decline – Adomonline.com https://www.adomonline.com Your comprehensive news portal Sat, 12 Oct 2019 12:57:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://www.adomonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/cropped-Adomonline140-32x32.png decline – Adomonline.com https://www.adomonline.com 32 32 Anas declined to work on ‘Sex for Grades’ exposé – Kweku Baako https://www.adomonline.com/anas-declined-to-work-on-sex-for-grades-expose-kweku-baako/ Sat, 12 Oct 2019 12:57:19 +0000 https://www.adomonline.com/?p=1712276 The Editor-in-Chief of the New Crusading Guide has cleared the air that his protegé and investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas had anything to do with BBC Africa Eye’s ‘Sex for Grades’ documentary.

Abdul Malik Kweku Baako Jnr explained that the BBC had approached Anas to work on its Africa Eye’s exposé on sexual harassment in two universities in West Africa but he declined the offer.

Reacting to speculations he said Anas, who had worked with the BBC on the Number 12 exposé which implicated Ghana’s Football Association boss and some referees in Africa, had no hand in the documentary.

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Mr Baako told Samson Lardy Anyenini on JoyNews’ current affairs programme Newsfile, Saturday that, Anas was busy with other projects.

“There is no Anas in there because it wasn’t as if an opportunity did not exist for an Anas to be in there, but Anas declined to be part of this particular project. [This is] because he is doing so many other things and I did not want an Anas to be in there,” he explained.

The veteran journalist noted that the “BBC are capable…in fact when it comes to infrastructural, logistical and all those things they have more than Tiger Eye, especially BBC Africa Eye…there is a close relationship between Tiger Eye and BBC Africa Eye though.”

The ‘Sex for Grades’ documentary, which was aired on Monday, portrayed alleged cases of sexual harassment at the University of Lagos (UNILAG) and University of Ghana.

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The BBC sent female undercover reporters to the campuses of the two universities where it reported that they were sexually harassed, propositioned and put under pressure by senior lecturers – all the while wearing secret cameras.

Two lecturers at the University of Ghana, Professor Ransford Gyampo and Dr Paul Kwame Butakor, shown in the documentary and accused of engaging in sexual harassment on campus, have since been interdicted by the university.

The BBC said it picked reports from students who have been victimised in similar scenarios in relation to the subject matter in the hands of the same lecturers [Gyampo and Butakor] mentioned in the documentary.

Source: Myjoyonline.com

]]> V/R records 10% decline in sanitation concerns https://www.adomonline.com/vr-records-10-decline-sanitation-concerns/ Mon, 31 Jul 2017 17:47:36 +0000 http://35.232.176.128/ghana-news/?p=348791 The Volta Region has recorded 10% decline in sanitation concerns just one year after UNICEF introduced the ‘Tippy Tap’ hand wash system in the region.
The Tippy Taps is a simple hand washing technology introduced in the region by UNICEF and UNILEVER last year.
It is constructed with local materials for easy access to water and soap for hand washing.
Regional Director of Health, Dr Joseph Teye Nurgatey says the Tippy Tap system has contributed to good sanitation practices as people are now washing their hands regularly.
He told Adom News’ Emmanuella Ablah Aforkpah in an exclusive interview during a follow up tour and handing over of the Tippy Tap project to stakeholders in the region.
“Every year from 2014, the Volta region records only 1% decline in sanitation related diseases, but in comparing the January 2016 report to the report from January 2017, there has been a 10% decline in sanitation related diseases and that is due to the introduction of Tippy Taps in schools in the region which has been introduced by the children into the communities.’’
“The Tippy Taps have come to help and should we sustain it we sure to stalk much bigger success.” He said.
However, Volta Regional Coordinator of the School Health Education Programme (SHEP), Constant Kofi Dzakpasu noted the introduction of the Tippy Tap in the region over the last one year has seen a decline in absenteeism.
“The Tippy Tap Project, has come to help the reduce absenteeism related to sickness and also a year on schools are now pay less on water bills.’’
He asked that the project be extended to other regions.
“An extension to other regions will do a lot of good in schools across Ghana.”
On her part, the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Specialist for schools at UNICEF, Leticia Ackon says so far all the 3,900 government schools in the Volta Region have Tippy Tap systems reaching over 500, 000 thousand school children.
She asked all private schools to emulate and to embrace the TTP too.
“The TTP is has been very successful in the Volta region as every public school has been covered-we are glad the children are taking it into the communities.
“With just GHC5 one can have construct a Tippy Tap and it can be sited everywhere as well” she noted.
Below is the chart

Diarrhoea Diseases

Jan to Jun 2014

Jan to Jun 2015

Jan to Jun 2016

Jan to Jun 2017

Adaklu

1 063

763

492

617

Afadjato South

1 504

1 618

1 836

1 431

Agortime-Ziope

610

463

726

607

Akatsi North

1 141

1 256

1 388

668

Akatsi South

3 716

3 348

4 023

4 707

Biakoye

4 639

3 533

3 317

2 403

Central Tongu

2 556

2 808

2 604

2 850

Ho

5 178

5 674

6 107

9 109

Ho West

2 803

2 109

1 834

1 596

Hohoe

3 464

3 538

5 314

3 332

Jasikan

2 026

1 931

2 134

1 334

Kadjebi

2 252

2 603

2 883

2 692

Keta

5 817

5 482

5 701

6 018

Ketu North

2 705

2 544

2 848

2 370

Ketu South

4 306

7 279

4 046

4 054

Kpando

1 556

2 563

2 082

1 418

Krachi East

2 901

2 851

3 140

2 922

Krachi Nchumuru

2 251

1 873

2 040

925

Krachi West

2 521

2 008

1 689

1 504

Nkwanta North

6 674

7 179

6 083

3 982

Nkwanta South

5 132

3 316

3 127

2 840

North Dayi

2 180

1 612

1 690

972

North Tongu

2 527

2 398

2 413

2 390

South Dayi

2 285

3 029

2 388

1 784

South Tongu

2 231

1 690

2 432

2 667

Total

74 038

73 468

72 337

65 192

 

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