The Graphic in a main front page story, reports that fire has completely destroyed the top floor of a dormitory at the Koforidua Secondary/Technical School, causing extensive damage to the property of 84 students running into several millions of cedis. Under the headline: “Havoc at K’dua…Fire renders 84 students ‘homeless’, the story says the fire which took more than three hours to bring under control by personnel of the Ghana National Fire Service, was detected last Tuesday at about 7 p.m. when the students had gone to the school block for studies. GRI
In an another front page story headlined: “GCB revitalises foreign operations”, the Graphic reports that the Ghana Commercial Bank Limited has revitalised its foreign operations to effectively and efficiently handle remittances from abroad. The paper says accordingly, all the 135 branches of the bank nation-wide, are to be involved extensively in the exercise which was hitherto carried out by the forex bureaux. The Bank of Ghana recently clamped down on the inward and outward transfer operations by the bureaux to ensure sanity and discipline in their operations. GRI
