A member of the National Communication Team of the opposition National Democratic Congress has expressed his disappointment in the president of the Ghana Journalists Association, GJA for his comment on the arrest of two journalists of Citi Fm and Citi Tv. Mr Eric Adjei, who is also the Deputy Regional Communications Officer of the NDC in the Bono Region, made this comment on Adom Tv during a panel discussion on the topic ”unpacking National Security handling of Citi Fm’s reporters”. The GJA president, Mr Affail Monney, has come under a deluge of public backlash for his earlier comment that Mr…
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The Ghana Independent Broadcasters Association (GIBA), the Private Newspaper Printers Association of Ghana (PRINPAG), and the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA), have called on government to take urgent steps to remove persons with brutish tendencies from the country’s National Security setup. The three Associations said this in a joint statement while demanding that government restructures the National Security Ministry in the wake of growing incidents of abuse and torture of journalists by some of its officers. They said the restructuring must involve reorienting the minds of the operatives and putting in place proper mechanisms for recruitment of qualified persons into the…
Today, Sunday, May 16, 2021 marks exactly six years since one of Ghana’s largest apolitical protests in recent history was held. The peaceful #DumsorMustStop vigil was spearheaded by Ghanaian actress, Yvonne Nelson and a host of other public figures to protest against frequent power outages in the country. Protesters from all walks of life, most of whom were clad in black, gathered at Legon near the University of Ghana to commence the march that was expected to impress upon the John Mahama-led government to urgently act. Artistes Efya, DKB, Sydney, D-Black, Van Vicker, David Oscar, Wanlov da Kubolor and a…
The biggest opposition party in Ghana, the National Democratic Congress, has waded into the recent brutish attack by the National Security Operatives on two journalists, describing it as unlawful. In a Press statement issued by its General Secretary, Hon Johnson Asiedu Nketiah on Sunday, May 16, 2021, the Party recounted on a number of similar awkward incidents of brutalities by same Security Operatives under the Akufo-Addo government that continues to thrive without impunity. According to the NDC, this unprecedented attack on the people of Ghana and the apparent helplessness or connivance of the President and Commander in Chief of Ghana…
A former headteacher of the Bantama SDA Primary School in the Sene West District in the Bono East Region has been shot and killed by suspected armed robbers on the Bantama Kwame Danso road. The teacher, Elijah Asante, who was one of the enumerators for the 2021 Population and Housing Census met his untimely death on his way home from an ongoing workshop for field officers in the District capital. The incident occurred on Thursday evening at about 7:00pm. Speaking to JoyNews’ Anass Sabit, brother of the deceased, Enoch Asante, said that at the time his brother was stopped, the…
GENESIS OF MY LOVE FOR FOOTBALL Togbe Chairman, distinguished guests from the football fraternity, gala organizing committee, security personal, friends of the media, ladies and gentlemen welcome to Kpando. Let me thank you all for your presence here today. What started as a small thing has overwhelmed us all. It’s now bigger than we anticipated thanks to the John Painstil Football Academy. FOOTBALL FAN I have been a football fan for many years. And some of the people who whipped my interest in football are with us today and others will join us next week for the SUPER MATCH. AKPINI…
The Member of Parliament for the Tain Constituency has organized a brief graduation ceremony to mark the end of a skill training programs for women and youth in his constituency. The Law Maker and the Former District Chief Executive of the district under the erstwhile Mahama administration, rolledout this important initiative to augment the farming activities so that the beneficiaries can have multiple streams of income for a better living. This program, the Poverty Alleviation Programme, was organized for the major communities within the Tain District for all those who were interested in acquiring a skill for free under this…
Pressure group, Occupy Ghana, has called on the government to establish an independent body of inquiry to investigate allegations of assault and brutality at the hands of National Security operatives leveled by Citi FM journalist, Caleb Kudah. In a press statement dated May 14, Occupy Ghana explained their demand for an independent body of inquiry, “We have no faith that the National Security Ministry can provide a satisfactory investigation into the damning allegations. Therefore, we would like to advise the government to set up an independent body of inquiry into the matter.” According to the Group, it is concerned that…
The horrific treatment of journalists in this country by the Akufo-Addo-led NPP administration is becoming a national headache that every citizen has contracted without any possible tranquilizers. One may be tempted to congratulate Kofi Koomson for warning the country about this 1970s barbaric, Stalinist, soviet oppressive governance which we took for a joke. How we regret the painful price we are paying now for this avoidable ignorance!The animalistic behaviour of the criminals conscripted into our national security set up culminating in the Boko Haram style molestation of journalists in this country epitomized by the ordeal Caleb Kudah of Citi Fm…
Yesterday evening around 8pm, I got a call and messages from an Assemblyman in my Constituency whilst I was at church that his 12 year old son had been rushed to the Battor Catholic hospital in the morning. The situation had been deteriorating and a decision was made early afternoon to transfer the child to Accra. Calls were made to Korle Bu Teaching Hospital but they refused to accept the child that there was no bed. Calls were made to 37 Military Hospital and they agreed to take the child. This was about 3pm. Then the next hurdle began. The…