EDUCATIONIST CALL ON PARENTS TO INVEST IN THEIR CHILDREN EDUCATION

EDUCATIONIST CALL ON PARENTS TO INVEST IN THEIR CHILDREN EDUCATION

The Tamale Metropolitan Director of Ghana Education Service has called on parents to invest in their children’s education to ensure that good future leaders emerges for accurate policies to be made in the country for accelerated development.
Alhaji Abdul-Rahaman Saani said investing in education is the greatest assert in the life of every individual in the society.
He made this call at the 16th graduation ceremony of Fatchi “Little Flower” School Complex in Tamale where 70 pupils from kindergarten 2 were graduated.
The school with over 530 pupil population and 30 teaching staff has a Long Term Human Resource Development Foundation for Orphans (LOTHDEFO) where 40 pupil and students are currently benefiting from the endowment fund ranging from the pre-school to the tertiary level.
Alhaji Saani disclosed that education in the Metropolis is grabbling with numeracy and illiteracy which is a setback to the education structure in the metropolis.
According to him, parents need to get the clearer understanding of education for quality education delivery in the country, saying children need good educational foundation to gain academic laurels in the academic ladder.
The Metropolitan Director of GES therefore urged parents to take active roles in schools activities such as PTA meeting, regular visiting of pupil’s among others to boost the morale of both students and tutors which he believes will yield academic success for their children.
In his address the Manager of the Fatchi “Little Flower” School complex, Christopher K. Nyabu said the vision of the school is to provide children between the ages of 2 and above with emotional and psychological foundations that will enhance their mental, social and physical growth for development saying, buttressing the vision and mission management does not comprise with lazy teachers.
Mr. C.K Nyabu called on parents to enroll their children in schools to ensure that every child of school going age must be in school.
The Manager therefore made a passionate appealed to the PTA to give unflinching support to the managing director by providing a fence wall around the school to weed out kidnapping which is becoming common in preparatory schools.

ALLOWANCES OF NYEP RECRUITS TO BE PAID ON TIME

ALLOWANCES OF NYEP RECRUITS TO BE PAID ON TIME

As from September this year, the salaries and allowances of District Employment Coordinators (DECs) of the National Youth Employment Programme (NYEP) and their deputies, will be regularized and they will receive payment directly from the Bank at the end of every month.

Similarly efforts are been made to ensure that all the recruits under the programme receive their allowances promptly from the Banks at the end of every month.

The National Coordinator of the NYEP, Abuga Pele announced this at a meeting with district coordinators of the Programme in Tamale at the weekend, to review the programme and draw up strategies for the future.

The NYEP National Coordinator however explained that the DECs and their deputies will be the first to be able to access their salaries through the Banks in September, while that of the recruits will followed later.

Mr. Pele said all beneficiaries of the NYEP have been paid and the Programme no longer owed anyone.

He said a significant milestone achieved by the Programme was the establishment of people with disabilities unit in all the employment modules, adding that, since the creation of the unit, appointments had been issued to 150 persons with disabilities nationwide.
He said apart from the traditional employment modules, the NYEP is focusing on self employment modules that had the capacity to engage many youth and encourage entrepreneurship among them, so that this would put less pressure on the monthly pay roll of the Programme.

Mr. Pele warned the DECs to ensure equitable and fair recruitment of people into the NYEP to stop the agitations from some foot soldiers of the NDC who are complaining of unfairness and favoritism in the recruitment exercise.

GYAM-NYEP PASSES OUT 80 TRAINEES IN TAMALE

GYAM-NYEP PASSES OUT 80 TRAINEES IN TAMALE

Eighty five trainees who underwent six months skill and manpower training under a joint programme of the Ghana Young Artisans Movement and the National Youth Employment Programme have graduated in Tamale.
The graduants acquired skill and manpower training in various fields including hair dressing, dress, catering, batik, tie die and making.
Speaking at the ceremony, Hon. Abuga Pele, National Coordinator of the National Youth Employment Programme said that new model code named “The trade and vocation model” forms part of the NYEP’s change of focus mechanism to explore the potentials of the youth through self employment.
This, he said will lessen the burden on government’s financial stride to provide lucrative jobs for the youth of Ghana.
He hinted that plans were afoot to replicate the vocation and trade model and similar ones throughout the country and that by extension the disabled will be covered.
Abdul Fatawu Ibrahim, Executive Director of the Ghana Young Artisans Movement commended the President Mills led NDC government for its unrelenting efforts to develop the youth of Ghana through such interventions.
He also thanked donor agencies including Tools for self reliance in the United Kingdom, Simavi in the Netherlands, the Embassies and High Commissions of Britain and Canada in Ghana for their support over the years.
Mr. Fatawu revealed that GYAM since its establishment in 1995 has been involved in youth and community development through which water and sanitation facilities have been provided to peri-urban communities in the three regions of the north.
In a speech read on behalf of the Deputy Northern Regional Minister, Mr. Joseph Dasana, Chief Director at the Northern Regional Coordinating Council noted that the youth of Ghana deserved proper livelihood hence government’s zeal to make them productive through several models of the NYEP.
Mr. Sam Nasaamu Asabigi said government will resource the NYEP to implement its well tailored programmes especially in northern Ghana to curtail the mass exodus of the youth to southern Ghana in search of menial jobs.
The graduants received certificates and were supported with working tools to explore the acquired skills to benefit their community members.

STAFF of TTH UNDERGOES A THREE-DAY PAEDIATRIC ADVANCE LIFE SUPPORT COURSE

STAFF of TTH UNDERGOES A THREE-DAY PAEDIATRIC ADVANCE LIFE SUPPORT COURSE

A team of medical professionals comprising four professors and two post graduate medical students from the Louisville School of Medicine has trained staff of the Tamale Teaching Hospital in Paediatric Advanced Life Support Course.
The three- day training course, the first of its kind in Ghana, was aimed at giving medical doctors and nurses of the Tamale Teaching Hospital and Students of the School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) of the University for Development Studies, training in managing resuscitation and other emergency cases effectively especially with children.
A total of 130 staff participated in the course were taking through in Endotrachea Intubation, a technique in which a tube is used to get access to the lungs to pump air into a patient whose breathing space or airways are blocked, Cadiac Desrabrillation, using electricity or electrical energy to stimulate the heart to work and Interoesseus Access, using cannula, a needle used to access the bone to put fluid into the body.
Dr. Bukari Issah, a House Officer, expressed delight at the depth of knowledge the exercise had imparted on him particularly the demonstration sessions of the course. He said the course had given him practical experience and advanced knowledge which he will apply in his medical practice to help save lives. Madam Stella Fati Dramani, a Senior Nursing Officer, said the course had proven very beneficial since her knowledge in life support has been sharpened significantly. She mentioned that she has acquired new skill in cardiac massage.
Mr. Wewoli Bentil Awe, a medical student, on his part said he was grateful for the opportunity to have training in paediatric advanced life support even whilst in school. He said he was happy he and his colleagues are being exposed early to equip them to meet such practical challenges even before they graduate from school. He promised to pass on the knowledge he had acquired to others.
The Louisville School of Medicine team was led by Professor Jania Condurache, Assistant professor of paediatrics and Course Director.
Professor George Rogers of the Intertional Paediatric Center of the school later signed a memorandum of understanding to forge partnership and cooperation between the Louisville school of medicine and the Tamale Teaching Hospital as well as the medical school. The team described the training as highly successful.
The Chief Executive of the Tamale Teaching Hospital, Dr. Ken Sagoe, on his part thanked the team for the training and in particular the training of one of the doctors as the local resident doctor to further train personnel in tamale and other health facilities in the three northern regions.
Dr. Sagoe was grateful for the kind gesture of the donation of all medical equipment used in the training to the hospital.
The team is expected back in Ghana to organize similar training for other health institutions in the country.
Participants further requested that the course is organized frequently to be upgrading their technical know how on the routine base of the global knowledge.

REGIONAL VALIDATION WORKSHOP ON DRAFT NATIONAL URBAN POLICY FOR GHANA ENDS IN TAMALE

REGIONAL VALIDATION WORKSHOP ON DRAFT NATIONAL URBAN POLICY FOR GHANA ENDS IN TAMALE

The National Regional Validation Workshop on the draft National Urban Policy for Ghana has ended in Tamale, the Northern Regional Capital with a call on government to reinforce security measures to check and control the influx of foreigners entering Ghana as a result of the oil find.
The statement noted that Ghanaians will continue to live in penury if the foreigners are allowed to exploit the oil wealth to the disadvantage of citizens.
Professor Paul Yankson made the call as a resource person at the workshop which was attended by heads of department, politicians and members of the academia.
He said the urbanization process has great promise for economic and social progress though confronted with many challenges, hence the need for a national policy framework as the engine of growth.
Professor Yankson underscored the need for a collaborative approach by the Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies to address difficulties and challenges associated with urbanization as a means of addressing the disparity between the Northern and Southern Ghana.
This in his estimation will reduce the duplication of government programmes at the local level to ensure the proper utilization of donor support to Ghana.
Northern Regional Minister, Moses Bukari Mabengba hinted that Ghana’s population was estimated at 25 million by the end of 2010 hence urbanization should be strategically managed to overcome its emerging challenges.
According to him, sustainable urban development is crucial for the achievement of Ghana’s socio-economic growth but that lack of proper coordination and funding for workable policies had affected that achievement.
Mr. Mabengba therefore expected that the workshop would help fashion out practical solutions to urban development challenges facing the nation.