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GJA receives PPE from Saham Life Insurance
Saham Life Insurance Ghana Limited yesterday donated 52 boxes of hand sanitisers and 1500 customised nose masks to the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) for distribution to various media houses in the country.
The donation forms part of the corporate social responsibility of the company and it aims at helping secure the lives of journalists for them to discharge their duties effectively and efficiently.
Donating the items, the Chief Operations Officer of the insurance company, Mr Charles Sarsah-Arthur stated that personal safety was vital in this era and underscored the need for journalists to be well protected.
He observed that journalists were front liners who always worked with people likely to be COVID-19 positive, hence the need to offer them some form of protection while they went about their duties.
Receiving the items, Linda Asante-Agyei, Vice President of GJA commended the insurance company for the timely donation.
She observed that many journalists had risked their lives in the line of duty and expressed regret that some had contracted the disease.
Ms Asante-Agyei used the opportunity to announce that her outfit would visit media houses whose reporters had contracted the disease on Wednesday to sympathise with them.
She indicated that the items would go a long way to support media houses to fully equip journalists with protective equipments for them to fight against the pandemic.
Ms Asante-Agyei observed that the threats that COVID-19 had imposed on the environment and lives was devastating and expressed the need for it to be managed properly by frontline staff including journalists.
She appealed to other benevolent institutions to support her outfit for them to protect journalists whose lives were at risk.
Ms Asante-Agyei promised to use the items for its intended purpose and urged journalists and media houses to continue educating the public on the safety etiquette of the ailment.
Source: Ghanaian Times
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Craze for x’mas shopping: Crowded markets, low patronage
Vendors of food and other wares associated with the Christmas celebration have expressed surprise at the low patronage despite the increased number of visitors to some of the major markets across the capital.
Four days to the celebration(Christmas), the markets are filled with various products ranging from food, clothing, livestock and many other stuff, but according to the vendors, patrons are doing more ‘window’ shopping.
The Spectator on visits to some of the markets in the capital, notably the Odawna, Makola, Accra Central Business District, New Town and others made similar observations as shoppers crowd them but did little in terms of purchases.
The paper also observed that majority of vendors, originally selling other wares have switched to product related to the festive season.
What it means is that there are a lot more clothes, food and vegetables, livestock and poultry, toys, firecrackers, drinks of different types and many others on display.
The markets have also stretched to the pedestrian pavement, leaving very narrow spaces for commuters to move about freely.
That, in addition to a few of the female vendors dressed in coloured attires to reflect the occasion, has heightened the euphoria, leaving the low sales as the only headache for the vendors.
Speaking with this paper, they sounded very optimistic, believing that sales would improve in the last few days to the yuletide.
According to them, there was the opportunity to sell beyond Christmas as the New Year celebration offers similar opportunity to trade the same wares.
They urged patrons to throng the markets to shop since prices were quite moderate and products affordable for all.
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Retirement service for Elder John Ackom-Asante,3 others
Retired Deputy Editor of The Spectator, Elder John Ackom-Asante, was last Sunday honoured by the Church of Pentecost Windy Hills District in Kasoa in the Central Region, with a retirement thanksgiving service, after serving for 26 year as an Elder of the church.
He was honoured with a citation and certificate of service along with three other elders who served in the capacity for various years.
Elder Ackom-Asante was baptised at the Darkuman Central Assembly in 1979 and ordained as an Elder in 1997.
The citation read “Your selfless service, zeal, willingness to relate wholeheartedly and your desire to effect change has gone a long way to shape the lives of many people in the church and the nation over the 26 years of your dedication to the service of the Lord.”
Elder Ackom- Asante held many positions at the Darkuman Central Assembly, Obuasi in the Ashanti Region and Tema, serving in various capacities as youth and evangelism ministry leader and marriage counsellor.
He was the founding member of the Darkuman Christian Fellowship, a member of the Greater Accra Christian Fellowship; member of Bible Society of Ghana; founding member Obuasi Chapter Full Gospel Businessmen Fellowship International and founding member of New Times Corporation Christian Fellowship and Chaplain, Methodist University Tema Campus 2009- 2010.
As a professional journalist, Elder Ackom-Asante combined effectively and efficiently his duty as a member and elder of the church and the demands of his profession, with admiration from the church, kith and kin, till his retirement on December
From Alhaji Salifu Abdul-Rahaman, Kasoa
