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Former Indomitable Lion, Achille Emana’s naked pictures have been circulating online, after his ex-girlfriend leaked the nudes and made a long voice note castigating the former footballer at the time he grieved his mother’s death.

Achille lost his mother, Maryvonne Eyango, on April 2, in Toulouse, France, and was accompanied by friends and family members on Saturday, April 27, for the funeral in the Leboudi neighbourhood in Yaounde.

On the same day of the burial, the player’s ex-girlfriend diverted attention from the funeral to his sex tapes which she leaked with a voice recording.

In the long voice note, the ex-girlfriend described Achille as an irresponsible and ungrateful man. She said she has done many favours for the player which he has never appreciated, adding that he is an alcoholic and mocking him saying he is ‘bad in bed’.

The woman’s act has been condemned by many, and considered disrespectful to the player’s late mother. However, Achille, 41, is not new to controversial relationship matters since his career ended in 2020.

The former attacking midfielder had 42 caps with the national team, and played for Toulouse, Betis and several other clubs in Arab countries, as well as in Japan and Mexico.

Source: Cameroon News Agency

The Nungua Traditional Council has performed ‘Jenten Nishwamo’ -a traditional rite ahead of this year’sHomowo celebrations.

Jenten Nishwamo is a pre-Homowo rite performed to feed the gods with a traditional unleavened corn-made dish-‘kpokpoi’ prepared by the traditional priests and priestess of the area.

This is done by the traditional authorities to feed the deities of the traditional area.

It means that that the gods would not partake in the Kpoikpoi that would be prepared during the actual Homowo festival.

The rite commenced in the morning with the preparation of the meal by the traditional priests and priestess in a sacred space at the Kpowulu No, which represented the Gborbu Groove.

Only a few people were permitted by Nuumo Borketey Laweh Tsuru XXXIII, Gborbu Wulomo-Shitse to witness the preparation, with those doing the cooking prohibited from talking. They used sign langyage.

The Gborbu Wulomo, in Nungua custom and traditions, serves as the interface between the people and the ‘living god’ and th
eir 99 gods; he is also described as the Overlord of the GaDangbe State.

After the preparation, the Oofu Wulomo, second in command to the Gborbu Wulomo, carried the dish in his arms whilst the Gorbu Wulomo-Shitse sprinkled it at the temples of the 99 gods of the GaDangbe State.

Nii Bortey Frankwa, Mankralo of Nungua Traditional Area, said the event was of traditional and historic significance and helped to keep the earth in balance since Nungua fell within the centre of the world.

He said the traditional rite dated back to their historical stay in Israel and had been in existence for more than 820 years.

Nii Frankwa said what made today’s ceremony exceptional was the involvement of Naa Yoomo Ayemode, the newest priestess of the Gborbu shrine, who was unveiled recently.

He said the ceremony also paved way for them to be able to eat the new corn after feeding the gods.

Nii Frankwa said they would be performing seven more traditional rites before the start of the actual Homowo celebrations in July.

Homowo
, also known as Kplejoo, is a traditional festival of GaDangbes in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana.

The festival starts at the end of April into May with the planting of crops before the rainy season starts.?

The GaDangbe people celebrate Homowo in the remembrance of famine, which they experienced in precolonial Ghana.

Source: Ghana News Agency

Mr Thomas Mensah, a Deacon of Believers Temple Assemblies of God, has encouraged Ghanaians, especially, Christians to work diligently to promote national development.

‘It’s true that it’s God’s blessings that make us prosper, but God also encourages us to be diligent; you don’t leave your work to be reading your bible during working hours, it amounts to doing the right thing at the wrong time,’ he said.

Mr Mensah was delivering a sermon on Sunday, April 28, on the theme: ‘My work as my service to God’.

He explained that when people took their work as a service they were rendering to God, it would take away shoddiness, noting that apathetic attitude towards work had been a major setback to Ghana’s progress.

He stated that people sometimes went to the extent of pretending to be sick and stayed home or attended to private activities.

‘We often say that the public sector work is not something that one must work wholeheartedly. This shouldn’t be the situation as it doesn’t auger well for national development,
‘ he said.?

On corruption, Mr Mensah said some people demanded monies were paid to them before a service that had already been paid for was rendered.

‘We often accuse politicians of corruption, yet at our offices, we would not render some service to people until they paid unjustified money for that service.? This ought to stop,’ he said.

He encouraged Ghanaians to continue to work hard, using Proverbs 12:11, which reads: ‘those who work their land will have abundant food, but those who chase fantasies have no sense,’ as a reference.

Source: Ghana News Agency

Scores of people Saturday thronged the Forecourt of the State House to show last respect and bid final farewell to Martin Kwabena Kwakye, popularly known as ‘Wofa K.K’, the Director of Oman FM at Kencity Media Limited.

As early as 0500 hours, some sympathisers already made their way to the venue to secure seats.

The arrival and laying of his mortal remains in state aroused intense emotions as many could not hold their tears back seeing the once vibrant and articulate political show host lying lifeless.

It was an atmosphere marked by repeated sessions of weeping and sad faces depicting people, who felt dejected, shocked and overwhelmed with many unanswered questions about life.

The venue was beautifully set up with a touch of class and detail for every bit of decoration.

Wofa K.K’s pictures were hugely displayed at several parts of the venue with others embossed all over the canopies.

Many sympathisers were clad in custom-made funeral prints having the late Kwabena Kwakye’s picture on them.

The funeral
was attended by high profile personalities, including President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo; Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia; Mr Kennedy Ohene Agyapong, Chief Executive Officer of Kencity Media Limited; Mr Alan Kwadwo Kyerematen, Founder and Leader of Movement for Change; government officials and several heavyweights of the New Patriotic Party (NPP).

Also in attendance were personalities from religious groups, media, academic and traditional authorities.

Tributes poured in from his family and several individuals and institutions such as the Kencity Group, Board of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC), the NPP, Gospel Music trio-Daughters of Glorious Jesus, Resurrection Power and Living Bread Ministries International, and the Ghana Journalists Association.

The central theme in the tributes is his love for the things of God, selflessness, benevolence and good human relations.

Bishop Boakye Acheampong, Accra East Regional Overseer, Resurrection Power and Living Bread Ministries International,?d
uring his sermon, urged everyone to live for God and always give Him first place in their lives.

He said many people were struggling to find their feet in life because they had abandoned God’s word and embraced other belief systems outside the Christian faith.

The Clergyman said one’s refusal to believe in the existence of God would not change the truth about Him and urged them to apply themselves daily to God’s word which was able to keep them from error.

Family and loved ones were cut to the heart when the mortal remains of Martin Kwabena Kwakye was being put into a hearse to be taken away for interment at the Sekyere Kwaman Cemetery in the Ashanti Region.

They swarmed around the vehicle amidst wailing, making it difficult for the pallbearers to have easy access to the vehicle.

Kwakye Kwakye fainted at the workplace and was rushed to the University of Ghana Medical Centre where he died hours later, according to his family.

Wofa K.K is a seasoned journalist with over two decades of experience.

He had
worked with Adom 106.3 FM, a subsidiary radio station of the Multimedia Group Limited.

Before his death, he was the host of Oman FM’s political show ‘Boiling Point’.

Mr Kwakye was born on October 18, 1970.

He died on Wednesday, February 14, 2024 after fainting at his workplace.

He is succeeded by his wife and four children.

Source: Ghana News Agency

Industry Players have underscored the urgent need for Managements of Tertiary Institutions, to integrate Information Technology (IT) in their programmes to provide students with the skills needed for the contemporary job market.

They made the call at an event on the ‘Employer Skills Seminar (EMSIS) micro project,’ organised by the Industrial Liaison Office of the Bolgatanga Technical University (BTU).

It was supported by the Education Collaborative and Ashesi University on the BTU campus and aimed to prepare students for the job market.

The event was the Fifth faculty-based seminar with beneficiary students coming from the school of Business and Management Studies (SOBAMS).

They said with the current trend, it would be difficult for fresh graduates to get employed without having skills in IT.

Mr Fuseini Nantogma, the Finance Officer of the Garu District Assembly, said with the introduction of the Ghana Integrated Financial Management Information System (GIFMIS), all government transactions and expenditur
e were automated.

He said all professionals who were heads of the various departments of the state institutions such as an Accountant, Procurement Officer, Planner, Secretary, Transportation Officer needed to acquire skills in IT before one could function effectively.

Mr Fidelis Amobire, a Procurement Officer of the Bolgatanga East District Assembly, narrated the challenges some of his colleagues who did not have IT skills went through during the introduction of GIFMIS, saying, such persons were forced to learn, to save them from being dismissed.

Mr Samuel Aduko, the Director of Procurement of BTU, stated that Heads of Department of State institutions were required to validate their staff on monthly basis and likewise, Private Sectors including financial institutions also relied heavily on IT in their operations.

He underscored the need for students to take the study of IT very seriously since it was one of the gateways of securing employment.

‘Whether you are an Accountancy student, Procurement student,
Secretaryship and Management student, Agriculture student, Building and Technology student, Industrial Art student, you need to acquire IT skills,’ he said.

Mr Alexis Ayamdor, the Project Lead, explained that the decision of his outfit to organise the seminars was that a Tracer study was conducted in 2022 which revealed that only 30 per cent of BTU students who graduated from the school in 2019 got employed.

He urged BTU to partner with Education Collaborative and Ashesi University under the Employability and Career services programme to initiate this intervention.

Mr Ayamdor said extra curriculum activities played a major role in career success and applauded Education Collaborative through Ashesi University for supporting with a grant of 3,000.000 US dollars to implement the project.

He entreated the students to be very assertive and confident and not to be timid in undertaking any school or public assignment.

Professor Theophilus Azungah, the Dean of School of Business and Management Studies, commended
the Industrial Players for spending their time to share such valuable and informative experiences about the job market and urged the students to make good use of what they had acquired from the seminar.

He said the series of seminars fell in line with the University’s Strategic Plan and thanked the implementing department (Industrial Liaison office) and the donors for the support.

The students who were drawn from the School of Business and Management Studies included Accounting and Finance, Procurement and Logistic Management, Secretaryship and Management, Liberal studies, Marketing and Communication academic departments and were also schooled on the Code of Ethics of the Civil Servants.

Source: Ghana News Agency

A six-day training programme on the Essentials of Environmental and Social Risk Management has ended in Accra with a call on participants to mainstream or prioritise issues of environmental management in executing development projects.

The programme christened ‘Essentials of Environmental and Social Risk Management (ESRM) is in collaboration with the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) and the Regional Transport Research and Education Centre of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), funded by the World Bank Group.

The fourth session of the programme trained 35 participants from the Ministries, Departments, and Agencies, local government and public service in Ghana, after countries like Nigeria, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Uganda participated in previous courses.

The aim of the programme is to train participants to manage ESRM associated with projects being implemented on the continent for sustainable development.

Ms Nneka Okereke, Senior Social Development S
pecialist, World Bank Office in Accra, said GIMPA and KNUST had a credible pedigree in educational excellence.

She was optimistic that the comprehensive training would build the capacities and competencies of participants for the broader good of development outcomes in World Bank-funded projects and other development partners.

That, she stressed, would help the World Bank finance development projects that mainstream environmental and social risk management practices.

Currently, she said the World Bank required the establishment and usage of environmental and social frameworks for development projects before funding them.

‘As time goes on and as competencies are built and system strengthened in line with International best practices, then incredentally the government system can be used to implement those operations to reduce time that projects take.

‘It will also deepen the understanding of the use and sustainability of environmental and social aspects of development projects,’ she said.

She expressed sa
tisfaction about the level of participants’ commitment to the programme, culminating in their excellent case study presentations on environmental and social risk management and field experiences.

‘The interest is there; they grasped the practicality of what we really envisage for them, and we are very confident that the participants would make a positive impact in their various fields of disciplines in addressing environmental issues,’ she said.

Mr Paul Rex Danquah, Senior Consultant, GIMPA Training and Consulting, said the participants were taken through 10 modules, including stakeholder mapping, sustainable procurement, conflict management, grievance redress, environmental impact assessment, social inclusion, and gender.

He said it was the expectation of the World Bank to equip the participants with the knowledge to incorporate the modules in their planning and designing of social and environmental programmes for better outcomes.

He advised the participants to put into practice the knowledge they had ac
quired to enhance quality outcomes in project management in Ghana and beyond the African continent.

Professor Helen Essandoh, Director, Regional Transport Research and Education Centre, KNUST, said the course was launched in November 2022, to increase the capacity of environmental experts to manage development projects.

She advised the participants to form a network and share ideas on best practices for enhancing environmental and social risk management activities.

Mr Usama Iddrisu Samu, a participant working as Chief Development Planning Officer, Sunyani Municipal Assembly, said the programme had equipped him to conduct effective evaluations of proposals for consultants to undertake social safeguards.

Madam Gloria Akoto Bamfo, Principal Statistician, Ghana Statistical Service, said the knowledge she acquired would help her to include social safeguards in implementing the World Bank programme dubbed ‘Harmonisation and Improving Statistics in West Africa.’

Source: Ghana News Agency