BAWKU WEST SUPPLIES EXERCISE BOOKS TO BASIC SCHOOLS (PAGE 22, DEC 31)

The Bawku West District Assembly has presented 6,000 exercise books to the District Directorate of Education for onward distribution to basic schools in the district.
The free exercise books, which were presented to the district assembly by the co-ordinating council, are to complement the efforts of parents in improving the standards of learning in the district.
The Bawku West District Chief Executive (DCE), Mr Anabah Adam Moro, who made the presentation at a brief ceremony entreated the education directorate to ensure that each beneficiary pupil got at least five exercise books to cover most of the subjects taught.
He said it was the assembly’s contribution to educational development in the district, reckoning that the people lived in a deprived area where most parents were not capable of buying books and other learning materials for their children.
He advised the pupils to make good use of the books to attain maximum benefits from their use.
In a related development, the Executive Committee of the Bawku West District Assembly has recommended that children be banned from attending video shows and funerals where spinners perform after 8p.m.
The measure is to check the falling standards of education in the area.
The DCE, in his address at the third ordinary meeting of the fifth session of the assembly, also imposed a ban on the use of mobile phones in basic schools, and proposed the enactment of bye-laws to stem the tide of the increasing incidence of teenage pregnancies in the district.