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Foreign Affairs Minister, Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, has stated that the opening of the New Ghana embassy in the State of Kuwait is timely and opportune for the mutual benefit of Republic of Ghana and the State of Kuwait.

Addressing a ceremony in the Kuwaiti capital, Kuwait City, on the 16th of January 2018, to officially open the new Ghana embassy, the Foreign Minister said the opening of the embassy marks an important milestone in the diplomatic relations between the Republic of Ghana and the State of Kuwait which dates back to the period when the Embassy of the Republic of Ghana in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, was concurrently accredited to the State of Kuwait.

"Due to the increasing political and economic relations between Ghana and Kuwait, Kuwait opened its Embassy in Accra in 2015. It is for the same reason that Ghana decided last year to establish a Resident Diplomatic Mission in Kuwait at Ambassadorial level in order to accelerate the diplomatic, economic, investment and trade relation between our two countries" the Minister said.

Economic Potential of Ghana, Kuwait Relations

In her speech, Madam Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey observed that the State of Kuwait has made giant strides in economic development and taken concrete steps to strengthen its ties with the rest of the world, particularly African countries. She added that Kuwait having been designated as a strategic partner for Africa’s development by the African Union, offers Ghana a great opportunity that ought to be exploited.

"It is worth noting that in 2013, Kuwait hosted the 3rd Africa-Arab Summit in Kuwait City in which Ghana among other African countries, participated. The Summit produced the Kuwait Declaration which paved the way forward towards fruitful cooperation between the Arab countries including Kuwait and Africa.
No doubt that today through the instrumentality and the desire of the Government and people of Kuwait to open up to Africa, many African countries have deemed it expedient to open Resident Diplomatic Missions in Kuwait in order to explore the vast potential and opportunities that exist between our various countries and Kuwait. This move will advance mutually beneficial cooperation in various spheres of endeavour between African countries particularly Ghana and Kuwait" Madam Botchwey underscored .

The Embassy

The Foreign Minister Emphasized that there is a growing population of Ghanaian citizens and Ghanaian students in various parts of Kuwait with the attendant consular and welfare challenges faced by these Ghanaian compatriots. She added that It is her hope that the opening of the Embassy of Ghana in Kuwait would help Ghanaians domicile in Kuwait to be law abiding and worthy Ambassadors of Ghana in order not to mar the friendly relations and cooperation that exist between Ghana and Kuwait.

The Ambassador and Staff of the Embassy

The Foreign Minister expressed confidence in Ghana's Ambassador-Designate to Kuwait and the Staff of the Embassy to deliver efficient and competent services to enhance Ghana-Kuwait relations and cooperation for our mutual benefit and to justify the resources invested in the opening the new Embassy.
"It is my fervent hope that the opening of the new Embassy will not only foster closer cooperation and collaboration between Ghana and Kuwait both at the bilateral and multilateral level but will also bring the African Embassies and Ambassadors in Kuwait closer to brainstorm and share experiences and best practices" the Minister said.

Source: Wilberforce Asare 
 

Bestselling Donald Trump exposé Fire and Fury to become TV series

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Michael Wolff’s peek inside the White House will head to the small screen in a seven-figure deal, with the author onboard as executive producer

According to the Hollywood Reporter, Wolff will remain with the project as executive producer alongside the ex-BBC chief Michael Jackson, who now runs Two Cities Television. The company’s first show is Patrick Melrose, a forthcoming drama starring Benedict Cumberbatch.

A network is yet to be attached to the project and it will be shopped around as a series imminently.

The book tells the inside story of the first chaotic year of Trump’s White House after Wolff was granted unprecedented access behind the scenes. It has become the year’s first publishing sensation, selling more than 1m copies and angering the president himself.

“Michael Wolff is a total loser who made up stories in order to sell this really boring and untruthful book,” Trump tweeted.

Wolff responded: “Not only is he helping me sell books, but he’s helping me prove the point of the book.”

The most controversial revelations in the book are attributed to Trump’s former chief strategist, Steve Bannon, who is alleged to have made derogatory comments about the Trump family as well as suggesting “treasonous” behavior.

The announcement comes months after HBO decided to cancel a project based around the 2016 election once sexual harassment allegations against writer Mark Halperin came to light. Next month also sees the premiere of Our Cartoon President, an animated series about Trump from Stephen Colbert, while an election-based series from the Zero Dark Thirty writer Mark Boal is still in the works.

The Guardian 

We will resist attempts by NPP to manipulate the EC – Minority

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The Minority spokesperson on Communication, Alhaji A.B.A Fuseini, has accused the current New Patriotic Party (NPP)  government of trying to manipulate the Electoral Commission.

Officials of the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) on Monday 15th January 2018, stormed the Electoral Commission (EC) to force the Deputy Commissioner of the Electoral Commission Georgina Opoku Amankwa out of her office.

Mrs. Amankwaa allegedly defied the order of interdiction by the EOCO and reported to work, Monday.

Georgina Opoku Amankwa is the subject of an investigation after several allegations of financial impropriety were made against her.

Speaking to Ekourba Gyasi on Atinka AM Drive Wednesday, Alhaji A.B.A Fuseini stated that the Minority is very much aware that the NPP is trying to manipulate the affairs at the EC and that, they will resist  such attempts.  

According to him, NPP’s one year in power has been characterized by lawlessness and Georgina Opoku Amankwa’s incident is an example.

He stated that the NPP is bent on hunting  some people at the Electoral commission out of office in order to manipulate the affairs of the EC.

Ghana | atinkaonline.com | Vivian Adu Boatemaa

Scrap prez media encounter; journalists asking shallow questions –Gyampo 

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A senior political science lecturer at the University of Ghana, Professor Ransford Gyampo, has said the President’s media encounter series should be scrapped since journalists are not asking thought-provoking questions. 

Speaking on Accra based Asempa FM’s “Eko sii sen” Wednesday, the lecturer said over the years, relevant questions have been ignored by journalists during such encounters, rendering the process irrelevant.

“The performance of journalists in this year’s encounter was abysmal just like the previous ones.

“If that continues then it should be scrapped; it is not the forum to sing praises or ask unnecessary questions.”
In his view, detailed research wasn’t taken into account prior to the event.
 
“If journalists won’t seize the opportunity to ask thought- provoking questions, then the president should go to the market, ask traders of their needs and they will be able to tell the president exactly what they want,” he said.

Professor Gyampo said the few relevant questions asked were not followed up. According to him, unsatisfactory responses to questions require “follow –ups”, 

He reiterated that many of the questions asked were ‘disjointed’, exposing journalists to ridicule.  

Ghana | Atinkaonline.com | Simon Agbovi 

North and South Korea agree  to march under single 'united' flag in Olympic Games

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North and South Korea have agreed to march together under a single "unified Korea" flag at next month's Winter Olympics in the South.

They also agreed to field a joint women's ice hockey team in rare talks at the truce village of Panmunjom.

These are the first high-level talks between the two Koreas in more than two years.

The Games will take place between 9 and 25 February in Pyeongchang in South Korea.

If the plans are realised, a hundreds-strong North Korean delegation – including 230 cheerleaders, 140 orchestral musicians and 30 taekwondo athletes – could cross into the South via the land border to attend.

The North has also agreed to send a smaller, 150-member delegation to the Paralympics in March.

Both South Korea's hockey coach and conservative newspapers had expressed concern about the prospect of a united hockey team, saying it could damage South Korea's chances of winning a medal.

Tens of thousands of people are said to have signed online petitions urging President Moon Jae-in to scrap the plan.

And it will have to be approved by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland, on Saturday, because North Korea has missed registration deadlines or failed to qualify.

South Korea will also need to find ways to host the North Korean delegation without violating UN Security Council sanctions outlawing cash transfers to Pyongyang, and blacklisting certain senior officials from Pyongyang.

Japan has viewed the latest detente with suspicion, with Foreign Minister Taro Kono saying the world should not be blinded by Pyongyang's recent "charm offensive".

"It is not the time to ease pressure or to reward North Korea," Mr Kono said, according to Reuters news agency. "The fact that North Korea is engaging in dialogue could be interpreted as proof that the sanctions are working."

But the South's liberal President Moon told South Korean Olympic athletes on Wednesday that the North's participation in the Games would help improve inter-Korean relations.

That would in turn pave the way for the nuclear issue to be addressed and open the way to dialogue between the North and the US, he said according to Yonhap news agency in Seoul.

The North has made rapid recent advances in its nuclear and conventional weapons programmes.

Its latest ballistic missile test, on 28 November, sparked a new series of fresh sanctions from the UN targeting petrol shipments and travel.

But soon afterwards North Korean leader Kim Jong-un said he was "open to dialogue".

Japan's Foreign Minister Kono issued his caution about talks in Vancouver, Canada, where some 20 nations that fought alongside the US-backed South in the bloody 1950-53 war – which ended in stalemate and sealed the peninsula's division – met to discuss its future.

On the sidelines of the talks, ministers from South Korea, the US and Japan agreed to maintain pressure on the North to denuclearise while offering support for the bilateral talks, reported Yonhap agency.

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Mustapha Hamid shoots down “customized V8” propaganda 

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Minister for Information, Mustapha Hamid, has denied owning 4 x4 wheel vehicle with registration number, "HAMID 1”.

The said customized V8 number plate was being circulated on social media Wednesday. Some critics slammed the minister for endorsing an opulent lifestyle after only a year in office.
  
However, in a statement posted on his Facebook page Wednesday, Sheikh Hamid denied the allegation saying, “…checks done at the Driver Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA) reveals that the said vehicle registration number does not exist in their system”

Below is the full statement:

My attention has been drawn to a picture of a white 4×4 wheel vehicle with registration number 'HAMID 1 18' being circulated on social media purporting to be my vehicle.

I wish to state the following:

1. That I do not own the said vehicle.

2. That I have never owned or used a white 4×4 wheel vehicle.

3. That anyone who knows me well, will know that I will never customize a vehicle registration number either in my name or otherwise.

4. That checks done at the Driver Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA) reveals that the said vehicle registration number does not exist in their system.

5. That any person who sees the said vehicle should report same to the nearest police station since the registration is fake which is criminal.

Thank you.

Ghana | Atinkaonline.com  
 

Nana Addo commends media on galamsey fight

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The President of the Republic of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo, has commended the Ghanaian media in its support towards the fight against galamsey.

Speaking at a media encounter Wednesday at the Flagstaff House in Accra, President Akufo Addo mentioned that the NPP administration inherited a situation where illegal mining popularly called galamsey was a serious menace.

According to him, Ghana is not against mining, however "cannot accept mining in a manner that risk destroying the country’s vegetation".

“I extend my gratitude to the media for the support the are  giving in the campaign we are undertaking against Galamsey. This is not a short time campaign and we need everybody’s support to make it successful”.

Ghana | Atinkaonline.com

NPP has a good story to tell – Nana Addo

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The President of the Republic of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo, has said the New Patriotic Party (NPP) says his administration has a good story to tell after one year.

Speaking at a media encounter Wednesday at the Flagstaff House in Accra, President Akufo Addo said that the NPP administration has to a large extent fulfilled the promises and policies promised Ghanaians.

According to the President, an examinee does not assign grades or marks to himself, adding that the self-serving pronouncement of politicians and the apparent insights of would be wise persons of the community will assess his term.

“I am  very confident that the NPP has a good story to tell about many of the things that we have done and are doing since we assumed office a year ago”, he said.

Ghana | Atinka online.com

Special Prosecutor to instill fear of God in corrupt officials – Nana Addo

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The President of the Republic of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo, has assured Ghanaians that the Office of the Special Prosecutor will  instill the fear of God in  officials. in order not to be corrupt.

President Nana Akufo Addo on 11th January 2018 named Martin Amidu as Ghana’s first Special Prosecutor.
The President made the announcement in a short ceremony at the Flagstaff House in Accra.

The Special Prosecutor, once confirmed by Parliament, will carry an extraordinary responsibility independently and impartially to fight corruption.

Speaking at a media encounter Wednesday at the Flagstaff House in Accra, President Akufo Addo stated that Martin Lamisi Amidu is a significant choice who has proven  that he is against corruption.

According to the President, the office of the Special Prosecutor will not only fight corruption in the outgone administrations.

"A significant choice though, that Mr. Amidu is, I do not expect that he will provide all the answers with dealing with the phenomenon of corruption by public officials,” admitted the President Wednesday during his encounter with the media"

“ Like I always say, anyone who has information on any corruption allegation on any official of the NPP should bring it up and be prepared to back it up with evidence”, he added.

Ghana | Atinkaonline.com

Akufo-Addo: My 110 ministers are doing well 

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President Akufo -Addo has stated that his 110 ministers are performing well despite criticisms from a section of the public.

Answering a question on whether he will cut down his 110 ministers at a media encounter at the Flagstaff House to mark his first year in office, the president said “So far, I believe that my government is performing well. You may have another assessment but that is my response”. 

Some Ghanaians have slammed some ministers for non-performance and have subsequently called on the government to cut down the number of appointees. 

Ghana | Atinkaonline.com 
 
 

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