SONA18: Treat women with dignity – Akufo-Addo urges Ghanaian men 

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President Akufo- Addo has urged all Ghanaian males to join together in giving Ghanaian females the dignity they deserve. 

According to the president, his commitment to the promotion of the advancement of women is without question.

Delivering his State of the Nation Address (SONA) in Parliament Thursday, he said: “Women constitute the majority of the population, and our success or otherwise as a nation will be measured by how well women are doing”

“I have thrown my full weight behind the HeforShe campaign, and the Gender and Development Initiative for Africa (GADIA), an initiative stemming from my position as the African Union’s Gender Champion,” he added.


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SONA18: Gov’t to create Sports Fund to improve sports development- Nana Addo

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President Akufo- Addo has stated that government will create a Sports Fund to improve sports development in the country.

Delivering his State of the Nation Address (SONA) in Parliament Thursday, he said: “This year, we will continue the process of passing the Legislative Instruments of the National Youth and Sports Act, pursue the enactment of the draft National Sports College Bill, and create a Sports Fund to improve sports development in the country.”

 

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SONA 2018: Ghana parts ways with IMF

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President of the Republic of Ghana, Nana Akufo-Addo has announced an end to Ghana’s three-year IMF bailout deal.

Nana Addo made the declaration Thursday, 8 February 2018 at the second State of the Nation Address on the floor of Parliament in Accra.

According to the President, his administration is determined to put in place measures to ensure irreversibility, and sustain macroeconomic stability, so that Ghana will have no reason to seek again the assistance of that powerful global body.

“I am also pleased to report that the 3-year IMF-supported Extended Credit Facility Programme, began in 2015, comes to an end this year. The relatively good macroeconomic performance in 2017 will strongly support our successful completion of the IMF programme.

He added  that although the NPP inherited a debt choked economy, it has been restored back to good health under the leadership of Vice-President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia.


“I’m glad to be able to report that the Economic Management Team, under the stellar leadership of the strong, brilliant economist, Vice-President Mahamudu Bawumia, has risen to the challenge, and the hard work is beginning to show positive results”, he added.

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SONA18: Schools’ curricula being reformed to deal with weaknesses in education system- Nana Addo

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President Akufo- Addo says his government is reforming the schools’ curricula to deal with weaknesses in our education system.

Delivering his State of the Nation Address (SONA)  in Parliament  Thursday,  the president said   greater emphasis to be laid  on Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics (S.T.E.M), reading, history, and technical and vocational skills.

“We need an educated and skilled workforce to be able to operate the modern economy we are creating. The Free SHS is a start towards this goal. It is a policy that has come to stay,”he said .

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SONA2018: Digital Marketing and Entrepreneurship to employ 3000- Nana Addo

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President Akufo-Addo has said about 3000 people will be employed under the recently launched  Digital Marketing and Entrepreneurship Programme at the Accra Digital Centre.

Delivering this year’s State of the Nation Address (SONA) Thursday in Parliament, he said the programme, with ten regional training centres, has already recruited 3,000 young, unemployed people, to undergo a 3-month all-expenses-paid training.

“I am happy to announce that Ecobank Ghana Ltd has already offered to engage all 3,000 young people, after the training programme. This is just the tip of the iceberg,” the President said.

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A Plus: Some feminists have body odour; they don’t take good care of themselves  

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Musician cum politician, A Plus, has slammed hardline feminists, adding that some of them don’t take good care of themselves.

His comment follows the raging cooking debate that has taken over social media in recent times.

Some hardline feminists have suggested that cooking for husbands is tantamount to slavery.

The suggestion has angered many Ghanaians, who have accused the so-called feminists of setting an agenda to wreck homes.

According to A Plus, some of these feminists don’t have time to take good care of themselves let alone cook for some people. 

 “You see, 90% of the so called feminist in this country have some body odour. It is not that they don't want to serve a man. They just don't want to serve. Not even themselves. They can't take care of their own body how do you expect them to take care of a man,” he said.

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What a friend asked me; Kwame I've not heard you say anything about this feminist nonsense oooo.

Me; Who put a gun to you heard to marry a useless lazy woman who does not want to cook clean and take care of her own home and kids?

You see, 90% of the so called feminist in this country have some body odour. It is not that they don't want to serve a man. They just don't want to serve. Not even themselves. They can't take care of their own body how do you expect them to take care of a man.

I know them. Go close to them. Especially their leaders. ɔmo ho kankankankan. Etu fush fush fush fush. Tweaaa!!! They have some highly inflammable gasses circulating their "body atmosphere."

There are so many humble, beautiful and intelligent Ghanaian women out there who are ready to serve and know how to make a home out of a house. Look for them, love them and make them enjoy life forever. When you find a good and humble woman, make sure she never cries. Even if she does it has to be tears of joy.
Forget all these white dross turn brown lazy women…  ? ? ? ? ?

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Queen of Belgium in Ghana for three-day visit 

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Queen of Belgium, Her Majesty Mathilde arrived in Ghana Wednesday for a three -day State visit. 

The Queen was met on arrival at the Jubilee Lounge by the Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mohammed Tijani Habib, the Minister for Planning, Professor Gyan Baffour, Belgian Ambassador to Ghana, Huyge Chartry, and the Chief of Protocol, Mr. Peprah Ampratwum.

The second day of the Queen's visit (8th February) will commence with a breakfast meeting at the Movenpick Ambassador Hotel to exchange ideas with the Civil Society Platform members and Business leaders. The Queen will subsequently depart Mövenpick Ambassador Hotel to visit Teshie Presec SHS, Osu Presec SHS and the Makola Market.

In the afternoon on the second day, the Queen will attend a Luncheon meeting at Mövenpick with the First Lady Rebecca Akufo Addo and the Second Lady Samira Bawumia , the Minister for Children, Gender and Social Protection, Otiko Djaba, Cultural Icons, Traditional Leaders, UNESCO and UNICEF. The focus of the Luncheon will be on Gender (forced marriages, keeping girls in school).

The queen will resume her visits by going to 2nd Image International. She will proceed to Niche Cocoa Industry located at the Tema Free Zone; (a Private Company financed by BIO Invest, a Belgian Investment Company for Developing Countries).

On the third day of the queen's visit (9th February), she will meet with President Akufo-Addo, at the Ceremonial room for bilateral talks. After the meeting, the President will host the queen to a working lunch at the Banquet Hall, Flagstaff House. 

The two leaders will transfer to the University of Ghana Campus for a Public Lecture on the topic: "The SDGs- a transformative agenda for the future that we want". The Keynote Speaker will be Her Majesty Queen Mathilde. The Queen will subsequently depart the Republic back to Belgium.


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Quincy Jones: 'The Beatles were the worst musicians in the world'

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Legendary record producer Quincy Jones has described the Beatles as “the worst musicians in the world” as he recalled meeting the band for the first time during an interview to promote a new Netflix documentary and US television special.

In the new interview with New York Magazine, he discussed his first impressions of the Beatles in unsparing terms. “They were the worst musicians in the world,” he told interviewer David Marchese. “They were no-playing motherfuckers. Paul [McCartney] was the worst bass player I ever heard.”

Drummer Ringo Starr came in for particular opprobrium: “And Ringo? Don’t even talk about it.”

Jones recalled arranging Love Is a Many Splendoured Thing for Starr’s 1970 debut solo album Sentimental Journey.

“Ringo had taken three hours for a four-bar thing he was trying to fix on a song. He couldn’t get it. We said: ‘Mate, why don’t you get some lager and lime, some shepherd’s pie, and take an hour-and-a-half and relax a little bit.’”

In the interim, Jones called English jazz drummer Ronnie Verrell into the studio.

“Ronnie came in for 15 minutes and tore it up. Ringo comes back and says: ‘George [Martin], can you play it back for me one more time?’
“So George did, and Ringo says: ‘That didn’t sound so bad.’ And I said: ‘Yeah, motherfucker because it ain’t you.’ Great guy, though.”

Jones, 84, reserved praise for Eric Clapton’s Cream, the guitar skills of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and Tropicália artists Gilberto Gil and Caetano Veloso, but lamented U2’s latterday output. “I love Bono with all my heart, but there’s too much pressure on the band,” Jones said.

In the enjoyably unguarded Q&A, Jones chastised his most famous charge, the late Michael Jackson, for stealing “a lot of stuff” from other artists without paying them.

“He was as machiavellian as they come,” he said.

Jones also claimed to know the identity of JFK’s killer (Chicago mobster Sam Giancana: “We shouldn’t talk about this publicly”) and to have briefly dated Ivanka Trump 12 years ago: “She had the most beautiful legs I ever saw in my life. Wrong father, though!” Later in the interview, Jones called Trump senior “a fucking idiot”.

Jones has won 27 Grammy awards out of 79 total nominations. Jackson’s 1982 album Thriller won eight of those awards.

Jones balked at New York Magazine’s suggestion that any of his productions had ever underperformed. “What the fuck are you talking about?” he asked Marchese. “I’ve never had that problem. They were all big.”


Source: Guardian 

Chinese police are using facial-recognition glasses to scan travelers

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Chinese railway police are using facial-recognition sunglasses to catch suspects at train stations in Zhengzhou, the capital of central Henan province.

The eyewear, which looks similar to the original Google Glass, was unveiled earlier this year and has already helped identify seven alleged criminals, according to the Communist Party's official newspaper People's Daily.

The glasses are linked to a database that can match travelers with criminal suspects. It is unclear how long it takes for a match to be made in the real world, butWu Fei, the CEO of LLVision Technology which developed the glasses, told The Wall Street Journal that, during testing, the system could identify faces from a database of 10,000 in 100 milliseconds.

So far the glasses have identified people suspected of misdeeds ranging from traffic infringements to crimes like human trafficking.

A further 26 people using fake identity documents were also prevented from traveling.

In China, people must use identity documents for train travel. This rule works to prevent people with excessive debt from using high-speed trains, and limit the movement of religious minorities who have had identity documents confiscatedandcan wait years to get a valid passport.

While this is the first time Chinese officials have used glasses to implement facial-recognition, the technology is widely used by police. China is also currently building a system that will recognize any of its 1.3 billion citizens in three seconds.

These programs have been condemned by human-rights groups that say this implementation of the technology infringes on people's right to privacy.

“Chinese authorities seem to think they can achieve ‘social stability’ by placing people under a microscope, but these abusive programs are more likely to deepen hostility towards the government,” Sophie Richardson, China director of Human Rights Watch, previously said about different facial recognition technology being used to monitor religious minorities. “Beijing should immediately stop these programs, and destroy all data gathered without full, informed consent.”

The glasses are likely here to stay, having arrived just weeks before Chinese New Year when it is expected that 389 million train trips will be taken between Feb 1 and March 12.

Source: Businessinsider

Operation Vanguard task force requests for more logistics despite successes 

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Commander of the Joint Security Operations – Operation Vanguard, Colonel Michael Amoah Ayisi, has stressed the need formore logistics at their disposal as they battle to bring to a close the activities of illegal miners.

Operation Vanguard came into being shortly after the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo declare war on the galamsey menace. 

And having been operating in the Ashanti, Eastern, Western Regions and recently Central Region over the past six months, the team has chalked some successes even though they are challenged in some fronts.

In explaining their performance to the media during a workshop organized by the Media Coalition Against Galamsey at the Coconut Groove Hotel, Colonel Amoah Ayisi mentioned that, they have covered about 80% of all the regions involved steadily, however, they don’t have enough cars to carry out their duties efficiently.

In as much the issue of transport is a major challenge, they also lack adequate lighting gadgets for their night duties since their “opponents” (galamseyers) have changed their mode and time of operation.

This is coupled with outgrown pits and trenches that have not been covered which pose danger for the troops, particularly in the night. The other major challenge is the non availability of the short range drones that could take clear and evident-based pictures to help prosecute the perpetuators.

So far, Operation Vanguard has arrested 1012 suspects in their 646 operations; and out of this number, 124 are Chinese Nationals and only 22 of them have been convicted. Other Nationals arrested are; 4 Burkinabes; 3 Nigerians; 6 Togolese; one Benin national   and one Nigerien.

Also, 107 persons have been convicted whilst others are on bail and the rest are facing the courts. In all, 370 excavators, 910 water pumping machines, 54 motor bikes, 3368 diesel machines seized and destroyed. In addition, 60 vehicles, 83 arms and 1375 ammos have been seized.

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