“I Will Not Promise And Fail Like Akufo Addo” – JHS 2 School Prefect Aspirant Recalls In His Manifesto
Everyday comes with its own issues of discussion indeed. It is very interesting to know how our young boys and girls under 18 are satisfying their curiosity by diving into politics and economic affairs of the country. The young boys and girls at the junior high school level even seem to be more interested in affairs concerning the administration and governance of the country though they are juveniles. All this long introduction is centered on a trending video on the various social media which features a 14-year-old JHS two student reading his manifesto before the entire school populace in his quest to aspiring for the post of boys; prefect. The juvenile in his manifesto promised the school populace a lot of interventions that he will implement when he was to be accepted and voted to be the school’s boys prefect. He through that made reference to the manifesto read by the president of the country, Nana Akufo Addo in 2015 emphasizing that the NPP led administration would build a factory for each district in the country should Ghanaians vote them into power. Surprisingly, the JHS two boy declared that ‘One District One Factory’ promise as failure on the part of Akufo Addo and promised the school populace that he was not going to be a failure like Akufo Addo. “Mr Chairman, President Akufo Addo promised one district one factory which he failed to do and i am not going to be like him” he read. Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications
REGSEC ban use of motorbike within curfew hours in Kandiga/Doba communities
Apexnewsgh.com has it that, following decision taken in consideration with the recent court ruling on the land dispute and events around the intention of the former MCE to bury his mother at Kandiga, coupled with increased tensions between the two communities. The Upper East Regional Security Council (REGSEC) has concluded in placing a temporal ban on the use of motorcycles in Doba and Kandiga. Below is REGSEC press release: Apexnewsgh.com/Ghana/Ngamegbulam Chidozie Stephen Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications. Contact: 05555568093
Africa may not be able to achieve (SDG) 2 zero hunger by 2030–Rebecca Akufo-Addo
Ghana First Lady Mrs Rebecca Akufo-Addo has revealed that Africa may not be able to meet up with Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2 which aims to achieve zero hunger by 2030. The First Lady made the point when she delivered the keynote address for the launch of Ghana’s inception meeting in preparation for the UN Food Systems Summit. She also bemoaned that the continent is not on course to meeting the Global Nutrition Targets by 2025 adding that “the COVID-19 pandemic has also thrown us a curveball”. “Under these circumstances, we need renewed urgency to address global food systems. The call by the UN Secretary-General, to convene the Food Systems Summit, to find pragmatic solutions to a dire global situation, is therefore timely,” the First Lady said. These are the SDG 2 target. 1 By 2030, end hunger and ensure access by all people, in particular the poor and people in vulnerable situations, including infants, to safe, nutritious and sufficient food all year round. 2 By 2030, end all forms of malnutrition, including achieving, by 2025, the internationally agreed targets on stunting and wasting in children under 5 years of age, and address the nutritional needs of adolescent girls, pregnant and lactating women and older persons. 3 By 2030, double the agricultural productivity and incomes of small-scale food producers, in particular women, indigenous peoples, family farmers, pastoralists and fishers, including through secure and equal access to land, other productive resources and inputs, knowledge, financial services, markets and opportunities for value addition and non-farm employment. 4By 2030, ensure sustainable food production systems and implement resilient agricultural practices that increase productivity and production, that help maintain ecosystems, that strengthen capacity for adaptation to climate change, extreme weather, drought, flooding and other disasters and that progressively improve land and soil quality. 5 By 2020, maintain the genetic diversity of seeds, cultivated plants and farmed and domesticated animals and their related wild species, including through soundly managed and diversified seed and plant banks at the national, regional and international levels, and promote access to and fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from the utilization of genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge, as internationally agreed. A Increase investment, including through enhanced international cooperation, in rural infrastructure, agricultural research and extension services, technology development and plant and livestock gene banks in order to enhance agricultural productive capacity in developing countries, in particular least developed countries. B Correct and prevent trade restrictions and distortions in world agricultural markets, including through the parallel elimination of all forms of agricultural export subsidies and all export measures with equivalent effect, in accordance with the mandate of the Doha Development Round. C Adopt measures to ensure the proper functioning of food commodity markets and their derivatives and facilitate timely access to market information, including on food reserves, in order to help limit extreme food price volatility. Apexnewsgh.com/Ghana/Ngamegbulam Chidozie Stephen Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications. Contact: 05555568093
His allegation against me is completely false and a figment of his imagination, I am no criminal- DCOP Opare-Addo
The Ashanti Regional Security Coordinator Kwaku Ayesu Opare-Addo has rubbished the claims by acting National Security Coordinator Major General Francis Adu Amanfo (rtd) that he is a criminal, the reason for his recent forceful removal from office. The Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCOP) said in a statement issued on Wednesday, 19 May 2021 that: “Ordinarily, I would not have responded to such accusations but I find the comments by Major-General Adu Amanfo distastefully unprofessional and a direct attack on my unblemished professional career spanning over three decades in the Ghana Education Service and the Ghana Police Service.” However, he described the allegation as “completely false and a figment of his imagination.” “I have always exhibited high professional standards in my work and my record in the various capacities is there for all to see”, he stressed. According to DCOP Opare-Addo “With over two decades of service as a senior police officer in the Ghana Police Service, there was not a single allegation against my hard-earned reputation, and for this reason, I find the comments made by the Acting National Security Coordinator as a misrepresentation of facts and unfortunate cultivated lies by an officer of the ilk of a retired Major-General”. He listed his professional achievements as follow: I joined the Ghana Police Service through their officer’s cadet programme in 1989 and passed out in 1990 as an Assistant Superintendent of Police and was assigned as the Secretary to the then Inspector General of Police, J.Y.A. Kwofie. I served in this capacity for almost seven years and the longest-serving secretary to the longest-serving IGP in Ghana. Deputy Commandant/Directing staff of Ghana Police College Head of Interpol, Deportation and Extradition Unit, CID Headquarters Divisional Police Commander-Mampong, Ashanti Region Deputy Regional Police Commander, Ashanti Region Regional Police Commander, Brong Ahafo Region Regional Police Commander, Greater Accra Region Regional Police Commander, Ashanti Region Director General, Legal Directorate at the National Police Headquarters Director-General, Technical, National Police Headquarters Barrister- at- Law for twenty-one years He said apart from his regular work: I am a Special Consultant and designer of the Security Sector Reform Participants’ Manual on Reform, Restructuring and Rebuilding of Police Institutions, an 86-page manual with an accompanying 24-page Facilitators Notes at the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre in Accra. I have facilitated several training programs for the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre, Facilitated the Security Sector Reform (SSR) Police Course in Lilongwe, the Republic of Malawi. Also, I facilitated the Security Sector Reform (SSR) Police course in Banjul, The Gambia. I was Civilian Police Adviser and Ghanaian Police Contingent Commander for UNMIL: LIBERIA, CP 15. I also developed teaching manuals for the Liberian Police College: The constitution of Liberia; Summary and comments Rules of Evidence International Criminal Investigation Standards Legal Aspects of Criminal InvestigationApexnewsgh.com/Ghana/Ngamegbulam Chidozie Stephen Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications. Contact: 05555568093
Africa’s poverty not wealth but poverty of the mind – Bagbin
The Speaker of Parliament, Mr Alban S.K. Bagbin has charged the government to develop and promote indigenous language and values to help preserve the country’s cultural heritage. He stressed that, no country had developed relying on another country’s cultural identity. Mr. Bagbin noted that African countries had over the years followed the ideas and value systems borrowed from other cultures that do not conform to our way of life. The Speaker made call when a section of the leadership of the Tijaniya Muslim Council of Ghana led by Sheik Muhammed Mutawakil Iddris paid a courtesy call on him in Parliament. Tijaniya is one of the contemporary forms of the Sufi movement which came from the teachings of Sidi Ahmad al Tijani in North Africa but now increasingly prevalent in West Africa, predominantly in Senegal, The Gambia, Mauritania, Mali, Guinea, Niger, Chad, Sudan and Northern Nigeria. Its devotees are called Tijānī. The delegation was in Parliament to among other things discuss issues of mutual cooperation and also congratulate Mr Bagbin on his elevation to the high office of the Speaker of Parliament. The Speaker noted further that Ghanaians and Africans talk a lot about using the measures or benchmark of the western world to champion their development which was not realistic. That he said had led to the continent’s underdevelopment because “the poverty in Africa is not the poverty of wealth or property but rather it is the poverty of the mind”. He urged a radical approach to change the mindsets of Africans, particularly the youth. The youth according to Speaker Bagbin are always tagged as being less patient, emotional and more prone to violence, but this he said must be blamed on the kind of systems the youth are pushed into which must see a paradigm shift. The Leader of the delegation Sheik Muhammed Mutawakil Iddris expressed gratitude to the Speaker for the support he has over years given the Tijaniya Muslim Council and also appealed to him to continue to support the many initiatives and programmes of the council in the areas of Agriculture, Education and youth empowerment.