King Faisal recorded their second successive victory in the Premier League when they pounced on Heart of Lions and demolished them with an emphatic 3-1 win at the Baba Yara Sports Stadium in Kumasi on Saturday.
It was the determination of Faisal to escape relegation that galvanised them to overpower the Lions from Kpando who played a more purposeful game throughout the 90 minute duration .
Determined to carry the day, Faisal started pushing more men upfront and fired from all angles ,but Stephen Ahorlu in post for Lions denied them the opportunity of brilliant saves.
Frank Acheampong opened the scores for Faisal on the 21st minute when he planted the ball beyond the reach of Ahorlu by intercepting a pass in the box during a goal mouth melee created from the corner kick.
The goal gingered Faisal to probe for more, and on the 24th minute Jean Fancois Boli was given that opportunity to register his name on the score sheet , but alone in the box, and with only Ahorlu at his mercy, the attacker blasted wide to give Lions a reprieve.
Faisal scored their second goal through a spot kick through Prince Arko on the 43rd minute.
In one of his moves in the box, Arko was brought down by Ahorlu, and when a spot kick was awarded, Arko elected himself and delivered a bullet which Ahorlu made no attempt to save to give Faisal a comfortable lead.
Lions accepted the challenge and back from recess, they took total control of the midfield, and multiplied in attack, forcing Faisal to retreat on most occasions,
In one of their attacks in the 67th minute, Muhammad Tanko of Lions succeeded in disorganising the defence of Faisal and delivered a bullet which Iddrisu Ibrahim in post for Faisal struggled to push to corner.
A minute later, Lions reduced the tally through substitute Osei Banahene, and just when Lions were pushing for the equaliser, Faisal scored their third goal through Daniel Adjei whose 25-metre drive in the 79th minute against the run of play, secured a comfortable win for Alhaji Grunsah’s King Faisal.
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
DOCTORS URGED TO BE PROFESSIONAL (PAGE 22, JAN 9, 2010)
medical officers at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) have been urged to display a high level of professionalism in the discharge of their duties and show compassion for patients to enhance quality delivery of services in 2010.
It is only when medical officers prove that they care for their patients even in difficult times that ”patients would also appreciate and acknowledge that you care, so that even in death, they would appreciate that you did your best”.
Addressing medical staff at the KATH during their annual end-of-year thanksgiving service, Mr Opoku Manu, the Ashanti Regional Minister noted: “May your hearts and mind be touched and filled with mercy to enable you to offer quality health care service to patients in 2010.”
The annual thanksgiving service was organised to offer opportunity for the staff at the KATH to converge on the forecourt of the hospital for them to offer praises to God for His guidance and protection in 2009.
It also afforded them the opportunity to pray for God’s guidance and control in 2010 to enable them to become more committed and dedicated in providing quality healthcare service for their patients.
Commending the staff for their quality performance in 2009, Mr Opoku Manu said it was important for them to adopt a better strategy in quality healthcare service delivery to enable them to be on course in achieving excellence in health care.
“You should strive to do better this year for patients to appreciate your efforts,“ he said, adding that “as you strive to achieve excellence in healthcare service delivery, it is important for you to eschew attitudes that could undermine the good image you are building for the hospital”.
He said the Government was concerned about the numerous challenges that confronted them and assured them that efforts would be made to address such challenges to enhance quality healthcare service delivery.
The Chief Executive of the KATH, Professor Ohene Adjei, pointed out that the increase in the number of patients attending hospital as a result of the introduction of the national health insurance scheme was making quality healthcare service delivery more challenging.
“The coming year will not be different, and we must, therefore, learn from the lessons we gained this year in order to offer better services to our clients in the year ahead,” he said.
Prof. Ohene Adjei said as a tertiary health centre in the northern sector, and being the last hope of patients from that sector, there was the need for the medical officers “to strive to do the best we can to bring the smiles on the faces of people who come here for our services”.
He said management was committed to the provision of the needed logistics to enable them to deliver to the expectation of patients.
“Management will continue to pursue continued professional development interventions to adequately prepare you for the challenges ahead,” he assured.
He, however, pleaded that they should committed to “the maintenance of industrial peace and refrain from the use of strikes in our quest for improved service conditions”.
“We must endeavour to make maximum use of the available internal grievance resolution mechanisms in seeking redress as resorting to strikes tend to overshadow the tremendous sacrifices you have been making in providing the best of care for the public,“ he stressed.
It is only when medical officers prove that they care for their patients even in difficult times that ”patients would also appreciate and acknowledge that you care, so that even in death, they would appreciate that you did your best”.
Addressing medical staff at the KATH during their annual end-of-year thanksgiving service, Mr Opoku Manu, the Ashanti Regional Minister noted: “May your hearts and mind be touched and filled with mercy to enable you to offer quality health care service to patients in 2010.”
The annual thanksgiving service was organised to offer opportunity for the staff at the KATH to converge on the forecourt of the hospital for them to offer praises to God for His guidance and protection in 2009.
It also afforded them the opportunity to pray for God’s guidance and control in 2010 to enable them to become more committed and dedicated in providing quality healthcare service for their patients.
Commending the staff for their quality performance in 2009, Mr Opoku Manu said it was important for them to adopt a better strategy in quality healthcare service delivery to enable them to be on course in achieving excellence in health care.
“You should strive to do better this year for patients to appreciate your efforts,“ he said, adding that “as you strive to achieve excellence in healthcare service delivery, it is important for you to eschew attitudes that could undermine the good image you are building for the hospital”.
He said the Government was concerned about the numerous challenges that confronted them and assured them that efforts would be made to address such challenges to enhance quality healthcare service delivery.
The Chief Executive of the KATH, Professor Ohene Adjei, pointed out that the increase in the number of patients attending hospital as a result of the introduction of the national health insurance scheme was making quality healthcare service delivery more challenging.
“The coming year will not be different, and we must, therefore, learn from the lessons we gained this year in order to offer better services to our clients in the year ahead,” he said.
Prof. Ohene Adjei said as a tertiary health centre in the northern sector, and being the last hope of patients from that sector, there was the need for the medical officers “to strive to do the best we can to bring the smiles on the faces of people who come here for our services”.
He said management was committed to the provision of the needed logistics to enable them to deliver to the expectation of patients.
“Management will continue to pursue continued professional development interventions to adequately prepare you for the challenges ahead,” he assured.
He, however, pleaded that they should committed to “the maintenance of industrial peace and refrain from the use of strikes in our quest for improved service conditions”.
“We must endeavour to make maximum use of the available internal grievance resolution mechanisms in seeking redress as resorting to strikes tend to overshadow the tremendous sacrifices you have been making in providing the best of care for the public,“ he stressed.
Monday, February 22, 2010
OPOKU WARE TO GET LABORATORY (PAGE 17, JAN 8, 2010)
THE Opoku Ware Senior High School Old Boys Association (AKATAKYIE) in Germany has cut the sod for the construction of a laboratory to enhance teaching and learning of the German language in the school.
The facility, being sponsored by the German-based Akatakyie and estimated at GH¢79,296, is expected to be completed in three years.
It comprises a three-classroom block, a library, a recreation hall, offices and stores,
The Headmaster of Opoku Ware Senior High School, Mr Stephen Anokye, in collaboration with the board of governors, provided a parcel of land for the construction of the project.
The President of the Germany Group of Akatakyie , Okatakyie Kofi Gyamfi Boateng, who cut the sod for the commencement of the project, said their initiative was to encourage students from OWASS to be versatile in the German language to enhance the development of their potentials.
He said regardless of their number, which is only 11, “we are determined to make an impact in the school by giving back what it offered us many years ago”.
Mr Boateng pointed out that apart from the facility under construction, the old boys in Germany would also furnish the laboratory with logistics when completed, to motivate students to take keen interest in the German language.
“This will enable them to compete favourably with their counterparts in Europe whenever they have the opportunity to further their studies abroad,” he explained.
He said the need to establish the German language laboratory started five years ago when they contracted one Mr Charles Fordjour to teach the students, “but we found out that we needed facilities and logistics that could enhance teaching and learning of the language, hence this project”.
He appealed to other Akatakyies in Ghana and abroad to support them with funds to enhance completion of the project.
Mr Stephen Anokye commended them for their initiative.
He said as family members with a common identity, there was a need for old boys from the school to contribute in diverse ways to the development of the school.
Mr Anokoye said the project should be embraced by all old boys, because it offered the students tremendous benefits for in diverse ways.
The facility, being sponsored by the German-based Akatakyie and estimated at GH¢79,296, is expected to be completed in three years.
It comprises a three-classroom block, a library, a recreation hall, offices and stores,
The Headmaster of Opoku Ware Senior High School, Mr Stephen Anokye, in collaboration with the board of governors, provided a parcel of land for the construction of the project.
The President of the Germany Group of Akatakyie , Okatakyie Kofi Gyamfi Boateng, who cut the sod for the commencement of the project, said their initiative was to encourage students from OWASS to be versatile in the German language to enhance the development of their potentials.
He said regardless of their number, which is only 11, “we are determined to make an impact in the school by giving back what it offered us many years ago”.
Mr Boateng pointed out that apart from the facility under construction, the old boys in Germany would also furnish the laboratory with logistics when completed, to motivate students to take keen interest in the German language.
“This will enable them to compete favourably with their counterparts in Europe whenever they have the opportunity to further their studies abroad,” he explained.
He said the need to establish the German language laboratory started five years ago when they contracted one Mr Charles Fordjour to teach the students, “but we found out that we needed facilities and logistics that could enhance teaching and learning of the language, hence this project”.
He appealed to other Akatakyies in Ghana and abroad to support them with funds to enhance completion of the project.
Mr Stephen Anokye commended them for their initiative.
He said as family members with a common identity, there was a need for old boys from the school to contribute in diverse ways to the development of the school.
Mr Anokoye said the project should be embraced by all old boys, because it offered the students tremendous benefits for in diverse ways.
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
9 PERISH IN ACCIDENT IN NOBEWAM (PAGE 3, JAN 5)
Nine people perished on the outskirts of Nobewam near Konongo in the Ashanti Region on Sunday night when a Ford passenger mini bus travelling from Kumasi to Accra collided head-on with a KIA truck which was heading towards Kumasi from Accra.
The drivers of both vehicles and a child and her mother were among the dead, comprising three females and six males.
So far, only the driver of the Ford vehicle, with registration number AS1465-09, has been identified as Bob.
Eight other passengers also suffered various degrees of injury and were rushed to the Konongo Government Hospital for treatment.
Six of the injured passengers were on the Ford Mini bus while the other two were on the KIA truck.
According to the police, the accident occurred when the driver of the KIA truck, with registration number GR9321Q, veered onto the lane of the oncoming Ford.
The Ashanti Regional Police Motor Transport and Traffic Unit (MTTU) Commander, Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Abraham Bansah, who briefed the Daily Graphic on the incident, said initial investigations revealed that both drivers were speeding in opposite directions on the Kumasi-Accra road, and the driver of the KIA truck did not observe road traffic regulation when he saw an articulated truck parked in its lane.
Explaining, he said an articulated truck, with registration number AS8103 S, which had broken down, was parked by the roadside without any warning triangle.
He said when the driver of the KIA truck reached the spot where the articulated truck was parked, he should have stopped to give way to the oncoming Ford mini bus but sped on.
To avoid hitting the articulated truck, he veered onto the lane of the Ford mini bus, which was coming from the opposite direction.
According to an eyewitness who spoke to the Daily Graphic, it took rescuers a lot of time to cut through the mangled vehicles to remove the bodies of both drivers from their respective vehicles.
He explained that the impact of the vehicles was so great that the drivers remained completely trapped in their front seats for over 30 minutes until firemen cut parts of the vehicles to remove their bodies.
The drivers of both vehicles and a child and her mother were among the dead, comprising three females and six males.
So far, only the driver of the Ford vehicle, with registration number AS1465-09, has been identified as Bob.
Eight other passengers also suffered various degrees of injury and were rushed to the Konongo Government Hospital for treatment.
Six of the injured passengers were on the Ford Mini bus while the other two were on the KIA truck.
According to the police, the accident occurred when the driver of the KIA truck, with registration number GR9321Q, veered onto the lane of the oncoming Ford.
The Ashanti Regional Police Motor Transport and Traffic Unit (MTTU) Commander, Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Abraham Bansah, who briefed the Daily Graphic on the incident, said initial investigations revealed that both drivers were speeding in opposite directions on the Kumasi-Accra road, and the driver of the KIA truck did not observe road traffic regulation when he saw an articulated truck parked in its lane.
Explaining, he said an articulated truck, with registration number AS8103 S, which had broken down, was parked by the roadside without any warning triangle.
He said when the driver of the KIA truck reached the spot where the articulated truck was parked, he should have stopped to give way to the oncoming Ford mini bus but sped on.
To avoid hitting the articulated truck, he veered onto the lane of the Ford mini bus, which was coming from the opposite direction.
According to an eyewitness who spoke to the Daily Graphic, it took rescuers a lot of time to cut through the mangled vehicles to remove the bodies of both drivers from their respective vehicles.
He explained that the impact of the vehicles was so great that the drivers remained completely trapped in their front seats for over 30 minutes until firemen cut parts of the vehicles to remove their bodies.
Monday, January 4, 2010
STUDENT URGED TO BE MORALLY UPRIGHT (PAGE 11, JAN 4)
THE Kumasi Chaplaincy Board has intensified its outreach programme on evangelism in second cycle schools within the Kumasi metropolis and its environs, as a way of influencing students to adopt Godly lifestyles and morally upright attitudes.
This, according to the board, would enable students to become responsible adults in future.
The programme is also intended to influence students for them to interact positively with their peers to reduce the level of indiscipline that has characterised the youth in particular and society in general.
The Chairman of the KCB, Rev Oscar Amoah, who announced this during a media encounter in Kumasi, said the level of indiscipline that had permeated society had created a serious challenge to the church.
The programme was part of the launch of the 50th anniversary of the KCB, on the theme “transforming society through effective school Ministry: The role of Kumasi Chaplaincy Board”.
Rev Amoah who is also the Chaplain of the Kumasi Anglican Senior High School, noted that “our failure to mould and shape the youth who are future leaders of society will spell doom for the nation in the very near future”.
Explaining, he said “the rate of indiscipline and crime committed among the young generation has escalated, and is still increasing. Our society can now has more criminals than ever, and we are concerned about the unfortunate trend of affairs”.
He said concrete steps should be taken to address the level of indiscipline among the youth before it exploded into a chaotic situation that could undermine the survival of the country.
The school ministry, he said “concerns itself with carrying out the work of God in schools to take care of the spiritual and moral lives of the school community which will eventually impact positively on their academic and social lives” .
Explaining, he said the ministry involved the school community in the preaching of the word of God, praying for them and addressing their spiritual, emotional and other needs.
He said “an untrained child of today will destroy his future and that of others”.
He pointed out that apart from not fully appreciating what adolescence meant “peer pressure and the desire to experiment with a number of things expose their minds to a barrage of issues”.
He said there were also problems of conflict with parents “who are seen by these young ones as ‘not understanding’ and being domineering, the breakdown of family values, coupled with poor inter personal relationship between parents and their children”
These problems, he said resulted in “waywardness, drug abuse, alcoholism, gambling, sexual immorality , gangsterism, among other vices”.
Rev Fr Amoah said “the craze to become rich overnight, Internet fraud, occultism and other ritual means, popularly known as ‘sakawa’ , has also become widespread in recent times”.
He said the school ministry which was seen to be very strategic did not only complement and consolidate the efforts of the school authority in instilling discipline among students, but also “promote good spiritual and moral lives” stressing that “ the KCB is very convinced that society can be transformed through effective preaching of the Gospel of Christ”.
He called on the public to support the KCB in kind and in cash to enable it to sustain the outreach programme.
Apart from operating from the office of the Scripture Union, he said the KCB also “depends on voluntary contributions from preaching groups of the board which does not own a means of transport to facilitate its operations” and therefore appealed for support in that endeavour.
This, according to the board, would enable students to become responsible adults in future.
The programme is also intended to influence students for them to interact positively with their peers to reduce the level of indiscipline that has characterised the youth in particular and society in general.
The Chairman of the KCB, Rev Oscar Amoah, who announced this during a media encounter in Kumasi, said the level of indiscipline that had permeated society had created a serious challenge to the church.
The programme was part of the launch of the 50th anniversary of the KCB, on the theme “transforming society through effective school Ministry: The role of Kumasi Chaplaincy Board”.
Rev Amoah who is also the Chaplain of the Kumasi Anglican Senior High School, noted that “our failure to mould and shape the youth who are future leaders of society will spell doom for the nation in the very near future”.
Explaining, he said “the rate of indiscipline and crime committed among the young generation has escalated, and is still increasing. Our society can now has more criminals than ever, and we are concerned about the unfortunate trend of affairs”.
He said concrete steps should be taken to address the level of indiscipline among the youth before it exploded into a chaotic situation that could undermine the survival of the country.
The school ministry, he said “concerns itself with carrying out the work of God in schools to take care of the spiritual and moral lives of the school community which will eventually impact positively on their academic and social lives” .
Explaining, he said the ministry involved the school community in the preaching of the word of God, praying for them and addressing their spiritual, emotional and other needs.
He said “an untrained child of today will destroy his future and that of others”.
He pointed out that apart from not fully appreciating what adolescence meant “peer pressure and the desire to experiment with a number of things expose their minds to a barrage of issues”.
He said there were also problems of conflict with parents “who are seen by these young ones as ‘not understanding’ and being domineering, the breakdown of family values, coupled with poor inter personal relationship between parents and their children”
These problems, he said resulted in “waywardness, drug abuse, alcoholism, gambling, sexual immorality , gangsterism, among other vices”.
Rev Fr Amoah said “the craze to become rich overnight, Internet fraud, occultism and other ritual means, popularly known as ‘sakawa’ , has also become widespread in recent times”.
He said the school ministry which was seen to be very strategic did not only complement and consolidate the efforts of the school authority in instilling discipline among students, but also “promote good spiritual and moral lives” stressing that “ the KCB is very convinced that society can be transformed through effective preaching of the Gospel of Christ”.
He called on the public to support the KCB in kind and in cash to enable it to sustain the outreach programme.
Apart from operating from the office of the Scripture Union, he said the KCB also “depends on voluntary contributions from preaching groups of the board which does not own a means of transport to facilitate its operations” and therefore appealed for support in that endeavour.
CSUC, ESTATE FINANCING COMPANY SIGN MOU...To build hostel complex (PAGE 11, JAN 4)
THE authorities of Christian Service University College (CSUC) in Kumasi have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Estate Financing Company of the United States of America for the construction of a hostel complex to ease the accommodation problem facing students.
The university would also use its internally generated funds to construct a five storey library, a computer centre and communication laboratory at the university campus this year.
The projects, which are part of the vision of the university to create a conducive atmosphere for teaching and learning, are also expected to enhance research work for both lecturers and students, and to sustain student intake, infrastructural development and improved academic standard.
The Chairman of the CSUC Council, Professor Sam Afrane, announced this during the 33rd graduation ceremony of the university last Saturday, and said the school had acquired 11-acres at Saben-Akrofuom on the Obuasi road to develop a new campus for the university.
“In order to ensure that we have adequate land to achieve the totality of our long-term vision, we have initiated the process of acquiring additional 10-15 more acres for the project,” he stressed.
In all, 391 students graduated from the university and out of the number, 31, including 12 females, obtained first class honours, 81 secured second class upper division, while 176 received second class lower division with 18 of them securing third class.
Professor Afrane explained that while the computer centre and communications laboratory, among other projects, would be financed through internally generated funds, that of the students’ hostel, designed to accommodate between 250 and 300 students, would be financed by Estate Financing Company.
On human resource development, he said starting from this year, “the university will institutionalise an ‘awards day’ to recognise and reward individuals who have excelled in the performance of their duties”.
Prof. Afrane said “CSUC is committed to the promotion of academic excellence and scholarship as enshrined in our vision. To this end, the council has increased the budget for staff research together with perks to motivate staff to intensify their research activities”.
Commending the graduates for their hard work, he said it was time the government introduced “appropriate policies and the necessary legislative reforms that will ensure access to the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund) to support the development of private universities like CSUC”.
Hhe said, the provision of such funds would provide “avenues for manpower training of many young people who cannot access our few and over-stretched public universities”.
In her address, the Chief Executive of the Ghana Chamber of Mines, Dr Joyce R. Aryee, urged the graduates who aspire to become public officials to eschew any tendency of using their positions to amass wealth at the expense of society which they intended to serve.
“The essence of being a public servant or aspiring to such a position was not for amassing wealth at the expense of the public good. Instead, it was service to mankind and to one’s country,” she noted.
She said “the cost of poor performance and corruption in the public service are too great to bear. This is true not only for the public service, but also for the entire public sector, political leadership and other strata of society”.
To extricate Ghana from “the terrible but self-imposed morass, there is now more than ever the need to demonstrate competence and higher regard for ethics in all our endeavours, especially in the provision of public services,” she noted.
Dr Aryee, however, expressed concern about the low remuneration and lack of opportunities for public servants and their families to enhance their advancement in society.
“These conditions breed low morale and make corruption seem inevitable and a necessary evil. In areas where basic needs of citizens cannot be met, talking about professionalism and ethics seem a luxury, but we cannot allow survival to become our value,” she noted.
Stressing, she said “ when survival becomes our paramount value, corruption can become a way of life. I am certain everyone knows that when there is very little or no regard for law and order, extreme social dislocation occur, and the moral fabric of a society gets torn apart”.
In his address, the President of CSUC, Professor Emmanuel Frempong, said in line with their objectives, the university was preparing students “who are well trained and motivated spiritually, academically and professionally to serve the church and society in all spheres of life”.
“It is our duty to promote and encourage the formation of moral character and the application of biblical ethics to contemporary moral issues” he stressed.
He said the plan to introduce a BSc Nursing programme was also far advanced and gave the assurance that the authorities were working hard to secure accreditation to start the programme soon.
The university would also use its internally generated funds to construct a five storey library, a computer centre and communication laboratory at the university campus this year.
The projects, which are part of the vision of the university to create a conducive atmosphere for teaching and learning, are also expected to enhance research work for both lecturers and students, and to sustain student intake, infrastructural development and improved academic standard.
The Chairman of the CSUC Council, Professor Sam Afrane, announced this during the 33rd graduation ceremony of the university last Saturday, and said the school had acquired 11-acres at Saben-Akrofuom on the Obuasi road to develop a new campus for the university.
“In order to ensure that we have adequate land to achieve the totality of our long-term vision, we have initiated the process of acquiring additional 10-15 more acres for the project,” he stressed.
In all, 391 students graduated from the university and out of the number, 31, including 12 females, obtained first class honours, 81 secured second class upper division, while 176 received second class lower division with 18 of them securing third class.
Professor Afrane explained that while the computer centre and communications laboratory, among other projects, would be financed through internally generated funds, that of the students’ hostel, designed to accommodate between 250 and 300 students, would be financed by Estate Financing Company.
On human resource development, he said starting from this year, “the university will institutionalise an ‘awards day’ to recognise and reward individuals who have excelled in the performance of their duties”.
Prof. Afrane said “CSUC is committed to the promotion of academic excellence and scholarship as enshrined in our vision. To this end, the council has increased the budget for staff research together with perks to motivate staff to intensify their research activities”.
Commending the graduates for their hard work, he said it was time the government introduced “appropriate policies and the necessary legislative reforms that will ensure access to the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund) to support the development of private universities like CSUC”.
Hhe said, the provision of such funds would provide “avenues for manpower training of many young people who cannot access our few and over-stretched public universities”.
In her address, the Chief Executive of the Ghana Chamber of Mines, Dr Joyce R. Aryee, urged the graduates who aspire to become public officials to eschew any tendency of using their positions to amass wealth at the expense of society which they intended to serve.
“The essence of being a public servant or aspiring to such a position was not for amassing wealth at the expense of the public good. Instead, it was service to mankind and to one’s country,” she noted.
She said “the cost of poor performance and corruption in the public service are too great to bear. This is true not only for the public service, but also for the entire public sector, political leadership and other strata of society”.
To extricate Ghana from “the terrible but self-imposed morass, there is now more than ever the need to demonstrate competence and higher regard for ethics in all our endeavours, especially in the provision of public services,” she noted.
Dr Aryee, however, expressed concern about the low remuneration and lack of opportunities for public servants and their families to enhance their advancement in society.
“These conditions breed low morale and make corruption seem inevitable and a necessary evil. In areas where basic needs of citizens cannot be met, talking about professionalism and ethics seem a luxury, but we cannot allow survival to become our value,” she noted.
Stressing, she said “ when survival becomes our paramount value, corruption can become a way of life. I am certain everyone knows that when there is very little or no regard for law and order, extreme social dislocation occur, and the moral fabric of a society gets torn apart”.
In his address, the President of CSUC, Professor Emmanuel Frempong, said in line with their objectives, the university was preparing students “who are well trained and motivated spiritually, academically and professionally to serve the church and society in all spheres of life”.
“It is our duty to promote and encourage the formation of moral character and the application of biblical ethics to contemporary moral issues” he stressed.
He said the plan to introduce a BSc Nursing programme was also far advanced and gave the assurance that the authorities were working hard to secure accreditation to start the programme soon.
UT TO ROLL OUT MORE PRODUCTS (PAGE 39, JAN 4)
UT Financial Services has assured its customers of the introduction of innovative products that would make banking more attractive and meaninful to the ordinary Ghanaian in 2010 and beyond.
According to management, innovative products that would encourage customers to initiate small and medium-scale industries and also expand existing ones would be introduced this year to accelerate the pace of socio- economic development in the country.
The Area Manager of UT Financial Services, Mr Moses Agyemang, who gave the assurance in Kumasi last Friday during an end-of-year dinner for customers pointed out that the management of UT was in a process of redefining banking in the country to make it more attractive to the ordinary Ghanaian.
The end-of-year dinner offered the opportunity for the management and customers of the financial institution to interact in a fruitful manner and shared ideas that would promote their respective interests .
Mr Agyemang pointed out that 2010 was going to be a year of action, explaining that, having come out of the credit crunch unscathed and overcome the challenges of the change of government last year, “ we are now ready to take banking to a higher level in the country to accelerate socio-economic development
We are going to redefine banking in Ghana and take it to a different level to enhance accelerated development ”.
He said the bank was also going to introduce products that would encourage its customers to venture into productive ventures that would enhance income generation and accelerated development.
“ We had a lot of challenges last year, but we have used them as springboards that would enhance a lot of successes in 2010” he noted.
Mr Agyemang said management of the bank would also create an atmosphere that would encourage customers to air their views on issues that undermine their operations.
“ We are now going to listen to our customers more and would also not relent in our effort of creating an enabling environment that would make their business thrive”. he assured.
He said management would also be committed to the implementation of all initiatives, especially those involved on how to be successful in achieving results.
Such actions, he said, would place the bank in a higher standard and therefore, appealed to customers to collaborate with management for them to realise their objectives.
According to management, innovative products that would encourage customers to initiate small and medium-scale industries and also expand existing ones would be introduced this year to accelerate the pace of socio- economic development in the country.
The Area Manager of UT Financial Services, Mr Moses Agyemang, who gave the assurance in Kumasi last Friday during an end-of-year dinner for customers pointed out that the management of UT was in a process of redefining banking in the country to make it more attractive to the ordinary Ghanaian.
The end-of-year dinner offered the opportunity for the management and customers of the financial institution to interact in a fruitful manner and shared ideas that would promote their respective interests .
Mr Agyemang pointed out that 2010 was going to be a year of action, explaining that, having come out of the credit crunch unscathed and overcome the challenges of the change of government last year, “ we are now ready to take banking to a higher level in the country to accelerate socio-economic development
We are going to redefine banking in Ghana and take it to a different level to enhance accelerated development ”.
He said the bank was also going to introduce products that would encourage its customers to venture into productive ventures that would enhance income generation and accelerated development.
“ We had a lot of challenges last year, but we have used them as springboards that would enhance a lot of successes in 2010” he noted.
Mr Agyemang said management of the bank would also create an atmosphere that would encourage customers to air their views on issues that undermine their operations.
“ We are now going to listen to our customers more and would also not relent in our effort of creating an enabling environment that would make their business thrive”. he assured.
He said management would also be committed to the implementation of all initiatives, especially those involved on how to be successful in achieving results.
Such actions, he said, would place the bank in a higher standard and therefore, appealed to customers to collaborate with management for them to realise their objectives.
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