DRIVERS plying to and from the Adomi Bridge have been left stranded for hours due to the rehabilitation project which will last for five weeks.
They claim that they were not notified about the new arrangement for plying the road hence have not been allow to use the bridge.
But the Director of Bridges of the Ghana Highway Authority, Owusu Sekyere Antwi says from today, drivers plying the route from the Northern region and the northern portions of the Volta region will have to divert through the Asikuma-Ho-Adidome route to Sogakofe before continuing to or from Accra.
He explains that they are closing it from 7am to 9 am and then 9 am to 11 am, they will open it. The director of Bridges says they will be closing it and opening it after every two hours”.
The Ghana Highway Authority will close down the Adomi Bridge to pave way for survey works ahead of its rehabilitation.
THE DIRECTOR OF Bridges at the Ghana High Authority Owusu Sekyere Antwi says the closure of the Adom bridge will not cause any major problem to the public but emergency measures has been put in place to make it easier for people to use the road.
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Wednesday, February 9, 2011
NO CASE OF GUINEA WORM RECORDED SINCE MAY 2010
The National Programme Manager of Ghana Guinea Worm Eradication Programme (GGWEP) Dr. Andrew Seidu Korkor has disclosed that since May 2010 the country has not recorded any report of guinea worm cases.
He explains that the eight month absence does not mean the country is guinea- free but the GGWEP is monitoring the situation will come out with the records after 14 month.
Dr Andrew Korkor says Ghana has moved from second position to fifth position in the world making Sudan, Mali, and Burkina Faso leaders in the world records.
Dr. Korkor said the success story to the attainment of such dramatic reduction of the disease was that the Ghana Health Service (GHS) and the GGWEP did respond swiftly to the situation by not only intensifying all programme interventions to contain the situation but also worked with the district assemblies and partners to improve water supply to the townships of all endemic areas.
He explained that the disease was now limited to few spots in the Northern Region, particularly in the central Gonja District but since access to and use of potable water was not universal, the risk of re-infection could not be ruled out until the last case had been detected and contained.
"The major challenge is how to ensure a national awareness and maintaining vigilance to recognise and report any suspicious case to the health authorities for immediate investigation and containment as well as continue to improve water supply for the risk and endemic areas", Dr. Korkor said.
Speaking on Adom news he said what needed to be done was to continue and step up surveillance nation-wide to detect and report, promptly and properly manage all suspected cases to ensure full containment, continue a nation-wide awareness creation among health staff and the people and continue to advocate for safe drinking water.
He explains that the eight month absence does not mean the country is guinea- free but the GGWEP is monitoring the situation will come out with the records after 14 month.
Dr Andrew Korkor says Ghana has moved from second position to fifth position in the world making Sudan, Mali, and Burkina Faso leaders in the world records.
Dr. Korkor said the success story to the attainment of such dramatic reduction of the disease was that the Ghana Health Service (GHS) and the GGWEP did respond swiftly to the situation by not only intensifying all programme interventions to contain the situation but also worked with the district assemblies and partners to improve water supply to the townships of all endemic areas.
He explained that the disease was now limited to few spots in the Northern Region, particularly in the central Gonja District but since access to and use of potable water was not universal, the risk of re-infection could not be ruled out until the last case had been detected and contained.
"The major challenge is how to ensure a national awareness and maintaining vigilance to recognise and report any suspicious case to the health authorities for immediate investigation and containment as well as continue to improve water supply for the risk and endemic areas", Dr. Korkor said.
Speaking on Adom news he said what needed to be done was to continue and step up surveillance nation-wide to detect and report, promptly and properly manage all suspected cases to ensure full containment, continue a nation-wide awareness creation among health staff and the people and continue to advocate for safe drinking water.
I’M QUITTING CHURCH TO JOIN THE ANC
I would like to confess that I have decided that I will stop going to church. I mean, who needs to go to church in order to go to heaven when all you have to do is produce an ANC membership?
I would like to say sorry to my dear pastors at God First Church, but it appears there is an easier way to go through the Pearly Gates. It involves no tithes, no offerings and most importantly, it means I no longer have to drag myself out of bed every morning after a night out partying on a Saturday. Praise the ANC!
One of the benefits of joining the broad church (as it is often called, a broad church, not a narrow one) of the African National Congress is that it pays to be a card-carrying member. Who knows what tenders could be coming your way? Just look at how many well-off ANC members are out there. Oh, hang on. A vast majority of them also aren’t. This debunks my theory.
As some of you may or may not know, there has been a great deal of controversy after the president of the ANC and the country, Jacob Zuma, said to supporters in Mthatha in the Eastern Cape: "When you vote for the ANC, you are also choosing to go to heaven. When you don't vote for the ANC you should know that you are choosing that man who carries a fork...who cooks people...
"When you are carrying an ANC membership card, you are blessed. When you get up there, there are different cards used but when you have an ANC card, you will be let through to go to heaven."
Anger
I wonder who will take St Peter’s place at the Pearly Gates. Could it be Saint Comrade Manto Tshabalala-Msimang or will she be holding that position until Saint Comrade Julius Malema departs Earth to assume what I believe is his rightful position? Saint Comrade Julius Malema wouldn’t be too shy to tell those people who aren’t card-carrying ANC members that they are being tjatjarag and should just go jump and have an encounter with that man who carries a fork and cooks people instead.
As to be expected, anger was presented in many shapes and forms. From the religious to the not so religious - even atheists were indignant. I was most amused by the irony of atheists who were offended on God’s behalf by Zuma’s comments.
Many of us simply cannot wait for the president to say something of colour. I’ll be honest, when I read his comments, I was thrilled because there was something to laugh about. Seriously now guys, the president meant that as a joke, but he probably took it a bit too far. (I’m not just saying this to ensure that I get into heaven because I don’t want to offend Pope Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma lest I don’t get a pass to heaven.)
Joking
The guy was obviously joking. I can imagine the audience went a little crazy with much laughter when he said what he said. Black folk are a religious bunch, and the people who were there are no exception, I am sure. So they knew he was joking and laughed. I know he was joking, which is why I am joking about it too.
I’m hoping joking about it is not blaspheming against the ANC. The last thing I want is to be excommunicated from the ANC before I have even had the chance to join. Again. I will become a member so that I can worship at the altar of the tender. And I would be attending the broad church meetings of the ANC in a German luxury BEE mobile.
I have a few suggestions on how we should pray now. How about we go, “In the name of the ANC, the Communist Party and the Congress of South African Trade Unions,” when we start praying? Instead of ending our prayers with an “amen”, I think “Amandla!” would be most appropriate.
I’ll tell you something for free, the great thing about “Amandla!” is that it is powerful, forceful and unapologetic. Amandla means power. Whereas “Amen” is a very passive, “may it be so”.
Thanks for the laughs
The truth is we got hysterical over nothing. We wanted to have something to shout about. Personally, I found something to laugh about. I think God has a far greater sense of humour than we give him credit for. A comedian couldn’t have come up with what the president said. Thanks for the laughs Mr President. Or should I say, Pope?
Just to end off here, ladies, if you go out with me, you will go to heaven.
As you were. That is all.
Source: news24
I would like to say sorry to my dear pastors at God First Church, but it appears there is an easier way to go through the Pearly Gates. It involves no tithes, no offerings and most importantly, it means I no longer have to drag myself out of bed every morning after a night out partying on a Saturday. Praise the ANC!
One of the benefits of joining the broad church (as it is often called, a broad church, not a narrow one) of the African National Congress is that it pays to be a card-carrying member. Who knows what tenders could be coming your way? Just look at how many well-off ANC members are out there. Oh, hang on. A vast majority of them also aren’t. This debunks my theory.
As some of you may or may not know, there has been a great deal of controversy after the president of the ANC and the country, Jacob Zuma, said to supporters in Mthatha in the Eastern Cape: "When you vote for the ANC, you are also choosing to go to heaven. When you don't vote for the ANC you should know that you are choosing that man who carries a fork...who cooks people...
"When you are carrying an ANC membership card, you are blessed. When you get up there, there are different cards used but when you have an ANC card, you will be let through to go to heaven."
Anger
I wonder who will take St Peter’s place at the Pearly Gates. Could it be Saint Comrade Manto Tshabalala-Msimang or will she be holding that position until Saint Comrade Julius Malema departs Earth to assume what I believe is his rightful position? Saint Comrade Julius Malema wouldn’t be too shy to tell those people who aren’t card-carrying ANC members that they are being tjatjarag and should just go jump and have an encounter with that man who carries a fork and cooks people instead.
As to be expected, anger was presented in many shapes and forms. From the religious to the not so religious - even atheists were indignant. I was most amused by the irony of atheists who were offended on God’s behalf by Zuma’s comments.
Many of us simply cannot wait for the president to say something of colour. I’ll be honest, when I read his comments, I was thrilled because there was something to laugh about. Seriously now guys, the president meant that as a joke, but he probably took it a bit too far. (I’m not just saying this to ensure that I get into heaven because I don’t want to offend Pope Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma lest I don’t get a pass to heaven.)
Joking
The guy was obviously joking. I can imagine the audience went a little crazy with much laughter when he said what he said. Black folk are a religious bunch, and the people who were there are no exception, I am sure. So they knew he was joking and laughed. I know he was joking, which is why I am joking about it too.
I’m hoping joking about it is not blaspheming against the ANC. The last thing I want is to be excommunicated from the ANC before I have even had the chance to join. Again. I will become a member so that I can worship at the altar of the tender. And I would be attending the broad church meetings of the ANC in a German luxury BEE mobile.
I have a few suggestions on how we should pray now. How about we go, “In the name of the ANC, the Communist Party and the Congress of South African Trade Unions,” when we start praying? Instead of ending our prayers with an “amen”, I think “Amandla!” would be most appropriate.
I’ll tell you something for free, the great thing about “Amandla!” is that it is powerful, forceful and unapologetic. Amandla means power. Whereas “Amen” is a very passive, “may it be so”.
Thanks for the laughs
The truth is we got hysterical over nothing. We wanted to have something to shout about. Personally, I found something to laugh about. I think God has a far greater sense of humour than we give him credit for. A comedian couldn’t have come up with what the president said. Thanks for the laughs Mr President. Or should I say, Pope?
Just to end off here, ladies, if you go out with me, you will go to heaven.
As you were. That is all.
Source: news24
ARTHUR KENNEDY: GOVERNMENT SHOULD HAVE CONSTRUCTED THE UNIVERSITY OF ENERGY IN THE WESTERN REGION
Communication director of the New Patriotic Party Arthur Kennedy says the government should have constructed University of Energy and Allied Sciences in the Western Region because the region is notice for its energy prowess.
He explains that the Western Region will profit from the university hence the government should have diverted its resources in the West.
Arthur Kennedy says NPP will construct a University in the western region if it wins power in the next elections if there is need for more University of Energy.
CUE IN: ARTHUR ON UNIVERSITY
Meanwhile, the Shadow Minister of Education of the CPP, Kojo Armah says the government was right in the establishment of the university in the Brong Ahafo region. He explains that the university will not only concentrate in oil drill nu8t also solar energy and other programmes.
He supported Government decision to have a university in the region to bridge the northern and the southern part of the country.
He stresses that it not because the Petroleum drill is the Western Region that the government should immediate construct a university in the region.
Meanwhile people in the Western Region are disappointed in the government for the construction of the university of Energy and Allied Science in the Brong Ahafo region.
According to them the government should have establish the University in the region.
Our reporter Okyeame Amoako-Darkwa of Good News fm spoke with some of the people to seek their comments
Citizens in the Brong Ahafo region differs from their views of the people in the Western region.
Emmanuel Narwah reports that the people are please with government and support the decision to have a university in the region.
He explains that the Western Region will profit from the university hence the government should have diverted its resources in the West.
Arthur Kennedy says NPP will construct a University in the western region if it wins power in the next elections if there is need for more University of Energy.
CUE IN: ARTHUR ON UNIVERSITY
Meanwhile, the Shadow Minister of Education of the CPP, Kojo Armah says the government was right in the establishment of the university in the Brong Ahafo region. He explains that the university will not only concentrate in oil drill nu8t also solar energy and other programmes.
He supported Government decision to have a university in the region to bridge the northern and the southern part of the country.
He stresses that it not because the Petroleum drill is the Western Region that the government should immediate construct a university in the region.
Meanwhile people in the Western Region are disappointed in the government for the construction of the university of Energy and Allied Science in the Brong Ahafo region.
According to them the government should have establish the University in the region.
Our reporter Okyeame Amoako-Darkwa of Good News fm spoke with some of the people to seek their comments
Citizens in the Brong Ahafo region differs from their views of the people in the Western region.
Emmanuel Narwah reports that the people are please with government and support the decision to have a university in the region.
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