Following police post mortem carried on the body, the deceased was finally released to the family for his funeral rites on Thursday, April 8, 2021. “We’ve really missed him; the school really miss this boy. The school is sick, the last time when we went to school none of the teachers was able to eat. We really miss him. The nation has really missed a leader to be,” the teary headmistress told the media at the funeral.

Sports News of Friday, 9 April 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.comGhanaian defender Frank Assinki is set to feature for KFUM Roskilde in their game against Naestved in the Danish 2nd Division on Saturday, April 10, 2021. KFUM Roskilde lost their previous game on the road by 2-1 and are seeking to make amends after dropping points. The team currently lie 9th on the league table with 19 points out of 17 games played so far. Frank Assinki played the full throttle in his side’s last game on away grounds and the 18-year-old is looking forward to enjoy another full match action this weekend. Assinki joined FC Koge last season from Ghana Premier League side, Inter Allies.

Business News of Friday, 9 April 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.comA group calling itself the Coalition of Concerned Youth of Sefwi Land, has served a notice to the KINROSS Chirano Gold Mines Gh. Ltd to immediately split its Community Relations Department from the Human Resources Office while giving opportunities to natives of their land to head those positions. The Coalition said that this petition is in response to what they describe as unfair treatment that the management of the KINROSS Chirano Mines Gh. They explained that from the activities of mining by the company, they had lost everything that was once theirs to mining but refuse to sit and allow the destruction to fester. The group also bemoaned the unfair distribution of opportunities for jobs for non-indigenes over those that go to locals from the area, calling for a better distribution to be done for them.

Business News of Friday, 9 April 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.comCorrespondence from Western RegionFishmongers at Wassa Akropong market in the Wassa Amenfi East Municipality are blaming the FDA for the low patronage of fish on the market. At the Wassa Akropong Market on Thursday, fishmongers say they are recording low sales due to the directive given by the FDA urging Ghanaians to temporarily stop the consumption of salted fish, locally known as kako. According to the fish sellers, because of the directive to hold on with the consumption of salted fish, locally known as Kako, it has affected the sale of normal fish on the market. Some fish sellers who spoke to Ghanaweb said, even though the fish they are selling on the market are not the ones that were washed ashore at Axim, consumers are refusing to buy. They called on the FDA and the Fisheries Commission to expedite action on the investigation of what killed the fishes that were washed ashore in order to bring back life to the fish business.

Politics of Friday, 9 April 2021Source: Happy 98.9FMFormer Member of Parliament (MP) for Kumbungu, Ras Mubarak, has proposed that the state enact laws to go after people with unexplained wealth. He bemoaned how society hails people who get rich overnight and called for immediate action to be taken against people with unexplained wealth. “Currently a ten-year-old was killed and we are all worried and it is because apart from what is being shown on TV and internet, and parents not having time for their children, there is an issue of unexplained wealth. All manner of people not just politicians but worryingly politicians as well. Ras emphatically furthered that if the country was serious about fighting corruption and these juju issues, “then the state will have to enact laws that go after people who can’t explain their wealth”.

Reactive Power, essentially refers to the difference between the electricity supplied to customer and the electricity actually converted into useful power. Now, gleaning from one of the recent press releases by Gridco, it stated that, “Our power system has grown in terms of demand. Plausibly, it can be considered also that about 120MW out of the 2,736MW will be the amount of wasted power across the power supply system. In comparison; since 2013, Kenya’s transmission level has been 220KV and then commissioned 400kV Ultra-High Voltage transmission in 2017. Nigeria grid voltage transmission level has remained 330KV and increasing to Ultra-High Voltage.

“In recent days our attention has been drawn to the fact that some channels on our DTH platform use the medium to promote scammers, fraudsters, juju, and occultism, among others. “We strongly advise that if you have been showing any of the content, then please cease and desist in order to restore the values of the platform. It has since been reported that they meant to use the boy for money rituals upon instructions from a priest they had contacted. It is also believed that they came up with the idea after watching media content that showed spiritualists purporting to be able to make them instant wealth. Since then, calls from several quarters have been made for the regulation of the content that runs in our media.

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General News of Friday, 9 April 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.comOn April 9, 2014, the Minority New Patriotic Party (NPP) Caucus in Parliament vowed to investigate a US$306 million Ridge Hospital expansion project. The minority caucus indicated their preparedness to file for a motion of rescission to compel Parliament to recall the commercial agreement of the project for further interrogation. Parliament on April 1, 2014, approved the US$306million commercial agreement between the government and Messrs. Bouygues Bartiment International for the design, construction, procurement, and installation of equipment for the rehabilitation of the Ridge Hospital in Accra. What was more worrying, the Minority NPP noted, was the Ministry of Health’s stance to still enter negotiations with Bouygues Batiment International, despite the numerous advice from Crown Agents to tread cautiously. Notwithstanding the minority’s stance, the approval of the commercial agreement to expand the Ridge Hospital at a cost of US$306million has also incurred the wrath of some section of the general public as well as some civil society organisations.

Sports News of Friday, 9 April 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.comHooliganism in the Ghana Premier League and other competitions on the calendar of the Ghana Football Association continues to be a major setback on the local competitions. Issues about chaos during matches surfaced again with constant attacks on match officials by fans (mostly home fans) when results don't go in their favour. The recent attacks on referees at Wamanafo by the home supporters in the Division One League match between Wamanafo Mighty Royals FC and Tano Bofoakwa FC on Sunday, March 28, 2021, has generated conversations about hooliganism in Ghana football again. Ghana Premier League referee, Solomon Mordey, also added his voice to the conversation by blaming club administrators for the constant abuse of match officials by football fans. But who should be blamed for our inability to eradicate hooliganism from Ghana football?

Technical and commercial losses alone is over 25% and that means that for every 100 million that ECG is expected to collect, they can’t account for 25 million of it. So, if we only concentrate on increasing tariff without reducing technical and commercial losses, we will come back to square one,” he said. I have not seen how previous increments have helped reduce the technical and commercial losses,” he noted. Earlier, Kwame Agyeman-Budu, the Managing Director of the ECG had said at a public forum on Thursday, April 8, 2021, that to improve its service, his outfit needs more resources. “In terms of distribution, we need support, because we have to do upgrades to make sure the system is sustainable.

General News of Friday, 9 April 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.comThe ECOWAS court in April 2020 threw out three dismissed High Court Judges in Ghana for failing to prove that their rights were violated. The judges namely, Justices – Paul Uter Dery, Mustapha Habib Logoh and Gilbert Ayisi Addo – were part of the judges who were filmed while allegedly accepting bribes in Anas Aremeyaw Anas undercover investigation in 2015. A three-man panel of the ECOWAS Court led by Justice Dupe Atoki dismissed the suit, as he said the interference was justifiable as it was meant to expose unlawful conduct by public officers. Read the full story originally published on April 30, 2020, on GhanaWeb:The ECOWAS court in April 2020 threw out three dismissed High Court Judges in Ghana for failing to prove that their rights were violated. The judges namely, Justices – Paul Uter Dery, Mustapha Habib Logoh and Gilbert Ayisi Addo – were part of the judges who were filmed while allegedly accepting bribes in Anas Aremeyaw Anas undercover investigation in 2015.

General News of Friday, 9 April 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.comFounder of the United Progressive Party (UPP), Akwasi Addai Odike on April 9, 2020, faulted government for considering a few groups in the country as vulnerable despite the impact of COVID-19 on the country. He explained that not all head porters (kayayei), street hawkers, and shoeshine boys who prior to the lockdown earned a living through non-formal activities can be classified as vulnerable because some of them used to make “unbelievable savings” daily. The UPP party founder indicated that they were also to be considered vulnerable. His comments came on the back of the government serving some 400,000 individuals in the Greater Accra and the Greater Kumasi Metropolitan areas with daily hot meals and dry food. According to him, unemployed graduates who had no means of earning a living prior to the lockdown could be the most vulnerable in the present circumstances and so must also be brought into the bracket by government.

General News of Thursday, 8 April 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.comThere were tears and wailing on Thursday, April 8 as scores of people converged in Kasoa in the Central Region after the body of the 10-year-old boy who was gruesomely killed at Kasoa last weekend was released and sent to his family house to commence rites for his burial. Ishmael Mensah was killed by two teenagers, believed to be friends of his after they lured him into an uncompleted building and hit him with a cement block. The Central regional minister, Justina Marigold Assan, who paid a visit to the family of the deceased, assured them that the killers will be brought to book. She also assured them that the body of their son will be released to them soon. True to her words, and from a TV3 video, the body of the late Ishmael was seen being moved from a hearse into a compound believed to be where the funeral rites will be undertaken.

Regional News of Thursday, 8 April 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.comThe University for Development Studies (UDS) longest-serving Registrar, Dr. A. B. T Zakariah is now the Chief of Yapei traditional area in the Savannah Region of Ghana. I wish to call on everybody within the Yapei Traditional Area to endeavor to contribute in our small ways to ensure that the Yapei Traditional Area remains attractive for investors and development. Yapeiwura Dr. Zakariah insisted that education should be the panacea to eliminating uninformed generations. Yapeiwura Zakariah is a serious football fun, and will undoubtedly see to the development of sports in the Yapei Traditional Area.