Upper East regional manager of waste management company, Zoomlion Ghana Limited, Issaka Abubakari has expressed worry at the rate at which refuse bins belonging to the company are being burnt in the region.

In an exclusive interview with A1 News, Mr. Abubakari said the burning of the plastic waste bins that his company provided at various points of the region is alarming. According to him, these acts are creating loses for Zoomlion because it is expensive to procure the containers.

 He was however grateful to residents of the region for their cooperation since the company was establishment in the region in 2007. Mr. Abubakari also appealed to the general public to take the issue of sanitation serious in order to promote good health and called on people to stop burning rubbish in the metal waste bins.

By: Cletus Adugbire | A1radioonline.com | Ghana

Despite the protracted ethnic conflict that has been in Bawku for some years now, sometimes disrupting teaching and learning in schools in the area, the Bawku Senior High School for the past five years has consistently performed well academically.

In these five years, the school scored hundred percent passes in the West African Senior Secondary School Certificate Examinations (WASSCE) with many of the school’s students, qualifying for admission into tertiary institutions.

At the climax of the Bawku Senior High School’s 50^th Anniversary celebration over the weekend, Headmaster of the school, Kpuli Bismarck Simon said student-teacher relationship for the past years had been so good that no student was found of misconduct.

According to the headmaster, despite the numerous achievements the school has chalked in the past years, it is faced with a problem of inadequate accommodation for staff.

Member of Parliament and Minister of Information, Mahama Ayariga pledged to support the school with Ghc 10, 000 to equip the school’s library.

By: Joshua Asaah | A1radioonline.com | Ghana

Director of the Secondary Education Division of the Ghana Education Service and an indigenous son of the Upper East Region, Reverend Simon Asige has besieged on the print media for being bias in their reportage towards the winner of this year’s TV3 Ghana’s Most Beautiful Winner, Poka Anafo.

Rev. Asige who expressed with anger during the 40^th anniversary of the Bolgatanga Girls Senior High School towards the media for failing to highlight Poka’s achievement lamented of a state media, the Ghanaian Mirror, for also failing to give the needed publicity to Poka.

Rev. Asige also called on the society to put an end to the ‘pull him down’ syndrome but learn the practice to support each other to help in the growth of the country.

By: Joshua Asaah | A1radioonline.com | Ghana

Officials and Staff of the National Lotteries Authority (NLA) in the Upper East Region have received extensive training on Information Communication Technology (ICT) as part of a nationwide training exercise.

The refresher training which forms part of a nationwide comprehensive exercise in partnership with Blue Crest College (NIIT), is geared at giving staff and officials the needed skills in ICT to carry out their daily activities of generating revenue for the country.

Participants were taken through basic office productivity tools including Micro Soft Word, Excel, and Power Point amongst others. Speaking at the close of the four day training, a Software Engineer of NIIT Tamale, Bryan Appiah Fei said the world was changing gradually from analogue to digital and there was need for organisations to acquire some level of ICT training to facilitate their office work.

Upper East Regional Sales Manager of the NLA, John Joseph Dassah noted that the training has been beneficial to them as productivity as far as transaction and revenue generation would increase. Some participants who shared their views about the training called on the Authority to organize such trainings quarterly to enhance their skills.

By: James Amoh Jnr | A1radioonline.com | Ghana

National Democratic Congress (NDC) ward executives and some youth in the Walewale Constituency in the Northern Region are demanding an immediate removal of the District Chief Executive of Walewale, Adam Yussif Banablesira.

The ward executives and youth say they have lost confidence in DCE as he has, in his capacity disunited the party which attributed to the defeat of their parliamentary candidate in the 2012 general election. The ward executives and youth of the area expressed their frustration on Thursday at a media briefing in Walewale.

Spokesperson for the group, Samuel Nabila Idabeni in a statement said Mr. Banablesira is a non-performing District Chief Executive and said his actions favored the opposition New Patriotic Party in all aspects including awards of contracts and other appointments.

The group also accused the DCE of failing to bring development to area. On the recent riot at the Walewale Senior High School, a section of members in the constituency accused him of being of being reluctant to respond to earlier threats made by the students which led to the destruction of some property running into millions of cedis.

They are therefore calling on the President, John Dramani Mahama for the immediate removal of the District Chief Executive by close of 2013 in order to unify the party towards the 2016 general election. Meanwhile the District Executive when contacted by A1 News described the allegation as mere falsehood.

By: Joshua Asaah | A1radioonline.com | Ghana

The Upper East Regional Organizer of the opposition New Patriotic Party, Mr. Yaw Mort on Tuesday agreed with the party’s 2012 presidential Flag Bearer Nana Addo in his judgment of the performance of the Mahama led NDC administration.  According to Nana Addo, the NDC administration is not capable of running the affairs of the country.

Mr. Yaw Mort couldn’t agree with his 2012 Flag Bearer the more and attacked the weaknesses of the current administration saying, Ghana was going back instead of moving forward. He said this in an interview with A1radioonline.com.  For him, he was more disappointed in John Mahama for neglecting the north where he came from.  “The NDC is a social democratic party but I am yet to find any successful social intervention introduced by the party. They are only good at stealing elections and seriously killing the good social interventions that were introduced by the NPP administration such as the National Health Insurance, the Metro Mass Transit, Youth Employment and what have you.”

He added that, the conditions of workers are worst off under this government as electricity and water tariffs are reaching the sky. “Ghanaians have to give the NPP the opportunity come 2016 to get the country out of this slow pace one gear running economy”  He urged the party to stay united and focus so as to attain power come 2016.

Source: A1 Radioonline.com