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The Omanhene of the New Juaben Traditional Council, Daasebre Prof. (Emeritus) Oti Boateng has commended waste management experts Zoomlion Ghana Limited for the introduction of the 1 Million waste Bin Project .
The project aims at ensuring that there is a waste bin in every household in Ghana.
He welcomes the introduction of the project in his traditional area during the launching of his Root-Based Development Model (RBM) project dubbed ‘’Operation Clean Communities’’ in Koforidua.
This health-driven initiative by the Omanhene is one of the six thematic development concerns of the Root-based model which is to complement the government’s effort to reduce the spread of COVID-19 and the four main communicable diseases in the Traditional Area.
Emmanuel accused the Chief Executive Officer of Otado Investment Limited -a private company in Koforidua the Eastern regional capital of collapsing his marriage after philandering with his wife who was working with the company. According to Emmanuel who was a fuel pump attendant, he became friends with the CEO – Nathaniel Oti Anim in 2009 as a loyal client and took him as his father. He said later around 2014, the CEO offered him a job opportunity in his company but pleaded with the CEO to employ his girlfriend – Hannah who had lost her job then. The CEO employed her on February 1, 2014. Fast-forward, the CEO got married in 2015 for the second time after his first divorce while Emmanuel also married his longtime girlfriend on 13th February 2016. He later started his own business after he quit the fuel station work.
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Low usage of Long Lasting Insecticide Treated Bed Nets (LLITNs) identified in New Juaben South Municipality remain a grave challenge to Ghana’s drive in achieving zero malaria.
This is because many people in the Municipal capital, Koforidua, in the Eastern Region, though have access to the treated nets, fail to use them due to social myths and perceptions.
Some claimed they had no space to hang the nets because of their large family sizes, while others said it was uncomfortable sleeping under it as it produced heat.
This came to light in a survey conducted by Ghana News Agency between January and February 2021 in over 12 communities within the Municipality.
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The Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) for New Juaben South in the Eastern Region, Mr Isaac Appaw-Gyasi, has called on Imams and pastors to ensure that their congregants continue to observe physical distancing and the wearing of nose masks in the mosques and in churches.
He said it was only through that that worshippers would be protected against the COVID-19 pandemic.
According to him, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo would not be happy if people from the municipality were not practising physical distancing in the mosques and churches.
Mr Appaw-Gyasi made the call when he shared 700 nose masks and 820 hand sanitisers to Muslims who congregated at the Koforidua Central Mosque to perform Jummah prayers last Friday.
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BY: Maclean Kwofi
Category: Education
Mr Isaac Appaw-Gyasi (right) and Dr Ghann cutting the tape to commission the cyber security centre as some staff look on
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The Koforidua Technical University (KTU) has opened a cyber security centre in Koforidua in collaboration with Cyber Ghana to train students in cyber security.
The new state-of-the-art facility, established by Cyber Ghana under the National Initiative for Cyber Engineering, Science, and Technology Educational Programme (NICESTEP), would offer consultancy services on cyber security and forensics; as well as hands-on training for interested persons to pioneer artificial knowledge studies in the region.