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[Evan @daviddunn177]

She wanted the Ten Commandments in Texas schools.

So James Talarico challenged and humiliated her in front of everybody.

Her name is Rep. Candy Noble. And she lost on the same night James Talarico won his Senate race.

[CHIEF @tailorMARIQUE]

This particular issue is a very big problem! There are extortionists in every sector of economy. This accounts for some of the reasons why some trotros also operate the way they operate sometimes.

[Kofi Nunoo-Mensah 🇬🇧 🇬🇭 @pastor_mensah]

GHANA, WE NEED TO TALK: WHY DOES AN ASSAULT VICTIM HAVE TO PAY GH¢1,000–GH¢1,500 FOR A POLICE MEDICAL REPORT?

There is an issue in Ghana that deserves serious national attention, but somehow, we are not talking about it enough.

Why should someone who has been physically assaulted, injured and traumatised have to pay between GH¢1,000 and GH¢1,500 to obtain a police medical report?

Think about the ordinary Ghanaian who survives on a daily income. Someone attacks him, he sustains injuries, reports the matter to the police, and is referred to a hospital for medical examination.

Then comes another burden: the cost of obtaining the medical report.

What happens to those who cannot afford it? Are they expected to abandon their pursuit of justice because they are poor?

I am not questioning the professional expertise of our doctors, nor am I suggesting that medical professionals should not be compensated for their services.

But we must ask ourselves whether the cost of accessing justice should become another punishment for victims.

I am calling on the Ministry of Health, Ghana Medical Association, Ghana Police Service and Ministry of Justice to clarify the policy governing these charges.

We need transparency, accountability and, most importantly, a system that protects vulnerable citizens.

Justice must not be determined by the size of someone's pocket. An assault victim should not have to choose between paying for a medical report and pursuing justice.

Ghana deserves answers!

#AccessToJustice #GhanaHealthSystem #PoliceMedicalReport #JusticeForAll #GhanaFirst #PublicInterest

[𝐀𝐒𝐊 @askghmedia]

“This is my third year in this school, and there has been no light in the boys’ dormitory since I came here. Sir, will you be happy if your children sleep in a room without light? Even poultry farms now have electricity. Someone once opened his chop box and found a snake inside because there was no light in the dormitory.”

— A student of Funsi SHS expressed frustration to the headmaster in the early hours of today over the prolonged lack of electricity in the school’s boys’ dormitory, highlighting the dangers students face in the dark.

[aircraftmaintenancengineer @airmainengineer]

A plane suddenly appeared through a thick wall of fog, creating a scene straight out of a movie! 😱✈️

[Tech In Twi @tech_twi]

There is no safety intention behind this TraffiTech system. That’s why they didn’t even bother to fix the basic problems first. A private company that is just in it for the money gets 40% of every fine, and they are responsible for the speed cameras. So they could just leave the cameras poorly calibrated, and the cameras could issue tickets to people going 50 km/h as if they were going 80 km/h. The moment a private company gets a share of the revenue, this becomes a serious red flag.

[SaliXtreme ⭐ @Salihuofficial_]

You go first wan mâd 😂😂

[Osagyefo Oliver Barker-Vormawor @barkervogues]

1. My father is dead.

2. I have thought long and hard about how to say this. I have just had to settle on the truth.

3. On Saturday 10th October, I was with him at the funeral of his sister. We did not speak. He was sitting with the elders. I raised my hand to him. And he nodded and flashed his 32.

4. I looked awa embarrassed. Shy that everyone knew my dad was my number 1 fan and cheerleader; and had no poker face when he say me. He beamed without control.

5. I rolled my eye in my head.

6. That was the last time “we spoke.” Sorry we did not speak. Not in the conventional sense. That is how we spoke. A raised hand met a nod.

7. At my auntie’s funeral. I was only thinking of a work I was doing for the Constitution Review Implementation Committee that I needed to send that Saturday. So I sat half the funeral in my car and worked.

8. I took time to stand and look at the body of my Auntie. I said a prayer. Removed myself when I was getting emotionally overwhelmed and drove back to Accra.

9. That evening I wrote a long post about death. Her death. The next morning, I wrote … ““Slow down. You are doing fine. You can’t be everything… before your time. “

Breathe today. You are alive. That’s a good starting place. You will survive. ❤️”

10. Two hours later, my dad sent me his last message “ Mercy woke me up again”.

11. An hour later, i was at my desk working. When I got a call that a Good Samaritan had found him on the street; and they were transporting him to a hospital.

12. Apparently my father, was taking a walk towards the funeral house where his sister’s funeral was being held.

13. The Samaritan had dialled his last dialled numbers.

14. I called family who were closer to get to him.

15. While on those calls, coordinating to get help for my dad.

16. I got the text “Call me again. What am hearing is not a good news. I learnt he's no more”. I shut down.

17. He arrived at the hospital dead. I found out the next day when I went to the hospital to arrange transfer of “his body”.

18. According to the Samaritan, he was in a Trotro when he say a man collapsed on the side of the road; and some kids trying to steal his phones. He got out, gave them a chase and retrieved the phones.

19. Having no car and no access to any ambulance, he called a “pragya”.

20. He died before they got to the hospital

21. My uncle messaged me some days later. “Your father died a gentleman. He said. I said no. Don’t sugarcoat it. My father died by the side of a road.

22. I did not expect to be this hard hit by the death of my father. Not that I know what to expect on the death of a father.

23. My father loved me. More than I ever could love myself.

24. At night, when I am unable to sleep; which is everyday now. I read messages from his phone.

25. My fathers whole life revolved around forwarding my Facebook posts to friends. Sending news stories about me to friends.

26. He talked to friends about the day I will become president.

27. When people had any problem, he told them his son the lawyer can help. Just give him a call.

28. He had no life outside of me I could find enough details of.

29. I didn’t see that from my end. From my end, I saw a father I could never tell a secret to. Because he couldn’t keep his mouth about me.

30. If I told him, I was in Europe speaking at a conference. He made sure the whole world knew. Details I kept off Facebook; he will tell others even when I made him swear not to.

31. He knew only how to love one way. Proudly.

32. I hated my father for it. It is those we love that we hate the most.

33. My son will never meet my father. And that brings tears to my eyes.

********
God on high, hear my prayer
In my need, You have always been there
He is young, he's afraid
Let him rest. Bring him home
…
The summers die, one by one
How soon they fly, on and on
And I am old and will be gone
Bring him peace, bring him joy
He is young, he is only a boy
You can take, you can give
Let him be, let him live

[Tech In Twi @tech_twi]

Hey @grok since MTN Ghana has a higher profit margin than major US carriers like AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon, compare the perks, network quality, and overall services that each of these 4 carriers offers its customers.

[Tech In Twi @tech_twi]

I believe all media stations in Ghana should start asking why MTN Ghana’s profit margin is higher than those of major US carriers. In many countries, this would spark massive public outrage and protests, especially considering that US carriers offer far more benefits, including unlimited mobile data plans. They are heavily taking so much from us. We should put our differences aside and have this conversation.

[Mukhtar @I_amMukhtar]

An audio recording of the communication between Air Traffic Control and the private jet that crashed in Florida has been released.

[Tech In Twi @tech_twi]

They are milking my people while still offering poor services, yet some of you will still come online and defend MTN. MTN is making a significantly higher profit margin in Ghana than AT&T makes in the US.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

The murder of a child is a pain no parent should have to endure, let alone from thousands of miles away.

Javits Frimpong’s mother deserves to say goodbye to her son in person. I just got off the phone with President Trump and he has agreed to grant her visa immediately. 

All of New York City is mourning this tragedy.

[PUBLIC CONCERN @zxie__]

Public transport in Accra is nothing befitting for a 21st Century Ghanaian; inconvenient,unsafe,unsanitary and unaffordable. Big NO!

[🤍 @__Msmaryam]

Here is a video to help understand the Super El Niño better…

[wɐɪf ɫʌvɚːː 🔆🟢🐑⏹️ @AstroRose20]

I had to look this up because it seemed so unbelievable but yeah it’s real. Brazil’s version of the EPA really has a tactical unit. This fucking rules

[Dada Words @DadaWordsx]

Breaking news Ralph De fellow GhaniaN has reported ațțack chicken man pizza man at thier residence for cheating on their customers with fake sizes of rice

[Madrid Zone @theMadridZone]

GRANDE, @Camavinga 🤴🤴🤴

[Bright Simons @BBSimons]

1. Readers of this page know by now that JoyNews held a forum on Ghana's AI strategy and prospects. And the Digital Minister and I got into a serious debate about his Ministry's plan to build Ghana's competitor to Gemini, Kimi, ChatGPT, Qwen, Claude, etc.

2. Ghana's competitor to these global AI platforms is called GhanaChat.

3. It will be trained and hosted in a brand new AI datacenter.

4. 48 registries pooling data from across the public sector will make this AI smarter about Ghana than the foreign ones.

5. The AI datacenter and the "AI Fund" will cost about $270 million. Expect more to be spent on the registries and the apps. A lot of contracts. You can bet that a lot of ICT contractors are very happy.

6. The question is, if we have a couple of hundred million dollars to spend on making AI deliver great benefits for Ghana, should we spend it on GhanaChat, a top-tier AI data center, and the data-pooling system? And should we do it according to the strategy the Ministry has devised?

7. Or could we do much better by more critically assessing all our strategic options and comparing them to the Ministry's?

8. My argument on the show was that I am not convinced about GhanaChat offering the best value for our money.

9. It would take many pages to explain my position fully. But in this post I will highlight just the most important points.

10. Attached are extracts from page 13, 50, and 68 of Ghana's AI strategy.

11. If you have even the barest exposure to AI, you can see a massive error. Can you?

12. The target for how much computing capacity the country needs for next year (2027) is indicated as "1021 FLOPS" and the 2035 target as "1025 FLOPS".

13. If this was indeed correct, it would mean that the Ministry would like the entire computing capacity of the country in 2027 to be equivalent to a 1970s desktop computer. Or 2% of the capacity of the 1980 Intel math chip.

14. Howzat?

15. I'm sure you can agree that this would be totally ridiculous if that was the Ministry's intent. So, what happened?

16. Somebody who didn't fully understand how FLOPS work must have been involved in the drafting. What was meant to be 10 raised to the power 21 operations per second (10²¹ operations a second) was written out as "1021". Same for "1025".

17. Why wasn't the error caught? Because in Ghana when doing "consultations", governments rarely engage independent and critical voices who will point out absurdities without fear of offending big men and women.

18. I am not being petty. There is a serious strategic confusion beyond mere typos.

19. Read properly as 10²¹ FLOPS, the Ministry is telling us that by next year it will have some 200,000 of Nvidia's newest chips in use in Ghana, 500 MW of power devoted to AI, all costing about US$24 billion (close to the Ghanaian government's entire programmed spending for 2026).

20. The US$250 million AI datacenter now being procured supplies about 1% of this 2027 target.

21. Howzat?

22. Clearly, no serious critique of the plan would have okayed such a vision. Throughout the ministry's own review, cabinet approval, and a high-profile media launch, it is absolutely clear that not one critical reviewer was engaged.

23. My first major point here is that this is classic KATANOMICS: the lack of critical policy audiences. This is exactly how a sugar factory that was "designed from the start to fail" was allowed to be built. Many programs and initiatives in Ghana fail for precisely this absence of critical review.

24. In the strategy, you find statements like: "government aggressively building AI compute clusters" and by courting hyperscalers, "to leverage the scaling laws towards building general purpose AI and AGI". Then: "drastically increase Ghana's energy capacity 0.5 to 1 OOM per year". "OOM" means "order of magnitude".

25. When I challenged the Minister on TV, he confidently rebutted by claiming that the Energy Minister/Ministry has assured him of feasibility. Ghana's energy Ministry is committing to increase Ghana's power output by 3x to 10x EVERY YEAR so that the Digital Minister can deliver his AI strategy? Did anyone in Cabinet not protest that this projection in 8 years would mean expanding Ghana's electricity output by 10,000x?

26. I can bet you any amount that the Energy Minister will deny making any such commitments in Cabinet. Can we have clarity? Can JoyNews check?

27. Page 68 of the strategy defines an "Artificial General Intelligence Lab" as "an AI lab with access to more than 1010 compute". No unit is given at all. In fact, as written it is totally meaningless. What they likely mean is that Ghana will support the establishment of a lab with computing capacity of 10¹⁰ FLOPS (10 gigaFLOPS).

28. The problem is that such a lab would be totally useless. To give you perspective, an iPhone 7 has about 350 gigaFLOPS of capacity.

29. What would be required to meet the Ministry's 2027 AI target? If for frontier model development, then the following spec would be reasonable: 400,000 16-bit Nvidia B300 GPU units, 1,114 MW of dedicated power (which is 26% of Ghana's peak demand). And the budget could easily hit US$47.2bn. For less frontier use, we can halve these numbers.

30. Counted in the 64-bit arithmetic that scientific supercomputers are ranked by, Ghana's 2027 target is 455 times the world's fastest machine, China's LineShine at 2.2 exaflops, and 53 times all 500 machines on the list combined.

31. Anyone with the barest exposure to Ghana's fiscal context can tell the Minister for free that this won't happen next year.

32. Ghana's 2035 target of 10²⁵ is 160 times the entire global stock of AI compute today. Even if chips grow 1.4 times more energy-efficient every year, it would draw about 377 GW, 65 times Ghana's current installed generating capacity.

33. I will be charitable and propose that the strategy's drafters may have been thinking about training FLOP (note: without the "per second" at the end). For example, GPT-4's training run used about 2.1×10²⁵ FLOP, the same order of magnitude as Ghana's 2035 endpoint.

34. Unfortunately, that doesn't save the strategy. Recast this way, the target collapses the other way. 10²¹ FLOP is about 12 days' work for one H100 chip at 16-bit precision. 10²⁵ FLOP is one GPT-4-sized training run, which the US$250 million centre could finish in about four months. On that reading the centre meets the 2035 target before its first anniversary. Not meaningful.

35. Given how confusing the overall strategic plan is, would you bank on the first AI compute center and GhanaChat product already being procured at about $270 million?

36. Here are some bare numbers: the budget, per our modelling, maps to about 2,100 GPUs and 4.3 MW of IT load. That alone adds the equivalent of 90% of Ghana's entire commercial data-centre load in 2024 (4.8 MW). Running it costs about US$76 million a year, which is about six times the revenue of the whole commercial industry.

37. A utilised GPU-hour costs about US$22 at base-case demand, against a market rate of US$6.71 today and roughly US$4.50 averaged over the hardware's life. The base case thus implies a subsidy of about US$61 million a year.

38. If the concern is about Ministers and their Directors uploading sensitive documents into Gemini or Kimi, then why not a simpler sovereign AI assistant for the civil service first?

39. That would need roughly 144 GPUs: about 7×10¹⁷ operations a second at 8-bit, US$13 million up front and US$6.7 million a year. That is under a thousandth of the 2027 target, and a far more realistic initial-term strategy. Does Ghana really need to train its base model when orchestrators now allow one to host their own data and switch across multiple advanced open-weight models to serve an Assistant or Agentic system?

40. Howzat?