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How to get rid of Cavities

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What causes cavities?

Dental cavities, or caries, are tiny holes in the hard surface of the teeth. They are caused by bacteria on the surface of teeth creating acid out of sugar. The most common culprit is a bacterium known as Streptococcus mutans.

The bacteria form a sticky film known as plaque. The acids in plaque remove minerals from (demineralize) your enamel — a coating of the teeth made mostly of calcium and phosphate. This erosion causes tiny holes in the enamel. Once the acid damage spreads into the dentin layer underneath the enamel, a cavity forms.

Getting rid of cavities at home

Many home treatments are based off of a study from the 1930s that suggested that cavities are caused by lack of vitamin D in the diet. In this study, kids who added vitamin D to their diets showed a reduction in cavities. However, those who added vitamin D while also removing grain products from their diets had the best results. This is possibly because grains can stick to the teeth.

Not getting enough vitamin D may make teeth more susceptible to cavities, but we now understand that this is only a part of the puzzle. Other risk factors for cavities include:

  • dry mouth or having a medical condition that reduces the amount of saliva in the mouth
  • eating foods that cling to teeth, like candy and sticky foods
  • frequent snacking on sugary foods or drinks, like soda, cereals, and ice cream
  • heartburn (due to acid)
  • inadequate cleaning of teeth
  • bedtime infant feeding

Once a cavity has penetrated the dentin, you won’t be able to get rid of it at home. The following home remedies might help prevent cavities or treat “pre-cavities” by remineralizing weakened areas of your enamel before a cavity develops:

  1. Sugar-free gum

Chewing sugar-free gum after meals has been shown in clinical trials to help remineralize enamel. Gum containing xylitol has been researched extensively for its ability to stimulate saliva flow, raise the pH of plaque, and reduce S. mutans, but long-term studies are needed.

Sugar-free gum containing a compound called casein phosphopeptide-amorphous calcium phosphate (CPP-ACP) has been shown to reduce S. mutans even more than xylitol-containing chewing gum. You can find this type of gum in stores.

  1. Vitamin D

Vitamin D is important to help absorb calcium and phosphate from the food you eat. Studies show an inverse relationship between eating foods high in vitamin D and calcium, like yogurt, and cavities in young children. You can get vitamin D from dairy products, like milk and yogurt. You can also get vitamin D from the sun.

More recent research has challenged how vitamin D can affect dental health.

  1. Brush with fluoride toothpaste

Fluoride plays an important role in preventing cavities and remineralizing enamel. Extensive research has been done to show that regularly brushing your teeth with a fluoride toothpaste prevents cavities.

Most studies have been conducted either in children or adolescents, so more research is needed in adults and the elderly.

  1. Cut out sugary foods

This is the cavity remedy that no one likes to hear — stop eating so much sugar. The World Health Organization says that eating sugar is the most important risk factor for cavities. They recommend reducing your sugar intake to less than 10 percent of your total caloric intake for the day.

If you’re going to eat sugar, try not to snack on sugary foods throughout the day. Once the sugar is gone, your enamel has a chance to remineralize. But if you are constantly eating sugar, your teeth don’t get the chance to remineralize.

  1. Oil pulling

Oil pulling is an ancient practice that involves swishing around an oil, like sesame or coconut, in your mouth for about 20 minutes, then spitting it out. Claims that oil pulling “removes toxins” from the body aren’t backed up by evidence. But a small, triple-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial showed that oil pulling with sesame oil reduces plaque, gingivitis, and the number of bacteria in the mouth just as effectively as chlorhexidine mouthwash. Larger studies are needed to confirm these effects.

  1. Licorice root

Extracts from the Chinese licorice plant (Glycyrrhizauralensis) can combat the bacteria responsible for dental cavities, according to at least one study.

One researcher has taken this to the next level and created a licorice lollipop to help fight tooth decay. Pilot studies using licorice extract in a lollipop showed they were effective in significantly reducing S. mutans in the mouth and preventing cavities. Larger and more long-term studies are needed.

Source: www.healthline.com

Feature: Do campaigns have to be bloody to win?

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If this were a compulsory exam question, a number of politicians would simply answer: it depends. On what? On what is at stake. What the opponent does and how. And, of course, how far the resources of the one at the receiving end can go to exact revenge, sometimes in spite of the rules.

As campaigns for the 2023 general elections in Nigeria begin, everything is at stake. From the office of representatives in state houses of assembly to the positions of 28 governors, 469 national lawmakers, and the president.

In all, about 1,520 positions are up for election and for the first time, Muhammadu Buhari who has been president for nearly eight years and a contestant in all elections in the last nearly 20, would not be on the ballot for what is perhaps the most consequential office.

The stakes to play for are not only high, they are dangerously seductive for two contenders – the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar – two deep pockets who may well be taking their last shot at the nation’s top job.

The real world is not a periodic exam hall. Nowhere is the ferocity of contest keener than in political campaigns, such as we’re about to commence. It’s a grisly mess of interests, of wheeling and dealing, and continuous cloak and dagger entanglements worse than the binary choices often present in an examination.

A 2018 report by Daily Trust quoted the INEC chairman, Professor Yakubu Mohmood, as saying that for N242 billion, the 2019 election was the most expensive ever. That is excluding expenses by candidates, parties and individuals. The next one might beat that record.

If only it were possible to see the arsenal of Nigeria’s political parties – especially the major ones – on the eve of the commencement of campaigns for the 2023 general elections. I would not be surprised if they have stockpiled enough weapons to give either Russia or Ukraine a decisive advantage in the ongoing conflict in Europe.

It’s not a laughing matter. If morning shows the day, the pre-flag off skirmishes among not just supporters but even the campaign team members of the APC, the PDP, and the Labour Party (LP) show that we could be in for a season of blood sport.

Recent exhibits, of course, include the feisty exchanges between APC’s Femi Fani-Kayode and PDP’s Dino Melaye. Anyone with the heart to read either of their recent messages to the end risked exposure to post-traumatic stress.

With PDP’s relentless Reno Omokri in the wings, the APC media team led by formidable warriors like Dele Alake, Bayo Onanuga and Festus Keyamo, among others, and the LP’s army of social media avatars at daggers drawn, we’ll have to double down on luck to have a normal campaign season.

But what does history teach, really? Is all the talk about issues-based campaigns wishful thinking? With all to play for, is it realistic to expect bloodless campaigns? And in any case, if winning often matters more than anything else in politics, do normal campaigns win?

Normal campaigns may be desirable. They may even have worked at some point in Athens or Ancient Rome. Yet, Shakespeare’s Julius Caesaris a constant reminder of the world’s long and futile journey to political amity.

Mass communication tools and their widespread adoption have fuelled the flames and compounded the misery of pacifists hoping for a day of decency in political campaigns. Also, we have seen from the 2015 performance of Facebook and Cambridge Analytica, that social media can be both a facilitator and a big danger to elections.

But perhaps there are exceptions, however imperfect, from which our politicians could take a leaf in the days ahead?

Despite his disability, for example, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the 32nd president of the US ran what presidential historians consider some of the most successful campaigns. In spite of the daunting odds of the Great Depression, FDR ran a campaign in 1932 that ended four decades of Republican dominance, a feat that he sustained and repeated back-to-back in three subsequent terms. His theme song, “Happy days are here again”, became his party’s anthem.

How a man stricken with polio at 39 could have done it was in part a result of the genius of his message which offered despairing voters a “New Deal” after the famished years of Republican rule, and partly also as a result of the understanding of the press not to highlight his disability, which frankly, would be a miracle today.

The point is that the only US President who ruled for an unprecedented four terms ran largely issues-based campaigns and won, in spite of his disability. And to think that he had in his corner, the warmonger and one of America’s most notorious publishers, Williams Randolph Hearst, whom he could have pressed to dishonorable ends!

US Presidents John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan also showed how even in the age of the TV, focusing on issues and connecting with people can make a difference in election campaigns.

And perhaps the most electrifying in the recent history of US campaigns has been Barack Obama, an extraordinary mobiliser and charming politician whose wife, Michelle, said in spite of all the garbage thrown at Obama by Hillary Clinton’s bullies in 2016, “when they go low, we go high.”

Newly elected Kenyan President William Ruto also provides an example of how to run a difficult campaign without always being nasty. In spite of his supporters getting trashed and the few he recommended as cabinet members being targets of Uhuru Kenyatta witch hunt, Ruto harped on how the government’s anti-corruption war had lost its way.

While his main opponent mocked and called him an “irresponsible young man deceiving Kenyans with fake promises”, Ruto’s campaign responded by providing a roadmap of how he would tackle the country’s 40 percent youth unemployment. He spun a legend that he was a “hustler”, just like the ordinary people, and not a member of the corrupt, grasping dynasty.

MKO Abiola’s Hope ‘93 was also, in many respects, exemplary and a number of the current actors played important roles in it. In comparison with the National Republican Convention (NRC), Abiola’s Social Democratic Party (SDP) was imaginative, folksy and down-to-earth. Abiola showed a forlorn, divided country that it was possible to believe again.

Since the military railroaded President Olusegun Obasanjo back to office in 1999, our political campaigns have been anything but inspiring. Obasanjo, both a creature and mastermind of this new era, poignantly described it as a “do-or-die” affair.

As the blatant lies, fake promises and dark schemes of politicians have come back to haunt them, a number of them begotten of this season seem determined to return to their natural habitat – the mud.

Yet, voters will have to decide whether or not to join them there. Voters who indulge the demagoguery of politicians, who choose to cheer them on as they kick the leg instead of the ball, cannot blame anyone when charlatans run their lives for another four years.

President Muhammadu Buhari, like those before him, has repeatedly promised free and fair elections. But that, quite honestly, is not his job. It is the duty of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to see to it and the responsibility of citizens to hold the Commission’s feet to the fire.

Civil society and the press can also help with the most important question of any election campaign – how? They can help not only to remind voters of what is important and insist that politicians play by the rules, but also by constantly demanding that the umpire, INEC, should monitor and enforce its own rules.

Campaigns matter because they can help to activate voter interest and also underline the fundamental issues, which for Nigeria, includes security, the state of the economy or where partisan or group interests may lie.

As Gary Jacobson said in his article, “How do campaigns matter?”, published in the May 2015 issue of the Annual Review of Political Science, “The question is not whether campaigns matter, but where, when, for what and for whom they matter.”

The supply side has let us down badly, offering mostly transient amusement, vile abuse or downright bogus promises. It’s time to demand something more than empty promissory notes. Something we can hold onto the morning after this seasonal charm offensive has gone.

Azu Ishiekwene

Ishiekwene is the Editor-In-Chief of LEADERSHIP

Brazil still beats Ghana without Jesus

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Ghana Black Stars suffered another painful 3-0 defeat at the hands of the Seleção of Brazil who played without Star man Gabriel Jesus.

The pre World Cup international friendly which afforded trainer Otto Addo the opportunity to try some new players who have been integrated into the team, exposed the weaknesses of the Stars.

The Stars, who looked so ordinary in both defense, midfield and attack in the early stages of the game, got punished as Marquinhos out jumped his markers to a free header from a corner.

In their desperate attempt to get into the game, the Stars became more fragile especially in the midfield and got punished on the 28th minute by striker Richardlison who had earlier missed from a close range.

The Tottenham Hotspurs attacker’s spectacular strike was enough to force the Stars to play according to the dictates of the Brazilians’ game plan forcing the Stars to chase shadows

Experienced Dennis Odoi who operated as the right full  back needed more than rich experience to contain in-form Vinicius Jnr who kept terrorising him freely on the flanks

Richardlison caused more damage when he headed home from Neymar’s free kick which resulted from a tackle on Vinicius Jnr by Dennis Odoi.

Impressive second half performance

The Stars lifted their game after recess thanks to Otto Addo’s tactical changes which saw an improved Stars carried the fight to their opponents who had already taken a 3-0 comfortable lead in the first half.

Ghana’s brightest chance on the day fell to skipper Dede Ayew but his incisive header which threatened the world’s most successful national team, clashed the crossbar before flying over.

     Inaki Williams &   Mohammed Salisu to the rescue

Debutants Inaki Williams and Mohammed Salisu who replaced Afena Gyan and  Kamal-Deen Sulemana respectively, immediately brought stability to the Stars.

While Inaki kept the left side of the Brazilian defense busy with swift ball control and deadly incursions, Salisu on the other hand stabilised the defense with two major clearances that saved the Stars from conceding further.

Otto Addo’s attempt to control the game

Having noticed the effects of his two changes earlier, Otto Addo effected more changes with the hope to control the game and possibly get a consolation or perhaps restore parity.

Toriq Lamptey,  Elisha Owusu and Antoine Semenyo  were introduced as Captain Andre Ayew, Mohammed Kudus and Dennis Odoi were pulled out while Kudus was substituted for Daniel Kofi Kyere.

However, their inclusion could not do the much anticipated magic as the former world champions  rather grew stronger and looked more dangerous pushing the Stars back into their own half.

   How Tite neutralised Otto Addo’s control

Tite neutralised the Stars threats with the introduction of Manchester United’s poster boy Anthony Santos,  Madrid’s Rodrygo and Bremer who replaced Chelsea’s centre back, Thiago Silver.

Still poised to maintain his side’s dominance, Matheus Cunha, Everton Ribeiro and Fabinho were also introduced into the game and these tactical substitutions had immediate impact.

The Brazilians maintained at least 64% of possession and made 9 successful shot on target out of a total of 21 attempts.

The Black Stars on the other hand, made 7 attempts at goal but only 1 out of the seven was on target.

The last time minutes of the game was fully controlled by the Brazilians thanks to Teti’s game plan which did not include Star player Gabriel Jesus.

The former Man City danger man has been in top form since joining Arsenal but Teti surprisingly settled on Richardlison and snubbed Jesus.

Having assessed his side’s performance against the Seleção,     manager Otto Addo is likely to parade a strong squad against Nicaragua on Tuesday in Spain.

 

 

 

NDC MPs Indict Chinese Gov’t; for allegedly issuing two passports to Aisha Huang

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Aisha Huang passport Jan 2019 – 2029

On the back of government’s desire to prosecute Aisha Huang, the Chinese illegal miner described in court as having gained notoriety in the act, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Members of Parliament have opened a new chapter in the case, insisting that she was not deported.

The minority said: “From our extensive work, there is still no credible evidence that Aisha Huang was deported to China as the President and his Senior Minister originally claimed.”

The NDC has dropped yet another bombshell, accusing even the Chinese government of assisting Aisha to obtain two passports.

Immigration stamps in Aisha Huang’s passport

They opined that the Chinese government owes Ghana some urgent clarifications on the genuineness of both passports, and if they are genuine why was Aisha Huang issued with a second passport, when her earlier passport had not expired.

The call on the Chinese government feeds into speculations that Aisha Huang may be a spy deployed by the Chinese to cause destruction to the nation’s forests.

The NDC MPs’ revelation was contained in a post the North Tongu legislature made on his Facebook page yesterday.

They have advocated for “a full and independent Article 278 Commission of Enquiry which must be broadcast live to all Ghanaians.”

The MP disclosed that Aisha Huang was not deported as the government had earlier communicated, further debunking the claim that she sneaked in and out through unapproved routes.

With accompanying passport pictures, the post said that, “We now have it on authority that her multiple trips to Togo and back to Ghana since February 2019 were not on the blind side of Ghanaian authorities.”

According to the MP, one of Aisha Huang’s two passports for her travels bears the name Huang En, with passport number G39575625 and was issued on January 14, 2010.

The other passport, he added, has the name Huang Ruixia with the number EE9994609. It is a Chinese passport issued on January 14, 2019.

“Strangely, both passports have different dates of birth. In the En Huang passport (G39575625), she claims to have been born on July 7, 1986 while in the Ruixia Huang passport (EE9994609) she claims to be much older, having been born on November 7, 1975,” he observed.

The Minority NDC claims that Aisha Huang has footprints of her physical presence in Ghana from as far back as February 27, 2019 concluding, therefore, that “Aisha Huang has been living in Ghana and Togo for more than 3 years, before obtaining her Ghana Card on February 27, 2022.”

The Minority has described as most bizarre that Aisha Huang’s biometrics did not raise an alarm at the Aflao border immigration post, considering that her biometrics had previously been captured at numerous locations, including at the Kotoka International Airport and the NIA.

Further, they argue that her well-stored details as contained in Ghana’s PISCES (Personal Identification Secured Certified Evaluation System) should equally have raised alarm.

The Minority argued, while describing as intriguing, why Ghana’s government did not share intelligence on the notorious Aisha Huang with neighbouring governments.

This, they were sure, could have limited Aisha’s sinister movements in the sub-region.

BACKGROUND

However, a fresh case has been filed at the Accra High Court by the Attorney-General (A-G), Godfred Yeboah Dame, against En Huang, aka Aisha Huang.

The A-G filed four criminal accusations against the ‘galamsey queen, which if found culpable, could spend a maximum of 20 years imprisonment or could be fined up to 30,000 penalty units, an equivalent of GH¢360,000.

En Huang has, nonetheless, pleaded innocent to all four criminal charges, including entering Ghana while prohibited from re-entry and undertaking a mining operation without a licence, levelled against her.

She also pleaded not guilty to facilitating the participation of persons engaged in a mining operation, contrary to section 99 (2)(a) and (3) of the Minerals and Mining Act, 2006, Act 703, as amended by the Minerals and Mining (Amendment) Act, 2019, Act 995, as well as illegal employment of foreign nationals, contrary to section 24 of the Immigration Act, 2000, Act 573.

Her plea was taken by the Criminal Division ‘5’ of the Accra High Court on Friday, September 16, 2022.

The court, presided over by Justice Lydia Osei Marfo, in a virtual session remanded Aisha Huang into police custody and adjourned the case to October 12.

Akufo-Addo sells Ghana, Africa at UN

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The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has eloquently sold Ghana and Africa to the world and solicited support from the investor community, particularly for the agro-industry of Africa.

President Akufo-Addo took his turn last Wednesday evening to address the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), ongoing in New York, United States.

The President’s address largely represented the entire African continent, unlike his peers, who centred on their various countries.

He said: “Our message to the global investor community is, therefore, this: Africa is ready for business. Africa needs you and you need Africa. You need Africa because Africa is busily building the world’s largest single market of 1.3 billion people.

“Soon we will have a customs union, and soon we will have a continental payment system that will accelerate and facilitate trade amongst ourselves.”

CRISIS OF GEOPOLITICS

In his speech, the President stated that Africa sees the current geopolitical crisis as an opportunity to rely less on food imports from outside the continent and better use the continent’s 60% global share of arable land to increase food production.

He lamented the devastating impact of relying on Russia and Ukraine for 70 percent of Africa’s wheat consumption.

The irony, he observed, is that Africa possesses enough land, water, gas and manpower to produce enough fertiliser, food and energy for ourselves and for others.

President Akufo-Addo ostensibly acknowledged that the continent cannot do it all alone and urged global investors to see Africa for what it is: “the new frontier for manufacturing, technology, and food production.”

THE CASE OF GHANA

Speaking specifically about Ghana, President Akufo-Addo told the gathering that his government has launched the ‘One District, One Factory’ policy.

He explained that with government incentives, the 1D1F has directly seen, so far, some one hundred and twenty-five (125) enterprises being set up in various districts across the country, and is leveraging each area’s competitive advantage.

He further informed the UNGA that six years ago, his government embarked on an aggressive policy of planting for food and jobs. This initiative, he remarked, has helped Ghanaian farmers increase their yields in folds.

The President’s address also touched on industrialisation, not being oblivious of the presence of the Africa Continental Free Trade Area, which provides a single market as an added incentive.

As such, President Akufo-Addo indicated that Ghana has taken policy measures to add value to her natural resources.

He cited that Ghana is processing more of its cocoa, refining more of her gold, and is determined to exploit the entire value chain of her huge lithium deposits.

He continued that, “We are busily building an integrated bauxite and aluminium industry and an integrated iron and steel industry, building new oil refineries and have, so far, attracted six (6) of the world’s biggest automobile manufacturers to set up assembling plants in Ghana, prior to producing them in the country.”

BULLET HITS AFRICA ECONOMIES

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo stressed the devastating effects of the much condemned Russian invasion of Ukraine.

According to the President, though these developments appear distant from Africa, the continent is feeling the heat, as is the entire world.

With the world confronted by a devastating global economic pandemic, pushing Africa into its worst recession for half a century, President Akufo-Addo stated that a slump in productivity and revenues, increased pressures on spending, and spiralling public debts confronted the continent without relent.

“As we grappled with these economic challenges, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine burst upon us, aggravating an already difficult situation.

“It is not just the dismay that we feel at seeing such deliberate devastation of cities and towns in Europe in the year 2022; we are feeling this war directly in our lives in Africa.

“Every bullet, every bomb, every shell that hits a target in Ukraine, hits our pockets and our economies in Africa,” he said.

President Akufo-Addo stated that inflation has recently reached a 40-year high in the United States and the United Kingdom.

“There is record inflation in the euro zone. Several African countries have inflation rates surging three to four times higher than what they were, just two years ago.”

COP Ken Yeboah pulled out

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A pull-out ceremony has been held in honour of the Director-General of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service, Commissioner of Police (COP) Isaac Ken Yeboah.

COP Isaac Ken Yeboah delivering a speech

The ceremony was held yesterday at the National Police Training School (NPTS) at Tesano in Accra. The ceremony was highly attended by past and serving senior police officers, family, loved one, and church members, marked with a colourful parade.

Mr. Ken Yeboah, in a gratuity speech, thanked the Police Service for having the confidence in him to occupy one of the highest offices in the Service.

Full of emotions, he told the gathering: “I have to exit from the work that I love so much to enable others take the mantle from where I have reached.  I’m proud to be a Ghanaian, and extremely proud to have the opportunity to serve my country, the Ghana Police Service honorably…”

He thanked, particularly, Dr. George Akuffo-Dampare, for standing grounds to allow him to continue to work as the Director of CID, despite stiff opposition.

According to him, within the over three decades that he had served the Ghana Police Service in various capacities, he made sure that he mentored a lot of officers just as he was also mentored by others.

He, therefore, urged those coming after him to try to leave a positive legacy wherever they find themselves, and, most importantly, “If I have offended anybody, I ask for forgiveness, and if anybody has offended me, I have already forgiven the person.”

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Mr. Ken Yeboah was a member of the National Security Council, Small Arms and Light Weapons Commission, and the Police Council.

He held positions including Director General Administration, Director General Technical,   Director General Legal and Prosecution, Deputy Director General Legal and Prosecution,   Northern Regional Police Commander, Ashanti Regional Police Commander, Chief Staff Officer to the IGP, and Deputy Chief Staff Officer to the IGP.

The others are Deputy Director General CID, Director Research and Planning of the CID, Commandant of the Detective Training Academy and Head of Commercial Crime Unit/CID.

He holds bachelor and master’s degrees from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), University of Ghana and the Ghana School of Law.

Te former CID boss is also a graduate of The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) National academy in Quantico in the USA. He is married with 4 children.

Court remands 19 years old for robbery

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BERNICE BESSEY
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The Accra Circuit Court ‘2’, presided over by Rosemary Torsu Baah, has remanded a 19-year-old, Ibrahim Harford, into police custody for allegedly engaging in robbery activities.

The court remanded the accused yesterday, following his not guilty plea to the charges of conspiracy to commit a crime and robbery.

The prosecuting officer, Inspector Jonas Lawer, narrated to the court that the teenager, Ibrahim Harford (Okada rider), and his accomplice, Sadik (unemployed), at large, attacked Frank Adjetey, a carpenter and the complainant in the case.

According to him, the accused persons live at Ashaiman Atadeka, while the complainant is a resident of Teshie Corner Bar.

He told the court that on September 16, 2022, at about 8:30pm, the complainant and his brother, Emmanuel Adjetey, closed from work at Dansoman, and while on their way home, decided at a point or upon reaching a spot called Blue Lagoon engaged the services of Bolt.

The prosecutor continued that just as Frank removed his iPhone 8 plus, valued at GH¢1,800 from his pocket to order the ride, Ibrahim and his accomplice, on a Royal 125A motorbike with registration number M-21-GE 8062, climbed the pedestrian walkway, snatched the phone, and sped off towards Sakaman traffic lights.

He added that the complainant’s brother raised an alarm and the policemen on duty at the Sakaman Police barrier assisted them to arrest Ibrahim, but his accomplice managed to escape.

Inspector Lawer added that the accused person was charged with the offences and put before the court.

The court, after remanding the accused, adjourned the case to October 4, 2022.

Head porter finds $18k in dustbin: owner fights for money in court

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A 23 years old head porter, Isaac Tetteh, has been put before an Accra Circuit Court for finding US$18,300 in a dustbin bin.

Isaac was said to have found the huge amount in a dust bin in front of a boutique at Tudu in Accra, and gave it Daniel Adogo, 30 and drive, and the latter also gave it one Yaw David Kuenyedzi, 38, a black market dealer.

The head porter has been slapped with stealing, whilst Daniel and Yaw have charged with abetment of crime.

Although the court, presided over by Samuel Bright Acquah, found the charges problematic, it, however, granted the accused persons bail in the sum of GH¢20,000 each, with a common surety who resides within the jurisdiction of the court.

It further ordered that the accused persons report to the police station once a week to assist in investigations, and adjourned the case to October 5, 2022.

The facts of the case, as presented to the court by the prosecuting officer, Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Augustine Yirenkyi, was that on the September 13, 2022, the complainant, who is a businessman, left a white envelope containing cash of US$18,300 in his office.

According to him, the complainant’s sales person in his boutique at Tudu mistakenly threw the envelope among other refuse into a dustbin in front of the shop.

Unfortunately, he added, the complainant realised the missing envelope the following day, and when he went to the dustbin to search for the money, he could not find it.

He said a CCTV cameras installed in front of the boutique captured Isaac taking the white envelope containing the money from the dustbin.

The prosecutor added that the complainant caused the arrest of the head porter and handed him over to police. He said Isaac admitted having picked the white envelope, but claimed nothing was in it.

He added that investigations revealed Isaac gave the money to Daniel, and the latter also gave it to Yaw, who was traced to Aflao and arrested.

“He admitted having received some money from Isaac (A1), but he did not check how much the money [was], and could not tell the type of currency they were, as they were not in cedis.

“He told police he has also handed same over to Daniel at Aflao to determine what type of currency they were. Yaw was arrested and he admitted having received some money from Daniel, but they were old Liberia dollars and were only 42 pieces,” the prosecutor added.

The DSP told the court that the case was still under investigation to determine where the accused persons had sent the money stolen by Isaac.

Editorial: Let’s take our investment in STEM very serious

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The Minister of Education, Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum, has made a very profound statement at the ongoing 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly, which has set the internet ablaze.

The Minister, who was making a submission at the ‘Transforming Education’ Summit, waxed philosophical by saying, “You can’t memorise your way out of poverty but you can critically think and innovate out of poverty.”

Dr. Adutwum’s speech, which has since attracted both positive and negative comments on social media was in relation to the grammar-type educational system being operated in Ghana and other parts of Africa.

According to the Minister, the curriculum being used in Ghana and other Africa countries, where students are taught everything from the text books by their teachers and finally assessed in an examination is not helpful.

Dr. Adutwum said it does not make these students critical thinkers and went ahead to narrate a story about how no single student in all the schools he has visited could ask him a question, after he made a submission to them.

He said the children are unable to ask questions because they have been tamed by the mode of teaching and learning that is being practiced in the country.

Providing a solution, the Minister said that until Ghana and other African countries adopt an ‘Assertive Curriculum” which is geared towards making young people challenge the status quo, no amount of access to education can transform the African child into a thinker and innovator.

Whilst some have viewed this as a serious situation that deserves attention, especially in Ghana, others have also questioned why the Minister is talking about this age-old problem now.

For some Ghanaians, the phenomena is one of the reasons the minister was appointed to come and solve, so why the lamentation.

The Chronicle would like to point out that we are not oblivious of the track record of Dr Adutwum when it comes to the area of education. He worked as a Mathematics and Information Technology teacher in the United States for ten years.

We are, therefore, not surprised about how he is ensuring that education is as practical as possible and not only a theory. He is on the right path as he is already championing the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) which remains the foundation of any country’s development.

The government has taken the necessary steps to make STEM the new paradigm of the country’s education.

The passion which Dr Adutwum has towards the STEM paradigm is what has made the Akufo-Addo led administration commit to construct 35 STEM Senior High Schools and 5 tertiary institutions.

Aside this, the Minister has personally sponsored students from his district; Bosomtwe district to undertake STEM related courses at the University of Mines and Technology.

We must all critically examine the Minister’s statement to help us find a viable solution to changing our educational system, in the face of overwhelming global technological advances.

The world is inclining towards technology and as such it requires that we make a conscious effort towards achieving the STEM paradigm.

Reports have shown that the issue of high levels of unemployment in the country is because people do not possess the requisite skills needed for the jobs available.

However, governments over the years have not been able to bridge the gap between industry and education to get the needed results.

Students at vocational and technical training schools struggle to undertake practical lessons when they have been taken through the theory and so they still come out of school with no sense of innovation at all.

Again, studies have shown that children are able to grasp things in their formative stages than when they are grown.

It is, therefore, our submission that the government consider starting the STEM education at the elementary level, instead of waiting for the children to get to the second cycle institution.

The world is leaning towards technology. We must make the necessary investment in education  so that our children can innovate their way out of poverty.

Letter to Senior Opupulepu (202); Historic Bye-Bye to Ohemaa Lizzy

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Dear Senior Opupulepu,

How are you do? I hope you are do well, well. As for me and mine, we are all do well, well also.

Senior, you remember your day-nursery school days, when you excitingly joined your mates, and recited this nursery rhyme: “Puti-tat, puti-tat, where had you go? I has been to Long-don, to see the Twin…Puti-tat, puti-tat, what did you done? I am fright a pickin mouse relaxing under her chair.”

Senior, it was then that we, Ogyakromians got to know that the ekraas in kwakwe or as in mouse, that we do not respect here in Ogyakrom, has got first cousins, who are very wealthy and living good in the Land of the Long Noses, that they could purchase the Queen’s royal stool to make it a canopy over their garden chairs.

Senior, we were told that Ohemaa Lizzy Alexi-Maria II, was called by Yahweh to take up duty as a day nursery teacher in His Kingdom. I heard that the way you sung that Putti-tat song, informed the Mind of Yahweh that Ohemaa Lizzy can bea good day nursery teacher.

Senior, when all the amanhene of all the villages in ewiase were invited, our one and only Nana Owubiayeowuo, the Great Leopard was counted in the number and he went in such pomp and pageantry with his beautiful Sweetie-Sweetie Muah-Muah, Oheneyire Becca, whose fairness and brightness lit the path they plied on.

Please I am not saying our Omanhene is dark black, yoooo. If you go and say this somewhere, you are on your own. I will plead this letter is cut-and-paste.

Senior, while some of us, saw Nana and his sweet Becca, entering and sitting in the church auditorium, some good-for-nothing Ogyakromian, are going about, swearing that they could not locate the google location of Nana in the auditorium.

Senior, if they did not see him, they should have looked for that bright light which is Oheneyire Becca and there they would have seen our Omanhene. In fact, many believed that these village wreckers who have not seen a flat screen television before, were only looking at the beauty of the television instead of the screen.

Senior, hmmmm, it seems Omanhene Chars-Kele, did not do Obibiman history and culture during his Free SHS days, because if he did, he would not have done what he did by saying all amanhene especially those from Abibiman, should board tro-tro to the funeral service.

Senior, I am not understand. First, he ordered that our sacred and most respected amanhene must not take iron doves but rather take iron vultures to enter the airspace of Ngleshie inside. The last time I checked, he was not the class prefect of the United Villages Association of Ewiase but was rather in charge of whales’ day-care centers. So, how come he could just give orders like he is a somebody?

Senior, if this is how Chars-Kele would do as omanhene then soon, he would be directing when we should take kooko for breakfast and kontonte for tea.

Senior, after making our amanhene sit uncomfortably on iron vultures, Omanhene Charlie did not end there. He ordered and it was ordered by him, that all our amanhene should sit in tro-tro from the alo-plane park to the guesthouses they were to lay their heads in, and not only that, they were made to move around only in tro-tro in the Ngleshie village’s capital hamlet called Long-Don-Grey.

Senior, our amanhene are gods to us and we handle them with respect and care. When they travel, they sit on iron donkeys where they can spread their legs and arms freely without entering their next-door neighbour nose-space.

When they fly, they fly in iron doves and can freely do anything without interfering the next-door neighbour’s privacy.

Senior, as things are now, with that unnecessary pressure put on them, most of our amanhene will soon fall sick and since they are never treatedin our local herbalists and witch doctors’ kiosks, but fly to the Land of the Long-Noses to have serious ailments, like speck in one’s eyes, removed, I am sure Ohene Chars-Kele deliberately chose did this line, so that, all Abibimanhenes will soon and very soon go back to see the king.

Senior, and one thing I want to ask you, since know the history of worshipping in Yesu Christus Emmanuel’s churches. I noticed that during the church service to wave Ohemaa Lizzy bye-bye, there was not a single moment that the ushers went around with collection buckets to collect collection.

Senior, do the Yesu Christus’ followers in the Land of the Long-Noses and followers in Abibiman worship the same Lord, differently? The question is, since Christus worshipping came from the Long Noses, is it possible that collections are not supposed to be collected, but as you know, are local pastors have done their thing some again and imposed collecting collections during worships.

Senior, if it were here in Ogyakrom, like there would have been ninety-six collections during the service to mark Ohemaa Lizzy, birthdays on earth. And surely after that the pastors will start living bigger and go praising Spiritus Sanctus, for blessings duly received.

Senior, I am not supposed to judge our local men and women of God, so I am Dan, sorry I am Done.

It’s me!

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