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…
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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…
Nana Oboadie Bonsu, the Public Relations Officer of the Ghana National Association of Farmers and Fishermen and President of Concerned Farmers Association of Ghana on Friday, met thousands of youth who are into the activities of galamsey at Presentiase near Dunkwa on Offin to assist them to desist from indulging in illegal mining and venture into farming. Nana Bonsu is on a tour to galamsey sites around the country, to sensitise them on the dangers associated with galamsey and subsequently reintroduced the Government flagship programme Planting For Food and Jobs(PFJ) as the alternate to the galamsey. The PRO explained that,…
The Volta Regional Vice-Chairman of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr. George Loh, has warned that the actions of the National Security if unchecked could result in revenge attacks when there is a change of government. The former Member of Parliament (MP) for North Dayi, who condemned the assault on Citi News’ Caleb Kudah indicated that he has encountered similar incidents in his work as a legal practitioner. In a yet-to-be-aired interview on Citi TV’s The Chamber Show, the former MP for North Dayi called on the government to purge the National Security of party elements. According to him,…
The President of the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA), Affail Monney, has apologized for what he calls a “misimpression” of his comments on the assault on Citi FM and Citi TV journalist, Caleb Kudah. “I render my sincerest apology for any misimpression created that I was insensitive to the plight of the journalists but excited about the excesses by the National Security operatives. Indeed, those excesses pass for wickedness at its most naked nastiness. And I totally denounce them,” Affail Monney said in a statement. Affail Monney has come under public backlash for stating that Caleb Kudah breached the Association’s code…
The Somali National Salvation Forum (NSF) has opposed a unilateral decision of the acting Federal Government of Somalia to withdraw its support for President John Mahama’s appointment as the AU High Representative. This follows the appointment and subsequent rejection of former President Mahama as the AU High Representative to Somalia. Mr Mahama was appointed to facilitate dialogue towards resolution of the current political and constitutional crisis and to finalize negotiations upon the framework and modalities for the conduct of elections for a Federal Parliament and President as soon as possible. However, his appointment was subsequently rejected by the Federal Government…
The Member of Parliament for Adaklu constituency, Hon. Kwame Governs Agbodza, today Friday, 14th May, 2021, cuts sod for the construction of 8-unit classroom block at the premier senior high school in Adaklu, ”Adasec”. The law maker at short ceremony cut the ground for the commencement of this project. In his words, “the pressing need of the school now is to improve the infrastructural deficit in the school as the enrollment keep increasing”, he said. Hon. Kwame Governs Agbodza express his heartfelt appreciation to the staff and management of the school for how far they have tried their humanly possible…