Douala: Orphanage calls for help over bedbugs invasion


By Charity Nginyu

Nouvelle Destinée Orphanage, located in the Lendi neighborhood within the Douala Five municipality has called out for help following an invasion of bedbugs on their facility.

According to reports the orphanage has since last year December been besieged by an unwelcome invasion of bed bugs, hindering comfort in the facility initially meant to provide solace and care for its residents.

Ms. Ndzana Solange, manager of the orphanage while talking to Griote shared the harrowing ordeal of their struggle.

She revealed that essential items such as beds, mattresses, and cribs were recently donated to the facility, but they were unfortunately tainted by the presence of bed bugs.

Even after efforts to sanitize and disinfect the donated goods, the resilient pests persisted.

The municipal authorities of Douala Five also at a certain point intervened, attempting to quell the infestation through a targeted spraying campaign. However, their efforts proved to be in vain as the bed bugs stubbornly endure
d.

In light of the said crisis, Ndzana revealed that she found herself compelled to make a difficult decision for the welfare of the orphanage’s 80 occupants, a majority of whom are children, including 12 vulnerable newborns.

With no alternative recourse in sight, she has issued a heartfelt plea to the community, calling on compassionate souls to come to their aid.

Source: Cameroon News Agency

Samuel Eto’o participates in charity match with French President, other world figures


The President of the Cameroon Football Federation, Samuel Eto’o, has participated in a gala match in Lyon France, aimed at raising funds to improve the daily lives of children and teenagers in hospital.

The game played at the Bernard Giroux stadium, featured two teams; Variétés Club de France in which French President, Emmanuel Macron played alongside media personalities and former football players, and the team of caregivers whom Eto’o played with.

The initiative led by the Pieces Jaunes foundation, was watched by several high-profile personalities including the French first lady Brigitte Macron, who is the president of the charity organization.

Other world personalities present included the coach of the France national team, Didier Deschamps, world renowned coach Arsene Wenger, Didier Drogba, and Eden Hazard among others.

The 2024 event marked 35 years since the initiative was founded.

Source: Cameroon News Agency

Election 2024: Difficult-to-access voter registration centres in Greater Accra


The Electoral Commission of Ghana (EC) will commence nation-wide voter registration exercise from May 7 to May 27, 2024.

The EC has designated 1,068 centres for exercise across the country.

The centres comprise the Commission’s 268 district offices, 25 public universities, and 775 difficult-to-access Electoral Areas.

The centres in the difficult-to-access electoral areas have been created as part of EC’s efforts to ensure that all eligible voters would be registered for the 2024 polls.

Below are the difficult-to-access electoral areas in the Greater Accra Region with their start dates and end dates.

REGION: GREATER ACCRA

DISTRICT ELECTORAL AREA NAME REGISTRATION CENTRE NAME START DATE END DATE

GA SOUTH AKWEIMAN UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MGT STUDIES. NEW APLAKU 7TH MAY, 2024 8TH MAY, 2024

AKWASA MA PRIM SCH. AKWEIMAN 9TH MAY, 2024 10TH MAY, 2024

KUTUNSE KOANS ESTATE, KUTUNSE A 9TH MAY, 2024 10TH MAY, 2024

GA WEST KWASHIEKUMA ANGLICAN CHURCH ARDEYMAN A 11TH MAY, 2024 12TH MAY, 2024

MAN
HEAN M/A PRIM SCH MANHEAN 1 A 13TH MAY, 2024 14TH MAY, 2024

GA CENTRAL AGAPE PENTECOST LORRY STATION GONSE 11TH MAY, 2024 12TH MAY, 2024

LEDZOKUKU NII ASHITEY AKONFRA C21 ASSEMBLIES OF GOD CHURCH 8TH MAY 2024 9TH MAY 2024

KROWOR NII LAWEH ZIMMERMAN PRESBY CHAPEL NUNGUA 2 18TH MAY, 2024 19TH MAY, 2024

KPONE KATAMANSO BOSSAH FINGER OF GOD CHURCH KUBEKRO 8TH MAY 2024 9TH MAY 2024

TUNMAI VALLEY VIEW UNIVERSITY OYIBI 10th MAY 2024 11TH MAY 2024

MLITSAKPO ASSEMBLIES OF GOD CHHURCH. ATAA SAKI 12TH MAY 2024 13TH MAY 2024

ONYAI-NSHI UCC DISTANCE LEARNING CENTRE.SANTEO 14TH MAY 2024 15TH MAY 2024

APPOLONIA MARANATHA METH. CHURCH KUSIBRI 16TH MAY 2024 17TH MAY 2024

ONUKPAI-ABU TMA PRIMARY SCHOOL GONTEN 18TH MAY 2024 19TH MAY 2024

GBETSELI PURE OIL CHURCH GBETSELI 21ST MAY 2024 22ND MAY 2024

SHAI-OSUDOKU ASUTSUARE KIP CONFERENCE HALL ASUTSUARE 7TH MAY, 2024 8TH MAY, 2024

AGORTOR LA PRIM SCH. AGORTOR 9TH MAY, 2024 10TH MAY, 2024

KORTORKOR PRESBY PRIM SCH. ADAKOPE
11TH MAY, 2024 12TH MAY, 2024

NINGO PRAMPRAM LALLUEKPO APOSTOLIC REVELATION CHURCH – DAWHENYA 9TH MAY, 2024 10TH MAY, 2024

MATAHEKO D/A JHS – MATHAHEKO 11TH MAY, 2024 12TH MAY, 2024

ADA WEST CAESARKOPE DC PRIMARY CAESARKOPE 7TH MAY, 2024 8TH MAY, 2024

AFIADENYIGBA DC PRIMARY AFIADENYIGBA 9TH MAY, 2024 10TH MAY, 2024

MATSEKOPE JHS MATSEKOPE 1 11TH MAY, 2024 12TH MAY, 2024

LOLONYA DC PRIMARY LOLONYA 1 13TH MAY, 2024 14TH MAY, 2024

WOKUMAGBE DC PRIMARY WOKUMAGBE 3 15TH MAY, 2024 16TH MAY,2024

AKPLABANYA JHS AKPLABANYA 17TH MAY,2024 18TH MAY,2024

ADA EAST KASSEH KASSEH CLINIC 1 11TH MAY, 2024 12TH MAY, 2024

PUTE PUTE JHS 1 13TH MAY, 2024 14TH MAY, 2024

AFLIVE/AZIZAKPE/ALORKPE DC PRIMARY ALORKPEM 15TH MAY,2024 16TH MAY, 2024

Source: Ghana News Agency

Election 2024: Voter Registration Centres in Greater Accra


The Electoral Commission (EC) has designated 1,068 centres for the upcoming voter registration exercise nationwide, which will begin from May 7 to May 27, 2024.

The centres include the Commission’s 268 district offices, 25 public universities, and 775 difficult-to-access electoral areas across the country.

The 1,068 centres are those that have been gazetted for the registration, Mr Samuel Tettey, Deputy Chairman in charge of Operations at the EC, told the Ghana News Agency.

In the Greater Accra Region, registration will take place in 31 District Offices of the Commission.

Prospective voters in Ga South will register at Block A 11, 33 and 34 GICEL, SCC, New Weija West.

Those in Weija Gbawe will register at Architectural and Engineering Service Limited (AESL) Building, I.T.S Road, opposite Weija-Gbawe Municipal Assembly.

At Ga Central, the exercise will take place at Dan Salo Street, Sowutuom Last Stop, Ga North at the National Identification Authority’s Office at Amamorley, Ga West at Ga West Municipal
Assembly, whilst Ga East will take place at Kwabenya-Atomic MA 5 Basic School Library.

At La Nkwantanang/Madina, registration will take place at the EC’s Office opposite Silver Hair Spa, Madina New Road Market, and Rawlings Circle.

People in Ayawaso East, Ayawaso North, Ayawaso Central, Ayawaso West, and Korley Klottey will all go to the Electoral Commission Head Quarters premises, Castle Road.

Those in Okaikwei South Metro will have their centre near Kaneshie Market and Criples Home, Nii Asere Ayitey Road.

Ablekuma South Sub-Metro will register within the premises of Nii Kojo Ababio Cluster of Schools (Korlegonno), while Ashiedu Keteke Sub-Metro will be at City Engineers Building, near Light House (GPHA) John Evans Atta Mills High Street.

Okaikwei North will go to Achimota District Court, Ablekuma North will be at Banyard – Odorkor, along the George Walker Bush Highway, Ablekuma Central will go the Local Government premises, Laterbiokoshie, whilst Ablekuma West will register at Dansoman, at the Ablekuma
West Municipal Assembly premises.

La Dadekotopon will be at Kaajarno South La Estate, 2nd Kaajarno Sreet.

Ledzokuku will go to Oak Street, Teshie, near Ledzokuku Municipal Assembly, whilst those in Krowor will register at Nungua, Brigade Hill Top, Cactus Street.

Tema Metro will have their centre at Tema Metro Office, Community 4 Near Prisco Park, No. 4 Kokofu Park, whereas Tema West will be at Old Mexico School Block, Community 2, Tema.

Kpong Katamanso will go to New Police Station Office, Khrida Estates, Kpone Kokompe Junction.

The people of Ashaiman will go to First Floor of the Tema Highway Building, Lebanon Ashaiman, Opposite Lebanon International School and Mosque.

Those in Adentan will register at No. 14 Ayebeng Avenue, Adentan Housing Down, whilst those in Shai-Osudoku will be at Dodowa, Education, near Fire Service Office.

Ningo Prampram will have their centre adjacent Prampram SHS Gate, New Site through Noble Estate Road.

Ada West people will go to Battor Road, Kaiser Street, behind ECG Offic
e, whilst those in Ada East will register at Forestry Commision, Luhuese-Ada Foah Road, Luhuese.

Out of the 25 public universities designated for voter registration, Greater Accra has six.

University of Ghana, Legon, will have the registration centre at Legon Hall Main.

University of Professional Studies, Accra, will have the centre behind the University’s Graduate School.

Ghana Communication Technology University will have the registration centre at the Engineering Block.

Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) will have the centre at the Forecourt of the GIMPA Administration.

Registration at UniMAC (GIJ, School of Languages and NAFTI) will take place at the Forecourt of the School’s Administration.

Accra Technical University will have the registration centre at the Akwaaba Lodge.

The EC’s Deputy Chairman in charge of Operations said individuals below 18 years and non-Ghanaians were not qualified to register, stressing that, ‘attempts by unqualified persons to register is an o
ffence.’

Source: Ghana News Agency

Mama Hodzige seeks support for Menstrual Hygiene Project


Mama Hodzige II, Divisional Queen mother of Klik or-Agblorgame, has appealed to individuals and corporate organisations interested in the development of the girl-child to support her ‘Menstrual Hygiene Project’ with menstrual pads.

Engaging with the Ghana News Agency (GNA) in an interview at Klikor in the Ketu South Municipality of the Volta Region, Mama Hodzige, said she conceived the idea after realising that many girls absented themselves from school duing menstrual periods.

‘Some of the girls in my community are not regular in school and my interactions with them shows their parents can not afford to get them sanitary pads when they are in their menstrual flow.’

‘I decided to do this small project to support them with sanitary pads’, she added.

She said, ‘menstruation is not a choice’, so everyone should ‘get committed to support the girl-child’ to stay in school and learn.

Mama Hodzige II, also the Ketu South Municipal Director of the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE), asked those inter
ested in the Project to call +233 24 355 3461 for their support.

Source: Ghana News Agency

Ndian:Selfstyled general mad dog killed in military operation


By Ande Nanja Rene.

The Population of Mbonge Subdivision has celebrated the sudden death of notorious Ambazonia commander, selfstyled General Mad Dog of the Ribbons of Ambazonia.

To the locals, Desmond Koa, popularly known as Mad Dog, has been a menace and terror to the population of Meme and Ndian Divisions.

He was murdered alongside four of his peers by elements of the Repid Intervention Battalion BIR, in Bombele, Mbonge Subdivision, following a Military Invasion of the area on Wednesday April 24, 2024.

Mad Dog recently banned Mondays farming in Meme and Ndian Divisions.

He also recently destroyed and burnt hundreds of National Identification documents of locals and was also accused killing repentant Amba fighter, Mbaku Jean of Kwakwa, late last January this year.

He also murdered a driver plus two passengers in Nganjo in mid-January.

In July last year, Mad Dog brutally murdered two inhabitants of Kombone Bakundu, Mukete Thaddeus and Obie Lyonga, labelling them ‘Blacklegs’.

His corpse will he displa
yed at the Kumba BICEC Junction where government forces have been displaying corpses of deceased Separatists.

Source: Cameroon News Agency

Asante-Akim Central NDC challenges some projects on performance tracker


The Asante-Akim Central branch of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), has questioned the inclusion of certain projects in the government’s performance tracker launched on April 10, this year.

According to the party, some of the projects purported to have been executed in the constituency were non-existent with others being inherited projects from the NDC.

Addressing a press conference at Konongo, Mr. Kofi Seidu, the Constituency Communication Officer, described the inclusion of some of the projects as deceptive and barefaced lies intended to hoodwink Ghanaians.

‘They claim that they have built cassava processing factory at Ahyiaem and there is no factory located at Ahyiaem.

He said the party was shocked to see on the tracker that they started the 60-bed Konongo Government Hospital in 2017 and completed same in 2022 when it was public knowledge that the said project was almost completed before NDC left office in 2017.

Mr. Seidu said the inclusion of a Central Government on its performance tracker that
it had provided streetlights to communities was not the case.

‘A Central government is telling you and the people of Asante-Akim Central that they have given us streetlights, a project that can be done by a unit committee chairman,’ he stated.

The Communication Officer also denied claims on the tracker that the NPP government had done a water expansion project at Konongo, saying that the tracker failed to indicate where exactly the project was done.

He said it was a palpable falsehood perpetrated by the government to woo votes in the upcoming general election in December.

Mr. Seidu clarified that the water expansion project was done by the administration of former President John Dramani Mahama at Agyareago and that the current government had no business claiming it as part of its achievements.

He also challenged the inclusion of an iron rod factory at Odumase which is 100 per cent owned by an Indian on the tracker.

‘It is instructive to note that some of these so-called achievements as captured by the t
racker are non-existent with most of them being projects undertaken by former President Mahama,’ the Communication Officer noted.

He further stated that, ‘Is it not absurd that a government that has borrowed and had more money than any other government in the history of the Fourth Republic will be struggling to account to the good people of Asante-Akim Central which is their stronghold?

He said it was high time for the media as partners in development to hold the feet of the government to the fire of accountability because taxes and resources of Ghanaians had been entrusted to them.

Source: Ghana News Agency

Independent Presidential Candidate promises Ghana’s liberation under his watch


Mr Wilberforce Andrews, an Independent Presidential Candidate has promised to emancipate Ghana from sovereign insolvency stress, cascading taxation, and unemployment if voted into power.

Mr Andrews, a native of Enyan Denkyira in the Ajumako-Enyan-Essiam District of the Central Region, gave the assurance in a press release announcing his ambition as an Independent Presidential Candidate.

A release with the title: ‘Third Force, Free Travelling Passport-Free Visa,’ copied to the Ghana News Agency (GNA), stated that he would initiate a free compulsory traveling passport to solve the many chronic problems of Ghana’s economy.

Mr Andrews was the former Executive member of United Nations International Monitory Fund (IMF) and distance member of American Administration of President Joe Biden.

He said the free passport would be embedded with a chip containing everyone’s detailed information to replace Voter’s Identity Cards and the Ghana Card, to become a major identity for all legal and official transactions and se
rve as security check to track down criminals.

He said if the electorate gave him the nod, he would also encourage travelling for greener pastures to help stop the galamsey menace, which was destroying the country’s river bodies, lands and forestry.

Mr Andrews stated that the creation and promotion of football as an employment opportunity would also be one of his topmost priorities, with the construction of modern football training pitches across the country and motivate players in local teams by paying them.

There would also be a pension scheme for Cocoa farmers to encourage more people to opt for agriculture as a source of employment.

Again, he said he would collaborate with private companies to fix the country’s energy crisis, to put an end to ‘dumsor’.

He said as a Third Force Independent President, all his initiatives would be towards the national development plan and not in favour of political party and family members.

Source: Ghana News Agency

South West Governor welcomes Elite One champions, Victoria United


The Limbe based elite one outfit, Victoria United arrived the premises of the governor’s office with a crowd of supporters.

The team which two 2 years ago were promoted into the elite one was described as the pride of the sea side city of Limbe and the rest of the South West by various speakers who took turns to speak.

The president of Victoria United, Nkwain Valentine who took over the club in 2019 had promised that the team will play the CAF championship.

With a dream come through, he lauded the support of the South West Governor and other stakeholders who believed and stood by the team.

The Victoria United president said it wasn’t an easy journey to the top. However, they are determined not only to win but to use football and disarm separatist fighters in the bushes.

‘I’m very sure we are going to go far in the African Championship. I’m sure we can bring the cup to South West,’ he affirmed.

Ndazeh Valerie Nchiakeh, president of the South West bearuea of the Federation of Cameroon Football (FECAFOOT)
said a lot had changed for South West football in just few years. He explained that prior to the emergence of their leadership, the region was barely heard in football despite the infrastructure it boost off.

Mr. Ndazeh then informed the governor that the victory is clear indication that the sporting endowment in the region are being effectively used and the trophy is going to inspire most youths in the region.

With joy, the South West Governor received the trophy which stands as first of it’s kind in the administrative unit.

He noted that the win was a show that hardwork pays off and ‘the South West region is standing tall. The South West region is doing well.’

Highlighting the significance of the win, the senior administrator said it was testament of the living together in the South West. ‘We are the South West region, the historical laboratory of living together,’ he remarked.

Through the elected representatives present, the South West boss called on the population of the region to mobilize and provid
e the necessary support to the team.

He concluded by calling on the team to remian vigilant and ensure healthy collaboration at all levels. Upgrade their performances and remain discipline to attain more victories.

The South West Governor handed a cash envelope to the team. Senator Mbella Moki, in same manner gifted the team 1 million francs. Victoria United will be competing in the CAF championship.

Source: Cameroon News Agency