Joy News Prime (3-9-21)

[Music] and coming up on johnny's prime the number of hungry people globally doubles since the outbreak of the covered 19 pandemic the world food program is urging government across africa to invest in agriculture production to avert a possible food insecurity also tonight the bird flu outbreak in ghana rages with at least seven regions recording cases tonight we'll take you to the bona region where officials are taking steps to protect birds there i have passed my district offices to be on the alert and look out for farms which are recording high mortality rates so that we will send samples to us when they will further send it to accra we also speak to the veterinary service for an update on measures they introduced to stem the tide later hyunjonese prime president of the apple west regional house of chiefs appeals to government to ensure roads built in the region of high quality to forestall the devastation suffered by the people in the recent flats expecting government we stated that we have been crying over our full state of road infrastructure of this region to government after governments and much later government begins distribution of laptops to teachers in public schools as it expresses confidence the move will improve quality of education and make the country globally competitive one lap one teacher one laptop program each teacher at every level of education from kindergarten to senior high school will receive a laptop in business fixing our infrastructure deficit first deputy governor of the bank of ghana calls for policy that will account for spending and ensure value for money first is the need to enhance efficiency of public spending expenditure rationalization and the value for money projects that will deliver projects more efficiently no matter the efforts we make towards enhancing domestic revenue mobilization we will continue to experience chronic fiscal deficits and a growing debt burden if we do not take steps to rationalize our expenditure levels we have details of these and more plus the latest in sports you want to stay with us on joining us prime coming to you live from our studios here at kukumelemain.com with your digital tv because you are free to air dstv channel 421 go tv this is your home of independent fearless credible and impactful journalism i am ernest mean [Music] [Music] health authorities in the ashanti region alarmed at the speeds of public misinformation and myths about the covert 19 vaccine among the misconception is a video in circulation but parting bodies of persons vaccinated in the ongoing exercise stand electromagnetic or deputy health director in charge of public health dr michael rockson aj fierce the myth if not addressed could breed vaccine hesitancy among the populists and the road gains made in the fight against covert 19 or him interior of our health decks is more in the following report in a viral social media video a man who claims to be a police officer alleges his mobile phone sticks to his body moments after taking his cover 19 vaccine the source of the video is unknown and the narration does not give information about the type of person he took baby the ashanti regional health director says it is concerned with this type of misinformation and several others in circulation the dietrich has launched investigations into the claim and several hardest in public domain dr michael roxinergy is the deputy health director in charge of public health we received complaint through the media of some persons becoming electromagnetic following covert 19 vaccinations we became very much alarmed so we set out to investigate the velocity of this we see it as a major threat now that we are getting a lot of vaccines but how true is the claim of the 19 vasons produce electromagnetic reactions to the human body we got individuals who have taken the vaccine at a vaccination point and then got them to attach their phone to the upper arm some of them the phone stuck momentarily and then fell off others didn't we also made these people wash the site vaccination with water to remove any um creams or oils that may be on the skin and also cleaned the surface of this phone with alcohol tissue to remove any oil on it and when they attach it it didn't so we we concluded that the serbian or that oil on the skin has a sticky property that is wax and oil mixed so that if you are if you have a serving of your skin you attach any material any light material like even plastic would attach a key or a touch joint news visited some vaccination centers including the kumasi metro clinic to test the claim on um the regional health directory says it will not launch a complaint with the ghana police service against the said officer for disciplinary action but it wants the police administration to take interest in persons who spread false information about covet 19 vasin anti-vaccine people always have um have an aim so we wouldn't want to take that action now the place where they can take actions without us making any formal complaints from kumasi for joy news ahim interior reporting now governments across africa have been urged to increase investment in agriculture production as the covered 19 pandemic increases food insecurity across the globe the wild food program has warned that the number of hungry people globally has doubled since the outbreak of the pandemic last year the alliance for green revolution in africa agra is leading efforts to help the continent expand more investment in the agricultural sector it's gathering african agricultural sector leaders for a summit next week to fashion out how to build more resilient farming systems in africa and within green revolution forum while the acting country manager of agra bashir musa is joining us via zoom for more on this we are grateful that you could join us again mr musa the question i asked you was for you to help us understand how covert 19 is impacting food security first of all in ghana then paint the continental picture for us thank you very much for having me uh obviously i mean the the equivalent implant damage has had you know negative impact on the agricultural sector globally not just ghana but then globally uh currently we are seeing farmers struggling to get the expected inputs like fertilizer and seeds um on on a timely basis and this is actually even compounded a situation where we have you know the the closure of our borders to human movement across the sub region which is also impacting negatively on food security among others at the same time we are also witnessing you know food price volatility as a direct result of the quoted 19. so for us i think what is important at this point is for all of us the media involved the government the private sector the development partners for us to really join forces and support the agricultural sector with the targeted financial investment and the moral support that it requires for for it to really be able to move in the next steps what is also really very important is that at this point in time the the the the corvid has really impacted the agricultural sector so it is a bit struggling so we need you know the the contribution of everybody the media the private sector the public sector for us to really engage the farmers because at this point in time they need much of our support at the moment and there have been efforts to meet the sustainable development goals now how do you see this uh you know this pandemic affecting the efforts to to meet that goal yeah the sustainable development goals one you know talks about no poverty the second one talks about zero hunger obviously the challenges you know like the equivalent 19 and also uh climate change you know are really threatening the effort to meet these goals and so for us i think what is also evident is the fact that we need to transform our food systems to make it more resilient and for us i mean the our situation would have been worse off had it not been for some kind of you know concerted effort by the government especially a case in point is the planting for food and jobs which has provided enormous amount of benefit to smallholder farmers you know in terms of them accessing inputs such as seeds and fertilizer this has really sort of you know watered down the the cola the colossal effect of these uh you know pandemic so in a way ghana has benefited a lot from the pfg but then what is also very critical is that we need to martial forces uh because i mean the critical factor is a recovery and how do we really you know sort of transform the the food systems in africa okay and just briefly before you go the alliance for green revolution forum uh is coming up next week what exactly is this about and you know how does this tackle the issue at hand you know i mean as a matter of fact food security is a matter of national security so the african grid revolution forum is one of the leading fora where matters of agricultural importance and for that matter african agricultural transformation is is is actually you know a very topical issue so this forum provides the platform where these issues are really discussed to the core passionately now the essence of it is to really inspire commitment and actions from all parties within the food ecosystem and so this year's agrf which is the 12th edition of the summit will be held in in the nairobi the capital of kenya from the 7th to the 10th of september and it is expected to bring a wide range of stakeholders from across africa including the government officials the private sector participants the development partners you know their academia the farmers to really discuss and fashion out how we can transform the african agricultural sector to ensure food security and income security at all levels thank you very much that's bashir mohammed the acting country manager for agra joining us there on the impact of covert 19 on food security but away from that the bad flu outbreak in ghana is raging with more regions recording cases at least seven regions have been hit by the virus with tens of thousands of beds either destroyed or dead at the start of the outbreak cabin throwed out containment measures including a ban on the move of beds movement of beds and enhanced contact tracing but that has not helped slow down the spread we'll speak to officials of the veterinary services shortly but first here's a report from the bonner region on how officials are working to ensure beds there are safe veterinary authorities in the bunuest region are instituting measures capable of preventing the outbreak of avian influenza popularly known as bed flu in the region regional veterinary officer doctor antonio cetute told joy news that the department is monitoring the influx of pests into the region as well as the condition of base within the various farms across the region to date five regions in the country have recorded cases of outbreak of bed flu namely rita clara region voter region central region western north and ashanti region bono is region so far has not recorded avian frenza i have taxed my district offices to be on their late and look out for farms which are recording high mortality rates so that we will send samples to us when i will further send it to accra labor veterinary laboratory for further testing to authenticate whether we have the outbreak of the virus that is bed flu in our region or not the department is also organizing sensitization workshops for farmers to educate them on various preventive measures to save their farms from the possible outbreak of the flavor plants are afford to organize sensitization programs education programs to advise them on measures that they've got to put in place to prevent the virus that is a bad flu virus from affecting their base and we have started at the at the official office level and sooner than later we move to radio stations organize training workshop for them to ensure that they go by the biosecurity measures to ensure that a bed fluid is prevented from our region dr antonio said to however caution the public to consume only well-cooked chicken and chicken products to stay safe from infections i have to say emphatically that in this era where we have outbreak of vector flu in other regions which haven't gotten to my region bunu is yet i'll say to all the public that they can consume chicken and chicken products but except that they must be very well cooked before they consume them and we know that the viral breakthrough the infection is of viral origin and the virus die at temperature between 60 and 70. and we know that well cooked foods chicken and chicken product is at 100 degree celsius so that if we adhere to such regulation that we must cook them very well at 100 degrees the virus would have died and therefore the product becomes suitable for consumption reporting for joint news ana's sabbath teaching man we're joined by dr benjamin kisi sasu a veterinary doctor and a member of the risk communication and social mobilization technical committee at the veterinary service dr kisi sasu thank you for joining us first bring us up to speed with the cases since the last update okay good evening to your viewers i am serving to july because and we are entered to the seventh week we have had the cases moving up to 46 cases uh lucky for us from the last update that was given on the system to tonight we have realized that um from 22nd to 29th we had only three new cases and for the seven regions most regions didn't record a new case and for us looking at the data and look at the situation is some kind of relief to us hoping that if there will be other cases in the next few weeks to come we're hoping to for more and we will start seeing a decline that's what we are hoping for so for the first time guitar academy recorded central regime didn't vote our region as well at western northwest we're hoping these regions will keep it at um at what they are the number that you have already seen and the problem we are having with new wages having these um very few coming to their place and that means that whatever which i was also watching so far need to make sure they stick to the um biosecurity at their farms and to tell you to tell you there are a few cases that are coming we have seen paper farms joining a farm with a population of 10 000 some with 5 000 some almost 20 000 joining in which means that no farm commercial farm should relax thinking he's always having a system just a slight delay while relax of the protocol or prophetic measures could bring these baby to you to your farm and then let's not forget that uh their benefit is also not fully spread just by the human movement they are one life better to move and fly around imagine there is no travel by this business you could see it was so structured so i've seen about five to ten uh people joining in so this is quite a lesson to all uh farmers that they need to continue not to relax and this system you are asking for a system that everyone needs to do it not just because we currently have um bad flu in the system what measures that are supposed to do soon to prevent any viral or any disease from entering their farms it's also that some of the kids have recorded the basically investigation team realized that still some farmers were busy each other especially in the case that we we just i had last week there was a farmer who had it and his farmers went to consoling veterinary authorities in the bonus region are instituting measures capable of preventing the outbreak of avian influenza popularly known as bird flu in the region regional veterinary officer dr antonio cetute told joy news that the department is monitoring the influx of base into the region as well as the condition of best within the various farms across the region to date five regions in the country have recorded uh cases of outbreak of bed flu namely rita clara region voter region central region western north and ashanti region bono is region so far has not recorded avian frenza i have taxed my district offices to be on their late and look out for farms which are recording high mortality rates so that they will send samples to us when i will further send it to accra labor veterinary laboratory apologies for the break there we had a little technical hitch but let's go back to zoom and speak to dr kisi sasu who is with the risk communication team of the veterinary service doc you introduced a number of measures especially to prevent the movement of beds would you say that that has been adhered to by many of the farmers okay i'm looking at movement of base normally it happened at two major stages first are they opening up in their farm so when i do for market that they move them uh from their farm and so far uh with monetary and the first live market where they moved to we haven't recorded any case from so we can't find our pinpoint that has been it is one of the course what we are currently seeing is farmers visiting each other and which we have either known to do especially some immediate visit affected farmers to find out in a locality and also improper disposal of best debt based by these farmers it's also a major cause when we get to the scene and we before we depopulate the eggs they were the other best i realized that whatever they place it it wasn't properly done it wasn't well buried somewhere left just around but not well done and people end up some somewhere even closer to better people will pass and the spread was easy and when you get there some of the farmers who come out and said it happened they complained to their colleague and their colleague did nothing to support help this situation so that's a big deal because some people have been burying or disposing this base without where people pass and you did say that even though the update shows that you've had a few cases i think you mentioned 47 some of the regions have recalled that have not recorded new cases uh would you say that then the situation is under control yes uh once when the outbreak happens and we are within a certain period we're not recording cases it means they are breaking a cycle because every group are getting a kiss it might mean that that person or not had a keys those people working there where we have to find out just today but in quarter two once you go to quarter to other people on the vicinity it means probably if the other people that got interpreted to didn't follow the previous measures are likely also to pick the cases so when we have a period whether or not recording new cases then we are being sure that very soon we can we will get to a place whereby he should be coming down and we can't even have the outbreak ending are you looking in that regard but all basically in that regard are you looking at introducing new measures to make sure that we do not uh go back on the gains that we have made um all depend on the we're just waiting for one week to see and hopefully next week uh the original retina officers together with the director would meet in tamil to also look at the issue so from there they will come out with something they feel will help even for they have to be more step for preventive measures then we have to do so for malaga will do so thank you very much that's a doctor sasuke is a member of the risk communication committee of the veterinary services joining us with an update of the outbreak of birth flu so yes there have been a new cases by way of update but some of the regions mainly in accra you know have not recorded uh new cases and they are hoping that they'll be able to keep this under control away from that the moderator of the presbyterian church in ghana has said controversy in carrying the wrath of critics of government agenda one one one hospital project right reverend professor joseph aubry obramante has described critics of government's agenda 111 as witches who needed deliverance the project is expected to see the construction of 111 district hospitals regional hospitals and two new psychiatric hospitals many have praised the investment which will be one of the largest in the country's health sector in the history of the country but they have also been the critics particularly the minority in parliament while the moderate of the presidency says people who criticize the building of hospitals can only be witches and wizards and need prayers he was speaking at the commissioning of the ascend parasol presby hospital in the central region hey yes to the appointees we have allowed politics to dominate our lives that we fail to see the good in everything happening around us we are in debt we lack good hospitals as compared to what exists abroad that's an opc and if someone says he's constructing 101 hospitals and then you are angry you are a witch and for the pastors who want to exercise witchcraft please deal with such people let's support good initiatives [Music] we are watching because you said you construct 101 hospitals if you don't we shall criticize you but more importantly do not give yourself standard hospitals and clinics not enough quality [Music] while the minority is not taking this likely at all the ranking member on the health committee of parliament covenant minta kando who has been quite vociferous on this matter says the comments by the moderator is unfortunate aden they will continue to be witches if holding government accountable means just that answers for the questions we have you should go ahead and say so we're in this country when we heard moderators saying that people who who who were ruling this country were greed of knowledge that they were anya suffering all of a sudden there are a group of wise men in government so nobody should criticize them and so nobody should criticize them and if you criticize your witch or you are wizard you expect all of us to keep fighting who continue to be with you from wizard because we could try to criticize them and you have politicians not speaking for clergy i mean are we not ashamed of ourselves as a member of parliament and i mean a spokesperson on the health committee i don't have the right to criticize government on help for a health policy i don't have the right i don't have the right to raise issues of funding when government says they will do projects i don't have the right to raise issues when government has to say clearly about four years ago that they were going to embark on such projects and they failed i don't have the right to raise issues on government the same person who said he was going to give i mean one million dollars to each constituency every year and as i speak to you now the number of times please please you're watching johnny's prime with me and esmina still to come government begins distribution of laptops to teach us in public schools as it expresses confidence the move will improve quality of education and make the country globally competitive one laptop program each teacher at every level of education from kindergarten to senior high school will receive a laptop and coming up in business fixing our infrastructure deficit first deputy governor of the bank of ghana calls for policy that will account for spending and ensure value for money is the need to enhance efficiency of public spending expenditure rationalization and the value for money projects that will deliver projects more efficiently no matter the efforts we make towards enhancing domestic revenue mobilization we will continue to experience chronic fiscal deficits and a growing death burden if we do not take steps to rationalize our expenditure levels details after this break don't go in [Music] yeah welcome to business i'm charles iit the first deputy governor of the bank of ghana is calling for a policy on expenditure rationalization and value for money products among others to enable the country to deliver projects more efficiently and enhance the fiscal economy dr matthew poku afari said no matter the effort made towards enhancing domestic revenue failure to rationalize public expenditure will trigger continuous chronic fiscal deficit and growing debt levels he spoke at a public lecture organized by the university of ghana business school this infrastructure deficit is estimated at about 7 billion annually over the next 10 years according to the first deputy governor of the bank of ghana dr maxwell opokwafari there's the need to implement a policy to account for government spending and ensure value for money projects he believes the high levels of government spending calls for fiscal consolidation that is targeted at reducing overall financing gap to sustainable levels and achieving structural fiscal balance over the medium term the first is the need to enhance efficiency of public spending expenditure rationalization and the value for money projects that will deliver projects more efficiently no matter the efforts we make towards enhancing domestic revenue mobilization we will continue to experience chronic fiscal deficits and a growing debt burden if we do not take steps to rationalize our expenditure levels the high levels of government spending required to close the huge infrastructure deficit and debt are limiting fiscal room for maneuver this therefore calls for the kind of fiscal consolidation that involves both revenue raising measures and expenditure rationalization policies with the aim of reducing the overall fiscal deficit to sustainable levels and achieving structural fiscal balance over the medium term dr oppo kafari also suggested that a strong policy is developed to enforce tax collection of the informal sector he indicated that when taxation is formalized it will increase the tax net as only 2.4 million guardians are tax compliant it begins to believe that a country of over 30 million with over 16 million active momo users which is an indication of economically active persons there are only 2.4 million individual taxpayers that this really show that we have the capacity to deliver it is not going to be possible to meet our developmental needs with such a tax base and help widen the tax net the replacement of 10 numbers of the ghana card has increased the registered 10 numbers from some 5 million to over 15 million this will help bringing a lot more people into the tax bracket going forward and facilitate the raising of revenue from a large informal sector the informal sector comprises micro and small enterprises and will require a simplified and modified tax system to bring them into the tax pool it is for this reason that the recent announcement by the vice president of the republic to inter introduce the modified taxation regime is very critical and could unlock the binding constraint to task collection in ghana meanwhile acting vice chancellor of the university of ghana professor nanaba apia amfo has charged government to fulfill his promises to the private sector she holds that a self-resilient economy depends on a booming private sector for the private sector to be the engine of growth for inclusive and sustainable development it is important for government to establish credibility beyond doubt that that it is managing its resources well through a robust macroeconomic system well-functioning institutions and a well-regulated and efficient financial system it is my hope that tonight's lecture and deliberations afterwards will lead this country to think critically to tackle the issue of macroeconomic management head on and rethink options for development finance especially with regard to expenditure rationalization and domestic revenue mobilization in addressing our developmental needs as a country as we seek the path of self-sufficiency in finance and developmental projects now will be buying locally grown chicken at a more subsidized price in a year or two because then chromatic group a dutch poultry company is coming to ghana now then commander group offers solutions in housing egg handling and climate control for any type of poultry house it is expected to invest 200 million dollars across the country we have more in this report a dutch poultry company when chromatic group is collaborating with the ministry of food and agriculture and the ministry of finance to set up branches in the greater accra ashanti and northern regions the presence of the company will increase the number of hatcheries in the country to minimise importation of their old chicks which will lead to a reduction in the price of chicken here is tamaldebra consultants for ventromatic group in ghana the partnership that we are talking of they are they have gotten the loan for us to invest in this particular project okay so the partnership is going to be the ministry of outbreak and a privacy partner who will come and run the system okay to repay the loan back to the bank they've gotten um 66 million euros for this particular project for three setups and these are pilots okay afterwards then we moved to the other regions to you know establish some over there and we've earmarked um uh josue in the shanty region okay and then we are going to do the about processing internally technical lead of usda's ghana poultry project rimondente believes that the presence of the group will lead to increasing market share of the poultry industry and make use locally the 2 billion cd fund are located for important poultry it's widely held that ghana imports about 350 000 metric tons of poultry meats so the idea is that we are trying to close that gap because if we burn it now we cannot feed ourselves there'll be food insecurity in ghana the idea is that if we want to um supply maybe up to 25 percent of that number that means we need to produce up to almost 60 million bears a year and that translates them the amount of feed that we need to give them that they will checks the breeder farms the hatcheries all the facilities we don't have it now so this is the first step towards increasing the market share of the local portuguese sector in ghana the 200 million dollar investment is expected to provide about 3 000 direct jobs in the country this is a step to implementing government's nationwide chicken and guinea fowl production processing and packaging projects and that'll be all for business we have sports coming next tuesday now ghana football marks 10 years of the passing of alhaji slight tattered the man who produced a big percentage of ghanaian players who featured in the maiden world cup appearance in 2006 in germany alhaji slightetta who is the founder of liberty professionals produced the lives of michael asian suleimuntari barford jan and of course the samoa jan who is now ghana's all-time top square id and the 25th world cup winning coach salastate also come from his table well how best do we remember alhaji slighter we have this for you was cool calm collected and a relatively quiet gentleman but away from all of that he was one of africa's most powerful football administrators considering the fact that he had very strong ties and relationships with heads of federations across the continent and also the then president of the confederation of african football isa hayatu it was because of this relationship for instance that he was able to push the then ghana fa president questiniantici through the corridors of kaf to go through the ranks and eventually become vice president of the continental body allergic slide tete had also a lot of great vision and had established two academies one of them in akbad rafal in togo and the other in kenya the liberty academy in togo for instance produced a lot of good players who at a certain point formed about 80 of the playing body of the togolese national football team his strong ties with agents and great ones at that across europe and other big football destinations around the world got a lot of his players to benefit greatly and apply their respective trades in other football destinations at a club like udenasay for instance in the italian syria liberty professionals almost had an automatic slot every other football season due to a largest lighted strong ties it is rather unfortunate that after putting up all of these great structures his flagship brand which is liberty professionals football club the scientific soccer lads find themselves in the second tier of ghana football it is hoped that as this 10th anniversary of his passing is being celebrated by the ghana football family the liberty professionals family led by his partner mr felix anson will pull themselves together and push hard to make a return to the ghana premier league may allah keep the soul of allaji sleighteth a legend of ghana football so that's it for sports up next is world news [Music] now government has started the distribution of laptops to teachers of public schools starting from senior high schools vice president dr mahmoud balmia who launched the initiative disclosed that the project is to help improve the quality of education by making the country globally competitive my colleague faustina suffer was at the launch and has come through with this report under the one teacher one laptop initiative public school teachers will own a laptop to aid with teaching and learning they are however expected to pay 30 percent of the cost of the laptop whilst government absorbs 70 percent retariating government's resolve to digitalize the economy vice president dr palmier urged school heads to ensure the laptops get to the teachers one of the lessons we have lent as a country with the outbreak of kovite 19 is the urgent need to ensure that we blend the traditional physical contact with virtual platforms in the delivery of quality teaching and learning we recognize that the transition will not be easy both for teachers and learners but we must start and government recognizes the need to provide the needed equipment and infrastructure to support this effort in our march for progress under the one lap one teacher one laptop program each teacher at every level of education from kindergarten to senior high school will receive a laptop director general of the ghana education service questio pocamonqua who chaired the launch assured teachers the laptops will be equitably distributed across all levels per arrangement government will provide laptop to every teacher in the public school from senior high school through junior high school upper primary lower primary and to the kg some teachers of saint mary senior high school who are among the first group of teachers to receive their laptops share their excitement with your news you know with a covey issue of 19 it has brought a new dimension to teaching and learning all over the world and using laptop it to enhance teaching in class i don't need to go close to my students all i need to use to do is to just use a projector then my lesson will reach all of them in the class so the issue of social distancing will be taken care of and other protocols that has to do with human contact we call be limited there are a lot of information on the internet that to be able to get those information you need a gadget to help you to get those informations and laptop comes with additional information like books and arrays so with this it will enhance our teaching a lot this laptop will go a long way to help us at least it's going to ease our talking sometimes when you even pre-record what you have to teach on it and you use the projector you set it up be behind and then the students can follow whatever you are teaching so it's going to ease our talking at least will not talk so much and then with some of the things from the internet you can easily program it in such a way that even you can live it with them so that they can learn on their own faustina suffolk for draw news now joining me versum to discuss the relevance of these laptops to the teacher is larry at bado editor colleagues of education colleges of education weekly journal he is also happens to be a teacher himself thank you so much now what has been the reaction of teachers after this launch today by government thank you very much and it's and good evening to your good self and your cherished viewers across the country i think uh the reaction of teachers today on the launch of the one teacher one policy has been mixed most teachers didn't expect that government to hold a fanfare or to hold a ceremony to launch this kind of initiative nonetheless they are all happy about the fact that this initiative is finally set to roll out where every teacher will be given a laptop to aid him or her in the discharge of their duties and uh we know that uh even though they're saying they do not expect this fun fair definitely this is uh relevant to uh the teaching to the our profession and of course will be uh you know would change the game as far as teaching is concerned certainly the lamps of us we had some of the teachers from saint mary's talking it's going to go a long way to aid the teachers in the teaching work for instance about two years ago they introduced a new curriculum to our primary schools and so now we don't have textbooks we don't have the various teaching learning materials to roll out the new curriculum but we were told some time ago that the laptop that's been provided will contain all these relevant materials so it's going to go a long way in helping the teachers the current times we find ourselves where almost everyone is now doing online teaching and learning i think it has come at a very right time at a time that we are battling with this covet pandemic the laptops have come at a very right time where is going to help teachers to also get themselves acquainted with this online teaching and learning we are yet to know whether there will be special training for some of our teachers who are not very convenient with the use of such machines but that is a topic for another day and we know that governments will be paying about 70 of the cost of the laptop teachers will be burying just the 30 percent that is certainly good or other people who are raising issues even with this yes there are certainly a lot of concerns with the payments for the laptop within total government is going to absorb 70 percent of the chat we're told the laptop ranges around thousand five two thousand six roughly okay and government is absorbing seventy percent of it and each teacher will have to absorb the rest thirty percent uh we've not been briefed with the modalities as to how even the 30 percent is going to be taken from stitches salary uh there were rumors some few months ago that it will be taken from their professional development allowance others are saying it's been broken down into several months and you know at the time we find out somewhere teachers had an increment of focus and not everyone is so happy about the fact that government is absorbing only 70 percent left to some teachers government should have just taken the entire course but not but i don't understand uh i think there's 70 30 is actually notice we're bad though we just wait to see how the modalities for the payment of the 30 percent will be rolled out there was another thing that came up today at the launch which is not exactly on the laptops it has to do with government's plan to roll out degrees at the colleges of education this has been in the pipeline for a long time the vice president touched on it today i want us to listen to him and then i'll take your reaction okay as part of efforts to improve the status of teachers effective 2022 all products from the colleges of education will graduate as first degree holders and will be entering the ghana education service as principal superintendents who have skills has also been halved ladies and gentlemen every profession with assault must have high standards for its members and it is in line with this that the teacher licensure examination has been introduced and this is to ensure that the right standards are in place to safeguard and guarantee the quality of education to further enhance the status of teaching we have introduced the professional learning communities as well as the continuous professional development systems which provide opportunities for teachers to enhance their to support this development government has introduced the continuous professional development allowance and soon this year's allowance will also be paid and so larry your reaction to this all right i think uh the vice president said a lot of things uh let's start with the awarding of degrees okay so with a lot of degrees yes the beard program started in 2018 across the 46th public college of education god willing uh next year will be having the first batch of graduates from this beard program uh i think when they graduate they'll be enrolled for a one-year national service after which governments will now pose them to their permanent stations the thing also is that i'm happy the vice president mentioned it in his speech but currently the first batch of these bf students if you go into the colleges of education and you observe the nature in which they are being trained to come out and then man our classrooms i'm not sure as a country we are happy about the approach they are currently using and we've been raising this consensus for the past one year that look there are serious issues in the colleges the colleges are lacking infrastructure as we speak next week the 46 public colleges of education principles we meet in intel in lm ballet to discuss issues of admissions into colleges for this year and it's interesting to know that we are likely to see a cut down in the in the enrollment in colleges this year because there's no infrastructure to accommodate four-year cohorts on the various campuses okay so i'm happy he's mentioning this yes but uh we hope and pray that next year the first badge of bs students that will be coming out from the colleges will actually have the requisite skills that is expected of them as beard graduates to man our classrooms larry thank you very much for joining us and larry is a teacher himself he is also editor for the journal produced by the colleges of education salon education the university of cape cod has been ranked among global universities for their research influence it has also been ranked the number one university in ghana the top invest in west africa and part of the top five universities in africa the announcement was contained the 2022 times higher education annual rankings in verses that published high impact research on covert 19 scored sawed up the league table where china reaping the most rewards the 2022 world university rankings include more than 1 600 universities across 99 countries and territories making them the largest and most diverse university rankings to date richard kojunyaku has been interacting with the director of research innovation and consultancy at the university of cape cod's professor frederick atuama asking him about pertinent questions about this feat that they have chocked as a university it should be an exciting period for you at the directorate and the university of quebec it is quite exciting for us because we have come a long way such an achievement is not something that you do overnight it takes careful planning it it involves scanning the horizon to look at the issues that are topical for you to engage it calls for deep thinking to see what your strategy is so we've come a long way and we are very very happy of course during the past 60 years ucc has carved a need for itself as a university of academic excellence yes so our track record is there but we needed to cement this by coming on board the ranking for the group to know that ucc has arrived but what went into this particular ranking and is ucc a new entrance yes ucc is a debit this is the first time the investor of cape cod is being ranked in the past we attempted but we couldn't get rank because the entry or eligibility criteria is very stringent there are seven concurrent eligibility criteria or inclusion exclusion criteria every university must meet before you are ranked we were able to meet the sixth but the very first criterion we struggled to meet that means that the first criteria actually talks about publishing thousand papers more than thousand papers within a five year span and within each of the five years the threshold publications you should have is 150. and here the operational phrases are relevant publications and when we say relevant publications we are talking about papers that are indexed in a service database called scopus so that is what kept us from being ranked so behind the scenes we were doing in self-introspection to ascertain why we have not been able to get that number of papers to be ranked and we came out with a number of challenges and we started looking at addressing those challenges in a systematic manner well he's also been engaging some researchers and students about the latest rankings at the university of cape coast and we want to speak with some of the researchers and students of the university what they make of their successes struck by the investors in terms of research globally the university with the research influence good afternoon good afternoon tell me how excited you are you are a researcher and you've contributed immensely thank you very much i i don't actually have the word to describe how i feel i am super excited i'm overly thrilled about this achievement of course we at gcc we've already we've always known that uh we've been doing impactful research we've already known that uh the type of research we do and how we decent disseminate it um is so influential in the global space but this award come to give a testimonies a manifestation of what we've already known or always believed so to say that i'm excited it's just uh to to be a generous object to be mild i am overly excited i'm thrilled about this announcement i have i was telling my colleagues that for the past 24 hours i've had to fight and quote my colleagues who have rather chosen to troll ucc rather than celebrate us for people like that many of them i didn't begrudge them because they didn't understand what was even the times higher education university ranking they didn't know what it was so we had to give them some education but for people who know in part for our colleagues who are at other universities at the university of ghana university of common crime rates of science and technology they know what at times higher education is about so for such people our colleagues they have not been told they've rather been congratulating us so anybody we find that is rather making a fun and mercury of this is somebody who actually needs to be giving some tutelage about what is actually the times higher education racial rankings and what is the impact of this very very happy for the achievement of the university is a strong message to those outside there that the university is doing its best training students and teachers and helping the country achieve its maximum goal here so i'm very happy about the achievement of the university what do you tell your colleagues in other universities i mean ever since this news book what have you been telling other colleagues in other english oh yeah it's like we were happy and we're telling them that we see our school is the best in ghana but let me say all the same all things being called there are also good universities to engage now the northeast regional minister idana zakari has called for the establishment of buffer zones in communities along the white water river in the region as an interim measure to mitigate the impact of the annual disaster caused by the spillage of the burglary dam and seasonal rains the minister explained the buffer zones will serve as a neutral area in the communities where farmers and residents alike will not be allowed to farm or build residential homes idana zakaria said it was time to institute concerted commitment and efforts to sustain the fight against such disasters he was speaking the integration of the regional disaster management committee in nalaugu where correspondent ilyasu taco reports the national disaster management organization act 927 establishes disaster management committees at the national regional and district levels chaired by the minister for the interior regional ministers and district chief executives respectfully in view of this the north east regional coordinating council with the national disaster management organization and with support from partners sworn into office a 15-member regional disaster management committee to regulate and coordinate disaster prevention and responses in the region the committee is made up of a regional minister as the chairperson the regional nadma director as the secretary regional heads of several departments and partners and dces of the affected areas the regional minister yida nazar curry speaking at the event provided an update of the tragedy so far recorded in part of the region as a result of continued heavy downpours this year residents of the northeast regime have had a bitter experience even before they opened the battery down the experiences were just one too many we lost lives we lost property we lost our farms and even lost wild life after the last count we lost in total 12 lives eight two drumming one not three but tender spike and another one unfortunately was an incident involving man and the elephants perennial flooding caused by heavy rains and the opening of the bagre dam in the last decade have killed over 200 people and millions of properties destroyed in north in ghana 11 people have died already this year even as the bagri is yet to be spilled to end the anwar disaster the government of ghana cut assault for the construction of the puerlogue multi-purpose down project but with the project still far from commencing the regional minister is proposing an interim solution and for me one suggestion i want to make is this every year they are opening burglary damn not more and back from sensitization this has gone on since baghdad was actually uh created this year the same sensitization is ongoing the people will move to higher grounds when the water level recedes they are back to the same area meaning the following year you have another challenge is it not possible that when we engage with the chiefs political authorities leaders and political leaders we create a buffer around these areas so that when they move out they have no basis to go back there and have their settlements established the director general of the national disaster management organization nana ajman pempe has appealed to persons living along the white water to move and join relatives and friends for that period and what the bagridam will be spilled he said given the impact of the continuous heavy downpour wednesday nights there's a possibility the dam will be spilled anytime soon the director general of the national disaster management organization made the appeal when he visited some chiefs who appreciate the effort they are putting in sensitizing their people on the half of the spillage would cause he said disasters are natural but there are some measures that can be put in place to mitigate its effect northern part of the country you know already the whole land is saturated with flats all over the northern part of the country and we are worried we as not more and government is worried because one we are losing lives and to the good people of this part of the country i have to send their maize and other crops immaturely which is not a good thing because it might affect the local food problems and food security in the country so we are worried but it is a natural disaster there's nothing you can do about it as you recall quite recently in europe all european countries experienced flats in america in new york city everywhere we experience class that is a natural disaster but we can prevent some of the effects and that is why we are here we are doing sensitization all over the place so that people especially those who are living along the rivers will move to go and stay with their friends and relatives for the period the pacquiao dam will be spilled we all know the burger dam is full at any moment from now if the race doesn't stop we're going to get the spillage assured that government is ready with much relief to lessen the effects of the spillage on its residents i i i know the media is always quick to ask questions about relief items when there is a disaster but when there is a disaster the first thing you look at is the search and rescue aspect of it then we do assessment to know which kinds of reliever items you should send to a particular place but i want to assure you that government at nato is ready with much relief i think to respond mitigate whatever the effects the chief of talong allah yakubu alahasantali thanked nadmo for recognizing their effort and are sure that they will continue to support in every bid blame some of the disasters on shoddy work done by contractors and choked dreams [Music] [Music] [Music] down to the upper west region and president of the regional house of chiefs there na di kowini domali has appealed to the government to take a second look at the road network in the region and make holistic and comprehensive intervention to forestall any future occurrence of devastation from flat that brought the region to its knees that he noted that in the region the roads were already deplorable and was worsened by the violent floods that swept through uh the region on august 12th they made a call during the press conference in the regional fixer land reports violent flash floods triggered by toronto rains on august 12 swept across the upper west region was off some major rules submerged several hundreds of farm hectares affecting a little over 1600 persons 336 persons were also displaced following the collapse of their houses at a press conference president of the appalachian house of chiefs nadu kumuni domale noted that a destruction on some major rules lincoln districts as well as connecting the roads to the regional capital and neighboring burkina faso where cut off brandon commutes stranded open up on the roads that were washed off by the catastrophic flowers [Music] naturally the foreign [Music] [Music] was as well not accessible as a tuesday the 31st of august 2021 because the bridge at navalny was also flooded whilst commanding the government for safe taking to fix the rules that were cut by the violin flowers the chiefs will have probably that government take a comprehensive look at all roles in the region for the time being we are more concerned with the places that are not accessible that is our stand now but in the long run we were expecting government we stated that we have been crying over our full state of road infrastructure of this region to government after governments i remember at least two three presidents we've gone to the residence to talk about this so what we have stated here now is to have a comprehensive look at rules in general in the upper west not just only those that have been washed away who knows what are those that are standing today will also not be washed away today so we are asking that the governor has a comprehensive look at the rules in general lots of farmlands in the upper west region were submerged by the flowers the chiefs in this case want government to pay compensation to the affected farmers the numbers should as a matter of ages provide temporal shelter food items and burdens to displace persons and communities the provision of other relief items as the situation may warrant in respect of building materials and compensation for lost farmland crops and livestock should also be perceived vigorously we further call on learn more to do a more comprehensive assessment of the situation and make necessary recommendations to government to mitigate future occurrences reporting for your news rapid salam let's do some stories on health now and the childhood cancer society of ghana is pushing for the inclusion of childhood cancer treatment in the list of ailments captured under the national health insurance scheme in the span of measures the society is rolling out to help address what it says is the first rising cases of cancers among children in ghana fifa lost report read to you there has been a consistent rise in the number of children battling cancer around the world the situation is no different in ghana where at least 1 200 children are diagnosed with a condition every year the situation may even be worse and as the childhood cancer society of ghana projects many more children with the condition may not even be diagnosed people do not know about it and yeah he is not just the people as late people but even at the healthcare treatment center personnel do not know our children and that is our greatest goal for me now because you can preach and preach and preach and say let them come and let them come and they must come early to a means of getting diagnosed and if we do not know about it it can come all early that we will now prove it to you that it will not work all right treatment abandonment risks expressed by the nhi was high out of pocket expenditure i always say nobody no matter how awake people have sold their farms their cocoa farms people have sold their houses other kids have stopped attending school because one child was diagnosed with cancer and later the child emergency needs that is the first point of call for children who are sick and just trying to find out those who died there at that point for what did he die from the number four was what he did very interesting highest possible number of voting there but i have settled their concepts so about 14 of them which is almost half of number four so probably had cancer that they never got diagnosed it's a tertiary institution so they got to the cairn immediately died or something happening we never got to a diagnosis and died 29 year old prince namadee was diagnosed with leukemia at the age of 11 and struggled with it for years until he was finally cured and that was at great cost to his family i'm prince namadee i'm a biomedical scientist by profession and i'm a leukemia survivor so i was diagnosed with leukemia at the age of 11 at the collaborating hospital but before then you know leukemia has some signs and temptations like any other conditions that we know of like headache like fatigue like loss of appetite and all that so before my diagnosis you know i had well i didn't know so we're treating malaria with anti-malaria drugs and all that and before i wasn't feeling too good again after all those treatments so i was referred to colibu and then i was diagnosed with acute acute leukemia that was at a age 11 as i already said from there you know we all know in ghana it's very costly to treat childhood cancers so what happened was that after i was diagnosed i was lucky to have my parents because they were willing to spend every kobo on me to make sure that i'm being cured of cancer and so what they did was that yes they there were some properties that were being sold because of you know the treatment and all that but you know with perseverance and with some commitment from my parents i went through the treatment successfully and i'm now a survivor at the first annual general meeting of the childhood cancer society of ghana first lady rebecca ecuafordo expressed concern about the high rate of the condition among children and called for action all i can say is that your work is cut out for you you have a leading role as practitioners and advocates to ensure our children are able to access effective quality life-saving care anywhere in ghana your vision of cure for all children affected by presenting god is a challenge to make a difference in the outcomes for ghanaian children our children need you our policy makers need you indeed ghana needs you i am happy to know that your members include medical professionals psychologists nutritionists social workers teachers even chocolates and events this represents the multi-disciplinary teams that are required to deliver holistic quality care to children affected by cancer indeed if we really want to overcome the challenges associated with childhood cancers we have to work together the ghana health service believes early detection will go a long way to help increase the survival rate from the presentation we realize that any treatment and diagnosis is extremely extremely important if we don't have we don't know what is there we will never be able to treat also say to this presentation show us all the mirrors entry point and so all our strategies should look at our health seeking behavior where do they go to their chemical shops and it's true they come to us and unfortunately also for us this is chinese prime with me at this meeting we're taking a break on worry 10 we have more business stories for you yeah welcome to business i'm charles iit as part of measures to boost its sourcing of raw materials locally leading beverage manufacturer guinness gunner brewers limited has commissioned its ultra modern brew house there is more in this report guinness ghana breweries company limited has launched a state-of-the-art brew house to augment its production in ghana according to managing director of the company helen whissy seventy percent of raw materials are sourced locally hence the expansion will increase productivity of local farmers we have 210 000 beneficiaries across the value chain just because we have an enormous farming program set up to find sorghum in ghana now at this point so we started in 2012 and 12 of our local raw materials were sourced locally now we are at 61 local sourcing we want to take that up to 70 percent and that's actually why this new brew house is so important so also now in achimota we can produce our beers our maltese with sorghum grown in ghana she indicated that a collaboration between government and the private sector will boost productivity and generate revenue for the economy so the government has indicated its planting for foods and jobs program and that's included also a on local raw materials and for us it's really important because that has stimulated our investment of over 25 million here in this brew house and yes of course a stable business environment is good for business in total and it's good for investors to come to the country deputy minister of trade and industry dr hebbett krappa speaking at the commissioning said government is embarking on aggressive industrialization to encourage value addition in ghana currently through the national export development strategy we are implementing what we call the export development drive to move exports from 2.5 billion ghana cities to 25 billion ghana cities in a matter of 10 years we have signed on to the african continental free trade area what we want to do is to ensure that ghana is ready by way of operating environments by way of our economic situation to help manufacturers attract in the necessary foreign direct investment to be able to add value to our raw materials and export into africa you know that to be able to take advantage of the free trade area guinness ghana says its new brewery will aid in the promotion of the use of sodium and maize such locally in beer production the company believes this will provide employment and increase productivity for local farmers so we have winners for the renewable energy contest for the northern zone they are general arts students of the jamar pensa and cine high technical school led by two girls they won with an innovation that generates electricity from plants bacteria and soil the challenge is an initiative by the energy commission and buoy power authority to inculcate in these students the skills to the to develop pragmatic solutions to ghana's energy challenges prince appeared witnessed his own contest and now reports it spans longer than the traditional charcoal next one eight schools representing the northern sector participated in the zonal competition held in kumasi that brought out solutions to ghana's energy problems after more than five hours of fierce display of innovative solutions janmai pensin senior high technical school emerged winners having won the original competition weeks ago they had to beat atrenswa shs and navongo shs for the zuno title general art students janet ohiman cancer and crystal of mugo artha led the renewable energy team at first our school was low but not after them the originals and with this one our school is going and everybody is beginning to know some of pence and senior high school so this project has brought a lot of things to us this project means a lot to us because it it can even pave way for us to join or go into the engineering work although it was for science but we are generally students but we offer integrated science this is not taught in class but it can also help others who don't offer science to join for the zoners we were able to power small appliances as seen the originals but we're expecting that in the nationals we will be able to power big appliances like the television refrigerators from converting the dc current to the ac current we wanted to do everything possible that will help us to get a higher voltage to prove to the world that really we have power in the soil that can be able to use to power our appearances in their homes we produce 9 volts for the first one and this one that we brought for the zona competition was around 50 votes other participants included business shs since france's girls shs salaga shs and kansas technical institute in sunyani shs director of science education at the ghana education service mrs olivia seward paris says the initiative is critical to empowering girls we are really developing talents in these little ones including leadership skills partnership critical thinking innovation communication collaboration and looking at the way they were able able to use the internet to project their work this shows that the government agenda in promoting digital literacy is being done over a year and because looking at the presentations we are solving problems and it is in line with the sdgs you see there was something on climate change waste management and energy director for a renewable energy and energy efficiency at the ghana energy commission kofi says the participants will be supported to better their innovations what is very very impressive is that these young ones who are the future leaders are going to form a crop a generation whose understanding of renewable energy and energy efficiency will be different from those those of us now so that in their era you are going to see more than what you are seeing today and that is where we are going to spend efforts and energy resources to ensure that we encourage them to to be able to harness all these talents in them for the benefit of the nation we power authority partnered with the energy commission for this project wisdom as the director at the executive office of the buipa authority can say that the students have a lot of talents and most of these talents are hidden we need programs like this to bring this talents out and this is one of the reasons why we power authority decided to partner with energy commission so that we can help add value and bring out this talents from the students at chenswa senior high school and navrongo senior high school who joined jama and pinstein for the national competition official c the council for scientific and industrial research and the bruhamond energy center at knusd will help refine the ideas and projects of the students praise appear reporting now usb's entrepreneur has been speaking to child news mahmoud mohammed nuridin on a few lessons she's picked up on her journey she's encouraging startupers to not give updates to not you know give up despite the arts we have more in this report a lot of people is uh ambitious hair okay i'm i can't speak for all americans but a lot of people is more ambitious here however when it comes to ghana it's it's like you're lucky if you get an opportunity okay and america is different social disclosed most people she has met in ghana want to relocate to the us so when people come to me and be like i want to go to america i tell them you're already in america you have someone look exactly like you in america trying to figure out how they going to travel as well so it's just almost like the same thing i'm literally watching both worlds during an entrepreneurship training for 50 members of the scout and guide fellowship of ghana she encouraged participants to discover their talents and be creative try if you have to try by word of mouth try by social media try by uh being creative talented just try try to expand or discover your gifts and your talents so you can be seen as the star as different okay she trained them on candle color coding and what they can do to earn an income she also acknowledged the generosity of ghanaians compared to the united states of america one the people are really generous in ghana they're very welcoming also it's different from the united states of course the living the culture the food the everything everything is completely different but yet the same porsche says she was ignorant about ghana and thought she could only see lions giraffes among other animals i think that people should know more about this culture in africa because before i came i was really ignorant to what ghana is really about i was expecting to see like dress tigers lions i don't know but not no regular house you know it is a developing country but i was expecting to see like i don't know like little uh like straw dresses i don't know well they'll be all for business we have sports coming next to stay and ghana got out to a good start in the 2022 world cup qualifier after beating ethiopia one go to nil at the cape cod stadium tonight and mubarak wakasu scored the only goal of the game in the 35th minute so we are definitely off to a good start and still talking about the four-time african champions the black stars raheem are you brother of black stars captain andrea you says the alzheimer's players uh you know leadership quality is commendable for him rahim is uh you know qualified has what it takes to lead ghana to the 2022 world cup in qatar andrei has always been a leader you know wherever he has been so i wouldn't say much so he has the quality i mean i always say he was born for it so hopefully i mean he's doing great things now so i just hope for the best and i always pray that you know he do great things for the national team which he did with the under-20 you know which has never been done before so i just hope when things get well or things continue as i mean it's going those who were there before him they did what they can you know they did what they could hit he has come he's doing what you know leader being a leader does not mean that they just take that ban and give it to you you have to have certain qualities not everyone can be a leader so that's it for sports if you're watching us on joining spam that's it for the bulletin we're grateful for your company throughout the week for me and the rest of the team we say have a great weekend my name is unestimated [Music] [Applause] [Music] hello my name is evans mensah and you can relive all the fun and excitement on top story news night and of course ghana connect via podcast all you need to do is to log on to my joy online slash podcast set for your favorite show and relive the moment join 99.7 fm your radio for this analysis [Music] [Music] spike [Music] good morning and welcome to news file [Music] you

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