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BY: Emmanuel Adu-Gyamerah
Category: General News
This building, located on the premises of the Sunyani Central Prison, was used as the Regional Administration Office when the erstwhile Brong Ahafo Region was created in 1959
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The Bono Regional Coordinating Council (RCC), is currently housed in a storey building which also hosts the regional minister, as well as the various decentralised departments.
Until the Bono East and Ahafo regions were created in 2018, the entire area was administered from the RCC s edifices.
However, when the erstwhile Brong Ahafo Region was created in 1959, officials who nurtured the young region did not have the privilege to sit in such edifices to administer affairs.
He has not been engaged in any overtly hostile activities that may be legitimately deemed to be inimical to the interests and the political agenda of the country rsquo;s main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC).
The school was formally opened as a boarding school with the self-declared aim of providing for the educational needs of the people of the Gold Coast .
The nickname of the Achimota School is Motown and an alumnus or alumni of the college is called Akora .
The founders of the school are Dr. James Emma Kwegyir, Sir Fredrick Gordon Guggisberg, and Rev. Alexander Garden Fraser.
The centre of the school complex, which besides a primary and a secondary school consists also of a school-own kindergarten, a hospital, a police station, and a golf course.
The motto of the school is Ut Omnes Unum Sint meaning That all may be one , a reference to the founders expressed the philosophy that starting in the context of school life, black and white, male and female, everyone should integrate and combine synergistically for the good of all.
From “No Court” to “Go to Court”
As sober as a judge Listen to article
The sobriety expected of judges goes beyond the avoidance of too much partiality to the bottled stuff to cover a judge’s entire persona. A tipple or two here and there could be overlooked but marriage to the bottle is not a welcome disposition in a judge at all. “As sober as a judge”, has become a time-honoured aphorism that goes to show the high esteem in which society holds judges. They play such a crucial role that they alone are singled out to be deferred to as “Your Lordship/M’lord” (UK/Ghana and elsewhere) or “Your Honour” (US and elsewhere). In the case of the UK – and Ghana too – they are entitled to some of the most anachronistic costumes/uniforms imaginable, with wigs, scarlet robes and all! Don’t get me wrong: it is not as if I do not like uniforms. I love a good military outfit, a doctor’s white jacket and stethoscope hanging from or around the neck, an airline pilo
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“Afomi y3 Swalaba,” to wit, “I was born in Swalaba” is a Ga phrase President-elect, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has been using since he started campaigning for the presidency as far back as 2007.
Swalaba is a suburb within Accra Central which can now be safely described as an inner city and, therefore, the significance of the phrase is to give an indication that he is not far removed from the daily challenges of the ordinary Ghanaian.
And moreso, his place of birth underscores his multicultural and diverse background which has defined his political disposition and public life.
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Political activism runs through his family as his father, Justice Edward Akufo-Addo, a Supreme Court Judge and later a ceremonial President, used his house as the headquarters of the country’s first political party, the United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC), after it was formed at Saltpond on August 4, 1947.