The TTH recorded seven babies out of six deliveries; three of which were spontaneous vaginal deliveries while three others required surgical operations.

Three males and four girls were born, with two of the girls being twins.

The TCH recorded four spontaneous deliveries producing two boys and two girls.

All the deliveries were recorded before 11:00 GMT

The Midwife in charge of the Labour Ward at the TTH, Madam Mariama Musah, told the Ghana News Agency on Monday that all the children and their mothers were in good condition, adding that some of them had already been discharged.

The Midwife in-charge of the Labour Ward of the TCH, Madam Mohammed Ayishetu, also said there were no complications adding that the children and their mothers were in good condition and have been discharged.

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The Assembly, which is an annual ritual, is an occasion where all students and pupils of the school are brought together to learn about the significance of the Christmas festivities.

Headmaster of DPSI, David Raj speaking during the Assembly held on the school’s campus on Wednesday, December 13, said the Christmas Assembly has been instituted by DPSI as another way of educating children on subjects like history and geography.

Pupils and students from the various classes were brought together to learn about Christmas; a Christian celebration which marks the birth of Jesus Christ.

According to him, “This day, we call it a Special Assembly; basically, we have named it as our Christmas Assembly where we bring the significance of these words: Carols, Christmas, and all those things and how important they are.

“And then we encourage children class-wise to sing some carols, just to create a general awareness of different celebrations and functions that we have,” he added.

Mr. Raj explained that “so we try to bring out the importance of this particular day and there are many more things we do in our school to create awareness among the children. Like today, when we talk to them, they know what is a Carol, what they mean by Christmas’ Eve, what Christmas celebration is all about and that’s all.

“The children learn a lot of things through the Assembly and it is one way of educating them about history and geography,” the Headmaster stated.

About DPSI Ghana

DPSI Ghana was founded in September 2010 by renowned Indian industrialist and philanthropist, Mukesh Thakwani, under the aegis of Delhi Public School – a chain of schools all around the globe known for its holistic education.

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During the past one month, patrons of Achimota Mall have been blessed with a series of loyalty promotions and exciting fun games in a rare shopping ambience spiced up by one rousing entertainment show after the other.

Mall management announced today that Achimota is stepping up the tempo with an intriguing line up of shows and concerts, some of which will call big stars and celebrities like MzVee, KiDi and Kuame Eugene into action.

On Friday December 22, Achimota mall will be the venue for the highly fancied ‘Sky Girls Concert’ – a star-studded musical concert targeting teen girls of 13 years and above and structured to empower especially young ladies from Senior High Schools.

‘Sky Girls is an anti-tobacco initiative championed by Good Business UK and is a project fully funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. This concert is more like an end-of-year party for teenaged girls. Besides the musical performances, the bill includes variety fun activities and refreshment for the audience,’ Mr. Anthony Asamoah, Achimota Retail Centre’s Marketing Manager told to reporters.

However, it does appear that Achimota mall’s most highly anticipated attraction, ahead of Christmas, is the ‘Heritage Fashion Show’ slated for December 23.
The Heritage Fashion show is the brainchild of Javon Effects Limited and has been put together to inspire mass appeal and appreciation among Ghanaians for local Ghanaian fashion as reflected in Ghanaian fabrics, creative designs, accessories and craft.

Said Mr. Asamoah: ‘This fashion show is unlike any other you might have seen elsewhere. The runway will showcase the most ingenious application and adaptation of our local prints, craft and traditional fashion accessories in a way that would win over every fashion aficionado.’

The marketing manager said the show will feature as many as seven models who will do up creations by six celebrated fashion designers in an electrifying ambience invoked by performances from Dancehall artiste Tsooboi, Josh Black, Nii Ashaley, and the acoustic maestro, Ebo Yankful.

He disclosed that the main highlight of entertainment at Achimota Mall on Christmas day itself will be the ‘Aseda Fest’ – a marathon musical concert of praise and thanksgiving to God for his kindness and faithfulness throughout the year. About eight gospel music performers, including Beckie Ray, John Edem, Celestine Donkor and Akesse Brempong, are billed to mount the stage.

He said the ‘Aseda Fest’ Concert is a fundraiser in which spot offering and gifts from the show would be donated to the Reverend John Special School in Winneba and other deprived communities.

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Citi FM donated assorted items, including bags of rice, drinks and some other foodstuffs to the service as its personnel ramp up their operations to keep Ghanaians across the country safe over the Christmas period.

The delegation from Citi FM included the company’s Managing Director, Administrative personnel, sales manager and some members of the newsroom’s leadership.

The delegation took time to engage with some of the personnel who were in high spirits despite the expected increase in their workload over the next few weeks.

The Administrative Manager of Citi FM, Matthew Idun, expressed hope that Citi FM’s donation would give the police some encouragement to ensure that law and order prevail as 2017 winds down and pledged the company’s support down the line.

“This donation is for the good work we have seen from the police do of late. They have increased their numbers and increased the visibility… We want to come and just support them to play this important role for this country.”

The Police Service’s Director-General in Charge of Operations, COP George Akuffo Dampare received the donation on behalf of the service and lauded Citi FM for being a key partner in the Police Service’s work.

“Citi FM has been there for us all these years and has been supporting the police in the form of media engagement policing. The contribution of Citi FM in that regard has been awesome and what we have seen today is a demonstration of the fact that Citi FM wants to go beyond its traditional and core functions,” he said.

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[contextly_sidebar id=”PysR9SqjpYMRpvei4roXLpiU9ysLYd7E”]”We know as a people that during this period, there is heightened activity from the movement which accompanies socio-economic activity that brings people from all walks of life to and from cities and towns across the country,” COP Dampare said on the Citi Breakfast Show.

“When you put all this together, it calls for increased policing in a way to take care of this heavy human and vehicular traffic across the country, and to do that calls for the mustering of all the resources that we have at our disposal to bring comfort to the good people of the country.”

The police are thus engaging in the following proactive measures:

• Traffic management policing – Beyond the MTTD personnel on the roads, there are operational police personnel in major points of all the major cities nationwide to ensure the regular flow of vehicular and human traffic.
• Escalating highway patrols – The police are ensuring highway patrols to protect commuters between rural and urban areas travel safely.
• Policing of commercial and entertainment centres – Ensuring uniformed and undercover police presence in major leisure spots to prevent crime.
• Residential area policing – Strengthening policing both in the day and night time within residential areas.
• Anti-land guard policing – Ensuring landowners have their peace of mind.
• Vital installation policing – Policing utilities to ensure activities of citizens are not disrupted.
• Criminal hideout policing – Acting on police intel to keep watch on known criminal hideouts.
• Community engagement – Ensuring the support and cooperation of the public through dialogue with communities and making use of social media reach.

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Director General of Operations, COP Dr. George Dampare at a media briefing on Thursday, said some 18,000 officers will continue to perform traditional policing duties to ensure an incident-free festive season.

“We are deploying over 14,200 personnel across the country directly, and specifically for the Christmas and New Year operational duties. At the National operational level, we are putting across 1,200 from the National Operational department, the Counter-terrorism unit, the SWAT unit, RDF, FPU, special protection unit and another specialized unit of the service to go across the country and support all the regional commands and ensure that we bring sanity to our communities,” he said.

“In addition to the 14,200, additional 18,000 police officers across the country will be performing traditional policing functions which are indirectly related to this festive period duties,” he added.

Reports from the police service indicate that the Christmas season sees an increase in crime especially due to the many public outdoor events.

This makes it imperative for heightened police presence and operation, especially during the period.

But COP Dampare believes the police is adequately prepared to provide maximum security and guarantee the safety of citizens this Christmas.

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A countdown has already began for the mall’s highly anticipated Black Friday sales which take place on November 24, while regular patrons of Achimota mall are looking to annex as much as they can of the goodies and freebies slated to be offloaded on shoppers as and when they shop to the tune of Ghc300 from now till December 20.

Throughout the month-long period, shoppers will be greeted with a high key festive ambience featuring spells of live acoustic performances, DJ music, mascot parades, family games and entertainment and daily sprees of giveaways for shoppers, including free meals and shopping vouchers.

“The ‘Can’t Wait for Christmas’ campaign is what we call the ‘shoppertainment’ galore. We have put it together for the pleasure of the average visiting family and over the next one month ahead of Christmas, we will make sure that there is something to excite every shopper and every visitor here at Achimota mall,” said Mr. Anthony Asamoah the Marketing Manager.

Mr. Asamoah said in order to spice up the shopping experience of all visitors during the period, a series of thrilling sponsored events have also been lined up, naming the ‘Ghana Stands in Worship’ Gospel event, a special blood donation exercise and a gospel rock show, as some of the many collaborative events that will take enliven the mall ahead of Christmas.

Achimota Retail Centre, located at Dome, off the Accra- Nsawam Highway, is the capital’s latest and most convivial address for modern one-stop shopping and recreation and serves a huge cluster of communities including Dome, Achimota, Tantra Hills, Kwabenya and Ashongman Estates, all in the Ga East Municipality.

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The new iPhone 6 is now available and retails at GHS 1,690, with a free iSim Dual adapter which enables users to use two SIM cards for the iPhone.

The iPhone 6 features a stunning 4.7-inch Retina High Definition display and now the new variant comes with 32GB of memory, upgraded from the initial 16GB when was launched initially.

Explaining the reason for this pricing of the iPhone 6, Mr. Sivadoss Vijayakumar, Head – West Africa, Redington Gulf stated that, the move is aimed at making the iPhone 6 more affordable for the market.

“As Christmas approaches, we want to make the iPhone 6 the number one item in the shopping list of our customers,” says Mr. Sivadoss.

“For us, this move also goes to prove our responsiveness to the needs and demands of our market and the people we serve” states Sivadoss.

“We also do reckon that Christmas is a season of giving, and thus we are doing this to offer our customers the opportunity to buy and gift the new iPhone 6 to their friends and loved ones” he adds.

Mr. Sivadoss further intimated that “Everyone deserves a memorable Christmas and we want our cherished customers to have a special Christmas with that sleek iPhone 6.”

“The icing on the cake is that, the Operating System of the new iPhone 6 is compatible with Apple’s latest Operating System, the iOS 11, giving users the chance to upgrade to Apple’s latest iOS and enjoy all the top features and functionalities that come with the iOS 11,” he added.

The new iPhone 6 currently available in space gray only.
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Fears over the safety of food products on the Ghanaian market have grown in recent weeks after a string of seizure of  unwholesome goods by the FDA.

[contextly_sidebar id=”XORFz0kkAZOtIhQuBTs7cZgdSwCqSJ8U”]The FDA  impounded a container loaded with about 2,800 cartons of chicken at a private warehouse over suspicions that they were unwholesome.

The regulator had earlier destroyed 4,500 cartons of unwholesome canned fish that were said to be on transit to Togo, but had been diverted onto the Ghanaian market.

Hoewver speaking to Citi News following a clean-up exercise organized at the Agbogbloshie Market as part of the FDA’s food safety sensitization program, the Chief Executive Officer of the Authority, Delese Darko, said her outfit had intensified their checks at the markets and ports, to ensure that expired goods are prevented from flooding the Ghanaian market ahead of the holidays.

“We’re talking to them about not selling expired products. We’re also at the ports, we have port officers who are doing what they can to ensure that things that are coming in are safe,” she said

“Our port officers are on alert, it’s not just now we do it throughout the year, but we intensify post-market surveillance and port operations at this time of the year to make sure that [expired goods] don’t come in. They’ll not bring it December, they’ll bring them in way before then.”

She also advised the public to check the labels of packaged foods before they purchase them in order to avoid consuming expired products.

“We’re also doing public education, we’ve been on the radio with small messages around this period to tell people that they should make sure they look on labels before they buy the goods to ensure that they aren’t expired,” Delese Darko added.

‘Market sanitation paramount’

The FDA also indicated its commitment to ensuring that the best sanitary practices are adhered to in the various markets in Accra.

The Deputy Chief Executive of the FDA in charge of Food Inspectorate Division, Isabella Mansa Agra, said her outfit will meet with the Accra Metropolitan Assembly, and the representatives of the traders in the next few weeks, to find solutions to the sanitation problems in the capital city’s markets.

Her call comes on the back of agitations from some of the traders who bemoaned the absence of proper sanitation facilities at the markets, despite the fact that they are forced to pay hundreds of cedis in market fees each year.

Also speaking at the clean-up exercise, Mrs. Agra acknowledged the concerns of the traders, and stated that, the health and safety regulator would liaise with the Metropolitan Assembly to address them.

“These are issues we have to discuss with the Assembly and the Environmental office. We have agreed that we’ll have a round-table discussion with the market queens, and we will forge a strategy to see how to resolve these things,” she told Citi News.

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He further urged Ghanaians to count their numerous blessings over the year.

“On the occasion of Christmas, HE John Dramani Mahama, President of the Republic of Ghana extends warm wishes to all Ghanaians, and urges the nation to reflect on the birth and life of Jesus Christ as we count our numerous blessings over the year,” the president said in a statement.

25 December is set aside every year throughout the world to mark the birth of Jesus Christ.

In Ghana, accident cases usually soar during the period.

The President in a statement signed by the Minister for Communications, Dr. Edward Omane Boamah have also left Accra to Bole, his hometown where the first family will be celebrating the yuletide.

He further attributed the peaceful election in the country to God’s favour.

“The President also drew attention to the just ended successful elections and emphasized that ‘God’s favour shall continue to abide with us during the Christmas festivities and in the coming years.’ Ahead of his departure to Bole in the Northern Region with his family to celebrate Christmas, President Mahama urged drivers to drive with care and responsibly. He prayed that God grants the nation both an incident free and accident free festive period. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year,” the statement added.

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