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OB Nartey picks nomination form
Renowned broadcaster, Kwame Obimpeh Nartey has today picked nomination form to contest in the up coming New Patriotic Party (NPP) Parliamentary primaries in search for a candidate for the Adentan Constituency.
Kwame OB Nartey and his team yesterday marched to the Adentan NPP party headquarters to pick their nomination forms. 
The team was received by the Chairman, Joseph Acolatse and Ebenezer Nyedu Bediako, Secretary of the Adentan Constituency at the party’s constituency headquarters.
Speaking at the ceremony, the chairman and secretary expressed their gratitude and admiration for our candidate and urged the team to be decorous in our campaigns and not to resort to charlatanism and cynicism as deployed by other candidates.
OB Nartey also expressed his joy and appreciation to the party’s executives for opening their doors, and also seized the opportunity to reiterate his commitment and visions for the constituency.
He also appealed to all party faithfuls to regard him as their best candidate, determined and capable of winning our parliamentary seat come December, 2024.
Constituency delegates present were ecstatic at the event and prided themselves and for the party, to see OB Nartey successfully pick his nomination forms.
They declared that, “this is our first step in our determination to rescue our lost seat from the opposition party and build the flourishing Adentan we want for ourselves.”
“We humbly urge all and sundry to join our team in our efforts to win the upcoming primaries and ultimately climax that with an overwhelming victory come 2024,” they added.
The Dzidula Pink Foundation, a new organisation dedicated to cancer awareness, early detection, and patient support, has been officially launched in Accra, with a passionate call for national commitment to fighting the disease. The launch event, held last week Friday, carried the theme: “Beyond the diagnosis: A future of restoration, care and courage.”
Speaking at the event, Madam Abena Brigidi, founder and CEO of Nimed Capital Limited, emphasised that cancer remains one of the most devastating health challenges facing families across the country. “Cancer does not discriminate—it affects mothers, fathers, daughters, and sons. It drains families emotionally and financially, and behind every statistic is a human story and a future suddenly thrown into uncertainty,” she said.
Sharing her personal encounters with cancer, having lost both her husband and father to the disease, Madam Brigidi highlighted the emotional, financial, and physical scars left behind. “I stand here not just as a speaker, but as a witness to what cancer can take away,” she stated. “I have watched loved ones fight bravely, and I have felt the deep pain that loss leaves behind.”
She stressed that awareness and early detection are critical to reducing deaths, noting that many Ghanaians still lack access to proper screening, reliable information, and adequate treatment. She appealed to healthcare professionals, corporate institutions, policymakers, the media, and the general public to join hands in the fight. “Early detection saves lives. Your support today can lead to someone’s healing tomorrow,” she said.
Madam Brigidi further called for collective responsibility to sustain the foundation’s mission. “To our medical professionals, we need your expertise. To corporate partners, your resources. To the media, your voice. To policymakers, your support. And to the public, your compassion,” she urged. She also insisted that breast cancer awareness should not be limited to annual campaigns, saying, “Breast cancer awareness must not be seasonal.”
Mrs Diana Fafa Gozo, founder of the Dzidula Pink Foundation, shared her own cancer journey, describing the shock of diagnosis, the fear that followed, and the difficult path through treatment. Her experience transformed her pain into purpose and inspired her to create a foundation to ensure no cancer patient walks alone.
Mrs Gozo explained that many patients struggle not only with treatment costs but also with emotional resilience. She outlined the foundation’s initiatives, which include awareness and early detection campaigns, patient support funds, community outreach, and survival support circles. “This foundation is my offering of gratitude, courage, and compassion and a reminder that no one should walk the cancer journey alone,” she concluded.
By Esinam Jemima Kuatsinu
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The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) says it will deploy teams of Public Health Officers, members of its Sanitation Taskforce, and labourers, including sweepers and janitors, across all sub-metros to support the third National Sanitation Day exercise.
It explained that these teams will be equipped with waste collection trucks, tippers, and other tools to help with desilting, refuse collection, and transporting waste to approved disposal sites.
The AMA reminded residents that failing to comply with the sanitation directive or refusing to participate in communal labour is an offence.
It said offenders risk a fine of up to 100 penalty units, imprisonment between 30 days and six months, or both, with repeat offenders liable to additional daily penalties.
It urged all residents, traders, transport operators, market women, shop owners, landlords, tenants, and businesses to actively participate in the exercise.
The AMA said it counts on everyone’s collective responsibility to keep Accra clean, liveable, and resilient, especially as the city approaches Christmas and the New Year.
By: Jacob Aggrey
