. Amansie Central: Emmanuel Dede Appiah</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
20. Atwima Kwanwoma: Kwabena Nkrumah</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
21. Bekwai Municipal: Mary Juantoah</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
22. Tamale Metro: Hannan G. Y. Abdul-Rahaman</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
23. Zabzugu: Issifu Alidu Laa-Bandow</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
24. Central Gonja: Mumuni Shiraz Ibn Yacin</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
25. Jasikan: Killian Abrampah Kwame</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
26. Central Tongu: Mary Ama Theodora Agbenyenu</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
27. Ketu South: Francis K. Dzineku</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
28. Nkwanta South: Peter Kenyenso</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
29. Ho Municipal: Mrs. Fafa Adinyira</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
30. Kpando Municipal: Paulina Delali Adinyirah</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12517216053375324129noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060068612915488937.post-3948626510991844602013-08-27T07:30:00.001-07:002013-08-27T07:32:22.809-07:00President names new DCE for Jaman South Assembly<div style="text-align: justify;">
Madam Dora Ama Tamea has been named by the President as the new District Chief Executive for the Jaman South Assembly.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
She takes over from Mr. Julius Atta Bediako whose mandate was not renewed by the President and was consequently asked to vacate his post and hand over administration of the Assembly to the Greater Accra Regional Minister.<br />
<a name='more'></a></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
As per the Constitution of Ghana, the newly nominated DCE is expected to be confirmed by the Assembly members.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Her nomination was captured in a recent press release in which 29 other persons were appointed to take up such positions in the various Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies within the country.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12517216053375324129noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060068612915488937.post-54683809226487794372013-08-27T05:32:00.002-07:002013-08-27T05:32:15.571-07:00Dear Diary Tuesday is here again!!!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-z31_XckJDaKT4h2ltYKAKgE9HfPwvR54fxnBq3NxI8-kdXwMA3YiYUaDBMa8W6Pp393wN5R3fG5ltaLUkvMVfHSE2yf_fSeH7V3hN_VqN8ym4GvGYCEtMlQzUE1RebwOgRLtAI0-UPrE/s1600/diary.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: justify;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-z31_XckJDaKT4h2ltYKAKgE9HfPwvR54fxnBq3NxI8-kdXwMA3YiYUaDBMa8W6Pp393wN5R3fG5ltaLUkvMVfHSE2yf_fSeH7V3hN_VqN8ym4GvGYCEtMlQzUE1RebwOgRLtAI0-UPrE/s1600/diary.jpeg" /></a><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Dear Diary Tuesday is here again....and what does it have for me??? I will be in church this evening to join the rest of the church members to mark activities mark the 20th anniversary of the Apostolic Church-Ghana, Abeka No.2 Assembly.</div>
<br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Am working on bring Tina to sing tonight.</div>
<a name='more'></a><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
But! What about during the day??</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Well, am working on my part to make the anniversary a success whiles working on the programme and all the necessary accoutrements for t</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
he programme and the indoor games on Saturday, 31st August 2013.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Later Dear Diary! </div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12517216053375324129noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060068612915488937.post-45942659825054709252013-08-27T04:59:00.000-07:002014-06-05T03:06:42.830-07:00 Ga West gets new MCE to take over from Nii Tackie<div style="text-align: justify;">
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEii6SEblalMqAYxG0-VRk36MQ-nZefOgI5QPp6BQkAzELM5hBmSq2q7IJTOjzREcr45scYce7TRWKUoj2pScDUnCm5aW1iZCNZl-JuvnHQK-WwoSWJh9eVNGHo_CVuVtemsXfxp9d5q1Ir8/s1600/Ga_West+MCE.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEii6SEblalMqAYxG0-VRk36MQ-nZefOgI5QPp6BQkAzELM5hBmSq2q7IJTOjzREcr45scYce7TRWKUoj2pScDUnCm5aW1iZCNZl-JuvnHQK-WwoSWJh9eVNGHo_CVuVtemsXfxp9d5q1Ir8/s1600/Ga_West+MCE.jpg" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nii Tackie-former MCE</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
President John Dramani Mahama has appointed Mr. Sam Atukwei Quaye to take over from Mr. Ebenezer Nii Armah Tackie as the new Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) for the Ga West Assembly in the Greater Accra Region.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br />
Until July 2013, Mr. Nii Tackie was the <br />
<a name='more'></a>MCE for the aforementioned Municipal Assembly but was ordered to vacate his post and hand over to the Regional Minister with immediate effect.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Mr. Quaye has subsequently been named to serve as the MCE for the Ga West Assembly to keep it running subject to the approval of Assembly members.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Mr. Tackie had served in such position since 2009 when he was appointed by President J.E.A Mills of blessed memory, for which he (Nii Tackie) played his part in moving the area to another level in terms of development.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12517216053375324129noreply@blogger.com0