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FIVE BLOCKS RENOVATED FOR NAVASCO March 21, 2011 BY P. ATOGEWE WEDAM ISD-BOLGATANGA MUNICIPAL A total of five blocks including two boys’ dormitories, a classroom block, a girls’ dormitory and an administration block have been renovated and handed over to the authorities of the Navrongo Senior High School [NAVASCO] in the Kassena-Nankana East district of the Upper East region. The renovation works were undertaken to reverse the deplorable state of the various structures and also to make academic work and life on campus more comfortable for staff and students. The major works included installation of showers, fitting of tiles for bath houses and dormitories, new ceilings among others. Messrs Zamanoma Enterprise, Diande Enterprise, Eborics Company Ltd. And Gakoka Enterprise worked on the various projects and all of them finished on schedule to the admiration of the regional minster and the school authorities. An amount of GH C594,706.65 was spent on the two boys’ dormito

53 ASSEMBLY PERSONS SWORN INTO BMA March 15, 2011 BY P. ATOGEWE WEDAM ISD-BOLGATANGA MUNICIPAL The Bolgatanga Municipal Assembly in the Upper East region has now been given full powers and legal backing to function effectively with the inauguration of its new crop of assembly persons. In all, 53 assembly men and women from the last district level elections were sworn into the assembly. These included 37 elected members, 16 appointed members and the two automatic members comprising the municipal chief executive and the Member of Parliament for the Bolgatanga Central constituency. A Member of the Council of State, Hon. General Arnold Quainoo who represented President Atta Mills at a brief inaugural ceremony in Bolgatanga challenged the new assembly persons to live up to the trust of their electorates as many hopes for development and improved livelihoods will depend on them. He noted that among many other duties, assembly persons are mandated to maintain close contact with

ESCHEW INDISCIPLINE, SPORTSMEN ADVISED March 14, 2011 BY P. ATOGEWE WEDAM ISD-BOLGATANGA MUNICIPAL The 2011 Upper East regional inter-schools sports festival has formally opened at the Bawku Senior High School with a call on sportsmen and women to eschew indiscipline and always listen attentively to counsel from their instructors. This year’s event dubbed the “inter-schools Milo and Akomisnaba Memorial Championship” is featuring about 20 second cycle institutions across the region and is being sponsored by Nestle Ghana Limited. The Upper East regional minister, Mr. Mark Owen Woyongo who opened the sports festival in a speech read on his behalf noted that a major canker that derails sports administration and trainers over the world is the growing indiscipline among sportsmen and women. He therefore advised competitors in the various events to be of good behavior, play by the rules of all the games and be obedient to event officials. Mr. Woyongo observed that in the