“We can now call you ‘PROMISE DO’ President –Tongraan to President Akufo- Addo
The Paramount Chief of the Talensi Traditional Area, Tongraan Kubilsong Nalebegtang, has given the President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, the name “President Promise-Do”. According to the Tong-Rana, “Mr. President, you have heard most of our prayers, our cries and concerns already. We want to acknowledge your response to them, especially the Pwalugu Multipurpose Dam, the Bolga-Bawku-Polimakom road, which was promised to be constructed by previous regimes without any action, but is today nearing completion under your stewardship.” He noted that several other projects such as the 1-Village-1-Dam initiative, the Free Senior High School policy and the construction of its attendant infrastructure, and the construction of several road and rail projects are examples of the amount of work undertaken by President Akufo-Addo and his Government. To this end, “Mr. President, I say well done. Mr. President, I will call you ‘President Promise-Do’, because you do what you say you will. So, Mr. President, you take the name ‘President Promise-Do’ from this palace,” Tong-Rana Kubilsong Nalebegtang added. The Tong-Rana made this known on Wednesday, 7th October 2020, when President Akufo-Addo paid a courtesy call on him at his palace in Tongo, at the commencement of his 2-day working visit to the Upper East Region. With the President having visited the Ton-Rana’s palace on a “special prayer day and a day of sacrifice for Tong-Ran, which is a period of thanksgiving to God for the harvest, peace, good health and long life of Talen-Teng”, the Tong-Rana stated that “I do not know who told you or proposed this date to you, but I must say that the gods of Talen-teng and Almighty directed you to come here, particularly today, to receive your victory blessings.” Having upgraded the Bolgatanga Polytechnic into a Technical University status, Tong-Rana Kubilsong Nalebegtang expressed the appreciation of the people of Talensi, and, indeed, the Upper West Region for the work undertaken by the President and his Government to transform the country. “We know that there are quite a number of projects in mind which, very soon, in your next term, will brighten the whole of the Upper East Region, and Tongo inclusive. We, therefore, want to say that you have already cleared the way for your next term in office,” he said. The Tong-Rana continued, “Once you have entered this palace, you are the first to enter this palace in this time of the period where the political campaign has started, and, therefore, being the first to be here, you will be the first at the end of it all.” Appealing for the maintenance of the peace, unity and stability of the nation, Tong-Rana Kubilsong Nalebegtang urged President Akufo-Addo to “ensure that, as the Commander-in-Chief, you will nip in the bud all the activities of those who want to divide this country and bring disunity. Mr. President, we know that you are a peace-loving President, and you have always advocated for this. We will, therefore, pray for you to achieve all your aims.” Apexnewsgh.com/Ghana/Ngamegbulam Chidozie Stephen Please kindly contact apexnewsgh.com on Email: apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications.
UER: Some residents of Bolgatanga protested with placards during President Akufo Addo’s visit to the UER
Some of the residents of Bolgatanga Municipality of the Upper East Region were seen holding placards along the Bolgatanga double roads during the President Visit to the Upper East Region. According to these residents captured by Apexnewsgh.com, the reason for their placards protest was to remind the President Akufo Addo of some of his unfulfilled promises to the people Upper East Region. MR. PRESIDENT, COMMISSION YOUR 419 AFFORDABLE HOUSING UNIT AT PUSU- NAMONG, DEAR NANA ADDO, ALLOW THE SOVEREIGN WILL OF THE MASSES TO PREVAIL ON DECEMBER 7TH, etc. However, apexnewsgh.com notice the protest exercise was characterized by only women. The President began his tour on Wednesday from the Talensi District by paying a courtesy visit to the palace of the paramount chief of the Talensi traditional area. Apexnewsgh.com/Ghana Please kindly contact apexnewsgh.com on Email: apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications.
Protests in Talensi on eve of Akufo-Addo’s tour of Upper East Region
Protests broke out on Tuesday at Winkogo, a key electoral area in the Talensi District, 24 hours before President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s timetabled tour of the Upper East Region. The protests were staged by the community members of Goriko, an integral suburb of Winkogo, where the now-governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) organised its last rally whilst in opposition ahead of the eventful Talensi by-election in 2015. In fact, polls watchers have always said Winkogo is to the Talensi Constituency what Florida is to America in the light of electoral importance. The Tuesday’s protests had the agitators threaten to ban all political parties from campaigning in the area ahead of the December 7 general elections if their demand was not met in seven days. The protests were provoked by three core issues: Goriko has not had electricity since it came into being centuries ago; a project initiated by government to connect the community to the national grid has been abandoned since 2016; yet the same abandoned project has been deceitfully declared to have been completed in a document sighted by the community. The protesters were wearing blood-red bands and vehemently showing placards to news cameras as they chanted in unison and repeatedly: “No electricity, no vote!” The Goriko Youth Association convened a news conference on the same day, with the Chief of Winkogo and both the immediate-past and the current assemblymen of the electoral area in attendance. According to the association’s narrative, the contract was awarded to the E.K. Asare Enterprise under the government’s Self-Help Electrification Programme (SHEP). Work was in progress until the project came to a standstill in the last quarter of 2016. When asked why execution was halted, the contractor said government failed to provide him with some “high-tension poles, wiring cables and stays” required to complete the job. Then, he told members of the community to get involved in a monthly meeting held by contractors at the conference room of the Northern Electricity Distribution Company (NEDCo) in the Upper East regional capital, Bolgatanga, so that they could verify his claims there. The Chairman of the Goriko Youth Association read the statement at the As representatives of the community attended the contractors’ meetings, they eventually discovered a copy of minutes taken in a meeting held on Thursday 31st May, 2018, stating that the electrification project at Goriko had been completed and was awaiting commissioning. The community’s representatives left the meeting, shell-shocked as the project in question actually was yet far from completed and had remained abandoned. “The assertion in their minutes is rather on the contrary, misleading and does not conform to the reality,” the association remarked in a statement read by its Chairman, Abugre Stephen Ategebire, at the Tuesday’s news conference. The statement continued: “Again, we proceeded to the [Talensi] District Assembly to either confirm such information on the minutes or prove otherwise. Then and there, the current DCE, Dr Boatbil Christopher, showed us a document with information not different from what we intercepted in the minutes. Based on the information gathered, we the community have the suspicions that the project has been abandoned and will not be continued.” A community in grief over four evils The depth of the wrath in the hearts of the agitators could be felt in the heavy sound of their feet as they tramped around places where the contractor had planted electricity poles and left them to waste away in their holes. Angry men lifted some rotten electricity poles and carried them together on their shoulders as women and children marched along with plywood placards. The association’s Organiser, Achim Awuni, told journalists at the scene that those rotten poles belonged to some separate electrification projects which similarly were abandoned halfway in the past. He said those poles, after they got rotten, were removed and replaced with fresh ones which also were left to rot in the community after contractors walked out on the projects in succession. He pointed at the surviving poles (which have been standing without wires since 2016) as the fourth set of poles brought in to replace the ones contractors left to rot away. “The absence of light in the community results in high levels of teenage pregnancies, incidences of kidnapping, stealing and poor performances of our pupils at ICT. Young girls and boys of the community resort to moving to the neighbouring community to learn at night during which most of them end up sleeping with boyfriends, subsequently becoming pregnant and dropping out of school. There have been three kidnapping-attempt cases in the community but, God being so good, these bad persons could not succeed due to the timely intervention of the community members. “Bad persons from other communities took advantage of the dark nature of the community at night to steal our properties including the properties of the Goriko Primary School and the KG. Facilitators of our community school find it difficult to project and impact knowledge to learners using ICT devices since the school does not have electricity. If there is no sign of resumption of work at the site within one week, from today 6th October, 2020, to 12th October, 2020, we would have no other alternatives than to advise ourselves, not excluding banning any political party from campaigning in the community and we mean it,” the statement said. “Demonstrations against the government, not against me”— Contractor Speaking to the press, the Chief of Winkogo, Naba Moses Aganzuah, appealed to the government to pay attention to the public outcry at Goriko before the upcoming polls. He said the threat by the aggrieved community to ban political activities in the area if the contractor failed to resume work in seven days was beyond his powers as a traditional leader. “The NDC Government lost power when they were working. A new government has come. We are appealing to the current government, the NPP Government, to complete the work for Goriko people. Electrification is an important project in any community,” the immediate-past Assemblyman for Winkogo, Joseph Ateem, told
NDC- Upper East Region tasked Akufo Addo to commission 10 projects as he promised the people of Upper East Region in the Past
The opposition National Democratic Congress in the Upper East welcomes President Akufo Addo in the Region as they use the opportunity to remind the President some of his numerous promises made the people of the Upper East Region. In a press release captured by Apexnewsgh.com which was released on Tuesday, October 6, 2020, by the Regional Party communication Office, the NDC party in the region are demanding President Akufo Addo to commission the following 10 projects listed below. Read the full details: Press Release to all Media Houses ! Date: 6th October, 2020. NDC-UPPER EAST REGION WELCOMES PRESIDENT AKUFFO-ADDO INTO THE REGION. The NDC- Upper East Region warmly welcomes President Akufo-Addo into the Region for his two day tour of the Region. Whilst welcoming the President into the Region, we would like to use the opportunity to remind the President of some of his numerous promises made to the people of the Upper East Region. And knowing that he has been in government for nearly four years, with just two months to elections, we wish that he would indulge us and commission the following projects in the Region for use: 1. He should commission a 1V1D in Bongo: A project he cut sod for on 20th July 2018. As it may be recalled on the 20th Akufo-Adddo, at a durbur of chiefs in Bongo cut sod for the 1V1D project. As part of his address, after the sod-cutting, the President said the Bongo District will be given 10 of the small scale irrigation Dams. 2. A senior High School in the Upper East Region. As our share of the 350 S.H.S. he promised us at UDS-Navrongo Campus in 2016. In 2016, at UDS-Navrongo campus Akufo-Addo promised to build 350 SHSs in the first 18 months of his government. 3. Commission 15 factories in all the 15 Assemblies of the Upper East Region. . Whilst we are not oblivious of the fact that the Trade and Industry Minister, Alan Kyeremanten, said in Parliament on 8th November 2018, that no business promotor or investor is interested in the Upper East Region. We will expect Akufo-Addo to commission at least one(1) factory in the Upper East Region as part our share of 1District 1Factory Policy. 4. Commission a Regional theatre in Bolgatanga, the regional capital of the Upper East Region. As he promised in their 2016 manifesto. 5. Commission a Police Hospital in Bolgatanga for the Ghana Police Service, to cater for the health needs of police personnel and the people of Upper East Region. As promised in the NPP’s 2016 manifesto. 6. Commission a District Hospital in the Upper East Region, as our share of the 1District 1Hospital promise in the NPP 2016 manifesto. There are seven districts that still do not have district hospitals. 7. Commission the mechanism that their 2016 manifesto promised to put in place to capture flood waters released by the annual spillage of the Bagre Dam in Burkina Faso. 8. Commission the Kumasi – Paga railway project they promised the people of the Upper East Region in their 2016 manifesto. 9. Commission all upgraded District Hospitals in the Region as promised in their 2016 manifesto. 10. Commission WiFi connectivity installations in the various SHSs in the Upper East Region. Ahmed Saeed Tijani (RCO) Sunday Casper Kampoli (DRCO) Apexnewsgh.com/Ghana/Ngamegbulam Chidozie Stephen Please kindly contact Apexnewsgh.com on Email: apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications.
Breaking: NDC Youth Organiser shot dead by unknown gunmen
News reaching MyNewsGh.com has confirmed that a branch executive of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Pusiga District of the Upper East Region has been shot dead by unknown gunmen. Khalifa believed to be in his late 30’s who operates a drinking spot at Widana within the Pusiga enclaves, was shot on his leg and stomach by his assailants who demanded for the GHS70, 000 they claimed he kept to buy a house within the area. The deceased who handed only GHS500 to his attackers believed to be robbers was shot twice and abandoned on the floor until he bled to death. Sources disclosed to MyNewsGh.com that the deceased had agreed to buy a property worth GHS70, 000 but the owner demanded he changes the amount into CFA francs which he was said to be in the process of doing before the robbery attack that claimed his life. One person has so far been arrested in connection with the incident while his accomplices are said to be on the run and are being pursued by the police who confirmed the attack to this portal. Source: MyNewsGh.com
ACHIEVEMENTS OF OSAGYEFO DR. KWAME NKRUMAH BETWEEN 1957-1966
History is always the best judge. The many good things done under the administration of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah for the benefit of his beloved nation, Ghana, ought to be brought to the limelight for today’s generation since most are ignorant or underestimate his achievements. Education Sector Senior High Schools Under the Ghana Education Trust policy, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah built a number of Senior Secondary (High) Schools including: Mfantsiman Secondary School, Ofori Panyin Secondary School, Techiman Secondary School, Winneba Secondary School, Swedru Secondary School, Apam Secondary School, Dormaa Secondary School, Tema Secondary School, Oda Secondary School, and the Labone Secondary School. Colleges of Education Kwadaso College of Education, Atebubu Training College, Berekum Training College, Fosu Training College and the Enchi Training College, Ghana National College of Cape Coast, etc. Universities and Technical Institutes Kumasi Technical Institute (now University) , Ajumako School of Languages (now under UEW), Accra Polytechnic now Accra Technical University, University of Cape Coast (UCC), Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Institute of African Studies, Kwame Nkrumah Institute of Economics and Political Science (now south campus of UEW), made University of Ghana (then University College of Gold Coast affiliated to university of London) a full fledge university to award its own degrees and became their first chancellor, among others. Other Education Policies Free education for primary and middle schools (JHS) to ensure that every child of school age had education in Ghana. Health Sector Built the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (previously Kumasi central hospital) Made Korle Bu a teaching hospital and expanded its capacity by constructing the Medical, Maternity, Surgical and Child Health blocks. Established the Ghana Medical School Free Medical care to all citizens Established GIHOC pharmaceuticals Built several hospitals and clinics. Factories and Industries Abosso Glass Factory Zuarungu Meat Factory Wenchi Tomato Factory Kade Match Factory Akosombo Textiles Limited Kumasi Shoe Factory Pwalugu Tomato Factory Asutuare Sugar Factory Komenda Sugar Factory Kumasi Jute Factory Nsawam Cannery, Brick and Tile Factory Tarkwa Bonsa Tyre Factory Bolgatanga Meat Processing Factory Bolgatanga Rice Mill Factory GIHOC Fibre Products Company, etc. State Owned Enterprises and Companies Ghana Black Star Line with almost 15 ships Bank of Ghana (BoG) Ghana Commercial Bank (GCB) Agricultural Development Bank (ADB) National Investment Bank (NIB) State Insurance Company (SIC), Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT), Ghana Oil Company (GOIL) Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority (GHAPOHA) Tema Oil Refinery (TOR) The National Management and Productivity Institute, Ghana Film Industries, Accra Ghana Airways Corporation Ghana National Trading Corporation Cocoa Marketing Board (COCOBOD) Tema Steel Works VALCO, etc. State Housing and Hotel Projects In Accra (Labone Estate, Kanda Estates, Osu Ringway Estates, Airport Residential Area) In Kumasi (Patasi Estate, Kwadaso Estate, Buokrom Estates, North and South Suntreso) Tema Township (Communities) State Hotels (Star, Meridian, Ambassador, Continental now Golden Tulip Accra, Atlantic, City Hotel Catering Rest Houses now Golden Tulip Kumasi), Peduase Lodge. Others Ghana Museums Ghana Film Corporation Ghana News Agency Ghana Broadcasting Corporation Atomic Reactor Station Akosombo Dam Restructured the British Military base into Accra (now Kotoka) International Airport. Tema Motorway Tema Harbour Adomi Bridge State Farms and Institutes NB: All the above were achieved in less than 10 years (1957 – 1966) Whatever Ghana is today, we all owe it to the ideas and innovation of Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah and his administration. Out of envy and mismanagement, most of the factories built under his administration were left to decay. If you have ever underestimated the achievements of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, I believe you have been enlightened. Apexnewsgh.com/Ghana Please kindly contact APEXNEWSGH on Email: apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible News publications
Video: Poster war between NPP and NDC in Bongo
There has been growing tension between the youth of the two main political parties in the Bongo District of the Upper East Region. A viral video which was seen by Apexnewsgh.com captures the moment of some youth believed to be in the Bongo District were spotted removing the campaign flyer of President Akufo Akufo-Addo. According to the information reaching Apexnewsgh.com, the youth were actually removing the flyer of the president to make Edward Abambire Bawa’s flyer more visible all because they alleged that he was the first to have his flyer on the said billboard. Edward Abambire Bawa happens to be a Ghanaian politician and member of the Seventh Parliament of the Fourth Republic of Ghana representing the Bongo Constituency in the Upper East Region on the ticket of the National Democratic Congress. The video which has gone viral has also caused some tension between the fans of the 2 main political parties. Some were actually of the view that they had no right to do that and that it was totally illegal and should be arrested for their actions whilst others were of the view that the whole campaign picture should have been pulled down. However, the paramount Chief of the Bongo traditional area Bon-Naba Baba Salifu Atamale Lemyurum has advised the two parties to remove their posters from the billboard to allow peace prevail in the constituency. video attached Apexnewsgh.com/Ghana/Ngamegbulam Chidozie Stephen Please kindly contact APEXNEWSGH on Email: apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible News publications
Navrongo Central PPP Parliamentary candidate cries for traders in the Navrongo market.
PPP Parliamentary candidate in the Navrongo Central of the Upper East Region has expressed some level of disappointment; frustration and pain for the unbearable nature of sanitation witnessed in the Navrongo market during the weekend. Madam Agoriba Kubirizegah visited the two markets and the abattoir on Saturday, October 3, 2020, as part of her campaign activity ahead of the 2020 election. “Sanitation is a key problem in Navrongo, which authorities are not bothered about and if not tackled early, it can worsen the health situation of the people. Our population is nothing as compared to the big cities and if, we are not populated like the big cities such as Kumasi and Accra and we cannot handle sanitation, what will happen in the next 5 to 10 years?” She said According to her, is unfortunate that the big politicians in the Constituency are not seeing sanitation as a challenge, because they are not leaving with the people in the Constituency. “When they don’t live with the people, they wouldn’t be able to know that this is what the people are going through but as for me, I lived with the people and I shopped in those markets every market day. I go the abattoir to buy meats and I saw what is happening. So, is a very big challenge. When am giving the opportunity as an MP serve the people, I will be able to address that challenge.” However, Madam Kubirizegah blamed the Assembly for not considering sanitation as a big challenge. Apexnewsgh.com/Ghana/Ngamegbulam Chidozie Stephen Please kindly contact APEXNEWSGH on Email: apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible News publications
“Your service was not service to us”, Dachio Chief to Gov’t
The Chief of Dachio community, a community in the Bolgatanga East District of the Upper East Region, Naba Thomas Adongo Akaliga II has hinted, the service by the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government to provide a dam for the community was not services to them as the dam could not meet its usefulness. According to him, the dam after its construction failed to meet the odds, and can only be described as punishment to the community members as it has further deteriorated their road and properties any time it rains heavily. Naba Akaliga II spoke to Apexnewsgh.com after reports suggested that the dam was part of the three dams in the district said to have been completed. But baffled at the reports, Naba Akaliga II explained that they can only describe the dam as a waste of their farmlands. “This was not what I and my people were expecting from the government. If this was what they {government officials} said I would not have agreed to release our farmlands for them to waste it. This dam is nothing but a waste of land and can not be served as services to us. Just look, how many months are we in, the eighth months yet this dam can not collect water and you want us to call it a dam that has been completed. Why can’t we stop deceiving ourselves for once?” He added that anytime he passes there he usually tried his best not to look at the dam because of its disappointment to their long expectations. “Anytime I passed here, I normally forced myself not to look at it, and do you know why because the more I look at the dam, the more I become angry at the work done. The dam as well as the government has failed us. We are a farming community and was expecting something meaningful that can assist us in dry season farming, not this. It can’t even collect water for wet season how more of the dry season.” “The sad part of it is, the spillway of the dam has been directed toward a road. Now, the road has turned to a river thereby making it difficult for easy passage for commuters in and out of the community”, he stressed. He, therefore, asked relevant authorities to as matter of urgency find a lasting solution to their plight or better still covers it up to avoid further destruction. “There are two things I want the DCE to do which are; to either call the contractor back to the side to properly work on the dam to meet its usefulness or find a caterpillar to come and cover this pit up to protect lives and properties because it can best be described as a death- trapped.” But when newsmen contacted the District Chief Executive for Bolgatanga East Rev. Emmanuel Abole assured the chief and his people that the contractor has been asked to come back to the side despite his inability to give a specific time and date. “If the dam were to be a book, i would have asked government to comeback for their dam” Apexnewsgh.com/Ghana/Ngamegbulam Chidozie Stephen Please kindly contact APEXNEWSGH on Email: apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible News publications
Go back to on Monday GES to SHS 2 And JHS 2 Students
Press Statement: SHS 2 And JHS 2 Students To Resume School On Monday – Ghana Education Service Management of the Ghana Education Service (GES) is reminding parents and guardians that SHS 2 and JHS 2 students are to return to school on Monday, October 5, 2020. This is to enable them to complete the 2nd semesters and 3rd terms respectively, which were interrupted by the closure of schools as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. According to the GES, all the necessary measures have been put in place to ensure the safety of students while at school. “All schools have been fumigated and disinfected. In addition Personal Protective Equipment (PPEs) have been distributed to all schools,” the GES assured parents See Press Statement Below