THE Moderator of the Global Evangelical Church, Rt Reverend Dr E. K. Gbordzoe, has called on the youth not to hurry into seeking material wealth at the expense of their future
He explained that wealth and prosperity did not come within a day, rather it is the result of hard work and self sacrifice.
Rev Gbordzoe made the call when he addressed the youth at the annual youth conference of the Global Evangelical Church at Kpando in the Volta Region over the week end.
The conference, which brought together youth across the country was on the theme: “Dreaming new Dreams”.
Rev Gbordzoe said the youth of the church and the country at large must learn to work hard in order to achieve their dreams of becoming what they want to be in the future.
He said a lot of the youth today had lost focus and direction because their desires were not in agreement with God's purpose for their life.
The moderator said for one to discover his or her purpose in life, the person must first have an intimate relationship with the maker.
The main speaker and Synod Clerk of the church, Rev Prince Y. Tefe, called on the youth not to allow the pleasures of the world to force them to move away from God because He did not discriminate but did all things right in His own time.
Rev Tefe lamented the increase in anti-social vices which were affecting the lives of the youth and mentioned lesbianism, homosexuality, Internet fraud and occultism as having been learnt from watching foreign movies.
The Director of the youth ministry of the church, Rev H. A. C. Agbesinyale, challenged the youth to lead the crusade against the "get rich quick" attitude that had become a challenge to society.
Rev Agbesinyale called on the government to see the youth as the energy of the nation and provide them with the needed resources in order to make them develop their full potential.
Two members of the national youth council of the church, Mr Francis Adatsi and Mr Ken Kuleke, in an interview with the Daily Graphic urged youth bodies to be courageous enough to expose injustice in society.
They stressed that if Christians who formed the majority of the country’s population could eschew arrogance, hypocrisy and deep seated hatred for each other, “we can have a corrupt free society.”
The two added that those practices must first be eradicated from the church which would in turn impact on the society as a whole.
As part of the conference, the youth donated blood to the Margret Marquat Hospital in Kpando.
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Monday, August 24, 2009
Consider risk in investments alongside benefits
THE Head of Treasury at CAL Bank Limited, Mr Philip Duodu Fynn, has advised the public to consider the risk involved in any form of investment they want to undertake and not necessarily the interest on that investment.
He cited the case of Pyram where the interest on investment in that financial institution was so high that it attracted a lot of Ghanaians, but were not able to pay the interest forcing it to fold up after a few months of operation in the country.
Mr Duodu Fynn gave the advice when he addressed customers of the Spintex road branch of CAL Bank at a customer focused meeting in Accra.
He said demanding higher returns on one's investment in itself was not a bad thing to do "but the question is, does the financial institution have the ability to pay that sum of interest," he asked.
He, therefore urged the public to invest with credible financial institutions so as to secure their investments and also to achieve their purpose of investing.
Mr Doudu Fynn also outlined the various stages on investment, which he metioned as Accumulating phase, Consideration phase and the Spending phase. These stages, he said, were very important in order to know what to do at every stage of the investment.
A General Manager of the bank in charge of Finance and Administration, Mr Philip Owiredu, answering questions from some customers gave the assurance that, the bank with all it achievement over the last few years was putting in place approprate measures to meet the demands of their cherised customer across the country.
Mr Owiredu said the purpose of the customer focused meeting was to educate their customers on the bank's products and also to address problems they encountered while doing business with the bank
He cited the case of Pyram where the interest on investment in that financial institution was so high that it attracted a lot of Ghanaians, but were not able to pay the interest forcing it to fold up after a few months of operation in the country.
Mr Duodu Fynn gave the advice when he addressed customers of the Spintex road branch of CAL Bank at a customer focused meeting in Accra.
He said demanding higher returns on one's investment in itself was not a bad thing to do "but the question is, does the financial institution have the ability to pay that sum of interest," he asked.
He, therefore urged the public to invest with credible financial institutions so as to secure their investments and also to achieve their purpose of investing.
Mr Doudu Fynn also outlined the various stages on investment, which he metioned as Accumulating phase, Consideration phase and the Spending phase. These stages, he said, were very important in order to know what to do at every stage of the investment.
A General Manager of the bank in charge of Finance and Administration, Mr Philip Owiredu, answering questions from some customers gave the assurance that, the bank with all it achievement over the last few years was putting in place approprate measures to meet the demands of their cherised customer across the country.
Mr Owiredu said the purpose of the customer focused meeting was to educate their customers on the bank's products and also to address problems they encountered while doing business with the bank
Karikari lauds media for sustaining democracy
The Executive Director of the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), Professor Kwame Karikari, has attributed improvement in the country’s democracy to the significant role being played by the media.
He, therefore, underscored the need to strengthen the capacity of the Ghanaian media to make them more effective in sustaining the country’s democracy and expanding the frontiers of freedom of expression.
Prof. Karikari made the remark at the first meeting of editors and media managers in the country to discuss the Ghana Media Standards Improvement Project, an initiative launched in June, 2009 to enhance the performance of the media in the country.
The project, which is a collaboration between the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) and the MFWA and funded by the Royal Dutch Embassy in Accra, seeks to develop and improve a culture of investigative, editing and analytical writing among Ghanaian journalists.
In a presentation of the concept of the project, Prof. Karikari said the project had become necessary as a result of the changing trends in the media industry worldwide and the need for Ghanaian journalists to catch up with these trends.
To achieve this, he said the pilot project was considering four main objectives in investigative reporting, to cover many of the issues that had not been covered by the media due to some factors beyond the capacity of the Ghanaian media practitioners.
Other objectives include the improvement in the management and administration of media houses.
The project seeks further to help and to empower media houses and their reporters to go into specific areas of specialisation such as petroleum, which is regarded as a very complex domain to report on.
It is expected to last for two years, and would involve four selected newspapers and eight radio stations, most of which must be based in the rural areas of the country.
The project would involve three main activities, which includes organising series of fora on selected issues of concern to the media, such as the use of photographs in newspapers.
Professor Nana Ansu-Kyeremeh, a lecturer at the School of Communication Studies of the University of Ghana, presented a paper on preliminary findings on a survey conducted to establish the media habit of Ghanaians in the country.
He said the core objective of the research was to ascertain the public’s estimation of the media terrain and journalists in the country, as well as to establish who was reading what.
Though findings from the work were yet to be finalised and made public, he sought the permission of the house on the possibility of making the outcome into a media rating.
The Editor of the Daily Graphic, Mr Ransford Tetteh, moderated the programme, while Mr Berfi Apenteng, a media consultant, led the discussions.
He, therefore, underscored the need to strengthen the capacity of the Ghanaian media to make them more effective in sustaining the country’s democracy and expanding the frontiers of freedom of expression.
Prof. Karikari made the remark at the first meeting of editors and media managers in the country to discuss the Ghana Media Standards Improvement Project, an initiative launched in June, 2009 to enhance the performance of the media in the country.
The project, which is a collaboration between the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) and the MFWA and funded by the Royal Dutch Embassy in Accra, seeks to develop and improve a culture of investigative, editing and analytical writing among Ghanaian journalists.
In a presentation of the concept of the project, Prof. Karikari said the project had become necessary as a result of the changing trends in the media industry worldwide and the need for Ghanaian journalists to catch up with these trends.
To achieve this, he said the pilot project was considering four main objectives in investigative reporting, to cover many of the issues that had not been covered by the media due to some factors beyond the capacity of the Ghanaian media practitioners.
Other objectives include the improvement in the management and administration of media houses.
The project seeks further to help and to empower media houses and their reporters to go into specific areas of specialisation such as petroleum, which is regarded as a very complex domain to report on.
It is expected to last for two years, and would involve four selected newspapers and eight radio stations, most of which must be based in the rural areas of the country.
The project would involve three main activities, which includes organising series of fora on selected issues of concern to the media, such as the use of photographs in newspapers.
Professor Nana Ansu-Kyeremeh, a lecturer at the School of Communication Studies of the University of Ghana, presented a paper on preliminary findings on a survey conducted to establish the media habit of Ghanaians in the country.
He said the core objective of the research was to ascertain the public’s estimation of the media terrain and journalists in the country, as well as to establish who was reading what.
Though findings from the work were yet to be finalised and made public, he sought the permission of the house on the possibility of making the outcome into a media rating.
The Editor of the Daily Graphic, Mr Ransford Tetteh, moderated the programme, while Mr Berfi Apenteng, a media consultant, led the discussions.
Thursday, August 20, 2009
NGOs fight malaria
MINISTERS of Health in the West African sub- region have initiated policies and programmes aimed at eradicating malaria , the Minister of Health Dr George Sipa-Adjah Yankey has said.
The initiatives, he said had become necessary since no individual country has the capacity to fight or eradicate the disease from their respective countries.
Dr Yankey said this when he inaugurated the Ghana Coalition of NGOs in Malaria (GCNM) in Accra and called on them to formulate policies that would compliment the government's effort at the eradication of malaria.
Dr Yankey mentioned some of the programmes currently going on in Ghana as the distribution of insecticide treated mosquito nets to a number of households and the distribution of treated curtains.
He said that the ministry was also in the process of mapping out all breeding sites for spraying.
These programmes among others, the minister said, would sustain the efforts made over the years at the eradication of malaria, admitting that eradicating malaria in the country needed the collaboration of all.
The minister said about three million malarial cases were reported annually in the public health care facilities while about 15 per cent of all deaths in the country were attributable to malaria.
Dr Yankey assured the leadership of the coalition of the government's support of achieving the government's dream of a malaria free society.
The Programme Manager of the National Malaria Control Programme (NMCP), Dr Constance Bart-Plange said the NMCP had made some remarkable progress in the past by reducing the number of recorded cases of malaria at public health facilities across the country.
Dr Bart-Plange said the coming together of the NGOs in malaria was in the right direction as it would help in the formulation of unified programmes and policies at the national and community level towards the eradication of malaria.
The Minister of Women and Children Affairs, Ms Akua Sena Dansua said that malaria affected women and children than any other group in the country, for that reason she pledged her ministry's support to curb it.
She said anything that affected women and children would also impact negatively on the socio economic development of the country.
Ms Dansua called on the coalition to factor in their campaign issues early treatment, since this would prevent most of the death recorded as a result of malaria.
The country Director of Johns Hopkins University, Mr Emmanuel Fiagbey and the president of the coalition, Mr Collins Agyarko-Nti also addressed the gathering.
The initiatives, he said had become necessary since no individual country has the capacity to fight or eradicate the disease from their respective countries.
Dr Yankey said this when he inaugurated the Ghana Coalition of NGOs in Malaria (GCNM) in Accra and called on them to formulate policies that would compliment the government's effort at the eradication of malaria.
Dr Yankey mentioned some of the programmes currently going on in Ghana as the distribution of insecticide treated mosquito nets to a number of households and the distribution of treated curtains.
He said that the ministry was also in the process of mapping out all breeding sites for spraying.
These programmes among others, the minister said, would sustain the efforts made over the years at the eradication of malaria, admitting that eradicating malaria in the country needed the collaboration of all.
The minister said about three million malarial cases were reported annually in the public health care facilities while about 15 per cent of all deaths in the country were attributable to malaria.
Dr Yankey assured the leadership of the coalition of the government's support of achieving the government's dream of a malaria free society.
The Programme Manager of the National Malaria Control Programme (NMCP), Dr Constance Bart-Plange said the NMCP had made some remarkable progress in the past by reducing the number of recorded cases of malaria at public health facilities across the country.
Dr Bart-Plange said the coming together of the NGOs in malaria was in the right direction as it would help in the formulation of unified programmes and policies at the national and community level towards the eradication of malaria.
The Minister of Women and Children Affairs, Ms Akua Sena Dansua said that malaria affected women and children than any other group in the country, for that reason she pledged her ministry's support to curb it.
She said anything that affected women and children would also impact negatively on the socio economic development of the country.
Ms Dansua called on the coalition to factor in their campaign issues early treatment, since this would prevent most of the death recorded as a result of malaria.
The country Director of Johns Hopkins University, Mr Emmanuel Fiagbey and the president of the coalition, Mr Collins Agyarko-Nti also addressed the gathering.
Provide for Agric insurance
THE National Insurance Commission (NIC) has called on insurance companies to develop products that would address challenges facing the agricultural sector.
Currently, there is no insurance company that offers any product for agriculture although the sector employs about 60 per cent of the country’s working population.
The Deputy Commissioner of the NIC, Mrs Nyamike Kyiamah, posed the challenge at the launch of the Donewell International Travel Policy in Accra on Tuesday.
The product, developed by Donewell Insurance Company, seeks to address the numerous risks faced by the travelling public to Europe. An insurance policy has become a requirement for travellers securing visas to travel to most European countries.
Mrs Nyamike said the agricultural sector, which accounts for 35 per cent of the nation’s GDP, could not be left out in matters of insurance.
She explained that any initiative to cover the sector would contribute towards increasing the level of insurance penetration in the country.
She said Ghana’s insurance penetration, currently at 1.6 per cent compared to an insurance penetration of 12.7 per cent for South Africa, was too low and needed immediate action to address the trend.
Mrs Nyamike observed that the discovery of oil in commercial quantity had opened up a huge market for insurance companies and challenged them to position themselves to take advantage of the opportunities.
In a statement read on his behalf, the Minister of Finance and Economic Planning, Dr Kwabena Duffuor, commended Donewell for the initiative and pledged the support of the government towards the growth of the insurance sector.
He tasked the players in the industry to take measures that would address the declining standard in marine insurance.
Dr Duffuor noted that the level of knowledge in insurance in the country was very low and called on the insurance companies to ensure consistent education of the public.
The Managing Director of Donewell Insurance, Mr Victor Larbi, said some of the benefits of the new policy were the payment of medical expenses and provision of legal assistance by an insurance company while the policy holder had travelled abroad.
Some other benefits include medical transportation being catered for, lost or delayed baggage and repatriation after treatment.
Currently, there is no insurance company that offers any product for agriculture although the sector employs about 60 per cent of the country’s working population.
The Deputy Commissioner of the NIC, Mrs Nyamike Kyiamah, posed the challenge at the launch of the Donewell International Travel Policy in Accra on Tuesday.
The product, developed by Donewell Insurance Company, seeks to address the numerous risks faced by the travelling public to Europe. An insurance policy has become a requirement for travellers securing visas to travel to most European countries.
Mrs Nyamike said the agricultural sector, which accounts for 35 per cent of the nation’s GDP, could not be left out in matters of insurance.
She explained that any initiative to cover the sector would contribute towards increasing the level of insurance penetration in the country.
She said Ghana’s insurance penetration, currently at 1.6 per cent compared to an insurance penetration of 12.7 per cent for South Africa, was too low and needed immediate action to address the trend.
Mrs Nyamike observed that the discovery of oil in commercial quantity had opened up a huge market for insurance companies and challenged them to position themselves to take advantage of the opportunities.
In a statement read on his behalf, the Minister of Finance and Economic Planning, Dr Kwabena Duffuor, commended Donewell for the initiative and pledged the support of the government towards the growth of the insurance sector.
He tasked the players in the industry to take measures that would address the declining standard in marine insurance.
Dr Duffuor noted that the level of knowledge in insurance in the country was very low and called on the insurance companies to ensure consistent education of the public.
The Managing Director of Donewell Insurance, Mr Victor Larbi, said some of the benefits of the new policy were the payment of medical expenses and provision of legal assistance by an insurance company while the policy holder had travelled abroad.
Some other benefits include medical transportation being catered for, lost or delayed baggage and repatriation after treatment.
‘Don’t rush to acquire wealth’
THE Moderator of the Global Evangelical Church, Rt Reverend Dr E. K. Gbordzoe, has called on the youth not to hurry into seeking material wealth at the expense of their future
He explained that wealth and prosperity did not come within a day, rather it is the result of hard work and self sacrifice.
Rev Gbordzoe made the call when he addressed the youth at the annual youth conference of the Global Evangelical Church at Kpando in the Volta Region over the week end.
The conference, which brought together youth across the country was on the theme: “Dreaming new Dreams”.
Rev Gbordzoe said the youth of the church and the country at large must learn to work hard in order to achieve their dreams of becoming what they want to be in the future.
He said a lot of the youth today had lost focus and direction because their desires were not in agreement with God's purpose for their life.
The moderator said for one to discover his or her purpose in life, the person must first have an intimate relationship with the maker.
The main speaker and Synod Clerk of the church, Rev Prince Y. Tefe, called on the youth not to allow the pleasures of the world to force them to move away from God because He did not discriminate but did all things right in His own time.
Rev Tefe lamented the increase in anti-social vices which were affecting the lives of the youth and mentioned lesbianism, homosexuality, Internet fraud and occultism as having been learnt from watching foreign movies.
The Director of the youth ministry of the church, Rev H. A. C. Agbesinyale, challenged the youth to lead the crusade against the "get rich quick" attitude that had become a challenge to society.
Rev Agbesinyale called on the government to see the youth as the energy of the nation and provide them with the needed resources in order to make them develop their full potential.
Two members of the national youth council of the church, Mr Francis Adatsi and Mr Ken Kuleke, in an interview with the Daily Graphic urged youth bodies to be courageous enough to expose injustice in society.
They stressed that if Christians who formed the majority of the country’s population could eschew arrogance, hypocrisy and deep seated hatred for each other, “we can have a corrupt free society.”
The two added that those practices must first be eradicated from the church which would in turn impact on the society as a whole.
As part of the conference, the youth donated blood to the Margret Marquat Hospital in Kpando.
He explained that wealth and prosperity did not come within a day, rather it is the result of hard work and self sacrifice.
Rev Gbordzoe made the call when he addressed the youth at the annual youth conference of the Global Evangelical Church at Kpando in the Volta Region over the week end.
The conference, which brought together youth across the country was on the theme: “Dreaming new Dreams”.
Rev Gbordzoe said the youth of the church and the country at large must learn to work hard in order to achieve their dreams of becoming what they want to be in the future.
He said a lot of the youth today had lost focus and direction because their desires were not in agreement with God's purpose for their life.
The moderator said for one to discover his or her purpose in life, the person must first have an intimate relationship with the maker.
The main speaker and Synod Clerk of the church, Rev Prince Y. Tefe, called on the youth not to allow the pleasures of the world to force them to move away from God because He did not discriminate but did all things right in His own time.
Rev Tefe lamented the increase in anti-social vices which were affecting the lives of the youth and mentioned lesbianism, homosexuality, Internet fraud and occultism as having been learnt from watching foreign movies.
The Director of the youth ministry of the church, Rev H. A. C. Agbesinyale, challenged the youth to lead the crusade against the "get rich quick" attitude that had become a challenge to society.
Rev Agbesinyale called on the government to see the youth as the energy of the nation and provide them with the needed resources in order to make them develop their full potential.
Two members of the national youth council of the church, Mr Francis Adatsi and Mr Ken Kuleke, in an interview with the Daily Graphic urged youth bodies to be courageous enough to expose injustice in society.
They stressed that if Christians who formed the majority of the country’s population could eschew arrogance, hypocrisy and deep seated hatred for each other, “we can have a corrupt free society.”
The two added that those practices must first be eradicated from the church which would in turn impact on the society as a whole.
As part of the conference, the youth donated blood to the Margret Marquat Hospital in Kpando.
Cal holds customer focus meeting
THE Head of Treasury at CAL Bank Limited, Mr Philip Duodu Fynn, has advised the public to consider the risk involved in any form of investment they want to undertake and not necessarily the interest on that investment.
He cited the case of Pyram where the interest on investment in that financial institution was so high that it attracted a lot of Ghanaians, but were not able to pay the interest forcing it to fold up after a few months of operation in the country.
Mr Duodu Fynn gave the advice when he addressed customers of the Spintex road branch of CAL Bank at a customer focused meeting in Accra.
He said demanding higher returns on one's investment in itself was not a bad thing to do "but the question is, does the financial institution have the ability to pay that sum of interest," he asked.
He, therefore urged the public to invest with credible financial institutions so as to secure their investments and also to achieve their purpose of investing.
Mr Doudu Fynn also outlined the various stages on investment, which he metioned as Accumulating phase, Consideration phase and the Spending phase. These stages, he said, were very important in order to know what to do at every stage of the investment.
A General Manager of the bank in charge of Finance and Administration, Mr Philip Owiredu, answering questions from some customers gave the assurance that, the bank with all it achievement over the last few years was putting in place approprate measures to meet the demands of their cherised customer across the country.
Mr Owiredu said the purpose of the customer focused meeting was to educate their customers on the bank's products and also to address problems they encountered while doing business with the bank
He cited the case of Pyram where the interest on investment in that financial institution was so high that it attracted a lot of Ghanaians, but were not able to pay the interest forcing it to fold up after a few months of operation in the country.
Mr Duodu Fynn gave the advice when he addressed customers of the Spintex road branch of CAL Bank at a customer focused meeting in Accra.
He said demanding higher returns on one's investment in itself was not a bad thing to do "but the question is, does the financial institution have the ability to pay that sum of interest," he asked.
He, therefore urged the public to invest with credible financial institutions so as to secure their investments and also to achieve their purpose of investing.
Mr Doudu Fynn also outlined the various stages on investment, which he metioned as Accumulating phase, Consideration phase and the Spending phase. These stages, he said, were very important in order to know what to do at every stage of the investment.
A General Manager of the bank in charge of Finance and Administration, Mr Philip Owiredu, answering questions from some customers gave the assurance that, the bank with all it achievement over the last few years was putting in place approprate measures to meet the demands of their cherised customer across the country.
Mr Owiredu said the purpose of the customer focused meeting was to educate their customers on the bank's products and also to address problems they encountered while doing business with the bank
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