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[GHANA FACTS & HISTORY @GhanaianMuseum]

Accra, Ghana, 6 March 1971 — More than 100,000 people gathered at Black Star Square for the legendary 15-hour “Soul to Soul” concert, held as part of Ghana’s 14th Independence anniversary celebrations. The historic event brought Ike & Tina Turner, Wilson Pickett, Santana, The Staple Singers, Roberta Flack and other African American artists to Ghana, performing alongside Ghanaian and African musicians such as Guy Warren/Kofi Ghanaba, Charlotte Dada, Kwaa Mensah and The Magic Aliens. It became a powerful Independence Day celebration of music, African identity, and unity between Africa and the diaspora.

[GHANA FACTS & HISTORY @GhanaianMuseum]

Accra, March 1976 : Thousands gathered at the Accra Community Centre to mark 16 years since the Sharpeville Massacre, where 69 Black Africans were killed protesting apartheid laws. The rally reaffirmed Ghana’s solidarity with South Africa’s liberation struggle.

[Ghana Armed Forces @GhArmedForces]

As of 25 June 2026, 89.5 km (50.9%) of the Accra Kumasi Expressway Corridor has been cleared. This milestone was reached in 9 weeks, using just 45% of the estimated project duration. The remaining 86.1 km corridor will be completed over the next 13 weeks.

[CITI FM 97.3 @Citi973]

CEO of Japan Motors, Salem Kalmoni, says Ghana once had a thriving automotive assembly industry dating back to the 1960s, with multiple plants and a full local component ecosystem.

He noted that the sector collapsed in 1979 but is now being revived, questioning whether Ghana has fully learned from past failures and how to sustain current reforms.

Watch the final Roundtable of the Citi Business Festival 2026 here: https://t.co/Tn5LTze79E

#CitiBusinessFestival #ChannelOneTV #CitiFM #AutomotiveIndustry

[Osagyefo Oliver Barker-Vormawor @barkervogues]

The Ecowas Court has just ruled in favour of Ghana and dismissed former Chief Justice Torkonoo’s action on all claims. The Court found that no violations of rights occurred and that she was not entitled to her claim of 10 million US dollars.

Ghana’s case was pleaded and argued by Deputy Attorney-General - Dr @JusticeSremSai. And the former Chief Justice was represented by well known Senior Advocate of Nigeria - Femi Falana.

Femi Falana lost his cool after the Judgment and made a remark that the judgment should be made available so all judges in teh sub region would know that they cant rule against their Governments. The Court found the conduct and comments of Femi Falana “unacceptable” and “did not expect that from him".

Court was impressed with submissions arguments made by Justice Sai and upheld all of them.

The Court ruled as follows:

1. The Suspension of the Chief Justice did not violate her right to work. The Court rejects Torkonor claim that her suspension was arbitrary and motivated by ill will.

2. Torkonoo was not arbitrarily dismissed. The Court finds that due process was observed.

3. The Chief Justice’s claim that she is also a member of the Supreme Court, Court of Appeal and High Court and should have been removed separately from all these courts absurd. In the Court's view, her membership of these courts flowed from her position as Chief Justice. And if she was no longer Chief Justice, she could not claim to be a member of all the separate courts.

4. The Court rejects Torkonoo’s claim that her removal was unlawful because the Committee only confided itself to only the first petition and did not go into the second and third petitions. The Court finds that on the whole, the Committed acted prudently in the interest of judicial economy.

5. The Court rejects Torkonoo’s claim that she was treated to undignified treatment, because she was searched, and that her husband and family were excluded from attending the parties; and also that the choice of Adu Lodge, was deliberate because of her uncle. The Court found that the measures taken to secure the proceedings were lawfully and proportionate.

6. The Court rejected the claim that the Committee violated her rights by continuing with the removal proceedings, despite the fact that she had filed an application for provisional measures seeking to suspend the proceedings.

7. The Court holds that Ghana did not violate Torkonoo’s right to receive information about the proceedings. That even though Torkonoo is entitled to receive the full report and record of proceedings, she did not even prove that she had first requested for the full report before proceeding to court.

[Dzata Nelson, CSG,YA,SC @DzataOfficial]

🚨 “Africans did not sell their own brothers. It is a lie.”

Renowned historian and lawyer Anokye makes a bold statement on the history of slavery at the Ghana-Caribbean Week Opening Ceremony at Alisa Hotel.
#GhanaCaribbeanWeek #DzataOfficial

[Dikkat Medya @dikkatmedya]

Vietnam Savaşı sırasında Amerika’nın köprüleri bombalamasının ardından, kadınların Vietnamlı askerlerin geçiş yapabilmesi için adeta insan köprüsü olması tarihin tozlu sayfalarından bir kare.

[Daniel Mayakovski @DaniMayakovski]

Un 19 de mayo de 1890 nacía el legendario lider comunista y anti-colonial vietnamita, Ho Chi Minh, el gigante invicto que derrotó 3 imperios y puso de rodillas al poder occidental.

En 1940, combatió durante 5 años en la guerrilla y derrotó al Imperio Japonés, en 1945 organizó la expulsión del colonialismo francés de Vietnam y en 1975, terminaría venciendo al invasor de EEUU en su cobarde agresión contra Vietnam... un guerrero anti-imperialista irrepetible.

Ho Chi Minh fue uno de los fundadores del Partido Comunista Francés, así como del Partido Comunista de Vietnam, en la URSS fue asesor del Komintern para el Sudeste Asiático, además de participar en el movimiento socialista mundial en Nueva York, Londres y París.

"Si dos piedras chocan entre sí, ambas se romperían. Esto significa que se deben usar estrategias en torno a la capacidad del enemigo. Francia tiene tanques y artillería, entonces les destruimos las carreteras. Francia usa aviones, les cavaremos trincheras. Francia quiere ganar una victoria rápida, pues entonces libraremos una guerra prolongada. Razonando de esta manera, ciertamente ganamos. La posición enemiga es como el fuego, nuestra posición es como el agua y el agua siempre prevalecerá sobre el fuego".

[SCOTT BOLSHEVIK @scottbolshevik]

NDC must know that NPP plays sabotage politics even though NDC has good intentions. Before the 2016 election, there were many infernos, mostly strategically set to make the government unpopular. Now the attacks target electrical infrastructure.

In such a system, it is acceptable to replace party loyalists in key positions with professional appointments and conduct transparent investigations to remove the incentive for sabotage.

[BBC News Africa @BBCAfrica]

Ghana’s Foreign Minister Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa told the BBC’s Focus on Africa the Trump administration “missed a golden opportunity” by voting against a UN resolution recognising the transatlantic slave trade as the "gravest crime against humanity."

[Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 @jacksonhinkle]

🚨🇺🇳 BREAKING: The United Nations has voted 123-3 in favor to condemn the enslavement of millions of Africans and the trans-Atlantic slave trade.

The three countries voting against it:

🇺🇸 USA
🇮🇱 Israel
🇦🇷 Argentina

Nearly all of Europe abstained.

[Russian Embassy in Kenya/Посольство России в Кении @russembkenya]

❗️UNGA Adopts Ghana's Resolution labeling slave trade as gravest crime against humanity

A long overdue recognition.

The transatlantic slave trade devastated #Africa and shaped centuries of inequality

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

At a Latin America and Caribbean forum in Bogota, Colombia, Ghana's foreign minister proposed a resolution recognizing the trans-Atlantic slave trade as a crime against humanity and right to reparations.

[SCOTT BOLSHEVIK @scottbolshevik]

In Australia, dual citizens cannot serve in Parliament. Why should Ghana do otherwise?

Under Section 44 of the Constitution, anyone who owes allegiance to another country is disqualified from holding office.

In 2017, several MPs were forced to resign after it was discovered they held foreign citizenship.

[SCOTT BOLSHEVIK @scottbolshevik]

Dennis Miracles Aboagye’s claim ignores an important fact:

1. Ghana’s IMF programme explicitly requires cost-reflective electricity tariffs

2. The resumption of quarterly tariff adjustments to stabilise the energy sector and stop new debt accumulation.

The increases that happened earlier were therefore linked to the IMF reform programme agreed under the previous administration, and they were even necessary to unlock about $370 million in IMF support during programme reviews.

What the latest reduction shows is not that the IMF link was “propaganda,” but that the tariff formula also responds to economic conditions like inflation, exchange rates, fuel costs, and power generation mix, which can push prices either up or down.

[SCOTT BOLSHEVIK @scottbolshevik]

Thank You H.E for the first step made.

For decades Ghana has exported gold worth an estimated $10–15 billion annually, yet under the old flat 5 % royalty regime the state only collected a small share of that value, leaving much of the profit to foreign mining companies.

Under the new sliding‑scale royalty law (5–12 % tied to gold pricing above ~$4,500/oz) Ghana is now positioned to capture far more revenue when prices are high a much‑needed shift toward fairer returns for a nation that produces 60–65 % of global gold. This reform strengthens state revenue, supports community funds, and reflects a proactive fiscal approach by the current government.

[Saddick Adams @SaddickAdams]

I insist that NO Ghanaian should be charged any application fees to serve in a security service only for 90% to be disqualified.

Charging your citizens seeking employment? These public institutions have annual budgets and must entail cost of recruitment.

The practice is extremely wrong on all fronts and nothing but plain exploitation!!

[Kwesi Pratt Jnr. @kwesiprattjr]

#FRENCH
News of French soldiers pouring into Ghana to organize stimulations on how to fight Galamsey is most shocking.
What do French soldiers know about Galamsey?

Why do we create the impression that we cannot do anything for ourselves without the involvement of those who colonized us?

It is time for our leaders to understand that the armies of the ex-colonizers have only one objective, which is to protect the legacies of their countries.

This must be in sharp contrast to the objective of independent African countries which must be the protection of national sovereignty expressed as the right to own our resources and exploit them for the benefit of our people.

[HarmonyHaven @HarmonyHaven_1]

WHY WEALTHY FAMILIES CREATE 3 COMPANIES JUST TO OWN ONE ASSET :

"A WORTHWHILE READ"

-THREAD-👇

[Toyyib Adewale Adelodun @taadelodun]

An Uber driver from Iran told me a story that changed my life.

Uber drivers have always been a great part of my learning. It is an education worth 100x the Uber fee.

We started the conversation and I asked him about the most powerful lesson he carried from home.

He told me a famous story attributed to Imam Ali (Ali ibn Abi Talib).

When he was the 4th Caliph, a visitor came to see him at night.

Imam Ali asked one question before the conversation even started:

"Is this a public matter… or your personal matter?"

The man replied it is a personal matter.

Imam Ali switched off the lamp, and put on another lamp.

The visitor was confused and asked why.

Imam Ali said, "that lamp was paid for with public funds. This one is paid for with my own money."

How many present day leaders would even notice which lamp is which?

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