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GROSSO FOOD AFRICA PROMISES FOOD SECURITY

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Grosso Foods Group was announced at a virtual conference as a new entrant in the African agri-business sector with a vision to accelerate agribusiness growth and investments in Africa – geared toward boosting food security, economic growth, and climate-smart investment.

As an Africa-focused agribusiness with over 30 years combined experience in all aspects of the business across the value-chain, Grosso Foods Group is optimally positioned to become Africa’s leading investment and advisory partner for intermediary-sized agribusiness across the continent. It intends to lead the complete agribusiness value chain from farms to fridges, providing protein-rich healthy foods for the growing African and global market.

They have a flexible client-focused approach, blended with strong technical and business administrative acumen, accommodates the need for both short- and long-term projects, mitigating associated risks and ensuring success.

Agriculture in Africa has been characterised as subsistence farming – a narrative Grosso Foods Group aims to change by helping to increase local ownership of the entire value chain – including land, farming technology, processing, marketing and distribution – for a positive impact on socio-economic development of the respective regions.

Grosso Foods Group will lead the African agricultural revolution through sustainable localised solutions and put healthy food in the fridge sourced no more than 200kms from local farms. Their investment in African agribusiness will result in social uplifting and the creation of opportunities for people of the continent.

The founder and CEO of Grosso Foods Group, Nuradin Osman, has reiterated that Grosso Foods Group will focus on resilience in food production; mechanisation, technology and innovations for agribusiness; optimisation of value-chains and value addition; skills and capacity development; integrated agricultural trade and market access; boosting competitiveness in the livestock sector; boosting irrigation for high-yielding crops; setting up storage and processing facilities and other key areas of agriculture.

“If you’re ready to grow with us, we are ready to provide the investment and expertise to drive African agribusinesses to prosperity in this new era of growing opportunity,” Mr. Osman added.

PHASE 3 POLIO VACCINATION BEGINS TODAY

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The Ministry of Health (MoH), the Ghana Health Service (GHS), and partners are set to embark on a polio outbreak reactive mass vaccination in all 29 districts in the Greater Accra and seven other regions across the country.

The house to house vaccination campaign will be carried out by trained community health nurses from Thursday, September 10 to Sunday, September 13, 2020, and will be repeated on Thursday, October 8 to Sunday, October 11, 2020, for all children under age five.

A statement from the Ghana Health Service and signed by Dr. Luiz Amoussou-Gohoungo, Deputy Director Public Health, Greater Accra, and copied the Ghana News Agency said the exercise was in response to the increasing numbers of polio confirmed cases in both human and environmental samples.

It said the Greater Accra region had already carried out two previous reactive campaigns but failed to achieve the needed coverage due to the refusal of caregivers to avail children for the vaccination, an attitude that had rendered the investment made to protect the future generation unproductive.

The statement, therefore, called on all caregivers to allow their children to be vaccinated by the mobile team because the type of vaccine being used in response to the outbreak was not available at the regular child welfare clinic (weighing).

Polio is an infectious disease that can paralyze and even cause death. It enters the body through water or food that has been contaminated with infected feases. Polio affects both children and adults, but children under five years of age are most at risk.

The signs and symptoms of Polio include; fever, fatigue, headache, vomiting, stiffness in the neck, pain, and weakness in the limbs.

Polio has no cure and can only be prevented through immunization, good hygiene, and sanitization practices.

The vaccine is given at birth or soon after birth and subsequent doses are given at six weeks (drops), ten weeks (drops), and fourteen weeks (drops and injection).

The vaccine is safe, effective, and free and given multiple times and can protect a child for life.

In addition to immunization, one must also do the following to keep safe; always wash hands with soap under running water after using the toilet or cleaning a baby’s backside after toilet, before eating or preparing food.

Food and water must always be covered to prevent contamination, fruits and vegetables washed under running water before eating or use.

Individuals are also to maintain a high level of personal and environmental hygiene.

Parents are to ensure children completed their immunization and report to the nearest health facility with any sudden paralysis in children under fifteen years of age within 24 hours.

SOURCE: GNA

WE PAID NO MONEY TO SHATTA WALE AND OTHERS – GH EXIM BANK

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The Genius Bright
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The Ghana Export and Import Bank has denied paying GhC2 million to dance hall musician Shatta Wale.

Kumbungu Member of Parliament Ras Mubarak at the public accounts Committee sitting Wednesday sought to find out from deputy CEO for the bank Kwame Adu Darkwa whether payments have been made to some members of the creative arts industry including Shata Wale and Alexander Kofi Adu popularly known as Agya Koo.

According to the Kumbungu MP, there are reports of payments to Shatta Wale.

But in a response, deputy CEO in charge of finance and Administration Kwame Adu Darkwa denied any payments to the dance hall musician. According to him, a media consultant was engaged to help promote made in Ghana products so the artists could be brand ambassadors to the campaign.

He, however, denied engaging such ambassadors directly or making payments from the accounts of GhExim bank to them.

Chairman for the Committee James Klutse Avedzi, however, stated management of the bank will be summoned again after the committee has gathered the needed evidence to the contrary.

BONO EAST: Akufo-Addo cuts sod for €15m Waste Treatment Plant

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The Genius Bright
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President Akufo-Addo has cut the sod for the construction of a solid waste treatment facility at Fiaso in the Techiman South Municipal of the Bono East Region.

The sod-cutting ceremony, which came off Wednesday (September 9, 2020), was graced by the Ministers of Bono East Region, Kofi Amoakohene, Sanitation, and Water Resources, Madam Cecilia Abena Dapaah, Executive Chairman of Jospong Group of Companies (JGC), Dr. Joseph Siaw-Agyepong, Paramount Chief of Techiman, Oseadeyo Ekumfi-Ameyaw IV, and the Queen mother of Fiaso, Ohemaa Mariama.

It formed part of the President’s two-day tour in the Bono East Region.

The 15-million Euro project, which is expected to be completed within four months, is under a partnership between Zoomlion Ghana Limited (ZGL) and its private sector partners and the Ministry of Sanitation and Water Resources (MSWR).

When completed, the plant will have facilities including plastic waste recycling, finished products, and spare parts, a compost workshop, sorting workshop, and an office building.

The rest is a restaurant, weighing bridge, recycling plant, washing bay, skills training scavengers, clinic, and a laboratory.

Speaking at the ceremony, the Executive Chairman of JGC, who also doubles as the CEO of ZGL, Dr. Joseph Siaw-Agyepong, revealed that the plant will create 75 and 250 direct and indirect jobs respectively.

“…with the President performing the sod-cutting ceremony, we are starting the construction immediately. All the machines are ready to facilitate the project,” he said.

He thanked the chiefs and people of Techiman and Fiaso for making available a 100-acre land for his company to construct the plant on.

According to him, eight (8) districts in the region will bring their solid waste to the facility.
These districts, he said, include Techiman Municipal, Techiman North and South, Nkoranza North and South, Kintampo South and North, and Wenchi.

“This solid waste facility has the capacity to do sorting, process waste into fertilizers, plastics among others,” he said.

Dr. Siaw-Agyepong indicated that what was driving his company to construct waste treatment facilities across the country was the President’s vision to make Accra the cleanest city in Africa, and by extension the whole country.

In this vein, he commended the President for setting up a sanitation ministry to take care of the country’s sanitation needs.

He further used the opportunity to congratulate the President for his appointment as the ECOWAS Chairman.

For her part, the Minister of Sanitation and Water Resources, Madam Cecilia Abena Dapaah, entreated the citizens in the region to refrain from practices such as open defecation and indiscriminate dumping of refuse, especially into the drains.

She gave a firm assurance that her ministry was in support of Zoomlion’s initiative to construct waste treatment facilities in all the 16 regions.

She encouraged other private waste companies to come on board and support the government in addressing the sanitation challenges in the country.

According to Madam Dapaah, a similar project would be commissioned on Sunday (September 13, 2020) in Goaso in the Ahafo Region.

SHOULDN’T THERE BE A LIMIT TO DISHONESTY? – FRANKLIN CUDJOE QUIZES

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The Genius Bright
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You’ve already earned, through Vice President Dr. Bawumia, the dubious crown as being the only party in the world to sneakily insert a new unintended Cape Coast Airport promise in a soft copy of a manifesto AFTER the manifesto is already launched. Shamefully, today, you have a hardcopy manifesto that is different from the soft copy version.

We no bore.

Then you (President Akufo-Addo and Dr. Bawumia) announce to the world that the NDC’s promise to regulate Okada to ensure safety and provide jobs to the youth many of whom are already in the business, is a reckless one and that you’ll resist it and provide better opportunities for the youth, only to turn round today, after popular support for the NDCs plan, and say you’re suddenly considering the NDCs manifesto proposal.

Now

You take a “principled” position that only corrupt Presidents become ECOWAS Chair because JM had earned the title at the time. You insult all ECOWAS chair from other countries simply because of your sworn mission to denigrate JM. But today, you sneakily delete that 5-year tweet a day after your uncle is made ECOWAS Chair.

Do you know, sir, that deleting that message after your dishonesty has been shoved in your face, says a lot about the kind of person you are? Do you know, that by you a towering public figure simply deleting that tweet without any statement or explanation, it means you have little regard for the intelligence and dignity of Ghanaians.

Or should we begin to drop our respect for you and consider you as someone with no responsibility to the public, an insignificant person whose views should no longer matter from today?

When your dishonesty is exposed, you admit your mistake and apologize. You don’t insult Ghanaians on top by acting as if it was all in our heads.

KELVIN DE BRUYNE WINS PFA PLAYER OF THE YEAR

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The Genius Bright
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Kevin De Bruyne has been named the 2020 Professional Footballers’ Association Player of the Year with Chelsea’s Bethany England taking the women’s award.

The Manchester City midfielder beat Liverpool’s title-winning quarter of Sadio Mane, Virgil van Dijk, Jordan Henderson, and Trent Alexander-Arnold to the award.

Alexander-Arnold did however pick up the award for the PFA Young Player of the Year, beating England youngsters Tammy Abraham, Mason Greenwood, Mason Mount, Marcus Rashford, and Bukayo Saka to the prize.

City trailed the Reds by an eventual 18 points in the 2019/20 Premier League campaign but De Bruyne, who registered 13 goals and a record-equalling 20 assists, was voted the campaign’s top performer by his peers and was quick to thank his manager for handing him full creative license.

“Most of the time he just lets me be me,” the 29-year-old said of Guardiola. “We speak often about the team but in a lot of senses, he knows when he gives the orders of what the team has to do that I will listen.

“But then on the other side, he gives me a lot of freedom; I don’t know why that’s just the way it goes between us.

“He knows in one way I will always put the team first and then obviously if I can help myself I’m going to do that.

“But he knows that I want the team to win and if the team wins I will gain from it. So I think in that sense he feels fine and he trusts me completely.”

 

NDC WASTED NO TIME ON NPP AND NANA ADDO – IMANI BOSS

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The Genius Bright
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The Founding President and Chief Executive Officer of the IMANI Centre for Policy and Education, Franklin Cudjoe, has lauded the opposition National Democratic Congress for not wasting time attacking their political opponents during their manifesto launch in Accra on Monday.

“I didn’t hear the name of the current president and even Bawuima, unlike what was done in Cape Coast where each speaker will spend two or three minutes talking about John Mahama,” Mr. Cudjoe said in a conversation on Starr FM, Tuesday.

The NDC launched its manifesto on Monday at the University of the Professional Studies, Accra, where they made a litany of promises they plan to implement if voted into power in the upcoming December elections.

The running mate of the opposition NDC Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang disclosed that the party will absorb fifty percent of fees for tertiary students for the 2020/2021 academic year if the party.

She said this will cushion parents and students whose finances have been affected by the Covid-19 pandemic.

The NDC also promised to offer free tertiary education for people living with disabilities if the party wins the 2020 elections.

The party also added that it will maintain the payment of allowances to teacher-trainees and abolish the teacher licensure exams.

On law education, the NDC manifesto said: “vigorously reform and expand access to professional legal education and provide opportunities to all qualified LLB holders by granting accreditation to certified law faculties to undertake the professional law qualification course.

But according to Mr Cudjoe “it is important to understand how the many things they [NDC] promised in the education sector will look like when put together in the global scheme of things and costing attached to it.”

He added “we are going to do a detailed analysis of not just the manifesto of the NDC but four or five manifestos and from independent candidates too.”

CASHEW GROWERS: EXPEDITE ESTABLISHMENT OF TREE CROP DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY

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The Genius Bright
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The Association of Cashew Processors Ghana (ACPG) has called on the government to quicken the pace of setting up the Tree Crop Development Authority to deal with the many challenges within the cashew industry.

According to them, challenges such as the unfair Raw Cashew Nut (RCN) market, poor storage, lack of appropriate finance, and improper relationship among some stakeholders within the industry can be dealt with by the Authority.

They believed the authority will be in the best legal and financial position to properly regulate the industry and formulate appropriate policies in the interest of all stakeholders of the industry.

President of the ACPG, Malvin Nii Smith, explained that a major problem facing cashew processing in Ghana is the unfair Raw Cashew Nut (RCN) market, which allows exporters to dictate and mostly out price processors at the farm gate.

According to him, this has resulted in most farmers preferring to sell to exporters at the expense of local processors, making it difficult for them to compete in the RCN market.

“Exporters can afford to increase prices to take you [local processor] out because they process at a lower cost and can supply kernel to the market cheaper.

Processors locally can not afford to buy at the same prices because the cost of processing is higher.

Until the government puts up a levy or taxes on the export of raw nuts, the marketplace is not fair,” he said in an interview.

He believed that it was necessary for the government to protect local processors because they contribute significantly to the local economy.

The ACPG is confident the Tree Crops Development Authority, established under the Tree Crops Development act will bring an end or significantly reduce most of their challenges.

“The Authority will be able to determine what a fair price is. This will help all sectors in the industry to grow hand in hand,” Mr. Smith said.

The Tree Crops Development Authority is established by the Tree Crop Development act passed by parliament in December 2019, to regulate the management, production, processing, and trading in tree crops like cashew, Oil palm, shea, and rubber.

Almost a year since the law was enacted, though the board has been formed, the authority is yet to be operational.

NOZONE PROJECTS – THE JOURNEY

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Living Avenue GH
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Nozone is an institution that mainly focuses on creating and broadcasting travel videos of global destinations and experiences while actively engaging in community programs for development.

Nozone looks forward to embarking on exciting adventures mainly in Ghana, West Africa and around the globe, exploring all the beautiful places life has to offer and sharing the different cultural and life experiences with our audience.

We are currently embarking on a sanitation project that seeks to promote a clean and safe environment in Ghana and as part of our efforts in making this a reality we have sent out a number of survey forms out the our community and the general pubic to help us serve then better by filling our online questionnaires.
We have also engaged a number of people on twitter and Facebook on their preferred waste disposal method and our statistics have revealed that a greater part of the Ghanaian population burn their rubbish at their homes and nearby refuse dumps while a few others prefer burying, recycling and plasma gasification.
We are mainly doing this other project to help advocate for a cleaner Ghana in our efforts towards attracting more visitors hence promoting tourism.
Take a look at out poll on twitter while we continue to work tirelessly to bring you more details on our sanitation project.

Nozone project……reaching beyond boundaries

I WILL SCRAP LAW BANNING IMPORT OF SALVAGED CARS – MAHAMA

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The Genius Bright
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Flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Dramani Mahama has hinted of withdrawing the law that bans the importation of salvaged vehicles into the country should he be voted into office.

Mahama says his next government will also scrap the proposed increment in the import duty for such vehicles.

The move, according to the former President is to ensure Ghanaians, whose livelihoods depend on that sector of the economy, continue to enjoy decent lives and revenues.

The Customs Amendment Act 2020 among other things, provides incentives for automobile manufacturers and assemblers registered under the Ghana Automotive Manufacturers Programme and prohibits the importation of salvaged motor vehicles and cars over ten years of age into the country.

It was passed by Parliament in March and is expected to be rolled out in November 2020.

The Minority in Parliament had insisted the new law is counterproductive and will lead to more job losses than new employment, hence it must be withdrawn.

Highlighting portions of the party’s manifesto on Monday, September 7, 2020, however, John Mahama indicated that the review of the amendment act is to protect the local automatic industry from collapse.

“We will review the Customs Amendment Act 2020 (Act 1014) to scrap the law banning the importation of salvage vehicles and the proposed implementation of a 35 per cent import duty rate. We are going to scrap it in order that salvaged cars are not banned and top duty rate government intends to impose on these vehicles does not happen. This is to safeguard the local automobile industry so that our people in Suame Magazine, Abossey Okai, Komkompe to continue to work to earn a decent living.”

Since the law was announced, car and spare parts dealers, clearing agents, and artisans have put pressure on the government to reverse the decision.

Though the Bill has been opposed by the Minority and vehicle dealers across the country, Parliament after scrutinizing the document approved it.

But the government’s defense is for Ghanaians to focus on the revenue generation that the Customs Amendment Bill will bring rather than the losses it will incur.

The benefits it says largely outweigh the losses as the amendment will boost the Ghana Automotive Manufacturing Programme which has so far attracted several car assembling plants into the country.

 

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