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Six-year-old gets support following The Spectator appeal
The dream of a six year old girl to become a teacher, in future has started as two philanthropists have offered to sponsor her education to any levels considering the poverty level of her parents.
Instead of walking about three kilometres every day of the week to access education like five of her brothers do daily which she cannot Ms Patricia Yaa Asantewaa Mensah has now heaved a sigh of relief following the intervention of the two good-natured persons.
She currently schools at a nearby private school which is located only a few metres from her home, at Mexico in the Kpone Katamanso Municipality in the Greater Accra Region.
Little Asantewaa a Kingdergarten Two pupil in an interview with The Spectator on Monday said she was happy that help had come to her because, “she has small legs which can not walk long distances though she strongly desires to go to school”.
She promised to learn hard so that she could become a teacher to teach more children to become like her in future and asked for God’s blessings on her benefactors.
Her mother, Mrs. Grace Mensah also said getting her only girl child out of her eight children to go to school had always been a headache for her because she believed education was the only way her family and especially her girl-child could come out of poverty.
She said she dreaded allowing her little daughter to walk such a long distance to school.
She said she could not afford paying for transportation for her and so she was happy when The Spectator put some of their challenges across which touched the hearts of people to support them in one way or the other with the most significant being sponsoring Asantewaa’s education.
Mrs. Mensah said her husband who she has all eight children with had travelled for over a year with no news of his return or remitting them thus making life extremely difficult for them.
She was thankful to God, The Spectator and the two philantropists who have decided to remain anonymous for now.
The Spectator published the story about the plight of a family of eight children and a mother who were needy and struggled to feed and walked a long distance to school daily. They, therefore, appealed for help from public spirited persons.
From Dzifa Tetteh Tay, Gbetsile Mexico.
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TTH doctors declare indefinite suspension of emergency and outpatient service
Doctors at the Tamale Teaching Hospital (TTH) have declared an indefinite suspension of all emergency and outpatient services following the dismissal of the Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Dr Atiku Adam.
They have pointed to some challenging working environments that lack basic medical supplies and an insult to their dignity by top government officials.
In a statement released after an emergency general assembly meeting held at noon on Tuesday, the Doctors’ Association of Tamale Teaching Hospital (DATTH) announced that its members would no longer offer services at the General OPD, Antenatal Clinic, Specialist Clinic, and Paediatrics OPD.
Following their earlier press release, the Doctors’ Association of Tamale Teaching Hospital held an emergency General Assembly meeting at noon yesterday.
The Doctors after the meeting, demanded that with immediate effect, all members of DATTH should proceed on an indefinite suspension of all emergency and outpatient services, General OPD, Antenatal clinic, Specialist clinic, Paediatrics OPD.
This notwithstanding, they added that Inpatient Care shall continue.
Against this backdrop, they demand an unqualified apology from the Minister of Health, Kwabena Mintah Akandoh and the Member of Parliament for Tamale North Constituency, Alhassan Sayibu Suhuyini.
“We shall resume provision of emergency and outpatient services after we receive appropriate apologies,” they stated.
They further added that the management of the hospital should ensure that the following are available in the short term for them to work effectively.
Read the full statement below
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Police arrest suspect for stealing vehicle belonging EPA in Tarkwa
The Western Central Regional Police Command has arrested one person for stealing a Toyota Land Cruiser (PC) with registration number GS 1845-23 which is the property of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) at Tarkwa in the Western Region.
The suspect, Salifu Gariba, was arrested by officers of the Northern Regional Police Command on April 16, 2025 at Kukobila, along the Tamale-Bolgatanga highway, and the stolen vehicle recovered from him.
Preliminary investigation indicates that the vehicle was stolen in the early hours of April 15, 2025 from the residence of an employee of the EPA at Budo City, a suburb of Tarkwa.
Suspect Salifu Gariba is currently in police custody and will be taken through the due process of the law.
