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Nabia Azaratu wins Luther King Social Justice Award.

Nabia Azaratu wins Luther King Social Justice Award
Ms. Afi Azaratu Yakubu has emerged as winner of this year’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Award for Peace and Social Justice in recognition of her unwavering commitment to promoting peace and security in the Northern Region. According to a statement released by the United States Embassy in Ghana, Ms. Yakubu has been an instrumental partner in a number of organizations striving to raise awareness on issues that affect women, youth and marginalized groups and has worked as a researcher, conflict prevention campaigner, women’s equality advocate and citizen empowerment organizer. “Ms. Yakubu helped found Women United Against Conflict and the Savannah Women Development Foundation to bring together women from all ethnic groups in northern Ghana to mobilize resources to support victims of conflict, natural disasters and human trafficking,” the statement said. “ In addition, she founded and currently heads the Foundation for Security and Development in Africa (FOSDA), a non-governmental organization that has implemented a variety of projects focused on reducing threats to human safety and security in Ghana and across the West African sub-region,” the statement added. Ms. Azaratu becomes the sixth recipient of the awards after Bishop Vincent Boi- Nai and Alhaji Al-Hussein Zakaria for their efforts in promoting peace and social justice (2008), Angela Dwamena-Aboagye for assisting abused women and children (2009), Janet Adama Mohammad for her work in peacebuilding to address local and regional conflicts (2010). Other past recipients include Mr George Achibra for rescuing trafficked children working in the fishing industry in Lake Volta (2011) and Dr. Abdulai for his commitment to the poorest and most vulnerable citizens of Tamale (2012). Since 2008, the U.S. Embassy has presented the Martin Luther King, Jr. Award for Peace and Social Justice to a Ghanaian citizen who personifies the philosophy and actions of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The award honors activists who promote social justice, stability, human rights and peace through nonviolent methods. Speaking after receiving her award Ms. Yakubu said, “it is everybody’s business to seek peace – you cannot have peace if your neighbour’s house is on fire.” The Martin Luther King, Jr. Award for Peace and Social Justice recognizes Ghanaians who personify the philosophy and actions of Dr Martin Luther King, Jr. to strengthen communities by helping to build a culture of tolerance, dialogue, and conflict resolution. It honours activists who have promoted social justice, stability, human rights and peace through nonviolent means. AFNR congratulates you on this achievement. Proudly Northern

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ALHAJI ALIU Mahama was born on 3rd March 1946 at Yendi in the Northern Region of Ghana. As a young man he studied at the Government Secondary School, Tamale from 1960-67 for his Ordinary and Advanced Level Certificates. He proceeded to the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi from 1967-71 where he obtained the BSc. degree in Building Technology.
He is also an Aluminus of the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA). In order to sharpen and deepen his management and leadership skills, he participated in the Institute’s skills development programmes and was awarded certificates in Project Planning, Leadership and Management.
Alhaji Aliu Mahama started his working career with the Bolgatanga regional office of the State Construction Corporation as an Engineer/Construction from 1972-75. He was promoted to Assistant Regional Manager and posted to the Koforidua Regional Office of the Corporation from 1975-76. He held the position of Regional Manager in charge of the Northern Region, Tamale from June 1976 – August 1982.
In 1982 he successfully established his own Civil Engineering and General Construction Firm – LIDRA Limited and became its Managing Director. He was elected the Chairman of the Northern Regional Contractors Association in 1996 until the December 2000 Elections.
Alhaji Aliu Mahama has exceptional interest in Local Governance and Community Development. He was an elected Councillor of Yendi District Council in 1978 and Assemblyman, Tamale Municipal Assembly in 1990. He chaired the infrastructure subcommittee of the Assembly and later the Economic Development Sub-Committee and the Tamale-Louisville Sister City Committee.
He also served as member of The Board of Governors of several Secondary Schools in the northern Region including the Tamale Polytechnic Council. He was also a board member of Ghana oil Company for six years.
He is a founding member of the Real Tamale United Football Club and its promotion to Premier Division in 1978. In 1994, He took over the Chairmanship of the Club until the December 2000 Elections.
In 2000, the Presidential Candidate of the New Patriotic Party Mr. J. A. Kufuor chose Alhaji Aliu Mahama as his running mate. Following the Party’s victory in the Presidential run-off held in December 2000, Alhaji Aliu Mahama took the oath of office on 7th. January 2001 and became the Vice-President of the Republic of Ghana.
In recognition of his hard work and impressive performance of his duties, Alhaji Aliu Mahama was again privileged to be chosen as the Vice-Presidential candidate by the New Patriotic Party and it’s Presidential Candidate Mr. J. A. Kufuor at the Annual delegates conference held in Kumasi on September 18th. 2004.
Alhaji Aliu Mahama was re-elected the Vice-President of the Republic of Ghana at the December 7 elections. He was sworn into office on 7th. January 2005. He is the first to hold that high office for a second term in the political history of Ghana.
Aliu Mahama is a proud northerner and paves the way. WE celebrate HIM. Rest In Peace

ALHAJI ALIU Mahama was born on 3rd March 1946 at Yendi in the Northern Region of Ghana. As a young man he studied at the Government Secondary School, Tamale from 1960-67 for his Ordinary and Advanced Level Certificates. He proceeded to the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi from 1967-71 where he obtained the BSc. degree in Building Technology.
He is also an Aluminus of the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA). In order to sharpen and deepen his management and leadership skills, he participated in the Institute’s skills development programmes and was awarded certificates in Project Planning, Leadership and Management.
Alhaji Aliu Mahama started his working career with the Bolgatanga regional office of the State Construction Corporation as an Engineer/Construction from 1972-75. He was promoted to Assistant Regional Manager and posted to the Koforidua Regional Office of the Corporation from 1975-76. He held the position of Regional Manager in charge of the Northern Region, Tamale from June 1976 – August 1982.
In 1982 he successfully established his own Civil Engineering and General Construction Firm – LIDRA Limited and became its Managing Director. He was elected the Chairman of the Northern Regional Contractors Association in 1996 until the December 2000 Elections.
Alhaji Aliu Mahama has exceptional interest in Local Governance and Community Development. He was an elected Councillor of Yendi District Council in 1978 and Assemblyman, Tamale Municipal Assembly in 1990. He chaired the infrastructure subcommittee of the Assembly and later the Economic Development Sub-Committee and the Tamale-Louisville Sister City Committee.
He also served as member of The Board of Governors of several Secondary Schools in the northern Region including the Tamale Polytechnic Council. He was also a board member of Ghana oil Company for six years.
He is a founding member of the Real Tamale United Football Club and its promotion to Premier Division in 1978. In 1994, He took over the Chairmanship of the Club until the December 2000 Elections.
In 2000, the Presidential Candidate of the New Patriotic Party Mr. J. A. Kufuor chose Alhaji Aliu Mahama as his running mate. Following the Party’s victory in the Presidential run-off held in December 2000, Alhaji Aliu Mahama took the oath of office on 7th. January 2001 and became the Vice-President of the Republic of Ghana.
In recognition of his hard work and impressive performance of his duties, Alhaji Aliu Mahama was again privileged to be chosen as the Vice-Presidential candidate by the New Patriotic Party and it’s Presidential Candidate Mr. J. A. Kufuor at the Annual delegates conference held in Kumasi on September 18th. 2004.
Alhaji Aliu Mahama was re-elected the Vice-President of the Republic of Ghana at the December 7 elections. He was sworn into office on 7th. January 2005. He is the first to hold that high office for a second term in the political history of Ghana.
Aliu Mahama is a proud northerner and paves the way. WE celebrate HIM. Rest In Peace

Dr. Fuseini Abdulai is still our personality pick for this week. We appreciate and celebrate him. We urge you all to "LIKE" the organization, be part of the process and re-post this.

Personality of the week: Dr Abdulai - The Mad Doctor

Dr. David Fuseini Abdulai, Presented with the 2012 Martin Luther King Jr. Award for Peace and Social Justice
Northerners are largely perceived as kind and warm people. There are naturally different variations or levels of this kindness. One such level of kindness which may not be too common is the one Dr. David Fuseini Abdulai possesses. In 1989, Dr David Abdulai founded the first Shekhinah Clinic in Gurugu – Tamale. Dr David performed his first emergency surgery under a mango tree, before any of the buildings had even been finished! Today, the Shekhina Clinic is critically important; approximately 20 000 outpatients are treated every year, and around 1000 undergo operation. Approximately 2500 are treated in the wards.

In the latter part of 2009, the entire country woke up to the news of how the exceptional achievements of a rather humble man with the greatest compassion for his fellow man went unrecognized for nearly two decades. That was when the searchlight of the first edition of the TV Reality Show, Touching Lives put together by telecommunications provider Airtel Ghana, travelled up north and settled on the hitherto forgotten hero, Dr. David Fuseini Abdulai, founder of the Shekhinah Clinic (Home of Love) in Tamale.

Compelled by the countless nominations he received and his incredible work for the needy around him, Touching Lives unveiled and restoring hope to the visibly hopeless “societal outcast”, whom he made kings and queens in his Home of Love. Instantly, The Mad Doctor as he is affectionately called, shot to national fame after the awards and subsequently, the screening of his episode, which happened to be the flagship story of the entire first edition.. Now a national figure and a hero, it was not difficult arriving at the conclusion that more awards were going to rain on him for his great sacrifice to our great region and humanity. It is not as though Dr. Abdulai needs the awards to motivate him any more than he already is.

Last year, as the United States of America celebrates the 83rd anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s birth, the US Embassy (Ghana) finds no other person better deserving of the prestigious Martin Luther King (MLK), Jr. Award for Peace and Social Justice than Dr. Abdulai, seen to have best personified the philosophy and actions of Dr. Luther King, Jr. Noble as the award is, it comes to add to his laurels, pushing him further from the national stage onto a much more coveted international platform. Not only does he join the league of noble past awardees and or recipients of this esteemed award, he brings along his own zest of selflessness and benevolence redefined which stands him in a unique stead among the previous recipients.

What makes him outstanding?
He has targeted his acts of kindness mainly at the lowly placed in society and his love for the North where it’s most needed. He planted himself in Gurugu, by then a remote but vantage location to serve not only the hopeless and destitute in the three northern regions but neighboring Togo and Benin and Burkina Faso. He houses the homeless, the destitute and the terminally ill, shielding them from the scorns of society and feeding them on a regular cycle of three meals a day. What is more amazing is the additional task of feeding the mentally ill on the streets of Tamale and the surrounding communities on a daily basis without failure and this he has done since January 1992. As if that is not enough of a burden for one man to shoulder, he has taken unto himself the responsibility of - without ever defaulting - feting during Christmas over 3000 lepers, mentally ill and perceived misfits.

This is the life of Dr. Abdulai – “the mad doctor”. A proud son of the northern region, our pride and we celebrate him today because HE PAVES THE WAY

Personality of the week: Dr Abdulai - The Mad Doctor

Dr. David Fuseini Abdulai, Presented with the 2012 Martin Luther King Jr. Award for Peace and Social Justice
Northerners are largely perceived as kind and warm people. There are naturally different variations or levels of this kindness. One such level of kindness which may not be too common is the one Dr. David Fuseini Abdulai possesses. In 1989, Dr David Abdulai founded the first Shekhinah Clinic in Gurugu – Tamale. Dr David performed his first emergency surgery under a mango tree, before any of the buildings had even been finished! Today, the Shekhina Clinic is critically important; approximately 20 000 outpatients are treated every year, and around 1000 undergo operation. Approximately 2500 are treated in the wards.

In the latter part of 2009, the entire country woke up to the news of how the exceptional achievements of a rather humble man with the greatest compassion for his fellow man went unrecognized for nearly two decades. That was when the searchlight of the first edition of the TV Reality Show, Touching Lives put together by telecommunications provider Airtel Ghana, travelled up north and settled on the hitherto forgotten hero, Dr. David Fuseini Abdulai, founder of the Shekhinah Clinic (Home of Love) in Tamale.

Compelled by the countless nominations he received and his incredible work for the needy around him, Touching Lives unveiled and restoring hope to the visibly hopeless “societal outcast”, whom he made kings and queens in his Home of Love. Instantly, The Mad Doctor as he is affectionately called, shot to national fame after the awards and subsequently, the screening of his episode, which happened to be the flagship story of the entire first edition.. Now a national figure and a hero, it was not difficult arriving at the conclusion that more awards were going to rain on him for his great sacrifice to our great region and humanity. It is not as though Dr. Abdulai needs the awards to motivate him any more than he already is.

Last year, as the United States of America celebrates the 83rd anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s birth, the US Embassy (Ghana) finds no other person better deserving of the prestigious Martin Luther King (MLK), Jr. Award for Peace and Social Justice than Dr. Abdulai, seen to have best personified the philosophy and actions of Dr. Luther King, Jr. Noble as the award is, it comes to add to his laurels, pushing him further from the national stage onto a much more coveted international platform. Not only does he join the league of noble past awardees and or recipients of this esteemed award, he brings along his own zest of selflessness and benevolence redefined which stands him in a unique stead among the previous recipients.

What makes him outstanding?
He has targeted his acts of kindness mainly at the lowly placed in society and his love for the North where it’s most needed. He planted himself in Gurugu, by then a remote but vantage location to serve not only the hopeless and destitute in the three northern regions but neighboring Togo and Benin and Burkina Faso. He houses the homeless, the destitute and the terminally ill, shielding them from the scorns of society and feeding them on a regular cycle of three meals a day. What is more amazing is the additional task of feeding the mentally ill on the streets of Tamale and the surrounding communities on a daily basis without failure and this he has done since January 1992. As if that is not enough of a burden for one man to shoulder, he has taken unto himself the responsibility of - without ever defaulting - feting during Christmas over 3000 lepers, mentally ill and perceived misfits.

This is the life of Dr. Abdulai – “the mad doctor”. A proud son of the northern region, our pride and we celebrate him today because HE PAVES THE WAY