The management of Ecobank has refuted reports that the Supreme Court has ordered the closure of its Head Office building over ¢4m judgment debt.
In a statement, management unequivocally refuted the reports stating that “no such execution has been levied on the bank.”
Management said, “Ecobank is open for business and assures all stakeholders and the general public that the Bank is fully compliant with all legal and regulatory directives.”
The MP for Assin Central, Kennedy Agyapong says he tested positive for Covid-19 after his 60th birthday celebration on Tuesday, June 16, 2020.
Narrating his near-death experience to Adom News’ Alfred Amoh, the outspoken MP said he lost weight drastically and had to self-isolae for weeks.
“It was after my 60th birthday party which I resisted so much and it exposed me to people who had already tested positive.
“I dined with them and even for some people, they did not even have their nose masks on while others had theirs down the chin,” he said.
“For over two weeks I was in quarantine; my nose was blocked and my bed was as if water had been poured on it coupled with a fever and within five days, I had lost weight drastically,” he recounted.
Mr. Agyapong in a video that was circulating on social media, was seen seated around a table with his family and friends in a hearty chat during his birthday celebration.
His party was crowned with a toast proposed by former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Ghana Maritime Authority, Kwame Owusu who got the crowd laughing and applauding.
The video got many social media users talking as most observers expressed worry over the total disregard for the social distancing protocols.
While some of the guests at the party, did not have face masks on, other who did had it placed under their chin instead of over the nose and mouth.
But cautioning Ghanaians of the dangers of this act, the business mogul said the virus is real hence all laid down protocols to curb it must be strictly adhered to.
“I have recovered now and not shy to talk about it because I am a testimony but the disease is so real and we don’t have to joke with it,” Mr. Agyapong urged.
The Minister for Special Development Initiative, Mavis Hawa Koomson, has openly admitted to firing a warning shot on Monday during the melee at the Step to Christ registration centre in the Awutu Senya East Constituency.
Four men have been detained at the Central Regional Police Headquarters following the shooting incident. Registration at the Step to Christ centre was halted after armed gang sacked some prospective voters from the premises amid gunshots.
At least three motorbikes were burnt during the chaos.
“I can’t sit and watch people who are not from the constituency register and vote at Kasoa so I decided to go to the polling center to ensure foreigners don’t register… I took men to the center, none of my men had a weapon, I fired the warning shot myself,” the minister admitted to Accra-based Adom News.
The minister, who is also the lawmaker for the area, is accusing her opponent Philis Naa Koryoo of busing people into the constituency to register at the Steps to Christ registration post at Kasoa.
Koomson said her action was meant to scare people off.
“I realized that my people’s life was in danger. I wanted to scare them,” the 54-year old added in connection with the warning shot.
Currently, the registration centre has been closed down as the Electoral Commission officers at the venue have fled following the violence.
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Work on the University of Professional Studies, Accra (UPSA) 10-storey hostel facility to help address the accommodation deficit is ongoing with jet-speed, in line with the Vice-Chancellor of the university’s vision.
Through his introduction of prudent cost management measures, the university was able to pay off five-year loans in 2 years, thereby enabling the commencement of ambitious new infrastructure projects.
It is the vision of Professor Abednego Feehi Okoe Amartey to work assiduously to solve the imminent accommodation problem as the university aims at attracting more of the best Ghanaian and international students and expects to welcome top students from government’s Free SHS initiative.
FT Global Investment Ltd, the Contractors working on the 416-bedroom project that will accommodate some 1,600 students who otherwise would not have campus accommodation are working round the clock to meet the project timelines. The project was awarded to FT Global Investment by Access Bank, which is financing the Design, Build and Transfer deal with the UPSA.
The deal for the construction of the hostel facility sailed through as a result of Prof. Amartey’s resolve to continuous improvement on the infrastructure of UPSA.
It will be recalled that the Vice-Chancellor who has been in office since 2017 completed the state-of-the-art 3,550 capacity auditorium with underground parking and Student Centre to enhance world-class standards.
The continued rapid expansion of UPSA’s infrastructure has seen the construction of the recently completed AstroTurf football pitch. Construction of other new facilities have also commenced including two gigantic twin 10-storey multi-purpose buildings and another hostel block.
The Vice-Chancellor has also refined the culture of maintenance in the university. Both new and existing structures and / or facilities remain in good shape. Conditions in lecture halls have been improved tremendously including the provision of additional projectors, Smart Podiums, public address systems and lecture hall furniture.
A visit to the hostel facility’s construction site indicates that work is within schedule although there were issues that nearly delayed the project.
The project is expected to be completed in December 2021 and at the time of our visit, there were over 62 workers on site.
The Contractor, FT Global Investment is not compromising on quality and is working in tandem with UPSA’s technical and Total Quality Management team.
Project Manager of FT Global Investment, Mr. Reuben Akumienu, told the media that the company’s working standards were very high. On safety, he said ‘’FT Global does not compromise on safety and as a result, reinforcement, best practices and structural integrity is our hallmark. Safety and security of the workers on the project is also assured.”
Mr. Akumienu said that the steady progress and the speed with which FT Global Investment is working, the project would be completed as scheduled.
A visit to the site of the second Hostel facility under construction shows that it is also progressing steadily. The 396 room hostel is also expected to be completed by end of 2021 and the contractors, Top International, assured us they are working within Schedule.
To complement the infrastructural development, UPSA has also enhanced security on and around its main campus and the hostels. In the past, the UPSA road had a reputation for frequent robbery attacks within the university campus’ environs and nearby hostels. These incidents have been reduced drastically with the recruitment of more competent private security personnel and the provision of solar streetlights all the way from the main campus to the hostel facilities and beyond. This has reduced the incidents around the UPSA area.
UPSA is one of the fastest-growing universities and has been ranked among the top universities in the world in the 2020 U-Multirank global universities rankings.
It is the only Ghanaian university to be on the global rankings that assess universities on a multi-dimensional approach to higher education, including teaching and learning, research, knowledge transfer, regional engagement and international orientation.
The University of Professional Studies Accra, in that ranking, emerged strongest in teaching and learning. Its overall profile shows top performance across various indicators, with two ‘A’ (very good) scores overall.
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Some people believed to be supporters of the National Democratic Congress on Monday besieged the Kasoa Police Command despite heavy police presence at the station.
This comes after four people hour were arrested, with some guns retrieved by the Kasoa Divisional Police Command.
They have since been transferred to the Regional Police Headquarters in Cape Coast in the Central Regional Capital for investigations to continue.
Divisional Police Commander, Chief Superintendent Charles Ampem Koosonu revealed his outfit acted immediately the incident happened and upon swift patrols in and around Kasoa environs arrested a pickup where they arrested these suspects.
Speaking on Starr Today, NDC communications officer Mr Delali Sewarkpor accused the Special Initiatives Minister, Mavis Hawa Koomson of being behind the violence in the area.
According to him, several complaints to the Kasoa divisional police command has been ignored with no arrest made.
Mr Sewakpor added that NPP thugs have on different occasions attacked members of the NDC and in some instance, serious injuries have been inflicted on their party members with no action taken by the Police.
Mr. Sewakpor added that NDC supporters who besieged the Police station earlier in the day have left.
Currently, the registration centre has been closed down as the Electoral Commission officers at the venue have fled following the violence.
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Police in Awutu Senya East in the Central region have arrested four people after a gun incident disrupted the ongoing voter registration exercise at a polling centre in the area.
The incident which took place at the ‘Step to Christ’ polling station was allegedly triggered by some followers of the Member of Parliament for the Area Mavis Hawa Koomson who was visiting registration centres.
The minister reportedly demanded changes in the location of the registration centre sparking the chaos from members of the NDC at the centre.
Currently, the registration centre has been closed down as the Electoral Commission officers at the venue have fled following the violence.
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Bishop Charles Agyinasare, founder and leader of Perez Chapel International has bemoaned the silence from the clergy in the country with regards to wrongdoings by politicians.
According to the bishop, the clergy who are supposed to hold politicians accountable by using their pulpits to drum the wrongdoings because these politicians go to church and mosques, have turned a blind eye.
“So are our clergymen. Our clergy who should be saying it on the rooftop because many of these politicians go to our churches or the mosques. But the clergy, we have become dumb dogs. We are acting as if we don’t see what is happening,” he said in his sermon on Sunday titled ‘Get Rid of Envy’ monitored by GhanaWeb.
He reiterated that pastors who come out boldly to speak against these wrongdoings of the politicians are tagged as ‘talkative’.
“And if you are a Pastor and you are talking, they say you are talking too much. Instead of teaching our electorate who are made up of our Church members and made up of the people who go to the Mosque, to hold our government accountable, we are competing in our visions about who will win and who will die.”
He supported his sermon with a quote from the Book of Isaiah 56:10 which reads; “His watchmen are (A)blind, They are all ignorant; (B)They are all dumb dogs, They cannot bark;[a]Sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.”
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Young actor who gained popularity for his great acting prowess in the Beast of No Nation movie, Strika in an interview with Abraham Offei of Glovantis Multimedia has revealed that he started smoking at a very tender age.
According to him, he began taking interest in smoking ‘wee’ before he turned 14 years of age, “for me I began smoking at a very young age, like before 14.”
After being discovered for the Beast of No Nation Movie, he got admission into a Montessori school in the Central Region, Cape Coast, having in mind that the new environment will help him get better but his addiction to smoking ‘wee’ grew even more.
“I did not stop when I got the admission to school there, I couldn’t, I was still doing it, in fact every student in the school knew that I was doing it and unfortunately my cover blew one day.”
Narrating how his cover was blown, Strika real name Emmanuel Nii Adokwei said, “one of the students I smoked with mistakenly placed a piece of the substance at a wrong place and our alarm was blown. I am using the word our because I was not the only person, there were students from other countries who were also into that act.”
When asked if he was punished for engaging in something like that, he told the host, “to an extent yes and I was taken through counselling, I was spoken to and given a reason to know why it was not good for me.”
Strika however revealed that though he was into smoking he managed to hide it from the crew and scouts when he was given the role to play in the movie.
“…another truth is that, before I was discovered, no one knew that I was into that, including my scouts, I hid it from them till I was caught.”
Beasts of No Nation was released in 2015, it is an American-Ghanaian war drama film centred on an orphaned who is forced into a guerrilla group with a vision in modern warfare.
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On April 27, 1972, Kwame Nkrumah, the deposed President of Ghana and a great Pan-Africanist died in Bucharest, Romania after six years in exile in Guinea far away from his birthplace of Nkroful at the age of 62.
Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah arrived in Conakry, Guinea after being invited by Sékou Touré just after the Military Coup that unconstitutionally ousted his Government from Power. Colonel Ignatius Acheampong, leader of the Ghana’s military junta which seized power from Prime minister Kofi Busia in January 1972.
The death of one of Africa’s most prominent personalities normally would have occasioned a dignified reaction from the two major parties concerned:
President Sékou Touré of Guinea, who had granted Nkrumah political asylum in his country following the latter’s removal from power
Colonel Ignatius Acheampong, leader of Ghana’s military junta which seized power from Prime minister Kofi Busia in January 1972. There began instead a macabre quarrel between the two over the final resting-place of the ex-President’s remains.
Colonel Ignatius Acheampong desired that Kwame Nkrumah ’s body be returned to Ghana where, he said, the former President would be given a dignified burial.
Madam Elizabeth Nyaniba, an aged mother of the deceased President, made an impassioned plea to President Sékou Touré to allow the body to be returned to Ghana: “I want to touch the body of my son before he is buried, or I die.” She also indicated that she would like her son’s body embalmed and kept permanently on public display the way Lenin’s body is preserved. Sékou Touré would not consent, however—at least not until he had extracted from the Ghanaians important concessions which would redound to his personal profit. And, since the Romanians had sent the body to Conakry, the Guineans were in a strong position to dictate terms.
Press reports shortly after Kwame Nkrumah’s death announced that Toure had attached four conditions to the return of the ex-President’s body to Ghana:
a. Nkrumah’s complete rehabilitation in the eyes of the Ghanaian people (lifting all charges that had been pending against him)
b. The liberation of all of Nkrumah’s partisans still held in Ghanaian jails
c. Removal of the threat of arrest which hung over all of Nkrumah’s followers who had chosen to remain with him in exile
d. An official welcome by the Ghanaian government of Nkrumah’s remains, with all the honours due to a deceased chief of state.
On May 20, 1972, it was revealed that Touré had imposed even more conditions. He now insisted that Nkrumah’s tomb be placed in front of Ghana’s Parliament building and that all of the men who had occupied ministerial appointments and high positions in his civil service be restored to their former posts. Touré sought, in other words, to re-impose Nkrumah’s discredited government—minus only Nkrumah—on the Ghanaian people as the price for recovering the former President’s body.
Barring acceptance of these terms, Touré implied the body would be kept in Guinea. Not unexpectedly, Colonel Ignatius Acheampong refused to negotiate on such a basis and continued to urge the Guineans to allow the body to be brought back to Ghana.
Sékou Touré based Guinea’s right to keep Nkrumah’s body on Nkrumah’s having been granted asylum in Guinea and having been declared co-President of the Guinean Republic in 1966 when he was “betrayed” by the Ghanaian officers who overthrew him.
He claimed that Nkrumah had actually been co-President of Guinea as far back as 1958 when the two countries had formed the Guinea-Ghana Union. He even insisted that this important decision—which automatically made each man co-President of the other’s country, in addition to being head of his own state-had been officially communicated at the time to all the countries and to all the international organizations with which the Republic of Guinea had diplomatic relations.
Touré obstinately refused to assent to the pleas of Nkrumah’s family and the Ghanaian people, and to the demands of the Ghanaian government and press. When Guinea’s leader appeared to have no moral justification for retaining Nkrumah’s body, African public opinion began criticizing Touré’s intransigence with increasing severity.
The Daily Nation of Nairobi, in an editorial titled “A Cruel Refusal,” stated:
« Though he now denies it, President Sékou Touré is believed to have asked for the impossible before allowing Kwame Nkrumah ’s body to be taken to Ghana to be buried in his home town of Nkroful… The people of Ghana cannot be dictated to as to where Nkrumah’s mortal remains should be buried… Guinea should not fear the loss of face. Facing realities is more important. It should reverse the decision and thus fulfil and honour a dead man’s wishes. »
The Daily Times of Lagos editorialized:
« President Sékou Touré should see a reason to release the corpse as he had earlier promised… If he remains adamant, he would not be depriving the military Junta in Ghana of anything. It is the common people of Ghana who would be deprived of paying their final respects to their bereaved leader.
The quarrel, now attracting attention from the non-African press as well, continued unabated. Finally, several African leaders, notably Presidents William Tolbert of Liberia, Siaka Stevens of Sierra Leone, and General Yakubu Gowon of Nigeria, tried to persuade Sékou Touré that it was in the best interests of African dignity, and Africa’s image abroad, that the body is returned to Ghana. The West African press reported that Toure finally gave in to these appeals but this proved to be unfounded. As events were to show, Touré, determined to squeeze every possible propaganda advantage from Nkrumah’s demise.
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Management of the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) says an investigation is ongoing following the allegation of sexual assault levelled against one of its directors in the Savannah Region.
This was after a petition was sent to the authority outlining the allegations.
A nurse at the Soma CHPS facility has accused the Sawla-Tuna-Kalba district manager of the NHIA, Mahama Sakara of sexual assault.
“We wish to assure the general public and all stakeholders that Executive Management has already taken action with regards to the petition,” the NHIA said in a statement.
Police are also being involved in the investigation.
“There is also an on-going investigation in collaboration with the Police service and further actions will be taken as necessary as the facts of the case become clear,” the statement added.
The nurse said Mr Sakara came to the facility under the guise of a monitoring exercise. He then tried to persuade her to give in to his sexual demands.
This was followed by a struggle between the two after the nurse continued to refuse the demands. During the struggle, the nurse claimed she was fingered by Mr. Sakara.
“Let’s go and sit over there so that I’ll just suck it. Over even if you want, Lemme lick; lemme just lick your vagina,” he begged to which the lady replied, “Manager, it’s not good.”
The story has been captured in a 21-minute audio clip and has been attached to a petition to the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA).
“However, when we got into the facility, Mahama Sakara (the Sawla NHIA Manager) started making sexual demands. Upon several pleading that I was engaged to a man, Mr Sakara engaged me in a struggle to have sex with me. In the process, his (Sakara) fingers entered my vagina but could not have sexual intercourse with me,” part of her petition read.
Find below the full statement from NHIA:
ALLEGATION OF SEXUAL ASSAULT BY NHIA STAFF
Executive Management of the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) has received a petition from a health worker of the Ghana Health Service (GHS) accusing the Sawla-Tuna-Kalba District National Health Insurance (NHIS) Manager, Mr. Mahama Sankara of an attempted sexual assault.
In her petition, the Nurse in the Savannah Region alleged that Mr. Sankara visited her duty post, July 8, 2020 at about 9:00 am under the guise of “Monitoring” and attempted to have sex with her.
We wish to assure the general public and all stakeholders that Executive Management has already taken action with regards to the petition.
There is also an on-going investigation in collaboration with the Police service and further actions will be taken as necessary as the facts of the case become clear.
The NHIA strongly condemns all incidents of sexual harassment, sexual assault and gender-based violence in our society.
The organisation will continue to champion the cause of individuals’ rights and liberties to live and work without interference especially women.
The NHIA will continue to demonstrate such values as it strives to achieve Universal Health Coverage (UHC) for all.
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