“With all due respect, Mr President change the approach because it won’t work. We should engage all the communities and let them know that their lives are under threat as well. Kennedy Agyapong also took a swipe at NPP bigwigs involved in galamsey, accusing them of making President Akufo-Addo and his administration unpopular in the eyes of the public. The hope Ghanaians have in President Akufo-Addo, we the followers are trying to make him unsuccessful but we have to help him succeed. “I don’t think Akufo-Addo is thinking of himself at his age with the ban on illegal mining.

General News of Monday, 17 May 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.comThe Africa Centre for Energy Policy (ACEP) says Ghana’s energy sector is in a coma and it won’t take the Energy Minister speaking at press conferences to fix it. We need a practical solution that takes us from that realm to fixing it and ensuring that the power sector runs as a business. Anywhere in the world that the power sector runs, it is not press conferences, it is not the minister speaking. Dr Mathew Opoku Prempeh, the Energy Minister in an update on the power situation in the country refuted claims that the erratic power supply is due to financial challenges. I can’t defend you on what is contrary to what is in the document and what the truth is from the engineers and the sector players,” Boakye stressed.

Business News of Monday, 17 May 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.comThe Institute for Energy (IES) MarketScan says it is concerned about the failure of Eni Ghana Exploration and Production Limited (ENI), and Springfield Exploration and Production Limited (Springfield), in implementing government’s directive to unitize the Afina discovery and the Sankofa Field. According to a statement by the group, the former Minister for Energy, John Peter Amewu in 2020 directed the two entities to execute a Unitization and Unit Operating Agreement (UUOA), with respect to the Afina discovery in the West Cape Three Points (WCTP2) and the Sankofa Field in the offshore Cape Three Points (OCTP) contract areas. Despite the directive being issued about a year ago, IES points out that ENI and Springfield are yet to execute the UUOA which it says among other things will lead to maximum economic benefits for the State, and for all the parties involved in the production of the unitized accumulation. Quoting portions of the Petroleum (Exploration and Production) Act and citing similar principles in international practice, the IES has called on the government “to update the country on the progress so far made on its unitization directive to Eni and Springfield, as part of its accountability to the people of Ghana and prudent management of the country’s petroleum resources for the overall benefit of the citizens of Ghana”. Read the full statement below:

General News of Monday, 17 May 2021Source: 3 NewsCampaigners of #FixTheCountry have served notice they will hit the streets on Saturday, May 22 in a protest to demand an end to the culture of impunity that have characterised Ghana’s National Security. The campaigners have been irked by the recent assault on Citi FM journalist Caleb Kudah and bemoaned the trend of media statements issued by civil society organisations (CSOs) anytime abuses against journalists are recorded. “These press statements have become the best example of an entrenched culture of inaction,” they said in their notice on Sunday, May 16. “We cannot do the same things over and over again and expect different results.”They have, therefore, chosen to act differently by hitting the streets in Accra on Sunday, May 22. “This protest is the first in a long series of Protest Marches that we have planned across the Country, till this Country is Fixed.

Fathia Ayodele Kareem, who claims to have attended Wesley Girls Senior High School in Cape Coast from 2006 to 2009, and is now a Medical Doctor, narrated her ordeal at her alma mater. In a Facebook post sighted by GhanaWeb, Fathia Ayodele Kareem stated that Wey Gey Hey installed in her many values that she was grateful for, but that came with a price to pay. I was the second person in my family to attend Gey Hey so I had been informed that Muslims were not allowed to pray and I didn’t fight it. Wesley Girls, according to the former student, had not spelt out plainly the dos and don’ts of being a Muslim attending a Christian school, so everything a Muslim student does is very “obscure and ambiguous”. Well, lucky you, that’s the treatment Gey Hey Muslims have had to endure in more recent times.”Read Fathia Ayodele Kareem's full post below.

The exercise is said to have been repeated at Akyem Larbikrom and Dompem where four excavators including two brand new ones, each valued at $120,000 were also set ablaze. Other equipments burnt at the various sites include dozens of water pumping machines. The military team is also said to have seized some pump-action guns which were being used to protect the mining sites. According to Nana Asante, the military team could have considered the contributions of Madam Gyamfua to the NPP and retreated on its actions. Meanwhile, a Member of the Small-Scale Miners Association in the Eastern Region, Alhaji Hussein Suronim has stated that the affected mining sites are not illegal but licensed small-scale mining sites that adhered to all the mining regulations and have thus condemned the military’s action.

One hundred and seventy-six (176) more persons, in that time, have also, unfortunately, lost their lives to COVID-19. Cumulatively, we have conducted one million, one hundred and twenty-one thousand, one hundred and sixty-eight (1,121,168) COVID tests. More details of the deployment will be communicated by the Ghana Health Service in the coming week. The technology platform being used at KIA is based on standards set by the Africa Trust Travel and ECOWAS Biomars. So, let us all continue to adhere to the COVID-19 safety protocols that are now part of our day-to-day activities.

General News of Sunday, 16 May 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.comThe last time President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo address the nation on the fight against COVID-19 was on February 28, 2021, it was the 24th time the president performed the exercise. Almost ten weeks after the 24th address, the President is tonight delivering the 25th Presidential Address on the fight against COVID-19. At the time the President delivered the previous address, the nation was set to kick off its first phase of a nationwide vaccination exercise after taking delivery of some 600,000 AstraZeneca vaccines. The country is now set to commence the second phase of the vaccination exercise after receiving some 350,000 doses from Congo where the country has been experiencing vaccine hesitancy among its populace. Watch the President’s address below:

Crime & Punishment of Sunday, 16 May 2021Source: Class FMA 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. According to the brother of the deceased, Enoch Asante, the armed robbers had ambushed and attacked some passengers in a vehicle. Unfortunately, his brother was on a motorbike and he was stopped too. The victim was then attacked and shot in the process. Thereafter, the Police was informed and the body was taken to the hospitalThe motorbike has since been retrieved to aid in investigations.

The 3-page – actually, two-and-half-page – rejoinder, which is titled “Do Not Defame Martin Amidu in the Propaganda to Nominate a New Special Prosecutor: By ABK Amidu,” is embedded in a news report about the aforementioned Amidu article and is captioned “Akufo-Addo Has Nominated a Surrogate as Special Prosecutor – Martin Amidu” Ghanaweb.com 4/29/21). Whether Mr. Agyebeng is a veritable presidential surrogate or toady, as Mr. Amidu so cynically claims, is apt to be proven or disproved not temporally very distant from now by the relative performance of the man. But that Mr. Agyebeng is contemporaries and chummy with some key players in the abortive Agyapa Mineral Royalties Deal and Legon Law faculty Mates, has absolutely no relevance to how Mr. Agyebeng performs as Independent Special Prosecutor. And largely because Rawlings-leashed “revolutionaries” like Messrs. Amidu, Obed Asamoah, Tsatsu Tsikata and Kwamena and Ato Ahwoi were in charge of our national destiny for some two protracted decades. *Visit my blog at: KwameOkoampaAhoofeJrBy Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., PhDEnglish Department, SUNY-NassauGarden City, New YorkMay 4, 2021E-mail: [email protected]

Business News of Sunday, 16 May 2021Source: Kasapa FMEnergy Minister, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh says his Ministry is committed to ensuring long-term financial sustainability in Ghana’s power sector. This brings the total savings to $2.761bn in the energy sector. He added that the Energy Sector Levy Act (ESLA), Cash waterfall Mechanism, Gas Clearing House, and the Delta Fund, among other interventions, have improved Ghana’s Energy sector financing. According to the sector Minister, government has approved the Energy Sector Recovery Programme (ESRP), which is being implemented to bring about long-term financial sustainability of the sector. He continued “These measures are part of the Akufo Addo led government’s broader strategy to ensure long term financial sustainability in Ghana’s power sector.”

Business News of Sunday, 16 May 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.comFuel prices are likely to be increased again from Monday, May 17, 2021. The increment is due to some new price changes made on the international market for the commodity, which was $520 per metric tonne but now pegged at about $545 per metric tonne. This translates to about GH¢8 per litre at the local pumps for both petrol and diesel or around 5% on the international price index representing a further increase of about 1.25% variance on current pump prices. The trend if not checked could likely continue or escalate as the geopolitical developments are pointing to bullish sentiments on the international market in the coming days. The country does not have to seem to have in place any mitigating policies or programmes in place to cushion the average Ghanaian from these International Market price shocks as the effects reflect directly at the pumps and on pockets.

Business News of Sunday, 16 May 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.comFuel prices are likely to be increased again from Monday, May 17, 2021. This translates to about GH¢8 per litre at the local pumps for both petrol and diesel or around 5% on the international price index representing a further increase of about 1.25% variance on current pump prices. Geopolitical events over the past few days have led to increases in International Market Prices from $630.525/mt to around $655.625/mt for premium or petrol as of Friday whiles prices of AGO or diesel has moved from $520/Mt to $545/Mt. These increases on the international market translate to around Ghp 8/litre on local pump prices for both petrol and diesel or around 5% on the international price index representing a further increase of about 1.25% variance on current pump prices. The trend if not checked could likely continue or escalate as the geopolitical developments are pointing to bullish sentiments on the international market in the coming days.

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Entertainment of Sunday, 16 May 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.comMzVee, a Ghanaian singer, has stated that she has finally fallen in love with a ‘wonderful’ man. In an interview with Accra-based Okay FM monitored by GhanaWeb, she noted that her new songs are inspired by a young man she has met who has shown her true love she never expected to experience in her entire life. According to her, although the relationship is virtually new, she is enjoying it and her boyfriend makes her feel she is on top of the world. So this one is a love note from me to him vibing then. Meanwhile, MzVee disclosed that she hasn’t had the discussion on whether to settle down now or not with her man yet, but she is certain the relationship will thrive beyond imagination.