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Growth Aid hands over mechanised bore hole to Krobo Girls School
Growth Aid, a Non-Governmental Organisation has handed over a new mechanised borehole with an overhead poly tank to Krobo Girls Presbyterian Senior High School (SHS) in the Lower ManyaKrobo Municipality of the Eastern Region.
The initiative is under the organisation’s Sustainable Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Project.
Under the initiative, the NGO had provided the Lower ManyaKrobo Municipal Assembly with 25 new mechanised boreholes and repaired six faulty ones within the middle belt areas.
Dr. Joe Lambongang, Executive Director of Growth Aid in his address acknowledged the unique support from the Latter-Day Saints Charities over the years for providing potable water to Ghanaians.
He said the NGO would continue to partner the assembly to ensure that all communities and institutions within the municipality would have access to clean water.
He, therefore, advised the school authority and the student body to use the facility with care.
For his part, the Municipal Chief Executive (MCE), Mr Simon KwekuTetteh commended Growth Aid for helping to develop the municipality through the provision of boreholes which many communities and institutions had benefitted.
He assured that the assembly would always collaborate and support the NGO to enable it extend the gesture to the other communities within the municipality.
The Headmistress, Mrs. Betty Aduhene-Chinbuah thanked the donors and the MCE for selecting their school among the lot within the municipality.
She used the opportunity to appeal to other NGOs and individuals to provide the School with more washrooms.
She said that the washrooms in the school were not enough to accommodate the over 2,000 student population considering the fact that these girls “need to practise personal hygiene”.
FROM: KODJO DAVID, ODUMASE KROBO
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113 Cardinals hold 3rd General Congregation in Rome
The 113 Cardinals present in Rome held the third General Congregation on Thursday morning, and announced who will deliver the two pre-conclave meditations.
The Cardinals decided that Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández will celebrate the Mass on the sixth day of the Novemdiales, instead of Cardinal Kevin Farrell.
They agreed that Fr. Donato Ogliari, O.S.B., Abbot of St. Paul Outside the Walls, will deliver the first meditation on Monday, and that Cardinal Raniero Cantalamessa, Preacher Emeritus of the Papal Household, will deliver the second meditation at the beginning of the conclave, whose starting date has not yet been decided.
The Cardinals began a conversation about the Church and the world, deciding to hold the next General Congregation on Friday morning at 9:00 AM.
The Director of the Holy See Press Office, Matteo Bruni, told journalists that 61,000 people have paid their respects to the late Pope Francis as of 1:00 PM on Thursday, adding that St. Peter’s Basilica should close at midnight on Thursday, unless large crowds are still queuing to enter.
Following the Pope’s funeral on Saturday, April 26, a Rosary will be held in front of the Basilica of St. Mary Major on Saturday at 9:00 PM.
Mr. Bruni said the burial service for Pope Francis will take place in private.
Starting the morning of Sunday, April 27, the faithful may begin to visit the tomb of Pope Francis at the Marian Basilica.
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GEXIM deepens relations with US EXIM Bank
A management team of the Ghana Export – Import Bank (GEXIM) led by the Acting Chief Executive, Sylvester Mensah met with the leadership of the Export–Import Bank of the United States (US EXIM) on Wednesday April 23, 2025 in Washington DC, United States of America.
The Acting President and Chairman of US EXIM, Mr. James C. Cruse and Vice President, International Relations, Ms. Isabel Galdiz received the GEXIM delegation, which included Deputy CEO for Banking, Mr. Moses Klu Mensah and Head of International Cooperation, Mr. Jonathan Christopher Koney at the headquarters of US EXIM.
The meeting offered the GEXIM team the opportunity to share the strategic direction of the Bank in line with the resetting agenda of the President of the Republic, His Excellency John Dramani Mahama for the repositioning of the Ghanaian economy into an export-led one by providing the requisite investment to Ghanaian businesses.
Mr. James C. Cruse expressed US EXIM’s eagerness to deepen its existing relations with GEXIM and proposed the signing of a new Cooperative Framework Agreement following the expiration of a Memorandum of Understanding signed in 2019 to utilize US EXIM’s medium term loan guarantees to procure machinery by GEXIM for qualified Ghanaian Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs).
Mr.Sylvester Mensah thanked the Acting President and Chairman of US EXIM for hosting the GEXIM delegation and reaffirmed the Ghanaian government’s commitment to strengthening trade and investment between Ghana and its global partners for economic transformation of Ghana with GEXIM playing a pivotal role.
The two teams will be meeting on the sidelines of the 2025 US EXIM Annual Conference on 29th and April 30, 2025 to explore possible areas of collaboration and matching Ghanaian businesses to American companies. The meeting ended with an exchange of gifts.
