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[Hanan Trendy @HananTrendy]

Tyrion played the smart game.
Daenerys played her own game.
Jon Snow hated the game.
Sansa played the long game.
Arya thought the game was meaningless.
Greyworm doesn't play-play games.
Bran has all the cheat codes to the game.
Drogon: "F*ck y'all game."
#Gameofthrones #GOT

[Hanan Trendy @HananTrendy]

@IRAN_GHANA Except Africa 🤣

[JoyNews @JoyNewsOnTV]

2022 Budget: E-levy will afford government one trillion cedis annually for development - John Boadu. #JoyNews

[IRAN EMBASSY in KENYA @IRANinKENYA]

Good phone call, Chancellor? Let's walk through this slowly. (1) you wetserns need to learn how to address us, swap "must" for "can". Demands don't land here. (2) you seem to have forgotten we were already at the negotiating table, twice, until @POTUS & his genocidal Zionist allies
bombed it, twice. Memory is inconvenient, we know. (3) the Strait is closed by a US blockade, not by us; uppercase/lowercase matter. (4) we don't care whether you "allowed" us or not. We never wanted, never want, and never will want a non-peaceful nuclear program. But a peaceful one? That's our inherent right, and we're not leaving it. Now, shall we schedule your next phone call, or does Berlin think it can handle reality on its own this time?

[kwame agbodza @KAgbodza]

THE STATE OF OUR ROAD TRAFFIC LIGHT SYSTEM

The Department of Urban Roads (DUR) has released a comprehensive briefing on our national traffic signal infrastructure. The data reveals severe structural, financial, and operational challenges that directly impact urban mobility and public safety.
Here are the key takeaways from the April 2026 assessment:

*1. The Numbers*
•411 Total Installations across 11 regions under DUR jurisdiction.
•63% Operational Rate: Only 257 signals are currently functional (ON).
•32% Inactive Rate: 132 signals are down (OFF), causing severe gridlock.
•5% Decommissioned: 22 units have been completely removed due to structural damage or road redesigns.
•Geographic Imbalance: Infrastructure is heavily centralized, with the Greater Accra Region hosting 59% (241) and the Ashanti Region hosting 15% (61) of all signals. Five regions currently have zero traffic lights under DUR oversight.
*2. Why Are the Lights Off?*
Between 2020 and 2026, 587 distinct critical incidents disrupted the network:
•Vehicular Crashes (77.5% / 455 incidents): Reckless driving and overspeeding remain the leading causes of destruction, repeatedly knocking down poles, gantries, and controllers at major intersections like Okponglo, Tesano, and Kasoa.
•Vandalism & Theft (17.4% / 102 incidents): Organized syndicates are actively targeting public infrastructure—stealing expensive computerized controllers, solar panels, inverters, backup batteries, and underground copper cables.
•Equipment Obsolescence: 30 recorded cases of outdated legacy hardware for which replacement parts are no longer manufactured.

*3. Case Study: The Awoshie-Pokuase Corridor*
The Anyaa-Sowutuom stretch highlights the severity of asset degradation:
•At School Junction, a violent crash completely obliterated the solar array and control system, tragically resulting in a driver fatality.
•At Odorgono and Anyaa Market, thieves repeatedly bypassed security enclosures to strip out backup batteries and main micro-controllers.
•Across the corridor, criminals have physically climbed overhead gantries to slice and extract specialized copper solar power delivery cables.

*4. The Institutional Bottlenecks*
Resolving these outages is severely stalled by two major hurdles:
•Contractual Issues .
•. Public Indebtedness: The state currently owes maintenance contractors for previously completed works, bringing rapid-response restorations to a halt.

*5. Security Countermeasures & Enforcement*
To combat theft and protect newly installed assets, the DUR is rolling out:
•Heavy-duty steel internal/external burglarproof cages around control cabinets.
•Thicker iron casing plates and lockable composite underground chamber slabs.
•Strict identity protocols requiring all authorized field technicians to wear branded PPE and display official DUR Identification.
•Increased legal enforcement under the Road Traffic Regulations for damaging public road infrastructure.

*6. Looking to the Future: Tech Modernization*
Long-term relief depends on moving away from standalone lights toward Intelligent Traffic Systems:
•Area-Wide Traffic Signal Control System (AWTSCS): Currently running on the Neoplan-to-CBD corridor (funded by AFD/GoG). It integrates 33 smart controllers, 80 CCTV cameras, and a Bus Priority System feeding into the Accra Traffic Management Centre.
•Accra Intelligent Traffic Management System (AITMS) Phase II: It features a state-of-the-art "Intelligent Tower" command center (65% built). However, overall project progress has stalled at 23% due to ongoing legal disputes, leaving critical high-tech hardware sitting in storage.

Ghana is currently facing a $55m Court Judgement Debt in relation to the Accra Intelligence Traffic Management Contract.

Let’s work together to keep our public road traffic lights working.

[Franklin CUDJOE @lordcudjoe]

The fastest economic recovery in Ghana's history has been recorded and achieved by version 2.0 of the Mahama-led government — this, after the most regressive, self-immolating policies of waste, mismanagement, and plunder the country has ever seen.

Key achievements:

· Exit from the IMF programme with star-studded honours
· Rapid decline in inflation
· A confident cedi
· International reserves built back better
· The quickest debt reduction from 65% to 45% of GDP in just one year

Buoyed by confidence, candour, and transparency, the government's finance team — competently led by Dr. Ato Forson — carefully choreographed how to work with the IMF programme they inherited, even though it was badly bruised, broken, and moribund from excessive haemorrhage following the twin shocks of the DDEP, which amounted to the literal pickpocketing of our savings and investments by the previous administration.

Remember: the previous government renegotiated the IMF programme the NDC government handed to them. Sadly, they missed almost 70% of the structural benchmarks they had promised the IMF by the end of 2019 — when the economy was already stuttering in fits — only to later be exposed and overwhelmed by COVID-19 and, to a very minute degree, the Russian war on Ukraine.

In essence, the final apocalyptic collapse of the economy we witnessed in 2022 — with all macroeconomic indicators gasping for air — was entirely avoidable.

So what has changed this time with the exit plan from the IMF? A commitment never to return to the IMF after three and a half years — the period we have been cursed, through maladministration, to return to the Fund since independence in 1957.

The Finance Minister and his team defended a decision before Cabinet to be bound by additional strictures of the IMF for 36 months, long after the general elections in 2028. This is to remain credible to investors and the markets, and in the process mobilise enough capital to invest in critical areas of the economy to provide jobs — but crucially, to free up domestic resources for the private sector to blossom. It is a promise not to splurge and waste resources, as has usually been the case with governments that exit IMF programmes.

Essentially, the Government of Ghana announced the official conclusion of the IMF Extended Credit Facility Programme and transitioned immediately to the non-financing Policy Coordination Instrument (PCI) of the IMF.

What is the PCI? It is a non-financial advisory and monitoring tool provided by the IMF. It allows the country to design and implement its own economic reforms without receiving a financial bailout, acting essentially as a global seal of approval for the government's fiscal management.

This masterstroke in economic diplomacy could not have been achieved without the backing of the President, whose mission this time around is legacy and respect. The President reads every document handed to him, often correcting grammatical mistakes before signing the country up to the contents.

So, we can say that yes, stability has been achieved after the races with death we experienced prior to 2025. Resilience is what we aim for now as a country. We need to remain disciplined and reduce losses by State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs), which cost governments approximately $2 billion annually.

Quite a number of SOEs must be axed outright, others merged, and still others injected with independent, world-class management to return profit — because they are enterprises, not social care homes.

In the meantime, we are grateful for the dexterity of the economic management team, the Governor of the Bank of Ghana, the encouraging progress of GoldBod, and all other functionaries of government who will abide by the honour code of spending within budgets to make Ghana's self-imposed IMF PCI possible.

[Pop Base @PopBase]

Today marks the 78th anniversary of the Nakba (catastrophe), during which more than 750,000 Palestinians were expelled and over 400 villages were destroyed to establish the State of Israel.

[Bloomberg @business]

Ghana’s benchmark stock market has risen 63.4% in local-currency terms, making it the world’s best performing after South Korea https://t.co/1Q6l1nXd6H

[Hamdaway @HamdawaySayibu]

Many people are hearing about the Daniel Ofori vs Ecobank case, but don’t fully understand how the whole issue started and how it ended.

Here’s the simple breakdown from the beginning to today:

In 2008, Ghanaian businessman Daniel Ofori sold about 14.3 million CAL Bank shares to another businessman, William Oppong-Bio.

The transaction was handled through Databank Brokerage while Ecobank Ghana acted as the settlement/payment bank.

The shares were worth about GH¢13.7 million.

According to Daniel Ofori, after the shares had already been transferred, Ecobank failed to complete payment after the Bank of Ghana and SEC raised concerns about the transaction.

Part of the money, about GH¢6.16 million, was then allegedly placed into an investment arrangement with Ecobank at an agreed interest rate of 30%.

This is where the real issue began.

Daniel Ofori later sued Ecobank, arguing that:
1. The shares had already been sold and transferred
2. Therefore he deserved payment
3. Ecobank also owed him the agreed investment interest

Ecobank fought the case for years, arguing that:
- the transaction became problematic after regulatory intervention
- there were inconsistencies in the documents
- and Daniel Ofori was still receiving dividends on the shares after supposedly selling them

One major question people asked was:
“If he sold the shares, why was he still receiving dividends?”

Ecobank used this point to challenge the entire claim and later even alleged document alteration and fraud.

But the courts repeatedly ruled in Daniel Ofori’s favour.

The biggest turning point came in 2018 when the Supreme Court ruled that Daniel Ofori was entitled to the money and the agreed 30% interest.

After that, another battle started:
How should the interest be calculated?

Simple interest?
Yearly compound interest?
Or monthly compound interest?

That calculation changed everything.

Because when 30% interest compounds over many years, the amount becomes extremely huge.

Ecobank kept challenging the judgment and tried several legal attempts to overturn or reduce the amount.

But in 2026, the Supreme Court finally upheld the earlier rulings and confirmed that Daniel Ofori was entitled to the compounded interest.

This officially ended one of Ghana’s biggest and longest commercial court battles.

Charley this case will probably be studied in Ghana’s banking and legal sectors for many years 😁

Follow for more @HamdawaySayibu

[Commentary Syed Abbas Araghchi @Araghchhi]

Anyone who thinks Iran will hand Donald Trump a deal he can brag about is living in fantasy. Deceased Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Khamenei, General Qassem Soleimani and a long list of Iran’s senior leaders. Tehran is not going to decorate him with a diplomatic victory after that.

Iran may negotiate when it serves its interests. But it will not reward Trump. It will not give him a trophy. And it will not sign anything he can sell it as a win.

If Trump is furious about Iran’s leverage over the Strait of Hormuz, then Tehran has even less reason to give it up. That card is one of Iran’s strongest, and it will not hand it to him just to calm his anger. On the contrary, Trump can stay angry until the end of his term. Iran is not in the business of rescuing his ego.

[Hanan Trendy @HananTrendy]

Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary

[Hanan Trendy @HananTrendy]

🤣🤣🤣 no doubt Sammy is the GOAT 🐐 of political coms 🫡

[Aristotlektv @aristotledada]

Master JANDAM killer Sammy Gyamfi Esq @SammyGyamfi_ killing BoG cost incurred JANDAM from Kojo Oppong Nkrumah and the minuscule mini nano minority.
The Bank of Ghana (BoG) incurred cost in 2025 not because of mismanagement. If you look at the 3 main expenditure items that led to GHS15 billion losses, you will see that the BoG is a victim of its successes. The CEDI is strengthened as a result of that which has brought relief to businesses and remarkable economic turnaround.
#JandamEgu

[Hanan Trendy @HananTrendy]

I don’t tolerate that either 🔥🔥🔥

[Joy 99.7 FM @Joy997FM]

Abdul Hanan's Arrest: When they [Hanan’s Lawyers] came, they wanted us to stop everything we were doing and listen to them because there is a red carpet that has to be rolled out for the former Attorney-General. That kind of mindset I don’t tolerate.
Raymond Archer [Executive Director, EOCO].
#JoyNews #Newsfile

[Hanan Trendy @HananTrendy]

@gh_airports Someone said it is a refurbished 34yrs old cargo plane 🤣🤣🤣

[IRAN Embassy in Austria @IraninAustria]

The so-called “ceasefire” in #Gaza, announced on October 10, 2025, has been nothing short of a bloody farce.
Since that date alone, the #Israeli regime has slaughtered 972 Palestinians and wounded 2,235 more through relentless, unpunished attacks. Add those numbers to the more than 72,000 already murdered and over 172,000 maimed before this cynical mockery of a ceasefire, and the full horror of this heinous #genocide becomes undeniable.
And yet, while the terrorist Israeli regime continues its daily atrocities, European leaders—those self-appointed guardians of human rights—have done nothing but load the magazine of international law with bullets of pure hypocrisy, training their cynical fire on the territorial integrity of #Iran, scheming to strip Iran of its national sovereignty over the Strait of #Hormuz.
🔺️The message is clear: #Palestinian blood is cheap, but Iranian oil routes are worth a crusade.

[Hanan Trendy @HananTrendy]

@Fentuo_ Perhaps Gary is using @telecelghana

[Lars Bangert Struwe @LarsBStruwe]

Dear @SecWar
In Denmark, we say that it is perfectly fine not to come to the party if you were not invited.

The US did not reach out to its allies, but chose to go to war with Iran without consulting NATO. Now you are scolding us for not showing up — but the reality is that you never invited us.

You love to berate Europe and NATO, but you are completely forgetting — or simply do not know — the following:
1. European NATO is rearming and, as agreed, spending more than 2% — that was the target we committed to reaching by 2024, and we are there now. And we are continuing to rearm.
2. You are also forgetting — or do not know — that NATO is a defensive alliance. It has been activated once. That was 25 years ago, when the United States was attacked. Back then, we had a good relationship with one another. We spoke respectfully to each other and we trusted each other. That is what made the United States a superpower — because it had friends it could count on to show up.

Now you have repeatedly trashed us, you did not invite us to the party, and yet you are angry that we are not coming. That simply does not make any sense.

[Hanan Trendy @HananTrendy]

@Bridget_Otoo can I send u a message? Something is about to happen to Tamale forest near Morden city and Nobisco Senior High School

Pls

[Seyed Mohammad Marandi @s_m_marandi]

Everyone should immediately leave the UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, Saudi, and Kuwait. Sailors on all ships in the Persian Gulf must also prepare to evacuate their ships. This is especially urgent for ships near the Strait of Hormuz, which will be destroyed first. Time is running out.

[Hanan Trendy @HananTrendy]

You should be ears of POTUS

[Joe Kent @joekent16jan19]

POTUS is laying out two courses of action—a negotiated settlement, or a major escalation.

There is a third option, and he should take it: recognize there is no way to force a positive outcome and simply leave.

The region is not ours to fix. President Reagan chose this path in Lebanon in ‘84, withdrawing U.S. forces after the Beirut barracks bombing once it became clear the mission’s stabilization goals could not be met, effectively ending direct American military involvement and avoiding a deeper quagmire and long-term entrenchment in the region.

A negotiated settlement is unlikely to work or be taken seriously by the Iranians unless we make concessions on the enrichment issue. As we saw yesterday in the SOH, the IRGC is empowered to act without the consent of the civilian leadership, so it’s likely they won’t honor any deal reached.

A major escalation will lead to a very destructive outcome for Iran, the region, and eventually the U.S. If POTUS chooses brute force and targets civilian infrastructure, we will create another generation of radicalized Iranians who will rally around the regime and escalate the war by any means possible.

If POTUS opts to strike the civilian infrastructure, declare victory, and then leave, we will only further erode our standing in the world, the petrodollar, and eventually our status as the world’s reserve currency holder. We need to get out now.

Don’t double down on failure. Avoid the sunken cost trap, leave now, and put America’s interests first.

[Iran in Ghana @IRAN_GHANA]

"Deer" Pete Hegseth, Secretary of War(nings),

This morning you offered Iran "the nice way or the hard way."
We had already dictated: include Lebanon. You said no. A few days later, your Presiden't announced a Lebanon ceasefire.
We call this the Persian way.
One more thing.
Your employer's Prime Sinister learned about his own ceasefire from a Truth Social post — mid-cabinet-vote.
In older civilizations, we notify our allies before we surrender on their behalf.
But you're still new at this.