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Woman sells personal car to buy sanitary pads for female students

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Nana Adutwumoah receiving a carton of sanitary pads from the Director of Melcom Group of Companies. With them are Mr Avenorgbo (3rd right) and staff from Guinness Ghana Breweries PLC

Nana Ama Adutwumoah, the founder of Touching the Lives of Girls Foundation (TLGF) said she had to sell off her car in 2020 to buy sanitary pads for female students in some second-cycle schools.

That was after she had realized that most female students in their early puberty stages in most schools in the Greater Accra Region absent themselves or sometimes quit school when they start their menstruation. This is because they do not know how to hygienically take care of themselves or do not have money to buy sanitary pads.

Nana Ama Adutwumoah realized the phenomenon during her visit to some of the first-and second-cycle schools in the region to educate the girl-child on the best way of taking care of themselves during menstruation.

She explained that while some female students used fabric cloth, foam or tissue, others use hand sanitiser or corn cobs instead of hygienic sanitary pads, which their parents could hardly afford for them.

She said her personal experience while growing up and the adverse medical effect she had had to endure from her inability to use hygienic menstrual pads informed her to form the TLGF in 2015 to visit schools in the country and to sensitise the girl-child on the need to use sanitary pads.

“And it was during my national tour of the schools when I realised that I needed to sell my car in 2020 to buy sanitary pads for distribution to these girls in the schools.

“I thought they (girls) had to have enough for the number of days they menstruated monthly to protect them against certain preventable diseases associated with the use of unhygienic sanitary pads.

“Additionally, these girls would not regularly absent themselves from school or in some cases, drop out of school as a result of their parents’ inability to be buying them hygienic sanitary pads monthly,” Nana Ama Adutwumoah explained at Melcom, Achimota branch, where the company donated 180 cartons of sanitary pads and drinks for distribution to girls in their puberty in five regions.

The gesture, which formed part of Meclom Care Foundation’s corporate social responsibility, would be distributed to schools in the Eastern, Central, Volta, Western and Ashanti Regions, with the latter hosting this year’s Ghana’s World Menstrual Hygiene Day, Friday.

That would be followed by seminars in some selected schools in the same regions, which Guinness Ghana Breweries PLC has agreed to join hands with Melcom Care Foundation to support TLGF to hold.

Nana Adutwumoah expressed her enormous gratitude to Melcom for the huge gesture that Godwin Avenorgbo, Group Director of Communications, Melcom Group Companies, said would not be the last.

With about 4.5 million girls in school from the basic to the second cycle and about 560,788 in the public SHS and 41,514 in the private SHS, Mr Avenorgbo said his outfit would not relent in supporting such projects that have the backing of former President John Agyekum Kufuor and Lady Julia Osei Tutu, both patrons of TLGF, and Nana Adutwumoah whose sacrifices have kept the foundation going.

Melcom Care Foundation has, over the years, supported laudable projects and assisted displaced Ghanaians in some parts of the country and to Mr Avenorgbo, Melcom would do more.

Historian Deflates Dormaahene’s ‘Historical Facts’

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SEBASTIAN R. FREIKU
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O. B. Sarfo-Kantanka alias Teacher Kantanka - Monarchical Historian

A monarchical historian in Kumasi, Osei Bonsu Sarfo-Kantanka, alias Professor, has said President Akufo-Addo’s applause to the Dormaahene as a good historian is in bad taste.

According to the history teacher, Dormaahene Osagyefo Oseadeyo Agyemang Badu II spews out inaccurate, incorrect, false and untrue history.

Teacher Kantanka’s position is in obvious reaction to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s commendation of the Dormaahene’s vast knowledge in history, for which reason he (President) advised the Dormaahene to codify chieftaincy lineage.

The President said he was impressed with the recent outdooring of the Kwahu State Book, which detailed the lineage of the area and believes if other traditional authorities emulate what the Kwahus have done, it would help curb chieftaincy disputes in the country.

“So now I leave it to you. I know you are versed in history. Nana Dormaahene, your history goes far. We hear. Those about Asante and the rest, we hear all of them. If you bring that idea for us to replicate (what has been done in Kwahu), it will help all of us for peace to decorate chieftaincy,” he reportedly said.

The occasion was when Osagyefo Oseadeyo Agyemang Badu II as President of the Bono Regional House of Chiefs and his entourage called on the President at the Jubilee House last week Wednesday to congratulate him for his re-election.

But the Kumasi-based monarchical historian, speaking on Opemsuo radio in Kumasi on Monday, said the Dormaahene is not conversant with the tradition, culture and history and that his (Dormaahene’s) history is inaccurate, incorrect, false and  untrue, hence the distortions by

him of late.

Teacher Kantanka, as he is commonly called said he suspects that the president might have a hidden motive in encouraging the Dormaahene to continue with his invectives against Asantehene and distortions of Asante history and spite the people of Asante.

Teacher Kantanka, who is also the Organiser of the Asante Kotoko Society, comprising about 23 Asante youth groups, said it is unfortunate that the president could applause the Dormaahene the way he did. He stressed that though a Nana Akufo-Addo fan, he cannot sacrifice Asante for the love of the President.

“I love Nana Addo but I cannot sacrifice Asante for him”, he stressed in reaction to the President’s praises of the Dormaahene.

Editorial: NADMO must be proactive in disaster management

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Editorial

The usual heavy downpour of rains in the southern part of the country has started in earnest and wreaking havoc. With its accompanying concomitant effects, the perennial flooding in parts of the country, particularly in Accra, has been devastating, to say the least.

Several people have become victims of the devastating floods with accompanying destruction of properties.

However, we could perhaps take solace in the fact that unlike some experiences in the past, no human casualty has been recorded in the present flooding in Accra.

Natural occurrences such as the impact of climate change has not just affected the rainfall pattern in the country but has also led to prolonged flooding with dire consequences.

Unfortunately, human activities, including indiscriminate dumping of waste and building on water ways among others, have become largely accountable for the threat we face whenever there is a heavy downpour.

Though the other causes are quite enormous, they are widely known and this explains why The Chronicle finds it extremely difficult to understand why a common solution to the Accra floods cannot be found once and for all.

In all of these, there is one major concern about the role of the National Disaster  Management Organisation “NADMO” in the wake of the floods.

As an institution, NADMO seeks to enhance the capacity of society to prevent and manage disasters and to improve the livelihood of the poor and vulnerable in rural communities.

It is also expected of NADMO to develop the capacity of communities to respond effectively to disasters and improve their livelihood through social mobilisation.

Additionally, it seeks to manage disasters by co-ordinating the resources of government institutions and non-governmental agencies.

NADMO does these through effective disaster management, social mobilisation and employment generation.

Seemingly, NADMO does not appear to be doing enough in areas of sensitisation, public education and building the capacity of staff and stakeholders.

Additionally, NADMO equally does not seem to have done enough in Promoting Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and public awareness creation in the wake of the perennial flooding

We, at the Chronicle, have become increasingly alarmed about this situation because it does not portray the institution as a more proactive one that helps to prevent disasters as far as flooding in the city is concerned.

For instance, the Ghana Meteorological Agency issues daily alert regarding rainfall in the country but the alert does not receive corresponding educative action from the NADMO.

We are currently in the raining season and per the GMA alert, there could be more rains ahead.

Meanwhile, some people are still living in flood prone areas under the pretext that God would save them when the devastating flooding approaches.

Others are living in dilapidated buildings that have become death traps that could collapse and lead to the possible loss of human lives, especially as the rainfall is peaking now.

In our view, NADMO must have a comprehensive education to breakdown the weather alerts to the citizenry.

The organisation must also be able use appropriate legal means to evict citizens who are dangerously residing in dilapidated buildings to avert any foreseeable calamity.

Through this, we believe that it would be playing its effective role of aiding in disaster prevention rather than to wait for the disasters to occur before they would move in with buckets and blankets.

Kintampo South MP donates 249 pieces of furniture to schools

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FRANCIS OWUSU-ANSAH
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The furniture

The District Chief Executive for Kintampo South in the Bono East region, Mr. Opoku Nyame, has handed over 249 school furniture to the District Director of Ghana Education.

The presentation was made on behalf of Mr. Alexander Gyan, Member of Parliament for Kintampo South, who through the GETFund donated the said furniture to the directorate.

Mr. Nyame, during the short presentation, noted that the Member of Parliament took that giant step aimed at reducing the number of students who sit on the floor to write in basic schools within the district.

He said the presentation was the first batch of furniture that was to be presented to ease the problem of inadequate school furniture within the district, adding that the second batch was soon to follow.

He promised that the District Assembly would be working hand in hand with the Member of Parliament to procure more school furniture to meet the needs of the district and charged the Director of Education to distribute the furniture on need basis and maintain them to last longer.

The school furniture donated includes; 14 teacher’s tables, 2 head teacher’s tables, 5 book shelves, 42 general chairs for staff, 90 dual desks for lower primary, 90 dual desk for upper primary, 4 library tables, 1 cabinet and a notice board.

Boakye Tromo Girls’ dormitory commissioned

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FRANCIS OWUSU-ANSAH
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Tano North Municipal Chief Executive, Ernest Kwarteng (2nd r) commissioning the dormitory
The dormitory

The Tano North Municipal Chief Executive, Mr Ernest Kwarteng, has commissioned a girls’ dormitory block for the Boakye Tromo Senior Technical High School in Duayaw Nkwanta in the Ahafo Region.

Addressing the gathering, the MCE stated that the infrastructure is part of government’s agenda to promote free and quality education in the country.

He further reiterated the government’s commitment to ensuring that the Free Senior High School policy continues to be a success and thus encouraged the people gathered to support the government’s vision to educate every child of school going age.

The MCE called on the management of the school to keep the building in good shape because authorities will be conducting inspections from time to time. Nananom, Board Chairman, Headmaster and staff of the school, expressed their profound gratitude to the government for the kind gesture.

The MCE was joined by Nananom, Municipal Coordinating Director, heads of the various Departments and other distinguished personalities.

Banda Islamic School shines at Girls in ICT competition

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FRANCIS OWUSU-ANSAH
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The award winners and the minister for Communications and Digitalization, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful

A student from the Banda Islamic School in the Banda District of the Bono region emerged the best in the Girls in ICT competition held in the region for young females.

Fourteen-year-old Hawao Omoro beat 99 other students to emerge the overall best in the regional competition which was keenly contested among the participating schools in the twelve districts of the region.

Hawao Omoro took home GHC3,000 cash prize, a laptop and the establishment of an ultramodern Computer Laboratory for the school, and other personal rewards from the Minister for Communications and Digitalization, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful.

Other special awards were given to five outstanding performers in the training process. Apart from the reward for the best one hundred students, the best twenty schools will benefit from the establishment of ICT laboratories to enable the schools to scale up e-learning.

Minister for Communications and Digitalization, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful urged the winner to continue pursuing the interest she has in Science and ICT.

Certificates were presented to all one thousand girls who participated in the training programme and the one hundred teachers and coordinators.

The Girls in ICT seeks to introduce girls and young women to ICT, expose them to opportunities existing in the ICT sector, inspire them to embrace ICT and studies in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM), raise awareness amongst them and ultimately get them to pursue careers in these fields, as the whole world migrates to increased use of digital platforms.

“We need to develop and grow the digital literacy skills of our children for them to become solution providers and innovators able to use technology to solve socio-economic problems. We are hopeful that in time, their innovative solutions will not only have national application but also meet global demand. Our strategy is to catch them young to inculcate the ICT spirit in them,” the minister said.

Hawao Omoro expressed her gratitude to the ministry of communications and sponsors for the initiative. She disclosed that her dream of becoming a nurse in future will be enhanced with the basic ICT skills acquired from the programme.

GIPC trains exporters to achieve $25.3bn non-traditional exports target

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GIPC

The Ghana Export Promotion Authority (GEPA) is holding a-five-day training in export marketing fundamentals for exporters to help meet the non-traditional exports target of $25.3 billion in the next 10 years.

The workshop aims to support the export community to acquire managerial, technical and trade capacity as well as understand the current global export trends to give Ghana a competitive edge.

Mr Albert Kassim Diwura, the Deputy Chief Executive Officer of GEPA, speaking at the opening session, said the Authority was scaling up its marketing training programmes for exporters to enhance capacity and ensure they met required standards in the global market.

This would allow the GEPA to attain the needed growth and boost non-traditional exports. “It is a strategic pillar in our national export development strategy that we build the capacity of our exporters to deliver on our mandate,” he said.

This will be done through the expansion of exporters production to produce enough to feed the market.

“So, what we are saying is that let’s broaden the base. Let’s see how best we can have what we want to export and then the second pillar talks about the enabling environment and the standards,” Mr Diwura said.

“We also build the capacity of the stakeholders such that when they go out there, they can compete favourably with the rest of their counterparts in the world,” he said.

Mr Diwura said the training was in line with the National Export Development Strategy, which aims to boost NTEs exports to $25.3 billion in the next 10 years.

He said the ability to achieve the target rested on the various stakeholders, including the Standards Authority, the Foods and Drugs Authority and the exporters. He urged the trainees to build network and not to compete unnecessary among themselves so they could tap into others’ expertise to boost trade.

“We are discouraging them from competing with one another because we have come of age and we need to take advantage of the export market.

“Instead of competing among ourselves let us collaborate to be able to meet the expectations of the export market. For us it is better to collaborate and share proceeds than losing the opportunity,” he said. He said the Ghana Export School was always ready to develop training modules to meet the needs of product associations and identified groups of persons.

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Confronting Your Fears

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Time for Reflection

Fear is that unpleasant emotion caused by the threat of danger, pain or harm. Being afraid or the word fear emanates from how you feel and perceive a situation which all begins from the mind. Our mind is a very powerful part of every human being where our every action and reaction is first recorded in our minds before anything else.

What you think about is what you gradually become since your mind comes forth thoughts and thoughts translated into positive or negative action is dependent on you. Discipline is however required to be your minds trainer so you do not go contrary in doing what you are not supposed to do with your life. Our mind speaks fear and courage at the same time, choosing which voice to listen to in your head is what will either catapult you to your next level or lead you to remain at a standstill.

Accepting that you are afraid of something or a situation is the best resort to helping confront that fear. Think about it how do you solve a problem when you have not fully accepted the problem? Until there is an acceptance there can never be a remedy to curb the problem and everyone definitely wants a problem uprooted yet it requires the process of acceptance in order to process the steps in confronting whatever the problem is, it is so with fear until you have come to a place of acceptance and agreement that this particular fear is what blocks me from reaching or attempting my goals there is no possible way that fear can be removed.

First of all what is that fear that haunts you? What are the negative words that fear makes you believe? Have you accepted that you are afraid of how little or big that problem is? How willing are you to confront that fear? These and many more are questions you should ponder on and ask yourself. List these questions down and ask yourself providing honest answers for each.

Fear has a little voice that speaks ‘don’t attempt this, you are incapable, you will fail at this, this won’t go any further it’s only temporal don’t waste your time’ these and many other voices are heard within you and for a second makes you feel hopeless and lonely for a moment. The truth is there will always be voices in your mind once you decide to embark on something for the first time, it is, however, your decision to decide which of the voices to submit yourself to hearing. Would you listen to the voice of encouragement or the voice of fear that beckons? The fear of failing at something is what has lead many into believing that instead of failing at it to be mocked by others they are better of not trying at all in order to remain in their safe space.

Failure is not a limitation its a prompt and an alert that something didn’t go well thus when effort is being made towards it to make a second attempt there could be a possible turn around in events and one can be successful upon that attempt. Do not allow failure to limit you, stay strong and courageous. I came to empower you through this article to keep pushing even after you have failed a few number of times.

The fear of failure will make you a failure. The fear in you first of makes you feel incapable to attempt your next level once you feel incapable you do not attempt at all and not attempting at all makes you a failure because you have allowed fear to limit you. Face and confront your fears today, speak to your fears with positive words. That shyness within you is all in your mind, attempt it and fail at it you are a winner because you decided to attempt it.

Once there was an attempt and you were confronted with failure due to things that didn’t go in your plan that’s okay you are not the first to fail at it. Pick the lessons learnt from your attempt and go again the next time this time when you are attempting you are attempting full of confidence and experience because you are going well prepared as compared to your previous attempt and be positive that it will go well.

Fear cripples you and leaves you with that little voice making you question your worth and incapability. God did not bring you here on earth to come question your worth he knows who you are and that is the reason why he created you in his image he gave you an assignment and did not limit you  in attempting them he rather promised to equip us with strength in every step of the way so why allow  fear to dominate over your mind and life? Get up and attempt again.

 

PRACTICAL STEPS IN CONFRONTING YOUR FEARS.

1.Accepting and embracing your fears.

2.Writing down what fear does to you and how it makes you feel.

3.Do a self evaluation test on yourself asking yourself what you want to do with  your life and where you see your life in a few years time.

4.Take action on step 3 and start doing things fear stopped you from doing.

5.Begin to take charge and revolutionize your life.

6.Speak positivity into your own life words such as  “I can do it, fear will not and cannot stop me, I am capable”

Confront your fears today and don’t allow it stop you.Get up and break the chains of fear and confront anything life brings before you.You can do this.

Jaclyn Essien

Jackieessien6@gmail.com

The views expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect The Chronicle’s stance.

Central Bank raises interest rate for first time in over 2 yrs to 13%

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CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele

The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has voted unanimously to raise the Monetary Policy Rate (MPR) to 13 per cent.

CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele, announced this on Tuesday while briefing reporters at the end committee’s meeting at the apex bank’s headquarters in Abuja.

It is the first time in two and a half years that the policy-setting committee of the nation’s financial regulator would increase the MPR, which measures the interest rate.

The MPR is the baseline interest rate in an economy while every other interest rate used within such an economy is built on it.

“The sharp rise in inflation across both the advanced and emerging market economies has generated growing concerns among central banks as the progressive rise in inflation driven by rising aggregate demands and wage growth has put sustainable pressure on price levels,” said Emefiele.

“Consequently, the major central banks such as the U.S. Fed, the Bank of England, European Central Bank, and Bank of Canada have provided strong guidance of a progressive shift away from monetary policy accommodation to drive market interest rate which may ultimately impact capital flows away from emerging market economies.”

Emefiele explained that at the 285th meeting of the MPC, six out of the 11 members of the committee voted to raise the key rate.

According to him, the committee also voted to retain the asymmetric corridor at +100 and -700 basis points around the MPR, as well as Cash Reserved Ratio (CRR) at 27 per cent.

The committee, the CBN governor stated, also voted to retain all other parameters. He advised the various banks in the country and the Federal Government to redouble efforts in supporting monetary authority.

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Civil servants warned to steer clear of partisan politics

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Head of Service, Mrs Hannah Odiyo

The Kogi State Government has warned civil servants in the state to steer clear of partisan politics.

The Head of Service, Mrs Hannah Odiyo, gave the warning on Tuesday while reacting to a statement credited to the Chairman, Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), in Kogi State, Comrade Onuh Edoka, who in his address to the members of the newly constituted political steering committee urged them to drive Labour Party membership in the state.

Odiyo charged all public or civil servants to stay completely out of partisan politics in the interest of the state.

The Head of Service quoted the NLC Chairman to have said “the committee should make sure that all workers of this state are brought into the fold of Labour Party.”

Odiyo, in her response to the statement, directed all civil or public servants to be aware and be guided by the provisions of Public Service Rule No: PSRS-030422 and 030423 which forbid civil or public servants’ involvement in partisan politics.

According to her, the above rules only allow civil servants to register and cast their votes during election time and not to join any political party campaign in support for or against any political party.

She asserted that all workers in the state should be properly guided against being misled by any group or political party.

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