MCE VISIT'S SCHOOLS IN BUILSA NORTH AS PART OF MY FIRST DAY AT SCHOOL

The Municipal chief Executive for the Builsa North Municipality Hon. Vida Akantagriwen Anaab on Tuesday January 10th 2023 visited some Schools in the Builsa North Municipality to mark the commencement of the new academic year.

The visit by the MCE was also to welcome and interact with fresh pupils entering basic schools and encourage them to help sustain their interest in school as part of the annual “My First Day at School program”.

This year’s event had three teams comprising of Officers of GES and that of the Municipal Assembly visiting the various circuits of the Municipality.

 The Municipal chief Executive lead the team of Officers who visited schools under the Chuchuliga and Sandema East Circuits, the Municipal Cordinating Director Mr Godfred K Bamba Banornumah also led a team that visited Schools under Sandema central and Sandema West Circuits whiles the Municipal Education Director Mad Victoria Mahama Aganalie and her team took charge of the Wiaga and Kaadema Circuits.

At each school visited, the Assistant Director in Charge of Supervision Mr. Timothy Aperagoa and the Hon. Municipal Chief Executive seized the opportunity to address pupils on the importance of schooling. Children were also motivated to continue attending classes and not just ‘My First Day at school.

Addressing each school audience, the Municipal Chief Executive encouraged teachers and pupils to freely discharge their educational responsibilities adding that, the government and for that matter, the Assembly would continuously support schools and teachers with all necessary logistics to facilitate teaching and learning.

She said she was very happy with the attendance rate at all the Schools visited while pleading on caterers under the school feeding program to start cooking, she also dropped the hint that the Municipal Assembly will soon be distributing about 200 pieces of furniture to schools in the municipality to further enhance teaching and learning.

  She encouraged the school children to take their studies seriously to enable them achieve their dreams. She also advised the school children to desist from speaking what she term corrupted Buli Such as “nyiam- tami” which literally means being held by water but rather say “ ny3- nyuela al3 ta mi” when thirsty. 

 Interacting with some learners, they shared some of their dreams to become nurses, doctors, police officers, presidents, drivers, teachers and bicycle fitters among others.

As a way to motivate the first-time attendants and pupils joining the mainstream school at Class one, the Hon. Municipal Chief Executive presented biscuits and Kalypo drinks to them.

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Nana Addo to grace 2022 Feok Festival; Builsa North MCE

The 2022 edition of the Sandema Zone Annual Feok Festival games came to a successful end today 8/12/2022 at the Broken Walls Stadium in Sandema.

The tournament which started on 8th November,2022 with 13 participating community football teams, saw the Bilinsa team emerging winners after a 4-2 penalty shootout against the Awusu-yeri team.

The Builsa North Municipal Chief Executive mad Vida Akantagriwon Anaab in her address touched on the increasing rate of HIV/AIDS in the Municipality saying 43 out of 3000 persons tested positive to HIV/AIDS in the first quarter of 2022 in the Municipality.

She therefore advised the Youth to practice safe sex in order to prevent themselves from contracting the deadly disease.

She revealed that, His Excellency the President of the Republic Nana Addo Dankwa Akufu Addo and the Sports Minister would grace this year's feok festival which also marks the 10th Anniversary of the Enskiment of the overlord of the Builsa traditional area Nab Azagsuk Azantilow II.

This she said, would give the Constituency another opportunity to present our challenges to the president and the Sports minister some of which include the current state of our sports stadium.

Mr. Apagyin Kofi who represented the overlord of the Builsa traditional area Nab Azagsuk Azantilow II was greatful to the Organizers for an excellent and peaceful organisation of the tournament.

He urge the youth to venture into sports as it has alot of benefits.

Builsa North Constituency Chairman of the New Patriotic party Mr. Albert Atuga Ajapoak who handed over an amount of Ghc1000 to the Organizers of the games on behalf of the Chief executive officer of the Ghana Maritime authority Mr. Thomas Kofi Alonsi said, the zonal games has further deepened the unity and love Builsa's have been enjoying and urge the citizens of Buluk to be each other's keeper despite our differences in political and religious ideologies. 

The Builsa North NDC Constituency Chairman Mr. Achaab James on behalf of the Mp Mr. James Agalga also presented Ghc600 Ghc400 and Ghc 300 each to Bilinsa,Awusu-yeri and Kalbiisa for emerging 1st, 2nd and 3rd in the competition.

All participating teams took home certificates for participating in the tournament.

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2022 World Cup Builsa North MCE to Watch South Korea vs Ghana Match With Constituents at Municipal Assembly Hall.

Hon. Vida Akantagriwon Anaab to Watch Ghana vrs South Korea Match with Constituents of the Builsa North Municipality at the Municipal Assembly Hall.

All Constituents are Cordially invited! Time 12:30pm

LET’S UPHOLD OUR CULTURE AND TRADITIONS – UPPER WEST MINISTER

Hon. Dr. Hafiz Bin Salih, the Upper West Regional Minister has advised stakeholders in the Upper East Region to uphold the cultural and traditional values of the various ethnic groups to ensure undiluted tradition is passed to unborn generations.

Speaking on behalf of the Upper East Regional Minister, Hon Stephen Yakubu at the Regional Festival of Arts and Culture, Hon. Dr. Salih bemoaned the attitude of some educated parents who did not speak their local languages to their children at home.

The Festival brought together various cultural troupes from the 15 Municipalities and Districts to display their culture and tradition.

He said children from such families could therefore not speak their own language and grew up not knowing their culture and tradition.

“It will surprise you that there are many of our people who do not speak our local languages to their children at home particularly those of us  who are privileged to be educated,” he said.

The Minister noted that religion was not to do away with the established traditions, and urged Management of the Centre for National Culture (CNC) to ensure the  programme was institutionalized as a yearly affair and rotated from among the Districts to make the programme attractive to the younger generations.

The Regional Director of the CNC, Mr. Pamphilio Kuubesingn said the Region was blessed with natural resources and tourist centres including the Tongo- Tengzuk Shrine, the Paga friendly ancestral  crocodiles, the Kulungugu Bomb Site,  and a home of great handicrafts, artefacts, leather works, textile among others.

To maintain  and  promote these great assets in the region, Mr. Kuubesingn called for the incorporation of technology in order to make them visible on global map so as  to rake in a lot of revenue for the region and the country as a whole.

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Tailoring and dressmaking industry can help solve unemployment- Atuga Albert

As the search by Ghanaian youth for jobs continue, the tailoring and dressmaking industry have been identified as a huge source for job creation thereby contributing immensely in reducing the high unemployment situation in the country.

It is in this regard that the Builsa North Municipal Assembly and the government has and will continue to invest in the private sector such as the dressmaking industry to help create employment for the teaming Youth of the Municipality.

Interventions such as the you start program, rural enterprise development program and many other interventions targeting the youth have been implemented by government to address the lack of capital by the Youth such as tailors and dress makers to put their skills acquired during training to use.

This was contained in a speech read on behalf of the Builsa North Municipal Chief Executive Mad. Vida Anaab by the Builsa North Npp Constituency Chairman 

Mr Atuga Albert Ajapoak  on 26th November,2022 at the Sandema durbar grounds during the graduation ceremony of 43 apprentices who successfully went through a three years training in tailoring and dressmaking  and have passed all the necessary examinations to be graduated.

He urged the graduates who are now going to be masters on their own to take human relationship (customer relation) very serious since that’s the only way to improve their skills.

 He added that, the struggle that graduates go through at acquiring stores to put their skills to use will soon become a thing of the past as the Assembly is working closely with the contractor of the market stores to put them to good use.

He presented an amount of (1000) thousand Ghana cedis to the group to aid in their activities whilst pledging the Assembly's commitment at Assisting the Ghana Tailors and dressmakers Association in the Municipality to help train more youth in Tailoring and dressmaking.

Mr. Eric Abatong Municipal Chairman of the tailors and dressmakers Association and Mr. Addala Nicholas Asangbisa; Parents Association Chairman of the group in their speeches appealed to the Municipal Assembly and philanthropic organisations to help the Association with tailoring machines and other working tools to help train more Youth in tailoring and dressmaking.

They also appealed to the Assembly to help the Association complete an ongoing training and examination centre currently under construction  to provide a congenial environment for training and conducting exams for apprentices who are about completing their course of training. 

The Municipal Director of the National Board for Small Scale Industries (NBSSI) Akeeda Roger Awinbe took the graduates through grant schemes they can fall on to start their businesses.

Abagi Edna and Eunice Azetiim Akanvaba who were part of the graduates expressed gratitude to their masters for taking them through the three years training program successfully  and also appealed to the Municipal Assembly to help set them up in order  to put what they have learnt to use thereby preventing them from travelling down south to engage in menial jobs.

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236 lives touched through life saving surgeries in Builsa Traditional Area

A total of 236 patients diagnosed with Hernia, Hydrocele, Goiter,Haemorrhoids,Uterine prolapse,Fibroids,Lipoma's, Ganglions and breast lumps among others have benefited from a life changing free surgeries conducted concurrently in the two districts of the Builsa traditional area (Builsa North Municipal and Builsa South Districts of the Upper East Region) by the Team of hope Ghana, a nonprofit organisation.

The outreach which began on Monday 14th November 2022, saw the team breaking the odds by being the first to conduct surgeries in an ill equiped virgin theatre in the Builsa South district where the team attended to 48 cases within a three day period spanning Monday 14th-Wednesday 16th November,2022. Whilst a total of 188 cases were operated on at the Sandema hospital within a five day period which ended on Friday 18th November,2022.

The Municipal Chief Executive of the Builsa North Municipality Mad. Vida Akantagriwon Anaab together with the Builsa North Municipal Coordinating Director Mr. Godfred K. B. Bamba, the Npp Chairman for the Builsa North Constituency Mr. Atuga A. Albert and some Npp constituency executives who visited the Sandema hospital Theater to welcome the team were full of praises to the team of hope for the wonderful work they were doing at providing free surgeries to the people of the Builsa traditional area and beyond who hitherto due to poverty and distance could not have had the opportunity to be operated on.

The MCE and her entourage presented an undisclosed amount of money to the team of hope in support of their Surgical outreach and pledged the Assembly's continuous support to the team to enable them touch more lives in the traditional area and beyond.

Dr. Jaabir Alhassan a member of the team of hope was grateful to the MCE and her entourage for welcoming them to the Municipality and for the support given to the team of hope. He called on the District Assembly to support the hospital with operating instruments to reduce the turn around time in conducting surgeries on each client saying " staff of the theatre have to continuously process and sterilize the operating instruments, other times we have to wait for the instruments to get cool a little before we can use them" this he said rather delay the time in conducting surgeries on patients.

The MCE seized the opportunity to tour the various wards of the facility to see how the patients were faring were she also donated an undisclosed amount of money to each ward to be used to cater for the patients on admission.

At a separate event, the overlord of the Builsa Traditional area Nab. Azagsuk Azantilow II in a farewell message to the team at his residence, thanked them for the care rendered to the people of his traditional area and also prayed for God guidance and protection to all who contributed in diverse ways at making the Surgical outreach by the team of hope in the Builsa traditional area a success.

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HON YAKUBU ADVOCATES EVEN DISTRIBUTION OF DOCTORS

The Upper East Regional Minister, Hon. Stephen Yakubu says the uneven distribution of Medical Officers across the country deprived some communities access to quality healthcare.

He said some doctors blatantly refused postings to the Northern part of the country, but preferred to remain in the urban areas where they had access to better working conditions, recreational facilities and opportunity to progress in their career.

Hon. Yakubu was speaking at the 64th Annual Conference of the Ghana Medical Association (GMA) in Bolgatanga on the theme: “Addressing the Doctor distribution dilemma: the case of Ghana and its underserved areas.”

He said “Let me make a clarion call to  members of the Ghana Medical Association to take a look at your core value of accessibility, nationalism, and professionalism and consider posting to deprived districts and regions of the country, especially the Upper East Region.”

The Minister said the support and cooperation of the GMA, the Ministry of Health and the Ghana Health Service were needed to formulate and implement policies to ensure Doctors were evenly distributed across the entire country.

He said the government of His Excellency President Akufo-Addo was working to provide decent accommodation for  doctors and specialists who accepted postings to the various districts.

He added that plans were underway to run medicine at the C. K Tedam  University of Technology and Applied Sciences in Navrongo to boost the doctor-patient ratio in the Region.

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The Minister said the Municipal and District Assemblies in the Region were also tasked to identify and sponsor students within their jurisdictions with the interest to study medicine, and bond them to return and serve the district upon successful completion.

Hon. Yakubu said the initiative was the surest way the services of doctors could be felt and accessible to the citizenry.