Day: November 20, 2023

Some residents of Yekine community at Dua in the Bongo district of the Upper East Region have been attacked by some strange skin ailments putting fear in residents.

The disease, which attacks the skin, eats deep into the flesh of the affected person and into the bone.

Some of the families believe the ailment is spiritual and have sent victims for traditional treatment while others are battling the disease at home.

A former messenger of the Naara Ruural Bank from Apuwongo, a nearby community, is currently amputated and on admission at the Ultima Hospital, a popular Bone hospital at Zuarungu in the Bolgatanga East District.

The parents of a 15-year-old Master MBA Atampugre of Yikene are also in the Northern Region to seek traditional treatment for their son whose arm is affected and there is fear of amputation since the skin of the hand is eating away.

Mr Nyaaba Adongo, a 50- year-old man and father of five said he suffered the ailment for the past three years and indicated that his left foot started with
a sore leading to a swell and according to him two surgeries were done on him at the Bolgatanga Regional Hospital when he had complained of in ability to urinate and painful groin.

He said apart from excruciating pain in the abdomen, he is unable to control urine.

According to Mr Adongo, who is a farmer, doctors at the hospital asked him to get funds for another surgery, but he could not raise the money.

He said his fourth toe on right foot became rotten and eventually dropped off and indicated that even though the sore on the foot had healed, the sole of the same foot is punctured.

Mr Roger Abugre Apulonge, Assembly Member for the Apowongo -Yikene electoral area, who spoke with the GNA at the Yikene community confirmed the health issue in some communities in the electoral area.

He said the disease developed like a sore and eats into the skin, noting that some children developed boils and that three people in his community were already affected.

According to him, the electoral area combined with Apuwong
o and Yikene, which has a population of over two 2,000 people, were worried about spread if nothing serious was done to control the spread.

Mr Apulonge said his brother, who is amputated in the leg from Apuwongo started with a sore at the back of his leg and spread deep and a visit to the hospital, and scanned check indicated it was cancer for which nothing could be done except amputation.

The Assembly man appealed to researchers and health personal to come to the community to help nib the situation in bud.

Source: Ghana News Agency

The Civil and Local Government Staff Association, Ghana (CLOGSAG) has reiterated its call on government desist from appointing ‘political party boys and girls’ as personal assistants in public offices.

The Association said such appointments impeded the work of civil servants.

This is contained in a press release from CLOGSAG signed by Dr Isaac Bampoe Addo, its Executive Secretary, and copied to the Ghana News Agency.

The statement follows calls from Dr Kwabena Donkor, Member of Parliament for Pru East, for staff of the Ministry of Finance to be reprimanded for cheering the Minister after the presentation of the 2024 Budget Statement.

CLOGSAG said since 2017 it had issued series of press releases and wrote officially to the presidency against those appointments and that civil servants could not be blamed for the behaviour of party activists seeking political favours.

‘In this murky environment, no attempt should be made to sacrifice ordinary civil servants,’ it said, urging Dr Kwabena Donkor to call for
violations at the Ministry to be addressed instead of calling out ‘innocent’ civil servants.

Source: Ghana News Agency

Alhajj Maulvi Noor Muhammad Bin Salih, Ameer and Missionary in-charge of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Mission, Ghana, has led a delegation to pay a courtesy call on the Management of the University of Education, Winneba (UEW).

The meeting, held at the North Campus Council Chamber of UEW, is purposely to deepen relationship between the Mission and the University to enhance quality education in the country.

The Vice Chancellor, Prof. Stephen Jobson Mitchual, briefed the delegation about the University’s role of training educators at all levels across the country and beyond, and commended the Mission for its continuous advocacy for global peaceful coexistence, emphasising the importance of religious cohesion and tranquillity globally.

The VC further applauded the Mission for its many unique contributions to Ghana’s growth, particularly in hospitality, provision of scholarship to Ahmadiyya students as well as establishment of over 400 schools across the country.

Prof. Mitchual expressed appreciation for the visit an
d further congratulated the Mission for the services it was rendering in the country’s educational sector and expressed the need for them to continue with such services.

He called for closer working relationship between the Mission and the University to help drive the educational sector in the country.

The Ameer, for his part, stressed the need for total commitment to education as a common goal between the Mission and the University to promote global peace.

He emphasised that UEW had played monumental role in Ghana’s Educational Sector and called for continuous closer working relationship between the Mission and the University to drive quality of education for Ghanaian citizens and others.

The Mission had over the years been giving scholarship to students of the University, he noted and pledged to continue offering such scholarship to deserving students and support the University when their services were needed.

Later Alhajj Maulvi Bin Salih presented some books to the University and prayed for the peace
and development to reign in the University.

The meeting was attended by Management and other Senior Staff of the University.

Source: Ghana News Agency

Accra Great Olympics were held to a goalless draw by Samartex 1996 in a match week 11 encounter at the Accra Sports Stadium.

Great Olympics with the point move to sixth position while FC Samartex stay third on the league table.

The first of many chances fell for Great Olympics Kekeli, whose header from close range in the 10th minute struck the post.

Great Olympics were largely dominant in the first half hour of the game, keeping possession and moving the ball around with finesse.

Samartex were not too bad in the first half, but they were left to shoot from long range as the Great Olympics kept it tight at the back.

Despite creating good chances, Great Olympics failed to capitalise as they were held by Samartex going into recess.

Samartex started the second half on the front foot and Ebenezer Ocran came close for his side in the 55th minute, but his effort was saved by Great Olympics goalkeeper Benjamin Asare.

The second half was very cagey, with too many fouls disrupting the flow of the game.

Great O
lympics found a bit of the playing rhythm in the late stages of the second but couldn’t create any clear-cut chances to trouble Samartex goalkeeper Kofi Baah.

The game ended scoreless, with both sides sharing the spoils.

Source: Ghana News Agency