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POV: Your salary is GHS 3,000 and rent is GHS 2,500 😭
So we asked, what would it take for Accra (or any African city) to build 100,000 ACTUALLY affordable homes?
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I barely do this but I beg any Ghanaian to read the following write up by Chris-Vincent Agyapong. Bookmark, share etc cos wtf 😳
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“Ghana's NITA Bill 2025: How a Government That Cannot Fix Potholes Wants to Certify Your Keyboard Strokes
There is a particular brand of Ghanaian governance that operates on a simple, well-rehearsed logic: identify the one sector in which ordinary young people, without connections, without family money, without a politician uncle are actually building something for themselves, and then erect a magnificent bureaucratic tollbooth right in the middle of it.
The National Information Technology Authority Bill, 2025 currently making its way through Ghana's legislative machinery with the quiet confidence of a document probably written by a majority of people who have never debugged a line of code in their lives is precisely that tollbooth. It is, in its 105 sections and accompanying Schedule, one of the most breathtaking exercises in regulatory overreach this country has produced in recent memory. And given our regulatory track record, that is genuinely saying something.
The ICT sector is the one industry where a boy from Ashaiman, or, like my friend from Pulima, Aliu Wahab, with a second-hand laptop and a YouTube tutorial, can compete with someone whose father went to Achimota. It is the one space where talent, not tribe; skill, not surname; output, not old-boy network, still carries meaningful weight. It is, bluntly, the only functioning meritocracy left in Ghana's economic life.
And our government, with the NITA Bill 2025 has decided that this is precisely the sector that requires the most elaborate regulatory architecture since the tale of Moses coming down from Sinai with the Ten Commandments.
The Absurdity of Section 46: Certifying Everyone, Everywhere, Always
Let us begin with what is, without competition, the most extraordinary provision in this bill. Section 46(1) states, in plain and unambiguous terms:
"A person shall not be appointed as an ICT professional in a public or private institution unless that person is certified by the Authority."
Read that again. Public or private.
This is not a provision that limits itself to government systems handling national security data. This is not a narrow carve-out for critical infrastructure. This is a provision that means the software developer at a startup in Osu, the data analyst at a logistics firm in Tema, the web designer freelancing from her bedroom in Kumasi, all of them, every single one must first obtain certification from a government authority before they can lawfully be employed.
Who dreamed this up? Under what theory of governance does it make sense for the government of Ghana which cannot consistently process a DVLA licence within six months, which spent years and hundreds of millions on a national identification system that still cannot talk to the health insurance database to position itself as the certifying gatekeeper for an entire profession across the entire economy?
And here is the delicious irony that the framers of this bill seem constitutionally incapable of perceiving: the government's own ICT record is the single most compelling argument against giving it certification authority over anyone. You do not hand the keys of the wine cellar to the person who has been drinking the wine.
Politicians: The One Profession That Needs Certification Most, and Gets It Least
Since we are on the subject of certification, let us pause to consider who in this country is not required to demonstrate any competence whatsoever before being handed consequential power over millions of lives.
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HERH! Hmm Cars ?? You don’t even know what others own 😂Really ?? How are these people mentored, it’s surprising how some people measure a man’s worth by the car he drives. That mindset is painfully shallow. A vehicle is a purchase, not a personality. Some of the richest minds in the world moved quietly long before they ever touched luxury, while many people drowning in debt are busy trying to look successful in traffic.
Real value is not parked in a driveway. It is in wisdom, discipline, impact, peace of mind, relationships, purpose, and what remains when the engine is off and the cameras are gone.
If the only way you recognize success is through material things, then you are not seeing success, you are seeing decoration. And honestly, that says more about the limits of your mindset than the value of the person you are judging.
Learn to study character before possessions. Some people own cars. Others own vision, influence, legacy, and rooms your mindset has never even entered yet.
Father of 5-year-old math whiz, Nana Yaw Obeng, explains how he discovered his son's love for advanced math at just 2 years and 2 months old.
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Look, I genuinely think we are not taking this seriously enough.
In fact, any Member of Parliament who blindly supports broad certification and licensing requirements across general private-sector ICT work without carefully considering the long-term consequences should understand the damage this could do to Ghana’s innovation future.
You cannot simultaneously push STEM education, robotics competitions, coding programs, innovation hubs, and AI training for young people then later build broad gatekeeping structures around the same ecosystem those young people are supposed to grow into.
Because after learning comes experimentation.
That is how innovation actually develops.
People learn by building, failing, testing, fixing problems, breaking things, trying again, and solving real-world problems not by existing only inside controlled classrooms and pilot sandboxes.
Many of us entered tech long before certificates, titles, or formal structures.
I started playing with computers at a very young age. By age 7, I could disassemble and assemble computers, install software, troubleshoot systems, and help businesses fix technical problems. Some companies literally waited for me to return from school before they could get systems running again. Sometimes even certified professionals could not solve problems this curious little boy experimenting with computers could solve.
That freedom to experiment is what pushed many of us into technology.
A lot of Ghanaian tech founders, self-taught developers, freelancers, and innovators have similar stories. Some started in bedrooms, cafés, school labs, or with broken computers and curiosity. That openness is part of how innovation ecosystems are built.
Nobody is saying there should be no regulation. High-risk sectors like cybersecurity, finance, aviation, healthcare systems, and critical infrastructure absolutely justify stricter oversight and standards.
But broad certification requirements across general private-sector ICT work in a fragile ecosystem already struggling with funding gaps, unreliable systems, infrastructure problems, and bureaucratic friction is a dangerous direction.
The early software and startup ecosystems that shaped the modern world grew through experimentation, execution, rapid iteration, and relatively low barriers for builders not broad gatekeeping structures before people could participate.
What many young builders fear is simple:
That curiosity, experimentation, unconventional talent, and self-taught innovation are slowly being replaced with bureaucracy and gatekeeping.
I repeat that concern is legitimate!!
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@GhPoliceService@gyaigyimii on Thursday we rented a car to this guy and up till now we’ve not hered from him and the tracker in the car too has been disabled , if you come accross this please repost for me please
The car was a black Elantra GE 514-22
I am currently active in the Chinese EV market and have been for a while. I would like to share some lessons I have learned to help anyone interested in importing cars from China. I am typing this in real time, so this will likely be a long thread. 🧵
Standard services like Carfax or AutoCheck do not work in China. However, I used https://t.co/TW9fQOztIl, which is one of the most comprehensive sites for checking Chinese car histories. A full report costs $24, and I paid easily with my GTBank Naira Mastercard.
If you're in tech, you need to watch this.
We sat down with Stefan Froelic (@TheDumbTechGuy) and he said traditional software is dead, banking is already a dead industry, and most developers are approaching AI completely wrong.
Some of you will agree. Some of you will not. Either way the conversation is worth having.
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