JHS DROPOUTS TURN TEACHERS IN BUNKPURUGU-YUNYOO

JHS DROPOUTS TURN TEACHERS IN BUNKPURUGU-YUNYOO

Investigations in the Bunkpurugu-Yunyoo district of the Northern Region has revealed that basic school pupils in the district are being handled by Junior High School dropouts as volunteers due to the refusal of ‘run away’ teachers to return to post.
As a result of the protracted chieftaincy and land conflicts that erupted in parts of the district lately, teachers and health personnel who fled the area have since not returned to post.
The only health facility in the Temaa community was burnt beyond repairs during the recent conflict between two Konkomba clans of Temaa and Namong communities.
This situation has left many pregnant women at the mercy of Traditional Birth Attendants with emergency cases referred to the Nalerigu Baptist Mission Centre.
Speaking to in an exclusive interview, Yunyoo Dana Yamyia Tokah of the Yunyoo paramoutncy complained that the situation has worsened the falling standard of education in the district.
The Yunyoo Dana said attempts to promote girl child education in the area have declined and this he noted will affect the district’s human resource capacity.
He therefore appealed to the Ghana Education Service and the Ghana Health Service to post enough teachers and health workers to the district to save residents from dying of hunger, illiteracy and diseases.
He also assured personnel’s who vacate their post to return as the place has return to it normal status and business activities are also going on smoothly in the area.

NORTHERN YOUTH CALL FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF YOUTH POLICY

NORTHERN YOUTH CALL FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF YOUTH POLICY

The third Annual Northern Regional Youth conference has ended in Tamale with a call on government to fast track the implementation of the National Youth Policy that seeks to improve the living conditions of the youth of Ghana.
The about two hundred participants drawn from all the twenty districts in the Northern Region complained that the undue delay in the implementation of the much awaited National Youth Policy has retarded the development of the Ghanaian youth.
Abdul Rahaman A. Basit on behalf of his colleagues lamented that the National Youth Employment Programme has been over politicized and called for its immediate review to achieve the purpose for which it was established.
He reiterated the need for government to invent a policy document that will work in the interest of youth development as a means of empowering them to play vital roles in nation building.
Abdul Rahaman Basit cited youth unemployment as a major challenge facing the youth of northern region which serves as license to self centered power seekers to use the youth as tools for conflicts.
Speaking on the theme, “Building the capabilities of youth mobilization and effective coordination in Better Ghana Agenda,” Hon. Moses Bukari Mabengba, Northern Regional Minister said government as part of its well tailored programmes towards youth empowerment has released 170,000 Ghana cedis for the construction of ultra modern youth centre in the region.
According to the Regional Minister, poverty continues to be the major cause of instability in the region and stated that part of the money will be spent on creating more employment opportunities to reduce the “Kayaaye” menace.
In the area of peace building, Mr. Mabengba said the Regional Security Council and the various District Security Committees have received the needed support from government to improve the security situation.
Ziblim Abubakari Shaibu, Northern Regional Youth Coordinator of the National Youth Council explained that the conference sought to outline the prospects and challenges of youth development in the northern region.
He thereby repeated his call for a stop to the use of vulgar language on the airwaves especially during live discussions and phone in programmes.
This in Mr. Shaibu’s estimation will help reduce the increase of moral decadence associated with a cross section of the youth in the Tamale metropolis.

PARENTS CAUTIONED TO CHANGE ATTITUDE TOWARDS EDUCATION

PARENTS CAUTIONED TO CHANGE ATTITUDE TOWARDS EDUCATION

Participants at an active forum at Wulensi in the Nanumba South district of the Northern Region have identify the attitude of parents and guidance as the major contributory factor to the high school dropouts rate among girls in the two Nanumba districts.
According to them, parents do not take proper care of their children because they are suppose to help their mothers in house chores.
They indicated that the time has come for stakeholders to rise up to occasion to ensure that parents and guardians are called to order to uproot the menace in order to reason with Dinkurugu Integrated Development Organization (DIDO) and CAMFED which are fighting hard to eliminate this canker from the society.
The participants stressed that education is also the responsibility of communities, adding that everybody must cooperate to ensure that female education is improved.
The Coordinator for Dinkurugu Integrated Development Organization (DIDO) a local NGO, Iddrisu Adam Sulemana in his address, said that DIDO has designed a policy to help upgrade the knowledge and skills of stakeholders, schools management committees and parents teachers association to enable them stand tall to use their experience to bear on the programme to bear fruits.
According to him, the phenomenon in the two districts cannot be over emphasized and has been identified as of the main cause of poverty in the area.
Mr. Sulemena said even though several workshops have been achieved and for concerted effort from parents, school management committees to work collectively to avert the situation.
He therefore called on the participants to take up the challenge of ensuring that the policy by DIDO is implemented successful to ensure that every girl-child of school going age is in school to complete to help the accelerated development of the area.
The Executive Director of the Community Partnership for Youth Women and Children Development (CPYWCD), a local NGO, Iddrisu Yakubu who took participants through some basic principles of the rights of girls-child education, called on stakeholders and parents to collaborate effectively with school management committees to identify some of the common problems that affect them.
This he noted, would go a long way to help them find lasting solutions to the menace and appealed to them to treat all their wards equally by educating all.
Mr. Yakubu appealed to the Assembly and Ghana Education Service to make it a priority to visit schools in the area once a while to learn at hand some of the principals problems facing teachers and students.
He also suggested to the Assembly, GES and DIDO to pull their resources together and organize a training workshop for parents’ teachers association and school management committees to know their roles and responsibilities to execute their job effectively and efficiently.

INDISCIPLINE TRAILS AT DABOKPA TECHNICAL INSTITUTE

INDISCIPLINE TRAILS AT DABOKPA TECHNICAL INSTITUTE

Fiila News has observed that negligence sometimes results to the irresponsibility of most school authorities to instilled discipline among students in various institutions across the country.
This negligence of duties of school authorities is one of the roots of the recent rampages that strike Ghana Senior High School (GHANASCO), Dabokpa Technical Institution (DAVOTEC) in the northern region and the Navrango Senior High School (NAVASCO) in the upper East region.
At the Dabokpa Technical Institution the indiscipline of students has cross beyond the boundaries of the school where students have seen school authorities as inappropriate in dealing with internal issues wrangling between the students in the school.
An issue of mobile phone theft erupted between two boarders of the school, one Mr. Kumah a year two student in secretariat class and Mr.
Habibu Salisu Kewuribi also a year three student in TV and radio class of DAVOTEC which resulted to a scuffle between the purported students.
The situation as Fiila News reports now is in the Police Criminal Investigative Department (CID) pending investigation as to the cause of the scuffle and the extent of harm.
A letter from the Police to this effect has been issued to Mr. Habibu Salisu Kewuribi inviting him to appear at the Police CID office for allegedly assaulting Mr. Kumah. Both students reaffirmed the knowledge of school authorities.
Meanwhile in an exclusive interview with the vice-principal of the school, Madam Salamatu Mahamadu, under which jurisdiction the students are in the school claimed she has no in-depth knowledge about the issue.
According to Madam Salamatu, she is surprised an issue of such could not pass through the school administration, which has the sole right to resolve the issue within the school.
She was also smart to say that the issue might be outside differences the students are dealing with.
She therefore promised to get to the bottom of the matter and respond appropriately.

POLICE APPREHEND FERTILIZER SMUGGLER IN BUNKPURUGU-YUNYOO

POLICE APPREHEND FERTILIZER SMUGGLER IN BUNKPURUGU-YUNYOO

Acheampong Langbong believed to be the comrade or confidant of Bunkpurugu-Yunyoo constituency NDC Women’s Organizer has been arrested by the police for selling government’s subsidized fertilizer at Kalabule price to farmers in the district.
Reports are that Madam Laadi Foknam, the NDC Women’s Organizer allegedly used coupons meant for farmers in the district and loaded trucks of ammonia fertilizer for Acheampong to sell at exorbitant prices.
An informant said Acheampong Langbong was selling a bag of fertilizer for GH 21cedis against the approved government subsidized price of GH 18 cedis to farmers nationwide.
A source closed to the District Police Command disclosed that the NDC constituency executives led by the Chairman stormed the police station and demanded the release of Acheampong which the police declined.
Despite the earlier warning by government to nib smugglers of subsidize fertilizers others has kept this warning into the back of their heels which resulted to the arrest of this stubborn youth man, who knows he will just be release without any charges or penalties against her as is likely to be a political link issue.
Meanwhile, the chiefs and some angry youth of the district are up in arms against Madam Laadi Foknam, the NDC constituency Women’s Organizer over her alleged attempt to resurrect the relaxed conflict situation in the district.
A resident of Kpentango, hometown of the NDC women organizer’s father on grounds of anonymity asserted that Madam Foknam is holding secret meetings with one of the feuding factions in the name of the NDC party which has the tendency of regenerating the conflict situation which lately culminated into the media Refugees camp in neighbouring Togo.
According to him, she was reported to the traditional authority who invited Madam Foknam and her husband to the Bunkpurugu chief’s palace to caution her against her moves and that she failed to honour the invitation.

TAMALE RADIO STATIONS URGED TO INSTILL DISCIPLINE IN YOUTH

TAMALE RADIO STATIONS URGED TO INSTILL DISCIPLINE IN YOUTH

Mr. Ziblim Abubakari Shaibu, Northern Regional Coordinator of the National Youth Council (NYC) has appealed to radio stations in Tamale to inculcate good morals into the youth by banning the use of vulgar language on air especially during live discussion and phone in programmes.
He attributed the astronomical increase in moral decadence associated with a section of the youth in Tamale to the abuse of the airwaves with specific reference to phone in programmes in the metropolis.
He hence called the need for censorship of all live radio broadcast programmes in the Tamale metropolis.
Mr. Ziblim Shaibu raised this concern ahead of this year’s annual regional youth forum to be held in Tamale which seeks to review and re-organize the Federation of Youth Associations of Ghana in the districts and in the regions.
The Northern Regional National Youth Council Coordinator said other key areas that will be discussed at the forum will include drafting the National Youth Council Work plan for 2010-2012 and a review and evaluation of responses to key issues and concerns which emanated from the 2008 and 2009 dialogue forum.
According to Mr. Shaibu Ziblim, about 200 selected youth groups and community based organizations from all the twenty districts in the northern region will attend the forum under the theme “Building regional capabilities for youth mobilization and effective coordination in a Better Ghana Agenda.”

JOHN MENSAH TOUCHES LIVES OF THE VULNERABLE IN THE NORTH

JOHN MENSAH TOUCHES LIVES OF THE VULNERABLE IN THE NORTH

The inspirational Deputy Captain of the Senior National Team, the Black star, John Mensah has touched the lives of two orphanages homes in the northern regional capital, Tamale yesterday.
The Deputy Captain popularly known to his comrades as “the Rock of Zuborotah” , wo is als a defender in the National Team has donated items worth 25, 000 Ghana cedis to the Nyohini Orphanage and the Anfani orphanage all based in Tamale.
The items includes assorted beverages, bags of rice, toiletries, baby diapers and pampers, gallons of cooking oil, clothing, detergents and an undiscloure amount were given to the each orphanages.
Mr. John Mensah said the donation is part of his appreciation to almighty God for what he has able to achieve so far on earth and sees it necessary to touch the lives of the vulnerable to make them feel part of the society.
According to the Deputy Captain of the Senior National Team, the vulnerable needs inclusion and respect but not isolation urging the society to let them realized their importance to the socio-economic development of the nation.
The Rock of Zuborotah who is sometimes described as a philanthropist has passion, love, care and above all respect for the vulnerable and has touches several lives of vulnerable across the country and yesterday was the term of the northern region.
Mr. John Mensah used the opportunity to meet the famous John Mensah Fun Club in the region who expressed his profound gratitude for the people of this region and the founding fathers of the club for supporting him spiritually and physically in his endeavours.
He therefore pledged his fullest support to make the Fun Club the most famous Fun Club in the Country.
The President of the Famous John Mensah Fun Club, Abdul-Razak Alhassan aka DJ Carlos in his remarked said the Fun Club was set up in 2006 world cup but due to certain lapses it was brought to redundancy but revive at the 2008 African cup of nation hosted by Ghana.
According to DJ Carlos, the club, since the beginning of the just ended World Football tournament in South Africa, the Club was projecting his performance by mounting gigantic screens at vantage point in the Tamale Metropolis in the name of “the Rock of Zuborotah”.
He therefore appealed to him to support the club with his replica jerseys and a brass band to effectively and efficiently project him.
Mr. John Mensah therefore donate a cash amount of 500 Ghana cedis as a carton raiser to support the fun club and pledged that he will invite the club to Accra for the official inauguration.
Mr. John Mensah therefore donate a cash amount of 500 Ghana cedis as carton raiser to support the fun club and pledged that he will invite the club to Accra for the official inauguration.