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Traditional leaders must promote moral uprightness – Apostle Nyamekye

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5 months ago

June 28, 2024

Apostle Eric Nyamekye, Chairman of the Church of Pentecost, has called on traditional leaders to promote moral uprightness among the people of the community they serve.

“We must integrate moral vision into the concept of our national development and better still make it its condition…We need the discipline of living by these values and be intentional that we see behavioural change,” he said.

Apostle Nyamekye made the call at the 2024 Royals Conference organised by the CoP at Gomoa-Fetteh in the Central Region.

The two-day event will focus on the need for a national moral vision for development.

It is on the theme: “Moral Vision and Development: The Role of Traditional Rulers”.

According to Apostle Nyamekye, moral principles would lead to the development of robust institutions and structures that would strengthen the nation at large.

He argued that the morals, actions, and attitudes of the citizens determined the course of the country’s growth.

Apostle Nyamekye noted that people who had conflicting values saw progress to be a “mountain to climb.”

He urged traditional leaders to set good examples and uphold morality.

Apostle Nyamekye appealed to the traditional leaders to help stop illegal mining since the forest reserves and water resources were being destroyed.

He tasked them to adopt a generational mindset and fulfil their responsibilities to safeguard the country’s natural resources so that future generations could benefit in the same way that they profited from their predecessors.

Mr Stephen Asamoah Boateng, Minister of Chieftaincy and Religious Affairs, said traditional leaders could motivate and influence people toward a common goal.

“Let us also be committed to the laws of our country as traditional leaders. Remember the world is run on discipline and not on our feelings,” he stated.

Mr Boateng encouraged them to safeguard the sanctity and dignity of the Chieftaincy institution and ensure its preservation.

He urged them to embrace diversity and promote unity in their words and deeds.

In an interview, Nana Kwesi Bosomprah, the Omanhene of the Goaso Traditional Council, urged traditional leaders to work with the church to develop the country.

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Fuel prices to fall between 2% and 4% in coming days – IES

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4 months ago

July 31, 2024

Melody 911FM

The prices of petroleum products are expected to fall between 2% and 4% for petrol, diesel, and Liquefied Petroleum Gas, beginning tomorrow August 1, 2024.

This follows the slowdown in the depreciation of the Ghana cedi during the second half of July 2024 and the favourable international market dynamics.

According to the Institute for Energy Security (IES), the price of petrol and deisel fell by 2.99% and 4.59% respectively and LPG by 1.10% in the second half of July 2024.

“Precisely, the price of gasoline [petrol] fell by 2.99%, gasoil [diesel] by 4.59%, and LPG by 1.10% in the second half of July 2024. The Ghana cedi also recorded slowed depreciation (0.52%), the lowest since February 2024.

“Following the positive realised on the foreign fuel market coupled with the slowed depreciation of Ghana Cedi recorded on the domestic forex market, the Institute for Energy Security (IES) projects a fall in fuel prices in the coming days”.

World Oil Market

The second pricing window for July 2024 for the first time since the post-OPEC+ meeting saw Brent crude futures dropping below $80 per barrel.

This was driven lower by disappointing global demand as Chinese imports in July 2024 hit the lowest level in two years.

Brent Crude traded at $78.70 per barrel compared to $83.03 per barrel at the start of the pricing window.

Local Fuel Market Performance

The second pricing window for July 2024 saw the price of liquid fuels jump at the pumps on the local fuels market.

Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs) increased the price per litre of petrol by GH¢0.30 and Gasoil by GH¢.20 respectively.

The IES computation of the national average price for the three refined petroleum products for the first pricing window for July 2024 showed petrol and diesel selling at GH¢14.23 and GH¢14.70 per litre respectively, whereas (LPG) went for GH¢15.22 per kilogramme.

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Graduate Unemployed Nurses welcome over 15,000 recruitment

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4 months ago

July 31, 2024

Melody 911FM

The Graduate Unemployed Nurse and Midwives Association has welcomed the latest decision by the government to recruit over 15,000 new health professionals.

In a statement released on Friday, July 26, 2024, the Ministry of Health (MoH) announced the recruitment of 15, 200 nurses and midwives, effective Monday, August 5, 2024.

The MoH confirmed that the Ministry of Finance (MoF) has granted the necessary financial clearance for the recruitment process.

Interested and qualified candidates are expected to apply through the MoH’s online application portal, where they can select their preferred agency under the Ministry. The application period will close on Friday, August 23, 2024.

This comes on the back of numerous protests and demonstrations by several health professionals over the government’s inability to clear the backlog of 2020, 2021 and 2022.

National President of The Graduate Unemployed Nurse and Midwives Association Ibrahim Haruna has been reacting to the latest development.

“We’re very grateful in the first place to the Ministry of Health. It’s not bad news, but it’s not completely what we’re expecting.

“That is what we have got for now, so we will take it… Last week Friday, we received a call from the Ministry that they have got clearance for us around 15,000, so we were expecting an official communication and it came in from the ministry, so it’s welcome news,” the National President of the Graduate Unemployed Nurse and Midwives Association said.

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NDC targets 14 parliamentary seats in Northern Region

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4 months ago

July 30, 2024

Melody 911FM

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Northern Region has set an ambitious goal to win 14 parliamentary seats in the 2024 general elections.

Mohammed Abdul-Salam, the Northern Regional Secretary of the NDC, stated that the party is determined and prepared to secure victory in the upcoming polls.

On Saturday, July 27, the NDC launched its campaign in Tamale, the capital of the Northern Region, with the aim of increasing their parliamentary seats in the area.

Abdul-Salam expressed confidence that the party would reclaim some of its previously held seats from the New Patriotic Party (NPP).

He also mentioned that the NDC has established adequate structures to ensure the achievement of this target in the forthcoming election.

“We should be able to win 14 seats, and that is clearly doable, but our target is to win all the 18 seats because they are all winnable, we have mopped out strategies to get out there on the field, our men are on the ground every day.”

“That is why if you have observed, every genuine survey that is done regarding the election 2024 in all the regions, put the NDC way ahead of the NPP,” he stated.