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The Rebecca Foundation in collaboration with CBI Ghana Limited(SUPACEM) has donated a thousand (1000 )bags of Cement to the Hairdressers and Beauticians Association to help build a Hairdressing  school at Ashalaja Denhyira in the Greater Accra Region. The donation was in response to a request made by the Association to the Executive Director of the Rebecca Foundation, Mrs. Rebecca Naa Okaikor Akufo-Addo during the 10th Annual Salon Academy , 2020 in January. The donation was presented to the Association by the Press Aide to the First Lady, Mr. Richard Darko and the Managing Director for CBI Ghana Limited, Frederick Albrecht. Speaking at the donation ceremony, the Managing Director of CBI Ghana Limited, Frederic Albrecht expressed his joy at the collaboration between CBI Ghana Limited and the  Rebecca Foundation. " I am glad to be part of this wonderful donation and I know it will go a long way to help this wonderful ambition to build a school for the future", he s

Dep Information Minister Communications member of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) Benjamin Akowuah Acheampong has described it as funny, how the NDC at every given opportunity wants to call for the head of the Hon. Pius Enam Hadzide since he assumed office as Deputy Minister of Information. According to the Diplomacy and International Relations expert, the Deputy Minister of Information has been a torn in the flesh of the NDC with his fantastic communication prowess. I have watched several media encounters between Hon Pius and the NDC's star boy Sammy Gyamfi and in most cases Sammy has left the Studio badly bruised by Hon Pius. In some instances, Sammy resorted to personal attacks and unfounded allegations of corruption against Hon. Pius but he remains unperturbed, Mr Akowuah wrote on his Facebook wall. Read his full comments below(Unedited): HON. PIUS ENAM HADZIDE IS OBVIOUSLY GIVING THE NDC SLEEPLESS NIGHTS. It's funny how the NDC at every given opportunity

The Rebecca Foundation has donated some pieces of locally manufactured face masks to women at Okaishie, Makola, Kantamanto, Agbogbolshie and Mallam markets to combat COVID-19. The gesture was part of the foundation's  Mother’s Day activities to honour and celebrate the contribution of Ghanaian mothers. According to Mrs.Perpetual Asante Amoah, who donated the items on behalf of the First Lady ,Mrs. Rebecca Naa Okaikor Akufo- Addo, mothers in the market are relentless in their efforts to combine work with caregiving and ensuring safety at home in this Covid-19 era and deserve to be celebrated. Sharing the face masks to the market women, she educated them to wash their hands often with soap and under running water. She also urged them to put distance between themselves and other people at the market place, wear their face masks and also observe all other approved precautionary measures to protect themselves against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). "I again entrea

Prof Quarm and Grace Addo Rumour associated with an allegation that MP for Manso Nkwanta, Joseph Albert Quarm has paid huge sums of money and ten (10) kilos of pure gold from his small scale mine to the former Chairman of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) Mr. Peter McManu, Sam Pyne the Ashanti Regional secretary and F. F Antoh the second vice chair of the party is escalating too much in the Manso Nkwanta constituency, odinews85.blogspot.com can report. According to close sources who spoke to this network, this as a result is gradually diminishing the support of the party members and the entire populace of the constituency because the face value of the party has been tampered with by the incumbent MP. They reiterated that traditional authorities including the Paramount Chief of Manso Nkwanta Traditional Council are at loggerheads with the MP in question and they have teamed up with polling station executives to get the MP out during the upcoming parliamentary primaries.  He

Manso Nkwanta MP Ghana is an agricultural nation with most of its population engaged in Cocoa production. The country is blessed with several natural resources, including Cocoa. But interestingly, cocoa is not very much of a celebrated crop, compared to other commodities in the country.  Can you imagine what Ghana could have possibly been if there was no cocoa industry? One of the biggest producers of cocoa beans in the Cocoa farming communities in Amansie West of the Ashanti Region, Manso Nsiana is facing crisis as anti-Galamsey crusader and Member of Parliament(MP) for Manso Nkwanta Constituency, Hon Joseph Albert Quarm have turned their farmlands to galamsey sites. The Environmental Miner and land reclamation expert have given Cocoa farms belonging to the individual farmers as consession for mining and about fifty(50) acres of Cocoa farms have been destroyed already and still counting. Hon  Quarm claims to have personally funded the fight against illegal mining activit