DSP Netse Adjettey noted that the Sekondi Prisons which has the capacity to house 400 now has over 600 inmates. If we have to feed over 600 inmates with an amount meant for 400 inmates,” said the PRO of Sekondi Central Prisons. “Subsequently, the inmates protested and refused to eat the food given them on the morning of Friday,” he explained. He has therefore called on benevolent organisations and individuals to come to the aid of the Sekondi Prisons by supporting them with food items to complement the government's efforts. In Ghana, there have been several reports on the poor living condition of prisoners.

Per statements by former Sports Minister Isaac Asiamah during the groundbreaking ceremonies for all the ten projects, they were supposed to be completed nine months after they started. The sod-cutting ceremonies for the projects were done in 2018 but as we speak not a single one of them is ready for use. As the conversation continues on when the projects would be completed, the contractor working on the Wa facility has revealed the cause of delay. Ngoswyni Benjamin said contractors have abandoned the project due to the failure by government to fulfill its side of the agreement. “We have been looking for money, if not we would have finished this job long time ago.

Entertainment of Tuesday, 25 May 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.com• Kwabena Kwabena has stated that he is not gay• He indicates that it unwise to judge someone based on their style of dressing• The musician explained that he paints his nails to prevent him from chewing themGhanaian highlife musician, Kwabena Kwabena has shot down claims which suggest that he is “gay” due to his recent fashion sense. According to him, people must not judge him based on his “new style” of dressing which he noted is his liberation. The artiste has on several occasions been spotted with painted nails, this a section of the public has associated to features of men who are gay. But reacting to this in an interview on Hitz FM monitored by GhanaWeb, he indicated: “Painting my nails is basically my freedom; my liberation; it is just for myself. Painting my nails has helped me in controlling that.”“People are really talking about my sexuality from a photo?

General News of Tuesday, 25 May 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.comExactly a year ago in 2020, a landlord allegedly murdered his tenant for refusing to vacate a room he rented out to him. The police was also reported to have proceeded to the suspect, Nana Kankam’s residence at Ofankor and arrested him after retrieving two pump action guns loaded with seven and eight rounds of cartridges each. Read the full article as first published by AtinkaFMonline below:A landlord has allegedly murdered his tenant for refusing to vacate a room he has rented to him. The police proceeded to suspect Nana Kankam’s residence at Ofankor and arrested him. They searched his room and retrieved two pump action guns loaded with seven and eight rounds of cartridges each.

GhanaWeb’s Michael Oberteye as part of this portal’s road safety campaign interacted with and observed the activities of okada riders and their passengers in the Eastern Region to determine the use or otherwise of crash helmets among motorcycle riders and their passengers. At Kpong, GhanaWeb spoke with 31-year-old Douglas Adjabeng has operated okada for the past five years. According to him, the use of helmets among the sixty okada operators at the station is not encouraging. The 32-year-old has been in the okada business for the past six years. According to him, there are currently no jobs in the system and with the current crackdown on illegal mining, some casualties like him have invested in the okada business as a means of survival.

Mr Abdulai said this in an interview with Johnnie Hughes on the New Day show on TV3, Tuesday, May 25. Mr Abdulai said “this fight against galamsey could come with some excesses, the checks that you have just said they should do before even burning is also very important in the process. You see we lose the fight when we start this NPP, NDC fight in it, that if all of us say we are committed to it, let’s commit ourselves to it. Inusah Fuseini, being part of the forum organized by the ministry to speak against galamsey and to strengthen the fight against galamsey". So my point is that let us agree that the fight against galamsey is a national fight, if it’s positive it’s for the nation, if it’s negative it’s against the nation, then we will be able to curb it.”

General News of Tuesday, 25 May 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.com• Mr Agbodza said the ministry of roads and transport only repackaged the old contacts under the NPP and presented it to Ghanaians as a new initiative• He said the NPP could not construct a single interchange in the last four years• He noted that the NPP are only awarding contracts which they cannot finish before the end of 2024The National Democratic Congress ranking member of Roads and Transport committee in parliament Kwame Governs Agbodza has questioned the numerous road contracts given out by the Akufo-Addo administration. According to him, the ministry of roads and transport repackaged road contracts and delivered it to Ghanaians as new contracts. Speaking at a press briefing in parliament prior to the commencement of Tuesday, May 25, 2021, sitting the Mr Governs Agbodza noted that, the government cannot finish the over 24 interchanges it has said it will construct before 2024. “The ministry repackaged the old road contracts and presented it to us as their own idea. “There is no way the government can finish all these contracts before 2024, if they wanted to finish it, they should have done that before the end of 2020,” he added.

Business News of Tuesday, 25 May 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.com• The price of Cocoa traded on a positive note even though it dropped a little in unit price of + 0.17% as compared to yesterday the price change +19.00• Cotton also went up slightly and stood at + 0.27%• Coffee also went up with a unit price of +1.58%On the commodities market today May 25, 2021, the price of Crude Oil is sixty-five dollars, fifty-four cents ($65.54) as compared to yesterday’s trading of sixty-four dollars, eighty-five cents ($64.85). Gold is trading at one thousand, eight hundred and eight-two dollars, eighty-seven cents ($1,882.87) as compared to yesterday’s trading of one thousand, eight hundred and eighty-one dollars, thirty cents ($1,881.30). Cocoa is trading at two thousand, three hundred and ninety-three dollars ($2,393.00) as compared to yesterday’s trading of two thousand, four hundred and seventy-five dollars ($2,475.00). Meanwhile, Cotton is also trading at eighty-three dollars, four cents as compared to yesterday’s trading of eighty-two dollars, forty-five cents ($82.45). And Coffee is trading at one hundred and fifty-one dollars, thirty-five cents as compared to yesterday’s trading of one and hundred forty-nine dollars, forty cents ($149.40).

General News of Tuesday, 25 May 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.com• 68% of respondents say they are in support of burning excavators• A poll conducted by GhanaWeb also showed some 31.98% were against the moveThe Ghana Armed Forces has conducted some operations to halt galamsey activitiesA GhanaWeb poll has shown that some 68.02% of respondents represented by 2,808 votes support the burning of excavators being used for illegal mining activities. The decision to burn the equipment forms parts of the government’s resolve to curb the menace of galamsey along with water bodies and land sites. The poll, which was conducted on May 18, 2021, however had some 1,320 votes represented by 31.98%, not in support of the move. In all, a total of 4,128 votes were garnered in the poll. See results of the GhanaWeb poll below:

Business News of Tuesday, 25 May 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.com• Ghana 8th Parliament will resume on Tuesday May 25, 2021• The House is expected to consider number of Bills• The Bills when passed will be of key interest to businesses and consumersGhana’s Parliament will resume after an almost 2-month long recess, a statement released by the Public Affairs Department of Parliament has said. The 8th Parliament will commence its second meeting of the first session on May 25, 2021, at 10:00 am with a number of Bills expected to be tabled and considered by House. They include the Ghana Standards Authority Bill, 2021, Exemptions Bill, 2021, Consumer Protection Bill, 2021, Petroleum Revenue Management (Amendment) Bill, 2021, Advertising Council Bill, 2021. The taxes include the COVID-19 Health Recovery Levy Act, 2021 (Act 1068) which imposes a one percent levy on the supply of goods and services made in the country other than exempt goods or service. The other is the Financial Sector Recovery Levy Act, 2021 (Act 1067) which imposes a five percent levy on the profit before tax of banks.

“For us, one of the biggest things we want to do is to institutionalize protest culture in this country. When you put democracy in place, we expect certain state institutions will hold the key to keeping institutional excesses in check,” he said, reports citinewsroom.com. But their attempt to protest these issues have been fraught with challenges, occasioned too by the refusal by the police to grant them the green light to hit the streets in protest. We need to go through that as a process of national healing. “This is one of the things we think is important to move the conversation going forward”, he explained.

Here is the full content of his latest epistle titled, The MPs Double Salary Criminal Investigation Docket Was Handled By The Attorney-General And Never By Martin Amidu As Special Prosecutor:THE MPs DOUBLE SALARY CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION DOCKET WAS HANDLED BY THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL AND NEVER BY MARTIN AMIDU AS SPECIAL PROSECUTOR: BY MARTIN A. Throughout my tenure as the Special Prosecutor, the respected former Attorney General, Ms. Gloria Akuffo, never referred this case to me for further investigation or prosecution. Nana Addo is holding the balls of key double salary NDC’s MPs in the 8th Hung Parliament. .. NDC is now on Political Dialysis in the 8th Hung Parliament whilst Nana Addo keeps on squeezing the balls of all double salary NDC’s MPs and corrupt high ranking members intermittently. It had nothing to do with the Members of Parliament double salaries which I never saw nor handled during my tenure.

The news of Tweneboa-Kodua's invitation by the Dormaa Divisional Police Command was first shared by the party’s Constituency Organizer, Acquah Ibrahim, in a Facebook post. According to the Constituency Organizer, his comrade was invited by the police after he made comments against the current District Chief Executive for the area, Mr Stephen Adjei Ameyaw, popularly known as Boga Ameyaw. Mr Tweneboah-Kodua has in the past few hours posted a message on his Facebook page confirming his invitation by the police and his subsequent discharge. The struggle for MMDCE positions across the country has brought about tense situations in the ruling New Patriotic Party across various constituencies. In the Ashanti Region alone, over 200 individuals have filed to contest MMDCE positions.

In a rather interesting situation, a family in the Garu District of the Upper East Region is set to experience more turbulence as a mother, a father and their son have reportedly filed to contest the District Chief Executive position. According to the General Secretary who has been travelling across the country monitoring the process, the situation has the tendency to derail the party’s trajectory in terms of unity. After visiting the five northern regions namely; Northern, Savanna, North East, Upper West and Upper East – where a total of 715 persons filed to contest the MMDCE positions, Mr John Boadu called on the hopefuls and their supporters to manage their expectations. John Boadu in his overall assessment of the tour in the northern regions again reiterated his concern over the emerging numbers and highlighted the imbalance in terms of gender. He, however, expressed satisfaction with the quality of persons who availed themselves for nominations.

Reports from patients and health workers in various parts of the country has however showed that the relationship between health workers and their clients are always not a happy one and the reasons tend to be varied in every situation. But we are in Volta Region and so you don’t speak Twi to a patient in the hospital. This is so wrong,” she stated with the camera showing the health worker busily scribbling in a patient’s folder. “I am not saying it’s a national language, are you telling me that all the people working here should be Ewe people?” the health worker questioned back. So if the person comes and you don’t speak Ewe and the person does not speak English, then the person speaks Ewe to the person.