Kodwo

Rope-a-doping with life,
getting pummelled in the process.🤕
When life throws you lemons, read the fine print.

[Kodwo @Kodjo_n]

@Matt_Pinner And for the no-brainers?🤔

[Kodwo @Kodjo_n]

Rest in Peace D'Angelo.
Your music has been a timeless gift to all of us.
Thank you for sharing your very essence with the world!
Rest well!

[Kodwo @Kodjo_n]

@manifestive Semantic Satiation.

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

This is a fact! And like Francesca Albanese says, a day will come when ALL the mainstream media will be tried for their complicity in this genocide

[Bright Simons @BBSimons]

By now, many of us must have watched the BBC Africa Eye documentary about the crazy opioid crisis starting to overwhelm West Africa.

1. Recap: a chap by name Vinod Sharma runs a pharma company in India called Aveo that has "invented" a poison by mixing two powerful drugs - tapentadol & carisoprodol. The formulation has not been approved anywhere in the world and is thus GLOBALLY ILLEGAL.

2. Aveo and some other Indian companies are flooding countries like Ghana & Nigeria with this concoction under brands such as Timaking, Tafrodol, & Super Royal-225. They are also shipping in ILLEGAL, high-dosage, forms of tapendatol & carisoprodol as standalone drugs.

3. Vinod acknowledges candidly to the undercover journalists that tafrodol, for instance, is poisonous. However, in his words, "it is has become a business."

4. He further reveals that Nigeria has tightened its borders and Ghana is now the easiest channel to get his cute poisons into West Africa (food for thought for all you Ghanaians who think Ghana has the most superior systems in West Africa.)

5. I think I also heard him say that he can churn out 5 million pills at a go. Dude is a machine!

6. All the craziness above, something else , that was not discussed further in the documentary, is what truly blew my mind. Even before the documentary aired. It is Samospharma's role as Ghana's biggest opioid importer.

7. Customs data and intelligence shows that a large chunk of the tafrodol, tapendatol & carisoprodol batches imported into Ghana is financed by Sahelian merchants, mostly based in Niamey. However, one Ghanaian company stands head to toe with them: Samospharma.

8. By November 2024, Samospharma had imported more than $6 million of opioids and other drugs from PRG Pharma of India, for instance. It also imported perfectly legal "eye drops" from the likes of Zuche and Indiana Pharma.

9. As was shown in the documentary, Samospharma and its three founsers are the main business partners of Vinod and Aveo in Ghana, as well as of Aveo's sister company, Westfin. Of the $20 million worth of opioids that Aveo has shipped to the region in recent times, Samospharma was responsible for about 12%.

10. Why was I completely bewildered by this? Three reasons. First, the founders of Samospharma are behind acclaimed platforms like DrugNet, and have been industry advisors to Ghana's national e-pharmacy portal. They are respected in the pharmacy profession for their youthful acumen and public engagements.

11. Second, their core work at DrugNet and through various industry initiatives has focused on tightening supply chain and quality assurance, subjects that I know a bit about. Their involvement in this whole saga simply doesn't add up.

12. Most bewildering of all, they have NOT been smuggling in these opioids. They have been OPENLY importing them into Ghana. Attached, see a list of bills of lading covering some recent shipments. The Ghanaian authorities have been authorising clearance even though Samospharma hasn't registered any of these products with the FDA.

13. I was thus shocked when the authorities attempted to throw the importers under the bus in their interviews with the BBC. It is very clear that Ghana is happily letting these opioid through. Even now. Despite the loud protests about the addiction epidemic opioids are causing. Despite the occasional seizures and bonfires. Ghana's ports remain open.

14. What exactly is the national policy here? 🤷🏾‍♂️🤷🏾‍♂️🤷🏾‍♂️

[Kodwo @Kodjo_n]

Was that a momentary power outage in Melbourne?

[African Stream @african_stream]

WIKIPEDIA WEAPONISED AGAINST AFRICAN STREAM

Search for ‘African Stream’ on Wikipedia. Notice how the first line immediately alleges that our pan-African, anti-imperialist outlet is a Kremlin proxy? As far back as July, The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal explained that the barrage of media attacks on African Stream from outlets such as NBC was designed to provide a fund of information to be used by Wikipedia. Regarded by many as a reliable source, this Wiki info is then used to shape public perceptions and even fed into AI models.

Since the Max Blumenthal interview, apart from NBC, African Stream has been attacked by the US state-funded Voice of America, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and the Stanford Internet Observatory. No evidence has been provided for any of the allegations pressed.

While disappointing, Western hypocrisy and double standards are not surprising. We only need to look at the treatment of figures like Julian Assange and Edward Snowden to realise that US claims of being a bastion of democracy and a defender of media freedom are mere posturing. The empire maintains a tight grip on the views and opinions it will tolerate, silencing any voices - like our own - that challenge its imperalist interests.

[RACGP @RACGP]

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[peter brown! @itspeterbrown]

Is it petty of me to keep repeating that this beautiful movie by @Dreamworks is based on my book? The team of artists + animators + designers did an outstanding job + I want people to know that my book was the inspiration! Is that wrong? This is all new for me! #thewildrobot

[RACGP @RACGP]

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[Kodwo @Kodjo_n]

@NigeriaBasket Great game...fantastic basketball!!
Congratulations 🥳👏🏾👍🏾🎊

[Kodwo @Kodjo_n]

#Boomers
These Olympic basketball referees are making some really dubious calls 🙄

[Kodwo @Kodjo_n]

@NBN_Australia @ohdear01201687 It may be operational, but it isn't providing accurate network status updates. I had to contact nbn directly to confirm the outage in Blackburn South. The nbn outage checker webpage doesn't reflect this.

[Michigan Football @UMichFootball]

Perfection!

The Michigan Wolverines are national champions!

#GoBlue

[Kodwo @Kodjo_n]

#GoBlue

[Kodwo @Kodjo_n]

@Anorkor_lartey 😂😂😂😂

[Kodwo @Kodjo_n]

@FanteSpace @TheBENYIWAinMe Mo! Hom ayɛ adze papaapa🙌🏾

[Kodwo @Kodjo_n]

👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

[Blitz Bazawule @BlitzAmbassador]

#TheColorPurple
TICKETS ON SALE NOW!!!

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[Kodwo @Kodjo_n]

NADAA and his mates pillaging Ghana's resources.
#OccupyJulorbiHouse

[#Fixthecountry @Ghfixthecountry]

The dates are out! Share widely!

Official announcement of the #OccupyJulorbiHouse #JustResign December protest.

1st December to 31st December! 🔥