The school prefect of Kumasi Girls’ High (KGEE), Miss Dorcas Addai, has appealed to parents and guardians to take the education of the girl-child seriously.
She said investing in the education of girls would help equip them to meet the demands of the modern world.
Ms Addai made the appeal in an address at KGEE’s 47th Speech and Prize-giving Day celebration at Abrepokese in Kumasi. the theme for the celebration was ‘Girl Child Education, Opportunities and Challenges in Science and ICT’.
She observed that in view of the current technological transformation in the world there was the need to ensure that girls were properly trained because “women are the pillars of development”, adding that “there’s the likelihood that in the not too distant future one would require ICT knowledge to work in the kitchen”.
The Headmistress, Miss Kraah said the school had always aimed at academic and moral excellence and had for the past three years in succession obtained 100 per cent in the final examinations .
She said the admission of students from KGEE into the nation’s universities and other tertiary institutions such as Nursing, Teaching and Polytechnics had quadrupled over the years.
Ms Kraah appealed to the government to complete the abandoned dining hall and classroom block project and help solve the perennial water problem in the school.
She commended the school’s PTA and the Kumasi Rotary club for providing two boreholes for the school to ease the water problem.
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Thursday, May 14, 2009
VICTORY SONG FROM SYLVIA (PAGE 4, GRAPHIC SHOWBIZ)
By Collins Agyekum-Gyasi
Kumasi continues to be a fertile breeding ground for gospel artistes and one of the latest to come out with her maiden release is Sylvia Amponsah Bosompem.
The title of the 26-year-old Sylvia’s work is M’adi Konim and it was launched at the Santase-Fankyenebra All Saints Catholic Church. With her sparkling voice and a glowing passion to touch hearts, Sylvia said it gladdens her heart to be able to comfort the distressed through music.
Educated at Odorgonno Secondary School in Accra and the St. Monica’s College of Education, Ashanti Mampong, Sylvia’s album contains songs such as Ayekoo, Kasa and Mabre Maso Ase. They are in slow worship vein to smoothen worried hearts and facilitate entering into God’s presence.
Other songs on the album that make pleasant listening are Save Me, Awurade Yeda Wo Ase and Y’ Asom Abedu Fie.
An admirable trait on the M’adi Konim album is the flexibility exhibited by the musicians on the recording who are able to supply appropriate dynamics to enable her show off her vocal prowess.
Kumasi continues to be a fertile breeding ground for gospel artistes and one of the latest to come out with her maiden release is Sylvia Amponsah Bosompem.
The title of the 26-year-old Sylvia’s work is M’adi Konim and it was launched at the Santase-Fankyenebra All Saints Catholic Church. With her sparkling voice and a glowing passion to touch hearts, Sylvia said it gladdens her heart to be able to comfort the distressed through music.
Educated at Odorgonno Secondary School in Accra and the St. Monica’s College of Education, Ashanti Mampong, Sylvia’s album contains songs such as Ayekoo, Kasa and Mabre Maso Ase. They are in slow worship vein to smoothen worried hearts and facilitate entering into God’s presence.
Other songs on the album that make pleasant listening are Save Me, Awurade Yeda Wo Ase and Y’ Asom Abedu Fie.
An admirable trait on the M’adi Konim album is the flexibility exhibited by the musicians on the recording who are able to supply appropriate dynamics to enable her show off her vocal prowess.
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
CONGRATULATIONS, OTUMFUO...He chalks 59 years (LEAD STORY, GRAPHIC NSEMPA)
By Collins Gyasi and Ernestina Kyerewaa Oppong, Kumasi
THE Anglican Bishop of the Kumasi Diocese, Rt Rev. Yinkah Sarfo has commended the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II for his exemplary leadership initiatives designed for Asanteman and the country as a whole.
He gave the commendation during a sermon at a special thanksgiving service to mark the 59th birthday of the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu.
The service which was held at the Anglican Church in Kumasi, had in attendance a divisional chiefs and their queens, the royal family, former President John Agyekum Kufour and wife, Mrs Theresa Kufour, the Ashanti Regional Minister, Mr Kofi Opoku Manu and other well wishers.
He observed that though the Asantehene was the youngest of the siblings from the royal family, he was rightly chosen by the kingmakers and added that since the King was chosen, he had exhibited inspirational leadership throughout the years of his reign.
Bishop Yinka Sarfo described the King as a kind-hearted person who had his ears to the ground and had love and compassion for the poor.
On his political, economic and religious contributions, the Bishop said Otumfuo Osei Tutu II had gone past his boundaries.
He therefore, called on all and sundry to rally behind him with prayers for God to make manifest what he had for Asanteman and Ghana to chalk more success.
He prayed the Lord to grant the Asantehene spiritual wisdom, love and vision.
The bishop wished him happy birthday as he marked another milestone on the great Golden Stool.
In a speech, the Asantehene attributed his success to God’s might, counselling from his elders and his wife lady Julia.
He said throughout the years, they had been his advisors and also supported him in whatever he did.
The Asantehene called for unity of purpose among the chiefs and people in the region and the country as a whole.
For his birthday present, the Anglican Church gave him a holy bible to read always and prayers were said for him and the nation, the church of God, the President and the ministers of state.
After the church service, Otumfuo feted children from orphanages in the Ashanti Region at the palace. The children also had fun as many air filled playing apparatus were made available for their enjoyment.
THE Anglican Bishop of the Kumasi Diocese, Rt Rev. Yinkah Sarfo has commended the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II for his exemplary leadership initiatives designed for Asanteman and the country as a whole.
He gave the commendation during a sermon at a special thanksgiving service to mark the 59th birthday of the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu.
The service which was held at the Anglican Church in Kumasi, had in attendance a divisional chiefs and their queens, the royal family, former President John Agyekum Kufour and wife, Mrs Theresa Kufour, the Ashanti Regional Minister, Mr Kofi Opoku Manu and other well wishers.
He observed that though the Asantehene was the youngest of the siblings from the royal family, he was rightly chosen by the kingmakers and added that since the King was chosen, he had exhibited inspirational leadership throughout the years of his reign.
Bishop Yinka Sarfo described the King as a kind-hearted person who had his ears to the ground and had love and compassion for the poor.
On his political, economic and religious contributions, the Bishop said Otumfuo Osei Tutu II had gone past his boundaries.
He therefore, called on all and sundry to rally behind him with prayers for God to make manifest what he had for Asanteman and Ghana to chalk more success.
He prayed the Lord to grant the Asantehene spiritual wisdom, love and vision.
The bishop wished him happy birthday as he marked another milestone on the great Golden Stool.
In a speech, the Asantehene attributed his success to God’s might, counselling from his elders and his wife lady Julia.
He said throughout the years, they had been his advisors and also supported him in whatever he did.
The Asantehene called for unity of purpose among the chiefs and people in the region and the country as a whole.
For his birthday present, the Anglican Church gave him a holy bible to read always and prayers were said for him and the nation, the church of God, the President and the ministers of state.
After the church service, Otumfuo feted children from orphanages in the Ashanti Region at the palace. The children also had fun as many air filled playing apparatus were made available for their enjoyment.
WORKSHOP ON CHILD LABOUR HELD IN KUMASI (PAGE 47)
THE Deputy Minister of Employment and Social Welfare, Mr Antwi Boasiako Sekyere, has sent a note of caution to parents and children not to see child labour as a consequence but as a cause of poverty and under-development.
He said children subjected to extreme forms of exploitation, with little or no education, were likely to grow to be illiterate adults, while the prosperity of the country depended greatly on the quality of its human resource base, which was the youth
“Therefore, to tolerate child labour is inconsistent with the massive investment the nation is making,” he stressed.
Mr Boasiako Sekyere was addressing a three-day inception workshop for co-ordinating directors of district assemblies, NGOs, directors of Labour, Social Welfare, Education and Statistics drawn from the Central, Eastern and Volta regions in Kumasi.
He said the Employment and Social Welfare Ministry, in collaboration with COCOBOD and other partners, was stepping up efforts to eliminate the worst forms of child labour in the cocoa sector in particular and other sectors of society.
Accordingly, he said since the inception of the National Programme to Eliminate the Worst Forms of Child Labour in Cocoa (NPECLC), the ministry had conducted pilot and scale-up surveys, which had helped to ascertain the extent and nature of child labour in the sector, which the International Cocoa Verification Board (ICVB) had accepted.
He announced that remediation activities had been implemented in 11 districts and 110 communities and that currently more than 1,200 children were being provided with support to pursue formal education, including vocational skills.
The support include the provision of learning materials, footwear, school bags and uniforms, psychological counselling and health.
The Ashanti Regional Manager of the COCOBOD, Mr S. E. Bissiw, said since the emergence of the issue of child labour, the government had demonstrated its commitment to lead the fight and support its elimination.
He announced that the board had given nearly GH¢1.3 million to support the expansion of remediation activities in additional 36 cocoa districts and hoped the fund would help increase awareness of the issue.
The National Programme Manager of the NPECLC, Mrs Rita Owusu-Amankwah, for her part, said the workshop had become necessary to scale up remediation interventions to cover more districts and by the turn of the year they would have covered 47 cocoa districts out of the existing 64.
She said this year would see at least 470 communities scaled up and stakeholders in that service encouraged to make their activities known to the national programme.
He said children subjected to extreme forms of exploitation, with little or no education, were likely to grow to be illiterate adults, while the prosperity of the country depended greatly on the quality of its human resource base, which was the youth
“Therefore, to tolerate child labour is inconsistent with the massive investment the nation is making,” he stressed.
Mr Boasiako Sekyere was addressing a three-day inception workshop for co-ordinating directors of district assemblies, NGOs, directors of Labour, Social Welfare, Education and Statistics drawn from the Central, Eastern and Volta regions in Kumasi.
He said the Employment and Social Welfare Ministry, in collaboration with COCOBOD and other partners, was stepping up efforts to eliminate the worst forms of child labour in the cocoa sector in particular and other sectors of society.
Accordingly, he said since the inception of the National Programme to Eliminate the Worst Forms of Child Labour in Cocoa (NPECLC), the ministry had conducted pilot and scale-up surveys, which had helped to ascertain the extent and nature of child labour in the sector, which the International Cocoa Verification Board (ICVB) had accepted.
He announced that remediation activities had been implemented in 11 districts and 110 communities and that currently more than 1,200 children were being provided with support to pursue formal education, including vocational skills.
The support include the provision of learning materials, footwear, school bags and uniforms, psychological counselling and health.
The Ashanti Regional Manager of the COCOBOD, Mr S. E. Bissiw, said since the emergence of the issue of child labour, the government had demonstrated its commitment to lead the fight and support its elimination.
He announced that the board had given nearly GH¢1.3 million to support the expansion of remediation activities in additional 36 cocoa districts and hoped the fund would help increase awareness of the issue.
The National Programme Manager of the NPECLC, Mrs Rita Owusu-Amankwah, for her part, said the workshop had become necessary to scale up remediation interventions to cover more districts and by the turn of the year they would have covered 47 cocoa districts out of the existing 64.
She said this year would see at least 470 communities scaled up and stakeholders in that service encouraged to make their activities known to the national programme.
Thursday, May 7, 2009
OBUASI ASSEMBLY CONFIRMS DCE (PAGE 17)
THE Obuasi Municipal Assembly set a record when the election of Presiding Member (PM) being contested by two persons had to travel into a record five rounds before one of them was confirmed as duly elected by the 42-member assembly.
The voting for the two contestants, Mr J.F.K. Addai, an AngloGold Ashanti (AGA) representative in the assembly, (now an appointee) and Mr Benjamin Annang, the Assembly Member for Sanso and a social advocate, started after midday on Saturday and was supervised by the Electoral Commission.
Observers, however, had to wait for over six hours before Mr Annang threw in the towel for Mr Addai to poll 36 votes to occupy the PM seat.
He was later sworn into office by the Obuasi Circuit Court Judge, Mr Gilbert Ewusi Addo.
However, the President’s nominee for the post of Municipal Chief Executive, Mr John Alexander Kobina Ackon, received overwhelming endorsement of the assembly members.
Mr Ackon, who was born and bred in Obuasi, holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering and was formerly an employee of AGA, polled 36 votes with two against and four votes disqualified.
His endorsement was greeted with thunderous shouts of “Easy, easy!” by the enthusiastic crowd.
In his victory speech, he said the municipal assembly needed a unifier and with the unity among the members, he believed that the path would be clear.
He, therefore, urged them to unite solidly behind him and help to develop the municipality.
Mr Addai promised that as a former staff of AGA, he had a good relationship with the mining firm and would work hard to develop the communities.
He said he would invite all stakeholder; comprising chiefs, community leaders and AGA to a roundtable conference to find a lasting solution to the problems associated with galamsey.
The voting for the two contestants, Mr J.F.K. Addai, an AngloGold Ashanti (AGA) representative in the assembly, (now an appointee) and Mr Benjamin Annang, the Assembly Member for Sanso and a social advocate, started after midday on Saturday and was supervised by the Electoral Commission.
Observers, however, had to wait for over six hours before Mr Annang threw in the towel for Mr Addai to poll 36 votes to occupy the PM seat.
He was later sworn into office by the Obuasi Circuit Court Judge, Mr Gilbert Ewusi Addo.
However, the President’s nominee for the post of Municipal Chief Executive, Mr John Alexander Kobina Ackon, received overwhelming endorsement of the assembly members.
Mr Ackon, who was born and bred in Obuasi, holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering and was formerly an employee of AGA, polled 36 votes with two against and four votes disqualified.
His endorsement was greeted with thunderous shouts of “Easy, easy!” by the enthusiastic crowd.
In his victory speech, he said the municipal assembly needed a unifier and with the unity among the members, he believed that the path would be clear.
He, therefore, urged them to unite solidly behind him and help to develop the municipality.
Mr Addai promised that as a former staff of AGA, he had a good relationship with the mining firm and would work hard to develop the communities.
He said he would invite all stakeholder; comprising chiefs, community leaders and AGA to a roundtable conference to find a lasting solution to the problems associated with galamsey.
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
OBUASI IRS PLANS TO EXCEED REVENUE TARGET (PAGE 47)
THE Obuasi Municipal Manager of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Mr A. M. A. Yakubu, has urged Ghanaians to honour their tax obligations.
According to him, since taxation was a source of revenue for governments worldwide, it was important for all to honour their social responsibility to enable the government to generate enough revenue for national development.
Mr Yakubu, who made the appeal announced that the IRS had targeted to collect GH¢3.5 million in the Obuasi Municipality this financial year, but added that the workers at the Obuasi office had resolved to raise the target to GH¢ 4.4 million.
On the performance of the IRS in the municipality, he indicated that in 2007, the service managed to collect GH¢2,257,382.41, against a target of GH¢1,776,261.56, representing an increase of GH¢481,120.85 or 27 per cent.
He said the service managed to bag GH¢ 2,798,773 last year, against a target of GH¢2,600,000, representing an increase of GH¢198,773, or eight per cent.
According to Mr Yakubu, the IRS had dedicated its fifth “Revenue Week”, which is on the theme, “Enhancing Tax Compliance: The Responsibility of the income-earning property owner”, to property owners.
“Rent has become a huge investment in the country, and we believe if we are able to tap into the rent business, it will go a long way to increase our tax base,” he told the Daily Graphic.
He commended members of staff in the Obuasi office for their efforts, and expressed the hope that the target set for the year would be exceeded.
According to him, since taxation was a source of revenue for governments worldwide, it was important for all to honour their social responsibility to enable the government to generate enough revenue for national development.
Mr Yakubu, who made the appeal announced that the IRS had targeted to collect GH¢3.5 million in the Obuasi Municipality this financial year, but added that the workers at the Obuasi office had resolved to raise the target to GH¢ 4.4 million.
On the performance of the IRS in the municipality, he indicated that in 2007, the service managed to collect GH¢2,257,382.41, against a target of GH¢1,776,261.56, representing an increase of GH¢481,120.85 or 27 per cent.
He said the service managed to bag GH¢ 2,798,773 last year, against a target of GH¢2,600,000, representing an increase of GH¢198,773, or eight per cent.
According to Mr Yakubu, the IRS had dedicated its fifth “Revenue Week”, which is on the theme, “Enhancing Tax Compliance: The Responsibility of the income-earning property owner”, to property owners.
“Rent has become a huge investment in the country, and we believe if we are able to tap into the rent business, it will go a long way to increase our tax base,” he told the Daily Graphic.
He commended members of staff in the Obuasi office for their efforts, and expressed the hope that the target set for the year would be exceeded.
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
NEW POULTRY FEED ENHANCER RECOMMENDED (BACK PAGE)
A TEAM of researchers from the Animal Science Department of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, has recommended a new poultry feed enhancer to poultry farmers to improve general poultry performance.
They undertook studies using a livestock performance enhancer known as 3rd Generation Ruman Enhancer (RE3), an additive in poultry feeding to all classes of poultry birds for improved performance at lower cost.
It is a liquid chemical, manufactured by Basic Environmental Systems and Technology Incorporated (BEST) of Canada and approved by the Food and Drugs Board (FDB) of Ghana.
The researchers made the recommendations when they talked about the product and its usefulness at a one-day workshop organised by the Ashanti Regional Directorate, in collaboration with the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MOFA) for poultry farmers.
Professor S. A. Osei of KNUST said poultry feed had become the single most important recurrent cost of producing broilers and eggs.
He said it was found during the research that all ingredients used in the preparation of RE3 were from natural sources and remained in their natural state.
He said no toxic chemicals were found to have been used in the preparation of RE3, adding it contained yeast, which produced acid to fight any plague that might attack the birds.
Prof. Osei stated that whenever the RE3 was added in the feed for the broilers and layers, it gave the advantage in terms of laying eggs, bodyweight and liveability, which in the end saved money.
Throwing light on the chemical, Prof. O. B. Okai said the enhancer was solely for broilers and layers, but not ducks or ostriches, adding that local research proved that replacing antibiotics with RE3 would save the farmer approximately US$485 per 1,000 layers.
A Research Scientist to the Canadian government at BEST, Dr John Baah, said mixing the enhancer, according to instructions for broilers or layers, yielded better results and reduced cost.
They undertook studies using a livestock performance enhancer known as 3rd Generation Ruman Enhancer (RE3), an additive in poultry feeding to all classes of poultry birds for improved performance at lower cost.
It is a liquid chemical, manufactured by Basic Environmental Systems and Technology Incorporated (BEST) of Canada and approved by the Food and Drugs Board (FDB) of Ghana.
The researchers made the recommendations when they talked about the product and its usefulness at a one-day workshop organised by the Ashanti Regional Directorate, in collaboration with the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MOFA) for poultry farmers.
Professor S. A. Osei of KNUST said poultry feed had become the single most important recurrent cost of producing broilers and eggs.
He said it was found during the research that all ingredients used in the preparation of RE3 were from natural sources and remained in their natural state.
He said no toxic chemicals were found to have been used in the preparation of RE3, adding it contained yeast, which produced acid to fight any plague that might attack the birds.
Prof. Osei stated that whenever the RE3 was added in the feed for the broilers and layers, it gave the advantage in terms of laying eggs, bodyweight and liveability, which in the end saved money.
Throwing light on the chemical, Prof. O. B. Okai said the enhancer was solely for broilers and layers, but not ducks or ostriches, adding that local research proved that replacing antibiotics with RE3 would save the farmer approximately US$485 per 1,000 layers.
A Research Scientist to the Canadian government at BEST, Dr John Baah, said mixing the enhancer, according to instructions for broilers or layers, yielded better results and reduced cost.
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