“We have a flag, we have independence but still the system is rigged such that we have to export raw materials to our colonial masters who manufacture them into finished goods and determine the prices for us”
-President John Mahama elaborated on his speech at the UN Conference, where he highlighted how African nations continue to rely heavily on their former colonial powers for survival, even many years after gaining independence.
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN🙁
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The plastics are labeled. The evidence is clear. Now, The Companies, what’s your plan to recollect it? and Save our environment.
Dear Sir President of the Republic of Ghana @officialjdmahama , National Road safety Authority @officialnrsaghana The Ministry of Roads & Highways, The Media, Fellow Ghanaians. I present to you STATE OF THE ROAD ADDRESS-GHANA 🇬🇭2025 . Thank you
I think this is how an aggrieved worker who hasn't been paid for 9-10 months should speak. And not to cry or beg. As if they will be doing you a favour by paying you. It is your goddam right!!
Stop begging. Professionals do not go to the Ministry of Health crying 'We're hungry'. It's an insult to your training and a surrender of your power.
This government had the audacity to fly a bloated delegation of nearly 200 people to UN conference. Politicians keep squandering money on nonsensical performative gestures and leave you all empty. You have the power to paralyze the system. Use it. This cowardice and victimhood is what has built strong towers for unworthy politicians. A nurse must never ever beg to be paid. What is this?!
Are we children of a lesser god??
And someone had the temerity to invade a hospital ward with a gang, put patients on camera, reportedly bruise a nurse, and had an entire party machinery defend him.
Scandalous!!
The leaders we vote for are self-inflicted pain!!
We don't respect nurses. Ghanaian nurses are the best in the world. No nurse anywhere in the West will appear in the hospital if one day of wage is missed! Just one day.
I have seen nurses in this country carry fibroids in buckets.
What kind of people are we? And everything is politics. Party footsoldiers masquerading as journalists and defending absolute insanity. Every single mouthpiece in this nation has been sealed with corruption money.
We don't love this nation. We're cooked so hot beyond recognition!
A few people under the comment section claim teachers in "grade A" schools don't teach. My response to them is that good teachers don't teach. They inspire learning.
Also, when you have a group of highly motivated students sleeping in one dormitory, sitting in one class and dining from the same table, the only way is up. It's environment.
Every government school must be equipped with the same facilities, staffed with comparably qualified teachers, and given equal access to learning materials. If the fees are equal, then access must be equal. Simplicita.
There is nothing impressive about having majority of our senior high schools highly deprived while we pride ourselves in a few who produce students who don't even stay in the country after we invest in them. I almost became one of those who wouldn't return. We need to have a plan as a nation! Let's have a plan!
One of the things I pride myself in as a Ghanaian is the kind of senior high schools we have. That notwithstanding, I think the system is fundamentally flawed. If schools are classified as grade A, C, or D, then their final examinations should reflect those distinctions. They must not sit the same exams.
We operate a system that accepts disparities in infrastructure, teaching quality, and academic support, yet demands uniform outcomes.
How can we justify equal tuition/boarding fees when some students lack access to qualified teachers, science labs, libraries, dormitories or even basic learning materials? We have normalized educational inequality but expect excellence from those denied the tools to achieve it.
Are we children of a lesser god?
Months ago, I interviewed young Samuel Naamwingnaa, a student-inventor who started his engineering at just 7.
I asked if he could build an automated system to help government toll collection.
This week he has completed a system that will allow drivers use Ghana card to pay at the booth and if they don’t want to pay daily, it will accumulate on their Ghana card so they pay monthly or their access gets blocked.
This lad won the 2024 Best Presidential Pitch Award.
He’s the next Apostle Kwadwo Sarfo.
Dear Reader,
The NDC’s defense for the rapidly deteriorating environment that they have issued the fewest mining licenses inadequate and deeply troubling. Over six million Ghanaians voted for this government with the expectation that it would end illegal mining, not engage in statistical deflection. This is a matter of national survival.
Galamsey operators are not licensed. The devastation they cause is outside the bounds of any formal regulatory framework. Moreover, the current licensing structure has no correlation with actual mining methodology. Issuing fewer licenses does not equate to better oversight or reduced harm. These are the core issues and the government must take full responsibility.
Also, the presence of heavy metals in our water bodies is silent. The metals do not visibly alter the colour of the water. So when a journalist stands beside a river as seen in this video and claims that the blue hue signals progress, they either lack a basic understanding of the matter or are willfully misleading the public. Whether the water appears blue, brown, or clear, the toxic metals remain suspended within.
Every water body in mining-affected communities must be treated. Colour is not the metric of safety. Chemistry rather is. Instead of acting rhetorically, the President must act DECISIVELY.