21 days of Yello Care: MTN trains business startups on how to take advantage of social media
As part of their annual event, the Staff of MTN allocates 21 days in June every year, to provide voluntary services to their clients and communities as part of the company’s ideology to give back to society. For the year 2023, In the Upper East Region, the staff of MTN has focused their interest more on training Startups in dressmaking, smug weavers, and craft dealers within the regional capital Bolgatanga. Addressing the media, Martin Yaw Kumobah, MTN Upper East Regional Manager said: “This year, we targeted the dressmakers, smug weavers, and craft dealers because we believe these categories of business people are doing a lot but people are not hearing from them, so we want to impact their effort to enable their product of goods and services seen across the globe”. “So this year, we have chosen to educate these people I have mentioned on how to use social media to send their product of goods and services out to the world to enable them to increase their customer base”. He said “We are also interested in how they manage their customers, we also offer them training on how they will better handle their customers and also grow their customer base because, without a customer base, there is no business. We realized that they need a lot of customer skills to be able to increase their customer base”. “We also give them basic training on how to manage their finances. How to look at their capital and draw a budget and as well, what they can do to increase their revenue”. According to Mr. Kumobah, it is in the interest of MTN to move its customer base into the digital arena because the world is going digital. “We are doing a lot towards that space. So, we want our customer to also move towards that direction” Meanwhile, Stephen Maldima manager of Dansyn Innovation Social Organization (ISO) described Dansyn as a business hub located in Bolgatanga in the Upper East Region that specializes in training and skill development in information technology (IT) and entrepreneurship with the objective of making an impact on the community in which we operate while enhancing the economic and social status of the people. Taking the artisans through digital marketing, Mr. Maldima said most businesses are suffering because they don’t understand the benefit social media can offer to their businesses. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and some other social media platform are some of the resources they can use to increase sales and moved on with their businesses. However, also advised the startups always to create their accounts with a protected password and save it where they can easily find it. Beneficiaries who spoke to the media after the digital marketing training exercise expressed satisfaction and as well extended their gratitude to MTN for such an opportunity. Indeed, they confessed the training is an opener to them when it comes to their businesses. Apexnewsgh.com/Ghana Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications. Contact: 0256336062
Green Ghana: 600,000 trees to be planted across Upper East Region
The Upper East Regional Forestry Manager Mr. Emmanuel Yeboah has said, out of 10 million tree seedlings announced to be planted across the country, a minimum of 600,000 tree seedlings will be planted in the Upper East Region. Mr. Yeboah made this known when addressing the congregation at the third edition of Green Ghana Day, an event organized at the Gambibgo Senior High School in the Bolgatanga East District of the Upper East Region. Meanwhile, despite announcing the total number of trees the region is estimated to plant at this year’s Green Ghana Day 2023 project, the Forestry Regional Manager also went ahead to explain the region arrived on 600,000 “Today, a minimum of 10 million tree seedlings are to be planted nationwide and in the Upper East Region, a minimum of 600,000 tree seedlings will be planted”. (1) Bolgatanga Forest District = 285,000 seedlings ( ie F/R 250,000 and OFR, 35,000) (2) Navrongo Forest District = 235,000 seedlings (ie F/R 200,000 and OFR, 35,000) (3) Bawku Forest District = 80,000 Seedlings ( ie F/R 50,000 and OFR, 30,000) (4) Bolgatanga Forest District =285,000 seedlings ( ie F/R 250,000 and OFR, 35,000) (5) Navrongo Forest District = 235,000 seedlings (ie F/R 200,000 and OFR, 35,000) (6) Bawku Forest District = 80,000 Seedlings ( ie F/R 50,000 and OFR, 30,000) Total = 600,000 seedlings The following site-specific tree seedlings are available for collection: BOLGATANGA FOREST DISTRICT (1) Neem (2) Mahogany (3) Eucalyptus (4) Kapok (Ceiba) (5) Cassia (6) Terminalia montalis (Umbrella tree) (7) Dawadawa (8) Teak (9) Mango (10) Cashew NAVRONGO FOREST DISTRICT (1) Mahogany (2) Kapok (Ceiba) (3) Baobab (4) Papao (5) Albizia labbeck (6) Neem (7) Cassia (8) Mango (9) Cashew BAWKU FOREST DISTRICT (1) Teak (2) Cassia (3) Mango (4) Cashew The Mango and Cashew Seedlings were donated by IUCN. Mr. Yeboah also used the opportunity to inform the general public that they have more seedlings for distribution and could be found at all the District Forestry Offices and Forest Range Quarters in the Region. The theme for the Green Ghana 2023 edition is dubbed “Our Forests, Our Health” Apexnewsgh.com/Ghana Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications. Contact: 0256336062
NOFPED Gives Upper East Regional Minister one week to apologize by calling Northerners greedy and untruthful people
Northern Forum for Peace and Development (NOFPED) an Organization operating in Northern Ghana has described the Upper East Regional Minister’s alleged descriptions of northerners as greedy and untruthful as weird to himself as a Regional Minister and the entire northerners. The Upper East Regional Minister Stephen Yakubu is reported to have said that “NORTHERNERS ARE VERY GREEDY AND UNTRUTHFUL”. This statement was reported by Media Without Borders on 25th May, 2023. The alleged pronouncement by Hon. Yakubu has not gone well with members of the Northern Forum for Peace and Development (NOFPED) who are calling for the regional Minister to immediately apologize to the good people of northern Ghana within one week. We think that it is so weird for a northerner like the Regional Minister himself who is from Binduri in the Upper East Region to insult his own kinsmen and kinswomen as greedy and untruthful people. The fact that the Regional Minister obtained his secondary education at Konongo in the Ashanti Region does not make him an Akan. The attitude he has exhibited so far in the office as a regional minister qualifies him as the one who should rather be described as greedy and untruthful. Meanwhile, a disclaimer from the Regional Minister says “First and foremost, the Regional Minister himself is an unalloyed and inborn Northerner who is committed to the socio-economic development of the Upper East Region and the North at large and will not make such a statement”. “Lastly, the UER Minister would like to admonish all well-meaning media stations in the region to be interested in the overall development of the region and eschew trivialities and things that have the tendencies to divide and retard growth” “The media should at all times exercise professionalism, report the truth, be partners in development and avoid the temptations of falling prey to individuals who, for their personal parochial interest, induce them to witch-hunt and misreport”. Kindly read NOFPED full press statement below: Northern Forum for Peace and Development (NOFPED) PRESS STATEMENT Motto: Respect for All Our ref……………. Date:11-06-23 Ladies and gentlemen of the press, good day. It has become necessary for all of us to come together and share this piece of disturbing news which seems to denigrate and insult us, the people from northern Ghana. It is disturbing to note that of recent the Upper East Regional Minister, Hon. Stephen Yakubu, has been in the news for all the negative reasons. He is known to have been in front of small-scale miners, negotiating with a Chinese mining firm and allegedly cheating our northern brothers who are into legal mining business.It is also alleged that he has connived with the CEO of the Minerals Commission, Mr. Martin Ayisi, to extort money from some small-scale miners to buy furniture for the Upper East Regional Coordinating Council, which is uncalled-for. Although in all these matters our intelligence tells us that he is under investigations being conducted by the police, EOCO and NIB. Our expectations are that the state institutions mentioned will do due diligence and serve him the deserved sanctions for his alleged deeds. As the saying goes: “No one is above the law.” Ladies and gentlemen, it is shocking to note that the Upper East Regional Minister, Hon. Stephen Yakubu, is reported to have said that “NORTHERNERS ARE VERY GREEDY AND UNTRUTHFUL”. This statement was reported by Media Without Borders on 25th May, 2023. Our investigation also leads to the fact that he, Hon. Stephen Yakubu, actually insulted northerners as reported. We think that it is so weird for a northerner like the Regional Minister himself who is from Binduri in the Upper East Region to insult his own kinsmen and kinswomen as greedy and untruthful people. The fact that the Regional Minister obtained his secondary education at Konongo in the Ashanti Region does not make him an Akan. The attitude he has exhibited so far in the office as a regional minister qualifies him as the one who should rather be described as greedy and untruthful. In the light of all this, we think his statement is unnecessary, it is offensive, it is demeaning and above all it is terrible. And we call on him to immediately apologise to the good people of northern Ghana within one week. We know of his interest to stage a comeback as a Member of Parliament (MP). Failing to apologise will see us work against him and against his government. We are going to stage street protests in his constituency (Binduri), Bolgatanga, Tamale, Wa, Nalerigu and Damango and ask His Excellency the President of the Republic of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, to relieve him of his post. By this, we are also respectfully asking all the traditional chiefs in northern Ghana to openly rebuke him and ask him to apologise. We cannot live to hear Hon. Stephen Yakubu insulting the Bawku Naba, the Bolga Naba, the Nayiri, the Wa Na, the Chiana Pio, the Sandem Naab, the Nangod Naab. the Navro Pio, the Tongraan, the Paga Pio, the Yagbonwura and the Ya Naa to mention a few. These revered chiefs and other dignitaries in northern Ghana including Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, former President John Dramani Mahama, Speaker of Parliament Hon. Alban Bagbin, cannot be described as greedy and untruthful by the Regional Minister Hon. Stephen Yakubu. Hon. Stephen Yakubu must resign for committing this unthinkable blunder against the good people of northern Ghana. #StephenYakubuMustGo. Long live Northern Forum for Peace and Development! Long live northern Ghana!! Long live Ghana!!! Spokesperson: Christopher K. Asima Apexnewsgh.com/Ghana Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications. Contact: 0256336062