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The Medical Stores of the Tamale Teaching Hospital in the Northern Region went up in flames

By AlatiphA - January 28, 2015

Correspondent Hashmin Mohammed reported Wednesday, January 28, that “lots of drugs have been burnt”. “At the moment as we speak now, fire officials have been able to bring the situation under control,” Hashmin added. Medical equipment and medicines worth thousands of Ghana Cedis have been destroyed. He said medical officers and nurses of thefacility were helping to salvage some items when he arrived at the scene.The cause of the fire is yet to be ascertained. But the Tamale incident follows a similar but more disastrous one at the Central Medical Stores in Tema in the Greater Accra Region, which officials suspected was arson. A number of people have been arrested whilst others were interdicted over the incident.

Yagaba Kubore MP sets up GH¢40,000 fund to support students

By AlatiphA - January 28, 2015

Students in Yagaba Kubore Constituency of the Northern Region are benefiting from a GH¢40,000 endowment fund set up by the MP of the area. Students from the constituency pursuing education at universities, polytechnics, colleges of education and nursing training colleges will be eligible to benefit from the fund. The New Patriotic Party (NPP) MP, Mr. Mustapha Ussif, said the money, which was sourced from his Education Scholarship Fund is aimed at alleviating the suffering of students and their families in their quest for higher education. “As contribution towards promoting education and in recognition of the fact that education remains the bedrock of social change and development, I shall endeavor to pay my dues by sponsoring as many of my constituents from my MP's Common Fund,” he said. According to him, the constituency is lagging behind in education with many educational institutions urgently needing basic facilities to support effective teaching and learning. Mr. Ussif sai...

School Girls Sell Bodies For Phones

By AlatiphA - January 23, 2015

A senior Officer at the Mion District Social Welfare and Community Development Department, Iddrisu Alhassan Ganiyu, has raised alarm over the rate at which teenage pregnancies are being recorded in the district. According to him, between 30 and 40 teenage girls become pregnant in the district every year and that 90% of the number do not get men to take responsibility for their pregnancies, because they flirt with married men who already have many children. Speaking in an interview with The Chronicle at Mion, in the Mion District of the Northern Region, Mr. Ganiyu revealed that every year, an estimated 15 to 20% of the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) candidates in the district get pregnant or give birth to children even before their final exams. According to him, the Social Welfare and Community Development department had done its assessments and could confirm that the rate of teenage pregnancy in the district was prevalent in the rural parts of the District. He revea...

WhatsApp finally launches on the Web

By AlatiphA - January 22, 2015

Whatapp has extended its services to online now and you can chat with friends on your Chrome browser in your PC. Here how to enjoy it: 1. Update you WhatsApp messenger on your phone. 2. Tap Menu >>> WhatsApp Web in the menu list 3. Visit web.whatsapp.com on your computer and scan the QR code 4. You can now whatsapp all your contacts right in your Chrome browser on your PC Note: The new Web client is actually a simple mirror from the WhatsApp app on your phone, so in order to use it, you’ll need to have an active connection on your phone, not just your computer. And sorry iOS users you have to wait for a while. YFMOnline

WAEC clashes with Islamic authorities over wearing of hijab

By AlatiphA - January 21, 2015

A directive by the West African Examination Council (WAEC) asking Muslim girls to remove their headscarves or hijab, before taking passport pictures for their Basic Education Certificate Exam (BECE) registration has displeased the Islamic Unit of the Ghana Education Service (GES). Joy News correspondent Kwame Owusu Peprah has reported that the tussle over religious rights is happening in some basic schools in the Western Region. The Islamic unit finds the position of the WEAC officials unacceptable, describing it as an attempt to violate their religious freedom. WEAC's directive is asking that the girls show at least their ears and part of the forehead while taking the passport photos. Head of the GES’ Islamic unit Alhaji Mohammed Sanni told Joy News “the hijab is part of our Islamic traditions. If you take off the hijab then where lies the Islam?” He said the Unit has petitioned WAEC over the directive. Alhaji Sanni accused WAEC of “dilly-dallying” with their petition and wa...

Kwesi Pratt enskinned Yelvuhi Naa by Tamale chief

By AlatiphA - January 19, 2015

Outspoken critic and Managing Editor of the Insight newspaper, Kwesi Pratt Jnr. has been enskinned Yelvuhi Naa by the Gulkpe Naa in Tamale. Yelvuhi Naa loosely translates into Chief of Freedom of Speech in Dagbani. The Gulkpe Naa, Alhassan Abdulai, who conferred the title on Mr. Pratt on Sunday in the northern regional capital, is traditionally the representative of the Ya-Na in Tamale. Mohammed Rashad, the Secretary to the Gulkpe Naa, told Myjoyonline.com Mr. Pratt’s fearless criticism of authority and unflinching pursuit of the truth earned him the titled – the first ever. He said the senior journalist was in Tamale to participate in the Damba festival of the Dagombas but the chief thought it was proper to confer the title on him. Mr. Rashad said the honour is meant to encourage Kwesi Pratt “to continue to speak the truth for Ghana. When he sees the truth, he shouldn’t paint it.” Commenting on the conferment of the title on Mr. Pratt on Facebook, a ...

Tamale teachers receive reproductive health training

By AlatiphA - January 19, 2015

Teachers from 10 schools in the Northern Region have been trained on how to teach comprehensive reproductive health. They received the training from a Tamale based NGO, the Savanna Signatures. The aim is to help educate teenagers at the junior high schools (JHS) about their bodies and the impact of early sexual activities on their lives. The training is under the NGO’s teacher facilitation training of ‘My World and My Life’ (MWML), which is being piloted in some schools to equip the beneficiary teachers with skills to teach sex education. Mr Stephen Agbenyo, Executive Director of Savanna Signatures speaking at the opening of the one-week programme advised participants to freely discuss issues of reproductive sexual health with their pupils saying, “The more we don’t tell them the truth about sex, the more they want to explore”. He said the NGO would continue to embark on projects that would help improve the welfare and smooth growth of younger pe...