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A modernized  Savings Platform aimed at bridging the gap between the traditional way of saving popularly called Susu and Technology has been launched in Takoradi in the New Western Region of Ghana. The unprecedented Enterprise's App called Naa Sika Susu is built on Telegram Platform  and said to be highly secured with end-to-end encryption. The Project Leader, Mr Ralph Menz revealed this at the launch. According to him: "the App is so simple and Minimalist that, it can can be used by anyone with the simplest smartphone in any part of the country, and by people who can send a text message". He disclosed that Naa Sika Susu Enterprise is registered with the Bank of Ghana through the Ghana Co-operative Susu Collectors Association (GCSCA), the mother association which regulates activities of Susu companies in Ghana.  Currently, Naa Sika Susu Enterprise has three (3) savings plans, which is uniquely designed for the modern Ghanaian, namely; Aku Sika, Aya Sika and...

Photo of Mr Prince Ishmael Dimah Credible Provisional Results obtained by your trusted blog shows Mr Prince Ishmael Dimah has been elected as the Western Regional  Secretary for Ghana Association of Public Health Technical Officers (GAPHTO). He pulled 75 votes (representing 55%) whiles his contender Mr Prince Oppong-Darko had 62 votes. As part of his campaign message, he promised that  he will help resolve members issues with Allied Health Professions Council.  Other winners were: 1. President - Mr MacJonas Kambe 125 votes (91%) 2. Vice President - Mr Joseph WK Fiagbe 71 votes (52%) 3. Ms. Sandra Opare-Ansah 126 votes (92) The elections were done electronically on free online portal  https://vote.electionrunner.com/ Out of 230 voters, 137 voted, representing 59.6% voter turn out. In the meantime, we are waiting on the 5-member Electoral Committee to announce the certified results. Provisional Results Obtained  Story by: Obed Bangdome ...

The Ghana Association of Public Health Technical Officers (GAPHTO) chapter of the Western Region will tomorrow December 18, 2018 organize its General Elections to select new Regional Executives for the next four years. Since its inception in 1984 as Public Health Technical Officers Group (PUHTOG) and inauguration in 2006 as GAPHTO, the association has not been vivacious in the Western Region.  In recent times, the outgoing Regional Executives have been likened to H.E Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo (President of Equatorial Guinea) since they hold records as the longest serving Executives in the history of GAPHTO. Although, nominations were opened for six positions, members in the twenty-two Health Administrative districts filed for President (One Candidate), Vice President (Two Candidates), Secretary (Two Candidates) and Treasurer (One candidate). The position of Vice Secretary and Public Relations Officer were not contested.  Below is a brief profile of the ...

The Western Regional Health Directorate in collaboration with the Ghana Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) has launched a seven-day mass vaccination campaign against deadly viral haemorrhagic diease, Yellow fever in five selected districts in the region.  At the launch, Dr. Kofi Asemanyi-Mensah (Deputy Director in charge of Public Health) revealed that the exercise, which excludes pregnant women, would take place in the Bodi, Juaboso, Wassa Amenfi West, Wassa Amenfi Central and Wasa Amenfi East districts of the Western Region from 28th November to 4th December, 2018, for people aged between 10-60 years. He said the vaccination campaign would be extended to the remaining districts in the region in 2019, nonetheless these five districts were selected due to the fact that they have been classified in a 2010 assessment on Yellow fever as "very high risk". According to Dr Asemanyi-Mensah, tropical areas of Africa including Ghana and Latin America have been noted to ...

File Photo In the run-up to 2016 general elections, Ex-President John Dramani Mahama toured the length and breadth of Ghana to campaign to electorates to retain him for the second term. As a sitting president we all witnessed the long convoy which accompanied him to the nooks and crannies of Ghana. During a stopover at Asankrangwa in the Western region, a car from his convoy knocked down a 13-year old primary 4 pupil of the Buadum Primary school. The girl who has been identified as Joyce have remained crippled since the gory accident in 2016. Due to her current medical condition she has dropped out of school. Joyce’s mother who have abandoned her farms narrates that Joyce was staying with a foster mother in Asankrangwa and had been sent by the foster mother to go and sell pure water at the rally grounds when the ex-president arrived in the town. Whiles hawking, she was knocked down by a speeding car which was among the convoy of the Ex-President. The woman continues t...

Photo of Ricky Rick  Initially it was a joke on Facebook when news broke that Empire FM's Event Coordinator is the Judas between Starbwoy Ratty and his current girlfriend Nana Esi Hailzel. But after the news traveled to Accra leading to the tagging of Bola Ray's respected EIB Network, many expected that the man in the centre of the allegation Mr. Rick will come and deny or confirm the news, but his facebook friends are apparently defending him whiles he is still pressing his balls on Facebook like everything is normal. In case you have not heard, Starbwoy Ratty this afternoon published screenshots of conversations Empire Fm's Ricky Rick has been having with his girlfriend.  In one of those conversations Ricky reveals that he admires Nana Esi Haizel and even goes further to tell her to ditch Ratty for him.  Now let's turn our Bibles to Luke Gospel chapter 23, and read from verse 11 to 12: "Then Herod and his soldiers ridiculed and ...

Melody Fm's Haruna Babangida has disclosed that all is set to launch his brand multimedia outlet next year; Blackpride Multimedia aka BP Multimedia. Blackpride Multimedia has been in operation since 2014, but only took an official and wider service coverage in 2016.  Disclosing what motivated him to build the company, he says: "I was only putting my passion into a more broader or wider use". Even though commercial, he added that: "my prime objective or focus is to serve my patrons to the best of my ability, placing a lot of emphasis on customer satisfaction". Blackpride Multimedia is a full media production company, the company offers a lot of multimedia services like News, PR Campaign/Advertising, Documentaries ( eg. Wedding documentaries), Lifestyle Graphics/Graphic designing, Radio and Television commercial productions, Events Management/Video Coverage. With top quality equipment and professional crew, the company promises quality deliv...