Funerals, particularly of very popular, young people are usually characterized by violence, reckless driving or riding and general acts of lawlessness. This is especially prevalent during processions from mortuaries and towards the cemeteries where gangsters disguised as mourners, engage in reckless and dangerous driving, posing danger to bystanders, road users, wayside traders and themselves. Many also hang precariously from the windows and roof of speeding vehicles that swerve left and right of the road. GhanaWeb managed to stop one of the motor riding youth for an interview. He called on the government and the road traffic agencies to put a stop to the menace.

Some of these acts give room for fraudsters to make use of the data available on social media to impersonate and or dupe people. To help curb this growing menace, GhanaWeb in this report provides 10 ways people can protect themselves from fraudsters. This information was provided through the help of the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)• Avoid oversharing personal information on social media. • Be wary of social media contacts who make unusual requests over social media. When these are adhered to, everyone is guaranteed at least an assured problem-free life on social media.

Leading the pack in terms of social media activism for the anti-LGBTQ bill is Ningo-Prapram MP, Samuel Nartey George who has not shied away from his stance to ensuring the bill is passed by Parliament. Over the weekend, there was a banter of words between Sam George and others on social media platform Twitter. The social media debacle also involved popular Ghanaian singer, Sister Derby trading shots with the lawmaker. Already, portions of a leaked 36-page bill proposal have in the past few days made rounds on various social media platforms with varied sentiments expressed on the matter. A section of liberal Ghanaians on the platforms believe the bill and its entirety when passed, violates some human rights as it infringes on people’s sexual preferences.

Business News of Monday, 26 July 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.comThe Bank of Ghana’s Monetary Policy Committee is set to announce its latest decision on a new policy rate today July 26, 2021. Governor of the Bank of Ghana who is also Chairperson of the Monetary Policy Committee is expected to make the announcement of the policy rate decision that will influence the cost of credit in the country for the next two months of this year. At the Committee's 100th meeting, the central bank slashed the policy rate by 100 basis point at 13.5 from 14.5 percent. “Risks to the inflation outlook remain muted in the near-term…the Monetary Policy Committee under these circumstances decided to lower the monetary policy rate by a hundred basis points to 13.5%,” the governor said. The monetary policy rate influences the interest rate on loans and determines the rate at which the central bank lends to commercial banks.

Significant among the many promises documented in the party’s 2020 manifesto was to give loans to the youth to pay their rent through the National Rental Assistance Scheme. Nana Akomea added, “Indeed as we speak, a new Rent Control Act has been drafted for review by Cabinet in this direction. So basically, when this National Rental Assistance comes into being in the next NPP government, the big problem of two to three years advance rent would greatly reduce, if not ended.”However, seven months after been sworn into office, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s government has yet to fulfill their promise to citizens. Since December 2020, the cost of rent in Ghana has shot up with the ordinary Ghanaian having to pay more for rent. Checks by Ghanaweb.com indicate that the ordinary Ghanaian pays between ¢200 to ¢300 cedis for a comfortable single room or studio self-contained apartment.

General News of Monday, 26 July 2021Source: www.mynewsgh.comRenowned Lawyer and Television personality Samson Lardy Anyenini has disclosed how he sacked a representative of a top politician who wanted to bribe Investigative Journalist Manasseh Azure with a car and mouth-watering cash to drop a story he was working on. Samson who is the Lawyer of the Investigative Journalist made this known in a piece he wrote on Integrity and the need to guard it. “I was contacted to tell him to drop a story for a good car and cash in one case. I cautioned the elderly “respectable” man sent by a big politician never to try that on Manasseh. To Samson Lardy Anyenini, it’s imperative that people act in integrity in service to God and the country in order to nip corruption in the bud.

Boxing News of Monday, 26 July 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.comGhana’s boxer, Sulemanu Tetteh won his first bout at the Tokyo Olympic Games on Monday morning when he defeated his Dominican Republic opponent, Marte de la Rosa Rodrigo in their flyweight contest. The Dominican boxer proved tough for him but Tetteh warmed up into the fight in the latter rounds as he dominated and clinched victory in the process. Fighting from the Blue corner the five judges who presided over the fight scored the fight, 29 - 28, 29 - 28, 27 - 30, 28 - 29, 28 - 29 in favour of Tetteh. Insane energy from Sulemanu Tetteh. Team Ghana's General Captain Sulemanu Tetteh beats Dominican Republic Boxer Rodrigo Marte De Rosa to qualify to the round of 16.

General News of Monday, 26 July 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.comA Ghana Air Force operated plane charged nearly three times the amount that commercial operators took to evacuate Ghanaians at the height of the Coronavirus pandemic last year. ‘Analyst’ Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, North Tongu MP and ranking member on Foreign Affairs, noted that Ghana’s Air Force Casa aircraft charged average $940 per passenger for evacuation flights within the West and Central African region. “It seems to me that foreign airlines were more empathetic to the plight of stranded Ghanaians than the aircraft managed by our own government,” he noted. However, our own Casa aircraft operated by the Ghana Air Force somehow managed to evacuate Ghanaians from neighboring West and Central Africa at a staggering cost to the taxpayer of $940 per passenger. It seems to me that foreign airlines were more empathetic to the plight of stranded Ghanaians than the aircraft managed by our own government.

General News of Monday, 26 July 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.com• Ewes play a crucial role in Ghana’s construction ecosystem• This is according to Assin Central MP Kennedy Agyapong• He says government must invest more in STEM to empower the youth for the futureAssin Central Member of Parliament, Kennedy Agyapong, has applauded Ewes for their industrious and enterprising nature relative to Ghana’s construction industry. According to him, his experience with workers at his construction sites shows that Ewes dominated in the technical and practical areas of expertise. GhanaWeb monitored comments he made on state broadcaster GTV’s Morning Show last Thursday, where he stressed that despite prejudice against Ewes growing up, he has grown to appreciate their contribution to the country. “All my construction sites, go there and see, they are the only ones doing it. Agyapong’s history with Ewes relative to pronouncements is not palatable with a case in point being in 2012 when he declared war on all Ewes and Gas in the Ashanti region.

According to him, the whole process was unconstitutional and amounted to a waste of time. It’s patently unconstitutional and a waste of time. Whats saddest is that we used the first opportunity to do a private members Bill for this Brutum Fulmen!!" Last weekend was packed with social media debates about the propriety or otherwise of the piece of legislation which has been tagged the anti-LGBTQ+ bill. Those threatening Members of Parliament who are leading this bill, please be warned.

A Private Members' Bill aimed at criminalizing all activities of LGBTQ+ fraternity, led by Ningo Prampram Member of Parliament, Sam George; has generated a lot of discussions. One of the MPs behind the bill, Alhassan Sakibu Suhuyini, over the weekend made an observation about persons who are pro-LGBTQ+. Over the weekend, Ningo Prampram MP Sam George was busy on social media defending the content of the draft bill that is set to be tabled in Parliament. The 36-page draft document is a Private Member's Bill titled: "The Promotion of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values, Bill 2021." It is led by the Member of Parliament for Ningo Prampram, Sam George, and seven (7) other MPs.

Politics of Monday, 26 July 2021Source: www.mynewsgh.comFormer Minister of Education under the erstwhile Kufuor administration Professor Christopher Ameyaw-Akumfi has observed that disunity within the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) if not resolved may hamper the party’s quest to ‘break the 8’. “After competitions, we still remain in the various factions. "In politics, factionalism is becoming a fetish…it’s something we don’t want to talk about. "Are we going to break the 8 if after various elections we are going to remain in various groups we call factions? From Constituency level to regional to national to of course the ultimate…that is not going to help us.

The human rights lawyer had said earlier that passing the anti-gay bill into law will definitely have international consequences for Ghana. "As President for Youth for Human Rights Africa, I have had several invitations to be a gay rights advocate but turned all of them down. "I believe in the position that, there is no human rights in homosexuality or lesbianism and all its variance now collectively known as LGBTQ+. As President for Youth for Human Rights Africa, I have had several invitations to be a gay rights advocate but turned all of them down. I wish to state that, in human rights advocacy and practice, there is a difference between Human Rights Protection and Human Rights Promotion.

President Akufo-Addo whiles delivering his 18th address•President Akufo-Addo is presenting his 26th update on measures to combat Coronavirus in the country• The address comes at a time Ghana has passed the 100,000 caseload with deaths passing the 800 mark. Since the president's last address in May this year, a new strain of the virus, SARS-Cov-2 Delta variant, has been claiming lives with caseload passing the 100,000 threshold. This will be his 26th national address on the subject since Ghana recorded its first two cases back in March 2020. Though Ghana has commenced a vaccination programme, the country has been lagging with the availability of enough vaccines to inoculate citizens. Watch the president's address below:

Politics of Sunday, 25 July 2021Source: kasapafmonline.comFormer President John Dramani Mahama says the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) must begin to restore the lost values and principles as a social democratic party so it could remain distinct from the ruling NPP. “He was more concerned with seeing to the upliftment of the socio-economic circumstances of the people of Ghana…” the NDC 2020 Flagbearer said. The National Democratic Congress (NDC) on Saturday, July 24, commemorated the ninth anniversary of the demise of Professor John Evans Atta Mills, the third President of the Fourth Republic of Ghana. Many bigwigs of the Party, including former President John Dramani Mahama, National chairman, Mr. Ofosu Ampofo, Mr. Johnson Asiedu Nketia, General Secretary, including his widow, Mrs Ernestina Naadu Mills, and some party supporters graced the occasion. Prof Mills died, while in office, on Tuesday, July 24, 2012 at the 37 Military Hospital, three days after his birthday.