RESIDENTS of South McCarthy Hill have appealed to the government to take immediate steps to repair a broken-down tunnel that has led to severe flooding of the area at the least rain showers in recent times.
They feared that the tunnel, which broke down three years ago, had been abandoned, since no effort had been made to repair it.
Their appeal followed last Friday’s rain, which left many homes flooded and caused enormous destruction to properties.
Many residents had to abandon their homes to seek refuge elsewhere.
When the Daily Graphic got to some homes on Saturday morning, many tenants were seen taking the little that they could salvage from the rubble. Others were also trying to drain the water from their rooms.
Mr Owusu Ansah, one of the landlords who spoke to the Daily, said he had lived in the area for the past 12 years and it’s only in the last three years that they began to experience such flooding.
The Chairman of the South McCarthy Hill Residents Association, Nana Asare, also told the Daily Graphic that efforts to get the Municipal Chief Executive (MCEs) and the Member of Parliament (MP) for the constituency, Ms Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, to help repair the tunnel had not yielded any fuitful result.
Mr Asare observed that the residents also had a role to play in reducing such incidents and called on them to more co-operative in solving the problem.
"As it is predicted that this year's rain is going to be heavy, I am appealing to residents in the locality to come together to help solve the situation," he stated.
Monday, June 29, 2009
Youth leadership seminar to be held at Ada
A youth leadership summer camp is to be organised at the Isaac Hayes NekoTech Centre of Excellence at Ada for students to prepare them for future leadership roles.
The programme would last from July 4 to 19, 2009 and students between the ages of 13 and 16 would participate.
The Ghana MBA of Leadership Camp, as it is known, is an initiative of Channels of Blessings Global Ministry, Youth of Hope and Angels of Hope of the Isaac Hayes Foundation, NekoTech Centre of Ada.
Channels of Blessings Global Ministry is a Christian-centred holistic human development training programme organised in Ada, Tema and Accra.
A statement issued by the programme organisers said the students would be trained in various development areas, including spiritual and special skills development.
It said the students would also study leadership styles of their historic role models.
The summer camp is the first of its kind during which participants would learn about leaders who had made historical impact in the world such as former South African President Mandela Nelson, current President Mills, Vice-President Mahama, US President Barrack H. Obama and his wife, Michelle.
They would also use the opportunity to serve the inmates of the Angels of Hope Orphan Support.
“I realised that there was not much for the development of teenagers outside of school, especially during the summer,” the release quoted Princess Ocansey, Chief Executive Officer of Channels of Blessings Global Ministry and the NekoTech Centre, as saying.
She added, “I see this time as historic for us as a people to have great leaders our children can look up to.”
Ms Ocansey said next year they would invite children of Ghanaians living , as well as teenagers from all over the world, to come to Ghana for the summer camp.
Some of the unique training programmes next year would be chief-making and queen-making, where the students will be trained in the tenets of chieftaincy.
The Isaac Hayes Foundation NekoTech Centre is also a Centre of Excellence dedicated to improving the quality of life of rural communities through education, technology, health, entertainment and economic development.
However, Youth of Hope and Angels of Hope are both NekoTech initiatives for teenagers and orphans respectively to help in their growth, support and development into responsible citizens of our nation.
The purpose of Ghana MBA of Leadership Camp is to distance participating students from the hazards of complex and technology-driven cosmopolitan and metropolitan city life during vacations.
The perfect opportunity Ghana MBA of Leadership Camp offers is to allow social interactions between the students with City Life and the less-privileged or orphans in the village settings devoid of gadgets, machines and technologies.
The programme would last from July 4 to 19, 2009 and students between the ages of 13 and 16 would participate.
The Ghana MBA of Leadership Camp, as it is known, is an initiative of Channels of Blessings Global Ministry, Youth of Hope and Angels of Hope of the Isaac Hayes Foundation, NekoTech Centre of Ada.
Channels of Blessings Global Ministry is a Christian-centred holistic human development training programme organised in Ada, Tema and Accra.
A statement issued by the programme organisers said the students would be trained in various development areas, including spiritual and special skills development.
It said the students would also study leadership styles of their historic role models.
The summer camp is the first of its kind during which participants would learn about leaders who had made historical impact in the world such as former South African President Mandela Nelson, current President Mills, Vice-President Mahama, US President Barrack H. Obama and his wife, Michelle.
They would also use the opportunity to serve the inmates of the Angels of Hope Orphan Support.
“I realised that there was not much for the development of teenagers outside of school, especially during the summer,” the release quoted Princess Ocansey, Chief Executive Officer of Channels of Blessings Global Ministry and the NekoTech Centre, as saying.
She added, “I see this time as historic for us as a people to have great leaders our children can look up to.”
Ms Ocansey said next year they would invite children of Ghanaians living , as well as teenagers from all over the world, to come to Ghana for the summer camp.
Some of the unique training programmes next year would be chief-making and queen-making, where the students will be trained in the tenets of chieftaincy.
The Isaac Hayes Foundation NekoTech Centre is also a Centre of Excellence dedicated to improving the quality of life of rural communities through education, technology, health, entertainment and economic development.
However, Youth of Hope and Angels of Hope are both NekoTech initiatives for teenagers and orphans respectively to help in their growth, support and development into responsible citizens of our nation.
The purpose of Ghana MBA of Leadership Camp is to distance participating students from the hazards of complex and technology-driven cosmopolitan and metropolitan city life during vacations.
The perfect opportunity Ghana MBA of Leadership Camp offers is to allow social interactions between the students with City Life and the less-privileged or orphans in the village settings devoid of gadgets, machines and technologies.
Jayee University College on the rise
Twenty years ago, a private individual, Mr John Emmanuel Donkoh, took up the challenge to support the government’s efforts at providing tertiary education for the nation’s youth.
He started a secretarial school in a wooden structure located at the Young Men Christian Association (YMCA) Hall, in Accra, with 18 students. The school was then known as Jayee Institute.
No sooner had the school started, than a new place at Adabraka was secured to make teaching and learning more conducive.
Mr Donkoh in those years was spurred on by the desire to give the youth wandering the streets employable skills they could hold on to for good. That need included addressing a skill or knowledge deficiency that could result in making the youth employable and good citizens.
Many challenges confronted this budding institute through the years but with resolve and zeal the enterprise was bound to succeed.
Jayee introduced other professional courses to make the existence of the school more relevant to the needs of the day.
A lot of thinking, research and support went into the decision to include Journalism, Public Relations and Marketing at the Diploma Level to the existing courses.
The National Accreditation Board (NAB) granted the institution approval to take a step further to commence degree courses, necessitating a change in name to Jayee University College (JUC).
In tandem to its growth, the school, in 1999, moved to its current location, in the plush atmosphere of McCarthy Hill on the Mallam-Kasoa road.
It is now a pride of 61 strong working force of staff and lecturers and about 500 youthful men and women from all over Africa pursuing either degree or diploma courses in Journalism, Public Relations, Accounting, Secretaryship and Management Studies, Bilingual Secretaryship, Human Resource Management and Information and Communication Technology (ICT).
Because the college finds training to be a cost-effective solution to define need, it has taken into account current job demands and has tailored its courses to meet these demands, earning a success rate of 85 per cent and 75 per cent in external and internal examinations respectively.
Records indicate that as of December 2007, the college had trained about 3,233 students and out of this, 2,791 qualified for Diploma certificate and 210 of them being foreign students.
Today, JUC professionals are either working within the length and breadth of national industry or are pursuing further courses at home or abroad.
It is therefore not surprising that the college over the past few years has been decorated with the “Most Enterprising Institute of the year 2004 Award”, “Ghana Industrial Pinnacle Award (Certificate of Achievement) in 2005” as well as the Noble International Award 2006”.
The new status of JUC has made it imperative to reconstitute the governing body.
The 13-member governing council comprises seasoned professionals in their respective fields and chaired by Professor Jophus Anamuah-Mensah, former Vice Chancellor of the University of Education, Winneba.
In spite of its achievements the management is still resolved to chalk up more succeesses. The management has acquired land at Weija, a distance of two kilometres from the school, to develop into a modern university college, with ultra-modern school block, an administrative block and other facilities to make teaching and learning conducive and responsive to organisational needs.
Because profit-making was not the sole aim of setting up the institution, the college, in response to its corporate social responsibilities, provides assistance to at least five gifted needy students each year. About 140 of such students have benefited from the scheme since 1999.
According to the president of the college, the Communication Science programme was introduced to erase the perception people have that Jayee is still a secretarial school.
He said females were the strength of the school as they performed better than their male counterparts.
He pointed out that JUC has the vision of becoming the best tertiary institution in management and journalism in Ghana.
He started a secretarial school in a wooden structure located at the Young Men Christian Association (YMCA) Hall, in Accra, with 18 students. The school was then known as Jayee Institute.
No sooner had the school started, than a new place at Adabraka was secured to make teaching and learning more conducive.
Mr Donkoh in those years was spurred on by the desire to give the youth wandering the streets employable skills they could hold on to for good. That need included addressing a skill or knowledge deficiency that could result in making the youth employable and good citizens.
Many challenges confronted this budding institute through the years but with resolve and zeal the enterprise was bound to succeed.
Jayee introduced other professional courses to make the existence of the school more relevant to the needs of the day.
A lot of thinking, research and support went into the decision to include Journalism, Public Relations and Marketing at the Diploma Level to the existing courses.
The National Accreditation Board (NAB) granted the institution approval to take a step further to commence degree courses, necessitating a change in name to Jayee University College (JUC).
In tandem to its growth, the school, in 1999, moved to its current location, in the plush atmosphere of McCarthy Hill on the Mallam-Kasoa road.
It is now a pride of 61 strong working force of staff and lecturers and about 500 youthful men and women from all over Africa pursuing either degree or diploma courses in Journalism, Public Relations, Accounting, Secretaryship and Management Studies, Bilingual Secretaryship, Human Resource Management and Information and Communication Technology (ICT).
Because the college finds training to be a cost-effective solution to define need, it has taken into account current job demands and has tailored its courses to meet these demands, earning a success rate of 85 per cent and 75 per cent in external and internal examinations respectively.
Records indicate that as of December 2007, the college had trained about 3,233 students and out of this, 2,791 qualified for Diploma certificate and 210 of them being foreign students.
Today, JUC professionals are either working within the length and breadth of national industry or are pursuing further courses at home or abroad.
It is therefore not surprising that the college over the past few years has been decorated with the “Most Enterprising Institute of the year 2004 Award”, “Ghana Industrial Pinnacle Award (Certificate of Achievement) in 2005” as well as the Noble International Award 2006”.
The new status of JUC has made it imperative to reconstitute the governing body.
The 13-member governing council comprises seasoned professionals in their respective fields and chaired by Professor Jophus Anamuah-Mensah, former Vice Chancellor of the University of Education, Winneba.
In spite of its achievements the management is still resolved to chalk up more succeesses. The management has acquired land at Weija, a distance of two kilometres from the school, to develop into a modern university college, with ultra-modern school block, an administrative block and other facilities to make teaching and learning conducive and responsive to organisational needs.
Because profit-making was not the sole aim of setting up the institution, the college, in response to its corporate social responsibilities, provides assistance to at least five gifted needy students each year. About 140 of such students have benefited from the scheme since 1999.
According to the president of the college, the Communication Science programme was introduced to erase the perception people have that Jayee is still a secretarial school.
He said females were the strength of the school as they performed better than their male counterparts.
He pointed out that JUC has the vision of becoming the best tertiary institution in management and journalism in Ghana.
Friday, June 19, 2009
Jayee University College gets Governing Council
A THIRTEEN-Member Governing Council of Jayee University College (JUC) has been set up to map out strategies to achieve the college's vision.
The council is also to serve as an advisory board for the president and other members of administration.
The council, with Professor Jophus Anamuah-Mensah as chairman has been set up following the granting of accreditation by the National Accreditation Board for the running of tertiary programmes and subsequent change in name from Jayee Institute to Jayee University College.
Other members of the council include, the President of the University College, Mr John Emmanuel Donkoh, Mr William Sam Awotwe, Prof S.O Gyandoh, Mr Asare Bediako, Mr Thomas Ziem, Mr David Newton and Prof Akwesi Asabre-Ameyaw.
The rest are, Mr Steve Bemile, Mr Cobbinah Swanzy, Mr Patrick Ayittah, Mr Ebenezer Kakra Sackey and Dr Isaac Sagoe.
The council is also to help grow the school into a highly respected and prestigious university in Africa.
The president of the college, Mr Donkoh noted that the purpose of the school was to train students to come out as potential citizens in society.
He therefore advised all students to take their studies seriously and "know that your determination today will lead to your success tomorrow", he urged.
The council is also to serve as an advisory board for the president and other members of administration.
The council, with Professor Jophus Anamuah-Mensah as chairman has been set up following the granting of accreditation by the National Accreditation Board for the running of tertiary programmes and subsequent change in name from Jayee Institute to Jayee University College.
Other members of the council include, the President of the University College, Mr John Emmanuel Donkoh, Mr William Sam Awotwe, Prof S.O Gyandoh, Mr Asare Bediako, Mr Thomas Ziem, Mr David Newton and Prof Akwesi Asabre-Ameyaw.
The rest are, Mr Steve Bemile, Mr Cobbinah Swanzy, Mr Patrick Ayittah, Mr Ebenezer Kakra Sackey and Dr Isaac Sagoe.
The council is also to help grow the school into a highly respected and prestigious university in Africa.
The president of the college, Mr Donkoh noted that the purpose of the school was to train students to come out as potential citizens in society.
He therefore advised all students to take their studies seriously and "know that your determination today will lead to your success tomorrow", he urged.
Sunday, June 14, 2009
Jayee University College gets IPR Chapter
THE Jayee University College (JUC) chapter of the Institute of Public Relations (IPR) was officially inaugurated in Accra on Friday to enable students to be abreast of the profession in the job market.
The ceremony also saw the first batch of seven new executives being inaugurated.
They are, Mr Francis Odonkor, President, Ms Mimmie Ross-Aikins, Vice President and Mr David Okai Sampah, the General Secretary in charge of Administration.
Others are, Nana Boakye James, Treasurer, Ms Portia Love Acheampong, General Secretary in charge of Finance and Messrs Gideon Osei Adamtey and Edward Effah-Brobbery as Public Relations Officer (PRO) and Organiser respectively.
The Executive Secretary of IPR, Ghana, Mr Joseph Dottey, who was the guest speaker for the occasion, noted that about fifty per cent of a person’s reputation was lost if the code of ethics and conducts were not taken in consideration.
He said students learnt different things in school while they practiced other things on the job.
Mr Dottey therefore asked the students to be serious with the code of professional standards so that the practice would not be marred.
“Respect anybody in the public that you deal with, do not look down on the external public and be mindful of how you build your image to become a credible PR practitioner”, he advised.
Mr Dotty urged the students to build their images on honesty and integrity in order to improve the standards of the profession.
Mr Joseph Emmanuel Donkor, Principal of JUC, noted that the purpose of tertiary education was to train students to be able to find their level on the job market to work effectively with their colleagues.
He therefore, congratulated the students who had worked tirelessly to uplift the image of the school.
The Assistant Patron of the Chapter, Mr Ken Awuku, noted that IPR was to help expand the frontier and growth of the profession as well as enhance cordial relationship with members of the society.
Mr Awuku also urged the students to live responsible leadership lifestyles for others to emulate.
For her part, the Council Member for students chapter cordination, Mrs Mavis Essandoh, advised the students to humble themselves while they listened to their publics in dealing with issues concerning them.
The Student Representative Council president of JUC, Mr Robert Dela Mawunyegah, congratulated the students for their laudable initiatives and advised them to help sustain the chapter.
The ceremony also saw the first batch of seven new executives being inaugurated.
They are, Mr Francis Odonkor, President, Ms Mimmie Ross-Aikins, Vice President and Mr David Okai Sampah, the General Secretary in charge of Administration.
Others are, Nana Boakye James, Treasurer, Ms Portia Love Acheampong, General Secretary in charge of Finance and Messrs Gideon Osei Adamtey and Edward Effah-Brobbery as Public Relations Officer (PRO) and Organiser respectively.
The Executive Secretary of IPR, Ghana, Mr Joseph Dottey, who was the guest speaker for the occasion, noted that about fifty per cent of a person’s reputation was lost if the code of ethics and conducts were not taken in consideration.
He said students learnt different things in school while they practiced other things on the job.
Mr Dottey therefore asked the students to be serious with the code of professional standards so that the practice would not be marred.
“Respect anybody in the public that you deal with, do not look down on the external public and be mindful of how you build your image to become a credible PR practitioner”, he advised.
Mr Dotty urged the students to build their images on honesty and integrity in order to improve the standards of the profession.
Mr Joseph Emmanuel Donkor, Principal of JUC, noted that the purpose of tertiary education was to train students to be able to find their level on the job market to work effectively with their colleagues.
He therefore, congratulated the students who had worked tirelessly to uplift the image of the school.
The Assistant Patron of the Chapter, Mr Ken Awuku, noted that IPR was to help expand the frontier and growth of the profession as well as enhance cordial relationship with members of the society.
Mr Awuku also urged the students to live responsible leadership lifestyles for others to emulate.
For her part, the Council Member for students chapter cordination, Mrs Mavis Essandoh, advised the students to humble themselves while they listened to their publics in dealing with issues concerning them.
The Student Representative Council president of JUC, Mr Robert Dela Mawunyegah, congratulated the students for their laudable initiatives and advised them to help sustain the chapter.
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