No deaths recorded in Tema explosion – Fire Service

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• siphon 7 years ago

  And SUCH a plce of heavy TRUCKS have NO SECURITY? NOT even a single security guard? are they govt. Trucks or for individuals? any sign of NO SMOKING there? and Yet,a fool with a doctrate Degree might be the CEO there!

  And SUCH a plce of heavy TRUCKS have NO SECURITY? NOT even a single security guard? are they govt. Trucks or for individuals? any sign of NO SMOKING there? and Yet,a fool with a doctrate Degree might be the CEO there!

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• AKUFO, ALL DIE BE DIE UGLY DWARF 7 years ago

  THE MAHAMA ADMINISTRATION ACHIEVED THESE WITHOUT TOUCHING THE HERITAGE FUND
  
  1.Provided infrastructure and other basic amenities which led to an increased in enrollment from 36% in 2013 to 46.2 in 2014 and slightly over 50% ...
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  THE MAHAMA ADMINISTRATION ACHIEVED THESE WITHOUT TOUCHING THE HERITAGE FUND
  
  1.Provided infrastructure and other basic amenities which led to an increased in enrollment from 36% in 2013 to 46.2 in 2014 and slightly over 50% by 2016.
  
  2.The percentage of students with passes from A1 to C6 improved from 19.55% in 2013 to 28.1% in 2014.The number hit 8,578,047 for pre-tertiary students at the basic and secondary levels.
  
  3.Apart from the new Community Day Secondary Schools,a total of 1,079 six unit classroom blocks and 189 two- storey dormitories were completed.
  
  4.The administration began construction of 123 new secondary schools across the country which is expected to provide space for the admission of about 400,000 additional students.
  
  5.The administration launched the $156 million Secondary Education Improvement Programme.
  
  6.Provided scholarship to 10,400 needy students
  
  7) 6,500 Mathematics,Science and ICT teachers acquired capacity building.
  
  8.Government expanded special subsidies to cover more students in SHSs.
  
  9.Over 58,000 bunk beds,50,000 pieces of furniture,30,000 computers and 300 small water projects were provided for selected SHSs as at the end of July 2015.
  
  9.Enrollment into our tertiary institutions increased as follows
  
  7.1% univeri
  3.4% polytechnics
  26.9% education colleges
  
  10.Under the skills Development Fund, more than 150 million ghc in grant was provided to 510 guarantees
  
  11.Under a $24 million project ,three African Education Centres of Excellence were being established in Ghana
  
  12. The facility expansion programme of the Mahama administration facilitated the enrollment of 24,117 children in the northern,upper east and west regions and increased further between 2015-16.
  
  13.The administration as at 2014, completed 1,614 out of the 2,578 schools under trees.
  
  14.Government distributed 12.5 million English, Mathematics and Science textbooks to improve the pupil- textbook ratio.
  
  15.The administration's policy on school feeding programme, increased the number of beneficiaries from 144,189 children to 1,693,000 children.
  
  16.60,000 laptops were distributed to basic school pupils across the country.
  
  The administration also completed new libraries across the country.The Wa library is rated the best in the country, and among the best in the subregion.
  
  The administration initiated a policy of offering free meal to our day students apart from the subsidies offered them.
  
  Roads in areas where the new community day schools are being established, are being asphalted to facilitate movement of students living around where the schools are situated.
  
  Facilities in our public universities were improved significantly to increase enrollment, and to improve studies..
  
  We shall continue but my point is,are these projects not going to serve the coming generation? Despite the quagmire the administration found itself culminating in falling on the IMF,it was able to initiate and complete these projects without touching the Heritage Fund.
  
  #WhereAreTheWiseMen#

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• AKUFO, ALL DIE BE DIE UGLY DWARF 7 years ago

  PLEASE ASK THAT LIAR BAWUMIA IF THE FLAGSTAFF HOUSE GATE WAS MADE OF GOLD..
  
  Jubilee House costs GH¢176 million in 2007
  
  When Ex-President John Agyekum Kufuor cut the tape to commission the presidential palace complex, w ...
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  PLEASE ASK THAT LIAR BAWUMIA IF THE FLAGSTAFF HOUSE GATE WAS MADE OF GOLD..
  
  Jubilee House costs GH¢176 million in 2007
  
  When Ex-President John Agyekum Kufuor cut the tape to commission the presidential palace complex, which was to become one of his legacies, many Ghanaians were still in a limbo as to how much of their tax money was to be been pumped into the monstrous edifice.
  
  Contrary to suggestions by many of the then ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) government spokespersons that Ghanaians should be grateful to them for the complex, since it was largely being funded by a benevolent Indian Government, it has emerged that the project is costing the Ghanaian taxpayer GH¢176 million.
  
  This figure represents three times the cost given to Ghanaians by the government.
  
  Official correspondence from the Indian Consultants to the project, STUP Consultants Limited, put the cost of the Golden Jubilee Presidential Palace complex at $135 million.
  
  According to the consultants the project covers an area of 16,750sqm, consisting of a 'presidential and vice presidential offices, the president's palace, ceremonial public spaces and allied service buildings.'
  
  The cost of the project, which was originally estimated at 36.9 million dollars, was said to have shot up with the provision of additional facilities to enhance external and internal security. The new cost was however, never disclosed.
  
  The new figure would certainly come as a surprise to many Ghanaians who have believed all along that the project was principally being funded with a $30miIlion Indian grant.
  
  The amount was part of a $60m facility that has a 50 per cent grant element, at an interest rate of 1.75 percent, repayable in 25 years, including a five-year moratorium. Shapoorji Pallonji of India is undertaking the construction of the project, which started in 2006.
  
  Since the terms of the facility allowed the donors' home companies to execute the project, it means the Indians had used their $30million grant bait to win a $135million contract for their people!
  
  On November 10, 2008, when the former President hurriedly commissioned the complex in order to get his name inscribed on it, the government could still not tell Ghanaians how much the project was costing the taxpayer.
  
  Describing the concept of the Palace the consultants, STUP, said the complex design is "a monumental form' which" depict African culture in a progressive and contemporary manner and to incorporate symbols of the aspirations of the people of Ghana,' adding that it 'communicates power; stability, democracy and freedom.'
  
  Even though both the offices and residential complexes take the shape of a stool, which could be described as depicting 'African culture,' none of the designs in the outer wall, which is most visible to commuters and pedestrians alike, depict any of the well-known Ghanaian adinkra symbols.
  
  Former President Kufuor attracted a lot of criticism from minority parties and sections of the Ghanaian public, when commissioning the project, for not seeing to the priority needs of the people, such as addressing the acute water shortage and lack of capacity to deal with sanitation in the cities, and described the choice as amounting to a misplaced priority.
  
  The former President stated while inaugurating the first phase of the project that the Government at every stage of the construction had been sensitive to the financial implications of the venture as well as the conditions of life of Ghanaian
  
  He received further flak for deciding to use the offices even as the complex was uncompleted, against an earlier statement he had made that he was not going to be the first to occupy the premises.
  
  The criticism followed government announcement that Presidential staffers were moving into the uncompleted premises to await the President's arrival.
  
  Mr. Stephen Asamoah-Boateng, President Kufuor's Minister for Information and National Orientation had told Voice of America's (YOA) Peter Clottey at the time that Ghanaians should be proud of having a historic national monument befitting a seat of government after half-a-century of political independence. .
  
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