The first lady of Nigeria, Aisha Buhari, has said that she ordered for bogus news postings that emerged on her social media profiles to be deleted.
Earlier on Tuesday the Central Bank of Nigeria issued a warning about a fake press release that was shared by her accounts with incorrect information about the phasing out of old naira notes.
Mrs Buhari said in an Instagram post that this was not the first time her accounts had been tampered with:
Social media users have reacted after Hajia4real posted her boyfriend.
Hajia real is seen in a video drooling over her alleged fraud boyfriend Richard Quaye.
The mother of one reacted to a photo of her boy who was looking handsome in some designer outfit.
Hajia4real is heard confessing that she is never going to leave the guy’s side.
The video is currently causing a stir on IG – it’s quite shocking that Hajia who has still not returned from her UK trip due to her alleged fraud case has the time and inner peace to actually gush over a man who reportedly left her in the UK when she got arrested.
Angry social media users are roasting her for acting dumb!
On her alleged fraud case, Hajia4real is still in the U.K. She has not been released but nothing about her case has been publicised!
A Nigerian-born football player Karim Adeyemi, who plays in Germany, attributes his explosiveness to fufu.
Adeyemi scored an incredible solo goal for Dortmund in their Champions League game against Chelsea on Wednesday, February 16, 2023.
Adeyemi pounced on a clearance from a Chelsea corner and ran the full length of the pitch before rounding up Chelsea goalie Kepa Arrizabalaga to score the only goal of the game.
His goal gave Dortmund the upper hand in a two-legged fixture against Chelsea who fluffed a lot of opportunities.
In a post-game interview, Karim Adeyemi credited Nigerian fufu for his incredible pace.
“I eat a lot of African foods. I’ve a lot of genetics from my dad so I think its because of that. The food is called fufu from Nigeria.
On his goal, Adeyemi said “the only thing was to pass the defender and I had to sprint to get past him. Afterwards I just looked at the goalie and put it in the net.
Karim Adeyemi has Nigerian and German parentage with his father reportedly from Ibadan.
His parents Abbey Adeyemi and Alexandra Adeyemi are based in Germany and are believed to be supporters of their son’s career.
Karim was eligible to play for Nigeria but opted for his mother’s country and was part of the Germany squad for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
His revelation of fufu as the factor behind his space has excited Nigerians who hailing him and the age-old African staple on social media.
Kojo Forex, a Ghanaian forex trader and private fund manager, displayed a spectacular photo collage on his verified Twitter account showcasing his collection of high-end vehicles. As the young man posed on one of the customized cars, the picture highlighted the Evolution of his opulent whips.
The millionaire, who posted the picture on social media and seemed very upbeat, urged his followers not to look down on their modest beginnings.
”Evolution of my cars. I own as a Trader. Always trust the process. Guess the specific one I’m buying next! The correct guess wins $100,” he shared.
Kojo Forex sparks reactions More than 50,000 had seen the post, garnering 251 retweets, 23 quote tweets, and more than 1,000 likes. YEN.com.gh compiled some of the comments underneath his post
Following violent protests sparked by a split within the nation’s Orthodox Church, the Internet watchdog NetBlocks reported that access to social media platforms has been restricted in Ethiopia.
When three church officials last month professed themselves archbishops and established their own governing body, protests broke out in the Oromia region. While some protesters resisted it, others were in favour of it.
According to network data that NetBlocks had gathered, access to Facebook, Messenger, TikTok, and Telegram has been severely constrained.
⚠️ Confirmed: Network metrics show that social media and messaging platforms Facebook, Messenger, TikTok and Telegram have been restricted in #Ethiopia amid anti-government protests over a split in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewhado Church #EOTC
The tweet came hours after the church said at least 30 people have been killed in the protests since February 4.
The church’s statement called for demonstrations on Sunday against the new governing body as it accused the Ethiopian government of “meddling” in the church’s internal affairs after Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed asked his ministers to stay out of the dispute.
The Ethiopian state has traditionally maintained close ties to theOrthodox Church, to which more than 40 percent of the population belongs.
Government spokesperson Legesse Tulu did not immediately respond to requests for comment on Friday. The government said in a statement on Thursday that the upcoming protest was banned to prevent violence.
Ethiopian authorities have previously shut down or restricted access to the internet during periods of political unrest, including in response to protests in 2020 that followed the killing of a popular singer from Oromia.
Internet and phone communications were also shut down in the northern region of Tigray for most of a two-year war that ended in a ceasefire in November.
The Orthodox Church insisted Sunday’s protest would go ahead and said the government’s ban constituted “a declaration to destroy the church once and for all”.
Oromia, home to Ethiopia’s largest ethnic group, the Oromo, has experienced violent conflict for many years, part of wider unrest in Ethiopia, a multiethnic country where power has long been contested between federal and regional authorities.
It outlined that, “issues relating to COVID-19 continue to impact research into internet adoption, so actual internet user figures may be higher than the published numbers suggest”.
Meanwhile, on the social media front, Ghanaian user activity reached 8.80 million in January 2022.
This was equivalent 27.4 percent of the total population at the beginning of 2022.
The Digital 2023 Global Overview Report however noted that the figure for social media users may not necessarily represent unique individuals that use various platforms.
Jessie Clark Funk, the American woman whose viral video about her experiences in Ghana riled Ghanaians has apologized for her statements in the video.
Jessie Clark came under sustained attacks from Ghanaians after a video of her detailing her experiences in Ghana was posted on Instagram and subsequently across other platforms.
In the video, she referred to Ghanaians as poverty-stricken, hungry and living in filth.
Led by broadcaster Nana Aba Anamoah, social media users took her to the cleaners questioning her account of the state of Ghana.
In an apology via her Instagram handle, Jessie Clark Funk who is believed to be a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saint explained that her words have been taken out of context.
She stated that she has been to the country twice, once with her daughter and has huge admiration for Ghana.
She claims to have learned a lot from the Ghanaian culture and will at no point run it down.
“A video I made talking about my experience in Ghanaian was taken completely out of the context and there are many upset people from Ghana which breaks my heart because I love and respect the people of Ghana and their beautiful country so much.
“I have been there twice, once with my daughter. We learned so much from their amazing culture and deep wisdom. I cherish my experience there and I’m sorry that something I said didn’t reflect my love for your country. I sincerely ask for forgiveness,” she said.
Her apology was shared by Nana Aba Anamoah who took exception to her earlier description of Ghana and for that matter Ghanaians.
Nana Aba’s clapback read: “Here you are, @jessieclarkfunk. I knew I’d find you. Those lies you spewed about Ghana made you look less intelligent. That we hate the Mormons? Madam, are you okay? No one resents your temple. The area your temple (the church of Latter-Day Saints) stands in Accra (Ridge) is one of the richest, most peaceful and prestine neighborhoods. “
“I’ll forgive your imbecilic comments about the poverty stricken and hungry people you claim you saw around that temple and assume you just wanted to appear relevant. You looked pathetic instead.”
Nana Aba also took time to educate her on the realities of living in Ghana.
“Indeed, we do have poor people here just as your country does too. There are so many Americans who call cars, shacks, tents and boxes their homes. It’s 2023. Grow up. It’s time to unlearn the truckload of lies you’ve been fed by some of the painfully lazy media platforms in your country about Africa.”
She added, “ I’m willing to help you speak sensibly next time about a country that’s been kind to your ilk, church and any other organisation from your country. To be honest, they’d be shocked to the marrow to hear you speak this way about Ghanaians. You lot need to stop making Africa a victim of your incredibly dumb agenda,” parts of her post on Instagram read.
Socialite and US-trained nursing assistant, Efia Odo, has listed her top four influencers on micro-blogging platform – Twitter.
In a one-on-one interview with Tiktok influencer-turned radio presenter, Felicia Osei, Efia Odo explained that, relatively, she is not active on the bird app compared to other social media platforms like Snapchat.
However, she has some influencers on Twitter that she admires their productivity and consumes their content.
The socialite describes these Twitter influencers as her favourites on the micro-blogging app.
According to her, Kalyjay, Mp3asem president, Sikaofficial and Kwadwo Sheldon are her most preferred influencers.
Efia Odo was quick to add that, although she has had banter with Kwadwo Sheldon, she respects his hustle.
She said, “My favorites are, Kalyjay, Memp3asem president, Sikaofficial and Kwadwo Sheldon. Although sometimes I have issues with some especially Sheldon, I think he is good at what he does and I am proud of how far he’s come.”
Efia Odo also confirmed her fall out with musician, Kwesi Arthur.
According to her, although she still loves Kwesi Arthur’s music and she is a fan, she is no longer his biggest fan as she used to be.
She said ” I was a fan but now I’m not a fan anymore. The problem is not his current music releases. His music is still good but everything has its time. Nothing lasts forever except the Word of God.”
Asked if it is the Tema rapper’s personality she has fallen out of love with, Efia after a long pause said, “sometimes, some people can do things that can turn you off and then it’s like, ‘Okay, I can’t really be a fan of this guy anymore”.’
Netizens have reacted to a video of popular Ghanaian ‘Tik Tokers’, Felicia Osei and Hajia Bintu, captured in a tense atmosphere while sitting next to each other at an event.
Although it is unclear whether there is a hidden feud between the two, social media users claim to have spotted friction between them during the UTV Day with the Stars.
Hajia Bintu was captured in a pensive mood with her eyes fixed on the activities carried out on stage at that particular moment.
In the case of Felicia, she felt uncomfortable in her seat and also had all her attention on the stage.
At one point, she [Felicia] was seen rolling her eyes and giving side stares at her colleague.
While some have argued that they are not engaged in any feud whatsoever, others are insisting that they can ‘smell a rat.’
“Why do I sense an awkward moment between these two? I’m sure something isn’t right,” an individual reacted to the video which is making rounds on the internet.
“I think minding one’s business is the key. Now u can’t make friends because tomorrow you might be threatened with recordings and picture evidence here and there, so now this is the new remedy oooo,” said another.
A trending video of American rapper Meek Mill has popped up on social media.
American rapper Meek Mill was one of the guests at the Afro Nation concert in Ghana over the Christmas holidays.
A rough riding powerbike session, claims of his phone having been pickpocket at an event, fighting off hoodlums before getting on stage to perform and meeting with the president at Jubilee House, were some major highlights of his time in Accra.
Meek Mill is back in the United States but his name is back in the trends here in Ghana.
On late Sunday, January 8, 2023; the rapper posted an Instagram reel announcing that he was set to release a new track.
It turns out that portions of the said video were shot in and around the Jubilee House during his visit.
Meek Mill is sighted in different places at the presidency, from the frontage, through the main corridors, in the main conference hall – at a point positioned behind the presidential lectern – and later in a sitting area rapping.
Social media users are incensed about what they describe as near desecration of the presidency, citing moral and security grounds.
Major influencers on Twitter especially have attracted comments that are largely critical of government for allowing such sensitive areas to be filmed for a music video.
It must be noted that a small portion of the commenters are justifying it, stating that it is not too much of a big deal.
Most of these stories garnered significant attention as the year went on and generated a lot of discussion on social media and in Accra’s streets.
They included things like political issues, entertainment, government, and developmental issues.
This article recaps some of these major stories that kept social media buzzing all year round.
Galamsey
Illegal small-scale mining also known as galamsey has been an issue of great national concern. The problem has been a long-lasting one that has caused destruction to the country’s water bodies. Pictures of samples of various river bodies flooded social media and generated a lot of engagement on the country’s ability to take care of its natural resources.
Watch how galamsey activities destroys cocoa farm of farmer sympathetic to the NPP
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Aisha Huang
The controversial Aisha Huang issue was one that many Ghanaians were interested in. According to the Minister of Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, En Huang, popularly known as Aisha Huang was repatriated in December 2018. Her issue came up after she reappeared in Ghana in September. Aisha Huang is still in police custody as her case is currently in court.
Government fully committed to bringing Aisha Huang, others to book – Lands Minister
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My journey to becoming one of Ghana’s biggest make up artistes -Kruz K speaks
Conversations surrounding the construction of the National Cathedral were prevalent in 2022 especially when the country was facing a harsh economic crisis but the government was bent on building the National Cathedral.
Akufo-Addo’s private jet
Several issues were raised with the President’s “luxurious” flights. The issues were with the fact that the flights were expensive and costly to the taxpayer. Ghanaians on social media did not take it easy. They descended heavily on the government.
KenMustGo
The hashtag KenMustGo trended on social media for days. This was after some members of the NPP demanded the removal of the finance minister Ken Ofori-Atta.
NPP MPs petition president to sack Ofori-Atta, Adu Boahen
The majority caucus in parliament, at a press conference on Tuesday, have threatened they will not participate in any government business until Minister for Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta and Minister of State in charge of Finance at the Office of the President, Chares Adu Boahen are sacked by the president.
A Chinese woman has been arrested for allegedly pretending to be a man on social media and tricking her own friend into falling in love with her and sending her money.
Shanghai police recently announced that it had cracked one of the most bizarre online romance scams ever. The victim, a middle-aged woman, had been scammed for 12 years by someone posing as a well-known TV news anchor on social media and defrauded around 2 million yuan ($290,000) over that period of time. The craziest part of the story is that the scammer turned out to be a good female friend of the victim who had come up with the plan as payback for something the victim’s mother had said when they were very young.
The fraudster, identified only as Ms. Yu, admitted her guilt and told investigators that everything had started 12 years ago. She and the victim, Ms. Li, had been friends for a very long time, and their parents also knew each other. One day, Li’s mother jokingly told Li that she would have trouble finding a husband because she wasn’t very pretty and her family didn’t have too good a financial situation.
It was a cruel thing to say to a young girl, and Yu really took it to heart. The more she thought about what the woman had said, the more she wanted to take revenge, so she came up with a plan. If she would find it hard to find love, then so would her friend Li…
Years after being insulted by her friend’s mother, Ms. Yu approached the same woman to brag about being friends with a well-known TV news anchor who just happened to be single and in search of a suitable wife. As expected, the woman pleaded with her to match him up with her daughter, and Yu’s plan was set in motion.
The conniving woman started creating fake social media profiles of the news anchor and approached Ms. Li pretending to be this charming, successful man. She knew her friend better than almost anyone else, what she liked and didn’t like, her passions, her romantic expectations, so they hit it off. The only problem was keeping the relationship online.
Every time Ms. Li asked to meet her online boyfriend in person, he would find an excuse. He was either too busy with work, away on business, sick, or simply too tired to meet her. But he continued to charm her and declare his love, which was apparently enough to keep Li interested.
The defrauding wasn’t originally part of Yu’s plan, but by 2018 she had fallen on hard times and was in desperate need of money. Knowing that her friend was head-over-heeld about the online persona she had created, he started asking her for financial assistance, inventing all kinds of pretexts. Once she got Li to pay up once, she was hooked and continued to use her charms to bleed her dry.
Despite getting on her feet financially, Yu continued to ask her friend for money, pleading, lying, and even threatening to break off the relationship whenever Li asked too many questions or appeared reluctant to cough up the money. Whenever her friend complained about the situation, she always encouraged her to do whatever it took for love, claiming that the news anchor was worth it.
Earlier this year, after Li spent all her savings and started racking up debt, things became more complicated for Yu. Her friend came to her asking for help with contacting the news anchor, finally expressing concerns that something was wrong. Li wanted to confront him and ask for all the money back, and despite Yu’s best efforts to dissuade her she had made up her mind.
Sensing that her scam was finally at an end, Yu told her friend everything, how she had lied about knowing the news anchor, created the fake profiles, and how she defrauded her over several years. It’s unclear if she hoped that her friend wouldn’t go to the police, or if she just wanted to see the look on her face when she learned the truth.
Ms. Yu was arrested after her friend filed a complaint, and an investigation, in this case, is still ongoing. The whole story sounds like the plot of a movie, and there are some details that don’t add up, like how the victim sent 2 million yuan to someone she had never actually met, or how she went 12 years without actually meeting her online boyfriend. Still, most of the details come from the Shanghai police department, so there must be some truth to it…
The government should make social media firms enforce age limits to help tackle their impact on children’s mental health,actress Kate Winslet has said.
Speaking to the BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, she said parents feel “utterly powerless” about how to help their children navigate social media.
Winslet said security checks could be more rigorous and those in power “should step up” to protect children.
She was speaking ahead of the launch of her new Channel 4 film I Am Ruth.
The feature-length drama sees Winslet playing opposite her real-life daughter Mia Threapleton as the mother of a teenager whose mental health begins to suffer as she becomes increasingly consumed by the pressures of social media.
Winslet said the decision to focus on children’s mental health followed a conversation with the film’s creator Dominic Savage about how parents can help “when they can clearly see there’s a problem”.
But she said that the drama had to be about more than a child obsessed with their phone.
It had to cover “what’s actually going on with that phone, how it impacts on their self-esteem, how it impacts on eating habits, their mental state in terms of thinking about things like self-harm,” Winslet said.
In the two-hour drama, to be shown on Channel 4 on Thursday 8 December, Winslet plays Ruth who is a single mother of two, including 17-year-old Freya.
The film shows Freya becoming less communicative and falling behind at school as she retreats further into herself as her relationship with social media becomes increasingly destructive.
The world of social media is “frightening to parents because we don’t really know what’s there”, Winslet said.
“We don’t know really what’s going on in their friendship groups anymore because so much of it is actually built on phones, inside phones.
“This world that you can burrow deeper and deeper into it, and it becomes darker and trickier and much, much harder for children to navigate.
“I think because people, young children, are having phones at a much earlier age, they’re able to access things that emotionally they’re just not equipped or sophisticated enough to know how to process.”
IMAGE SOURCE,JOSS BARRETT /ME+YOU PRODUCTIONS/CHANNEL 4 Image caption, Mia Threapleton, Winslet’s real-life daughter, plays teenager Freya
Asked whether she thought there should be more legal regulation of social media, Winslet said she struggled with social media and its impact on teenage mental health.
“I do wish that our government would crack down on it. I do wish that there would be certain platforms that were banned before a certain age. I wish that security checks would be much more rigorous,” she said.
She said there should be “more protection and accountability” because parents “are left flailing”.
“I just think that the people who know that they could do better to protect our children should just be doing that. Whoever those people are, they know who they are, they should just step up and do better,” she said.
Winslet’s comment come as the government is accused of watering down legislation aimed at regulating internet content.
In the past week, ministers have dropped plans from the Online Safety Bill which would require technology firms to take down legal but harmful material.
Ian Russell, the father of teenager Molly Russell, who ended her life after viewing suicide and self-harm content online, said the bill had been watered down and the decision might have been made for political reasons to help it pass more quickly.
In a statement, Culture Secretary Michelle Donelan told BBC News that “unregulated social media is hurting our children and it must end”.
She added that the “strengthened Online Safety Bill” she is bringing back to Parliament “will allow parents to see and act on the dangers sites pose to young people”.
“Young people will be safeguarded, criminality stamped out and adults givencontrol over what they see and engage with online,” Ms Donelan said.
In the era of tweets being coughed up under the mantra of ‘The internet doesn’t forget,’ politicians are often the subject of social media posts that literally slap them in the face.
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is facing one such social media post in the wake of the Black Stars exit from the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
The Otto Addo-led team fell 2 – 0 to Uruguay in a must-win fixture on December 2, 2022; which result meant the two teams exited the tournament with Portugal and South Korea advancing.
A 2014 tweet by the president has resurfaced as people mock its content relative to recent happenings in the country.
It reads: “No water, no electricity, no petrol, no jobs, no mercy, no World Cup cictory! #Ghana”
The president had urged the team to take revenge on the Uruguayans after a 2010 incident where Luis Suarez, their captain in yesterday’s game thwarted Ghana’s prospect of making history by becoming the first African side to qualify for the semi-finals of the World Cup.
Akufo-Addo has yet to comment on the outcome of the match.
In 2014 when his tweet was made, the then Asamoah Gyan-led Black Stars made a disastrous outing in Brazil when they failed to win a single match yet ‘cooked’ a global spectacle that saw dollars being flown to pay their appearance fees for fears of a boycott.
Ghana ended bottom of Group H with Portugal topping whiles South Korea finsihed second ahead of Uruguay on goal difference – both teams finished with four points apiece.
The Black Stars recorded three points from three games – losing to Portugal and Uruguay and beating South Korea. They scored five goals and conceded seven.
Coach Otto Addo has resigned his position in the post-match press conference.
Match Report: Uruguay vs. Ghana
The Black Stars of Ghana had one task going into their final Group H fixture at the 2022 World Cup.
Win at all costs, worse case draw against Uruguay and secure passage into the Round-of-16 stage of the competition.
The match was, however, settled with three major incidents in the first half. A penalty miss by Black Stars skipper Andre Dede Ayew, when the score was goalless.
Then Giorgian de Arrascaeta’s two goals for Uruguay which came in quick sucession, consigned the Black Stars to a second World Cup defeat against the South Americans who broke hearts of Africans in 2010.
Their 2 – 0 victory over the Black Stars was, however, not enough to get them through to the next round of the tournament as South Korea beat Portugal 2-1.
With Uruguay in dire need of a third goal to progress to the next round of the World Cup, Suarez was reduced to tears as efforts to score another goal proved futile.
Portugal and South Korea advanced from Group H as Uruguay and Ghana exited the tournament after finished 3rd and 4th respectively.
Alongside the people gathering in the streets, a major element of protest in China inevitably takes place on social media – which is heavily censored.
But the “Great Firewall” – as the vast regime of automated and human censors is called by some – is by no means flawless, and protest posts do make it through and circulate before being restricted.
BBC News has seen examples of some images with lists of demands being sent around social media. Some of the demands include calls to:
Abolish pandemic monitoring measures such as mandatory mass testing and digital health codes for work and travel
Reverse the policy of closing schools, restaurants, shops or other businesses in the name of preventing Covid spreading
Correctly publicize the danger of the virus “without exaggeration or alarmist talk”
Apologise for “unreasonable” and “unscientific” epidemic prevention strategies
Investigate and prosecute local government officials, testing companies and others involved in Covid restrictions over allegations of corruption, negligence and abuse of power
A CNN Africa reporter called Larry Madowo received confirmation from the unnamed lawyer that the business had “finally agreed to talk with the laid-off Africa staff.”
In a tweet on November 22, Madowo, who has been closely following the topic, repeated that the laid-off employees “weren’t offered severance until CNN highlighted” their predicament and that they “weren’t allowed to discuss their separation conditions until” CNN article was aired.
They initiated legal action against the new owner of the platform, Elon Musk, over discrimination and the imbalance in the severance pay they were offered compared to others who were laid off in the United States and Europe upon his takeover.
Madowo revealed the contents of their termination emails in his earlier reports, which read in part: “The company is reorganizing its operations as a result of a need to reduce costs. It is with regret that we’re writing to inform you that your employment is terminating as a result of this exercise.
“Your last day of employment will be 4th December 2022. You will be placed on garden leave until your termination date,” the November 4 letter read.
“It is clear that Twitter, under Elon Musk, is either deliberately or recklessly flouting the laws of Ghana, is operating in bad faith and in a manner that seeks to silence and intimidate former employees into accepting any terms unilaterally thrown at them.
“Without pressure from higher authorities, they are clearly not willing to provide a fair or just package in order to minimize the hardship of this takeover and the resulting loss of jobs on their workforce in Africa.”
Social media giant, Twitter is facing a new crisis at its headquarters which may result in the closing down of the company.
Earlier this week, the firm’s new owner, Elon Musk said employees had to commit to working long hours and would “need to be extremely hardcore” or leave the company.
In an email to staff, Musk said workers should agree to the pledge if they wanted to stay.
The email also stated that employees who refuse to sign the form by 5 pm Eastern on Thursday, November 17th, would be let go and would receive three months of severance pay.
The message sent to Twitter staff
“If you are sure that you want to be part of the new Twitter, please click yes on the link below,” Musk said.
However, after long hours for workers to check “yes” on a Google form accepting Elon Musk’s proposal of working “long hours at high intensity”, it seems a large number of employees have rejected his vision.
In light of this, the firm is on the verge of collapse and losing even more employees following the mass layoffs of engineers and managers who keep the firm running.
Users of the platform have taken to its blogging site to express their concerns and worries.
Twitter employees say given the scale of the resignations this week, they expect the platform to start breaking soon. Some “legendary engineers” have reportedly left one by one.
I swear to god, if Twitter shuts down, we at LazytSpo is gonna to be dissapointed. for the love of god, please save Twitter altogether, because otherwise, it will be game over for Twitter. #RIPTwitter
Meanwhile, Elon Musk is deeply concerned about how many remaining employees could leave the company.
The departures of the employees raise new questions about whether the remaining Twitter engineers will be able to reliably keep the service up and running.
Twitter no longer has communications staff, but Musk so far hasn’t publicly commented on the resignations.
Ghanaian actress Xandy Kamel has lamented the unexplained hate directed at her by Ghanaians for all this year including some social media users bullying her at the slightest opportunity.
Xandy explained that constant bullying has led her to depression adding that it might lead to her death. In a recent interaction with fans, she couldn’t fathom why the masses dislike her.
“Ghanaians don’t love me. When a Nigerian loves you, it is genuine. They will wholeheartedly love you but that cannot be said of a Ghanaian. I don’t even have a fanbase. Critics go and attack me under pages created in my name. I will just die,” declared the actress.
Xandy and former wife of sports presenter, Kaninja, in the viral video also lashed out at a Ghanaian nurse who claimed to hate her.
The young woman whom Xandy identified as a nurse wrote that she hates the actress. This resulted in the actress’s decision to expose the face behind the page and also rain curses on her.
She prayed for the worst things in life to befall her critic and also wished evil in her life. According to the actress, she has come to terms with the hate a section of Ghanaians have for her but that could not stop her from clapping back at critics.
“Maamelov3, you say you hate me. Well noted, this is her face, she is a nurse. Funny enough you don’t even follow me on my page. You hate me?…I will show you where power lies. Just as a piece of charcoal is reduced to ashes after burning, so will your life be. You will experience a sudden downfall…you will suffer in life and will never know peace. Your family will come in search of me to save you. Your life will be as dark as charcoal, mark my words,” these were the words of Xandy Kamel after being subjected to cyberbullying.
Xandy Kamel exposes and curses woman who wrote hateful comment under her post
Kwadwo Sheldon is undoubtedly one of Ghana’s finest content creators on social media currently.
He has been giving people a lot of great content on his various social media pages ever since his break-through in the last two years and it is pretty obvious Ghanaians and the world love what he has been doing.
Well, his works plus a few others as content creators have been seen by BBC Africa News, who decided to put the spotlight on them in a new documentary titled Social Media Money In Ghana.
According to the BBC, the documentary is centered on the struggles of being a content creator in Ghana and also how these content creators struggled to make some money for themselves in an economy that is begging on its knees to be saved.
Following this feature and the revelations he made, Kwadwo Sheldon took to social media to heap praises on his grandmother who nurtured him to become the man he is today.
Sheldon disclosed that her granny at a point in time had to sell her clothes just to get money for him to register and write his BECE simply because she was not getting enough money as a peasant farmer.
The young entrepreneur disclosed that she decided to feature her in this documentary as his way of showing his appreciation.
Like most companies, technology companies this year have also been hit with the global economic crisis which many experts say is fuelled by the Russian-Ukraine war and the impact of covid 19.
This has resulted in massive layoffs across the sector with a total of 1138 layoffs at tech companies globally, affecting 182,605 people, according to TrueUps tech layoff tracker.
Below is a list of top tech giants that have announced job cuts this year or embarked on massive layoffs.
It didn’t take long for Twitter’s new owner, Elon Musk to lay off almost half of the company’s staff. This was just a week after officially closing the acquisition process to take over the company.
“…the Nov. 4 layoffs only affected “15% of our Trust & Safety organization (as opposed to approximately 50% cuts company-wide), with our front-line moderation staff experiencing the least impact.” Twitter’s then-head of content moderation, Yoel Roth said.
These job cuts also affected the company’s only African office in Ghana’s capital, Accra. According to reports, employees were fired with the exception of one.
While these layoffs represent the biggest workforce cull Twitter has seen, it’s not the first time this year the company has sought to slim down its employee base. After initially implementing a hiring freeze, in July 2022 the company went on to lay off 30% of its talent acquisition team.
Amazon
On Tuesday (November 15), the company notified regional authorities in California that it would lay off about 260 workers at various facilities that employ data scientists, software engineers, and other corporate workers. Those job cuts would be effective beginning on Jan. 17, 2023.
Amazon would not specify how many more layoffs may be in the works beyond the ones confirmed through California’s Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, also known as WARN, which requires companies to provide 60 days’ notice if they have 75 or more full-time or part-time workers. Amazon employs more than 1.5 million workers globally, primarily made up of hourly workers.
The online retail giant, like other tech and social media giants, saw sizable profits during the COVID-19 pandemic, as homebound shoppers purchased more items online. But revenue growth slowed as the worst of the pandemic eased and consumers relied less on e-commerce.
Netflix
In June this year, Netflix announced it laid off 300 employees in the second round of job cuts after losing subscribers for the first time in more than a decade.
The cuts amounted to about 4% of the streaming giant’s workforce and mostly affected US employees. They came after the company cut 150 jobs last month.
“While we continue to invest significantly in the business, we made these adjustments so that our costs are growing in line with our slower revenue growth,” Netflix said in a statement.
Netflix said in February it had lost 200,000 subscribers globally at the start of 2022, and projected a decline of 2 million users in the upcoming quarter.
The company blamed the drop on a range of factors, including increased competition, the economy, the war in Ukraine, and the large number of people who share their accounts with non-paying households.
Facebook
On Wednesday, November 9, the CEO of Facebook’s parent Meta, Mark Zuckerberg announced the company is laying off 11,000 people, about 13% of its workforce, as it contends with faltering revenue and broader tech industry woes.
Zuckerberg said that he had made the decision to hire aggressively, anticipating rapid growth even after the pandemic lockdowns ended.
“Unfortunately, this did not play out the way I expected,” Zuckerberg said in a statement. “Not only has online commerce returned to prior trends, but the macroeconomic downturn, increased competition, and ads signal loss have caused our revenue to be much lower than I’d expected. I got this wrong, and I take responsibility for that.”
Meta, like other social media companies, enjoyed a financial boost during the pandemic lockdown era because more people stayed home and scrolled on their phones and computers. But as the lockdowns ended and people started going outside again, revenue growth began to falter.
Tesla
In June 2022, Elon Musk confirmed that the salaried workforce at Tesla Inc. would be cut by about 10% over the next three months, but said the overall reduction in the electric-car maker’s headcount would only be some 3.5% as hourly staff numbers are still expected to grow.
“We grew very fast on the salaried side,” Musk said in an interview with Bloomberg News Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait at the Qatar Economic Forum on Tuesday. “A year from now, I think our headcount will be higher” in salaried and hourly workers, but for now the reduction will be 3% to 3.5%, he said in a report by Bloomberg.
The comments brought more clarity to the situation with Tesla’s staffing, after Musk made varied internal and public statements about reductions over the past month.
When rapper Eno Barony, one of Ghana’s talented musicians known to deliver hardcore rap announced that she was releasing a song featuring De Wills, the son of popular Ghanaian preacher Nicholas Duncan-Williams, music lovers anticipated something big that could shake tables.
‘Don’t Judge Me’: Eno Barony and Duncan William’s son top trends with new single on November 16 released the music video for her 2022 single ‘Don’t Judge Me’ featuring Dee Wills.
Social media users on Wednesday widely published the new tune which tackles society and how some individuals wrongly judge others based on their outward appearance and ability not to conform to what is termed as the norms.
As expected, Eno dropped some bars on the song which has garnered over 67,000 views on YouTube in less than 24 hours.
The award-winning rapper channelled her energy into calling for change with a special message from Duncan Williams’s son who gave a few seconds of delivery on the chorus.
Dee Wills who is a singer has received recommendations and praises for his exceptional delivery on ‘Don’t Judge Me’.
Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, has cautioned against the deliberate disinformation concerning the health of the economy that is fuelling panic withdrawals and capital flights.
This situation, he said, is what is worsening the country’s fiscal problems and not government’s actions.
He stated that some persons have taken to spreading falsehoods about the economy on social media in order to create a fiscal atmosphere that would serve their parochial interests better.
“But this is a time in which you have high levels of social media activity, you have a high level of misinformation and actually you have people who are interested in disinformation, which is very different from misinformation where people put out information that is not correct, and I’ll cite you examples.
“This is the era where you have people going on social media recording voices literally scaring the market. So it’s not about the communication per se, it’s about what people are doing to deliberately juice our market in a particular way.
“You’ll notice that currently some people are on trial, have been arrested because the investigation showed how they fabricated stories on websites, then putting them on WhatsApp platforms and pushing them through to scare the market,” he said on JoyNews’ PM Express Business Edition.
He noted that while preliminary efforts had been made including blocking their malicious websites, they had gone ahead to create new ones to further their agenda.
This he says demonstrates the deliberate attempt to create an environment of uncertainty that will cause investors and the international community from regaining confidence in Ghana’s fiscal space.
“These are matters of public record, and even when those websites were shut down, they set it up on new domain platforms anew to pursue the same objective. Two people are on trial currently. So there’s a new dynamic in the marketplace which is a certain deliberate effort to disinform the public.”
Kojo Oppong Nkrumah advised that when people come across such alarmist messages, investors and the general public’s confidence in the economy should not waver as this government has time and time again proven it can revive the economy.
“But you’d also have to be careful how you respond, that that disinformation does not cause you to run ahead of yourself and start saying things that you haven’t reached a point of conclusion on.
For the ones you’ve reached a point of conclusion on, for example, no principal haircuts you’re able to say so and also make the point that this is the administration that has been working to protect people’s deposits.
“Let’s calm down, let’s have some confidence in this same market. And if we all choose to have confidence, we will not necessarily be pushing for more answers to be provided when we have not reached those points,” he said.
The Ghana School of Law has asked its students to provide their social media handles for monitoring.
According to the Director of the School, Yaw Oppong, this will help many students willing to be called to the bar to maintain a good character befitting the legal profession.
“Everybody will have to provide their social media handles. We are going to look at it and you will be monitored in terms of conduct. We are required by law to make recommendations. We don’t want to stampede you.
“You are going to reapply beyond the pass and submit yourselves for all legitimate checks,” Mr Oppong said during the swearing-in ceremony of the School of Law Students’ Representative Council (SRC) executives.
Thus, he has charged the students to submit themselves for the character checks before the General Legal Council’s approval.
“Once we are doing our best to ensure that as many of you as possible who want to help yourselves go beyond the stage you are, and we are succeeding, it will not compromise your good character.”
“It’s of no use if you are qualified to go to second year, and you are told that you cannot go because of bad character,” he noted.
The Director of the Ghana School of Law, Yaw Oppong, has directed that all social media handles of students at the school be monitored for characters befitting their profession.
This was after he directed that the students of the school submit their social media handles for monitoring, a report by myjoyonline.com said.
Yaw Oppong explained that this will help the students use their social media handles to promote ethical characters befitting of the profession they are entering.
“Everybody will have to provide their social media handles. We are going to look at it and you will be monitored in terms of conduct. We are required by law to make recommendations. We don’t want to stampede you.
“You are going to reapply beyond the pass and submit yourselves for all legitimate checks,” he said.
The Ghana School of Law director made these comments at the swearing-in ceremony of executives of the School of Law Students’ Representative Council (SRC), the report added.
Yaw Oppong urged the students to live upright lifestyles befitting their status as legal practitioners so that the General Legal Council will not be in a position to bring their characters into question one day.
“Once we are doing our best to ensure that as many of you as possible who want to help yourselves go beyond the stage you are, and we are succeeding, it will not compromise your good character.
“It’s of no use if you are qualified to go to second year, and you are told that you cannot go because of bad character,” he added.
The Ghana School of Law was established in 1958 by Ghana’s first president, Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, to become a centre of excellence in Africa and the world at large for professional legal training and research.
Nike has cut ties with Brooklyn Nets star Kyrie Irving. The development comes following a controversial social media post about a book and movie containing antisemitic tropes.
In a statement, Nike said it will no longer launch Irving’s new shoe, the Kyrie 8. The shoe, said to be his eighth, was due to be released on November 8, according to ESPN.
Earlier, the Brooklyn Nets had suspended Irving for at least five games after he “stopped short of fully disavowing the documentary on two occasions,” according to Reuters. He has since apologized for promoting a project he said contained “false anti-Semitic statements.”
“To All Jewish families and Communities that are hurt and affected from my post, I am deeply sorry to have caused you pain, and I apologize,” Irving wrote on Instagram.
“I initially reacted out of emotion to being unjustly labelled [antisemitic], instead of focusing on the healing process of my Jewish Brothers and Sisters that were hurt from the hateful remarks made in the Documentary.”
However, the apology did little to stop Nike from pulling out of its partnership with him. “At Nike, we believe there is no place for hate speech and we condemn any form of antisemitism,” the Beaverton, Oregon-based company noted in a statement. “To that end, we’ve made the decision to suspend our relationship with Kyrie Irving effective immediately and will no longer launch the Kyrie 8.”
“We are deeply saddened and disappointed by the situation and its impact on everyone,” Nike said. Irving first signed a deal with Nike when he became the No 1 pick in that year’s NBA draft in 2011. According to the Guardian, he released his first signature shoe three years later and made $11m annually just from the Nike endorsement.
Irving becomes the second black celebrity in less than two weeks to lose a major shoe deal over antisemitism. Adidas cut ties with Kanye West, now known as Ye, over antisemitic tweets. It cost Ye $1.4 billion. He now has a reported net worth of $400 million and is no longer part of the billionaires’ club.
Media personality now turned pastor Ahmed Abubakar popularly known as Blakk Rasta has stated that he is still the old person he used to be even after being ordained as a pastor.
Blakk Rasta is known for being one of the outspoken media personalities in Ghana. He has stated that he will not change his personality even after being ordained.
A few days ago, Blakk Rasta was ordained as a pastor after passing out from the Breakthrough Family chapel Bible school. There were photos of the media personality in a clerical collar that went viral on social media.
“Nothing will change about my views on topical issues. I always say that I speak to build and not to destroy. Speaking my mind is a way of helping society to develop so I will continue with that,” he told Graphic Showbiz in an interview recently.”
“In fact, I had no respect for anything spiritual and that is because I have read widely and believed everything has to be physical.
Even though I had more than 20 men of God telling me I would join them one day, I still believed if I have to succeed in life, it has to be physically and that is by working hard. I never believed in spiritual things,” he asserted in an interview with Graphic Showbiz.
Social media has become an integral part of our lives, with most people spending hours every day scrolling through various platforms. It’s no surprise, then, that businesses have also taken to social media in a big way, using it as a tool to reach out to potential customers.
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Social media has been buzzing with comments following a video of a young man who rode on a bike with his bride on their wedding day.
In a TikTok video posted by @Mujunimedardmujuni, the man proudly mounted the bike alongside his wife and the chief bridesmaid.
It appears the bride and the groom were on their way to the wedding venue. The lady wore a veil, while the man was dressed in a suit and tie.
However, it is not yet known if the man is an Okada rider or if he and his wife just decided to ride on a bike on their big day.
TikTok users send congratulatory messages
Social media users are impressed by the humility of the bride for agreeing to be carried on a bike on her day. They also praised the man for being wise instead of showing off unnecessarily.
@patmore 77 said:
“In love with the special car. God bless your marriage.”
cissy Akky reacted:
“That’s what we call true love in capital letters.”
@kansi44 said:
“No one really can provide a car for transport. Happy marriage.”
@CJEMO reacted:
“Enjoyment as long as you alive.”
@Gretchen Rayfai62 said:
“Done, it’s really special.”
@user8867290433852 said:
“Woow long live and have a happy marriage.”
@donnashuemate commented:
“Wow! l love you both. You all are wonderful. Keep it up. I’m happy for you all. Please stay together.”
@jazjohnson999 said:
“Have a blessed marriage.”
Meanwhile, a Nigerian lady identified as Michael Ozioma Helen caused a huge stir on social media as she announced the cancellation of her wedding ceremony barely three days to the occasion – it was supposed to hold on Saturday, April 16.
Sharing her wedding invitation card with a ‘CALLED OFF’ boldly written across it in red, Helen opened up in a lengthy Facebook post that she has been suffering domestic violence at the hands of her would-be husband David Okiki.
The lady said trouble started in her relationship after David paid her bride price. According to Helen, she had thought she knew him well owing to the fact that they were former secondary school mates.
A young woman has recently got many social media users talking after sharing a video of herself.
The post sighted by YEN.com.gh on the TikTok timeline of @tabsalterego had her sharing a picture of herself before she got pregnant alongside photos of her during pregnancy.
Many who saw the young mother’s video took to the comments section to share their experiences and opinions. At the time of this publication, the post has gathered over 1.3 million likes with close to 14,200 comments and 33,000 shares.
Some of the comments have been highlighted below by YEN.com.gh;
@Sassyjammy replied:
Your baby is absorbing your beauty. Everything will be back once you give birth
@user4409472368536 wrote:
Pregnancy will humble you
@Marcus commented:
When my sister who lives abroad was pregnant I went to visit her and I walked past her in the airport because I didn’t recognise her
@Ellie said:
My nose is already huge. Ain’t no way I’m getting pregnant.
From @AshleyRamirez:
Bruhhh that was me and people be saying “ omg you have such a glow” like ma’am ma’am where
@Mimi202 commented:
Give your children your last names. Y’all do all the work and put your lives on the line to create life!
@MaggMonya commented:
you only had to do your hair, you were not bad at all❤
Meanwhile, YEN.com.gh earlier reported that a woman showcased her body’s transformation by sharing her before and during pregnancy pictures and video.
The touching video shared by @yabaleftonline on Instagram showed the petite woman in jeans before her pregnancy.
The next photo that followed showed that her stomach was beginning to protrude, signalling that she was pregnant. What followed next is a hilarious and emotional video capturing her entire ordeal at the hospital moments when she was to give birth.
A two-minute video that went viral on social media and implied that there would be a “haircut on Government bonds” prompted a response from President Akufo-Addo.
Speaking to the country about the steps the government is taking to revive the economy, he added: “I also want to reassure all Ghanaians that no individual or institutional investor—including pension funds—in Government treasury bills or instruments will lose their money as a result of our on-going IMF negotiations.
“There will be no “haircuts”, so I urge all of you to ignore the false rumours, just as, in the banking sector clean-up, Government ensured that the 4.6 million depositors affected by the exercise did not lose their deposits”
A Presidential Staffer, Dennis Miracles Aboagye has said it is not Akufo-Addo’s job to apologise to Ghanaians for the current economic crisis the country is facing.
According to him, the duty of the president is to take Ghanaians out of the economic crisis the country is facing rather than apologise.
His comment comes on the back of calls by some Ghanaians on social media who have raised concerns over Akufo-Addo’s failure to apologise to Ghanaians for the current economic crisis including IMF bailout after he vehemently spoke against it.
After his address on the economy on October 30, some social media users including ace broadcaster, Nana Aba Anamoah, raised questions after the address on Twitter with the caption “No apology. No acceptance of responsibility. Nothing, absolutely nothing!”
Speaking on the Big Issue on TV3, the host quizzed why the president did not apologise to Ghanaians after Ghana went to IMF, Miracles Aboagye responded “apology for what?”
He continued “I need to clarify this, when as speak I speak as a Ghanaian, when I say the people and you also say the people whose words are you taking? Is it not all of us. The president’s job is not to come to us and come and be crying and apologising to us. The president job is to find a way out of the situation for us”.
Some people are willing to go the extra mile to prove their love to their partners but this is beyond absurdity.
Why would any sane person tattoo his/her lover’s face on any part of his/her body – What happens if there’s a breakup?
If the lady thinks tattooing her boyfriend’s face on her bare face will keep him, then she has made a very great mistake because the guy will still cheat regardless of her tricks to pin him to herself alone.
I don’t want to believe this is a permanent tattoo but rather, a temporary tattoo that lasts around 2-3 days maximum.
Well, we are in the age of clout chasing and attention seeking hence nothing is surprising at all.
I’m just wondering how she’ll get the guy’s face off her body if they break up in the future.
All the comments under the viral video suggest the lady refused to think like an adult no matured person will draw his or her lover’s face on his\her’s just to prove a point.
Take a look at some of the reactions from shocked netizens below;
@Samanthafrea – tattoo artists gotta have some kind of rule to tell these girls that this is dumb lmao
@Iamyoursign – As a tattoo artist I try talk them out of it or try to make them get something else llf
@Kxshanell – I would be a lil scared if someone got my face tatted. Like ion even think it’d turn me on fr.
@Kunstoppable – Please tell me this is fake. Where are her parents why would the tattoo artist agree to do this.
Minister for Information, Kojo Oppong-Nkrumah is currently topping trends on social media platform; Twitter, after he broke the silence on the cedi depreciation.
This comes after many Ghanaians took to social media to react to the high cost of living and the lack of government effort to curb the cedi depreciation.
On the Interbank forex rates from the Bank of Ghana on October 24, 2022, the Ghana Cedi is trading against the dollar at a buying price of 12.5244 and a selling price of 12.5370.
However, on October 24, the information minister revealed that the government is engaged is in a series of consultations with relevant stakeholders in the financial sector to solve the issue of the cedi depreciation.
Aside from that, the Economic Management Team, chaired by Vice-President Mahamudu Bawumia, will also hold a series of meetings with other stakeholders, Asaaseradio.com adds.
This consultation will end with a cabinet retreat, after which the president will address the nation with steps taken to solve the current economic hardship.
Following these revelations, the information minister has topped Twitter trends as many have expressed mixed reactions to this development.
Pharuk FK posted “I’m certain that Kojo Oppong Nkrumah in his private moments will have regrets being the minister of information now. The most difficult job in Ghana now is attempting to defend this government.”
Another user said “The hardest job on earth today is being an information minister to Akufo Addo’s government. Man will say shit then they’ll ask you to come and clarify. I pity Oppong Nkrumah. His credibility gone all in the name of being a minister.”
Here are some of the tweets:
Oppong Nkrumah and the NPP are waiting for cocoa Syndicate loan to stabilise the cedi for 2 weeks max! This loan is a great canker! Oppong Nkrumah is gradually becoming a clown in the face of Ghanaians. He will realise it when he is out of power! @NAkufoAddo
The hardest job on earth today is being an information minister to Akufo Addo’s government. Man will say shit then they’ll ask you to come and clarify. I pity Oppong Nkrumah. His credibility gone all in the name of being a minister.
So wait ooh, Does this mean Ghana as a country don’t have any gold reserve? Other countries that don’t even produce gold do have reserves. If we had a reserve,I think it would have helped us a lot as a country in times like this. ???????? The NPP NDC Len Ofori Atta Kojo Oppong Nkrumah
I can’t believe this. Kojo Oppong Nkrumah on Joy FM, rattled like a Parrot on the deficiencies of the NDC/JDM. It was bcs he said he cld defend the incompetence of Akufo Addo, that was why Hamid was removed & he given the position. How can he be tired now? What a shame. https://t.co/S61kW6X9Sp
Many users have taken to social media to complain over their inability to receive or send messages via the platform on Tuesday October 25, 2022.
Users of the platform were said to have began reporting the issue at around 8 am on Tuesday morning.
The parent company, Meta which also owns Facebook and Instagram is yet to comment or provide an update on the issue as at the time of filing this report.
Meanwhile, some Ghanaians and other African nationals, who have been affected by the development, have taken to social media to express their sentiment.
See the reactions below:
WhatsApp is down again?
— Not Nice (@GeraldCrack) October 25, 2022
Is WhatsApp down?????
— Adjoah (@adjoah__) October 25, 2022
It seems there’s something up with WhatsApp this morning
— Area Girl with Branding!!! (@akosuashirly) October 25, 2022
Head of Engineering team WhatsApp right now #WhatsAppDown pic.twitter.com/4zCq83knwH
— Omega (@Omega_003) October 25, 2022
Is your WhatsApp working ?
— Kafui Dey (@KafuiDey) October 25, 2022
It’s not just your phone — WhatsApp is down for many users. The app said on Tuesday morning that it was working to restore service as quickly as possible. https://t.co/ZzpSxylxc4
The victim, a middle-aged man lies motionless in the middle of the street paved with residences on both sides as bystanders look on, some videoing the victim who lies with a bloodied face and blood oozing close by.
An unidentified man running commentary on the 33-second video is heard asking for help for the victim while exclaiming that he is not dead.
According to social media reports, the driver of the vehicle was shot causing his car to run into a ditch.
Moments into the video, some unsighted persons set the car ablaze. It is not immediately clear what may have resulted in the shooting incident.
In a Facebook post, the police said it was in control of the situation adding that other developments on the matter will be communicated to the public in due course.
The law enforcement body in its comment on the matter attributed the disturbances at Dzorwulu to a land dispute.
“The Police are in control of the situation and calm has since been restored. We, therefore, wish to urge the public to remain calm. Further developments will be shared in due course,” the police posted on its page.
Some internet users contend that youth unemployment is caused by laziness.
Others, on the other hand, assert that young people have a window of opportunity in farming that they should take advantage of, but they fail to do so.
Bridget Otoo, a broadcast journalist, criticized people who label young people as lazy because they don’t seem to be involved in farming in a series of tweets seen by GhanaWeb.
According to the presenter, farming is expensive, making it difficult for young people to undertake.
“Farming is expensive. Let’s be honest, it is even beginning to look like the rich people are the ones doing the farming,” she stated
“People talk about farming as if they are giving out free lands, paying for labour and the youth are refusing to do it. Even me, my dad gave me farmlands, we’ve not been able to find money to put it to use. Not having money is not equal to being lazy”, she explained.
The artist formerly known as Kanye West is acquiring Parler, the social media platform billed as a so-called conservative alternative to other sites.
In a press release, Parliament Technologies CEO George Farmer argued that Ye was “making a groundbreaking move” with this deal.
“Parlement will be honored to help him achieve his goals,” Farmer, who is married to Candace Owens, said.
In the same press release, a Ye quote is also included, complete with similarly Fox Newsian wording.
“In a world where conservative opinions are considered to be controversial we have to make sure we have the right to freely express ourselves,” Ye said.
Parler, as the Southern Poverty Law Center pointed out last January, has been criticized as “a haven for far-right extremism of all stripes.” The platform became a much-discussed facet of the larger Capitol riot investigation, with a previously published USA Today analysis showing the extent of Trump’s real-time impact on the platform in the moments leading up to the attack.
First launched in 2018, Parler quickly became the go-to social media choice for a number of far-right figures. By November 2020, per an Anti-Defamation League report at the time, those with sizable presences on the platform included Islamophobic conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer and the Proud Boys hate group.
In recent days, Ye has been met with account-restricting actions on Twitter and Instagram in response to antisemitic remarks. Elon Musk, who himself is set to acquire Twitter, later claimed to have spoken with Ye regarding his then-recent Twitter activity.
“Talked to ye today & expressed my concerns about his recent tweet, which I think he took to heart,” Musk claimed in a tweet, marking an apparent reference to Ye having previously said on the platform that he was “going death con 3 on JEWISH PEOPLE.”
To read more on the dangers of amplifying antisemitism, hit this link.
Sonnie Badu has dared social media trolls to come and face him in person to tell him to his face what they say about him on social media.
According to the US-based Ghanaian gospel musician, he gets upset when people with no light at home insult him on social media whilst they have little data on their phones as well.
The outspoken Gospel minister during a radio interview said “what upsets me is, sometimes, a type and kind of people who just had a little credit on their phone, no light at home and they have the audacity to push a word, to disrespect you“.
Sharing his thoughts on how people disrespect him on social media, he continued that “then it’s like a whole host of houseflies jump on what they said on me“. According to Sonnie Badu, he wishes the trolls are brave to do it better in his face if they are not afraid than hiding behind social media.
Speaking during an interview with Hammer Nti on Pure FM, he said “I normally say if you are a brave man come and stand in front of me and say what you want to say because I’m not afraid to say that”.
“However, those who are higher tinkers will always understand what I’m saying because I’m not afraid to speak my mind,” he added
The Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection, has condemned the brutal assault of a toddler in a video gone viral on social media.
A statement issued by the Public Affairs Unit of the Gender Ministry in Accra, said the one minute, nineteen seconds video portrayed a man severely molesting and beating a toddler under a tree.
It said: “The Ministry on behalf of Government strongly condemns this cruel, inhumane and barbaric act meted out to the child.”
The statement said the act, portrayed in the video was against the Children’s Act 1998 as well as the Criminal code of Ghana, which explicitly states that, “A person shall not subject a child to torture or any other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment including a cultural practice which dehumanizes or is injurious to the physical and mental well-being of a child.”
It stated that the act was a clear violation of the law which was punishable.
“We commend the Ghana Police Service and Child Rights International (CR) for launching a manhunt for the suspect in the matter and also staking a reward claim to any individual who will be able to provide information that leads to the arrest of the individual and rescue the child,” the statement said.
The Ministry therefore appealed to the public to support the Police with any information relevant to the matter and the arrest of the man.
“We finally urge citizens to be vigilant and continue to report individuals who engage in this unlawful act,” it said.
The statement advised parents and guardians to correct their children with love and care when they made mistakes but not in a violent manner.
“The General Public can reach the Ministry’s Helpline of Hope Call Centre on its toll -free number on 0800-800-800 or O800-900-900 for complaints and enquiries. Also, issues of sexual and gender-based violence can be reported to the Domestic Violence Call Centre Via toll free number 0800-111-222,” it said.
Albert Antwi-Boasiako, acting director-general of the Cyber Security Authority, says Ghana is the third most active social media user in the world.
Appearing on The Asaase Breakfast Show on Thursday (6 October), as part of this year’s cyber security awareness month in Ghana, Antwi-Boasiako said this will make Ghanaians more vulnerable online.
“Our citizens are quite active on social media, and statistics show that we are ranked the third country with active social media presence behind Nigeria and the Philippines in the whole world.
“Averagely it’s about five hours daily in Ghana, but I wouldn’t want to look at it from the economic impact, whether it is positive or impacting on economic development,” he told the show host Benjamin Offei-Addo.
“You may be surprised, access to betting sites is one of them, also it is not very nice to say but even pornographic access is one of them,” he said.
The General Manager of GHOne TV, Nana Aba Anamoah has thrown a major shade at men who are weak in bed.
The controversially witty side of Nana Aba Anamoah came out to play as she diss men who particularly brag about being good in bed but in reality, are the weakest.
Nana Aba Anamoah shared a funny video where she summed up her thought in her caption.
In the video, a gentleman failed woefully at his task although he had thought of himself as the better option.
Captioning the video, Nana Aba Anamoah wrote, ‘I’ll shift your womb, I’ll shift your womb” 3 seconds later…’
The video has spurred massive reactions on social media.
Apart from the fact that the video is funny, that killer caption from Nana Aba has touched peoples’ emotions.
A sea mammal; a whale, has reportedly been found dead at a Beach in Dansoman.
Photos posted by akokonsafuor on social media platform – Instagram, show that the mammal may have died some time ago, judging from the decolourized carcass that was washed ashore.
It is unclear however what may have caused the death of the mammal.
As of the time of going to press, GhanaWeb had not received nor seen any official communication from authorities on what happened at the beach.
Heavy rains on Saturday ushered in the month of October, causing floods that destroyed property and disrupted many outdoor events, especially weddings and funerals.
The intermittent downpour which started at dawn in Accra restricted movement and caused vehicular traffic especially, delaying many planned ceremonies.
Vehicles and commuters waded through heavy floods to get to their destinations while some drivers had to park their vehicles on the shoulders of roads due to poor visibility.
Event grounds deserted during the rains
Pictures posted on social media showed how seats and tables arranged at some open air events grounds had been abandoned while guests sought cover in nearby facilities.
Determined to go through their events as planned, some hosts and their guests resorted to the use of umbrellas, and in addition, hurried through the activities for the ceremonies.
Throughout last week, heavy rains have been lashing some districts across the country including Accra, Kumasi and its surrounding areas and parts of the Eastern Region.
In Kumasi, the wares of hundreds of traders in the Kumasi Central Market were destroyed in Wednesday’s flooding which has been blamed on the contractors of the Kejetia Redevelopment Project.
The traders accused them of blocking a sewage system at the construction site, leading to the floods although the contractors have denied being responsible for the situation.
Joynews reported that 20 per cent part of the central market space yet to be demolished for the market redevelopment project got flooded, destroying wares worth millions of cedis.
Consultant in charge of the project Emmanuel Danso said they only took measures to gather the debris in the gutters that are connected to the Subin stream at the market.
At least three persons reportedly died in floods in the Ashanti Region; specifically at Oduom-Bebre, Asokwa and Subin.
That same Wednesday in Kyebi in Akyem Abuakwa area of the Eastern Region, heavy rains caused the Birim River to overflow its banks and caused flooding in the area, thereby hindering vehicular movement.
Some vehicles which were in motion ahead of the rains and those that were trying to meander their way through the waters were partially submerged, likewise other structures.
It was reported that it is the first time in over five decades that Kyebi had experienced severe flooding of its kind with the impact of illegal mining on the Birim River being blamed for the scale of flooding.
In a social media post on Saturday, the Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, who is also the Member of Parliament for Ofoase-Ayirebi said the Akokoaso community was not spared by the rains this week.
“Floods this week took a life, washed away some trading stalls, roads and oil palm processing plants in the Akokoaso”, he said after visiting the scenes and commiserating with the victim’s family.
Meanwhile the Ghana Meteorological Agency has cautioned Ghanaians to expect more rains and be cautious in flood-prone areas.
It has been observed that the institution of marriage in Ghana is under attack due to modernity and the superhighway information available to people on social media and other internet enabled platforms.
Dr Abubakar Mohammed Marzuq Azindoo, the Personal Assistant to the National Chief Imam, and Ms Annie Emefa Fiawoo, a private legal practitioner, said this, and called for safeguards including legal support to individuals especially before marriage.
They said it was important for people to be counselled on the legal and social nuances of marriage and made to understand that it takes “a lot of sacrifices and love” to live in harmony as couple and among families and in society.
This would ensure that the institution of marriage is protected and made sustainable, with people having the peace of mind to build strong families and contribute to social cohesion and national development.
Dr Azindoo, said: “Today, the institution of marriage has become the worst victim of attack due to the superhighway of information, made possible through the internet and social media.”
He said this in an interview with the Ghana News Agency on the sidelines of the Marriage Link Consult (M-Link Consult) a one-stop marriage consulting and event firm, in Accra.
He encouraged institutions including religious organisations and counselling support units to support individuals to lasting and enjoyable marriages and advised that people to embrace love and sympathy in their marital lives.
Dr Azindoo commended M-Link Consult for the initiative and said: “This is a very good initiative, and I must say making it a non- denominational entity is what makes it more special, because it will make it easy for everyone, no matter their religion or beliefs, to walk in and get served.”
Ms Fiawoo also noted modernity and social media had made everything extremely fast with the institution of marriage, while bemoaning the high rate of divorce in the country.
She explained that every registered marriage could not be dissolved in Ghana within two years “unless under extreme circumstances” – one thing she said many people do not know.
“We have had many people seeking divorce in less than two years of their marriages, and they get shocked when we inform them that they cannot have a divorce until after two years. This tells us that people just rush into marriages and do not seek adequate legal information about marriage before registration,” she said.
She added that when people were made to undergo periodic pre and post marriage counselling together with engaging in occasional activities to spice up their union, marriages would be sustained, and cautioned against domestic violence.
Mr Sylvanus Tettey-Tamaklo, Former Ghana Ambassador to Zimbabwe recommended forgiveness and tolerance as the cornerstone of their marriages for couples.
He said: “The issue of forgiveness is very important in every marriage or relationship. Marriage Link must treat it. I also want you to treat the intestate succession law and the sickling tests as topics. They are very important.”
Mr Dickson Antwi, Chief Executive Officer of the company, called for concerted effort to counter the threat to the institution of marriage by promoting social harmony and peace in the homes.
Among others, M-Link Consult would provide marriage partner identification and matching services, and pre-marital counselling for both faith and non-faith-based individuals to adequately prepare them for marriage.
They would also offer customised marriage events organisation to help couples to have stress-free ceremony to suit the budget for marriage ceremony as well as marriage “juice up” services for couples facing challenges in their marriages.
The organizers of the annual Western Gospel Awards (WGA22) have unveiled the nominees for the 2022 edition of the prestigious award.
The official announcement was made via a virtual telecast on Kantaka TV and on Social media on the official Western Gospel Awards page on FaceBook on Sunday, September 25, 2022.
The 2022 Western Gospel Awards (WGA22) which will be hosted in Takoradi on the 27th of November this year, has SK. Frimpong, Navah, KDM, Ewuraba Eesi, and other top Gospel Acts as contenders for the Artiste of the Year.
Below is the full list of nominees:
Western Gospel Artiste of the Year
Navah
SK Frimpong
Ewuraba Eesi
KDM
Ruger Quarm
Western Gospel Collaboration of the Year
KDM ft. Navah – Centre of my Life
Mykford ft Koda – Made Nyina (My Everything)
Ruger Quarm ft. Kofi Owusu Peprah – The Name of Jesus
Mabel Love ft. Ruth Adjei – OSOMBO
Ewuraba Eesi ft Nero – The Grace
Etriakor Charles ft Philip Adzale – Doing Wonders
Western Female Vocalist of the Year
Georgia and Georgette
Rhoda Offei
Ruth Ackaah – Gyasi
Ewuraba Eesi
Western New Gospel Artiste of the Year
Georgia and Georgette
Mykford
Ruger Quarm
Eben Richy
Ruth Ackaah – Gyasi
Efua Black
Obaapa Kakra
Etriakor Charle
Western Female Gospel Artiste of the Year
Ewuraba Eesi
Theresa Acquah
Rhoda Offei
Obaapa Kakra
Mabel Love
Ruth Ackaah – Gyasi
Western Male Gospel Artiste of the Year
EL Manuel
Max Praize
Ruger Quarm
SK Frimpong
KDM
Isaac K Dentu
SK Frimpong
Western Gospel Song of the Year
KDM – SIN
Ruger Quarm – The Name of Jesus
Mabel Love – OSOMBO
Ewuraba Eesi – The Grace
George Owens – Indebted
Min. Esaw – King of Glory
SK Frimpong – Pentecostal Praise
Navah – Nyamele Mo Ngekyi le
Western Choral Choir/Group of the Year
Apowa Youth Choir
Sixteenth Angelic Choir
Wesleyan Symphonic Choir
Western Instrumentalist of the Year (Technical)
Corbina Saah
Godfred (Ekueme)
Terry String
Richmon Kojo Quarm
KingDee
Bright Cobb
Best Choreography / Mime Group of the Year
FNDP Academy
Dramatic Arts Ministry
Dream Team
Victory Dancing Stars
Western Male Vocalist of the Year
EL Manuel
Ruger Quarm
Navah
Vincent Nyarko
Mykford
Etriakor Charle
Western Gospel Radio/TV Presenter of the Year
Kenneth (Skyy Power)
Nana Ohene Appiateawaa Sikapa (Big FM)
Prince Macasford (Owass fm
Vincent Nyarko (Kyzz FM)
King Mesh (Radio 360)
Ebenak (Connect fm)
Western Gospel Radio/TV Show of the Year
Sunday Best – Beach fm
Gospel Avenue – Amanfo fm
Big In The Afteroon – ( Big fm)
Life & living – (YFM)
W’ayeyi Mbre – (Kyzz fm)
Gospel 360 – (Owass fm)
Western Contemporary Choir/Group of the Year
Tsie-Eli Worshipers
Divine Worshippers
Blazing Altars
High Tuned Gospel Crew
Ministers of Life
Breakthrough family Ministries Choir
Glory Zone Choir
Grace Choir
Western Urban Gospel Artiste of the Year
Mykford
Eben Richy
Min. Esaw
EL Manuel
Navah
Kofi Ayeyi
Etriakor Charle
Western Best Lyrical Content of the year (Technical)
Georgia and Georgette – The Lords Song
Max Praize – Spirit Life
Eben Richy – Ahye Mebo
Vincent Nyarko – Mother Ghana
Etriakor Charle – Doing Wonders
Western Producer of the Year
Ruger Quarm
Jake Beatz
BB.M
Western Choral Choir/Group of the Year
Apowa Youth Choir
Sixteenth Angelic Choir
Wesleyan Symphonic Choir Ghana
Western Songwriter of the Year
KDM – SIN
Ewuraba Eesi – The Grace
George Owens – Indebted
Eben Richy – Ahye Mebo
Isaac K Dentu – Your Grace
Ruger Quarm – The Name of Jesus
Western Choral Choir/Group of the Year
Apowa Youth Choir
Sixteenth Angelic Choir
Wesleyan Symphonic Choir
Western Gospel Music Video of the Year
KDM – Wo Yie
Mabel Love – OSOMBO
Ewuraba Eesi – The Grace
David Koomson – Wo Se Ayeyi
George Owens – Indebted
Isaac K Dentu – Your Garce
Efua Black – Oye Jesus
Western Best Blogger of the Year (Technical)
Zhikay’s – (gospel2me.com)
Ali Hashim – (hashimnews.com)
Nana Kwesi Coomson – (233times.com)
Ngosraba Ekow Yankey – (ghministers.com)
Kofy Jesse – (kofyjesse.com)
Kwame Davor – (gospelhauz.com)
The Western Gospel Awards (WGA) is an annual award to honor and celebrate individuals who have excelled in the gospel industry, in the Western Region.
The prestigious award was founded by Prolific GH.
Western Gospel Awards always has in attendance numerous celebrities, politicians, journalists, actresses, and actors in the Western Region and its environs to grace the occasion.
This past weekend saw a crackdown on persons who illegally stream Ghana Premier League matches on new media platforms and social media.
Two of the alleged culprits were arrested at the Baba Yara Stadium during yesterday’s GPL clash between Kumasi Asante Kotoko and Accra Hearts of Oak.
Prior to that, StarTimes, the Chinese firm which signed a five-year agreement worth $5.25million with the Ghana Football Association in 2020 to be the exclusive television rights owner of the GPL and the FA Cup for five years had sent out cease and desist letters to several YouTube channels that were streaming the league matches without approval.
Two of the letters sent out by the lawyers of StarTimes were addressed to the owners of Dan Kwaku Yeboah TV and Pepe Suarez.
Portions of the letters read.
NOTICE TO CEASE AND DESIST
We act as lawyers for and on behalf of Startimes Development Ghana Limited of Accra (hereinafter referred to as ‘our client’) and write pursuant to its instructions thereof.
The purpose of this letter is to inform you that our client reserves and own all production and broadcast rights for all the Ghana Premier League and FA CUP matches played under the auspices of the Licensor (Ghana Football Association) in respect of the 2019/2020 to 2023/2024 seasons (“the events”) that was first published on 20th January 2020 and which agreement is protected by the laws of Ghana.
It has been brought to the attention of our client that you have made an unauthorized production and broadcast of a match played under the auspices of the GFA which is titled Match Day 1 Fixture, Aduana Stars vrs Accra Hearts of Oak played at Dormaa on the 11th day of September 2022 via live streaming to the public.
As you have not sought or requested permission/authorization to use, nor to make and/or distribute, sell, lend, or lease any of our client’s exclusive right titled Match Day 1 Fixture, Aduana Stars vrs Accra Hearts of Oak, you are hereby notified to CEASE AND DESIST any and all further unlawful acts of infringement with regards to your actions relating to this matter.
Failure to comply with this notice will confirm your complicity and leave our client with no other alternative but to proceed to file a civil action suit seeking monetary damages and compensation for court and attorney’s fees in direct result of your unlawful actions.
It is not our client’s wish to seek legal recourse, however, our client will vehemently do all that is necessary to protect its rights and interest.
Please take note that this letter will be the only and last warning we will provide. Therefore, you are hereby requested to immediately CEASE and DESIST any further acts and within three (3) business days of receipt of this notice, return the signed written assurance attached, affirming that you will refrain from any further acts of infringements on our client’s rights.
A customer who bought tins of Peak milk powder and Ovaltine discovered that the content of the two products were reduced.
The customer’s post on social media has stirred up debate particularly at a time when prices of products have nearly doubled as a result of inflation and the dollar rate.
“This is not right!!! Prices of these are higher than before, yet you reduce the content? Why? At least be considerate knowing as school reopens now, this is gonna be the preferred breakfast for the children. Sometimes, we too, we’re the problem. Cheating each other” the customer posted on social media platform Facebook.
Several people have shared their thoughts over the post, with several claiming to have experienced the same thing.
Others falsely accused Nestlé, however it was later found that the involved items are not theirs.
Although the product’s manufacturers have been informed, there has still not been any official reaction from the company.
I’m sorry about your experience, but it’s a real thing, unfortunately. It’s called “shrinkflation”. Sometimes, to not raise prices too high, consumer goods companies resort to reducing the volume / size of the product. For example, instead of a 10-cedi raise, the company may apply a 5-cedi raise and in parallel reduce the volume of product. Other times, companies resort to re formulation and using more affordable ingredients. That was partly what we saw in the recent Ideal curding issue. These are hard times.
I was going to write on Ideal Milk, Carnation Milk, etc and Beta Malt. It’s like they have divided the original contents into two, then topped up with Water to sell back to us at higher cost.
I think it’s time we start to call them out.
I will do the post today…. With pictures. It’s sooo irritating…. Those things are so diluted.
Shatta Bandle is officially off the single’s market,
The dimunituve and social media star tied the knot with his baby mama whom he has two kids with, yesterday, September 17, 2022 in a grand ceremony.
The couple who welcomed their second child last week, topped their celebration with the marriage celebration on a park in Tamale, in the Northern Region.
Wearing a white Kaftan with gold designs, Shatta Bandle, who describes himself as billionaire, was seen with all smiles while sitting closely with his wife in a sofa at the ceremony.
Some social media users and Ghanaian celebrities have since taken to social media to celebrate the newest couple Mr and Mrs Bandle.
The Ghana Police Service says it has arrested the chief of Sefwi Elubo and his brother “in connection with illegal mining”.
In a statement dated September 17, the Police said, the arrest was made on Friday, September 16, in the Sefwi Elubo township in the Western Region.
According to the Police, it is also pursuing six other people in connection with illegal mining activities in the area.
“The suspects, Nana Anini Baffour and his brother Kwadwo Affi were arrested following Police investigation of a video circulating on social media showing illegal mining activities in some compound houses of the town.
Investigation has so far discovered dug-out pits from the compound leading to the bedroom of the chief’s brother”, the statement added.
The statement from the Ghana Police Service on the arrest of the chief of Sefwi Elubo and his brother
In the release, which was signed by Director of Public Affairs, Grace Ansah-Akrofi, the Police further indicated that, “Four other deep dug-out pits have also been uncovered by the Police in other houses in the same vicinity”.
The arrest of the traditional leader comes at a time when there are widespread concerns about the involvement of chiefs in the illicit act.
Following the re-emergence of galamsey kingpin, Aisha Huang, some citizens have accused traditional leaders of being complicit in the act.
According to them, some traditional leaders conspire with illegal miners and give them lands to facilitate their mining activities.
In the wake of these developments, government has reaffirmed its commitment to dealing with the menace,and bringing all perpetrators to book.
Meanwhile, regarding the arrest of the chief of Sefwi Elubo, the Police said, “Investigation has further revealed that the chief, his brother and six other suspects who are on the run are the main people behind the illegal mining activities”
“As investigation continues, we would like to assure the public that all those involved will be brought to face justice”, the statement concluded.
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Twitter employees say given the scale of the resignations this week, they expect the platform to start breaking soon. Some “legendary engineers” have reportedly left one by one.
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