Takoradi, Oct. 15, GNA -  Management of MTN Ghana has held a corporate sales fair in Takoradi for its customers and rolled out products aimed at promoting service communication and business transaction. Management also explained the frequent interruption in service communication and attributed it to the destructions of their underground cables by road contractors. Mr Samuel Appiah, Senior Manager in charge of the Western and Central Regions of the MTN, said the frequent break in communication especially at weekends is caused by contractors who normally tamper with their cables in the course of their work. He said management was working feverishly to address the problem and urged customers to bear with them describing the interruption as unfortunate.   GNA ...

  Gomoa Jukwa (C/R), Oct. 15, GNA - Mrs Akosua Aseidu Ntriakwa, Head of Women and Children Ministry of Mid-South Ghana Conference of the Seventh Day Adventist (SDA) Church , has observed that discipline is the only panacea for students to chalk academic excellence and success. She therefore urged students, especially the girl-child, to desist from pre-marital sex and other social vices which could truncate their vision of climbing higher on the educational ladder. Mrs Ntriakwa said these when she launched the 10th Anniversary Celebration programme of SDA Senior High School at Gomoa Jukwa near Agona Swedru in the Central Region. The school magazine and anniversary cloth were also unveiled and launched at the ceremony. She said most students failed because they deeply involved themselves in immoral acts that derailed them from their vision. Mrs Ntriakwa who is also immediate past headmistress of the SDA Senior High school, urged the students to learn hard to help them become responsible future adults. She commended the board of governors, headmaster, teaching and non-teaching staff for their hard work and encouragement that had lifted the morale and academic standards of the school. Mr Frank Bortse Ghartey, Headmaster of the school said the prgramme would commence on November 10, 2012  with a float through the principal streets of Gomoa Jukwa to Agona Swedru, fun games with sisters schools, and exhibitions and quiz among school houses. Mr Ghartey praised the efforts and vision of former director of the school, Pastor Richard Ntriakwa and Elders of the Church at Agona Swedru for establishing the school in the area. Mr W.B. Mensah, Central Regional Manager of SDA educational Unit promised that the unit would help the school to become one of the best in the Region. He cautioned students to desist from habits that could spoil the image of the school.   GNA ...

Cape Coast, Oct. 15, GNA- The New Patriotic Party (NPP) at the weekend organised primaries for four parliamentary candidates to contest the newly created constituencies in the Central Region.   Mr Oppey Abbey, a former Member of Parliament (MP) who is representing the NPP for Awutu-Senya West, polled 192 votes to beat two other contestants, Mr Justice Quaye who had 183 votes and Mr Patrick Amoako who recorded 60.   Another former MP, Mr Richmond Sam Quarm also carried the day with 158 votes to become the candidate for Gomoa East, followed by Kwadwo Asomaning Budu with 90 votes and Mr Max Jewel Annan who had 51 votes.   At the Ajumako-Enyan-Essiam primaries Mr Festus Beedu Turkson 43 emerged victorious to replace, Albert Ato Quainoo the NPP candidate who passed away last month.   He bagged 423 votes to floor his only contestant, Mr John Kobina Amissah who had 108 votes.   However, in Cape Coast, Dr Mrs. Henrietta Abane was elected by popular acclamation, likewise Mr Ebenezer Appiah Kubi for Assin South.     GNA...

Saboba (NR), Oct. 15, GNA- President John Dramani stated at the weekend that he does not believe in the use of ethnic sentiments to garner votes in the forthcoming general election.   He said: “Since I started working as a public servant and as a politician I have never believed in (ethnic) politics, since that is not enough to drag us out of poverty and illiteracy.”   President Mahama made this known when he addressed a rally at Saboba in the Northern Region as part of his three-day campaign tour of the Eastern parts of the area.   The President was apparently reacting to a rumour that was making the rounds that he as a Gonja Head of State would oppress Konkombas who had fought the Gonjas in the past.   President Mahama added “if I had that power I will rather use it to fight poverty which is a common enemy and not other ethnic groups in the country”.   “In all my dealings in Ghana, what I know is that if you bring out a Konkomba poor person and a Gonja poor person, there is no difference and therefore prefer that we fight poverty, illiteracy and diseases and not these rumours that will not help our development, he added.   He said it was based on underdevelopment, depravity, and poverty that the ruling National Democratic Congress had implemented the Savannah Accelerated Development Authority (SADA), which would provide a number of jobs and stem rural urban drift in the years to come.   President Mahama promised the people that SADA would support them with money as equity to kick-start the establishment of a rural bank and advised them to buy shares in the financial entity to make it a sustainable venture.   The President promised that under the eastern corridor road project, streets in Saboba, Tatale, Chereponi and Zabzugu had been captured to relieve the people from the struggles they go through in travelling to other areas.   He said these development interventions would attract many more professionals to accept postings to Saboba and other communities.   On the December 7 polls, President Mahama said government would put in place measures that would provide incident free elections and make it acceptable and unique among her peers in Africa and beyond.   President Mahama announced that government had attained equipment from Spain to fix the bridge on the Oti River, which separates Ghana from Togo.   Mr Ken Ujangi, a member of the Konkomba Youth Association on behalf of the chiefs and people of Konkomba Traditional areas called on government to increase the infrastructure at the local E.P Senior High School.   He said lack of banks in the area had over the years compelled workers to spend so many days getting to urban areas to receive their salaries and appealed to the President to encourage the establishment of local banking facilities.     GNA...