The return of Vice President Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang from a medical trip abroad has stirred serious public debate—not because of the visit itself, but because of how she returned to Ghana.
The Vice President arrived on board a Vista Private Jet, and that move has attracted heavy backlash from Ghanaians, especially on social media.
Senior officials across these ministries have confirmed that budget lines for procurement remain dry, stalling and disrupting projects
The Finance Minister, Cassiel Ato Forson, MP, is facing growing criticism from within the Mahama government. Several sector ministers express frustration over the Treasury’s failure to release funds for critical procurement activities, which Jubilee insiders say is fueling tension in the Cabinet.
President John Dramani Mahama
President John Dramani Mahama has expressed deep concern over the enduring impact of slavery imposed by colonial powers, noting that it has greatly hindered the progress of the African continent and its people.
Speaking during the celebration of African Union Day under the theme, “A Year of Justice for Africans and People of African Descent Through Reparations,” President John Dramani Mahama, in a video address delivered on Sunday, May 25, 2025, stated that the injustices inflicted on Africans through slavery and neo-colonialism have left deep and lasting wounds.
“The African Union has declared 2025 as a year for justice for Africans and people of African descent through reparations. As the AU champion for this critical cause, I’m deeply committed to working with you all to achieve this vital objective.
“For too long, the legacy of slavery, colonialism and neo colonialism has cast a long shadow on the lives and progress of Africans and people of African descent. These historical injustices have left deep scars,” the president said.
According to him, these historical injustices underscore not only the urgent need for reparations, not merely in financial terms, but as a meaningful acknowledgment of the harm caused, but also the importance of fostering a future where justice prevails and the deep wounds of the past are genuinely healed.
“Reparations are not merely about financial compensation, they are about acknowledging the profound and enduring damage inflicted upon our people. They are about confronting the uncomfortable truths of our past and taking concrete steps to rectify these wrongs,” he continued.
President Mahama further went to say, “We seek justice, justice that encompasses a comprehensive range of measures, including official and unequivocal apologies from the nations and institutions responsible for perpetrating these historical injustices.
“Addressing the crippling debt bedding that continues to stifle economic growth in many African nations, a direct consequence of exploitation and unfair trade practices.”
He added, “Providing resources and expertise to empower African nations to achieve sustainable development and participate fully in the global economy. Returning stolen artifacts and cultural treasures that rightfully belong to our heritage. Investing in the educational initiatives to promote a deeper understanding of African history, culture and contributions to the world.”
President Mahama acknowledged that these are not simple tasks, emphasising that the demand for reparations requires a collaborative and united front, one built on shared determination and commitment in order to achieve meaningful progress.
“This is not a simple task, it requires courage, determination and a unified front. It requires us to engage in meaningful dialogue with those responsible and to advocate tirelessly for our rights. I call upon my colleague African leaders, civil society organisations and youth groups and members of the diaspora to join hands in this important endeavour. Let us work together to build a future where justice prevails, where the wounds of the past are healed and where the potential of every African and person of African descent is fully realized,” he concluded.
Watch the video below:
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After the heavy rains over the weekend, a lot of debris have been left across many parts of Accra. Watch some of the destructions below:
Your predilection to comment on the slightest thing I do or say is not lost on the public. For some time now, you have been expending enormous energy, time, and resources to launch public attacks on me in relation to my work. I live in your mind rent-free. Indeed, your obsession with Godfred Dame is bewildering and needs healing.
The abusive and offensive language you employ is deplored by most decent-minded legal practitioners, and in clear contravention of the rules of professional conduct and etiquette governing the legal profession, coming from one with considerable standing at the Bar.
I leave the authorities that regulate the legal profession and are responsible for upholding standards of professional conduct to judge. I have always ignored the write-ups you have produced about me. For the first time, however, and hopefully it will be the last, I am compelled to correct a few things you have got fundamentally wrong.
I will ignore the rest of the falsehood in your write-up as part of the vile propaganda you regularly engage in against me, which all can see through.
1. You state in paragraph 22, that, I “wear [my] record of never losing a case as a badge of honour”, in my tenure as Attorney-General. You quipped “What has changed?” Clearly, you are wrong. The allegation is mischievous and only continues a series of falsehoods often produced by lawyers of the NDC ilk to feed their foot soldiers.
The record will show that as Attorney-General, I publicly touted some significant losses suffered by my office in very important matters in the Superior Courts of Judicature as a symbol of judicial independence in Ghana.
On September 11, 2023, at the Annual Bar Conference in Cape Coast, I had this to say: “When I look back at certain cases whose outcomes I consider undesirable, regardless of my own views on the questions being judged in them, I come to the conclusion that, what we have in this country is a fiercely independent Judiciary in which all of us should take pride that, an aggrieved citizen can go to a court of law and challenge anyone, including decisions of the President and Parliament, and be confident that the Court will give a decision without fear or favour.
I refer to recent decisions of the Supreme Court in the Ghana Centre for Democratic Development & 8 others vrs. The Attorney-General, Ezuame Mannan vrs. The Attorney-General and vrs. The Attorney-General.
Again, on 9th September, 2024, at the Bar Conference in Kumasi, I proudly exhibited some of my losses.
“I can confidently say that I have been an Attorney-General in whose tenure the Judiciary has demonstrated complete independence and strength through decisions it gives in cases involving the State. In both civil and criminal jurisdictions, my Office has had many victories, but we have also experienced some adverse decisions. Examples are the decisions of the Supreme Court in Ghana Centre for Democratic Development & 8 others vrs. The Attorney-General (the removal of former Auditor-General, Mr. Dormelovo from office), Appiagyei Atuah vrs. The Attorney-General (the Imposition of Restrictions in Covid-19 case) and Ezuame Mannan vrs. the Attorney-General and the Speaker of Parliament (the Narcotics Control Commission Law case).
You would notice that most of these defeats were by a unanimous verdict of the Supreme Court. I will add to my losses the controversial 2-1 majority decision of the Court of Appeal in Republic vrs. Cassiel Ato Forson & 2 Others, whose correctness the current Attorney-General prevented the Supreme Court from assessing, by swiftly filing a notice of withdrawal when the NDC assumed power in January 2025.
2. I note that in life when one enjoys tremendous success in a field of endeavour or an office, there is the tendency to assume that one experienced no failure on any occasion. You and the NDC may thus be forgiven to think that I “never lost a case as Attorney-General”.
3. You state in paragraph 23 of your write-up that you “once asked: how did your [referring to me] legal acumen suddenly improve just because you became Attorney-General?”
Oh, Thaddeus! Doth, ye have such short memory? Have you forgotten that in the only full trial of a case you and I happened to be on opposing sides between 2007 and 2009 when you were at Dery & Co., you lost miserably (potoo, as we say in Ghanaian parlance) when judgment was delivered by Ofosu-Quartey J. in May, 2009?
Unperturbed, you led your clients to pursue an appeal at the Court of Appeal and lost again, in a judgment delivered on July 25, 2013. Was I the Attorney-General in those years?
A person who cursorily reads your write-up will be permitted to infer that you suffer pangs of jealousy. This, I cannot help. I can only urge you not to be quick to boast of your “legal acumen”, as you put it, or soil the hard-earned reputation of your fellow lawyers.
4. When as Deputy Attorney-General, I valiantly conducted many dangerous cases much to the chagrin of the NDC, including a recovery of part of the Woyome ill-gotten cash, was I the Attorney-General? For your reminder, part of the Woyome cash (the “balance” as we say in Ghana) is outstanding.
Use your “legal acumen” to assist the current Attorney-General to recover with interest, instead of expending time and energy in coming to the Supreme Court every day to monitor how cases affecting Torkonoo CJ are going, even when you are not counsel in it.
5. Fortunately, the “legal acumen” you claimed I found when I was appointed Attorney-General was not limited to the domestic territories of Ghana. I deployed the same to the successful defense of Ghana’s interests in many international arbitration cases and foreign courts, saving the nation billions of United States Dollars.
In point of fact, in my tenure as Attorney-General, Ghana emerged victorious in all the international arbitrations my humble self and my able deputies led the Office to conduct without the aid of foreign counsel.
In tribute to Ghana’s legal talent, I say that in the last international arbitration conducted solely by myself and my colleague Deputy Attorneys-General, which culminated in an award delivered on November 18, 2024, Ghana’s case was roundly upheld with costs of about US$2.2 Million in her favour.
6. In all humility, I say, as a testament to the strength of Ghana’s judicial system, that the record of the consistent success I enjoyed in the courts in innumerable high-profile cases I conducted between 2003 and 2007 (as a relatively junior lawyer) and between 2009 and 2017 ( when I was not the Attorney-General but a lawyer who was a member of the opposition), is there for all to verify.
It is this independence of Ghana’s judiciary that I see is threatened by recent happenings in Ghana, and which I seek to protect. You and the NDC’s desperation to churn out a false narrative now will not change the situation.
7. I have never said that you have not represented NPP clients. I am aware of your association with NPP clients particularly when you were a junior to Mr. Ambrose Dery in Dery & Co. The irrefutable point I make now is that Mr. Tsikata was President Mahama’s lawyer in the last election petition in 2020.
You are the current Speaker of Parliament’s lawyer and double as a lawyer for a person who is aggrieved by judgments delivered by the Chief Justice against him in his attempt to recover some gargantuan money from Ecobank. If you do not find it “incongruous” that the lawyers of the heads of two arms of government have teamed up to remove the lady Chief Justice of the Republic from office, I cannot fault you.
You assert your duty to “represent anyone who retains” you. Do I not owe the same duty?
This, I hope will be my only and ever response to you. I will continue to ignore all your provocative comments.
However, knowing your obsession with me, I am sure it will draw more abuse from you.
As they say, “when Godfred Dame coughs, the whole NDC catches a cold”.
24th May, 2025
Godfred Yeboah Dame,
Dame & Partners,
Accra.
After a brief pause, former Vice President and 2024 NPP Presidential Candidate, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, has resumed the New Patriotic Party’s national ‘Thank You Tour’.
Former Vice President and 2024 New Patriotic Party (NPP) presidential candidate, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, has resumed his nationwide “Thank You” tour alongside party executives after a brief pause.
Once upon this past week, as Accra’s skies toggled between scattered rains and sunshine like a confused DJ spinning a June playlist, two respected legal dons turned the digital streets into a courtroom—and the rest of us into jurors without wigs.
Godfred Yeboah Dame, Ghana’s immediate past Attorney General and Minister of Justice, took to the airwaves—not to cite law, but to pour heart. Not the Constitution this time, but constitution of the emotional type.
On radio, he alleged betrayal. But not from political opponents in Parliament, nor from hooded critics with pseudonyms on X (formerly known as Twitter). No. This betrayal, he claimed, was a full-robed, bar-certified heartbreak—courtesy of one Thaddeus Sory, lawyer extraordinaire, and once, if we are to believe the subtext, a brother-in-briefs.
“Thaddeus Sory betrayed me,” he said.
The studio grew quiet. Microphones leaned in. The nation blinked.
According to Dame, while the nation’s legal warriors were still parsing through court filings and scandal whispers involving the alleged bugging of an anti-corruption crusader’s private calls, Sory had allegedly danced a delicate two-step—representing both a client (the complainant) and somehow fraternizing with him (Dame), under the soft twilight of legal friendship. The rest, as they say, was a screenshot.
In Ghana, where proverbs rain harder than actual rain, elders would say: “If your friend sharpens a cutlass and asks for your back, don’t offer your spine.”
And so, while most of Accra was debating IMF conditionalities and kenkey prices, social media took to court. Not the Supreme Court. Not even the Law School Moot Court. But the hallowed benches of Facebook, X, and WhatsApp groups titled “Legal Eagles” and “Bar & Grill (Lawyers Only).”
The evidence? A series of WhatsApp chats. Screenshots flew across timelines like wedding invitations during December in Kumasi. Even non-lawyers began citing sections of the Ghana Legal Profession (Conduct and Etiquette) Rules, 2020, with more confidence than law students fresh from their first moot.
Enter, Exhibit A: Sory’s carefully worded response.
The man didn’t return fire with fire. He returned fire with finesse. One part legalese, two parts diplomacy, and just a dash of “I’ll say nothing further—per advice of counsel.”
He acknowledged the commentary, clarified his position, and—rather gentlemanly—resisted the temptation to fan the flames.
To his credit, his reply read less like a counterattack and more like a judicial robe fluttering quietly in the wind.
But by then, Ghana’s digital court had entered round two.
The memes? Brutal. The verdicts? Conflicted. The banter? Michelin-star quality.
Some sympathised with Dame: “You can’t share kelewele with a man at midnight and wake up to find him on the other side of the courtroom.” Others, lawyers and non-lawyers alike, accused him of emotional overreach: “Is this a law report or a love letter?”
A few mischief-makers even began narrating it as a Nollywood courtroom romance gone rogue—Objection My Love: The Thaddeus & Dame Files.
And what of the Ghana Bar Association? As usual, silent. Not even a locus classicus of concern. And perhaps rightly so. When titans wrestle, the ground must first settle before the fence-builders arrive.
So, what do we learn?
That even in the esteemed corridors of the law, where wigs are white and Latin is still alive, hearts can be bruised. That betrayal, whether perceived or proven, stings more when wrapped in loyalty’s robe. And that, in Ghana, no matter your title, once you enter social media’s arena, your gravitas must first pass the Twitter test.
As our elders say, “When two elephants fight, the lawyers get trending, and the bloggers rejoice.”
And somewhere in the background, a law student is updating their CV to say, “Specialized in Legal Drama (Contemporary Ghanaian Stream).”
Case dismissed—until next week.
Attribution:
This article is based on real-time public commentary and satirical interpretations of social media exchanges between Godfred Dame and Thaddeus Sory. It does not constitute legal advice or a judicial ruling. Just vibes and vicarious litigation.
The writer, Jimmy Aglah, is a media executive, author, and sharp-eyed social commentator. His debut novel, Blood and Gold: The Rebellion of Sikakrom, now available on Amazon Kindle, explores power, rebellion, and the soul of a nation. When he’s not steering broadcast operations, he’s busy challenging conventions—often with satire, always with purpose.
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Former Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Godfred Yeboah Dame, has issued a sharp response to private legal practitioner Thaddeus Sory, following Sory’s recent criticism, labelling him an “incongruous cry baby.”
The response stems a piece published by Thaddeus Sory on May 23, 2025, where he criticised Dame’s comments on Joy FM’s Top Story program, accusing the National Democratic Congress (NDC) government of politicising the process to remove Chief Justice Gertrude Torkornoo.
In a Facebook post on May 24, 2025, Dame addressed Sory’s allegations, dismissing them as part of a pattern of “vile propaganda” and falsehoods propagated by NDC-affiliated lawyers.
He specifically refuted Sory’s claim that he boasted of never losing a case during his tenure as Attorney General.
Dame cited his public acknowledgement of significant losses at the 2023 and 2024 Annual Bar Conferences in Cape Coast and Kumasi, respectively, where he highlighted cases such as Ghana Centre for Democratic Development & 8 others v. The Attorney-General and Ezuame Mannan v. The Attorney-General as evidence of judicial independence in Ghana.
“The record will show that as Attorney-General, I publicly touted some significant losses suffered by my office in very important matters in the Superior Courts of Judicature as a symbol of judicial independence,” Dame stated.
Dame also challenged Sory’s claim that his legal acumen improved only upon becoming Attorney General, referencing a case between 2007 and 2009 where he defeated Sory, then a lawyer at Dery & Co., at both the High Court and the Court of Appeal.
“Oh Thaddeus! Doth ye have such short memory? Have you forgotten that in the only full trial of a case you and I happened to be on opposing sides between 2007 and 2009 when you were at Dery & Co., you lost miserably (potoo, as we say in Ghanaian parlance) when judgment was delivered by Ofosu-Quartey J. in May, 2009? Unperturbed, you led your clients to pursue an appeal at the Court of Appeal and lost again, in a judgment delivered on 25th July, 2013. Was I the Attorney-General in those years?” Dame wrote.
He further highlighted his successful defense of Ghana in international arbitration cases, saving the nation billions of dollars, including a November 2024 case that resulted in a US$2.2 million award in Ghana’s favour.
Addressing Sory’s accusation of partisanship in representing Chief Justice Torkornoo, Dame argued that his duty to represent clients is no different from Sory’s, noting Sory’s history of representing both NDC and New Patriotic Party (NPP) figures, including the current Speaker of Parliament and NPP members like Ambrose Dery.
“If you do not find it ‘incongruous’ that the lawyers of the heads of two arms of government have teamed up to remove the lady Chief Justice of the Republic from office, I cannot fault you,” Dame remarked.
Dame deplored Sory’s use of “abusive and offensive language,” describing it as a violation of the legal profession’s rules of professional conduct and etiquette.
He stated that he had previously ignored Sory’s attacks but felt compelled to respond to correct falsehoods.
“I will continue to ignore all your provocative comments. However, knowing your obsession with me, I am sure it will draw more abuse from you,” he concluded.
The public spat follows Sory’s defense of his role as a lawyer for petitioners seeking Torkornoo’s removal, where he refuted Dame’s allegations of NDC bias by citing his diverse legal history and criticized Dame’s involvement in a dismissed injunction suit against the Chief Justice’s removal proceedings.
Read Dame’s full response below:
Greetings Thaddeus Sory, Esq.,
Your predilection to comment on the slightest thing I do or say is not lost on the public. For some time now, you have been expending enormous energy, time and resources to launch public attacks on me in relation to my work. I live in your mind rent free. Indeed, your obsession with Godfred Dame is bewildering and needs healing.
The abusive and offensive language you employ is deplored by most decent minded legal practitioners, and in clear contravention of the rules of professional conduct and etiquette governing the legal profession, coming from one with considerable standing at the Bar. I leave the authorities that regulate the legal profession and are responsible for upholding standards of professional conduct to judge. I have always ignored the write-ups you have produced about me. For the first time, however, and hopefully it will be the last, I am compelled to correct a few things you have got fundamentally wrong. I will ignore the rest of the falsehood in your write-up as part of the vile propaganda you regularly engage in against me, which all can see through.
1. You state at paragraph 22, that, I “wear [my] record of never losing a case as a badge of honour”, in my tenure as Attorney-General. You quipped “what has changed?”
Clearly, you are wrong. The allegation is mischievous and only continues a series of falsehoods often produced by lawyers of the NDC ilk to feed their foot soldiers. The record will show that as Attorney-General, I publicly touted some significant losses suffered by my office in very important matters in the Superior Courts of Judicature as a symbol of judicial independence in Ghana. On 11th September, 2023, at the Annual Bar Conference in Cape Coast, I had this to say:
“When I look back at certain cases whose outcomes I consider undesirable, regardless of my own views on the questions being judged in them, I come to the conclusion that, what we have in this country is a fiercely independent Judiciary in which all of us should take pride that, an aggrieved citizen can go to a court of law and challenge anyone, including decisions of the President and Parliament, and be confident that the Court will give a decision without fear or favour. I refer to recent decisions of the Supreme Court in the Ghana Centre for Democratic Development & 8 others vrs. The Attorney-General, Ezuame Mannan vrs. The Attorney-General and vrs. The Attorney-General.
Again, on 9th September, 2024, at the Bar Conference in Kumasi, I proudly exhibited some of my losses.
“I can confidently say that I have been an Attorney-General in whose tenure the Judiciary has demonstrated complete independence and strength through decisions it gives in cases involving the State. In both civil and criminal jurisdictions, my Office has had many victories, but we have also experienced some adverse decisions. Examples are the decisions of the Supreme Court in Ghana Centre for Democratic Development & 8 others vrs. The Attorney-General (the removal of former Auditor-General, Mr. Dormelovo from office), Appiagyei Atuah vrs. The Attorney-General (the Imposition of Restrictions in Covid-19 case) and Ezuame Mannan vrs. the Attorney-General and the Speaker of Parliament (the Narcotics Control Commission Law case).
You would notice that most of these defeats were by a unanimous verdict of the Supreme Court. I will add to my losses the controversial 2-1 majority decision of the Court of Appeal in Republic vrs. Cassiel Ato Forson & 2 Others, whose correctness the current Attorney-General prevented the Supreme Court from assessing, by swiftly filing a notice of withdrawal when the NDC assumed power in January, 2025.
2. I note that in life, when one enjoys tremendous success in a field of endeavour or an office, there is the tendency to assume that one experienced no failure on any occasion. You and the NDC may thus be forgiven to think that I “never lost a case as Attorney-General”.
3. You state at paragraph 23 of your write-up that you “once asked: how did your [referring to me] legal acumen suddenly improve just because you became Attorney-General?”
Oh Thaddeus! Doth ye have such short memory? Have you forgotten that in the only full trial of a case you and I happened to be on opposing sides between 2007 and 2009 when you were at Dery & Co., you lost miserably (potoo, as we say in Ghanaian parlance) when judgment was delivered by Ofosu-Quartey J. in May, 2009? Unperturbed, you led your clients to pursue an appeal at the Court of Appeal and lost again, in a judgment delivered on 25th July, 2013. Was I the Attorney-General in those years?
A person who cursorily reads your write-up will be permitted to infer that you suffer pangs of jealousy. This, I cannot help. I can only urge you not to be quick to boast of your “legal acumen”, as you put it, or soil the hard-earned reputation of your fellow lawyers.
4. When as Deputy Attorney-General, I valiantly conducted many dangerous cases much to the chagrin of the NDC, including a recovery of part of the Woyome ill-gotten cash, was I the Attorney-General? For your reminder, part of the Woyome cash (the “balance” as we say in Ghana) is outstanding. Use your “legal acumen” to assist the current Attorney-General to recover with interest, instead of expending time and energy in coming to the Supreme Court every day to monitor how cases affecting Torkonoo CJ are going, even when you are not counsel in it.
5. Fortunately, the “legal acumen” you claimed I found when I was appointed Attorney-General was not limited to the domestic territories of Ghana. I deployed same to the successful defence of Ghana’s interests in many international arbitration cases and foreign courts, saving the nation billions of United States Dollars. In point of fact, in my tenure as Attorney-General, Ghana emerged victorious in all the international arbitrations my humble self and my able deputies led the Office to conduct without the aid of foreign counsel. In tribute to Ghana’s legal talent, I say that in the last international arbitration conducted solely by myself and my colleague Deputy Attorneys-General, which culminated in an award delivered on 18th November, 2024, Ghana’s case was roundly upheld with costs of about US$2.2 Million in her favour.
6. In all humility, I say, as a testament to the strength of Ghana’s judicial system, that the record of the consistent success I enjoyed in the courts in innumerable high-profile cases I conducted between 2003 and 2007 (as a relatively junior lawyer) and between 2009 and 2017 ( when I was not the Attorney-General but a lawyer who was a member of the opposition), is there for all to verify. It is this independence of Ghana’s judiciary that I see is threatened by recent happenings in Ghana, and which I seek to protect. You and the NDC’s desperation to churn out a false narrative now will not change the situation.
7. I have never said that you have not represented NPP clients. I am aware of your association with NPP clients particularly, when you were a junior to Mr. Ambrose Dery in Dery & Co. The irrefutable point I make now is that Mr. Tsikata was President Mahama’s lawyer in the last election petition in 2020. You are the current Speaker of Parliament’s lawyer and double as lawyer for a person who is aggrieved by judgments delivered by the Chief Justice against him in his attempt to recover some gargantuan money from Ecobank. If you do not find it “incongruous” that the lawyers of the heads of two arms of government have teamed up to remove the lady Chief Justice of the Republic from office, I cannot fault you.
You assert your duty to “represent anyone who retains” you. Do I not owe the same duty?
This, I hope will be my only and ever response to you. I will continue to ignore all your provocative comments. However, knowing your obsession with me, I am sure it will draw more abuse from you.
As they say, “when Godfred Dame coughs, the whole NDC catches a cold”.
24th May, 2025
Godfred Yeboah Dame,
Dame & Partners,
Accra.
GA
This initiative is aimed at enhancing reliability of electricity supply for over 40,000 customers
The Accra Sub-Transmission Division of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has officially commissioned 18 new 33kV switchgears at the Odorkor Primary Substation.
This initiative is aimed at enhancing the quality and reliability of electricity supply for over 40,000 customers who rely on the station.
Speaking to selected media personnel at the commissioning ceremony held on Thursday, May 22, 2025, Ing. Francis K. Atsyatsya, General Manager of ECG Subtransmission in Accra, described the initiative as pivotal to ECG’s commitment to delivering safe and reliable electricity, especially in response to the growing demand for power in the capital.
Ing. Atsyatsya noted that the installation of the switchgears forms part of ECG’s broader strategy to strengthen its infrastructure and enhance customer service, ultimately aiming to achieve maximum customer satisfaction.
Fully funded by ECG, the new installations are expected to significantly reduce the frequency of power outages experienced by customers in Odorkor, Sakaman, South Odorkor, Kwashieman, Official Town, parts of Dansoman, McCarthy Hill, Mallam, and Awoshie.
“With the introduction of these new switchgears, we are now better equipped to provide our customers with a more reliable and improved quality of electricity supply,” he affirmed.
According to the General Manager, the installation and commissioning were necessitated by the urgent need to replace the old panels, which had been in use for about fourteen years.
He explained that the previous switchgears were not only inefficient but also posed serious safety risks at the substation.
“These new switchgears replace outdated equipment that had been in operation for approximately fourteen years, which not only reduced operational efficiency but also raised significant safety concerns,” he stated.
He added that the old switchgears were a major contributing factor to the frequent power outages faced by customers served by the Primary Substation.
Beyond improving electricity distribution, the new equipment will also enhance the safety of ECG staff operating at the station.
“Management places a high priority on ensuring a safe working environment, and the old equipment posed considerable risks to our staff,” Ing. Atsyatsya emphasised.
Looking ahead, he disclosed that several additional projects are in the pipeline.
He urged stakeholders and customers to continue collaborating with ECG to ensure improved service delivery.
He also appealed to customers to pay their bills promptly, noting that timely payments are essential to enabling ECG to undertake more projects for the benefit of its customers.
Ing. Atsyatsya further cautioned customers to be vigilant against scams. He encouraged the public to use the ECG Mobile App or the short code *226# for all ECG-related payments and to report any suspicious activities to the police or their nearest ECG office.
The commissioning of the new switchgears marks a significant milestone in ECG’s ongoing efforts to provide dependable electricity to the ever-growing population of Accra.
Nollywood star Kitan Bukola has revealed that her success on-screen can be a stumbling block in her love life, as some men find her confidence and independence intimidating. In an exclusive sit-down with PUNCH NEWSPAPERS, Bukola spoke candidly about the paradox many successful women face: being cheered on for their on-screen strength but encountering resistance when it comes to real-world relationships.
“I’ve realized that, as an actress, some men can’t stand me because of their low self-esteem,” Bukola explained. She noted that while admirers may be drawn to her charisma and talent during performances, those same qualities can become sources of insecurity off-camera. “They enjoy watching you act strong and successful, but when it’s time to build something real, they feel threatened or begin to compete unnecessarily,” she said.
Bukola emphasized that what many perceive as mere attraction can quickly unravel when confronted with genuine partnership dynamics. Emotional maturity, she asserted, is essential. Too often, she added, women in the spotlight are unfairly judged for demanding respect and equality, despite the vulnerability required to maintain a healthy relationship.
Despite the challenges, Bukola remains optimistic. She expressed gratitude for the personal growth her experiences have afforded her and reaffirmed her openness to finding love—on her terms. “I know my worth, and I won’t settle for less,” she declared, underscoring her commitment to mutual respect and understanding.
Her honesty has sparked an outpouring of support from fans and colleagues alike, who praise her for lifting the veil on a reality that many high-achieving women endure. As conversations around gender dynamics continue to evolve, Bukola’s story serves as a powerful reminder that confidence should never be mistaken for unapproachability—but rather celebrated as rightful self-esteem.
https://punchng.com/i-cant-act-porn-kiitan-bukola/
NDC Chairman Johnson Asiedu Nketia has downplayed the efforts of the Special Prosecutor in seeking justice for former Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta. According to him, the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) is not as effective as it appears and will eventually become irrelevant.
Speaking on Radio Gold, Asiedu Nketia made it clear that he has never had faith in the OSP’s ability to fight corruption in Ghana. He believes the institution is only making noise for now, but with time, it will lose its momentum.
“I have been very consistent that the OSP won’t be beneficial to us as a country,” he stated. “You see that they are making noise, but with time it will just die out because the OSP will hit a snag.”
The NDC Chairman argues that Ghana’s fight against corruption remains weak because of the way prosecutions are handled. He pointed out that the Attorney General, who is responsible for legal prosecutions, is a political appointee. According to him, this arrangement does not allow for an independent and fair justice system.
To fix this problem, Asiedu Nketia has proposed a major reform. He suggests separating the Attorney General from the Ministry of Justice and appointing a career prosecutor who will have full authority to fight corruption without political interference.
His comments come at a time when the Special Prosecutor has declared Ken Ofori-Atta wanted, insisting that the former Finance Minister must answer corruption allegations against him.
However, Asiedu Nketia’s remarks suggest that he has little confidence in the OSP’s ability to see the case through.
His statement has sparked mixed reactions among Ghanaians. While some agree with his position that the OSP lacks the independence to be effective, others believe the office should be given time to prove itself. Many are also wondering whether the Special Prosecutor will respond to Asiedu Nketia’s claims or continue with his pursuit of Ken Ofori-Atta without paying attention to political criticisms.
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President John Dramani Mahama has reaffirmed his commitment to securing justice for Africans and people of African descent through reparations, as the African Union (AU) marks 2025 as the Year for Reparatory Justice.
In his Africa Day 2025 message, Mahama—who serves as the AU’s champion for the cause—underscored his dedication to working with African leaders and stakeholders to advance meaningful progress.
“The AU has declared 2025 as the year for justice for Africans and people of African descent through reparations.
“As the AU champion for this critical cause, I am deeply committed to working with you all to achieve this objective,” he stated.
The AU’s designation of 2025 for reparatory justice reflects a unified effort across the continent to confront historical injustices, including the enduring legacies of slavery, colonialism, and systemic discrimination.
Mahama’s leadership in this initiative aligns with growing international calls for tangible reparations and formal recognition of past wrongs. His message comes at a time when global discussions around reparatory justice are gaining significant momentum.
As Africa celebrates its unity and achievements on this important day, Mahama’s statement serves as a powerful reminder of the continent’s determination to pursue justice, healing, and economic empowerment for its people.
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Reduce fares or face sanctions – GPRTU to non-complaint drivers
Transport operators in Tamale are yet to fully comply with the directive by GPRTU to reduce transport fares by 15%
According to reports, some stations have only reduced by 10% with others defying the directive by insisting they will reduce on Monday, citing late notice.
The Ghana Private Road Transport Union (GPRTU) and other commercial transport operators have announced that prices of transport will drop by 15 per cent effective Saturday, May 24, 2025.
Private legal practitioner and well-known activist has warned the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) to be careful with how it handles political opponents and critics, especially ahead of the 2028 general elections.
In a bold message posted on Facebook on Saturday, May 24, 2025, Barker-Vormawor criticised what he described as “overzealous policing” and warned that such actions can destroy the public trust the NDC has built since coming into power.
Some drivers have refused to comply with the recently announced 15% reduction in transport fares
Some commercial drivers in Adidome, Central Tongu District, have defied the fare adjustment announced by the Ghana Private Road Transport Union (GPRTU) in collaboration with the Ministry of Transport.
The 15 percent reduction in transport fares officially took effect today, Saturday, May 24, 2025.
The fare adjustment, announced by the Ghana Private Road Transport Union (GPRTU) in collaboration with the Ministry of Transport, was expected to bring relief to commuters following a reduction in fuel prices.
However, some passengers who spoke to the Ghana News Agency (GNA) on Saturday expressed disappointment, stating that many drivers are still charging the old fares, particularly the GH₵20 fare on the Adidome–Sogakope route.
“I was expecting to pay less today, but the driver insisted on taking the old fare,” a passenger lamented, adding, “It’s very worrying, especially when the directive was clear.”
Some drivers, while acknowledging the directive, said they are not implementing the reduction yet due to multiple challenges.
They cited high operational costs, including vehicle maintenance, spare parts, and licensing fees, which remain unchanged despite the drop in fuel prices.
Others mentioned delays in receiving official fare charts from transport unions, leading to uncertainty about the revised rates.
“We’ve heard the directive, but for operational reasons, we will begin the new fares on Monday,” one commercial driver explained.
Some drivers also expressed concerns about inconsistencies in how the new fares are being communicated, with no clear enforcement or monitoring measures in place, making it difficult to comply immediately.
This delay has sparked concern among commuters, many of whom believe drivers are taking advantage of the situation to make additional profits at the expense of passengers.
Authorities have yet to respond to the drivers’ non-compliance, but transport unions are expected to begin monitoring implementation across the country to ensure adherence.
The 15 percent fare reduction was introduced as a measure to alleviate the financial burden on commuters following recent decreases in fuel prices.
Transport unions and regulatory bodies have urged drivers to comply with the new pricing to maintain public trust and avoid potential sanctions.
Clement Bonney, popularly known as Mr. Beautiful, has shared his perspective on why he refrains from showcasing his wealth on social media, despite having the means to do so. In a candid interview, the renowned actor and comedian explained that he prefers to keep his financial success private and does not feel the need to seek validation through online displays of wealth.
Mr. Beautiful expressed his disapproval of the growing trend among public figures to flaunt their material possessions on social media, cautioning that such displays could attract unwanted attention, including from criminals. He emphasized that true success is an internal accomplishment and doesn’t require public acknowledgment or applause.
“Success is not about showing off; it’s about what you feel inside,” he said. “I am richer than many, but I am not foolish enough to expose my properties on social media. What I have doesn’t need to be on display for others to see.”
The actor also highlighted the dangers of the culture of seeking validation through online approval. According to him, the obsession with likes, shares, and comments often comes with negative consequences, including unnecessary stress and poor financial choices. He warned young people and aspiring entertainers not to fall into the trap of chasing digital recognition, which could ultimately harm their mental and financial health.
Mr. Beautiful pointed out that many of the wealth displays seen on social media are not as genuine as they may seem, often concealing deeper issues behind the facade of luxury. He urged the younger generation to prioritize real growth, happiness, and self-worth, rather than being caught up in the pursuit of superficial digital fame.
His remarks have sparked a wider discussion, with some applauding his wise and grounded approach, while others believe that showing success online can be a source of inspiration for others. Nonetheless, Mr. Beautiful’s perspective challenges the norm of public displays of wealth, advocating for a more authentic, secure, and private approach to celebrating achievements.
Mr. Beautiful’s call for privacy and authenticity is resonating with many, especially in an age where social media pressures can create unrealistic standards and expectations.
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Jacob Zumah recently addressed the men of the press and while speaking, he revealed that, he came to President John Dramani Mahama’s inauguration because he thought something was happening in Ghana.
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“I came to President John Dramani Mahama’s inauguration because I thought something was happening in Ghana, knowing him, knowing his views, knowing what he’s capable of doing and if he won, I was very happy. To me, it indicated that Africans are beginning to look at the elections differently. And I thought it’s important to come and support him, and
also to see the good people of Ghana, the way that they were happy as the South Africans are happy now, and I found them so happy. As you know, the place where we were, they were almost no place to put your feet because people were here, which indicated the happiness that the people of Ghana were showing”.
“So yeah, I learnt a lot of things during the Inauguration of President John Dramani Mahama, and judging from the way the people were happy on that day, you could clearly tell that, President Mahama is loved by many, they love and cherish him a lot and that’s what democracy is all about, I think we are beginning to understand democracy a little bit more and that is very necessary you know”, Jacob Zumah said.
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Citi FM shared the video on their official instagram page today being Tuesday the 14th day of January, 2025 and it stirred massive reactions from the general public. Click on the link below to watch the video.
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Edudzi Tameklo, the Director of Legal Services of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has warned the former Attorney-General and Minister of Justice Godfred Yeboah Dame after he made a call for good men to rise for the right things in Ghana.
Godfred Yeboah Dame in an interview has stated it is about time good men of this country stood up for what is right.
The first GH¢5 note had the images of the Big Six, who were key leaders in Ghana’s independence struggle.
The man on the new GH¢5 note is Dr. James Kwegyir Aggrey, a respected Ghanaian scholar, teacher, and leader.
Dr. Aggrey was born on October 18, 1875, and died on July 30, 1927. In 1905, he married Rosebud “Rose” Douglas, an African-American woman from Virginia in the United States. They had four children together: Abna Azalea Aggrey, Kwegyir Aggrey, Rosebud Douglas Aggrey, and Orison Rudolph Aggrey. One of his sons, Orison, became a U.S. Ambassador to Senegal, Gambia, and Romania.
Dr. Aggrey began his education at Wesleyan High School in Cape Coast, now known as Mfantsipim School. He was very intelligent and studied subjects like Greek and Latin at a young age. Because of his brilliance, he later became the headmaster of the school.
In 1898, he was chosen to go to the United States for missionary training. He studied at Livingstone College in Salisbury, North Carolina. There, he studied many subjects including physics, chemistry, logic, economics, and politics. He graduated in 1902 with three degrees. Dr. Aggrey also spoke many languages such as French, German, Latin, and both Ancient and Modern Greek.
Dr. Aggrey’s image on the note is a way to honor his great contribution to education and national development in Ghana.
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Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has accepted a Boeing 747 from Qatar that President Donald Trump will use once the Pentagon upgrades it to include “proper security measures and functional-mission requirements,” according to a Defense Department spokesperson.
“The secretary of defense has accepted a Boeing 747 from Qatar in accordance with all federal rules and regulations,” Chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said in a statement on Wednesday.
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Legendary fuji star, Pasuma has finally spoken after being attacked by thugs in Osun.
DAILY POST reports that the musician was attacked by thugs in Ikire, a popular town in Irewole local government area of Osun State.
The incident happened when Pasuma visited the state for a performance last Sunday.
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Hilda Manyo Dickson, who is a top finance professional in Nigeria, has revealed what a doctor told her to do when she could not get pregnant, while also stating how she had a surgery that affected her chances of having a baby.
In a video that was posted on the official YouTube channel With Chude during an interview with media personality Chude Jideonwo, she made it known that a doctor advised her to be in a relationship with any old man that comes her way for her to get pregnant.
In her statement, she said, “When I got married, it was my decision with my husband to wait for one year before having a baby, and by the second year of our marriage, I started expecting pregnancy. I couldn’t figure out when I started panicking, but from my history, I know I have been told at some point that it might be difficult for me to have a baby. A doctor advised me to have sex with any old man that comes my way for me to get pregnant. I had a surgery, and the doctor told me that it might be difficult for me to conceive.”
Watch the video from (0:08 to 1:11). https://youtu.be/Om_F0zQFHUk?si=gF-nhJlDTPM1i05i
President of the Ghana Football Association (GFA), Kurt Okraku, has responded to criticism from the media, emphasising his openness to constructive critique while drawing a firm line against defamation.
In a recent interview on GhOne TV, Kurt Okraku, a former media practitioner himself, addressed concerns about his leadership, underscoring the importance of fair commentary and his intolerance for baseless accusations.
“I’m okay with people critiquing the work we are doing. That’s acceptable, and I am prepared to listen to other minds, even those who do not agree with me,” Okraku stated.
He acknowledged that differing opinions are a natural part of public discourse.
“We are human, and therefore we will not always have a straight line,” he stated.
However, the GFA president was unequivocal in his stance against defamation.
“If you insult me, okay. But if you defame me, I will not take it lightly,” he warned.
He specifically highlighted the harm caused by false accusations, stating, “If I am not a thief and you call me a thief, we will have problems.”
As a former media professional, Okraku emphasised his understanding of the media’s role but urged journalists to maintain ethical standards in their reporting.
Okraku reiterated his commitment to engaging with diverse perspectives to improve the GFA’s work, but made it clear that defamatory statements would face strong pushback.
According to court filings, Ambassador Inusah believes the statements have not only diminished his standing in the eyes of the public but have also jeopardised his career prospects and deeply affected his emotional well-being.
A former Director of Ghana’s Bureau of National Investigations (BNI), now the National Intelligence Bureau (NIB), Ambassador Rasheed Seidu Inusah, has filed a GH¢10 million defamation lawsuit at the High Court in Accra against Dr.
Real 24 Hours emerged champions of the inaugural Betway Tumu Community Cup after edging Bujan Crocodiles 1-0 in a closely contested final on Saturday, May 24, 2025, at the Tumu Sports Stadium AstroTurf.
The decisive goal came just minutes into the first half, and the Tumu-based Division Two side held firm under pressure to claim the historic title.
Famous for having played against Asante Kotoko in Tumu, Real 24 Hours not only lifted the trophy but also walked away with GHS5,000 in prize money and medals.
Bujan Crocodiles, as runners-up, received GHS3,000 and medals for their efforts.
En route to the final, Real 24 Hours won two matches via penalty shootouts, including a tense encounter against pre-tournament favourites Soccer Babies. The latter secured third place after a 5-4 shootout win over Kong Danger Stars following a goalless draw.
Soccer Babies earned GHS2,000 and were the only team to win a match in regulation time, having defeated Nabulo 2-0 in the opening fixture. The remaining six games were all decided by penalties.
The competition was graced by the Sissala East Member of Parliament, Mohammed Issah Bataglia, alongside the Municipal Chief Executive, Adamu Yakubu.
The one-day tournament, which followed six qualifying matches, was a collaborative initiative led by Joy Sports editor Fentuo Tahiru Fentuo in partnership with leading bookmakers Betway, and supported by Peeva Beverages.
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Management of the school say the storm damaged the entire roofing of three workshops
An injured student from the Methodist Technical Institute in the Kwadaso Municipality of the Ashanti Region was rushed to Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital after Friday’s heavy rains ripped off the roofing of some school workshops and destroyed parts of the school’s buildings.
The student was hit by parts of a workshop that collapsed during the windy storm while students fled to take cover.
The school’s administrator, Desmond Oppong, told Ultimate News that three workshops were badly affected, with their entire roofing sheets damaged.
He expressed concern that the incident occurred at a time when the school is already grappling with severe resource constraints.
Mr. Oppong worried that teaching and learning could be significantly impacted, as students cannot study in the affected buildings.
“We are already under-resourced, and this workshop block is our learning center for practical studies. All our tools are now exposed, and we cannot allow students to study in those facilities,” he told reporter Ivan Heathcote-Fumador.
He called on the Member of Parliament for Kwadaso, Prof. Kingsley Nyarko, the Municipal Chief Executive of Kwadaso, stakeholders, and philanthropists to come to the aid of the school.
Former MP for Assin Central, Kennedy Agyapong
Former Member of Parliament for Assin Central and New Patriotic Party flagbearer hopeful, Kennedy Agyapong, has urged students at the University of Cape Coast (UCC) to embrace risk-taking and financial discipline as key drivers of entrepreneurial success.
Delivering the keynote address at the Tertiary Education Students Confederacy Network (TESCON) event themed “Navigating the Entrepreneurial Journey and Social Networking” at the School of Graduate Studies (SGS) Auditorium, Kennedy Agyapong shared practical insights drawn from his own journey as a business magnate.
The former MP referencing the example of a successful figure, emphasized the importance of having a clear vision for the future and encouraged the students to set long-term goals and work diligently to achieve them.
“If you want to be like Honourable Alfred Obeng, begin to have a vision, a vision to look into the future and say to yourself, ‘this is what I want to be in the next five to ten years’,” he said.
Using his own failures as an example, he cautioned that life is not easy and dismissed the notion of effortless success.
“Anyone who tells you that life is going to be easy is not telling you the truth,” he said.
The former MP stressed the value of financial prudence, urging students to prioritize saving over spending on material possessions.
“Postpone spending on material things today and save for tomorrow,” he advised.
He also warned against the temptation to emulate peers with lavish lifestyles.
“When you see a colleague wearing beautiful clothes, do not be fascinated by the beautiful clothes and force yourself to use your leather of last resort, money that has been given to you to also buy nice clothing. Be yourself and save the little money you have,” he noted.
He explained that consistent saving could accumulate into capital for future investments.
Agyapong highlighted the importance of risk-taking in achieving success stating, “When you have this capital, then I borrow my daughter’s words, risk, begin to take risks. The future belongs to risk takers and not security seekers,” he declared.
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Ghana has lost many talented people over the years, and some of the most painful losses were celebrities who died when their careers were at their highest point. Here are 9 Ghanaian celebrities who died at the peak of their careers.
1. Ebony Reigns
Ebony, whose real name was Priscilla Opoku-Kwarteng, was a young and talented dancehall musician. She became a household name with hits like “Kupe” and “Sponsor.” Sadly, she died in a car accident in 2018 at just 20 years old.
2. Vybrant Faya
He was known for his popular song “Mampi.” Vybrant Faya was gaining massive attention in the music industry when he died after being knocked down by a motorbike in 2016.
3. Christopher Opoku
Christopher was one of Ghana’s respected sports journalists. He worked with many top media houses and was known for his deep knowledge of football. He died of cancer in 2017.
4. Komla Dumor
Komla Dumor was a famous journalist and news presenter at the BBC. He made Ghana proud on the world stage. He died from cardiac arrest in 2014 at age 41.
5. KABA (Kwadwo Asare Baffour Acheampong)
KABA was a popular radio and TV presenter at Asempa FM and Multimedia. He died suddenly in 2017 at the age of 37.
6. Terry Bonchaka
Terry was one of the most exciting musicians in the early 2000s. He died in a car crash in 2003 after performing at a show at the University of Ghana.
7. Kwame Owusu Ansah
Kwame was an actor, radio host, and motivational speaker. He was loved by many but sadly died in a car accident in 2008.
8. Suzzy Williams
Suzzy was a rising movie star and one of the brightest young actresses in Ghana. She died in a car accident in 2005 at the age of 23.
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A Ghanaian lady who sells roasted corn has publicly declared her intention to vote for the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the 2028 general elections. Speaking in a video shared on social media, she expressed her reasons for supporting the ruling party, emphasizing her belief in the progress and development she associates with the NPP’s leadership. Her candid statement has since attracted attention online.
In the video, the lady explains her personal reasons for backing the NPP, highlighting how the party’s policies and governance have positively impacted her life and business. She appears confident that the NPP is the right choice for Ghana’s future, and she encourages others to consider the party’s achievements when deciding who to vote for in the next elections.
Her declaration stands out because it comes from an everyday Ghanaian engaged in informal trade, a sector that is often directly affected by government policies. By sharing her support publicly, she underscores how the NPP’s influence extends beyond political elites to ordinary citizens. The video was shared alongside a photo credited to former President Nana Akufo-Addo’s Facebook page, lending context to her message.
This expression of political support ahead of the 2028 elections provides insight into grassroots sentiments and the factors that influence voters in Ghana. It also highlights the role of social media in amplifying the voices of ordinary people. The roasted corn seller’s statement is a reflection of personal conviction, contributing to the ongoing dialogue about Ghana’s political future.
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Bunmi George, also known as Jbums, has revealed some of the things that she had to go through because of the size of her body, while also stating how some men usually stare at her inappropriately.
In a video that was posted on the official YouTube channel of With Chude during an interview with media personality Chude Jideonwo, she disclosed that her backside was bigger than the average and that men were always staring at her inappropriately.
In her statement, she said, “I only have one sibling in my family with a slim body. Three of us were overweight, and the three of us decided to go on a diet, and we changed our entire grocery list every week, and all of us lost some weight. As a woman, one needs to be more self-conscious, especially when the body is changing. When I looked at myself in the mirror, my body structure didn’t look like the other girls of my age, and I had stretch marks on my skin. My backside was bigger than the average, and men were always staring at me inappropriately. I had a big stomach, and some men used to to think that I was older than I was at the time.”
Watch the video from (1:41 to 2:55). https://youtu.be/0w30mQTjdEY?si=5K8DhVekyprpHt2R
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Greetings, Thaddeus Sory Esq., your predilection to comment on the slightest thing I do or say is not lost on the public. For some time now, you have been expending enormous energy, time and resources to launch public attacks on me in relation to my work.
Ghana is banking on small-scale gold mining to deliver a $12 billion annual windfall from next year, doubling its current output to tap into record-high global prices. With artisanal miners driving over a third of the country’s gold exports, which jumped 50% to $11.6 billion last year, the government has launched a new regulator to formalize trade and curb black-market smuggling. The regulator, Ghana Gold Board, is ramping up purchases from these small-scale miners, aiming to hit more than 3 tons per week, up from 1.5 tons in January. Officials say the strategy will not only boost foreign reserves but also help ease inflation and improve Ghana’s debt profile—key priorities after the 2022 debt default locked the country out of international credit markets.
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Captain Smart was born to Mr. Samuel Evans Egyir Smart and Auntie Aggie. He spent his formative years in a small village in the Eastern Region, where he was raised in a household that emphasized discipline, hard work, and community values. His parents, both professionals in the education sector, instilled in him the importance of education and perseverance.
He began his education at a local government school in his hometown, completing both his primary and junior high schooling there. He then proceeded to Apam Senior High School in the Central Region for his secondary education. After passing the Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination (SSCE) with commendable results, Captain Smart moved to Accra to pursue his passion for journalism. He enrolled in a journalism school, where he studied for two years and obtained a diploma in mass communication. Subsequently, he furthered his education at Garden City University College in Kumasi, earning a degree in mass communication.Best online courses
Before venturing into the media industry, Captain Smart aspired to join the Ghana Armed Forces. After completing his secondary education, he enlisted in the military. However, he did not complete his training, reportedly due to his mother’s concerns about her only child pursuing a military career. Following this, he engaged in farming activities before transitioning into the media sector.
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It was quite a show at the Oval office in the White House a few days ago when South African President Cyril Ramaphosa met with American President Donald J. Trump to discuss bilateral issues and world affairs.
It began with Trump’s unsubstantiated and frankly asinine allegation that the white Boers of South Africa are being subjected to mass murder, ethnic cleansing and genocide.
This is not only false but also painfully absurd.
Sadly it did not stop there. Trump went on to assert that Julius Malema, the inspirational charismatic and colourful M.P. and leader and founder of the South African Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), is a hate-filled black supremacist and racist and a cold-blooded murderer and ruthless terrorist whose intention it is to kill every white person in South Africa.
Needless to say these allegations are baseless and false.
The Americans are attempting to give a dog a bad name in order to hang it. It is nothing but yet another well-crafted but unsubstantiated mendacity.
Even though Malema is very vocal and highly controversial he does not strike me as a hater of whites but rather as a hater of injustice, oppression, persecution and institutional racism.
He is a man with a social conscience who speaks for the poor, the weak, the vulnerable and the oppressed and who has constituted himself into a major thorn in the flesh of the political establishment and the ruling elites in South Africa both white and black.
He is very eloquent, well-informed, well-read and quick off the mark and these qualities, coupled with his obvious courage and strength, make him a formidable adversary which every person of class, rank or privilege in his country has every reason to be wary of.
He also speaks a good deal of sense and his passion for truth, justice and equity for the black majority population of South Africa and commitment to the emancipation of the African continent from the forces of imperialism and neo-colonialism cannot be denied.
To millions of South Africans Malema is a deeply courageous, insightful and profound man and possibly the greatest post-Mandela hero and rising star that their nation has ever known.
To add to this, millions of Africans (including Nigerians and Zimbabweans) who live in South Africa regard him as a loyal and trusted friend who has always spoken up for them and sought to protect them from the rabid xenophobia that most black South Africans suffer from and who has a strong and commendable Nkrumaist Pan-African vision.
For Trump and his White House to attempt to disparage such a man that brings so much to the table and that has done so much to restore the self-respect and dignity of black South Africans and Africans all over the world simply because he sang an old outdated, pre-independence, apartheied-era, anti-Boer war song at his political party rally is uncharitable and unkind.
To turn down the lights of the Oval office, watch a film on him on television for four good minutes and make him the centre of discussion at a bilateral meeting between the Presidents of two of the most respected nations on earth only proves the fact that he is no longer only an African phenomenon but also a global brand and a rallying point for blacks from all over the world.
To that extent Trump has inadvertently elevated his profile rather than diminish it.
Like in the case of the Biblical Joseph, what Trump meant for evil, God meant for good.
Yet perhaps the most shameful thing that Trump did on that day was not what he attempted to do to Malema but rather the following.
He presented a picture to Ramaphosa and his delegation of what was purportedly “1, 000 white South African graves with white crosses on them of white South African farmers” that were supposedly “dispossessed of their land by black terrorists” and “murdered in cold blood”.
Contrary to the American Presidents assertions it was later confirmed that the picture was NOT of the graves of white farmers in South Africa but rather of a burial ground in a completely different country called Congo!
One wonders how the President of the most powerful nation on earth could make such an egregious and monumental blunder and indulge in such deceit and doublepeak all in an attempt to humiliate the South African President. Sadly it didn’t stop there.
Trump literally ambushed Ramaphosa, lectured him, bullied him, spoke down to him, accused his government and people of heinous crimes, kept interrupting him when he attempted to speak, mocked his role as a peacemaker in the Ukraine/Russia conflict and sought to utterly humiliate him.
To behave in this unacceptable manner and indulge in such mendacious falsehood is below any President let alone the most powerful one in the world.
I see the hand of Elon Musk, who himself is a South African and who has not hidden his contempt and disdain for the ANC-led South African government and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanhayu, whose government has been accused by South Africa of genocide and indeed taken to the International Court of Justice and to the International Criminal Court both at the Hague, in all this.
Both must have thoroughly enjoyed the spectacle!
Yet the truth is that even if his predominately white right-wing MAGA base in America may have been excited and thrilled by his proverbial lynching and carpeting of a helpless and whimpering black President at the Oval office, it has also alienated a lot of black and particularly African Trumpers like yours truly who have always refused to regard Trump as a racist but rather as a man who was specially chosen, prepared, raised and anointed by God to destroy the American Deep State, to terminate the godless agenda of the globalists, to stop the wars of the world, to put God at the centre of affairs when it comes to politics and governance, to re-establish and re-instill the Christian virtues and values that America was built on, to break the back of the unholy, Luciferean trinity and anti-Christ philosophy of Obama, Clinton and Biden in world affairs and American politics.
I sincerely hope that we do not end up regretting our support for him but if he continues in this way that support shall undoubtedly dwindle.
First it was “let us grab Greenland, Canada, Mexico, the Panama Canal, the Suez Canal and rename the Gulf of Persia”, then it was “let us turn Gaza into an American Riviera”, then it was “let us wage a tariff war against the nations of the world”, then it was “let us alienate and abandon our European allies”, then it was “let us provoke China”, then it was “let us go to the three richest nations in the Middle East and compel their Kings to invest trillions of dollars in America and even give us a new presidentiel jet”, then it was “let us bring the little African leader who leads a country with the largest and most properous economy on his continent to the Oval office, humiliate him before the world and bully him into leaving our white brothers in South Africa alone” and the latest is “let us stop foreign students from attending Harvard University because the authorities of that school have refused to bring to an end the pro-Palestinian demonstrations that are taking place on campus”.
These actions are increasingly troubling and whether we have hitherto admired, loved and prayed for Trump or not we cannot support a confirmed bully and racist. That would be ungodly. We cannot support a man that finds it difficult to empathise with the suffering of others or that is fast losing his humanity. That would be incorrigible.
Trump needs to retrace his steps, divest himself of these glaring and obvious symptoms of meglomania, obsessive vanity and extreme narcissim and get real.
God did not deliver him from the hands of his enemies and make him President to do this sort of nonsense but rather to make America great again and to make the world a better and safer place. If he fails to do this God will leave him, remove him and replace him with another.
Cyril Ramaphosa’s responses to the grilling were equally embarrassing and frankly disappointing.
Most western commentators have described his disposition, body language and reaction as “weak”, “cowardly” and “cringeworthy” and I am constrained to concur.
No President should bow and tremble before another no matter how rich and powerful the latter may be.
In the African context Nelson Mandela would not have done so and neither would Murtala Mohammed, Olusegun Obasanjo, Jerry Rawlings, Thomas Sankara, Ahmed Ben Bella, Muammar Ghadafi, Patrice Lumumba, Gamal Nasser, Sani Abacha, Ibrahim Babangida, Kwame Nkrumah, Muhammadu Buhari, Robert Mugabe, Samora Machel or Ibrahim Traore.
This ritual of inviting foreign leaders to the Oval office like King Hussein of Jordan (who literally had to bow and lick Trumps posterior), President Vlodomer Zelensky of Ukraine (who was insulted, rubbished, humiliated and finally thrown out) and now Cyril Ramaphosa (who was forced to watch an embarrassing scene about his country on television) and belittling and denigrating them must stop.
The humiliation of the South African President particularly was painful for me to watch because of the frightful history of his country and the terrible atrocities and apartheid system that the white Afrikaaner Boers subjected the black Africans to for hundreds of years.
They went through all that and now they have to suffer this in the hands of yet another white man.
This same white minority that oppressed and enslaved them in their own land for hundreds of years control 80% of the economy and own 90% of the land in their country today despite the fact that they only constitute 8% of the population.
These are the people that Trump is claiming are being subjected to genocide and is offering asylum in America.
These are people that in the main and in the past have regarded black Africans as being “no better than animals”.
These are people that practised apartheid and that described black people as the biblical “hewers of the wood and drawers of the water”.
These are the people that once regarded a black man as being a quarter of a human being and that not only refused to have legal inter racial sex or marriages but compelled black people to live in shanty towns that were little better than concentration camps and subjected them to pass laws much in the sane way as the Israelis are subjecting the Palestinians to such inhumanity and degradation today.
If a Nigerian leader had been treated like this at the Oval office and I was in the room, believe me all hell would have broken loose and Trump, his VP, his Ministers, his team and the American White House Press Corps would not only have got more than they dished out and bargained for but they would have been given a curt history lesson about the past and present atrocities of their nation and a thorough and precise lecture about the matter at hand.
I am a Trump supporter but in all matters my nation and continent must come first.
I despise the way he bullied Ramaphosa and I hope and pray that he or any other foreign leader does not try this with any Nigerian leader that I am in the room with.
The days of talking down to African Presidents are long over.
More importantly the days of cowardly, weak, subservient, spineless, grovelling, corrupt, compromised and ignorant African lichspittles and quislings who call themselves leaders but who lack self-esteem, self-respect and pride in their people and who have no shame or dignity, who are hopelessly compromised, who have no knowledge of world affairs or world history, who are pawns of the neo-colonialists and imperialists and who have sold their soul and destiny of their nation to the western powers are long over.
This fact can be confirmed by what can best be described as the “Traore spirit” that is blowing into all the nooks and corners of our continent today.
As much as I love and support Trump his attitude and policy on Africa and Gaza leaves much to be desired.
He needs to do better and he must understand that the Palestinians and the Africans, though facing challenges, are far more resilient than his people ever were and come from a far older and greater civilisation than his country ever did. We may not have their money and power but we have God.
Their time is now but tomorrow belongs to us. That God that put them up there and established their hegemony and empire shall remember us.
We too shall rise and at that time all men shall say that the rejected stone has become the corner stone, that the Lord uses the foolish things of this world to confound the wisdom of the wise and that in truth all things are possible with God.
•Chief Femi Fani-Kayode is the Sadaukin Shinkafi, the Wakilin Doka Potiskum, a former Minister of Aviation and a former Minister of Culture and Tourism
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Agya Koo pleaded for forgiveness while describing his actions as a ‘mistake’
The Bekwai Circuit Court in the Ashanti Region has sentenced a fetish priest, Agya Koo, to a 10-year jail term for incest.
During the Tuesday, May 20, 2025, edition of Oyerepa Afutuo on Oyerepa FM, Afia Agyeiwaa, a former wife of the fetish priest, reported Agya Koo on the program for admitting to having sexual intercourse with their 20-year-old daughter over a period of five years.
The daughter, who also spoke on the program, said her father began taking advantage of her five years ago under the guise of exorcising her from a spiritual marriage. “He told me that a river spirit was married to me and that the spirit was using him to sleep with me. He threatened that I would die if I confessed. He sometimes slept with me in the bush where we went to fetch herbs,” she stated.
She further disclosed that her father compelled her to undergo three abortions during this period.
Agya Koo, who was also on the program, admitted to the act but claimed it was a “mistake.” “I am pleading for forgiveness. I don’t know the spirit that took over me. I am begging you to please forgive me,” he said.
He also admitted to forcing his daughter to falsely pin a pregnancy on a boy, who was subsequently fined for impregnating her.
Despite his pleas, Agya Koo was handed over to the police, who brought him before the Bekwai Circuit Court. The court sentenced him to 10 years’ imprisonment after he pleaded guilty.
Watch Agya Koo’s confession on the program below:
Ghana’s mobile money ecosystem continues to soar, with the total value of transactions reaching a high of GH?365 billion in April 2025, according to the latest data from the Bank of Ghana.
The figure represents a 3.8 per cent increase from the GH?351.7 billion recorded in March, making it the highest monthly total so far this year. Analysts say the growth is being driven by both structural trends and recent policy shifts, notably the repeal of the Electronic Transfer Levy (E-Levy) by Parliament in March.
The number of mobile money transactions also climbed from 764 million in March to 778 million in April, underscoring the platform’s increasing dominance in Ghana’s payment landscape. The surge reflects the growing adoption of mobile financial services for both personal and business use, alongside improved digital literacy and expanding agent networks.
The Payment Systems section of the Bank of Ghana’s May 2025 Summary of Economic and Financial Data highlights strong monthly performance across several indicators.
Active mobile money accounts rose to 24.2 million in April, with registered accounts hitting 75.2 million. The value of mobile money interoperability transactions also jumped significantly to GH?4.0 billion in April, up from GH?3.2 billion in March.
Industry watchers attribute the continued growth to increased consumer trust, wider mobile penetration, and enhanced convenience compared to traditional banking systems. The elimination of the E-Levy is also seen as a catalyst, removing a major disincentive to higher-value transactions.
Experts say the mobile money boom is playing a critical role in advancing financial inclusion and could soon redefine the formal financial ecosystem, particularly in underserved and rural communities.
Godfred Yeboah Dame, seen in a post he shared on Facebook.
Former Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Godfred Yeboah Dame, has issued a sharp public rebuttal to legal practitioner Thaddeus Sory, accusing him of conducting a prolonged campaign of personal attacks and professional disparagement.
Dame’s response, published on his official Facebook page, defends what he says is his record in office as Attorney General, and addresses allegations he says Mr. Sory made in a recent public write-up.
Mr Dame, now in private practice following the National Democratic Congress’s (NDC) assumption of power in January 2025, described what he says is Mr Sory’s continuous commentary on his professional conduct as “obsessive” and “bewildering,” stating that it contravenes the standards expected of lawyers of standing at the Bar.
“Your predilection to comment on the slightest thing I do or say is not lost on the public. I live in your mind rent free,” Dame wrote.
Central to Mr Dame’s response was a defence of his track record as Attorney-General, particularly against what he says is Sory’s claim that he (Dame) boasted of “never losing a case.”
Dame dismissed the assertion as a fabrication aimed at discrediting his service and misinforming the public.
He pointed to remarks made during Bar Conferences in September 2023 and September 2024, where he openly discussed high-profile legal defeats during his tenure as a symbol of judicial independence in Ghana.
“I proudly exhibited some of my losses,” Dame stated, citing rulings in matters such as the Ghana Centre for Democratic Development v Attorney-General, Appiagyei Atuah v Attorney-General, and Ezuame Mannan v Attorney-General and the Speaker of Parliament.
He further accused the current Attorney-General, under the NDC administration, of preventing judicial scrutiny of a controversial Court of Appeal ruling in the Republic v Cassiel Ato Forson & 2 Others case by withdrawing a Supreme Court notice of appeal.
In a personal retort, Mr Dame recounted past litigation involving Mr Sory, asserting that he had previously defeated him both at the High Court and Court of Appeal over a case dating back to 2007–2013, when neither held public office.
“Was I the Attorney-General in those years?” he asked rhetorically, responding to what he says is Sory’s query about his supposed sudden legal competence upon appointment.
He also defended his record in international arbitration, pointing out that under his leadership, Ghana won all international cases led by his team without the use of foreign counsel, culminating in a significant 2024 award of US$2.2 million in Ghana’s favour.
Mr Dame challenged what he described as the “incongruous” role of Mr Sory and fellow lawyer Tsatsu Tsikata—both of whom have represented high-profile National Democratic Congress (NDC) figures, including the Speaker of Parliament and President John Mahama—alleging that they are spearheading efforts to undermine Chief Justice Gertrude Torkornoo.
“If you do not find it incongruous that the lawyers of the heads of two arms of government have teamed up to remove the lady Chief Justice of the Republic from office, I cannot fault you,” Dame said.
While affirming that lawyers are bound to represent clients who retain them, he asserted that the same principle applied to him during his time in office.
Mr Dame declared his intent to avoid future engagement with Mr Sory, stating:
“This, I hope, will be my only and ever response to you… However, knowing your obsession with me, I am sure it will draw more abuse from you,” ending with the parting shot:
“As they say, ‘when Godfred Dame coughs, the whole NDC catches a cold.’”
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Chief Justice Gertrude Torkornoo has been suspended pending the outcome of an ongoing investigation
The acting Chief Executive Officer of the National Petroleum Authority (NPA) and Director of Legal Affairs for the National Democratic Congress, Godwin Edudzi Tameklo, has stated that suspended Chief Justice Gertrude Torkornoo cannot resign due to ongoing disciplinary proceedings.
Speaking on TV3’s KeyPoints on May 24, 2025, Tameklo cited the case of Justice Kojo Amoah vs Attorney-General, where former Chief Justice Kwasi Anin-Yeboah ruled on October 29, 2015, that a sitting judge cannot resign once disciplinary or impeachment processes have begun.
“We are of the view that the requirement of notification to the President to enable him as the appointing Authority to take steps to ensure that the Judge seeking to resign does not have any pending disciplinary proceedings against him before going on voluntary retirement.
“This provision in our view accords not only with the principle but common sense as well. The only question which arises with the said provision is whether the President has having been complained to in these proceedings by the plaintiff can refuse to give assertion to the decision by the Superior court Judge to resign,” he read out the 2015 Supreme Court ruling to support his position.
“We think that as the date the plaintiff notified the President of his intention to resign, there was disciplinary proceedings pending against him, the President was not bound to accept same.
“We are equally of the opinion that had the President accepted the letter of resignation, it effect will be to undermine the carefully drafted disciplinary proceedings in relation to Superior court judges under the constitution. Accordingly, we are unable to yield to the plaintiff’s argument that the refusal was wrong,” the ruling said..
Tameklo’s comments come amid calls from some analysts for Chief Justice Torkornoo to resign following her suspension.
But according to the NDC Director of Legal Affairs, the cirumstance of time does not permit the Chief Justice to take any such action.
The 2015 case involved Justice Kojo Amoah, a former High Court judge appointed in 2003 after a career as a private legal practitioner. In 2010, a complaint was lodged against him for alleged judicial misconduct. The complaint arose from Amoah delivering a judgment in December 2009 and subsequently issuing a different judgment in March 2010 for the same case.
The Chief Justice at the time referred the matter to a Court of Appeal judge for investigation, which confirmed that Amoah had delivered four separate judgments on different dates in the same case, raising allegations of misconduct.
The Judicial Council’s Disciplinary Committee investigated further and, on September 16, 2010, recommended his removal under Article 146 of the Constitution.
The President referred the matter back to the Chief Justice to establish a prima facie case.
On January 11, 2011, a committee was set up to impeach Amoah. However, on January 17, 2011, while stationed at Akim Oda, Amoah wrote to the Chief Justice expressing his intent to retire voluntarily, citing his election as paramount chief of Assin Foso Traditional Area.
The president rejected Amoah’s resignation, prompting him to challenge the decision at the Supreme Court. The court upheld the president’s refusal, ruling that accepting the resignation would undermine constitutional disciplinary processes.
Justice Torkornoo’s suspension by President Mahama comes on the back of a prima facie case established against the Chief Justice following the submission of some petitions asking for her removal.
A five-member committee established by the president is currently investigating the petitions.
Meanwhile, Justice Torkornoo has filed a suit at the Supreme Court to challenge the ongoing process.
LONDON- A British woman, 23, has been arrested at Kotoka International Airport (ACC) after allegedly attempting to smuggle nearly 18 kilograms of cannabis onto a British Airways (BA) flight bound for London Gatwick Airport (LGW).
The arrest was made on May 18 as part of a profiling operation by Ghana’s Narcotics Control Commission (NACOC).
The suspect was intercepted just before boarding the flight. Authorities claim her luggage contained 32 packages of suspected drugs, later confirmed through testing to be 17.72kg of cannabis.
She has been taken into custody at NACOC’s headquarters in Accra for further investigation.
On May 18, 2025, Chyna Jada Browne-Frater, a 22-year-old British woman, was apprehended at Kotoka International Airport (ACC) as she prepared to board British Airways (BA) flight BA2066 to London Gatwick (LGW).
According to the Ghanaian Narcotics Control Commission, a routine profiling exercise led to the inspection of her two suitcases, which revealed 32 vacuum-sealed slabs of a plant-like substance.
A field test confirmed the substance as cannabis, weighing 17.72kg with an estimated street value of $232,960.
Browne-Frater was detained and transferred to NACOC headquarters in Accra for further investigation, as reported by the Daily Mail.
During interrogation, Browne-Frater claimed she was unaware of the suitcase’s contents, alleging her boyfriend, identified only as “Joey,” packed the luggage, claiming it contained local alcoholic beverages and spices.
She faces three charges under Ghana’s Narcotics Control Commission Act 2020 (Act 1019), attempted exportation of narcotic drugs without a license, conspiracy to commit the crime with “Joey,” who remains at large, and unlawful possession of narcotic drugs.
The Accra Circuit Court 3, presided over by Judge Susana Eduful, denied her bail request due to the severity of the charges and flight risk concerns.
Remanding her into custody pending further investigation, including tests by the Ghana Standards Authority to confirm the substance’s composition.
On the same day as the arrest in Ghana, another British citizen, this time a 19-year-old, was detained at Dubai International Airport (DXB) with 53kg of cannabis across two suitcases.
Alongside two accomplices, he was intercepted before boarding his return flight to the UK. NACOC confirmed that investigations are ongoing and reiterated its commitment to combating drug trafficking.
UK authorities have long collaborated with Ghanaian officials to curb smuggling routes. In September 2024, four British men were convicted of smuggling £4.3 million worth of cannabis hidden in gari sacks from Ghana into the UK via Tilbury Docks.
The National Crime Agency (NCA) traced 1.5 tonnes of cannabis concealed within 2,355 packages inside the shipment.
In 2024, Chelsea Allingham, a 40 year old Canadian national, was jailed for 10 months after being caught with cannabis filled suitcases at Heathrow Airport (LHR).
Similarly, Fernando Mayans Fuster, a 51-year-old Spaniard, was sentenced to over three years after arriving at Manchester Airport (MAN) from Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) with eight suitcases containing 158kg of cannabis, the largest passenger seizure at that airport.
Charles Yates, deputy director of the NCA, noted in August 2024 that cannabis smuggling through airports has risen sharply.
He stated: “We’ve seen an exponential rise in people flying into the UK with cannabis stowed in their luggage… already this year more than double those for the whole of 2023.”
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Denmark is set to have the highest retirement age in Europe, after lawmakers voted to raise it to 70.
Parliamentarians passed a bill mandating the rise on Thursday, with 81 votes in favour and 21 against.
The new law will apply to people born after December 31, 1970. The current retirement age is 67 on average, but it can go up to 69 for those born on January 1, 1967, or later.
The rise is needed in order to be able to “afford proper welfare for future generations,” employment minister Ane Halsboe-Jørgensen said in a press release Thursday.
Denmark has a population of almost 6 million people, with around 713,000 between the ages of 60 and 69, and around 580,000 aged between 70 and 79, according to the official Statistics Denmark website.
“Developments in recent years clearly show a marked increase in the number of Danes who continue to work until — and beyond — the state pension age,” F&P, the Danish trade association for insurance companies and pension funds, said in a press release Friday.
Approximately 80,000 people over the state pension age are currently in work in Denmark, according to F&P, which put the increase down to good economic conditions, employers being more flexible, better financial incentives and a greater desire to continue working.
“For many Danes, the idea of the state pension age increasing to 70 by 2040 may seem overwhelming,” Jan V. Hansen, the director of pensions at the association, said in the release. “However, the figures clearly demonstrate that a growing number of Danes are remaining in employment for longer periods.”
“The good news is that many Danes not only have the health but also the desire to continue working — even after reaching the state pension age,” he continued.
Denmark’s socialist Red-Green Alliance, however, described the vote by “the government and the right wing” in a post on Facebook as “unreasonably high,” and condemned the change in light of the “great” pension conditions enjoyed by many ministers who can retire at age 60.
“It is incomprehensible. It cannot be explained. And it cannot be defended,” Pelle Dragsted, a member of parliament for the party, said in another Facebook post, noting that teachers, scaffolders and many others in physically demanding jobs have said they cannot keep going for that long.
Denmark is the first European country to set its national retirement age beyond the 60s. The move will make it one of the highest in the world, on par with Libya.
In France in March 2023, more than a million people took to the streets nationwide to protest a rise in the retirement age to 64 — six years below the new Danish retirement age.
In September, the Chinese government passed legislation that would see the retirement age for men raised from 60 to 63, and from 50 and 55 for women, depending on their occupation, to 55 and 58, respectively.
The state pension age in the UK is set to rise to 67 between 2026 and 2028, although a review could see it revised to 68.
While the retirement age in the United States is similar to the UK’s, some Social Security benefits are available from age 62.
Better health in old age, increased life expectancy and remote working are allowing more Americans to work into old age. However, research shows that it is often a lack of money that keeps them working longer.
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Dr. Charles Dwamena, aka Dr. China
Dr. Charles Dwamena, known within political circles as Dr. China and serving as the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) National Treasurer, has rejected a proposal by Mr. Kwabena Agyei Agyapong advocating for a top-down approach to the party’s presidential primaries.
Dr. China says what Mr. Agyapong proposes is not merely a procedural shift; “it is an affront to the very architecture of participatory democracy that the NPP holds dear.”
He says the current electoral framework is meticulously constructed to reflect the party’s grassroots character.
“At the heart of it lies a multi-tiered electoral college composed of polling station executives, electoral area coordinators, constituency executives, regional executives, national executives, external branch leaders, and TESCON representatives. Each level of this pyramid is democratically elected from the one below it, creating a cascade of legitimacy that flows from the very base of the party’s structure.
“This isn’t just a process; it is a principle. To alter it is to amputate the very limb that gives the party its footing. Any attempt to begin the presidential selection from the apex instead of the base would demand the abandonment of the internal democratic ladder upon which the NPP’s flagbearers have historically ascended,” he said.
Dr. China said his rebuttal rests on a profound understanding of the legal and structural integrity of the party’s internal processes.
“Expansion of the electoral college, even marginally, for instance, increasing the polling station executives from five to six, necessitates comprehensive elections at every level: polling stations, electoral areas, constituencies, regions, and ultimately the national echelon.
“These elections are sequential and interdependent, with each tier electing the next. The Electoral College that elects the flagbearer is a culmination of this democratic progression, and any new configuration must follow due process to be valid.”
Moreover, Dr. China underscores a critical point which he says is often overlooked; “Even if no expansion occurs, the current electoral college’s mandate is expiring. It would therefore be constitutionally and morally untenable for it to preside over the selection of a new presidential candidate. Renewal through elections is not an option; it is an imperative.
Dr. China said reversing this order and initiating it from the top, as Mr. Agyapong suggests, “Would be tantamount to staging an undemocratic coronation masquerading as reform. It would not only violate the letter of the party’s constitution but extinguish the spirit of representative inclusion that the NPP has cultivated since its inception.
“This is not a procedural disagreement. It is a fundamental clash of philosophies between expedient control and participatory legitimacy. The strength of the NPP has always resided in the power of its base, in the voices of the polling station executives who form the first building blocks of the party’s edifice. To ignore them is to dismantle the house the party has so painstakingly built.
“So let it be heard without ambiguity: the top-down approach betrays both process and principle. It threatens to erode internal trust, marginalise the grassroots, and destabilise the equilibrium that sustains the party’s democratic foundation.
“The way forward is not to circumvent the system but to reinforce it. And that reinforcement begins not at the top but at the polling station. That is where the soul of the NPP resides.
“This is not merely a rebuttal. It is a declaration. The top-down approach cannot and will never serve the interests of a democratic NPP. It must be rejected not with whispers, but with the thunderous clarity of conviction. For democracy, once fractured at its foundation, seldom holds together at its summit.”
Read what Mr Agyepong proposes at this link.
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An employee counts inventory in a Walmart Supercenter on May 15 in Austin, Texas. Brandon Bell/Getty Images
President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs have given many Americans whiplash. The list of companies announcing price changes as a result is equally daunting.
Among the levies Trump has imposed is a 10% baseline tariff for most imports and a 30% tariff on most Chinese goods. Some goods, such as steel and aluminum, face higher rates.
Many retailers have issued warnings that they won’t, as Trump has suggested, “eat” the additional costs caused by those import taxes. That means anything from groceries and clothing to toys and cars could cost Americans more.
Walmart is one of the latest major retailers to say it would sell more expensive goods soon because Trump’s tariffs are “too high.” Other retailers suggesting they could hike prices soon include Ford, Best Buy and others.
Here are some of the companies that could raise prices on everyday items – whether or not companies are directly blaming Trump’s tariffs.
Walmart said on April 15 it would increase prices because Trump’s tariffs were “too high,” particularly when it came to products made in China.
“We will do our best to keep our prices as low as possible. But given the magnitude of the tariffs, even at the reduced levels announced this week, we aren’t able to absorb all the pressure given the reality of narrow retail margins,” Walmart CEO Douglas McMillon said in an earnings call.
Price changes at Walmart will likely take effect by the end of May and prices will increase “much more” in June, the company’s chief financial officer John David Rainey, told CNBC.
On May 6, toy manufacturing giant Mattel said that it would raise prices due to tariffs. Chief Executive Ynon Kreiz told investors that “under the current scenarios we are considering” in response to tariffs, he expects 40% to 50% of its products to remain priced at $20 or less. However, he also advocated for zero tariffs on toys and games around the world.
Trump threatened Mattel, saying he would “put a 100% tariff on his toys, and he won’t sell one toy in the United States, and that’s their biggest market.”
Electronics retailer Best Buy warned during a March earnings call that “vendors across our entire assortment will pass along some level of tariff costs to retailers, making price increases for American consumers highly likely.”
Some electronic components and devices are temporarily exempt from Trump’s tariffs. That won’t last forever.
Nintendo, for instance, delayed the pre-order date for its Switch 2 video game console because of concerns regarding tariffs. The company later said pricing for the console won’t change from the initial $450, but the accessories “will experience price adjustments from those announced on April 2 due to changes in market conditions.” The same could happen to any product because of “market conditions,” the company noted.
Meanwhile, Lin Tao, CFO of PlayStation maker Sony, said “we may pass on the price” during an earnings call.
Chinese retailers Shein and Temu were once largely exempt from tariffs because of the “de minimis” exemption, which spared shipments of goods worth less than $800. But Trump signed an executive order getting rid of the exemption.
“Due to recent changes in global trade rules and tariffs, our operating expenses have gone up. To keep offering the products you love without compromising on quality, we will be making price adjustment starting April 25, 2025,” Temu wrote in a notice similar to an announcement Shein made.
Both companies have since raised prices on some products. For instance, two patio chairs listed on Temu and reviewed by CNN had a $61.72 price tag on April 24. The next day, when the pricing changes took effect, they were listed at $70.17. On Shein, CNN noted a bathing suit set cost $4.39. The next day, it cost $8.39, a 91% increase.
Imported cars were hit with a 25% tariff and most auto parts face a similar duty, although some automakers can request partial refunds — for now.
Ford’s CFO Sherry House said it expects to raise its US car prices as much as 1.5% in the second half of 2025 due to tariffs.
The carmaker extended its “employee pricing” offer through July as consumers rushed to buy cars ahead of Trump’s tariffs.
Japanese automaker Subaru has also said it will increase US prices to “offset increased costs,” citing “current market conditions.” Subaru did not specify how much prices could increase.
“The changes were made to offset increased costs while maintaining a solid value proposition for the customer,” a Subaru of America spokesperson said in a statement. “Subaru pricing is not based on the country of origin of its products.”
Household product maker Procter & Gamble, which owns brands like Pampers, Tide and Charmin, said during an earnings call on April 24 it would consider raising prices in some categories and markets.
That same day, CEO Jon Moeller told CNBC that “there will likely” be price increases for consumers because “tariffs are inherently inflationary.”
In April, Stanley Black & Decker, which owns power tool brands, raised prices by an average of high single-digits because of tariffs. Another round of price increases will come later this year.
Adidas said higher costs are likely for products in the US due to Trump’s back-and-forth tariff.
“Given the uncertainty around the negotiations between the US and the different exporting countries, we do not know what the final tariffs will be,” Adidas CEO Bjørn Gulden said in an earnings release on April 29.
He added that “cost increases due to higher tariffs will eventually cause price increases.”
CNN’s Ramishah Maruf, Samantha Delouya, Chris Isidore, Elisabeth Buchwald and Nathaniel Meyersohn contributed to this report.
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In addition to the dead, five others have been sent back to Ghana by Saudi Authorities
The Ghana Hajj Taskforce has confirmed the deaths of two Ghanaian pilgrims in the ongoing 2025 Hajj pilgrimage in Mecca.
Approximately 60,000 Ghanaians traveled to Saudi Arabia to participate in this year’s Hajj.
In addition, five pilgrims have been repatriated due to visa-related issues.
Alhaji A.B.A. Fuseini, Head of Corporate Affairs at the Hajj Taskforce, clarified in an interview with Citi News that the repatriation was not due to criminal activity but stemmed from errors in visa issuance.
“Some said they were deported, but we prefer ‘repatriated.’ Deportation implies criminality, but these individuals committed no crime. It was an error in their visa issuance,” he explained.
He added that efforts are ongoing to resolve the visa issues and facilitate the return of the affected pilgrims to Mecca.
The Taskforce assured the public that steps are being taken to address the situation and ensure the affected pilgrims can complete their pilgrimage.
Meanwhile, the deceased pilgrims are expected to be buried in Saudi Arabia in accordance with Islamic customs.
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Shatta Wale has rejected claims of neglecting his mother
Ghanaian dancehall artiste, Charles Nii Armah Mensah, alias Shatta Wale, has dispelled claims that he has neglected his biological mother.
Speaking on a live podcast on Saturday, May 25, 2025, the artiste revealed that he has provided his mother with several cars and accommodations.
“That mother you people have been talking about… I don’t think you people have bought cars for your mother before. I’ve bought cars for my mother; I’ve done things for my mother. It’s just that in this life, you win some and you lose some,” he stated.
According to Shatta Wale, while people have been quick to bring up issues about his mother in their disputes with him and accuse him of neglecting her, he has always provided for his mother but has chosen to keep it off social media.
“The number of cars I’ve bought for my mother—it’s just that we didn’t show it on the internet, but those who know, know. The beautiful places I have gotten for my mother to rest her head—you people don’t know about them,” he stated.
Shatta Wale’s statement comes in response to recent social media banter with content creator Kwadwo Sheldon, who refused his offer of assistance after his Pantang residence was flooded following recent rainfall.
While rejecting Shatta Wale’s offer, Sheldon asked the dancehall artiste to instead channel his help to his mother, whom he accused of being neglected.
“I have bought several cars for my mother and provided her with beautiful places to live. It’s just not on social media. You should also go and take care of your mother.” – Shatta Wale to Kwadwo Sheldon pic.twitter.com/y2chgvQnZK
— EDHUB🌍ℹ (@eddie_wrt) May 24, 2025
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The Ghana Police Service has arrested a 35-year-old man for allegedly forging judicial documents, bank stamps, and an indenture.
Richard Aryee, who is unemployed, appeared before an Accra Circuit Court on Thursday alongside Isaac Tse, 55, a printer.
Mr. Aryee has been charged with two counts of forgery of judicial or official documents and possession of forged documents.
Mr. Tse is facing charges of abetment of crime and possession of forged Judicial Service counterfoil receipts, with both pleading not guilty.
The court, presided over by Mrs Susan Eduful, granted each of them bail in the sum of GH¢100,000 with two sureties. The sureties must be public servants earning not less than GH¢5,000 per month .
The prosecution was directed to comply with the rules of disclosure.
The case was adjourned to 24 June 2025.
Lawyers for the accused applied for bail, arguing that their clients were not flight risks, had fixed places of abode, and would not interfere with the investigation.
Chief Inspector Benson Benneh, prosecuting, opposed the bail application, stating that police were still pursuing other accomplices.
The complainant, Mr Kwame Daniels, Registrar of the High Court (Human Rights, Labour and Family Court), reported the matter.
Mr. Aryee resides at Agege 205, near Dansoman, whilst Mr. Tse lives on High Street, Accra.
On May 20, Mr Daniels received a tip-off that Mr. Aryee and others frequently visited the court area and were allegedly forging his signature on indentures used to certify land documents for clients.
He monitored Mr. Aryee and, together with Court Warrant Officers, arrested him near the Accra Metropolitan Assembly.
A bag found in Aryee’s possession contained stamps bearing the names and designations of Mr Daniels, the High Court, Ecobank Ghana Plc, and legal practitioners David A. Koko and A.W. Quartey Papafio.
Police also recovered a forged Judicial Service counterfoil receipt booklet, an Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) receipt booklet, and an indenture for one Moses Tawiah Asamoah, all bearing forged signatures and seals.
Mr. Aryee admitted to using the forged materials to certify land documents and implicated Mr. Tse as the printer of the fake receipts.
Mr. Tse was subsequently arrested at his printing shop at Akoto Lantey, James Town, where four receipt booklets were retrieved.
Both suspects were taken to the Regional CID, Accra. Caution statements were obtained, in which both allegedly admitted to the offences.
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Former Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Godfred Yeboah Dame, has issued a sharp response to private legal practitioner Thaddeus Sory, following Sory’s recent criticism, labelling him an “incongruous cry baby.”
The response stems a piece published by Thaddeus Sory on May 23, 2025, where he criticised Dame’s comments on Joy FM’s Top Story program, accusing the National Democratic Congress (NDC) government of politicising the process to remove Chief Justice Gertrude Torkornoo.
In a Facebook post on May 24, 2025, Dame addressed Sory’s allegations, dismissing them as part of a pattern of “vile propaganda” and falsehoods propagated by NDC-affiliated lawyers.
He specifically refuted Sory’s claim that he boasted of never losing a case during his tenure as Attorney General.
Dame cited his public acknowledgement of significant losses at the 2023 and 2024 Annual Bar Conferences in Cape Coast and Kumasi, respectively, where he highlighted cases such as Ghana Centre for Democratic Development & 8 others v. The Attorney-General and Ezuame Mannan v. The Attorney-General as evidence of judicial independence in Ghana.
“The record will show that as Attorney-General, I publicly touted some significant losses suffered by my office in very important matters in the Superior Courts of Judicature as a symbol of judicial independence,” Dame stated.
Dame also challenged Sory’s claim that his legal acumen improved only upon becoming Attorney General, referencing a case between 2007 and 2009 where he defeated Sory, then a lawyer at Dery & Co., at both the High Court and the Court of Appeal.
“Oh Thaddeus! Doth ye have such short memory? Have you forgotten that in the only full trial of a case you and I happened to be on opposing sides between 2007 and 2009 when you were at Dery & Co., you lost miserably (potoo, as we say in Ghanaian parlance) when judgment was delivered by Ofosu-Quartey J. in May, 2009? Unperturbed, you led your clients to pursue an appeal at the Court of Appeal and lost again, in a judgment delivered on 25th July, 2013. Was I the Attorney-General in those years?” Dame wrote.
He further highlighted his successful defense of Ghana in international arbitration cases, saving the nation billions of dollars, including a November 2024 case that resulted in a US$2.2 million award in Ghana’s favour.
Addressing Sory’s accusation of partisanship in representing Chief Justice Torkornoo, Dame argued that his duty to represent clients is no different from Sory’s, noting Sory’s history of representing both NDC and New Patriotic Party (NPP) figures, including the current Speaker of Parliament and NPP members like Ambrose Dery.
“If you do not find it ‘incongruous’ that the lawyers of the heads of two arms of government have teamed up to remove the lady Chief Justice of the Republic from office, I cannot fault you,” Dame remarked.
Dame deplored Sory’s use of “abusive and offensive language,” describing it as a violation of the legal profession’s rules of professional conduct and etiquette.
He stated that he had previously ignored Sory’s attacks but felt compelled to respond to correct falsehoods.
“I will continue to ignore all your provocative comments. However, knowing your obsession with me, I am sure it will draw more abuse from you,” he concluded.
The public spat follows Sory’s defense of his role as a lawyer for petitioners seeking Torkornoo’s removal, where he refuted Dame’s allegations of NDC bias by citing his diverse legal history and criticized Dame’s involvement in a dismissed injunction suit against the Chief Justice’s removal proceedings.
Read Dame’s full response below:
Greetings Thaddeus Sory, Esq.,
Your predilection to comment on the slightest thing I do or say is not lost on the public. For some time now, you have been expending enormous energy, time and resources to launch public attacks on me in relation to my work. I live in your mind rent free. Indeed, your obsession with Godfred Dame is bewildering and needs healing.
The abusive and offensive language you employ is deplored by most decent minded legal practitioners, and in clear contravention of the rules of professional conduct and etiquette governing the legal profession, coming from one with considerable standing at the Bar. I leave the authorities that regulate the legal profession and are responsible for upholding standards of professional conduct to judge. I have always ignored the write-ups you have produced about me. For the first time, however, and hopefully it will be the last, I am compelled to correct a few things you have got fundamentally wrong. I will ignore the rest of the falsehood in your write-up as part of the vile propaganda you regularly engage in against me, which all can see through.
1. You state at paragraph 22, that, I “wear [my] record of never losing a case as a badge of honour”, in my tenure as Attorney-General. You quipped “what has changed?”
Clearly, you are wrong. The allegation is mischievous and only continues a series of falsehoods often produced by lawyers of the NDC ilk to feed their foot soldiers. The record will show that as Attorney-General, I publicly touted some significant losses suffered by my office in very important matters in the Superior Courts of Judicature as a symbol of judicial independence in Ghana. On 11th September, 2023, at the Annual Bar Conference in Cape Coast, I had this to say:
“When I look back at certain cases whose outcomes I consider undesirable, regardless of my own views on the questions being judged in them, I come to the conclusion that, what we have in this country is a fiercely independent Judiciary in which all of us should take pride that, an aggrieved citizen can go to a court of law and challenge anyone, including decisions of the President and Parliament, and be confident that the Court will give a decision without fear or favour. I refer to recent decisions of the Supreme Court in the Ghana Centre for Democratic Development & 8 others vrs. The Attorney-General, Ezuame Mannan vrs. The Attorney-General and vrs. The Attorney-General.
Again, on 9th September, 2024, at the Bar Conference in Kumasi, I proudly exhibited some of my losses.
“I can confidently say that I have been an Attorney-General in whose tenure the Judiciary has demonstrated complete independence and strength through decisions it gives in cases involving the State. In both civil and criminal jurisdictions, my Office has had many victories, but we have also experienced some adverse decisions. Examples are the decisions of the Supreme Court in Ghana Centre for Democratic Development & 8 others vrs. The Attorney-General (the removal of former Auditor-General, Mr. Dormelovo from office), Appiagyei Atuah vrs. The Attorney-General (the Imposition of Restrictions in Covid-19 case) and Ezuame Mannan vrs. the Attorney-General and the Speaker of Parliament (the Narcotics Control Commission Law case).
You would notice that most of these defeats were by a unanimous verdict of the Supreme Court. I will add to my losses the controversial 2-1 majority decision of the Court of Appeal in Republic vrs. Cassiel Ato Forson & 2 Others, whose correctness the current Attorney-General prevented the Supreme Court from assessing, by swiftly filing a notice of withdrawal when the NDC assumed power in January, 2025.
2. I note that in life, when one enjoys tremendous success in a field of endeavour or an office, there is the tendency to assume that one experienced no failure on any occasion. You and the NDC may thus be forgiven to think that I “never lost a case as Attorney-General”.
3. You state at paragraph 23 of your write-up that you “once asked: how did your [referring to me] legal acumen suddenly improve just because you became Attorney-General?”
Oh Thaddeus! Doth ye have such short memory? Have you forgotten that in the only full trial of a case you and I happened to be on opposing sides between 2007 and 2009 when you were at Dery & Co., you lost miserably (potoo, as we say in Ghanaian parlance) when judgment was delivered by Ofosu-Quartey J. in May, 2009? Unperturbed, you led your clients to pursue an appeal at the Court of Appeal and lost again, in a judgment delivered on 25th July, 2013. Was I the Attorney-General in those years?
A person who cursorily reads your write-up will be permitted to infer that you suffer pangs of jealousy. This, I cannot help. I can only urge you not to be quick to boast of your “legal acumen”, as you put it, or soil the hard-earned reputation of your fellow lawyers.
4. When as Deputy Attorney-General, I valiantly conducted many dangerous cases much to the chagrin of the NDC, including a recovery of part of the Woyome ill-gotten cash, was I the Attorney-General? For your reminder, part of the Woyome cash (the “balance” as we say in Ghana) is outstanding. Use your “legal acumen” to assist the current Attorney-General to recover with interest, instead of expending time and energy in coming to the Supreme Court every day to monitor how cases affecting Torkonoo CJ are going, even when you are not counsel in it.
5. Fortunately, the “legal acumen” you claimed I found when I was appointed Attorney-General was not limited to the domestic territories of Ghana. I deployed same to the successful defence of Ghana’s interests in many international arbitration cases and foreign courts, saving the nation billions of United States Dollars. In point of fact, in my tenure as Attorney-General, Ghana emerged victorious in all the international arbitrations my humble self and my able deputies led the Office to conduct without the aid of foreign counsel. In tribute to Ghana’s legal talent, I say that in the last international arbitration conducted solely by myself and my colleague Deputy Attorneys-General, which culminated in an award delivered on 18th November, 2024, Ghana’s case was roundly upheld with costs of about US$2.2 Million in her favour.
6. In all humility, I say, as a testament to the strength of Ghana’s judicial system, that the record of the consistent success I enjoyed in the courts in innumerable high-profile cases I conducted between 2003 and 2007 (as a relatively junior lawyer) and between 2009 and 2017 ( when I was not the Attorney-General but a lawyer who was a member of the opposition), is there for all to verify. It is this independence of Ghana’s judiciary that I see is threatened by recent happenings in Ghana, and which I seek to protect. You and the NDC’s desperation to churn out a false narrative now will not change the situation.
7. I have never said that you have not represented NPP clients. I am aware of your association with NPP clients particularly, when you were a junior to Mr. Ambrose Dery in Dery & Co. The irrefutable point I make now is that Mr. Tsikata was President Mahama’s lawyer in the last election petition in 2020. You are the current Speaker of Parliament’s lawyer and double as lawyer for a person who is aggrieved by judgments delivered by the Chief Justice against him in his attempt to recover some gargantuan money from Ecobank. If you do not find it “incongruous” that the lawyers of the heads of two arms of government have teamed up to remove the lady Chief Justice of the Republic from office, I cannot fault you.
You assert your duty to “represent anyone who retains” you. Do I not owe the same duty?
This, I hope will be my only and ever response to you. I will continue to ignore all your provocative comments. However, knowing your obsession with me, I am sure it will draw more abuse from you.
As they say, “when Godfred Dame coughs, the whole NDC catches a cold”.
24th May, 2025
Godfred Yeboah Dame,
Dame & Partners,
Accra.
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AGI Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Seth Twum-Akwaboah
The Association of Ghana Industries (AGI) is promoting the use of renewable energy to support cost-effective industrial production and drive sustainable economic development.
“We cannot continue to rely on the national grid alone, particularly if we aspire to run the economy on a 24-hour basis,” said Mr. Seth Twum-Akwaboah, AGI Chief Executive Officer, stressing that energy remains the lifeblood of industry.
He was speaking at AGI’s Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Business-to-Business (B2B) Expo, organized by its Energy Service Centre in Accra, under the theme “Powering Ghana’s Industry through Sustainable Energy.”
The event brought together energy experts, businesses, financial institutions, and policymakers to explore partnerships and investments in clean energy solutions.
Mr. Twum-Akwaboah called for stronger public-private collaboration to expand renewable energy production using solar, wind, biomass, tidal, wave, and municipal waste sources.
“Can we secure 24-hour uninterrupted power for production, and how do we ensure that this power is affordable and sustainable?” he asked.
“The way forward is going sustainable and renewable.”
In a post-event interview, Mr. Twum-Akwaboah said that Ghana’s persistent energy challenges and a US$3 billion energy sector debt make renewable energy more viable.
“For Ghanaian industries to remain competitive, productive, and resilient, we must align our energy requirements with smarter, greener, and more sustainable alternatives. This is why we established the AGI Energy Service Centre,” he said.
In a speech read on his behalf, Mr. Seidu Issifu, Minister of State in charge of Climate Change and Sustainability, urged businesses to adopt sustainable energy solutions as the government reviews regulations.
He said Ghana could achieve 10 percent renewable energy use by 2030 while expanding green finance and creating jobs for youth and women.
Mr. Tolu Kweku Lacroix, Executive Director of the UN Global Compact Network Ghana, said achieving Sustainable Development Goal Seven would require strong collaboration to fully harness the potential of renewable energy.
He urged industry players to share knowledge and resources to scale up the adoption of sustainable energy.
Mr. Andrew Boamah Asare, Infrastructure Specialist at the Swiss Embassy, reaffirmed support from the Swiss government and the African Development Bank (AfDB) in scaling up Ghana’s net metering program.
The program targets the deployment of 12,000 rooftop solar PV systems for SMEs and households.
Ghana’s mobile money ecosystem continues to soar, with the total value of transactions reaching a high of GH?365 billion in April 2025, according to the latest data from the Bank of Ghana.
The figure represents a 3.8 per cent increase from the GH?351.7 billion recorded in March, making it the highest monthly total so far this year. Analysts say the growth is being driven by both structural trends and recent policy shifts, notably the repeal of the Electronic Transfer Levy (E-Levy) by Parliament in March.
The number of mobile money transactions also climbed from 764 million in March to 778 million in April, underscoring the platform’s increasing dominance in Ghana’s payment landscape. The surge reflects the growing adoption of mobile financial services for both personal and business use, alongside improved digital literacy and expanding agent networks.
The Payment Systems section of the Bank of Ghana’s May 2025 Summary of Economic and Financial Data highlights strong monthly performance across several indicators.
Active mobile money accounts rose to 24.2 million in April, with registered accounts hitting 75.2 million. The value of mobile money interoperability transactions also jumped significantly to GH?4.0 billion in April, up from GH?3.2 billion in March.
Industry watchers attribute the continued growth to increased consumer trust, wider mobile penetration, and enhanced convenience compared to traditional banking systems. The elimination of the E-Levy is also seen as a catalyst, removing a major disincentive to higher-value transactions.
Experts say the mobile money boom is playing a critical role in advancing financial inclusion and could soon redefine the formal financial ecosystem, particularly in underserved and rural communities.
As part of the world, (specifically, the United States of America, USA), celebrated their National Teacher Appreciation Week over a week ago, (from May 5 to May 9), my mind went back to some 57 years ago as a young teenager in the secondary school.
Having been in the classroom for the best part of my life, reflections that week brought back beautiful memories of the bonding one had with one’s teachers, years back.
Recollecting the pet names one gave them, the giggles and jokes one made of them and the nuggets one learnt from them, they all added up to the illumination and fun that these teachers brought into one’s life.
As a grandmother today, I have taken a greater interest in my grandchildren’s schooling.
Whoever is reading me today and has read this column over the last 16 years regularly or selectively, understanding and appreciating it, must pause to say a big thank you to their teacher.
Their lasting contributions to our lives as parents and grandparents, and those of the children they teach, have been immeasurable.
It does not need any saying that teachers are the glue that has put us together to be what we are in life to this day.
Though our parents have contributed a lot to what we are, credit must be given to the teacher who taught us to speak and speak well, how to add and add up well, how to interact with others and stay bonded, how to write and write well, and all the many other life essentials that needed to be executed and executed well, as one prepared to go through life.
As I continued to reflect this week on the USA Teacher Appreciation Week, I could not help but admire the lengths Americans went, to appreciate one group of cherished employees, teachers.
Apparently, in some States, parents in individual schools helped their children in diverse ways to appreciate their teachers and virtually in unison shout out, “This is the Week the Lord has made and it is marvellous in our eyes”.
On the national level, the celebration took diverse forms.
The American way of appreciating their teachers during the week in question was simple, but impressive.
It was freebies, community awards and pampering sessions for the teachers.
As the school year slowly drews to an end, numerous restaurants and businesses joined in the national acknowledgement.
While some restaurants offered free meals and other deals, businesses offered discounts to teachers to appreciate them throughout the Teachers’ Week.
The whole day of May 5 was celebrated as the actual Teachers’ Day with much more public recognition.
Stressful and overwhelming as their sacrificial jobs are, teachers [openly and freely showed some love during the assigned week.
The nation had come to realise that the monetary compensation alone could not repay a teacher’s devotion and commitment to the job.
Come to think of it, teachers everywhere, in consonance with their calling and training, not only educate, but they also help shape children into future leaders.
If one were to take a step back and look at the role, teachers are extremely patient with children.
They have all the patience in the world to wheedle them, while exercising all the understanding as professionals.
Parents and communities must believe and trust teachers; otherwise, why would we, for a whole school year, entrust our children with them?
We no doubt appreciate the pivotal role they play in our children’s lives.
Teachers helped shape our mothers and fathers.
They have shaped us and continue to shape skilled employees, the doctors and nurses who attend to us when we are ill and feeble, the engineers, lawyers, accountants, journalists, and indeed, every professional under the sun has in mind a teacher, who inspired their lives and motivated them to be who they are.
So, I have been pondering what we can do in Ghana on regional and district levels, ahead of the World Teachers’ Day marked in October each year, to show appreciation before each school calendar year ends?
It may not necessarily be as grand as the National Farmers’ Day observed in December each year, but at least, parents, local businesses, the media and even churches can show some level of acknowledgement.
Now, with community, local and national radio and television stations all around these days, one can encourage or put a smile on their faces simply by sending kind appreciation messages on the radio or television for them.
Communities can set up football or basketball matches and other fun games for their teachers.
What about a picnic in the park?
We all can find practical ways to put some smiles on teachers’ faces during that special week to make them feel special and continue with their great sacrificial jobs.
The Week should be set apart from the World Recognition Day, which falls in October.
It is time to pause, think and reflect on the teacher and give them a shout out even before the World Recognition Day.
Writer’s e-mail: [email protected]
Fimy Baby has recently captured the digital airwaves with two viral songs
In the ever-evolving world of African music, a new star is rising—and her name is Fimy Baby.
Born Maria Ruby Sodjinou, this budding Afrobeats sensation has recently captured the digital airwaves with not one, but two viral songs that are shaking up TikTok and streaming platforms alike. Her latest singles, “Benji Note” and “Hollam There,” have not only sparked a wave of dance challenges and covers but are also climbing charts as fans and influencers alike fall in love with her infectious sound.
The rise of Fimy Baby is a testament to the power of creativity, rhythm, and the viral ecosystem of social media. With the catchy beats of “Benji Note” echoing across TikTok reels and the smooth, soulful vibes of “Hollam There” capturing hearts, she’s carved a niche that blends charisma with musical precision.
Industry watchers say her blend of Afrobeats, compelling visuals, and relatable lyrics is what gives her music such powerful traction. “She’s a fresh wave in the Afrobeats movement—energetic, stylish, and unmistakably authentic,” noted some die-hard fans across her social media platforms.
Her meteoric rise underscores a larger shift in how music is consumed and celebrated today. In an age where TikTok trends can launch careers overnight, Fimy Baby is proving she has what it takes not only to trend but to transcend.
With an ever-growing fan base and chart-topping momentum, Fimy Baby is not just going viral—she’s going global. The talented star previously released hit songs such as “Sold Out,” “I Do,” “Carry Me Dey Go,” “Problems,” and others.
She is able to blend English with Pidgin and her native languages, a credit to her Togolese African heritage. Kindly check out her two singles, which are catching fire on TikTok, dubbed “Benji Note” and “Hollam There.”
Senior Researcher at Kumasi Technical University, Professor Smart Sarpong
Professor Smart Sarpong, a Senior Researcher at Kumasi Technical University, has censured the government over the arrest of Alfred Ababio Kumi, a former NPP parliamentary aspirant for Adenta.
Alfred Ababio Kumi, popularly called Adenta Kumi, was arrested at his residence on Friday, May 23, 2025, by the National Intelligence Bureau (NIB).
His arrest is reportedly in connection with a petition he submitted to the President regarding the removal of Chief Justice Gertrude Torkornoo.
He shared a video purportedly showing a secret meeting between justices on the committee and a lawyer of one of the individuals who petitioned for Chief Justice Gertrude Torkornoo’s removal.
In a post on X on May 22, 2025, Alfred Kumi indicated that he was under threat after revealing the purported secret meeting of the justices.
“I said that if I have to run for my life, someone will release the video! There are more videos. Please, any state agency that does not allow the president @JDMahama to respond to the petition, but rather wants to pick me up, will cause more harm to our state than picking me up.
“I petitioned the president, not BNI or National Security. Leave me the hell alone!!” he wrote on X.
Reacting to the issue during Peace FM’s Kokrokoo show, Prof. Smart Sarpong found the arrest of Adenta Kumi unnecessary, asking, “Why do we think we have to use our muscles to do things?”
He questioned whether Adenta Kumi was officially invited by the NIB before the invasion of his residence.
“Is there any evidence proving that Adenta Kumi was invited and he declined, so we should use force to bring him in? Let us stop this Rambo approach,” he stated.
Prof. Smart Sarpong further expressed disgust over the security operatives carrying guns to Kumi’s home.
“Is Adenta Kumi’s house a barracks? How many guns does he have that you feel if you don’t invade his house with eight guns, you can’t overpower him? What are we doing in this country? Why don’t we try persuasion or invitation for a civil case like this?” he queried.
He warned the government against their use of force in pursuing some individuals, particularly political opponents, in the country.
“Force should be the last option. Don’t use the State against its own citizens,” he cautioned.
