Phia🎈

unorthodox.

[Phia🎈 @NaaKarley]

Naah Priya cannot be saved #loveislanduk

[shafman 🇵🇸🇸🇩 @yaron__zango]

tse addo flooded. east legon hills flood.

have you seen a single video of these “thugs” identifying as municipal officials, from those communities, hounding residents to “clean” or “desilt” or whatever performance?

poor people are always the easiest target for their silliness

[thousand. @oneman1000_]

Today’s clean-up proved something: “fix yourself” only goes so far. People cleaned. Rubbish was gathered. Now what? Without proper waste management services and sanitation law enforcement, we’re treating symptoms, not the problem.

Fix the system.

[⭐︎ | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇫🇷 @satorutismz]

Angelista and Yasmin’s reaction to Finley and Elicia’s kiss is still frying me #LoveIsland #LoveIslandUK

[pia mia kathani amari III 🪽 @viscuntress]

i genuinely think i’ve never hated a male islander this much EVER like GENUINELY

[Phia🎈 @NaaKarley]

Good one Priya

[Alfred @CallmeAlfredo]

In the end, it all comes down to governance. Communal labour cannot substitute for working institutions.

In 2023, the Auditor-General audited how two Assemblies, La-Nkwantanang-Madina Municipal Assembly (LaNMMA) in the Greater Accra Region and Awutu Senya East Municipal Assembly (ASEMA) in the Central Region, collected and carted away solid waste from their markets.

The audit found that the Assemblies’ own waste trucks were broken down for years over faults that were repairable. There was no maintenance plan. Waste went uncollected for weeks at a time.

The large waste containers at the markets were far fewer than needed. The overflow did not disappear. It piled up around the markets and washed into gutters and drains. The same drains we want to desilt after every flood.

Zoomlion was contracted to lift most of the waste. It underperformed, yet was paid in full. The Assemblies quietly used their own limited resources to cover the gap.

And the accountability loop that allowed this: Zoomlion wrote its own performance reports, the Assemblies endorsed them without checking, and payment followed from the District Assemblies Common Fund.

This is not an isolated finding. The Auditor-General’s annual reports on the Common Fund have repeatedly cited the same contractor, across different contracts, for the better part of two decades. The same issues keep appearing because nothing structural changes.

Part of the reason is how the money flows. Payment is deducted at source by the Fund administrator before the Assemblies ever see it. So the level of government that can see whether the work is done has no control over payment. And the level that controls payment does no checking.

Clean the drains this weekend. But until the trucks are fixed, the containers provided and the work verified before payment, we will meet again at the next flood.

[Sarah Destiny @sarahdestinyx]

Does Martha think she’s better than Priya or something? Why must Aidan explain himself to you? Thought he gave you the ick sis ? #loveisland

[UN Human Rights @UNHumanRights]

The racist, dehumanising remarks against @KMbappe by Paraguayan Sen. Celeste Amarilla are despicable, regrettably not isolated.

States & sports organisations must prevent acts of racism & discrimination, and ensure independent and effective accountability. Social media must also prevent and address racial discrimination on their platforms.

https://t.co/TVawwmw3Qo

[Bukky baby @theOlubukolami_]

I also need women to speak up more about how much a bad debtors men are and how much they beg too

Men be on here calling women Almajiri yet they’re always begging for money and loans from women they never pay back

[Phia🎈 @NaaKarley]

@kofiObrims Yes sir

[her. @rubylaren]

I don’t even think Dede wanted to say this much. It’s the whole “that person” that was the final straw because why are you begging me in private and trying to rubbish me in public?. Same thing Kola did to her in the house. So now she’s like let’s wrap this shit up ASAP.

[Temilola ❤ @tinnee_temmie]

The people making me laugh are Kode shippers, dem no send anyone at all. They are just happy their ship dey communicate 😂😂

[moneee ♡︎ @BaeHelpAdri]

I love a big dick pussy eating monster

[Niall Harbison @NiallHarbison]

Rocky 6 weeks ago the day I first met him. He was as good as dead.

Even I have to pinch myself at what he is like today… (1/6) 🧵

[Thato @Tidoo_Wax]

"Babe come on top"

Me:😭

[Kwaku Asante @kwakuasanteb]

The idea that current fuel prices have nothing to do with Trump’s war on Iran and actually not the sole reason is so ignorant it genuinely beggars belief.

Before Trump and Netanyahu’s illegal war against Iran led to the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, crude on the international market was sitting at around 65 dollars a barrel. In Ghana, the pump price had dropped as low as 9.7 cedis at one point, and was just above 10 cedis before the conflict escalated. In fact, we even had a one cedi levy on fuel, and prices were still so low.

Now go back to 2022, when diesel hit north of 23 cedis. Yes, the Russia-Ukraine war was a factor. But the fuller picture is this: Brent crude was just under 100 dollars, and our cedi had been badly mismanaged. The exchange rate was out of control. It was the combination of high global prices and a weak cedi that led to the super high prices we all complained of. You could not excuse the government of the time from that. Those are facts, not feelings.

If at the point global crude hit 115 dollars a barrel during this Iran war, your cedi was trading at 15 to the dollar, you would have been paying 23 cedis for petrol or worse. So now that global crude prices are falling and your cedi is holding firm, pump prices will come down. Basic sense.

So when people in the comments and quotes want to reduce all of this to partisan point-scoring, dismissing any inconvenient analysis as bias, they are not engaging with the argument. Get out of my quotes with your dumb nonsense.

[Ụlọma @ulxma]

Can’t say “virgin” so had to make up a new category to flex.

[Osagyefo Oliver Barker-Vormawor @barkervogues]

Edem @edemagbana’s Agbana’s committed voice on the Public Accounts Committee is the reason why more young people need to be in Parliament.

The ancestors approve, Edem. Keep speaking.

[Kwaku Asante @kwakuasanteb]

With patients lying on the floor all over in Ghana's Public Hospitals, the political class, it appears, have, for a very long time, decided that public healthcare does not matter enough, because they do not use public healthcare. The moment they feel unwell, they are on the next available flight to London.

But there is a category of sickness that does not give you time to pack a bag and book a flight. But they will soon discover, at the worst possible moment, exactly what it feels like to be at the mercy of a system they chose not to fix.