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OGA 90 congratulates Mahama Ayariga

By AlatiphA - October 08, 2014

The 1990 Year Group of the Old Ghanascans Association has congratulated Mahama Ayariga on his appointment as the Minister for Youth and Sports. The decision to formally congratulate Mr Ayariga, according to the group, was taken at a meeting held by members of the Association at the Holiday Inn Hotel at Airport City in Accra. "It was an interesting meeting that saw several Old Ghanascans who were meeting for the first time after leaving school in 1990", a release issued Monday said. The old students of Ghana Secondary School in Tamale have been in touch with each other via WhatsApp but decided to move their mode of interaction to another level hence the meetings in a bid to catch up with old times. While some of the members of OGA 90 are domiciled in the United States of America and the United Kingdom, a substantial number of the membership are in Ghana working in various sectors of the economy occupying very important positions. "The group is therefore happy and pro...

Yendi Municipal Assembly to get three more SHSs

By AlatiphA - October 07, 2014

Yendi Municipality is to get three out of the 200 Senior High School projects government has promised to build across the country. Government in fulfilment of its 2012 campaign promise has started building 200 additional Senior High School projects. This is meant to increase enrolment at the senior high education level and to ease the tension which characterizes the computer placement system. As the only assembly with Municipal status in the Northern Region, the Yendi Municipality can only boast of two Senior High Schools. These are the Yendi Senior High and Dagbon State Senior High/Technical schools. Municipal Chief Executive for Yendi, Issah Zakariah told Citi News that plans are far advanced to build three additional Senior High Schools in the Yendi Municipality. He described the only two Senior High Schools in the whole Yendi Municipality as woefully inadequate. He said the new schools will be located at Nakpachei, Bunbong-Naayili and Gnani which are all farming settlements. ...

N/R records low maternal cases

By AlatiphA - October 07, 2014

There has been significant drop in maternal and neonatal cases in the Northern Region for the year 2014. According to the Deputy Director of Public Health of the Northern Regional Health Directorate, Dr. Jacob Mahama 36 maternal deaths were recorded from January to June, 2014, down from the 130 cases recorded within the same period in 2013. 29 neonatal cases were also recorded within the same period. He attributed these successes to the establishment of neonatal intensive care units in some major health facilities in the region. He said the Regional Health Directorate has for the past five years engaged the services of about 139 trained community volunteers to provide first aid services to rural folks. Dr. Jacob Mahama extolled the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) for its continual support to boost quality health care service delivery in the region. He admitted that UNICEF’s contribution to promoting child health care in the region could ...

Akon performs in giant bubble to avoid Ebola

By AlatiphA - October 06, 2014

In an effort to guard against contracting the Ebola Virus Disease, a United States-based R&B star, Akon, last Sunday climbed inside an airtight blow-up during a performance in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo. The singer rolled over the crowd, pushed along by the outstretched hands of 60,000 screaming concert-goers while performing at a concert. The performance was part of a larger free concert held by charity, ‘Peace One Day,’ to help promote and support the United Nations’ International Day Of Peace. Akon was, however, accused of going to extreme lengths to avoid catching Ebola during a concert in Africa by crowd-surfing inside a giant plastic bubble. His action was criticised by a section of the media outlets, describing it as a cynical attempt to shield himself from the deadly virus that is sweeping West Africa rather than just being a creative way of performing closer to his fans. The Source, on its website, however, said, “The Ebola virus is no j...

Day 28: Why Nyantakyi swore with the Qur’an, and did he lie?

By AlatiphA - October 01, 2014

“Fired up” and “ready to fight” best describe Kwesi Nyantakyi on Tuesday when he appeared at the Presidential Commission of Inquiry. Before 10am one would have thought the entire day was to be dedicated to him. The FA boss came with an entourage. Fans. Well wishers. Serial callers. And his fellow FA members. They sang. They danced. And they besieged the Media Center of the Accra Sports Stadium. He did not disappoint on day 28, although the weightier matters were shifted until the following day. Kwesi Nyantakyi the Muslim The GFA president’s appearance was always going to have subplots and it began right from the beginning. Justice Dzamefe: “What book would you want to swear by?” Nyantakyi: “The Qu’ran.” This completely took the gallery off guard, and it showed in the inflected tone of Moses Foh-Amoaning. “Are you a muslim?” Nyantakyi: “Yes.” With an absence of a muslim name and a religious life out of public view, Nyantakyi’s decision to swear by the Islamic holy book raised...

Sandema SHS cries for help; toilets, bathrooms turned hostel

By AlatiphA - September 30, 2014

Students of the Sandema Senior high School in the Bulsa District of the upper East Region are living in abandoned structures described by authorities as “death trap”. With a student population of 1,962 and 83 staff made up of teaching and none teaching, the School which offers all six courses: Home Economics, Visual Arts, General Arts, Agriculture, Science and Business lacks the needed infrastructure to propel learning. The Assistant Headmaster of the School, Mr. Kingsley Azantilow who took this reporter round the school lamented about the condition of the school. He expressed grave concern over the lack of accommodation for staff, access roads, fence for the school, limited classrooms among others. “Of the 83 staff, the school accommodates only 16 teachers, we have only 42 classrooms requiring 24 more to meet the growing demands,” he said. He said the lack of fence wall exposes it to all kinds of setbacks including armed robbery, animals feeding on the scho...

Northern Region MPs are ‘errand boys’ – Bugri Naabu

By AlatiphA - September 29, 2014

Outspoken Northern Regional Chairman of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Daniel Bugri Naabu has taken a swipe at some Members of Parliament in the region, describing them as “errand boys”. He claimed majority of MPs in the Northern Region who have been in the House for ages, still lack the parliamentary antics to lobby for projects for their constituencies. He insinuated, “Our NDC Parliamentarians, they go and buy food and serve the rest of our Parliamentarians in this country: if I am not telling the truth the NDC MP is here go and ask him[referring to Thomas Nassah, MP for Gushegu].” The NPP Northern Regional Chairman was addressing a large gathering on the occasion of the annual Linujil (Yam Festival) celebrated by the chiefs and people of Bunbong-Naayili, predominantly a Konkomba farming settlement in the Yendi Municipality. He challenged the MPs in the region to let the voices of their constituents who are virtually poor be heard on the floor of...