Four days after he was pronounced dead, Jesus Christ, in the company of his disciples did the unthinkable by ‘waking him up from his sleep”. The latest Ghanaian pastor to announce that he is the recipient of such a rare gift of raising people from the dead is the founder and leader of the Global Word Power Ministry, Reverend Isaac Owusu Bempah. In a story quite similar to that of Lazarus, Reverend Owusu Bempah raised from the dead a man after more than 48 hours. Reverend Owusu Bempah was addressing some allegations levelled against him by some persons close to fetish priestess now turned “vangelist’ Patience Asiedua that God is not the inspiration behind his pastoral works. Owusu Bempah insisted that he has been blessed with superficial powers from God and that no one except God can challenge him.

General News of Sunday, 9 May 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.comFormer President John Dramani Mahama, has been appointed by the Africa Union (AU) as their High Representative to Somalia. The statement further called on the Somali stakeholders to negotiate in good faith, and to put the interests of Somalia and the well-being of the Somali people above all else in the search for an inclusive settlement to the electoral crisis. “This should usher in a democratically elected government with the legitimacy and mandate to resolve the remaining outstanding political and constitutional issues that are posing a threat to the stability of the country and the region as a whole.”Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed has approved an extension of his tenure in office by two years. This has sparked anger and resulted in clashes between his supporters and some of his political rivals and critics, hence the critical role of Mahama’s job. Soldiers loyal to President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed and those opposed to him clashed last month in the capital, Mogadishu.

General News of Sunday, 9 May 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.comPlaintiff Caroline Boateng has sued Roland Affail Monney, the President of the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA), for holding himself out as an officer of the GJA even though the tenure of his administration ended in November 2020. The GJA National Council which is made up of the national executive and the Regional Chairpersons of the GJA whose tenure of office ended the 17th of November 2020, as well as the GJA Election Committee, have also been joined to the suit. “Though the terms of office for the defendants expired on the 17th day of November 2020, the [Election Committee] is holding itself as a committee mandated to conduct elections,” she explained. Since the Election Committee’s mandate also ended on November 17, 2020, they “therefore cannot purport to be holding elections in 2021,” she avers. “The actions taken so far by the [Election Committee] in the name of GJA is therefore against the very constitution that set all the defendants up,” Caroline Boateng’s lawsuit said.

General News of Sunday, 9 May 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.comSamuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, the MP for North Tongu, has advised the organisers of the social media campaign #FixTheCountry to codify their strategy to enhance their protest. Speaking on Citi TV’s Big Issue on Saturday, the MP said:“I will urge them to put down or codify what their demands are clearly, and they should have a strategy because as an activist, and having worked in this space for many years, if you don’t have a codified strategy where you can monitor and track your progress, this may become a flux and may fizzle out at some point, and you’re not sure what you will achieve despite all the initial great work that you did in bursting onto the scene and making the kind of impact that they have made so far.”He observed that what the youth are now using social media for is very refreshing because they are now coming out to speak for themselves. “The so-called culture of silence and application of the religious forces and the regular forces which we were used to, giving way, it is now good that we are hearing fresh voices, from the youth directly,” he noted. #FixTheCountry campaign is to be held virtually Sunday since the police have secured a court injunction that prevents the group from holding a physical gathering and demonstrating today Sunday, May 9. The conveners of the protest have meanwhile moved to challenge the injunction at the Supreme Court.

He has even called my boss Father Dickson telling him that when Kwasi Aboagye mentions my name, I will sue him in court. Mostly made up of the youth, tens of thousands of posts have been made on social media highlighting some of these inadequacies. #FixTheCountry has topped social media trends and dominated discussions for at least a week and has made many government appointees, including Owusu-Bempah uncomfortable. I have been holding myself back from getting into the gutter with these self-styled comedians who dabble in social media politicking. “What exactly have these celebrities fixed by themselves apart from their fake social media lifestyle and living on borrowed glory?

Entertainment of Saturday, 8 May 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.comGhanaians have since the beginning of the week embarked on a social media campaign calling for good and responsible governance and in what appears to be a response from the government quarters, there was a counter-campaign calling on the citizenry to rather fix themselves including their attitude. Side by side, the two campaigns have trended throughout the week with the country almost sharply divided between the two sides. Some celebrities who share in the sentiments of the general public have jumped to call out the government. By their decision to join the #FixTheCountry campaign, some celebrities incurred the wrath of a vicious member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Ernest Owusu Bempah who also doubles as the Public Relations Officer of the Ghana Gas Company. Enjoy the show below:

General News of Saturday, 8 May 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.comA video of a police officer assaulting a man alleged to be a commercial driver has gone viral. The video captures the supposed driver running beside the police officer who appeared to be speeding off, and begging on his knees at certain points. What appears to have raised some concerns is the hit and slaps the driver received from the officer in his bid to obtain mercy from same. Eyewitnesses in the video also could be heard asking people to intervene, considering the actions of the police officer. Per his narrative, the driver was pleading with the officer after his particulars had been confiscated by same.

Africa News of Saturday, 8 May 2021Source: lusakatimes.comMinister of Health for Zambia, Jonas Chanda has officially opened Kantolomba Health centre in Kantolomba ward and Mwenye health centre in Chichele ward of Bwanamkubwa constituency in Ndola district. Speaking when he commissioned the two health centres, Dr.Chanda said government aims at bringing quality health services closer to the people that is why with the help of the Ndola City Council and the citizens in the area have managed to construct the two health centres. Dr.Chanda said the two health centres have all the equipment and health personnel will be running 24/7. He further added that a total of K586, 962, 28 was spent on the Mwenye Health centre while K568, 975,000 was spent on the construction of Kantolomba health centre. “We are grateful that we will not have to move as far as twapia health clinic to acquire health services,” she said.

After refusing the vaccine for four months, Madagascar finally agreed to receive vaccines under the Covax facility program, which provides free access to the vaccine for low-income countries. The resurgence prompted President Andry Rajoelina to abandon a hard-line stance on vaccines and agree to a rollout. Hanitrala did not specify the number of vaccines secured but said the supplies would be a combination of Oxford/AstraZeneca, Sinopharm and Johnson & Johnson. Only health ministry staff and some media houses are allowed to film inside Covid-19 wards. AFP cameras have been denied access out of "respect for patients' rights", while state television broadcasts daily interviews with hospital staff and patients praising the health ministry's response.

Representatives of the Informal Sector Workers, Smallholder Women Farmers, the Trades Union Congress (TUC) and youth groups from across the Upper West Region signed the petition. The petition pointed out that despite calls from state and non-state actors in the country to the government to ratify ILO C190, the state was yet to do so. The petition noted that across the globe, there were rising and persistent cases of domestic and gender-based violence and harassment in homes and informal workspaces. On why Government must ratify the ILO C190, the petition noted that it contained a comprehensive understanding of gender-based violence and would protect both formal and informal workers in the country against violence and harassment and prevent such behaviours and practices. Ratifying ILO C190 would not only show the government’s commitment to its membership of the ILO but also to the 88 per cent of vulnerable informal sector workers.

General News of Saturday, 8 May 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.comOne of the conveners of the #FixTheCountry campaign has alleged that operatives within the government, working in connection with authorities of Vodafone, unlawfully cloned their phones and accessed their private chats. And then, he added, after the meeting, the only person among them who uses an Android phone noticed that he could no longer access the chats in their group. He explained that this forced them to format the phone after it emerged that calls coming to that person's line were being diverted. And so, what we did was that we flashed his phone immediately. “It has turned out to us that we discovered that calls from his phone were being diverted to another phone.

Entertainment of Saturday, 8 May 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.comKumawood actress Christiana Awuni has recounted the ordeal she went through a year ago when some persons wrongfully accused her of killing her ‘good friend’ actor Bishop Bernard Nyarko. Christiana Awuni narrating how she received news of his death in an interview on ZionFelix, monitored by GhanaWeb, said, “I was disturbed with his sudden demise. Why must you forge such stories… what will I get from killing Bishop?” she questioned. “It is better to rather do something to let your partner love you more instead of killing them. He was sick for almost one and half years, during that period I never saw Bishop.

General News of Saturday, 8 May 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.comGhanaian journalist, Saddick Adams has described the #FixYourSelf trend as the dumbest Public Relations approach he has ever seen. #FixYourSelf is believed to have been engineered by some elements and supporters of the governing New Patriotic Party's administration to counter #FixTheCountryNow. Reacting to the counter hashtag dubbed #FixYourSelf in a tweet that was sighted by GhanaWeb, the head of the sports department for Accra-based Angel FM stated that the counter hashtag was needless. "I think one of the dumbest PR approaches ever devised in this country's political history is the #FixYourSelf rubbish. But in trying to wittily drag them in the mud, thousands of my own #FixingTheCountryGhana soldiers really disappointed me.

Alfred Oko Vanderpuije took over social media on Friday, April 7, 2021, after posting pictures of himself commissioning a wooden footbridge linking two communities in his constituency on Facebook. Alfred Okoe Vanderpuije brought delight to the people of Chorkor and Shiabu as he fixed the only bridge that links the two communities. He is really making the party popular in ABS.”This triggered the fury of Nana Aba Anamoah who has described the conduct of the Member of Parliament as "an absolute disgrace" while reacting on Twitter. "An absolute disgrace of a bridge constructed by Oko Vanderpuije. An absolute disgrace of a bridge constructed by Oko Vanderpuije.

General News of Saturday, 8 May 2021Source: 3 NewsA constitutional Lawyer, Martin Kpebu has called on the President, Akufo Addo to intervene in the matter between the #FixTheCountry movement and the police to allow the demonstrators to have their day. The court ruled that the planned protest is prohibited until the restriction on public gathering is lifted. There are very few people who have the human rights credentials that the President have so it’s strange that under his watch such things will happen”. “So, they can grant some of the demonstrators certain numbers that the police can handle otherwise this would dent his human rights record”. The group cited ‘dumsor’, unemployment and poor healthcare systems as enough reasons to embark on the demonstration.