Good information to all NABCO beneficiaries who…
Apexnewsgh.com your reliable online portal can confirm that the NABCO December allowance has been paid to beneficiaries and for those who did not receive the usual message alert due to network problem, they should kindly go for their allowance with ease. After witnessing some delays in the payment stipends of NABCO beneficiaries across the country, beneficiaries across all regions of Ghana were seen with excitement moving from one E-zwich center to another to cash out their long awaited December stipends. However, it appears some beneficiaries are complaining that they have been paid because they couldn’t receive a message alert as usual from their employer. Please Note: that shouldn’t be a worry, because the network disappoints atimes. Just kindly take your E-zwich along with you to any E-zwich office for your allowance especially if you are sure you submitted your timesheet. Apexnewsgh.com/Ghana/Ngamegbulam Chidozie Stephen Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications. Contact: 0555568093.
COVID-19: Ghana records 15 new deaths; active cases now 4,665
Fifteen (15) more COVID-19 related deaths have been recorded in Ghana taking the country’s death toll to 405 from 390. This was captured on the Ghana Health Service’s COVID-19 update on Sunday, January 31, 2021. According to the Ghana Health Service, 797 new infections have been recorded pushing the active case count to 4,665. So far the country has recorded a total of 65,427 confirmed cases with 60,357 people recovering or discharged. Currently, Ghana has 125 and 44 persons in severe and critical conditions respectively. Starrfm Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications. Contact: 0555568093
UER: Teachers from Navrongo abandoned schools in Kandiga due to fear for their lives
The Assemblyman for the Akunkongo/Abempingo electoral area of Kandiga in the Kassena-Nankana Municipal of the Upper East Region has alleged that since school re-open, teachers from Navrongo area are not coming to school to teach their children. Earlier, the report was that the schools in Kandiga conflict zone were not functioning due to the ongoing conflict in the area. But when Apexnewsgh.com contacted the Assemblyman who overseas issues in the community Hon. Clement Akapanga, disclaimed the fact that schools in his electoral areas were not active. But however, stressed that the issue at hand has to do with the teachers from Navrongo area who were not attending school since the re-opening of school by the Ghana Education Service. According to Hon. Akapanga who spoke to Apexnewsgh.com in an exclusive interview alleged that the heard that the acting Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) for the Kassena Nankana Municipal Mr. William Aduum asked these teachers from Navrongo not to go back to school in Akunkongo/Abempingo electoral area and Atosale / Zaasi electoral area “School is in operation, but we have some teachers not coming especially the teachers from Navrongo area, they don’t come. Apart from those who are from our area, they come to school. The children to school in their numbers, they mark their registers every day because they are always present. So, to say the school is not in operation will be the truth. Except that the teachers from Navrongo and am told by one of these teachers that the acting MCE Williams Aduum has asked them not to come to school”. He alleged However, the acting Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) for the Navrongo Municipal Mr. Williams Aduum in an interview with Apexnewsgh.com, denied the allegation. According to him, even though, he acknowledged having an idea of the situation, he said as an MCE, he cannot ask teachers not to go to school because that will amount to a vacation of a post. But he believes the Municipal Security Council (MUSEC) will have to sit and come out with a better solution. “No, I am not sure that is true, how can the say the MCE have asked the teacher not to go to school? You know GES is a decentralized body, they don’t work directly under the assembly, we only come to assist if there is a need. I also got this information from one of the people there, that I have asked the teachers to go to school and I said it wasn’t true. So, I called the director to know whether she had also heard something like that and she said no, it was teachers who came to her, that they needed some guarantee from her to see if they can be going to school because of the security situation there and she said that, she could not also say that they shouldn’t go to school because if they don’t, it will amount to a vacation of post. So, she will also get in touch with the MUSEC so that they will see what MUSEC can do. So, they sent a letter to the office, I think the day before yesterday and my director called me and said well, once am not in town, what they will need to do is to call for the security council to sit and look at how best we can talk to the security for them so that can always go and close without any problem. But I can’t tell teachers that they should go to school. That cannot be correct at all”. Mr. Aduum explains However, Apexnewsgh.com when contacted the Municipal Education Director Madam Alice. E. Abeere-inga she declined to speak on the issue because she does not know the reporter in person. Kandiga and Doba conflict has in the past few months intensified. Causing residents to run away from home. The two communities are fighting for over the ownership of a piece of land on which an old structure that has been earmarked to be renovated and converted to a Police Station is sited. Apexnewsgh.com/Ghana/Ngamegbulam Chidozie Stephen Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications. Contact: 0555568093
Parliament votes against Ayariga’s motion for absorption of 2021 tertiary fees
Parliament has voted against a motion filed by the Member of Parliament for Bawku Central, Mahama Ayariga asking government to absorb fees of students in public tertiary institutions and to extend support to private universities for the 2021 academic year. He premised his request on the adverse impact of COVID-19 on incomes of individuals and businesses. The matter was determined through a voice vote on the floor of Parliament on Thursday, January 28, 2021. While the Minority group were in support of the motion, the Majority side held the view that such a move would be unnecessary because the government has already provided enough support and interventions in the area of education due to the pandemic. Mahama Ayariga had earlier urged his colleague MPs to accept the motion because it will greatly relieve families that have been adversely impacted by COVID-19, particularly the incomes of households. Citinewsroom Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications. Contact: 0555568093.
UER: It is possible persons recovered from COVID will have problem with erection–Dr. William Gudu
The Medical Superintendent at the Bongo District Hospital Dr. William Gudu has said even though upon all his reading about COVID, he has not come across where it was stated that a person recovered from COVID will have a problem with erection, it is possible once it can affect every organ. According to research, most persons recovered from COVID-19 appeared to be having difficulty with erection. Dr. Gudu made the pronouncement on a Bolgatanga based radio station DREAMS FM monitored by Apexnewsgh.com on Wednesday “Throughout my reading, I didn’t see but, it is also possible that we are been difficult and men get infected more than women and because men usually don’t want to play with their potency, is possible they are using it to make us be complying. But, once it can affect every organ, impotence is possible”. He Explained But asking whether the COVID-19 rates are high in the Upper East Region, Dr. Gudu said everybody is suspect as it stands now. He cited an example with the situation in the Bongo District of the Upper East Region, where the suspected cases recorded so far is 175 with 23 active positive cases. According to Dr. Gudu, the 175 cases recorded in Bongo is not even in the community. “In Bongo 175 cases, not the community oo, 175 suspected cases and 23 were positive is a high percentage. So, consider it quite high because if you pick 175 and 23 are positive, then you can actually see that is quite high” He stressed. Apexnewsgh.com/Ghana/Ngamegbulam Chidozie Stephen Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications. Contact: 0555568093.
Ghana records nearly 2,000 new COVID-19 cases in three days
The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has for the third straight update announced that the country has recorded more than 600 new daily infections of the Coronavirus. The country’s health management body on Friday, January 23, confirmed 635 new cases of infections barely 24 hours after it had announced 658 new infections across eight regions on Thursday, January 22, 2021. The confirmation of 679 new infections in GHS’ latest update, therefore, brings the country’s new cases in the last three updates to 1,972. The latest infections, confirmed in eight regions were from tests conducted as at January 20, 2021. The latest infections also bring the country’s active cases to 3,286 from a previous 2,799. Unfortunately, six more persons have succumbed to the disease since the last update, raising the death toll also to 367 from a previous 361. So far, a total of 57,141 patients have clinically recovered from the disease and been discharged. Seventy-one of the active cases, it said, are in severe conditions, with 36 in critical condition. The active cases, the update said, are being managed in treatment sites, isolation centres across the country, while some were under home management. Ghana has so far recorded 60,794 cases of the virus since it confirmed its first two cases in March 2020. Out of the total confirmed cases, 23,703 were from the General Surveillance; 36,033 cases from the Enhanced Contact Tracing, while 1,058 have been recorded from international travellers disembarking at the Kotoka International Airport since it was reopened on September 1, 2020, the update stated. So far, a total of 735,234 tests have been conducted. Out of this, 229,722 are from routine surveillance, 364,738 from contact tracing, and 140,774 from international travellers arriving through the Kotoka International Airport. The positivity rate is 8.3 per cent. The Greater Accra and the Ashanti Regions continue to be the epicentre of the virus in the country with cumulative cases of 34,740 and 11,687 respectively. The rest are: Western Region- 3,270 Eastern Region – 2,704 Central Region- 2,215 Volta Region – 848 Bono East Region – 796 Western North Region – 689 Bono Region- 645 Northern Region – 620 Ahafo Region- 537 Upper East Region – 502 Oti Region- 244 Upper West Region – 152 Savannah Region – 62 North East Region -25 GNA Apexnewsgh.com/Ghana/Ngamegbulam Chidozie Stephen Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications. Contact: 0555568093
Ghanaian climate activist, Joshua Amponsem, leads global youth to deliver adaptation demands to world leaders; BY PROSPER ADANKAI
A World Climate Ambassador and Ghanaian youth climate activist, Joshua Amponsem, is scheduled to meet with the President of Ghana Nana Addo Dankwa Akuffo Addo and other Head od States today, Monday January 25, to raise ambition, finance and investments on adaptation as part of Climate Adaptation summit 2021 which is hosted by the Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte. The High-Level Opening Session of the Summit will profile the contributions of Heads of State and Governments and other invited high-level dignitaries. The Ghanaian climate activist is the only young speaker present at the Summit to represent the voices of young people across the globe and particularly youth who are faced with the harshness of climate change impacts. Joshua Amponsem is the Executive Director of Green Africa Youth Organization and led the authorship of the first-ever background paper on the role of youth in climate adaptation in 2019 and has since been an anchor in the advocacy for increased efforts on adaptation to climate change. The objectives of today’s Summit includes Enhancing Ambition on Adaptation by building on the Climate Ambition Summit in 2020, where Joshua Amponsem emphasized the need to increase investments in Global South where adaptation is needed the most. The summit also seeks to forge Solutions and Tools by mobilizing the billions and shifting the trillions to power a climate resilience transformation within the world economy, upscale solutions to confront the challenges from climate change, and invest in capacity building. It also seeks to support Communities to Adapt by sharing the best international partnerships, national adaptive efforts, and sub-national innovative collaborative experiences to deliver the most effective results. Additionally, it hopes to adopt the Adaptation Action Agenda that seeks to deliver enhanced ambition, accelerated actions and tangible solutions to the problems of a warming world, showing how a climate-resilient future can and will be achieved. Ahead of today’s High-Level Opening Session, Joshua Amponsem led the global youth climate community to handover a set of key recommendations for adaptation action which had been developed through series of consultations with young people from every region of the world. The Ghanaian youth activist has been leading the global youth consultations on adaptation which has now been developed into a Global Youth Call to Action which he handed over to Ban Ki-moon, 8th Secretary General of the United Nations and Chair of Global Center on Adaptation among other world leaders. In a conversation with Inger Andersen, Director of UNEP, and other leaders on Friday evening at the Youth4Climate Live series, Joshua Amponsem said: “Adaptation is needed now. It cannot wait, because the impacts of climate change are here! We need to give young people the knowledge and skills to face the future ahead of them.” According to the agenda of the Opening session, high ranking personalities include host, Netherland Prime Minister Mark Rutte, Global Commission on Adaptation – Co-chair Ban Ki-moon and United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres. Other World Leaders include Ghana: President Nana Akufo-Addo, Germany: Federal Chancellor Merkel, Chile: President Sebastián Piñera, United Kingdom: Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Grenada: Prime Minister Keith Mitchell, France: President Emmanuel Macron, China: Vice Premier Han Zheng, United States of America: Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry, International Monetary Fund: Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva, Gabon: President Ali Bongo, India: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, World Bank Group: President David Malpass, Canada: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, among others. Apexnewsgh.com/Ghana Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications. Contact: 0555568093.
Parliament to debate Ayariga’s motion for suspension of tertiary fees tomorrow
Parliament will debate a motion pushing for the government to absorb fees of students in public tertiary institutions tomorrow. The motion advanced by Bawku Central MP, Mahama Ayariga who argues that this move is necessary to cushion parents against the impact of COVID-19. The last time it came up, on January 21, the Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin called on the leadership of both sides of the House to help streamline the motion. The motion which seeks to get the President to suspend the payment of fees in public tertiary educational institutions for a year due to the impact of COVID-19 was moved on Wednesday, January 20, 2021. Disagreements over procedure and the wording of the motion have however stalled the debate for two sittings. The NDC Caucus is supporting the motion with arguments that the suspension of the fees is necessary due to the economic hardship imposed on parents by the COVID-19 pandemic. Mr. Ayariga cited the loss of jobs and economic instability brought on by the pandemic, describing his petition as a “condition of urgent public importance”. The NPP side on the other hand holds the view that such a measure would be unnecessary because the government has already provided enough support and interventions in the area of education due to the pandemic. Tertiary students returned to lecture halls from Saturday, January 9, 2021. Citinewsroom Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications. Contact: 0555568093.
Ensure Transparency, Transformative Education – Youth Activist four (4) Demands to Global Government. Written By Prosper Adankai
Ensure Transparency, Transformative Education, Inclusion and Transformative Action – Youth Activist four (4) Demands to Global Government. Written By Prosper Adankai Eighteen (18) Youth Activist across the globe has called on the World leaders and decision makers to ensure transparency, transformative education, inclusion and transformative actions to climate crisis. An Open Letter from the Youth dubbed “One World, One Health” noted that the current patterns of production, consumption, landscape degradation and pollution have led to the many challenges that all generations are collectively facing: particularly the biodiversity, climate and health crises. They have therefore urge world leaders, decision-makers, civil society organizations, and individuals to recognize the importance of sustaining a healthy planet and address the inevitable products of our capitalist and colonial system. To commemorate this open letter, GLF elected 2 Youth focused group leaders to deliberate on the Biodiversity recommendation report in an Instagram live. They include the Project Coordinator for Green Africa Youth Organization (GAYO), Betty Osei Bonsu in Ghana and Ruth Oveiedo Halland, a Researcher with Empoderachima in the Texas, United States. DEMAND FOR TRANSFORMATIVE ACTION The Project Coordinator for Green Africa Youth Organization (GAYO), Betty Osei Bonsu reiterated the call on all communities, decision makers and the whole of society to recognize that the immediate, severe and disproportionate impacts of the biodiversity and climate crises require concerted and immediate transformative action. She stressed that the relationship between humans and the environment has never been more important hence it was time to recognize the collective contribution to the socio-ecological crisis. “Women, youth, children, and Indigenous Peoples, are among the many groups often marginalized in this crisis, leading them to become the most vulnerable and the most victimized. These communities need representation in governance to ensure that their needs are met today and in the future. She made mention of the new initiative GAYO is about to embark on called “Youth for Climate Council”. This will provide a space for bottom up approach in decision-making and promote transparency. She further stated that decision-makers and leaders must work together to immediately act upon the drivers that degrade the Earth’s health and subsequently, human wellbeing. The time where youth hold signage’s to raise protest and raise complaints is over, it’s time for action! She added. DEMAND FOR INCLUSION Betty Osei Bonsu mentioned that the mobilization of youth networks and organizations could be the catalyst for collective and robust action across all sectors and levels. “Through advocacy, grassroots movements, and networking, we strongly believe that fostering inclusivity, diversity, and intergenerational equity, ensuring environmental justice and mainstreaming gender-responsiveness are crucial to overcoming the challenges we are facing. We, the youth, are committed to working diligently for our common present and future. We invite all generations, all world leaders, decision-makers, and the whole of society to join us in sustaining a safe, radically inclusive and healthy planet for all.” Madam Osei Bonsu pointed out. DEMAND TRANSPARENCY For her part, Ruth Oveiedo Halland , a Researcher with Empoderachima in Texas, United States stressed the call on all governments to legislate for greater transparency within the operating systems of industries and sectors directly and indirectly connected with climate change, biodiversity and health. She observed a lack of transparency and free access to accurate and adequate data is hiding highly unsustainable supply chains, creating uncertainty around environmental impact assessments, fostering green washing tactics, and impeding civil society’s ability to expose misinformation. “Governments need to consider nature as an additional stakeholder and integrate the environment into all decisions. We wish to see biodiversity agreements, policies and legislative tools that will ensure that those actors who are responsible for harming our environment are held accountable, in order to safeguard human rights, including indigenous rights, in their implementation, and to guarantee the protection of environmental defenders” Ruth Halland added. DEMAND FOR TRANSFORMATIVE EDUCATION The Researcher Ruth further reminded the call on all actors to recognize the complexity and interconnectivity of the ongoing crises and their countless implications, and to prioritize transformative education. “We need transformative education to facilitate our reconnection with nature and to ensure that we value nature through personal and collective experiences. Transformative education should be informed by different ways of knowing, and it should focus on biological diversity, cultural diversity and heritage, and overall sustainability. Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities can inform and shape transformative education, as they hold knowledge for studying and understanding the drivers of these crises, as well as for exploring the ways forward. Transformative education should be integrated into all educational systems and be promoted in informal education settings.” She stressed them forcibly. From the letter, “We must achieve a world where all communities have access to restore and practice stewardship over their landscapes. We need to find the resources and tools that are grounded in inclusive knowledge to build a sustainable, resilient, and equitable world for current and future generations. We need everyone to realize that the Earth’s health is our health, and that having a safe place to call home is not an option, but a fundamental human right,” Apexnewsgh.com/Ghana Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications. Contact: 0555568093.
Enrolment doubles at Nhyiaeso D/A Basic School as new MTN Ghana Foundation-sponsored classrooms opens
Enrolment at the Nhyiaeso D/A Basic School has more than doubled following the completion and handing over of a new classroom block. Following a JoyNews Agenda report, MTN Ghana Foundation handed over a fully furnished six-unit classroom block and a teachers’ bungalow to the school. The Nhyiaeso D/A Basic School has become the choice of students in adjoining communities even in the Sekyere Afram Plains district. That modern edifice does not only make teaching conducive but provides the right learning environment. “It is really captivating to see students in an environment like this. They don’t even want to go home and they are really enjoying what MTN has given to us,” Municipal Director of Education for Asante Akim, Mildred Ama Kwakye Agyapong said. Teacher supervise students of Nhyiaeso D/A Basic School The student population has increased from 256 in 2019 to the current 673. Primary school accounts for 458, with the rest at kindergarten and JHS. Nasidu Amidu is one of 45 junior high students who have so far changed their schools from Dagomba in the Sekyere Afram Plains District to Nhyiaeso. “My classroom at Dagomba used to leak badly. Fortunately for me, there is a new classroom for me here. I am elated to be in this new classroom. I am always happy to come to school because of the new classroom,” said Amidu. Amidu with four of his friends who until now trekked several kilometres to attend school at Dagomba in Sekyere Afram Plains District. “I didn’t come to Nhyiaeso D/A Basic School alone. I came with some of my friends. The new classrooms are very conducive to learning. The feeling is different here,” he said. Education authorities are happy with the intervention of the MTN Ghana Foundation. The District Director of Education said, “Just yesterday when we did the ‘My First Day at School’, we had about 45 new entrants. Apart from those coming from Nhyiaeso village, others came from the environs so you can imagine. By the close of this week, we are expecting more.” The education directorate is grateful to MTN Ghana Foundation and The Multimedia Group for the support as Municipal Director of Education, Mrs. Agyepong predicts increasing enrolment figures. “I believe it’s going to increase by the time we get to the second or third week in Nhyiaeso. A lot of students are ready to come to the school in Nhyiaeso. “Now we have trained teachers in the school and above all, the building itself is attracting them [students] to get enrolment here. It’s really comfortable,” Mrs Agyepong said. Myjoyonline Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications. Contact: 0555568093.