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•Dr Owusu
Afriyie-Akoto, Agric
Minister
•Kwasi
Amoako-Atta,
Roads and
Highways
Minister
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Mahama left over GH¢17b
debt at Roads Ministry
BY MOHAMMED AWAL
• Says Minister
• Kwasi Amoako-Atta, Roads and Highways Minister
THE ROADS and Highways
Minister, Mr Kwasi Amoako-
Atta yesterday clashed with the
Minority in Parliament over the
quantum of debt bequeathed
his Ministry by the erstwhile John Mahama
Administration.
Contributing to the debate on the President’s
State of the Nation Address, Mr
Amoako-Atta disclosed that the Mahama
administration left GH¢17.8 billion in commitments
before exiting power.
He said the debt and other arrears had
made it difficult for new projects to be
commenced though about 61% of the
country’s roads are in bad shape.
“…And what is even more serious is
that, if we come to consider the conditions
of our roads, only 39% out of these total
kilometer of almost 73,000 of roads is considered
to be good, 32% is considered to be
fair and 29% is considered to be poor and if
you put the fair and poor together which
constitute the undesirable misfortune on
our roads, that amounts to 61%,” he told
Parliament.
He said the government took over the
administration of the country from the erstwhile
Mahama administration at a time the
country was experiencing “massive deterioration”
of roads across the nation; “from
North to South, and from East to West.”
“And a number of times even my colleagues
from this august House on both
sides of the divide hold conversations with
me to attend to their roads and testify to the
poor nature of roads handed over to his
Excellency’s administration in 2017. And
above all, the government took over a huge
debt overhang in the road sector.
“Mr Speaker, as at January 2017, the
Government of Ghana was owing contractors
from Bank of Ghana office at the Ministry
of Finance GH¢ 1.1 billion. As at first
January 2017, Ghana was owing contractors
in the road fund sector GH¢ 506 million. As
at first January 2017, Mr Speaker cost-tocompete
amounted to GH¢ 12.8 billion and
as if that was not enough, Mr Speaker, as at
first January 2017, the total commitments at
the road sector amounted to GH¢ 17.8 billion,”
he said.
That notwithstanding, he said the Akufo-
Addo government was resolved to fixing
the country’s road challenges.
Quoting portions of President Akufo-
Addo’s State of the Nation’s Address, Mr
Amoako-Atta said: “we are determined to
bring our road networks to a befitting status
and this year we shall witness much more
activities on the roads.”
The figures from the minister were however
disputed by the Minority spokesperson
on roads, Mr Kwame Agbodza, who wondered
why commitments had become debts.
According to him, the GH¢ 17.8 billion
the Minister alluded to was not a demand
from any contractor for the government to
pay.
“So, it is just like saying we needed to
build 1,000 schools, then you force the
schools and say that is the commitment you
are being asked to pay,” he clarified.
Law students
go wild
• Over 2017/2018
exam results,
calls for Board
to be dissolved
BY MUNTALLA INUSAH
muntalla.inusah@dailyheritage.com.gh
THE STUDENTS Representative Council
(SRC) of the Ghana School of Law
has called on the General Legal Council
(GLC) to dissolve the school’s Independent
Examination Board (IEB).
Addressing the media in Accra yesterday,
the vice president of the Kumasi
Campus, Mr Nicholas Lenin Anane
Agyei said the existence of the IEB was
illegal because members had no legal
background.
They have consequently called on the
GLC to dissolve the IEB after 206 final
law students failed their professional
exams, while another 177 students were
referred in one or two papers out of the
474 students who sat for the 2017-2018
final examination.
Out of the 560 students who sat for
the examination, only 91 students, constituting
19% passed their examination and
are likely to be called to the Bar this year.
Reduce remarking fee
The students are also calling for an independent
body within 30 days to remark
their examination because they
suspect foul play.
He also asked that the remarking fee
of GH¢ 3, 000.00 per paper be reduced
to GH¢ 500.00 to enable the students redeem
themselves.
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• Over 2017/2018 exam results,
calls for Board to be dissolved
IEB is illegal
President of the SRC, Mr Sammy
Gyamfi, intimated that, the SRC had rejected
the results because it did not believe
in the integrity of the results that had been
published.
“We think that the Independent Examination
Board had not been diligent in their
duties in the marking of our results.”
“We think the IEB is an inefficient, ineffective,
illegal and an amorphous body,
which doesn’t have the competence to conduct
professional examinations for professional
legal students in Ghana,” he said.
He added that, when the independent
body is contracted to mark their scripts, a
good number who were failed will end up
passing their exams as was in the case some
time past.
Mr Gyamfi described the mass failure of
students as a sad day for professional legal
education in the country and a day of
shame, adding that, Ghana School of Law
is perpetuating injustice contrary to what it
stands for.
GLC’s reaction
The GLC, the body that oversees legal
education and profession in Ghana, has
mounted a vehement defence for the maintenance
of the entrance examinations. It argues
the examination and interviews are to
ensure higher standards in legal education.
But, a Ghanaian-United Kingdom based
constitutional lawyer, Professor Kwaku
Asare, who is on a campaign against the entrance
exams, posted on his Facebook page
saying; “the unruly conduct of the GLC
continues unabated as only 91 out of 474
LLB graduates, selected based on the unlawful
entrance examinations and interviews,
are deemed qualified to be called to
the Bar.
No vet doctor at
country’s major borders
BY BENJAMIN TANDOH
DUE TO lack of adequate
veterinary doctors and
officers in Ghana, there
is no doctor stationed at
most of the country’s
borders to ensure that no diseased animal
enters the country for human consumption.
At a time when there are threats of
deadly diseases such as Ebola spread
through animals, the whole country has
only 42 veterinary officers.
Some of the borders that do not
have Veterinary Officers are the Aflao
and Western Region borders.
Explaining the enormity of the
problem to the DAILY HERITAGE
in an interview, Dr Akwasi Agyei Sarfo,
President, Association of Junior Veterinary
Surgeons (AJVS), Ghana, expressed
disgust about how the country takes animal
health for granted.
He said, “live animals are brought
into the country and there are no checks
on these animals to determine whether
they’re healthy or not.”
Though he acknowledged the presence
of a few veterinary officers at some
entry points such as the Paga Border,
Kotoka International Airport, and the
Tema Harbour, Dr Sarfo questioned the
level of screening that the animals are
made to go through before entering the
country.
“The animals that come in are not
diagnosed intensively. They only do the
physical screening unless the doctor has
an eye and can detect some sicknesses. It
will be appropriate for these animals to
• Veterinary Association laments
• Warns of influx of diseased animals
be quarantined for at least 14 days at the
borders for us to detect whether they are
fit or not before they are allowed in,” he
told the paper.
Unemployed veterinary officers
Dr Sarfo urged the government to
intervene and support young veterinary
officers to help fix
the challenges at the
country’s borders.
According to
him, the young officers,
who have
completed their
training but are
yet to be employed
by the
government,
should be contracted
to mount
these borders.
“We have 215 districts
in the country and
we have just 42 veterinary
officers employed by the government.
“Out of this 42, we have six to eight
who are stationed in Accra, leaving only
about 36 officers on the field,” he added.
He suggested that, “there should be
at least 12 veterinary officers at every
district to help control animal diseases in
the country.”
Background
It would be recalled that the DAILY
HERITAGE, in its Wednesday edition
carried out a story headlined ‘Vet doctors
abandoned; some are dying from
strange diseases, no housemanship, no
jobs’ which highlighted the plight of the
junior veterinary officers after they complete
their education.
In view of their difficulties,
the association
issued a
31-day ultimatum
to the
government
to resolve issues
surrounding
their employment
and housemanship.
According to
the association,
the government had
abandoned veterinary
doctors to their fate, a development
they described as very unfair.
In an interview with the DAILY
HERITAGE, Dr Eben Kwasi Agyei
Sarfo said the practitioners had not been
treated fairly, especially in terms of the
housemanship programme.
The housemanship, he explained, is a
• A dog
mandatory exercise for all graduated veterinary
doctors before being accepted
by the Veterinary Council of
Ghana as competent to practice
veterinary medicine in the country.
He told the paper that the previous
batch of graduates who undertook their
housemanship two years ago were not
offered appointment letters before they
started.
“After our housemanship, it took us
close to two years for us to receive our
salaries and after that I detected that
there were something wrong. I realised
that they had not paid our social security
fees and taxes that they told us they had
deducted us for,” he said.
Also speaking to the paper, Dr
Yehowada Akwesi, Secretary, AJVS,
lamented about the level of attention
that governments have given to the profession.
She said the Veterinary Service holds
the key to tackling some emerging
human diseases, adding that, “it will be a
misplaced priority for a country to approach
health non-holistically by concentrating
on human health services
alone.
“The condition of veterinary service
in the country is very poor. Our work is
not restricted to just dealing with animals
but we take care of human health as
well.”
She bemoaned the poor facilities
available for them at health centres,
adding that, “we lack basic facilities and
apparel to discharge our duties.”
Strange disease and death
He disclosed to the paper that the association
lost one of its members when
discharging his duties at the zoo. He said
the colleague was believed to have contracted
the disease from one of the animals.
“Just some weeks ago, a colleague,
Dr Pius Benia, among the third batch of
graduated veterinary doctors who are on
their nondescript housemanship training,
died of a mysterious disease.
“History gathered from the case suggested
that he fell ill after handling a bat
at the Accra Zoological Garden and
started showing unusual signs. Medical
practitioners of the 37 Military
Hospital quarantined him under medical
care until his demise. We are yet to know
the autopsy report though. Simple personal
protective equipment are not available
for public veterinarians in practice,”
she said.
Personnel
The secretary expressed the view that
the government was doing little to increase
the number of veterinary officers
in the country.
According to her, health centres in
the country were under staffed with veterinary
officers, arguing that, “we need
about 200 veterinary officers in our public
health centres but we have only 42 officers.”
Ministry’s response
Reacting to the concerns of the doctors,
the Public Relations Officer of the
Ministry, Mr Bagara Tanko, said the
Agric Ministry is looking into the plight
of the veterinary officers.

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•The Dana Air passenger plane
Plane crash for Nigerian airline whose door fell off
A PLANE belonging to the airline
which previously blamed a
passenger for its emergency door
falling off has crashed in Port
Harcourt, Nigeria.
Authorities confirmed the
Dana Air passenger plane, which
was flying from Abuja, skidded
off the runway and into the bush
at the Port Harcourt International
Airport Omagwa on Tuesday
evening.
It is suspected heavy rain and
strong winds contributed towards
the accident, according to
a statement released by Federal
Airport Authority official Henrietta
Yakubu.
No casualties were reported,
with all passengers on board
safely evacuated, the statement
added.
Dana Air is the same company
which made international
headlines two weeks ago, when
one of its emergency doors fell
off on landing.
At the time, Dana Air denied
that it was caused by a mechanical
fault, and said the door could
not fall off "without a conscious
effort by a passenger to open it".
However, a passenger the
BBC spoke to said everyone on
board had denied tampering with
the door. BBC
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Tanzanian mining
regulation locks out
int’l companies
INTERNATIONAL IN-
VESTORS in Tanzania are
coming to terms with new
legislation for the mining sector
which effectively ringfences
business for
Tanzanian-owned banks, locking
out the international competition.
The move is part of the major
on-going reforms to the mining industry.
The document, called the mining
local content regulations, demands
that mining companies operating
in Tanzania use local financial
institutions as well as local legal
services and local labour.
The regulation defines a local
bank as being 100% Tanzanian or
having a majority Tanzanian shareholding.
This would exclude some
of the major foreign-owned banks
operating in Tanzania, including
Stanbic Bank, Barclays Bank, Standard
Chartered Bank, and South
Africa’s First National Bank.
•Tanzania is a resource rich country
The regulation, which came into
effect last month, imposes a fine of
at least $5m (£3.6m) for mining
companies that fail to implement
the new requirements.
The new rules are going to
guide the implementation of tough
mining laws passed last year, which
the government hopes will reform
the mining sector and yield a maximum
profit for the country from
their resources.
•Benjamin Netanyahu
New corruption cases
entangle Netanyahu aides
ISRAELI POLICE alleged on
Tuesday that Benjamin Netanyahu’s
former spokesman
tried to bribe a judge to drop
a fraud case against Netanyahu’s
wife, the latest corruption
investigation
encircling the long-serving
prime minister.
The new bribery case was
one of two revealed on Tuesday
involving the same former
spokesman, a close Netanyahu
confidant. Police also
named him as someone they
had arrested two days earlier
in a separate case involving allegations
of corruption at Israel’s
biggest telecoms
company.
The rightwing leader, in
office for 12 years since 1996,
has seen his dominance of Israeli
politics threatened by
corruption investigations
since police recommended a
week ago that he be indicted
for bribery and fraud.
He has denied wrongdoing
in what are now four separate
investigations, including two
in which he is personally a
suspect. He says the allegations
are a political “witch
hunt”.
In the latest case, police
said former Netanyahu
spokesman Nir Hefetz had
offered through an intermediary
in 2015 to help a judge
win the post of attorney-general
if she agreed to use the
position to block any proceedings
against Netanyahu’s
wife Sara. Reuters
Rally calling for ban on assault-style rifles to be held in Tallahassee
STUDENT AND parent activists
from the Florida high
school where 17 teens and staff
members were slain last week in
a shooting rampage will hold a
rally on Wednesday at the state
capital, calling for a ban on assault-style
rifles.
Last week’s massacre, the second-deadliest
shooting at a public
school in U.S. history, has
inflamed a national debate about
gun rights and prompted young
people from Marjory Stoneman
Douglas High School and across
the United States to demand action
for stricter firearms controls.
“We’re here to make sure this
never happens again,” Diego
Pfeiffer, a senior at Stoneman,
told a crowd that included hundreds
of students from a Tallahassee
high school on Tuesday
after arriving at the capital.
Nikolas Cruz, 19, a former
student expelled from Stoneman
Douglas High for disciplinary
problems, was arrested and
charged with 17 counts of premeditated
murder. Authorities
say he was armed with a semiautomatic
AR-15 assault-style rifle
that he legally purchased from a
licensed gun dealer last year,
when he was 18.
The Republican-controlled
Florida House of Representatives
rebuffed a bid to bring up a
bill to block sales of assault-style
rifles in the state. Reuters
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Students must take advantage of extension of WASSCE date
EDUCATIONISTS HAVE always
maintained that Senior High School
(SHS) is a very critical stage in the
life of students because it determines
the future academic path of
wards who are enrolled into SHS.
This is because the requirement
for most lucrative jobs is tertiary
level of education which is reliant on
how successful a student is at the
SHS level.
It is, therefore, imperative that energy
and good measures are put in
place to ensure a very successful
SHS education.
Though students have been doing
their part to prepare adequately for
the West African Senior School Certificate
Examination (WASSCE), the
period for preparation has always
been a major setback.
It is for this reason that we welcome
the decision by the West
African Examinations Council
(WAEC) to move the WASSCE
from February to April due to persistent
calls from the government
and other stakeholders to lessen the
burden on students.
The decision was announced by
Very Rev. Sam Nii Nmai Ollenu,
Head of National Office, WAEC at
a media seminar in Accra.
Rev. Ollenu also announced that
the government had absorbed 100
percent payment of examination
fees of candidates writing this year’s
Basic Education Certificate Examination.
On her part, Ms Jemima Vanderpuije,
acting head of Text Administration
Division of WAEC revealed
that 316,980 candidates would be
writing this year’s WASSCE.
She said 946 schools had so far
registered for the examination which
would be superintended by 946 supervisors.
Acting Head, Test Development
Division of WAEC, Mr Carter Kofi
Osafo also announced that the Division
had commenced the use of
Electronic Marking (E-Marking) for
some subjects on a pilot basis in the
country.
He said the Council had also introduced
Item Differentia Profile
Software to avert cheating and
malpractices. These measures are
part of strategies to curb examination
malpractice.
From the above revelations, it
is safe to state that all is set for
this year’s examinations with enhanced
measures to aid students
pass and pass well.
The Ball is now in the Court of
students to take advantage of the
extended period to make their
parents and schools very proud.
Susu Collectors angry at govt
BY ROSEMOND B. ADDAI
rosemond.adjetey@yahoo.com
THE GREATER
Accra Susu Collectors
Association
has given
government a
one-week ultimatum
to return their loo and
bath house facilities which
were seized by some youth
suspected to be New Patriotic
Party (NPP) faithful from the
Zongo community at Abossey
Okai.
Rev Peter Ankrah Dodoo,
Regional President of the Association
said the NPP youth
on January 7, 2017, forcibly
took over the administration
of the facilities saying their
government had come to
power.
“The matter was reported
to the Kaneshie Police Station
and there was an arrest on two
occasions but the constituency
executives of the NPP came
• Over seizure of loo
facility by NPP youth
to bail the suspects with the
promise that the matter would
be resolved amicably between
the society and the youth at
the sub-metro office of which
the society obliged; on two occasions
the meetings were held
but without any conclusion,”
he explained.
According to Rev Dodoo,
the association believes that
some members of the party
within the constituency and
the sub-metro office are aiding
the leadership of the NPP
youth not to respect the agreement
with the community.
He appealed to the government
to intervene and with
immediate effect handover the
facility to them; else they
would demonstrate and go to
We also went to
Accra Metropolitan
Assembly
(AMA) sub-metro
but the director
told us that he
cannot do or say
anything about it
because the
problem is a
party matter.
court.
He explained that they
have written to both the regional
and divisional police
commanders to intervene, but
that has not yielded any results.
“We also went to Accra
Metropolitan Assembly
(AMA) sub-metro but the director
told us that he cannot
do or say anything about it because
the problem is a party
matter.”
Giving the background of
the facility, the president said
the association in 1995 got the
land which was leased to them
by the Ablekuma Central Sub-
Metro of AMA to finance the
construction on Build Operate
and Transfer Basis for 10 years
which is still running until
2020.
He explained that “the net
proceeds from the facility
were shared between the submetro
and society on 30% and
70% basis.”
But, when the DAILY
HERITAGE contacted the
Regional Commander in a
telephone interview, he explained
that he had not received
any letter from the
association about the takeover
of the facility.
Rev Dodoo insisted, however,
that he went to the commander
and gave the letter to
him and even told him of
their intended demonstration.
The Divisional Commander
told the paper in a phone interview
that he was aware of
the case and contacted the
sub-metro, AMA, but was informed
that the case would be
handled by them, so he did
not follow up till he went on
leave.

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Principles for overcoming
the storms of life pt. 2
BY ABUNDANT ROBERT K.
AWOLUGUTU
LIFE HAS its peaks and
valleys. Life can be exciting
when everything
seems to be going the
way we want; but it
can be devastating
when setbacks occur.
As you embark on your success
journey, various obstacles and
roadblocks will cross your path.
The way you react to such a situation
will determine whether you
succeed or fail.
Be optimistic
To weather the storms, be optimistic.
Helen Keller, an inspirational
authority once noted:
“Optimism is the faith that
leads to achievement. Nothing can
be done without hope and confidence.”
I have found out that successful
people are always optimistic,
they believe their efforts will yield
the desired results, they believe
they can overcome every obstacle
that may come their way. It is this
attitude that gives them the motivation
and confidence to keep on
trying until success smiles at them.
Optimistic people are always
happy. Their happiness spreads to
those around them. Consequently,
they are able to get others to help
them solve their problems.
Contrast this with the pessimist
who looks on the dark side
of situations. Winston Churchill
said; “A pessimist sees the difficulty
in every opportunity while
an optimist sees the opportunity
in every difficulty.”
Optimistic people are courageous
and will pursue their desires
no matter the odds. They are not
afraid of failure.
Failure only reminds them to
make changes, to map out fresh
strategies for implementation.
They are not afraid to make mistakes.
They learn the lessons and
move on.
They always move forward and
in the direction of their goals.
They apply the principle of optimism
to bounce back after setbacks
or failure.
There are always people who
might want to pull you down.
They will speak negatively about
you and your dreams. They criticise
without offering constructive
ideas.
An optimistic person will not
be distracted by negative talk.
They focus on what they can do
to improve their life.
Commitment is key for
overcoming challenges
There is a world of difference
between interest and commitment.
When you have interest in
something, you do it when it is
convenient to you. When you are
committed to something, you do
it when even you feel uncomfortable.
Commitment empowers you to
stretch and rise above your problems
to achieve your goals in life.
Roadblocks won’t take determined
people from the game; they will
treat hurdles as learning opportunities
for them to get better at the
game.
Apply the principle of commitment
to your life and you will
be amazed at the results.
Ken Blanchard put it this way;
“There is a difference between interest
and commitment. When
you’re interested in something,
you do it only when it’s convenient.
When you’re committed to
something, you accept no excuses,
only results.”
The success-oriented person
will commit to their goal. The
merely interested person will
change their direction when their
mood swings. They will therefore
do only what is comfortable and
safe.
Set priorities
Prioritisation is a tool of
achievers. When you prioritise, it
enables you to focus your time
and energy on results-oriented activities.
It enables you to know which
I have found out that successful people are always optimistic, they
believe their efforts will yield the desired results, they believe they
can overcome every obstacle that may come their way. It is this attitude
that gives them the motivation and confidence to keep on trying
until success smiles at them.
•Barack Obama once said; “Don’t let your failures define you,
let them teach you.”
tasks are important and which are
urgent.
Important tasks are those tasks
that will contribute to your long
term mission, values and goals.
They need not have a deadline.
Important tasks are governed by
impact or significant changes it
can have in our life.
Urgent tasks are those that require
immediate action. They are
mostly tasks which have an immediate
deadline or deadline which
have passed.
Urgent tasks are governed by
deadlines.
Prioritization helps you to use
your time wisely. You should
spend your time on important and
urgent tasks. These are the activities
that will move you closer to
your goals.
Prioritisation facilitates the judicious
use of resources. Because
you know what tasks are important
and urgent, you immediately
also know what tools and technology
to apply. This minimizes
waste and increases productivity.
It also improves your efficiency
and effectiveness in your success
journey.
Dwight Eisenhower said,
“What is important is seldom urgent,
and what is urgent is seldom
important.” There is therefore the
need for you to know what is important
and what is urgent.
Determination and
persistence
Barack Obama once said,
“Don’t let your failures define
you, let them teach you.”
Some people succeed in life
not because they were destined,
but because of their determination
and persistent efforts. When
you do something and fail, it does
not make you a failure; it is only a
reminder to you to adjust your
strategies and try again.
When you are driven by determination
and persistence, you will
never give up because of obstacles.
You’ll keep on doing it until
you succeed. You need to be determined
and ferociously persistent
to achieve your goals in life.
No half-way measures will do.
Are you a determined and persistent
person now?
To be continued!
Yours in inspiration,
ARK AWOLUGUTU
EMAIL: awolugutu@yahoo.com
Prioritisation
facilitates the
judicious use of
resources. Because
you know
what tasks are
important and
urgent, you immediately
also
know what tools
and technology
to apply. This
minimizes
waste and increases
productivity.
It also
improves your
efficiency and
effectiveness in
your success
journey.

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Health effects of excessive computer use
Musculoskeletal problems
Muscle soreness and muscle fatigue
are the most common complaints
of regular computer users.
Back pain, chest pain, pain or numbness
in arms, shoulder and feet top
the list. These types of problems
mainly occur because your posture
while using the computer is not correct.
Vision problems
Bright light and bad glare or flickering
image can strain your eyes. Constantly
focusing on the screen without
blinking can cause dry eyes. Computer
vision syndrome is another problem
that you may suffer from.
Headache
Because of increased muscle tension
or pain in the neck at the base of
the skull, headache is common problem
with computer use. Many a times,
prolonged use can affect eye power
which needs vision correction. This
can also result in headache.
Obesity
Studies have shown that prolonged
use of computers, especially in
children, is the major contributing
factor of sedentary lifestyle and childhood
obesity. Read more about the
reason why childhood obesity is on
the rise.
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World is failing newborn
babies, says UNICEF
GLOBAL
DEATHS of
newborn babies
remain alarmingly
high, particularly
among
the world’s poorest countries,
UNICEF said yesterday in a new
report on newborn mortality. Babies
born in Japan, Iceland and
Singapore have the best chance at
survival, while newborns in Pakistan,
the Central African Republic
and Afghanistan face the worst
odds.
“While we have more than
halved the number of deaths
among children under the age of
five in the last quarter century, we
have not made similar progress in
ending deaths among children less
than one month old,” said Henrietta
H. Fore, UNICEF’s Executive
Director. “Given that the
majority of these deaths are preventable,
clearly, we are failing the
world’s poorest babies.”
Globally, in low-income countries,
the average newborn mortality
rate is 27 deaths per 1,000
births, the report says. In high-income
countries, that rate is three
deaths per 1,000. Newborns from
the riskiest places to give birth are
up to 50 times more likely to die
than those from the safest places.
The report also notes that
eight out of the 10 most dangerous
places to be born are in sub-
Saharan Africa, where pregnant
women are much less likely to receive
assistance during delivery
due to poverty, conflict and weak
institutions. If every country
brought its newborn mortality
rate down to the high-income average
by 2030, 16 million lives
could be saved.
Unequal shots at life
More than 80 percent of newborn
deaths are due to prematurity,
complications during birth or
infections such as pneumonia and
•UNICEF says global deaths of newborn babies remain alarmingly high
sepsis, the report says. These
deaths can be prevented with access
to well-trained midwives,
along with proven solutions like
clean water, disinfectants, breastfeeding
within the first hour, skinto-skin
contact and good
nutrition. However, a shortage of
well-trained health workers and
midwives means that thousands
don’t receive the life-saving support
they need to survive. For example,
while in Norway there are
218 doctors, nurses and midwives
to serve 10,000 people, that ratio
is 1 per 10,000 in Somalia.
This month, UNICEF is
launching Every Child ALIVE, a
global campaign to demand and
deliver solutions on behalf of the
world’s newborns. Through the
campaign, UNICEF is issuing an
urgent appeal to governments,
health care providers, donors, the
private sector, families and businesses
to keep every child alive
by:
Recruiting, training, retaining
and managing sufficient numbers
of doctors, nurses and midwives
with expertise in maternal and
newborn care;
Guaranteeing clean, functional
health facilities equipped with
water, soap and electricity, within
the reach of every mother and
baby;
Making it a priority to provide
every mother and baby with the
life-saving drugs and equipment
needed for a healthy start in life;
and
Empowering adolescent girls,
mothers and families to demand
and receive quality care.
“Every year, 2.6 million newborns
around the world do not
survive their first month of life.
One million of them die the day
they are born," said Ms. Fore.
"We know we can save the vast
majority of these babies with affordable,
quality health care solutions
for every mother and every
newborn. Just a few small steps
from all of us can help ensure the
first small steps of each of these
young lives,” she added.
The report also
notes that eight out
of the 10 most dangerous
places to be
born are in sub-Saharan
Africa, where
pregnant women
are much less likely
to receive assistance
during delivery
due to poverty,
conflict and weak
institutions. If every
country brought its
newborn mortality
rate down to the
high-income average
by 2030, 16
million lives could
be saved.

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•Hungarian Ambassador, Andras Szabo (L) in a handshake with Kofi
Asmah, Executive Chairman of Pelican Group
Hungarian
Ambassador
launches Ghana-
Hungary Business
Council
THE GHANA-HUNGARY Business
Council has been launched in Accra
by His Excellency Andras Szabo, the
Hungarian ambassador.
The Business Council is to create a
unique relationship between Ghana
and Hungary and provide numerous
business opportunities to boost the
economies of both countries.
Speaking at the launch last week,
His Excellency Szabo commended his
government for the relentless effort
to reopen the Hungarian Embassy in
Ghana after 30 years.
The Council was founded in
September 2017 at the seventh
Hungarian business forum held at
Kempinski hotel, Accra with the
Hungarian Minister of Foreign
Affairs and Trade as the special guest
of honour.
Mr Szabo urged the Ghanaian
business community to take
advantage of the Council and seek
any information on business
opportunities in Hungary, as well as
be oriented on Hungary’s viable
business modules.
He stated that “the bureau has
been opened to offer reliable
information on where and what to
invest in.”
The Ambassador noted that the
next biggest task of the business
council is to organise a trip for
prospective companies to Hungary
and tour the capital to see for
themselves what Hungary had to
offer.
Speaker’s utterances insulting – Ayine
BY MOHAMMED AWAL
AFORMER Deputy
Attorney General and
Member of Parliament
(MP) for Bolgatanga
East, Dr Dominic Ayine
has said the description
of him as “unprepared” by the
Speaker of Parliament when he was
on his feet to address the House was
“insulting.”
Dr Ayine, who sued the State and
Martin Amidu over his suitability for
the Special Prosecutor job, was
rebuked by the Speaker, Prof. Mike
Oquaye on Tuesday, February 20,
during the proceedings to adopt the
recommendation of the
Appointments Committee to approve
the nomination of Mr Amidu when
he stood up to address the chamber
for not getting his briefs right before
his attempted address of the House.
“It is important to realise that
when you want to put a piece and
know the procedure for jaw-jawing by
way of producing your authority at
the appropriate time, then please
prepare at dawn before you come to
court or before you come to
Parliament.
“So that you can really produce
your authority in the manner that will
be required by the Supreme Court.
And this is a duty that any serious
lawyer will tell you should be done,”
admonished the Speaker.
In his reaction, however, on
Starr Today Dr Ayine observed
that he found the Speaker’s
intervention unfair.
“That was an insult,” he
told Starr Today’s co-host
Naa Dedei Tetteh “and I
took exception to that.”
According to him, the
Speaker’s assertion that he
wasn’t adequately prepared was
inaccurate.
“I prepared on this matter,”
he added asking: “And if your
reporters were there did I speak like
somebody who wasn’t knowledgeable
on the subject matter?
“We need to be serious as a
people,” he said and that when he was
making substantive argument relating
to order 93 (1) of the Parliament’s
standing orders, making arguments in
relation to the separation of powers
architecture of “our constitution”
were they arguments that could be
faulted as coming from someone who
wasn’t prepared.
He said: “Both the Speaker and the
Majority leader have a way of trying
to denigrate and hold in contempt
arguments being made by the
Minority. Every time they are telling
you that you are incompetent, your
•Dr Dominic Ayine,
former Deputy Attorney
General and MP for
Bolgatanga East
motion
is incompetent.”
SC will uphold Amidu’s
appointment
Meanwhile, the Attorney General
and Minister of Justice, Gloria Akufo
has said the Supreme Court (SC) will
uphold President Nana Akufo-Addo’s
appointment of Martin Amidu as
Special Prosecutor.
The Plenary of Parliament Tuesday
February 20 accepted the nomination
of Mr Amidu after the Appointments
Committee approved him by
consensus after the Tamale North MP,
Alhassan Suhuyini voted for the
nomination after dissenting initially.
There are fears that the suit by the
former deputy Attorney General
challenging the eligibility of Mr
Amidu as Special Prosecutor due
to his age could scuttle his
appointment.
Speaking to journalists
however after Parliament
approved the nomination of Mr
Amidu, paving way for the
President to swear him in, the
Attorney General and Minister of
Justice said: “I am confident that
Martin Amidu’s appointment will be
confirmed by the Supreme Court.”
When reminded by one of the
journalists that Dr Ayine’s Supreme
Court suit creates a certain cloud of
uncertainty around the appointment,
the Attorney General snorted: “There
is no cloud as far as I am concerned.”
“Somebody thinks that age is a bar
to it [appointment]. I think not,” she
added.
Dr Ayine heckled
Dr Ayine, who has sued the State
and Amidu over his age suitability for
the Special Prosecutor job, was hooted
at by some MPs as he stood on his
feet to address the chamber.
“Mr Speaker I am inviting your
good self to make a determination
humbly on this matter, in respect of
this matter which is before the
Supreme Court on the qualification or
eligibility of the nominee,” Ayine
noted, citing his basis from order 93
of the standing orders of Parliament.
However, reacting to the
intervention, the Majority leader Osei
Kyei Mensah Bonsu, argued that
precedence before the house
suggested the nominee could be
approved by the House despite the
pending case at the court.
Mr Amidu will now have to be
sworn in by President Akufo-Addo to
become the Special Prosecutor.
The Special Prosecutor
The Special Prosecutor is a
specialised agency to investigate
specific cases of corruption involving
public officers, politically-exposed
persons as well as individuals in the
private sector implicated in corrupt
practices and to prosecute the
offences on the authority of the
Attorney-General.
The Office is also expected to help
reduce the workload on existing
investigative agencies and, thereby,
enhance their effectiveness.
The establishment of the Office of
the Special Prosecutor has become
necessary in view of the institutional
bottlenecks that impede the fight
against corruption.
Kenya’s Dep. of Immigration Services understudy GIS
A DELEGATION from Kenya’s
Department of Immigration Services
(KDIS) has rounded off a-four-day
working visit to the Ghana
Immigration Service.
The visit was to learn at firsthand,
the structure, operations and training
regime of the GIS and to tap into
the Service’s wealth of experience to
reposition the KDIS. It is expected
that the Kenya Migration Institute
would be created as a result of the
visit.
The visit took them to the
Immigration Service Academy and
Training School in Assin Foso, Aflao
Sector Command and to the GIS
Headquarters where they were taken
through operations and command
structure of the service.
The Comptroller-General of
Immigration, Mr Kwame Asuah
Takyi expressed the joy of hosting
the Kenyan delegation and assured
them of the Service’s readiness to
give them the necessary support and
guidance in their quest of
establishing a Kenya Migration
Institute.
He, however, noted that the
success of their study tour and the
implementation of standards and
best practices in managing migration
in their country were largely hinged
on the will of government and the
institution.
“Ghana Immigration Service has
come a long way. It has taken both
the political and institutional will and
commitment of the institution and
several governments to effect the
desired changes,” he indicated.
He noted that the visit should be
the beginning of effective
collaborative efforts at strengthening
migration management in the African
Region.
•The Kenyan delegation was led by Deputy Director of KDIS, Mr Joseph Munywoki
Over 2,000
mineworkers to
know fate on
March 2
BY MUNTALLA INUSAH
muntalla.inusah@dailyheritage.com.gh
THE LABOUR Division of
the Accra High Court,
presided over by Justice Mrs
Laurenda Owusu, has fixed
March 2, 2018 to deliver ruling
on the case involving over
2,000 mineworkers and
Goldfields Ghana Limited.
In court on Tuesday, the
presiding judge said the court
would rely heavily on the
relevant provisions in civil
procedure rules, CI 47 and all
the processes filed to deliver
its ruling.
Ghana Mine Workers
Union (GMWU), in the writ,
is praying the court to stop
Goldfields from implementing
a contract mining option
which would render over 2,000
workers jobless until all the
stakeholders involved reach a
consensus.
They are also seeking a
declaration from the court that
the redundancy exercise is
“unlawful” because the
reasons given by the mining
giant to lay them off do not
meet the “requirements,
conditions or grounds for
redundancy, as provided by
Section 65 of the Labour Act,
2013, Act 651.’’
The workers further want
the court to declare that the
purported authorisation of the
redundancy exercise by the
Chief Labour Officer is
“illegal, unlawful and null and
void.’’
Background
In December 2017,
Goldfields Ghana Limited
revealed it was going to lay off
about 1,500 workers as part of
measures to change its
business model and make the
company profitable due to the
relatively short lifespan of the
mine.
But, the Deputy General
Secretary of the Ghana Mine
Workers Union, Abdul
Moomin Gbana, at the time
said the reasons given by
Goldfields were inconsistent
with the facts on the ground.
“Goldfields claims the life
of the mine is 5 to 6 years,
and based on the limited time,
they cannot invest in mining
fleet. It can actually run for a
number of years and you don’t
necessarily need to replace the
fleets that Goldfields claims it
wants to do.
“Records available to us
indicates that, contrary to their
claim of the life of the mine
of 5-6 years, they have over 15
years of mine and so the
question is, if your choice of
contract mining is based on a
limited life of mine and your
own website projects 15 years,
then, the question is, who are
you misleading?” he asked.
The current attempt, if
successful, would be the
second time in three years that
the mining firm embarked on
a massive retrenchment
exercise.
“Records available
to us indicates that,
contrary to their
claim of the life of
the mine of 5-6
years, they have
over 15 years of
mine and so the
question is, if your
choice of contract
mining is based on
a limited life of mine
and your own
website projects 15
years, then, the
question is, who are
you misleading?”

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21TH
FEBRUARY
2018
THURSDAY
CURRENCY PARIS CODE BUYING SELLING
US Dollar USDGHS 4.3600 4.5000
RATES Pound Sterling GBPGHS
6.0500
6.2000
Euro
GBPGHS
5.3800
5.5500
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Vodafone excites
X customers with
14XtraAppy Days
Promo
VODAFONE
GHANA is
offering active
X customers
on its
monthly bundles,
24-hour unlimited access
to their favourite social
media network, over a period
of 14 days during this
season of love.
The campaign, which
started on Monday, February
12, 2018, has been designed
to give subscribers
unlimited access to one particular
social media network,
each day over the 14
day period.
Customers who subscribe
to this promotion
will have a 24-hour unrestricted
access to WhatsApp,
Twitter, Facebook,
Instagram, Snapchat and
YouTube during the period.
Commenting on the promotion,
Ms Patricia Obo-
Nai, Acting Director for
Sales and Marketing at
Vodafone Ghana said “staying
connected with friends
and loved ones via the various
social media networks
during this season of love is
key for our customers, especially
for the youth.
“This is why we developed
this product to ensure
that they get unlimited access
to upload, download,
like, share, post, tweet and
•Ms Patricia Obo-Nai, Ag. Director of Sales and Marketing
re-tweet all they want without
limitations,’’ Ms Obo-
Nai stated.
She added that the initiative,
which is another ‘first’
from Vodafone Ghana, is
currently exclusive to customers
on X monthly, X
monthly plus, Xtreme
monthly and Xtreme
monthly plus offers.
Ms Obo-Nai said subscribers
will be required to
pay a daily subscription fee
of GH¢1 to enjoy the promotion
adding that customers
can also access the
offer via USD by dialing
*5888# and selecting Valenties’s
offer.
Toshiba to fight fake
products in Africa
BY BENJAMIN TANDOH
TOSHIBA, MANUFACTURERS of
technological equipment has hinted that
they would soon clamp down on miscreants
who spread fake products, especially
in the African sub-region.
The manufacturing company further
disclosed that they would also organise a
road show for their customers to help
them differentiate their products from
the fake ones in the market.
Briefing the press in Accra on Tuesday
to introduce their ‘Go Africa’ project,
Mr Santosh Varghese, General
Manager, Toshiba, Gulf, urged customers
in Africa to purchase their items
from their licensed offices in order to
save them from purchasing fake products.
He disclosed that, their legal team in
Tokyo would introduce a smart way to
help fight the menace in the sub-region.
“We understand that sometimes they
pay money which is sometimes higher
than the price for the original ones before
they realise they’ve bought a fake
product.
“So we’re working with our team to
stop this thing, and I think the best way
•Mr Santosh Varghese
(M), General Manager,
Toshiba, with some
executives of Toshiba at
the event
is to engage our customers, to know the
real thing on the ground, and to show
them the benefits of getting an original
product,” he said.
As part of their initiative to support
Africa, Mr Varghese indicated that they
would invest an amount of US$ 20,000
to support education on the continent.
According to him, it is necessary for
them to invest into the market in which
they operate in, hence the investment.
“We’re not only interested in selling
our products; we’re also interested in the
development of the market in which we
are operating in.
“We’re still working with other agencies
to know how to allocate the resources
and make it a successful
programme,” he added.
Touching on the ‘Go Africa’ project,
Mr Varghese explained that the project
is aimed at developing their products
and widening the market base.
He added that it would help them to
also connect with their customers in
Africa in order to know how best they
can improve their product.
“The project is simply opening up
the market in Africa and help address
some of their issues about our product,”
he stated.

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Politics
Cashew to be major
foreign exchange
earner — Prez
THE PRESIDENT
of the Republic,
Nana Addo Dankwa
Akufo-Addo, on
Tuesday, 20th February,
2018, launched the 10-year
Cashew Development Plan in
Wenchi, in the Brong Ahafo Region,
a plan aimed at diversifying
Ghanaian agriculture.
Recounting a commitment he
made on March 19, 2016, at
Suma Ahenkro, in the Jaman
North constituency, President
Akufo-Addo bemoaned the overreliance
of Ghanaian agriculture
on the production and export of
cocoa, in contrast with the situation
in neighbouring Cote
d’Ivoire.
He noted that Cote d’Ivoire
has succeeded in diversifying its
agriculture, which included the
production and export of other
cash crops, and, as a result,
earned that country some $12 billion
from the export of agricultural
produce in 2015.
“To that end, I reiterated my
commitment to assist in diversifying
Ghanaian agriculture, and
transforming, amongst others,
cashew into a major cash crop
and foreign exchange earner for
Ghana. This morning’s event,
ladies and gentlemen, is the beginning
of the realisation of this
vision,” the President said.
Highlighting the success of
the first year of the Programme
for Planting for Food and Jobs,
which led to an increase in the
production of staples, as well as
the creation of thousands of jobs
in the rural economy, President
Akufo-Addo noted that the development
had encouraged government
to increase the scope of
the programme.
“The Programme is expanding
its focus not only to the production
of staples, but also to the
development and production of
some selected crops such as
cashew, oil palm, rubber, shea,
cotton and coffee, for good reason,”
he said.
The President noted that two
out of the top five cashew producing
and exporting countries
could be found in West Africa, i.e.
Nigeria and Cote d’Ivoire, countries
that have the same geography
and topography as that of
Ghana.
Therefore, as part of the plan
to boost the production of
cashew, the Rural Development
Department of the Ministry of
Local Government and Rural Development
and the Ministry of
Food and Agriculture, are spearheading
the initial production of
seedlings for the cultivation of
cashew in the country.
“Under the Planting for Export
and Rural Development
project, all 216 Metropolitan, Municipal
and District Chief Executives
have been given oversight
responsibility for the production
of not only cashew seedlings, but
also for seedlings of oil palm,
shea, cotton, rubber and coffee,
for distribution to farmers from
next year,” the President said.
He continued, “the seedlings,
once distributed, and planted by
farmers, will ensure that more
rural jobs will be created, in addition
to an increase in yield. The
potential for further job creation
down the value chain through
agro-processing is enormous.”
Again, towards the improvement
of the country’s current
yield, the Ghana Export Promotion
Authority commissioned a
• President Nana Akufo-Addo
“The Programme is
expanding its focus
not only to the production
of staples,
but also to the development
and production
of some
selected crops such
as cashew, oil palm,
rubber, shea, cotton
and coffee, for good
reason.”
cashew mass spraying exercise, in
Wenchi, involving the provision
of GH¢1.6 million for the spraying
of some 30,000 hectares of
cashew plantation. This is expected
to increase cashew production
for this crop year by
some 30%.
These initiatives, the President
added, form an integral part of
the Cashew Development Plan,
with the plan seeking to improve
research methods, introduce appropriate
production and processing
technologies, as well as
develop marketing strategies,
amongst others, along the value
chain.
He, therefore, urged the Ministry
of Food and Agriculture and
the Ghana Export Promotion
Authority also to incorporate, in
this Plan, policies and interventions
that will create additional
businesses and job opportunities
in the areas of storage, transport,
and packaging of cashew, which
will ensure that our cashew farmers
earn higher incomes.
President Akufo-Addo reiterated
the commitment of his government
to follow through fully
on the implementation of this
Plan, in addition to other programmes,
to propel the growth of
the cashew industry.
“I urge the Ministries, Departments
and Agencies, our Members
of Parliament, farmers, and
the private sector to do everything
possible to support the
Cashew Development Programme.
This, together with the
other programmes for other selected
export crops, would drive
industrialization in rural Ghana,
diversify agricultural exports, and
provide the needed jobs for the
teeming masses of unemployed
youth of this country,” President
Akufo-Addo added.
Source: Flagstaff House.
Statement:
NDC national
registration
exercise ends
next week
THE NATIONAL Democratic Congress
(NDC) wishes to remind all party supporters
and sympathisers that the National Registration
Exercise of its members officially
ends on Wednesday February 28, 2018.
The party encourages all members and
sympathisers to endeavour to go to their
designated branches where the exercise is
being conducted to register before the closing
date.
The party seizes this opportunity to
thank all comrades for the enthusiasm with
which the exercise has been embraced and,
assures them of the commitment to reorganize
as the NDC continues to prepare to
recapture power in 2020.
Signed
Hon. Johnson Asiedu Nketiah
General Secretary
• Johnson Asiedu Nketiah, General
Secretary, NDC

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DAILY HERITAGE THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2018.
PPP’s youth wing holds 6th anniversary
BY MOHAMMED AWAL
THE YOUTH wing of the
Progressive People’s Party (PPP),
Progressive Youth Movement, will
on Sunday, February 25, 2018
hold its 6th anniversary at the
Coconut Grove Regency Hotel in
Accra to mark the formation of
the movement.
It will be on the theme:
‘Creating a Viable Alternative
Government; The Role of the
Progressive Youth.’
The anniversary, according to a
statement, will be attended by
over 500 Progressive Youth and
Youth Leaders.
It said the programme will
serve as the launch pad for
acknowledging and strengthening
the role of the Progressive Youth
It said the programme
will serve as the launch
pad for acknowledging
and strengthening the
role of the Progressive
Youth towards the 2020
presidential and parliamentary
elections.
towards the 2020 presidential and
parliamentary elections.
The general public, continued
the statement, is invited for the
programme. “We look forward to
meeting you at the 6th
Anniversary of the PYM on 25th
February, 2018,” the statement
noted.
• Dr Papa Kwesi Nduom with some youth members of PPP
State burial for
Prof. Allotey
Feb. 23
• The late Prof. Francis Allotey
BY KENT MENSAH
WORLD-AC-
CLAIMED
GHANA-
IAN Mathematician,
Professor Francis Allotey will be
given a state burial on Friday,
February 23, 2018.
The burial will take place at
the Forecourt of the State
House, a statement from the
Ministry of Information announced.
Professor Allotey died on
November 2, 2017.
“The good Professor is a
state asset who gained an international
reputation that will impact
on generations yet unborn,
hence the decision to offer him
a full state burial for the whole
nation and the world to know
the value of what we have lost,”
President Akufo-Addo said.
“The good Professor
is a state asset who
gained an international
reputation that
will impact on generations
yet unborn,
hence the decision to
offer him a full state
burial for the whole
nation and the world
to know the value of
what we have lost.”
Professor Allotey was a
renowned scientist who gained
world-wide acclaim for his work
on Soft X-Ray Spectroscopy
which established the principle
widely known as the “Allotey
Formalism”.
He was once the Pro-Vice
Chancellor of the Kwame
Nkrumah University of Science
and Technology.
At the national level, he held
the positions of Chairman,
Ghana Atomic Energy Commission,
Chairman, Council for Scientific
and Industrial Research,
Chairman of the Management
Board, Soil Research Institute,
Chairman, Ghana Technical
Committee on Nuclear Energy,
Vice-President, Ghana Academy
of Arts and Sciences, President,
Ghana Institute of Physics
among others.
He was also a Consultant to
several International Institutions,
including United Nations
Organisation, United Nations
Educational Scientific and Cultural
Organisation, International
Atomic Energy Agency, Intergovernmental
Bureau for Information,
and United Nations
Industrial and Development Organisation.

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BY ABIGAIL ASARE
Nigerian
Comedian
Emmanuelle
lands Disney role
POPULAR NIGER-
IAN child comedian,
Emmanuella Samuel,
has announced she is
going to work for Disney.
The seven-year-old
child star made the
announcement on her
Instagram page by
posting a picture of
herself on set:
On the post, she
said thanked all her
supporters and said:
“I never dreamed of
being here so soon.”
She then made a
joke about her outfit
in a second post.
Emmanuella stars
as one of the characters
in a hugely successful
comedy
channel on YouTube,
Mark Angel Comedy.
•Emmanuella
The channel regularly
gets millions of views.
There were more
than seven million
views for one of her
skit, which showed
the mischievous trait
she is well known for.
Nigerian Senate
President Bukola
Saraki was among the
high-profile people to
congratulate her.
In 2016, she was
awarded the Best New
Comedienne and
Princess of Comedy
at the Afro-Australia
Music and Movie
Awards in Australia.
She is also the first
African to have one
million subscribers on
her YouTube comedy
channel.
L.E.A.D Series 9th
edition celebrates
Bola Ray
BY ERICA ARTHUR
THE CHIEF Executive
Officer of
EIB Network,
Nathan Kwabena
Anokye Adisi
a.k.a Bola Ray will
on Sunday, February 25 be
hosted by OMNIS2131, in conjunction
with Live 91.9 FM, on
the ninth edition of the
L.E.A.D.
According to the host of the
event, Jay Foley, Bola Ray is arguably
one of the most influential
successful young business
magnates in the media circles
whose success story is a motivation
to the youth who look
up to him and Lead Series will
celebrate him on the theme
‘The Journey Of An Entrepreneur’
at Capitol Café & Restaurant,
Labone from 4pm to 6pm.
Speaking to the DAILY
HERITAGE, Jay Foley said
“Bola Ray is an influential
media entrepreneur and most
of the young ones are looking
up to him, Lead Series chose to
Castro celebrated by Davido
celebrate his achievement, his
birthday which comes on
March 3 and how he is inspiring
the younger generation with his
life in his book ‘It Is Possible’.”
Bola Ray joined radio while
still in University and has
grown to become an authority
not just in radio broadcasting,
but in the entertainment industry
as a whole. He joined Accrabased
Top Radio after
university and went on to The
Multimedia Group, where he
served a variety of roles, mainly
hosting Drive time on Joy Fm
for 11 years. For the past two
years, he has been host of Starr
Chat and co-host of Starr
Drive.
The LE.A.D Series is powered
by OMNIS 2131 with support
from The Radio
Advertising People, TOTO
Wear, Made Men Agency,
Brands Aid, and TIGO Business.
In the past, the series has
hosted influential personalities
such as Sarkodie, Ameyaw Debrah,
Nabil Alhassan, Asamoah
Gyan, among others.
•Davido
•Castro
•Bola Ray
LATE GHANAIAN star,
Castro was celebrated in a
special way during the headlining
concert by Nigerian
artiste, Davido at the Brixton
O2 in London over the weekend.
The five thousand people
who attended the event sang
word for word the chorus by
Castro on the song ‘Adonai’
by Sarkodie. It was a testament
of how popular and powerful
the song was, and still is.
On July 6, 2014, Castro and
Miss Janet Bandu were reported
to have drowned following
a Jet Ski accident
in Ada Estuary whilst
on holiday with
Asamoah Gyan, and his
brother, Baffour.
The Jet Ski involved
in the accident was recovered
on the same day
of their disappearance
but their bodies were not
recovered despite an extensive
search by the Police.
The ’30 Billion’ tour
event was rated four out
of five stars by The
Guardian.

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Shatta Wale
out with ‘True
Believer’
•Shatta Wale
GHANA’S
DANCEHALL
King Shatta
Wale has
dropped his new
single ‘True Believer’
which he features protégés
Addi Self, and Natty Lee,
In the new song the dancehall
icon confronts swindlers parading
as men of God.The song was
produced by MOG Beatz, interrogates
the motives of prophets
who seem to possess a penchant
for seeing only bad news.
This is a line in the song “you
say you be true believer…only
you wey know Jehovah…you say
you be true believer, every day
you dey kill your brother.”
In past weeks, a number of
purported men of God have
prophesied the singer’s demise –a
development which has angered
him greatly. In an explosive live
video on Facebook following
these “prophecies”, the singer
petitioned the President, Nana
Akufo Addo, saying that his life is
in danger. He also threatened to
burn down churches if this “false
prophecy” fails to come to pass
by December.
In a related development, his
father, Charles Mensah Snr, has
written a formal letter to the
Criminal Investigations Department
to investigate a Kasha-
Based prophet for such a claim.
Ryan Coogler writes emotional ‘Thank You’ letter to ‘black panther’ fans
LESS THAN a week
after hitting theaters, the
response to Black Panther
has been overwhelmingly
positive. Pulling in
an eye-popping $242 million
at the Presidents’
Day box office in the
United States, the film
has been praised for challenging
“long held false
Hollywood beliefs” and
received near-unanimous
positive reviews from critics.
Blown away by the response,
the film’s director
Ryan Coogler shared a personal
letter to all of Black Panther‘s
supporters on Tuesday
evening. The emotional note
begins by explaining, “I am
struggling to find the words to
express my gratitude at this
moment, but I will try.”
Focusing on the fact that it
was a group effort, Coogler
goes on to say, “Deep down
we all hoped that people
would come to see a film
about a fictional country on
the continent of Africa, made
up of a cast of people of
African descent.”
Coogler admits that he was
moved to tears by the response
and hadn’t expected
the film to do so well.
“Never in a million years
did we imagine that you all
would come out this strong,”
he writes. “It still humbles me
to think that people care
enough to spend their money
and time watching our film.
But to see people of all
backgrounds wearing clothing
that celebrates their heritage,
taking pictures next to
our posters with their
friends and family, and sometimes
dancing in the lobbies
of theaters—often moved me
and my wife to tears.”
After thanking everyone
who came out to see the film
and those that encouraged
others to join them,
Coogler ends the note by
writing, “thank you for
giving our team of
filmmakers the greatest
gift: The opportunity
to share this
film, that we
poured our hearts
and souls into, with you.”
Coogler isn’t active on social
media himself, so the letter
was shared by Marvel’s Instagram
page.
You can read the full transcript
of the letter below:
I am struggling to find the
words to express my gratitude
at this moment, but i will try.
Filmmaking is a team
sport. And our team was
made up [of] amazing people
from all over the world who
believed in this story. Deep
down we all hoped that people
would come to see a film
about a fictional country on
the continent of Africa, made
up of a cast of people of
African descent.
Never in a million years did
we imagine that you all would
come out this strong. It still
humbles me to think that
people care enough to
spend their money
and time watching
our filmbut
to see
people of
all backgrounds
wearing
clothing
that
•Ryan Coogler
celebrates their heritage, taking
pictures next to our posters
with their friends and family,
and sometimes dancing in the
lobbies of theaters– often
moved me and my wife to
tears.
For the people who bought
out theaters, who posted on
social about how lit the film
would be, bragged about our
awesome cast, picked out outfits
to wear, and who stood in
line in theaters all over the
world– all before seeing the
film.
To the press who wrote
about the film for folks who
hadn’t yet seen it, and encouraged
audiences to come out.
And to the young ones,
who came out with their parents,
with their mentors, and
with their friends.
Thank you for giving our
team of filmmakers the greatest
gift: the opportunity to
share this film, that we poured
our hearts and souls into, with
you.
Sincerely,
Ryan Coogler
P.s. Wakanda forever
Complex.com

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Sports
DAILY HERITAGE THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2018
Odoom
confirms Hearts
of Oak deputy
coaching job
Ghanaian sports
journalist Juliet Bawuah
interviews FIFA prez
GHANAIAN
SPORTS
Journalist,
Juliet
Bawuah, over
the weekend
interviewed President of the
world football governing body,
Gianni Infantino, on the sidelines
of the FIFA Summit in
Mauritania.
•Juliet Bawuah (R), is one of two journalists
selected for the summit
The interview, which has
since aired on local television
and radio in Mauritania, and
soon to air across the rest of
Africa all week, focused on a
wide range of issues including
racism, leadership, state interference
in football, women
and youth football development,
and the 2026 World Cup
bid among other interesting
football related matters.
Miss Bawuah was one of
two Ghanaian journalists, the
other being Gary Al-Smith, selected
for the Summit.
Miss Bawuah is a successful
sports journalist with an impressive
career portfolio. She
is currently pursuing further
education at Cardiff University.
She has in the past
worked for CITI FM, ETV,
Metro TV, the global football
website Goal, CafOnline, and
TV3. Before Cardiff University,
she worked with Euronews’
sister station,
Africanews. Bawuah also contributes
for the Turkish broadcaster
TRT and has also made
appearances on the BBC.
Ghana Premier League to start 2nd, 3rd March
FORMER COACH of Tema Youth, Edward
Nii Odoom has confirmed that he
will deputise for Henry Wellington at
Hearts of Oak ahead of the upcoming
2017/18 Ghana Premier League season.
Head coach of the club, Frank Nuttal
is currently under suspension for unsporting
and unethical behaviour, which contradicted
the club’s code of conduct,
according to the statement released by the
club last week.
Multiple media reports suggest that the
Scotsman has been accused of advising
players not to extend their contract with
the promise of getting them a new club
abroad.
However, reports went widespread on
Tuesday that, deputy trainer Henry
Wellington has been elevated to take up
the reins of the club in the coming campaign,
where he will be ably assisted by
Edward Odoom, who left Tema Youth
after leading the club to relegation last
season.
During an interview with Kumasibased
Oyerepa FM, the veteran coach
confirmed he has been handed the assistant
coaching role ahead of the season.
“Yes, I will be working with Henry
Wellington as his assistant.
“Previously, I was meant to coach Auroras
but the gap left after the white
coach's [Frank Nuttal] issue necessitated
this appointment according to management.
I was at training today to be introduced
to the playing body,” Odoom said.
CONGRESS OF the Ghana
Football Association has proposed
March 2, 2018 at the
start of the Ghana Premier
League.
A consultative meeting on
Wednesday at the Ghana FA
secretariat in Accra unanimously
agreed to kick start the
delayed season on the weekend
of the new month.
The Ghana top-flight was
scheduled to start on 10 February
but a suit from Great
Olympics forced its postponement.
An Accra Human Right
Court's decision to dismiss the
interlocutory injunction by the
relegated Ghana Premier
League paved the Ghana FA to
go ahead.
•Kwesi Nyantakyi, FA president
•Aduana Stars, last season champions
•Edward Nii Odoom

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I almost
died giving
Birth
– Serena
Williams
FORMER WORLD number
one Serena Williams said she
almost died giving birth to
daughter Alexis Olympia
Ohanian Jr in September.
The American, 36, made her
competitive return earlier in February
when she teamed up with sister Venus
for the United States in the Fed Cup.
But the 23-time Grand Slam winner
has revealed that giving birth “sparked a
slew of health complications”.
“I am lucky to have survived,”
she wrote in an article for CNN on
Tuesday.
“My daughter was born by emergency
C-section after her heart rate dropped
dramatically during contractions. The
surgery went smoothly.
“But what followed just 24 hours
after giving birth were six days of
uncertainty.”
Williams, the most successful female
player of the Open era, has previously
said she was bedridden for six
weeks after giving birth.
•Serena
Wiliams and her
baby
•Chelsea ace Willian
slides on his knees in
celebration of his
opening goal at
Stamford Bridge
Willian shone
against Barcelona
AFTER HITTING the
woodwork twice against
Barcelona, the third time
really was the charm for
Willian.
To finally get his goal
on Tuesday, he used the
same trademark move he
has practised to
perfection at Chelsea's
Cobham training ground.
Willian received the
ball outside the box,
paused, accelerated to the
right then put it past a
static Marc-Andre ter
Stegen. At last, the
warrior had his reward.
This was possibly the
Brazilian's best
performance since he
first pulled on the blue of
Chelsea five years ago,
certainly when it comes
to big games.
The 29-year-old
signed for Chelsea in
2013 after the west
Londoners had made
enquiries about him in
every transfer window
since the summer of
2011. Tottenham thought
they had him for a while
but the transfer was
hijacked by Roman
Abramovich and a
£32million cheque.
Chelsea had to
prepare a case for Willian
to be granted a work
permit under the
'exceptional talent' rule
and Jose Mourinho gave
evidence on his behalf at
the Brazilian's hearing.
When Willian can
have a game like this
against Barcelona,
'exceptional' is the right
word. The determined
winger is a boundless ball
of energy with a direct
style.
One of his criticisms
after joining from
Russia's Anzhi
Makhachkala was that he
provided little end
product. Eventually, he is
finding that finishing
touch.
This season he has
been involved in 18 goals
in all competitions –
scoring 11, assisting
seven. They are his best
statistics since signing.
Willian has not always
been one of the most
celebrated players in the
Premier League. Nor at
Chelsea. He is not always
in the team, after all,
despite now being part of
the furniture at Cobham.
Dailymail
Sergio Aguero to face no action from FA
THE ARGENTINE was caught
on camera lashing out at a fan
during the pitch invasion at the
DW Stadium.
Sergio Aguero claims he was
abused, punched and spat at
during the pitch invasion
following Wigan’s shock FA Cup
victory over Manchester City.
Striker Aguero , who will not
be charged by the FA following
the confrontation on the pitch,
alleges he was punched by two
supporters and one spat in his ear.
City are considering legal
action as they examine whether
there is case for common assault
against at least one fan, with
further video evidence emerging
to support the claim.
Boss Pep Guardiola and Wigan
counterpart Paul Cook will also
escape sanction by the FA for
their roles in the explosive game
that saw Blues defender Fabian
Delph sent off.
However, the FA have charged
both clubs with failing to control
their players and they have until
6pm on Friday to respond.
They also have a week to
provide their observations on the
crowd trouble at the end of the
game when fans surrounded
several City players and staff, and
ran towards the away fans end to
taunt and throw missiles at them.
Aguero, who has been
“reminded of his responsibilities”
by the FA, met with senior club
staff on Tuesday and claimed he
was assaulted by two people, with
one spitting in his ear and hurling
vile abuse. Dailystar