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•Clemence Jackson Honyenuga
• Dr Kelvin TackieTeikoTsuru II
•The official
opening of the
borehole
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Covid-19 Trust Fund
receives over GH¢44 Million
BY WILBERFORCE ASARE
THE COVID-19 National
Trust Fund set up by the government
to receive donations
from institutions and individuals
in the country to augment
the efforts of the state in the fight against
the spread of Covid-19 in Ghana, has so
far received about GH¢44, 900,000.00 in
donations since it was established by an
Act of Parliament (Act 1013).
The Chairperson of the Fund made the
disclosure when she addressed a brief ceremony
held at the forecourt of the offices
of the Fund at the Jubilee House, Point
Six, to release 12 vehicles donated to the
Fund to treatment centres and testing laboratories
which are at the forefront of the
country's fight against the Covid-19.
Chairperson of fund
Retired Lady Chief Justice Sophia
Akuffo stated that the trust had so far received
GH¢44,900,000.00 in donations and
that the Board of Trustees would ensure
the transparent use of same.
She urged the general public to respect
and adhere to all the social distancing and
prevention protocols announced by the
Ghana Health Service in order to ensure
that “we protect each other as a people.
"We are happy to announce that the
Fund has so far, in addition to generous
gifts in kind, the details of which we’re
more than willing to share with any interested
person, received an amount of GH¢
• Lady Chief Justice (Rtd) Sophia Akuffo
• Some of the donated vehicles for the Covid-19 Trust Fund
44,900,000.00). The Board of Trustees will
ensure the judicious and transparent application
of all monies and other resources
received for their intended purposes."
Request for vehicles
Justice Akuffo further called on other
automobile companies in Ghana to donate
more four wheeled vehicles to the Fund in
order to support its planned agenda to furnish
all regional hospitals with ‘4X4 cars.’
Minister in charge of SIGA
Minister of State in charge of State Interest
and Governance Authority, Kwaku
Afriyie, in his welcome remarks, urged the
receiving institutions to use the vehicles effectively
to support the country's battle
against the Covid-19 pandemic.
Vehicles
The vehicles presented were 10 Cobalt
LTZ Chevrolet Cruize saloon cars, one
Mitsubishi L200 pick up and one NP 300
Hardbody Nissan pick-up.
Receiving institutions
The list of receiving institutions and
centres mentions Zinal Public Health Isolation
Centre Laboratory (ZPHL), Kumasi
Centre for Collaborative Research, Central
Care Management Team, University of
Health and Allied Sciences, Covid-19 Testing
Centre and the Pentecost Convention
Hospital Isolation Centre.
The rest are the Tamale National Public
Health Laboratory, University of Ghana
Medical Centre, LEKMA Hospital, Kumasi
South Regional Hospital, Veterinary
Division Laboratory, National Public
Health Reference Laboratory (NPHRL)
Korle-Bu and the Tema General Hospital.
Community gets borehole
• Stops drinking from bilharzia-infected river
RESIDENTS OF Baware, a farming
community in the Okere District
of the Eastern Region, now
have a GH₡90,000.00 mechanised
borehole facility automated to
pump and store water half a kilometer
to a basic school in the community.
The borehole is part of the
Rural Water, Sanitation and Hygiene
(RWASH) project being implemented
in 36 communities in
Eastern,Central and Volta regions
by Plan International Ghana.
The intervention by the nongovernmental
organisation has
come at a time access to safe water
supply to keep personal hygiene in
the wake of coronavirus pandemic

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I’m sorry
BY PHILIP ANTOH
philip.antoh@dailyheritage.com.gh
ASUPREME Court Justice
nominee, Clemence Jackson
Honyenuga, has apologised
for openly
endorsing President Nana
Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo ahead of
the 2020 general election.
Justice Honyenuga came under serious
criticism for singing the praise of
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-
Addo during a durbar of chiefs and
people of the Afadjato South District
in the Volta Region in February 2020.
Justice Honyenuga, the Paramount
Chief of the Nyagbo Traditional Area,
at the durbar, reportedly said “with the
vision of the President and the gains
made in his first term, Ghanaians may
consider giving him another four
years.”
Appearing before Parliament’s Appointments
Committee yesterday, Justice
Honyenuga explained that the
remarks were not necessarily to endorse
the President but to wish him
well.
• Supreme Court judge
nominee apologises
• After being accused of
endorsing President
• Clemence Jackson Honyenuga
“In reading that statement, we didn’t intend
endorsing the President. Our understanding
was that we were wishing him
well…
If out of political dissatisfaction some
people are unhappy with whatever I am
supposed to have said then, I am sorry,” he
said.
Volta NDC reaction then
The National Democratic Congress
(NDC) Volta Regional Secretariat, at that
time, lambasted Justice Honyenuga for endorsing
the candidature of President
Akufo-Addo.
The Secretariat, in a statement signed
by the Volta Regional Chairman, Henry
Kwadzo Ametefe, said the endorsement
violates the judicial code of conduct.
“While taking due cognizance of the
fact that Justice Honyenuga may have
made those comments in his capacity as a
traditional ruler, it is reprehensible and regrettable,
especially for a man who is supposed
to know our laws better than any
ordinary man and to uphold and respect
same.”
“Not only is this conduct by the Appeals
Court Judge a blatant violation of
the Judicial Code of Conduct but it very
well sins against the very sanctity of the institution
of Judiciary as we know it.”
The Secretariat also called on the Judicial
Council and the General Legal Council,
the Chairman of which is the Chief
Justice himself, to take judicial notice of
his actions and “take appropriate action.”
Ga Traditional Council picks new Ga Mantse
BY MUNTALLA INUSAH
captainmut@yahoo.com
THE GA Traditional Council
and its relevant authorities have
held a ceremony in Accra to
make Dr Kelvin Tackie Teiko
Tsuru II the new Ga King.
King Teiko Tsuru's introduction
marked the end of the
process for the installation of a
new Ga Mantse.
This comes on the back of a
16-year-old dispute among various
factions who had laid claims
to the throne, which claims had
usually ended up in bad blood
among the feuding groups.
The new leader of the Ga
State will rule under the stool
name – King Tackie Teiko
Tsuru II.
In his acceptance remarks, he
called for a united front as the
only measure to forge forward.
He charged all to come on
board as he hoped to have an
open-door administration for
the development of the Ga
State.
The ceremony witnessed by
the DAILY HERITAGE's
Muntalla Inusah over the
weekend, was very serene and
peaceful.
Since there was a ban on
social gathering, the attendance
was not more than the
required 25 people allowed by
the President, while all social
distancing protocols were observed.
The Chairperson of the
Justice VCRAC Crabbe Committee
set up by the Gborbu
Wulomo to look into the
Chieftaincy matters, Justice
• Dr Kelvin TackieTeikoTsuru II
Naa Yarley Sarkordie-Mensah
expressed optimism about the
government’s commitment to
supporting the development
process of the area as the laiddown
chieftaincy protocols
had been applied.
“The government’s position
is that once the customs
and usages have been followed
and the people have declared
that ‘this is our king’, we will
work with him and support
him… I think they have done
the right thing and today it’s
been sealed,” she said.

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Stop enhanced contact tracing, focus
on mass testing – Global health expert
•Covid-19 is easily contracted moving around
ASENIOR Research
Fellow at the
Kwame Nkrumah
University of Science
and Technology’s
Global
Health Department is urging
health authorities to stop testing
people through enhanced contact
tracing methods and focus on testing
of the general population.
“We have been looking at
where we expect the cases to be.
Now what happens is that as the
infection spreads, you will not be
able to catch up with the rate of
the spread because the infection
can end up being almost everywhere
and not just being in specific
places,” Dr John Amuasi
explained on the Super Morning
Show, Monday.
The country’s health authorities
have been using enhanced contact
tracing methods to find potential
patients with Covid-19 since the
first two cases were reported in
March.
As of May 10, confirmed cases
were 4,700.
According to the President’s
national address on Sunday, a total
of 160,501 tests had been conducted
nationwide so far through
enhanced contact tracing methods
that had been adopted.
However, Dr Amuasi says that
enhanced contact tracing can no
longer be a method reliable
enough to keep up with the virus.
He explained that this is because
people are more likely to get
infected from moving around
rather than catching the virus from
someone who has been in contact
with another.
“If you go looking for a needle
in a haystack, it’s going to be pretty
hard to find the needle but if you
go looking for a needle in a sewing
box, you will find more than one
needle most likely.
“So this is why I say the number
of cases we have presently
should not be alarming because
we’ve been looking for needles in
the sewing box.
“We are at this juncture where
we need to wrap that and move to
mass testing because the strategy
of chasing to see where people
who are infected are and who they
could have had contact with cannot
hold any longer, given the rate
of spread that we anticipated,” Dr
Amuasi added.
He further explained that because
mass testing was not the
norm now, an actual rate of spread
could not be determined.
“We are not conducting a fixed
number of tests daily; we are not
testing in the general population
and therefore we cannot assess
with measure our actual rate of
spread.
“What we have now is the picture
of people who we expect to
have been exposed [to the virus]
and that is why we have such a
high number of people.”
“By the end of this week or
early next week, if we do not shift
our gears, we could end up in a situation
where we can no longer
catch up and this is worrying,” the
researcher added.
Article
Data used
BY ESTHER JOHNSON AIDOO
IN THIS modern day, journalism
has been doing massively
well concerning news
dissemination in the society.
Aside informing, the journalist's
mandate includes educating
and entertaining. The aspect
of journalism which has promoted
the profession is data journalism.
Data journalism is the use of text,
number, videos and audio in journalism
to uncover, better explain
or provide context to a news story.
in news must be simplified
Data journalism is not a preserve
of this modern age. It was
used as far back as in the nineteenth
century. At that time, the
streets of New York City proved
to be the perfect incubator for
cholera. The disease started from
1832 and 3000 people died within
few weeks. By 1849 about 5000
deaths had been recorded.
To show that the disease was
rampant that year, the New York
Tribune published a chat that compared
weekly cholera deaths to
total weekly deaths. This comparison
helped readers to know and
understand the havoc caused by
the disease. It also helped to understand
that actually cholera
deaths began to rise in June 1849.
In Ghana, data journalism is
used by almost all media houses
and journalists, but come to think
of it, do the citizens or laymen get
to understand the figures used to
illustrate the news story broadcast?
People are mostly interested in
news such as conflict, breaking
news, odd news and some aspects
of the figures but as to how those
figures came about, they seem not
to care about just because they are
not used to the statistical or numeric
data.
Data journalism, maybe, feed
only the literate class.
Way forward
Since it is the core mandate of
journalists to disseminate information
to the public for everyone,
both literates and illiterates, they
need to explain the data or numerical
aspect of the news. For instance
80% of the people in Osu
in Accra lack toilet facilities in their
homes. Also, public education on
the benefit of data journalism
should spread especially to the illiterates.
Lastly, journalists and students
of journalism should learn to appreciate
data journalism, learn and
use it appropriately for credibility.
In sum, data journalism is a
quicker and easier way of presenting
complex facts and figures to
the audience or view. It has to
serve both the literates and the illiterates.
Thus, it is very important
that journalists and journalism students
acquire the skills of appropriately
using data in their line of
work.
The writer is a Level 300
Journalism Student of the
Ghana Institute of Journalism

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Western Region schools get turn
of fumigation, disinfection
•Officials of Zoomlion conducting the disinfection and fumigation exercise
AMASSIVE disinfection
exercise meant to kill
bedbugs and other insects,
as well as bacterial,
virus, reptiles and
rodents, is currently
ongoing in all senior high, vocational
and special schools in the Western and
Western North regions.
The Ghana Education Service and
the Ministry of Education engaged
Zoomlion Ghana Limited to provide
specialised disinfestation and disinfection
exercise for all second circle (public
and private) schools across Ghana.
On the first day, schools in the
Sekondi/Takoradi Metropolis, including
the Ahantaman Girls', Archbishop
Porter's Girls, Adeamra , St. John's,
Fijai and Bompe Senior High and Diabene
Secondary Technical schools,
had their compounds, dormitories,
classrooms, dining halls, administration
blocks, staff common rooms, assembly
halls, security gates and and
other places fumigated and disinfected
successfully.
At the Ahantaman Girl's Senior
High School, the Headmistress, Ms
Ernestina Kankam, expressed gratitude
to the Director General and all
authorities of the Ghana Education
Service and the Minister of Education
for considering the challenges the students
and the school administrations
faced and, subsequently the commitment
of coming in to augment their
individual efforts to ameliorate their
situation.
She underscored the need for the
authorities to consistently ensure that
bedbugs, rodents and insects were expelled,
if not destroyed, for the
schools to experience a conducive environment
for academic work.
She said she was impressed by the
work Zoomlion Ghana had done in
Ahantaman and told the workers to
continue to open their
hearts and work for
mother Ghana in the
wake of the novel Coronavirus
pandemic.
Miss Kankam said her
school, in spite of their
inadequate funding, still
managed to disinfect the
school to give the students
incident free terms
for academic activity.
In a similar development,
the Headmistress
of Archbishop Porters
Girls' Senior High
School, Mrs Charlotte
Asiedu Musah, praised
the GES and the Education
Ministry for the innovation
and concern
shown to the staff and students of all
second circle schools.
She appealed to the authorities to
have the schools periodically fumigated
for the safety of staff and students
of the schools.
Mrs Musah expressed appreciation
for the zealous commitment that
Zoomlion workers had shown in the
work and prayed that the company
would grow into a multinational, recounting
the corporate social responsibility
services it had recently done
for the university community in
Ghana.
The General Manager of Zoomlion/Western
Waste Limited, Alhaji
Abdallah Abdulai, explained that the
chemical called Inesfly was used, targeting
insects and rodents while the
chlorine solution was to destroy all
viruses and bacteria, including the
Coronavirus, on the school campuses.
He said he was optimistic that
given the fact that schools had been
closed, the chemical would be allowed
to function properly before the students
would return, thus making it
safe for them to stay there..
On the second day, schools such as
Sekondi College, Takoradi Vocational,
Twin City Special, Catholic Special,
Catholic Vocational, Methodist and
Sekondi Senior High schools were fumigated
and disinfected.
The team was scheduled to attend
to other schools in the Western and
Western North regions from Sunday
through to this weekend.
Prez extends ban
on public gathering
• As Covid-19 cases rise to 4,700
PRESIDENT AKUFO-ADDO has extended
the ban on public gathering in the
country as confirmed cases of Coronavirus
in Ghana rise to 4,700.
The President, in a Sunday night address,
warned that people who would violate the directive
would be dealt with in accordance
with the law.
“Tonight I have come to your homes to
announce that the ban on public gathering
has been extended to the end of the month,
that is May 31, 2020,” he said.
The extension comes in the wake of reports
that religious leaders were persuading
the President to lift the ban on public gathering.
The President reiterated the order for the
closure of all borders to the country as a
means of containing the spread of the virus
in the country.
•President Nana Akufo-Addo
Meanwhile, confirmed cases of Covid-19
in the Ashanti Region had jumped from 252
to 453 as of Sunday, May 10, 2020, sources at
the Ashanti Regional Health Directorate have
told Starr News.
Starr News understands majority of the
cases were recorded at Obuasi, which has a
total of 261 positive cases.
Similarly, the Western Region has
recorded 14 new cases of Covid-19, raising
the regional figure from 38 to 52 as of Sunday.
The regional tally stood at 38 as of the
last update on Saturday evening.
The Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis leads
with 16 positive cases while Tarkwa comes
second with 15 confirmed cases.
So far, 22 people have died of the virus in
Ghana with over 400 having recovered.
La Church of Pentecost,
Qodesh disinfected
.Together with GIS Hqrs, Entrance Pharmaceutical
ZOOMLION GHANA Limited
has disinfected the headquarters of
the Church of Pentecost at La,
Accra, and three other facilities belonging
to the church.
The facilities were Gbawe
Church of Pentecost Pension
House, Tesano Church of Pentecost
Transit Quarters and East
Legon Transit Quarters, — all in
Accra.
The exercise was part of the
corporate social responsibility
(CSR) of the waste management
organisation. It was aimed at fighting
the spread of the coronavirus
which has ravaged the country.
At the La Church of Pentecost,
the Zoomlion spraying team disinfected
the various office, restrooms,
parking lot, and the entire
church compound, including its entrance,
driveways and paths.
Speaking to journalists, the
Caretaker of the Gbawe quarters,
Mr Daniel Annor, indicated that
the church had been embarking on
such an exercise every year except
that this year's exercise had the
added objective of fighting following
the spread of the global pandemic—Covid-19.
According to him, it will help
ensure the safety of visitors since
the venue mostly host a number of
people for conferences and other
activities.
At the Tesano Church of Pentecost
Transit Quarters, the Caretaker
of the facility, Mr Dominic
Awah, said he was hopeful that the
exercise would go a long way to
help the facility, considering the
•Workers of Zoomlion are playing important role in fighting the
Coronavirus and disease-causing creatures
number of patrons who do transits
at the quarters either for meetings
or a sleepover assignment.
He expressed the hope that
being the first of its kind, the
venue would be safe from microorganisms
which may be injurious
to the lives of the users.
The spraying team then went to
the East Legon Transit Quarters
where they disinfected all its facilities.
These included the compound,
offices, restrooms, and balconies.
For his part, the Caretaker of
the East Legon Transit Quarters,
Mr Enock Ennin, noted that
though the exercise was the first of
its kind, there was the need for it to
become a periodic affair.
Also benefiting from Zoomlion’s
disinfection exercise was the
Qodesh Family Church Ghana
headquartered in the North Industrial
Area, Accra.
Assistant Pastor to the Resident
Bishop, The Qodesh Family
Church, Reverend Pius Worlanyo
K. Akator, expressed the church’s
gratitude to Zoomlion for the exercise.
“We want to thank Zoomlion
for this disinfection exercise, and
God bless the company,” Rev Akator
gladly expressed.
Other institutions that benefited
from the exercise were the
headquarters of the Ghana Immigration
Service (GIS) and Entrance
Pharmaceutical, a member of the
Tobinco Group at Spintex, Accra.
Following the Covid-19 pandemic,
Zoomlion has disinfected a
number of tertiary institutions
across the country, state agencies,
and churches among other facilities.
Significantly, this initiative
which is on-going forms part of
the company’s corporate social responsibility.
This initiative is aimed at supporting
the government’s efforts in
containing the coronavirus.

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DAILY HERITAGE TUESDAY, MAY 12, 2020
ON APRIL 19, 2020 two civil society organisations,
the Institute of Liberty and
Policy Innovation (ILAPI) Ghana and Citizens
for Change and Accountable Governance
(CCAG), vehemently called on the
Board of the Covid-19 National Trust
Fund which had been established on
March 27, 2020 by President Nana Addo
Dankwa Akufo-Addo by an Act of Parliament
(Act 1013). and given the mandate to
assist in the welfare of the needy and the
vulnerable in the country with particular
reference to the fight against the coronavirus
and, for that matter, ensuring the
good health of these people.
The DAILY HERITAGE stated in
its Editorial of April 20 that it was not
against individuals or organizations calling
for accountability from the Covid-19 National
Trust Fund and any other public organization
or persons put in the position
of trust but the vehemence with which
ILAPI, Ghana and CCAG were calling for
accountability from the Covid-19 fund
board gave the impression that the two organisations
had no goodwill towards the
Editorial
Emulate example of Covid-19 fund Board
board members.
We said definitely some would have to
broach certain conversations and that such
a move should be done on the basis of
goodwill rather than suspicion.
All we were saying then was that we
need to venerate people who agree to take
up national assignments to seek the greater
good of the society rather than begin to
criticise them even before they get settled
in their seats.
We expressed our trust in the board
members, namely the country's immediate
past Chief Justice, Sophia Akuffo, the
Chairperson, Archbishop Justice Ofei
Akrofi, Mr. Jude Kofi Bucknor, Gifty
Afenyi-Dadzie, Mrs Elsie Addo-Awadzie,
Dr. Ernest Ofori-Sarpong, and Dr Tanko,
with Mr. Collins Asare acting as Secretary
to the Board.
Today, we reiterate that trust and add
that we are happy to hear of good signs of
the accountability some us believed would
come from these board members of integrity.
Yesterday, the Covid-19 National Trust
Fund announced that it had so far received
GH₡44,900,000.00 in donations. Former
Chief Justice Akuffo announced this when
she addressed a brief ceremony held at the
forecourt of the offices of the Fund at the
Jubilee House, Point Six, to release 12 vehicles
donated to the Fund to treatment
centres and testing laboratories which are
at the forefront of the country's fight
against the Covid-19.
Justice Akuffo further called on automobile
companies in Ghana to donate
more four-wheeled vehicles to the Fund in
order to support its planned agenda to furnish
all regional hospitals with ‘4X4 cars.’
Though others may say the announcement
of the amount is not an enough picture
of giving accountability, the DAILY
HERITAGE believes it is a very good
start because Justice Akuffo said something
profound: "We are happy to announce
that the Fund has so far, in
addition to generous gifts in kind, the details
of which we’re more than willing to
share with any interested person, received
an amount of GH₡ 44,900,000.00). The
Board of Trustees will ensure the judicious
and transparent application of all monies
and other resources received for their intended
purposes."
From the above statement, it is clear
that there is no need to speculate or conjecture
about activities of the Fund; its
doors are open to those who have doubts
to approach its board members to seek
clarity and transparency.
Considering the fact that the Fund has
not been in existence for even two months
but the Board has announced how much
money it has received and even begun giving
out vehicles to health facilities is a
pointer to the transparency and accountability
some wanted to see too early in the
life of the nascent Fund.
The example of the Board of the
Covid-19 fund should be emulated by all
public institutions in order for them to win
the trust of the public that has whittled
away because of the devious ways of some
people given the mandate to manage public
institutions and other public facilities.
Community gets borehole
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• Stops drinking from bilharzia-infected river
has become a daily necessity.
In the past, residents of Baware Community
had suffered acute water crisis for a
number of years. The GH₡90,000.00 mechanised
borehole has, therefore, relieved residents
of the stress of walking long distance
to fetch water from the river side since a
borehole provided some years ago had become
dysfunctional.
Schoolchildren in Baware say the water facility
extended to provide uninterrupted
water supply to their school would help in
improving hygiene among pupils when
school resumes.
"At first, when we come to school and we
need water to do something, we have to go
to the riverside to fetch water and by the
time you come back it will be too late, so this
water will help us stay in school, get water to
wash our hands, especially we, the girls, when
we have our menses. And it will also help us
prevent coronavirus when school reopens,”
Ms Esther Minta, a student, told Starr News.
Women in Baware, the worst affected by
the acute water stress situation endured over
the years, are now relieved.
"At first, we didn't get safe water here. We
used to fetch from the river but that river
had bilharzia parasites so it infected our children.
They used to urinate blood so we decided
to get a borehole but for years now it
doesn't function well and we still fetch from
the river so we are happy for the provision of
this water," Ms Florence Budu, a 60 year-old
farmer, said.
The Eastern Regional Manager of Plan
•The completed project
International Ghana, Mr Kofi Adade Debrah,
said the water facility is part of the
RWASH Project but also complementary
support by Plan International Ghana to help
the government contain the spread of coronavirus
pandemic.
"This project also tailors into that because
now the whole campaign is about prevention
in two ways. That is preventing self-contamination
and also ensuring social distancing
and making sure that people don't contaminate
those who don't have the desease.
“We have introduced this water facility
here to promote access to water so people
could wash their hands with soap under
running water so that they can stay clean
and minimize infection."
The DCE for Okere, Daniel Kenneth,
said the interventions by the NGO in the
district was impacting positively on education,
health and economic empowerment
with cumulative effect improvement in
the standard of living of the vulnerable.
"Since I took over, Plan Ghana has
been helpful not only to this community
but also six other communities. The impact
of their projects is great to the extent
that people were trekking long distances
to fetch very unwholesome water. They
have helped us achieved five open defaecation-free
communities as well. Their education
projects have also helped in
changing the narratives," he said.

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Students cry against Covid-19
BY JEANNETTE ADDO
SOME GHANAIAN tertiary
students have described the
pause in school attendance as
a major setback as the country
battles the coronavirus as it
takes its toll. Stuck at home
with lectures on hold, graduation plans
abandoned, many students fear the crisis
could have major implications for their
education. For students who have a few
months to complete school, being unable
to finish with their project work,
they say this will affect their completion
process, delaying the number of months
left to complete school.
Ghana had its first Covid-19 case announced
on Thursday, March 12, 2020,
by the Health Minister, Kwaku Agyemang-Manu.
The President; H.E Nana
Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, then addressed
the nation afterwards. In that address
and the subsequent one on Sunday
the 15th of March, he announced the
closure of all universities, secondary and
basic schools, beginning on the Monday,
March 16. The closure of schools, although
beneficial as a way of preventing
the spread, has had some sort of negative
impact mostly on the students. The
Ministry of Education, however, has introduced
other ways to facilitate learning
through traditional, social and online
media.
Addressing the press on Tuesday,
March 24, the Education Minister,
Matthew Opoku Prempeh, said almost
all the five universities to which the 46
Colleges of Education are affiliated have
many modern systems employed for the
benefit of all the colleges.
“In the tertiary space, we did invite
some of the universities that were in
close proximity to participate in the technical
discussions and we realized that almost
all the traditional universities have
functional learning management systems
which may require skill in order to make
the service available to students”.
This learning management system
has had its positives and negatives as well
as chilly experiences, this being the first
time Ghana has had to employ
a different strategy in
ensuring that students go
through effective learning
amidst a plague.
In an interview, a lecturer
at the Ghana Institute
of Journalism, Mr
Stephen Tindi, said his experience
with the online
learning had been fun but
challenging, especially
when he had to develop
the platform himself, migrating students
to a blog and creating, as well as sharing
videos. He also said his biggest challenge
was participation as some students didn’t
get to participate and even if they did,
due to the overflow of messages, the
platform got messy. Therefore, he lost
some of the responses.
He also spoke about complaints
from some students about data challenges,
where students could not be
available on time. He, however, suggested
that the online platform should
become a standard feature; the reason
being that nobody knows when this pandemic
would recur. He explained that if
there should be any recurrence, transitioning
would be much easier and without
challenges. He added that digital
literacy should be taken more seriously
to help students find better ways of
learning through the use online platforms,
should there be challenges like
the pandemic or similar situation, so that
the transition to online media would be
smooth.
He advised that it is important for us
to bridge the infrastructure gap in terms
“It has put my life on a standstill. I think
when we get back to school, we will
rush things because time is already
wasted and that is going to put pressure
on us, the students, since my
school is not doing anything online”.
of digital inequality in the country so
that regardless of where students are,
they can participate in digital learning.
He cited an instance where some of his
students had to be excused because of
movement to new locations on the outskirts
of Accra, where they have data
challenges.
Unhappy with the closure of schools,
some students have expressed their displeasure
concerning online studies. A
student of the University of Education,
Winneba, Dennis Koomson, said the effectiveness
of online studies was not as
effective as being in the class itself.
“In the lecture hall, lecturers get time
to explain things vividly unlike on the
online portal where lecturers only put
slides for us to discuss.
“How can one contribute towards
something he or she doesn't understand?
“In fact the environment in the
house is not conducive for learning.”
He added that network providers
should ensure effective internet provision
to enhance online studies. When
asked about how the present situation
was going to affect him, he said, “I think
it’s going to affect my internship
badly in the sense that
since the schools’ calendar is
going to change, I won’t get
enough time to train before
internship. Therefore, I’m not
sure if I’ll be able to get
enough skills as I desire”.
A student of the technical
university of Cape Coast; preferred
to be called Mary, has
expressed her displeasure
about her school not starting
this exercise despite meetings held on it.
However, she thinks the online media
strategy wouldn’t help much due to technical
difficulties like being phoneless and
running out of data, and considering
some courses her school offers, she
deems it impossible for online learning
to be efficient. She also thinks that there
wouldn’t be a deeper understanding of
lecture notes as compared to being in the
lecture hall.
A student of the Ghana Institute of
Journalism; Abdul- Lahie Abdul- Rahim
NaaNinche, voiced his difficulty adjusting
with the situation due to technical issues,
watching videos online and considering
the bad internet connectivity in his
community.
From Pentecost University College,
Linda Yirenkyi says her project work had
been put to halt due to this effect.
“It has put my life on a standstill. I
think when we get back to school, we
will rush things because time is already
wasted and that is going to put pressure
on us, the students, since my school is
not doing anything online”.
With fears of graduation late from
school, a final year student of the Accra
Technical University, Kelvin Abban,
thinks the directive will delay his graduation,
as his project work had been held at
a standstill due to his inability to get
through with practical work.
“I think the school has put measures
in place already but the problem here is
Covid-19 restriction measures are going
to delay me graduating, I learnt a new
curriculum will be posted after the situation
the country is in.”
Like the President of Ghana said,
these are not ordinary times and things
are difficult for us all. Therefore, I wish
to commend all the telecommunication
networks which have helped the situation
by providing access to educationrelated
research, and individuals and
NGOs who have in one way or another
helped by distributing learning materials
or providing other means of helping students
in their studies.
The writer is a Level 300 Journalism
student of the Ghana Institute of
Journalism
Jayana gives Dome market women face
masks on Mother’s Day • To fight Covid-19
AGHANAIAN Gospel
Artiste, Jayana, has donated
a number of locally-manufactured
face masks to women
at Dome market to
combat Covid-19.
The gesture was part of the
artiste’s annual Mothers’ Day project
to honour the contribution of mothers
and acknowledge their efforts.
According to Jayana, mothers are
relentless in their efforts to combine
work with caregiving and ensuring
safety at home in this Covid-19 era.
Sharing the face masks to the market
women, the ‘Victory’ hit maker educated
them to wash their hands often
with soap and under running water.
Jayana also urged them to leave a
distance between themselves and other
people at the market place, wear their
face masks and also observe all other
approved precautionary measures to
protect themselves against the coronavirus
disease (Covid-19).
“As we all know, Mother’s Day is an
occasion celebrated to express respect,
honour, and love towards our dear
mothers. Our mothers at the various
markets go through a lot and as a way
of saying thank you to all mothers for
their care and love, I gave out some
face masks to mothers at the Dome
•Jayana distributing face mask to market women
market to protect them from the coronavirus
pandemic.
“We [Jayana Music team] also educated
them to frequently wash their
hands, keep their homes and environment
clean, wear their
face masks, sanitize
their hands often and
observe social distancing,”
Jayana added.
The donation was
also made possible by
the kind support of Joe
Nick Fashion Design,
located at Dome Pillar 2
in Accra.
Ghana’s Covid-19
case count hits 4,700
with 22 deaths and 378
recoveries.
President Akufo-
Addo on April 19 lifted
restrictions imposed on
the movement of persons
in Greater Accra
and Greater Kumasi
and surrounding towns
as part of efforts to
control the spread of
the coronavirus.
About Jayana
Jayana’s singing is exciting and
breathtaking. She is noted for her mesmerizing
and captivating vocal.
She is a musician who uses the
voice as her instrument, displaying precision
and agility, mixed with heartfelt
emotion.
Born Jemima Annor-Yeboah,
Jayana spent her formative years soaking
up the contemporary gospel, and
praise and worship.
She is the second daughter of the
late Bishop Dr AnnorYeboah, a former
Chairman of the Christ Apostolic
Church (CAC).
She participated in the maiden edition
of the Stars of the Future talent
show, competing with the likes of
Irene Logan, Jean, now Efya, Ramzy,
and Prince Amui.
Jayana announced her comeback
into the music space when she was
signed on by DAVEJOY Music
Records in December 2018 [Record
label owned by Joyce Blessing’s husband]
and released a new song titled
‘Victory’ in 2019, featuring Joyce
Blessing.
The promising gospel minstrel is
currently not signed to any music
record label.

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TUESDAY, MAY 12, 2020
No professional sport in England
until June 1 at earliest
NO PROFESSIONAL sport,
even behind closed doors,
will be staged in England
until June 1 at the earliest,
the UK government has announced.
The government has published a 50-
page guidance document detailing how
England will begin to ease lockdown measures.
Step two of that plan -- which will not
be allowed to start before June 1 -- includes
"permitting cultural and sporting events to
take place behind closed doors for broadcast,
while avoiding the risk of large-scale
social contact".
The document states that reopening
venues that attract large crowds such as
sports grounds "may only be fully possible
significantly later depending on the reduction
in numbers of infections".
Premier League clubs were meeting on
Monday (yesterday) to continue discussions
on Project Restart.
The top flight has been suspended since
March 13 because of the coronavirus pandemic
but is aiming to resume in June, with
92 of its 380 fixtures left to play.
There will be no cricket played in England
and Wales until at least July 1, following
a decision by the England and Wales
Cricket Board.
British horse racing had hoped to resume
behind closed doors later this month,
having been on hold since March 17.
Premiership Rugby is aiming for a resumption
in early July, with nine rounds of
matches remaining.
Formula 1 is hoping to race at Silverstone
on July 19 and 26.
Under proposed rules for boxing to resume
behind closed doors in July, fighters
at British shows will wear protective masks
during ring walks and could be banned
from using a spit bucket between rounds.
The government's current aim is to introduce
step two of its plan on June 1 but
only if sufficient progress is made in "successfully
controlling the spread of the
virus" and the lifting of restrictions could
be delayed.
Sporting events involving international
travel could be affected by the government's
planned requirement for all international
arrivals "not on a short list of
exemptions" to self-isolate for 14 days after
arrival in the UK.
Four English teams remain in European
football competitions this year - Chelsea
and Manchester City in the Champions
League and Manchester United and Wolves
in the Europa League. BBC
• There will be no competitive sport until at least 1 June
FIFA announces temporary increase
of substitutions in football games
• Following IFAB approval
INTERNATIONAL FOOT-
BALL Association Board (IFAB)
have accepted FIFA’s suggestions
on increase in the number of players
substituted in a game from
three to five.
As football begins to consider
resumption of competitions across
the world following the Covid-19
pandemic, the International Football
Association Board ( IFAB) has
agreed to make a
temporary amendment to the Laws
of the Game based on a proposal
received from FIFA seeking to
protect player welfare.
The IFAB has approved FIFA’s
proposal to introduce a temporary
amendment to Law 3 – The Players,
which will allow for a maximum
of five substitutes to be
made per team. For competitions
which have either started or are intended
to
start, but are
scheduled to
be completed
by December
31, 2020.
For the
avoidance of
disruption,
teams will
only have
three opportunities
to
make substitutions;
substitutions
may also be
made at halftime.
The temporary
amendment takes place
with immediate effect, and was introduced
due to matches taking
place in condensed period in different
weather conditions, both of
which could have impacts on
player welfare.
The decision on whether to
apply this temporary amendment
will remain at the discretion of
each individual competition organiser,
while the IFAB and FIFA will
determine at a later stage whether
this temporary amendment would
need to be extended further (e.g.
for competitions due to be completed
in 2021).
The amendment to Law 3 affects
both the 2019/20 and
2020/21 Laws of the Game, with
the latter coming into effect as
from June 1, 2020.
In relation to competitions in
which the video assistant referee
(VAR) system is implemented,
these competitions are permitted
to cease its use upon restart at the
discretion of each individual competition
organiser. However, where
VAR is used, all aspects of the
Laws of the Game and, by extension,
the VAR protocol will remain
in place.
Stephen Appiah picks Michael
Essien as best midfielder
FORMER BLACK Stars skipper
Stephen Appiah has picked Michael
Essien as the best midfielder he has
ever played with.
Essien and Appiah featured for
the senior national team, the Black
Stars, for over a decade.
The pair played together during
the 2006 FIFA World Cup and they
were key players during the tournament
as Ghana reached the last 16
in Germany.
Appiah was speaking on a live
Instagram chat put together by Betway
on Saturday, May 9.
The former Juventus and Fenerbache
midfielder recounted the various
midfield partners he worked
with in his time in the national
team in response to questions he
was asked by fans who had joined
the live chat.
“I played with Michael Essien a
lot and sometimes with Derek
Boateng. In that very popular
match against South Africa in Kumasi
in which we won 3-0, William
Tiero (who played for Liberty Professionals
at the time) was in that
match and I must say that he played
very well that day. I even think he
was the best player on that day.
"I enjoyed playing with a lot of
midfielders in the national team but
the Bison (in reference to Essien)
was the Bison.
"He was the general,” he added.
Essien currently plays in Azaberjan.
• Stephen Appiah and Michael Essien