At a 2-day non-residential workshop organized by the Ghana Education Service for first and second cycle Mathematics and Science teachers in Abuakwa North Municipality, Eastern Region of Ghana, beginning today 5th August, 2021 at Akyem Kukurantumi St Paul’s Technical School, Honourable Gifty Twum-Ampofo popularly called Hajia Kande, Member of Parliament for Abuakwa North Constituency also the Deputy Minister of Education admonished the participants and teachers in general to be prepared to unlearn old ways of teaching and embrace modernized methods.

“As a 21st century teacher, you have to unlearn to learn. This is because, the way we used to do things have changed. In those days, a teacher may have one good book where his information is derived from to the fascination of the pupils, now with a press of an ordinary smartphone button, not even a laptop, the children are privy to all information they need and could correctly mention you the teacher’s sources of information. This is one of the challenges the 21st century teacher is facing. So I will appeal to you to unlearn using one particular textbook as your source of information and resort to numerous sources which will make teaching more easier and our pupils more reforming”. Hon Gifty Twum-Ampofo.

The honourable member of parliament added that, teachers have special call because children’s destinies are in their oars to manage for the child to realise his or her destiny wether negative or positive in a stipulated time.

She further asked the teachers to stay away from corporal punishment as it goes a long way to harden the children instead of reforming them.

Miss Abena Gyamerah, Municipal Education Director, Abuakwa North, also explained that, the workshop is aimed at retraining the Mathematics and Science teachers in the Municipality to merge indigenous or local materials into the current methods of teaching.

She urged all the participants to apply the new methods to improve teaching and learning the in the Municipality for national development.

Also present at the opening ceremony were, Mrs Ruth Woode, Municipal Coordinating director, Abuakwa North, Dr Adu Acheapong, Deputy Director, Cocoa Research Institute of Ghana, Representative of the Regional Education Directorate and the press.

Facilitators for the workshop were drawn from the University of Education, Winneba, namely, Prof. Jophus Anamuah-Mensah, Prof. Kolawole Raheem, Prof. Samuel Asare Amoah, Miss Esi Quansah, Mr Charles Essiam, Mr Kobina Amihere and Miss Sakyi-Hagan.

Resource persons were, Miss Christabel Awuku, Miss Gloria Addison and Emmanuel Oppong.

By// Nana Kwasi Asare.

Source// Obohnews.

Member of Parliament for Akuapem North Constituency in the Eastern Region who doubles as the Deputy Minister of Trade, Hon. Nana Ama Dokua Asiamah-Adjei together with the Nanaanom and people of Larteh, Obosomase, and Okorase has commissioned 3 health centres to enhance quality health care delivery for the constituents.

The 3 health centres that are well furnished with hospital equipments includes; 1 Polyclinic at Larteh, and two chip compounds one at Obosomase and the other one situated at Okorase.

Addressing the gathering, Hon. Nana Ama Dokua thanked the traditional leaders in the beneficiary communities for their cooperation and supportive in raising the projects and urged the various health authorities to take the maintenance culture of the facilities to a very high level so that it can served the communities for its rightful purposes for long.

Furthermore, the Lawmaker stated that Covid-19 is real and serious especially this 3rd wave hence cautioned people not to take the disease for granted until they lost someone dearly to their heart before they take necessary steps to protect themselves.

She added that, gov’t has done what’s due him but is up to the citizens to also do their part to help him curb the spread of covid-19.

This, Hon. MP noted that not all persons has been vaccinated so everyone must try to protect his or her self first, because whoever endanger himself or herself, endangered the whole country.

Okorasehene, Nana Asare Kumi III told Kingdom FM’s KONTIHEN KOFI OBOH in an interview that, every good leader becomes excited if they sees social amenities in their towns or communities since he contributed immensely for the completion of Okorase Chip Compound.

He urged his fellow colleagues chiefs that, if gov’t comes out with any developmental projects to their communities or towns they should also contribute to it, it could be land, cement, blocks, water, roofing sheets etc to help in completion within the time frame given to benefit their people.

Moreover the acting MCE for Akuapem North Municipal Assembly, Hon. Awuah Sarpong Berima Asiedu-Larbi said, all this 3 commissioned health centres was began by his predecessor of the Municipality, Hon. Miracle Edward Dennis Aboagye before Prez Akufo-Addo reshuffled him and takes over to complete them .

He stressed, this 3 health centres will serve many people within the Municipality and also to reduced the pressure from their main Tetteh Quarshie Memorial Hospital at Mampong-Akuapem where most at times they go there for medical treatment.

Hon. Berimah Asiedu-Larbi continue that, this is the little things they can do to appreciate their constituents for voting NPP to power because they also deserved quality health care delivery. Stating that, their health is their wealth.

Source// Obohnews.

By// Kontihen Kofi Oboh.

Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.
Indira Gahndi

The arrival of the Portuguese on the Guinea Coast and the consequent coming of other European nationals such as the Danes, the Swedes the Belgians and the British changed the political history of the Gold Coast, a country which historically was endowed with so much gold and an envy to many. In the memoirs of Portuguese merchants in pre-colonial times it is reported that the finest of gold in west Africa came from the area known as the Gold Coast.

European influence eventually brought several changes in the Gold Coast which hither to live in their independent states and kingdoms. Europeans desire to control the rich African resources, the quest to introduce Christianity and the need for political or national glory led to the annexation of several African lands. The signing of the Berlin treaty of 1884 gave out the indicating the modalities how the European nations can own African lands.

The Gold Coast was not an exception, and with the Dutch Anglo exchange of forts and castles in 1867 , the British remained the colonial masters of the people of Gold Coast and in 1874 declared the Gold Coast as a British colony and the total subjugation of Asante between 1900 and 1902 they had hegemony over the Gold Coast which led to the establishment of the British colonial administration.
The British colonial system has its own attendant problems, ranging from the colonial political structure, exploitation of the colonial economy, noninvolvement of the indigenous people in the decision making process of their state, Local merchants disadvantaged in trading activities, disregard for traditional institutions, neglect of the local elites of Gold Coast in the civil service and host of unfavorable socio economic problems which were detrimental to the standard of living of the colonists.

These negativities engineered the formation of a movement which sought to ask for changes in the status quo. This led to the establishment of the Aborigines Protection Society ARPS on 4th August in Cape Coast with the aim of leading an agitation for the involvement of the indigenous people in the governance process. The leaders of this movement notably Jacob Sey, Joseph Casely Hayford, John Mensah Sarbah, Kobina Sakyi, J.W. de Graft-Johnson, J.P Brown and others were resolute and with the establishment of their newspaper the Aborignes , there was an intense national and political consciousness with the rebirth of nationalism.

This group without a shred a doubt, awakened political consciousness in the Gold Coast. The collapse of ARPS was the emergence of the National Congress of British west Africa (NCBWA which sought t champion developmental and political inclusiveness of the British west African colonies namely Ghana, Nigeria, Siera Leone and the Gambia. The leadership included Joseph Casely Hayford Hutton Mills, Dr. Nanka Bruce, A.B Quartey Papafio and many others who never relented in their struggle for recognition and the development of the black people.

The emergence of radical nationalism after the second world war led the formation the first political party on the 4th August 1946 in Saltpond. The leaders historically christened as the Big six in Ghana’s persona history thus Paa Grant,, Dr.J.B Danquah , E.Akufo Addo Obetsebi Lamptey, Ako Adjei, William Ofori Attah with other notable members like Awoonor Williams, R.S. Blay, Kobina Kessie needs mention. The formation of the UGCC represents the first action taken on the Gold Coast to demand an end to colonial rule and the foundation of this country cannot be recounted without special mention of the 1948 riots which came about as a result of the shooting of the three ex-service men namely sergeant Adjetey, Corpral Attipoe, and Private Odartey. Their “crucifixion “also added some bite in the struggle for independence and on this special day of founders’ day they deserve commendation and recognition.

With the formation of the Convention peoples party led by Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, the CPP eventually won independence for Ghana. The name Ghana meant which war chief, is the name of an Ancient medieval empire of the Sonkike people in the area east of Lake Chad , in the western Sudan. On the occasion of National founders day celebration on this date 4th of August, it is important to lay bare the exploits of our forebears who struggled to achieve independence for Ghana at the peril of their lives, and admonish the present generation to put Ghana first, and be committed to the Ghana course since there is only one Ghana, which is the land of our birth.

Happy founders’ day
Long live our forebears
The legends live on.

By// DANIEL OBENG (Boxxy) Executive Director Youth for Emancipation
Okyemanba1893@gmail.com

Source// Obohnews.

Hon. Emmanuel Armah Kofi Buah, the Member of Parliament for Ellembelle Constituency in the Western Region, has donated Three Hundred (300) bags of cement to three (3) communities in Anyinase North in Ellembelle district.

The charity according to the MP, will assist to renovate 3 Basic Schools namely; Wereko D/A Primary School, Santasu D/A Primary School and Amanokrom D/A Primary School in the Anyinase North all in Ellembelle District.

He further told New Day FM Journalist, Kaakyire Kwasi Afari that he is committed to connect some farming communities that are not benefiting from electricity in the area onto the National Grid as part of measures to ensure security during the night and also to improve their standard of living.

Hon. Kofi Buah charged the beneficial communities to use the cement to complete the renovation of the said schools on time, thus assured them with furniture to enhance effective teaching and learning in those 3 communities.

Mr Joseph Nyansu, the Headmaster of Santasu D/A primary school, speaking at the mini durbar for the donations lamented that all the classrooms with a total number of 450 pupils, some of the walls have fallen, and there is no floor, all the classrooms are dusty and open.

“The children often sit on the bare floor during lessons, whilst 4 pupils share a table and shaking desks” he accounted

Moreover the acting Odikro of Wereko Community, Odikro Wereko expressed his heartfelt gratitude to Hon. Emmanuel Armah Buah and prayed for God’s guidance and blessings upon his life in order to continue his good works to better the standard of people living in those areas.

According to the acting Odikro, the track records and achievements of the Ellembelle MP qualifies him as the right person to serve as a running mate for the NDC party to secure victory for the party in 2024 elections.

He describes the MP as “Second Kwame Nkrumah” due to his unprecedented transformation of change he has brought to Ellembelle Constituency.

By// Kaakyire Kwasi Afari, New Day FM.

Source// Obohnews.

The Founder and Leader of Leaders Light International Church in Osabene in the Akuapem North Municipal Assembly of Eastern Region, Apostle Dr. Samuel Dadzie says, Ghanain parliamentarians shouldn’t waste their precious time to discuss the LGBTQI+ Bill whether to implement it to become law or not.

This, according to the Man of God it’s unnecessary to discussion such matter.

“Ghanaians expect Parliamentarians/ Parliament to address to the unemployment rate issues, challenges confronting health, education and roads sector and find solutions to them not LGBTQI+ that wouldn’t bring any development to this country” he said.

Apostle Dr. Dadzie adds, he don’t believe Parliament would pass bill like LGBTQI+ to become law to allow same sex marriage in Ghana, indicating that no matter what it will be quashed away, since Prez Akufo-Addo has made it clear that not under his watch would he allow such inhuman behavior to occurred.

He told kingdom FM’s KONTIHEN KOFI OBOH in an interview during a Sunday church service, stressing that what is ‘illegal is illegal’ as it is abomination before God.

“The LGBTQI+ law that is coming would determine whether we would practice same sex marriage or not. If no ,then the security agencies would enforce the law for everybody to comply with it” he continue.

Source// Obohnews.

By// Kontihen Kofi Oboh.

The Board Chairman for Akro-Farm in the Akuapem North Municipal Assembly of Eastern Region, Mr. Emmanuel Ntow-Kissiedu in an interview with Kingdom FM’s KONTIHEN KOFI OBOH has revealed that, scarcity of maiz in the Ghanaian market is making poultry farming so difficult for farmers.

According to him, the price of maize has in recently increased to the extent that farmers can’t afford to purchase.

He said, they have over 80,000 birds (chicken) in which they feed them at their farm. Feeding 1,000 birds(chicken) is not easy and how much more feeding over 80,000 birds imagine the cost involve is huge amount of money.

“Meanwhile we purchase this maize from the farmers in the country. The most painful aspect of it is that; offlate when the farmers harvested their maize they sell them to Burkinabés for France CFA. Because their currency is heavier than ours”.

Mr. Ntow-Kissiedu added, sometimes they have to travelled to Tumu in the Upper West Region before they get access to maize for their birds which is very challenging.

He continued indicating that before the bird flu hit some part or the country, they’ve already put measures in place to protect their birds.

“Because our birds are many and is huge amount of money. So we can’t wait for the flu to kill them before we find solution to it” he said.

However, Mr. Ntow-Kissiedu stressed, everything being equal, they are looking to 2025 to see that the birds (chickens) that would be laying eggs would be amounted to the total number of 1 million.

Furthermore, the founder of Akro-Farm, Dr. Benson Opoku appealed to Prez Akufo-Addo to help them solve the maize menace that is confronting poultry farmers in the country.

He hinted, his poultry farm is under the 1D1F initiative by the NPP gov’t led by H. E. Prez Nana Addo. Stating that they are grateful to Exim Bank for their support.

Dr. Opoku again pleads with Prez Akufo-Addo to come to their aid because they want to expand their farm to create more jobs for the youth within the municipality to help reduce the unemployment rate in the country.

By// Kontihen Kofi Oboh.

Source// Obohnews.

The Eastern Regional Correspondent of Net2 TV, Mr. Paul Manyo has lost his Mother yesterday, Thursday, July 29,2021 at Koforidua SDA hospital at about 7:30pm in the evening.

The cause of her death is unknown for now. But information reaching Obohnews indicated that, she suspected of having a malaria and went to the hospital herself for check up. But unfortunately she passed on.

Prophetess Felicia Manyo was the Leader and Founder of Alpha and Omega Church.

Our dear colleague, Mr. Paul Manyo we [the] presenters, journalists and correspondents in the Eastern Region wish you and the family well. Accept our deepest condolences and may your Mother rest well.

By// Kontihen Kofi Oboh.

Source// Obohnews.

The Eastern Regional NDC Executives has organized one day workshop for the Abuakwa North Constituency branch communication officers to enhance their communication skills ahead of the 2024 general elections.

Kingdom FM’s KONTIHEN KOFI OBOH speaking in an interview with the eastern regional NDC communication officer, Hon. Darlas Ampomah William noted that the rational behind the programme is to help their work in various constituencies, hence decided to enhances their communication skills before the 2024 general elections approaches.

“Because we want things be easy for them on how to respond to issues when they are communicating for the party either on Radio, TV or even in their various communities in the constituency where they find themselves.

Hon. Ampomah William adds, everybody knows that in 2024 NDC will pronounced victorious and victory also comes with hardworking that is why they embarked on such workshop for their branch communicators to communicate on issues NDC gov’t have achieved in their various counstituencies.

However, Eastern Regional Secretary of NDC, Hon. Kudjo Adupko revealed that when NPP came to power, they ceased excavators of all licensed NDC miners who were into small scale mining which shouldn’t be so.

This, he said, since the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) gave them license to mine,when they come to power in 2024, they will retrieve all their ceased excavators including the over 500 missing ones and hand over to them to go back to work because they are also Ghanaians.

Hon. Adupko noted that they are not encouraging illegal mining in the country since everyone knows their activity is causing damage to our water bodies and lands as well. Thus, if they want to make any arrest in connection with illegal mining it should be the Chinese not Ghanaians, because they [Chinese] import chanfann machines into the country and use them for illegal mining ( galamsey) on our water bodies.

Some of the branch communication officers who took part in the workshop expressed their excitement about the programme indicating that, they’ve learnt a lot from the workshop.

The programme was held at Only Believe Senior High and Technical School in Akyem Kukurantumi in the Abuakwa North Municipality.

By// Kontihen Kofi Oboh.

Source// Obohnews.

The Central Regional President for Police Wives Association (POLWA) Mrs.Comfort Twimagley has appealed to H. E . Prez Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to replaced all their late husbands who died in the line of duty in the Police Service with their children to help them cater for their homes because their standard of living are very bad .

Mrs. Twimagley explained that,in the olden days when a government worker dies in line of duty,government replace them with their children to help lift most of the burdens from them.

Adding that, it isn’t like that nowadays causing them to pass through abject pains before they could get something to feed themselves and their families, a situation she described as very worrying.

Hence, appealing to the President to re- introduced that old policy by replacing their late officers with their children to help make their living condition comfortable.

She revealed these to Kingdom FM’s Anaafi Kokooto in an interview during  their 10th Anniversary Celebration at the Central Regional Police Headquarters in Cape Coast.

“Where to sleep is one of our biggest challenge since we were living with our late officers in rented houses in which most of us are sacked due to our inability to continue paying house rents” ,she lamented.

Filed by// Anaafi Kokooto,Kingdom FM Cape Coast.

Source//Obohnews.

The Member of Parliament for Tain Constituency in Bono Region has expressed concern about the non-availability of internet connectivity in some 10 communities in his Constituency.

Hon. Adama filed a question asking the Minister for Communication and Digitalisation on the Floor of Parliament, if there is plans to connect the following communities in the Tain constituency to the Rural Telephony Project, Brodie, Yabraso, Atomfourso, Akore,Degedege, Bepoayase, Sampano, Bebunsua, Konkonte, and Kogua.

According to the Legislature, the response given to him by the Minister is not satisfactory since non of the communities falls within the first Phase Project which started this year. The MP is expecting that his constituency also benefit from the project in 2022.

Hon. MP registered his displeasure about the deprived access of internet connection in his constituency elaborating that how can the 10 communities lacks internet connectivity for their daily activity in this 21st century, a situation he described as very disturbing.

Hon. Sulemana Adam told Classic FM’s Yaaso Zachariah in an exclusive interview stating that, lack of internet connectivity affect the economic growth and quality of education in the area.

By// Yaaso Zachariah.

Source// Obohnews.