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Regent University ranked best private university in Ghana

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Regent University ranked best private university in Ghana

Regent University College of Science and Technology has been ranked the best private University in Ghana in the July 2020 edition of the Webometrics Ranking of World Universities.

Regent was ranked the seventh University overall in Ghana in the same edition of the bi-annual ranking.

A statement issued in Accra by Mr Benjamin Larbi, the Acting Head of Communications Unit of Regent University, and copied to the Ghana News Agency has said.

It said Regent climbed to first place from its previous second position among private universities in Ghana, in the current edition of the ranking.

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Gov’t seeks over $166m loan to purchase armoured cars

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Gov’t seeks over $166m loan to purchase armoured cars

Government is seeking parliamentary approval to borrow a total of $166,120,000 for the purchase of armoured vehicles.

The three separate agreements were laid in parliament Monday and referred to a joint committee on Finance, Defence and Interior.

The first facility is between government of  Ghana (represented by the Ministry of Finance) and Israel Discount Bank Limited for an amount of Seventy-Four Million, One Hundred and Twenty Thousand United States Dollars to finance the supply of Armoured Vehicles to Government of Ghana.

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The House has also been requested to approve a Commercial Loan Agreement between Government of Ghana and the same Israel Discount Bank for an amount of $12million for supply of Armoured Vehicles.

The third and final facility is a contract Agreement between Government of Ghana and Elbit Systems Land Limited of Israel for an amount of $80 million for supply of Armoured Vehicles.

All the 3 facilities were laid by Defence Minister Dominic Nitiwul today.

 

Source: Ghana/Starrfm.com.gh

Stop the ‘toxic politics’; we can be civil and still disagree – Atik Mohammed to Politicians

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Stop the ‘toxic politics’; we can be civil and still disagree – Atik Mohammed to Politicians

People’s National Convention (PNC) Stalwart, Atik Mohammed has advised politicians in the country to be decorous in their utterances and the way they play the political game.

According to Atik Mohammed, “the kind of politics that is practiced in this country is very toxic” and it has to change.

He was commenting on claims made by the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) against President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and his government.

The party has accused the President of using the Military to intimidate some Ghanaians and prevent them from registering for their voters’ ID card.

To the NDC, the President is using terror tactics to disenfranchise some Ghanaians, particularly the people of Volta Region and other Regions that are not strongholds of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP).

But Atik believes there is no such orchestration going on in the country and has branded such comments as ”unfortunate and reckless”.

To him, the culture where politicians engage in tribal politics and also exploit any opportunity to gain power at all cost at the expense of the peace of the nation needs to stop with immediate effect.

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” . . when the political parties get the chance, they are very opportunistic and sometimes they don’t think about the common good in the pursuit of this opportunism . . . We can do our politics and still be civil about it. We can have our disagreements and still remain civil about that,” he said.

”That’s how you grow a country. Let the people make determinations based on policies, issues; we have gone far beyond tribalism or ethnocentrism but politicians will not hesitate to roll back the wheels of this subculture simply because they feel it can give them votes,” he stated on Peace FM’s ”kokrokoo”.

Source: Peace FM

‘Recent activities may cause NDC to collapse’ – Rawlings predicts

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‘Recent activities may cause NDC to collapse’ – Rawlings predicts

Founder of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and Ghana’s former President, Jerry John Rawlings, has dropped a bizarre prediction about his party.

According to Mr Rawlings, recent activities may cause the party to collapse and drown if care is not taken.

“Much as I find it tiring and tedious to be engaging in self-defense when I have given my all, all these years, I will soon deal with the callous agenda of bile by the likes of Kwamena Ahwoi, who are desperately seeking control of the NDC party,” he wrote.

The former President said this when he took to Facebook to react to NDC Stalwart, Prof. Kwamena Ahwoi’s book titled ‘Working with Rawlings.’

“The NDC could, should and has survived on the authority of the word but if care is not taken, it will collapse and drown as has been happening, on the word of those in authority,” he cautioned.

However, Mr Rawlings in the same post lauded the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II and Togbe Afede XIV.

The book, which chronicled Mr Ahwoi’s experiences working with Mr Rawlings, has sparked series of controversies within the NDC.

I’ll deal with ‘callous agenda’ by Ahwoi soon – Rawlings

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I’ll deal with ‘callous agenda’ by Ahwoi soon – Rawlings

Former president Jerry John Rawlings has slammed Kwamena Ahwoi stating that he will soon deal with a “callous agenda of bile” against him by his former Local Government Minister.

According to the former President, Mr Ahwoi and others are “desperately seeking control of the NDC party” which he said faces collapse and may drown on the words of those in authority of the party if care is not taken.

“Much as I find it tiring and tedious to be engaging in self defence when I have given my all, all these years, I will soon deal with the callous agenda of bile by the likes of Kwamena Ahwoi, who are desperately seeking control of the NDC party.

The NDC could, should and has survived on the authority of the word but if care is not taken, it will collapse and drown as has been happening, on the word of those in authority,” Rawlings said in a statement.

The statement by the NDC founder and former military ruler comes after Mr. Ahwoi published a book that details some of his working relations and close encounters with the former President, who has subsequently disputed some of the contents of the book, ‘Working with Rawlings’.

Below is the full statement

OTUMFUO DESERVES COMMENDATION

I want to take the opportunity to congratulate the Asantehene for the steps he has taken, to seriously protect the environment and also to thank him for tampering justice with mercy on Nana Bantamahene.

We each have to learn to take a cue from the Asantehene and be bold and audacious in our defence of the environment, especially from thieves and crooks, who with impunity can collect parcels of land anywhere, anyhow and do as they wish against the public good and the sanctity of nature.

Let me also express my gratitude to Togbe Afede XIV, President of the National House of Chiefs for taking the initiative to lead a delegation of the Volta Region House of Chiefs to the border areas in the region to ascertain things for themselves. Some of the unsightly things we see on the Internet do not speak well of us locally and internationally.

Much as I find it tiring and tedious to be engaging in self defence when I have given my all, all these years, I will soon deal with the callous agenda of bile by the likes of Kwamena Ahwoi, who are desperately seeking control of the NDC party.

NDC could, should and has survived on the authority of the word but if care is not taken, it will collapse and drown as has been happening, on the word of those in authority.

 

Source: Ghana/Starrfm.com.

Ablakwa: I was never groomed to attack Rawlings

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Ablakwa: I was never groomed to attack Rawlings

Okudzeto Ablakwa, has vehemently denied claims by Professor Kwamena Ahwoi that he and other young politicians in the NDC were purposely groomed to speak up to party founder Jerry John Rawlings.

The NDC kingpin in his book ‘Working with Rawlings’ has suggested that some young ministers under the erstwhile Mills administration were created to counter attacks on the late President by NDC founder Rawlings.

But in a response, the North Tongu MP described such claims as false, malicious, offensive and most unfair.

Mr Ablakwa added that “for the record, I have at no time been drafted to “talk back” at the Founder of the NDC, Former President Jerry John Rawlings neither have I needed prodding to defend the unblemished record and exemplary virtues of the iconic Asomdweehene – Prof. John Evans Atta Mills, particularly, having been spurred on at all times by unwavering personal conviction added to the fact that I had responsibility to serve as Deputy Minister for Information at the time and for which I had amongst others, the core duty to defend and protect the image of the government.”

Below is the full statement

It has become necessary to react to vilifications targeted at my person and other young members of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) as a consequence of portions and misleading interpretations by sections of the media and the public of the book titled: Working with Rawlings as authored by NDC stalwart, Professor Kwamena Ahwoi.

The claim by several media reportage that some of my colleagues and I were “recruited and groomed to attack the founder of the NDC during the Atta Mills’ administration” are false, malicious, offensive and most unfair. It is worth pointing out that the media renditions are not contained in the aforementioned book.

Respectfully, I am an avowed devotee of the politics of principle and conviction. I have a mind of my own and I am not one to be “recruited” to say or do what I do not believe in or consider dishonourable.

For the record, I have at no time been drafted to “talk back” at the Founder of the NDC, Former President Jerry John Rawlings neither have I needed prodding to defend the unblemished record and exemplary virtues of the iconic Asomdweehene – Prof. John Evans Atta Mills, particularly, having been spurred on at all times by unwavering personal conviction added to the fact that I had responsibility to serve as Deputy Minister for Information at the time and for which I had amongst others, the core duty to defend and protect the image of the government.

In more than a decade of public life, the reverence and respect I have for our elders and forebears within and without the NDC cannot be questioned. I have always been greatly indebted to our venerable elders for their generous wise counsel and mentorship in shaping my career.

Everything within me abhors the politics of insults and denigrating our elders knowing that affronts our much cherished traditions. Indeed, the distinguished author himself acknowledges at page 211 that in speaking for Prof. Mills, we did not resort to insults but logic.

I am in politics for the pursuit of nobler and higher objectives; that in our collective struggles we can build for ourselves a fair, just and egalitarian society. We cannot waste precious time on anything to the contrary.

It is instructive to note that the malicious interpretation of page 211 cannot be reconciled with page 179 where the author concedes that long before Prof. Mills won the 2008 election and therefore much earlier than the erroneous claim of a 2010 “recruitment” – “a pro-Mills group of talented youthful intellectuals and activists emerged. They were dedicated to upholding the attributes and promoting the values of Professor Mills and defending him against vicious and unprovoked attacks.”

Let the younger ones coming after us not be misled by the rather unfounded aspersions and innuendos in media circles and elsewhere to assume that there’s any glory in lending themselves to conspiracies targeted at disrespecting or disparaging the elders of this Republic.

Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa
[MP, North Tongu]

We won’t allow ‘Old Timer’ Ahwoi to derail our focus – NDC

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We won’t allow ‘Old Timer’ Ahwoi to derail our focus – NDC

The Youth wing of the National Democratic Congress has strongly hit out at former Local Government Minister, Professor Kwamena Ahwoi, for attempting to derail the party’s efforts at winning the upcoming December elections with the release of his book ‘Working with Rawlings’

The NDC kingpin in his book ‘Working with Rawlings’ has suggested among other claims that some young ministers under the erstwhile Mills administration were created to counter attacks on the late President by NDC founder Rawlings.

A statement signed by 16 regional youth organisers of the NDC described the timing of the release of the book as callous and inconsiderate.

The statement added that the book contains many controversial issues that subtly undermine the great and selfless service, the Founder of the NDC has rendered both to the Party and to the Country.

“It further seems to betray the trust and confidence of leading members of our party. The timing for the release of this book is very callous and inconsiderate on the part of the writer. What could be more important than our preparation to rescue this nation from the hands of unrepentant divisive despots? Certainly not a literary piece filled with self-gratifying accounts of events many eons ago.

“We are in a middle of a Voters Registration Exercise; at a time we are battling an existential threat of tribal and ethnic marginalization by this administration and the party now has to turn to dealing with issues from the past. Some of which we have found to be false and vain claims by the author.”

Below is the full statement by the NDC

WE WILL NOT TOLERATE ANY OLD TIMER WHO HAS NOTHING TO LOSE, 2024 NOT AN OPTION;RESPONSE TO ‘WORKING WITH RAWLINGS’

We have read with deep concern, the litany of issues coming from the release of the book, ‘Working With Rawlings’ by Prof. Kwamena Ahwoi and what it means for our party in these crucial times.

While we find it refreshing that one of the elders of our great party will offer us a glimpse of his time in public service, especially working with H.E Jerry John Rawlings, we have cause to question his motive for writing this book and releasing it at such a time. We are also concerned about how the book can derail our focus and what seems to be a direct attack on the founder of our party.

The NDC is preparing to cause the biggest political upset in the history of this nation and the last thing we need is a piece of inaccurate historical accounts that will distract us.

The book contains many controversial issues that subtly undermine the great and selfless service, the Founder of the NDC has rendered both to the Party and to the Country.

It further seems to betray the trust and confidence of leading members of our party.The timing for the release of this book is very callous and inconsiderate on the part of the writer. What could be more important than our preparation to rescue this nation from the hands of unrepentant divisive despots? Certainly not a literary piece filled with self-gratifying accounts of events many eons ago.

We are in a middle of a Voters Registration Exercise; at a time we are battling an existential threat of tribal and ethnic marginalization by this administration and the party now has to turn to dealing with issues from the past. Some of which we have found to be false and vain claims by the author.

Let me state on account of young people of our party that, we will not tolerate such subtle overtures to undermine our efforts in this election year because 2024 is never the option to us. We will not tolerate any ‘old timer’ who has nothing to lose and will rather implode the party with needless bickering and fictitious stories.

In less than two weeks since the book was launched, the book has been served with many rejoinders and ‘disassociations’ from cited individuals who have disproved some claims made by the writer. This is damning and points to the inaccuracies of accounts stated in the book.

We must add that we have nothing but respect for the old Professor. Indeed, it no secret that no other family has been involved in governance and benefitted more from politics under the Fourth Republic than the Ahwoi family.

We also do not downplay their contribution to the cause of our nation and party, but he got it wrong this time. Whatever is to be achieved with this book is not greater than the salvation of this nation and the future of it’s youth come 7th December 2020.

We want to assure Papa J that,we will defend his legacy in the party and in this nation. No book or folklore will water down his legacy.

This year, as we have discussed, the Youth of the party are campaigning with him. We reassure him that we will remain the vanguards of his legacy.This election is for the youth of the Party and we are poised for Victory and nothing, absolutely Nothing shall come between us and the Victory of the Party.

We will no longer tolerate divisive figures or commentaries and all must be assure that we will crash any individual or group of persons who act as such.

 

Source: Ghana/Starrfm.com.gh/

‘It’s an honest account’ – Details of how Naana Opoku-Agyemang endorsed Ahwoi’s book that angered NDC stalwarts

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‘It’s an honest account’ – Details of how Naana Opoku-Agyemang endorsed Ahwoi’s book that angered NDC stalwarts

Professor Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang, the Running Mate to NDC Flagbearer John Mahama in the 2020 elections, has been entangled in an embarrassing web of mistrust after editing and endorsing “Working with Rawlings,” a book which has sparked confusion within the ranks of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC).

Authored by party elder and former Minister, Professor Kwamena Ahwoi, the book has made startling claims about former President Rawlings, as well as revealed a well-orchestrated scheme which involved some young, but key NDC activists to launch vernal attacks on Rawlings.

While the former President himself and NDC Volta Regional Council of Elders Chairman, Daniel Abodakpi have launched scathing attacks on the author, Kwamena Ahwoi, for his claims in the book, three other former Ministers and young NDC activists mentioned in the book as having been trained to “talk back at Rawlings” during his public feud with late President Mills, have all publicly discredited the book’s account.

Prof. Jane Naana’s role in the making of the book

With the raging public war of words on-going over the authenticity of the book’s account, one big area of interest is the striking endorsement of the book by NDC Running Mate Prof. Jane Naana Opoku Agyemang, as well as her key role in the making of the book, which has irked many Rawlings loyalists and other NDC stalwarts.

Apart from being credited with editing the book, Prof. Naana Opoku Agyemang actually describes the books general narrative in glowing terms in the foreword which she wrote.

The foreword, an important element of a book, is normally reserved for close associates of the author who have had an

exclusive and privileged insight about the book.

Despite the book irking Rawlings and many accounts being maligned and discredited by party gurus, Prof. Jane Opoku-Agyemang describes the book as “an account honestly delivered,” in her foreword, which is normally written when the book is all set for production.

“Written in clear, engaging prose, the writer invites the reader to receive the content of the narrative as an account honestly delivered,” Prof. Jane wrote so fondly in the foreword.

While some persons mentioned in the book such as Dr. Omane Boamah, Felix Kwakye Ofosu and Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa have vehemently rejected the book’s account as false, the NDC Running Mate curiously wrote that the author narrated events “with open honesty and transparency.”

“The vivid, engaging and deeply reflective eye witness account couched in unencumbered prose, brings to the fore events narrated with open honesty and transparency,” Prof. Naana Jane wrote.

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She added: “the first person narrative perspective releases the reader from the potentially uncomfortable position of an intruder to that of a trusted addressee. This is especially so as the text grounds its content in verifiable fact, at times seeking and receiving the approval of non-fictive persons.”

Contradictions and raging war of words

Prof. Naana Jane Opoku Agyemang’s emphatic endorsement of “Working with Rawlings” is in sharp contrast to the views of her party’s founder, Jerry Rawlings, party elder Dan Abodakpi as well as three key members of the NDC who have bared their teeth to the author.

The Chairman of the Volta Regional Council of Elders of the NDC, Dan Abodakpi was the first to dispute claims in the book, describing the publication as “wholly inaccurate or patently false,” as well as “slanderous and treacherous.”

The NDC Elder suggested the book was an attempt to discredit the political legacy of former President Rawlings, adding that Rawlings “does not deserve this from people like Prof. Kwamena Ahwoi.”

Indeed, Dan Abodakpi warned that Professor Ahwoi and those supporting the publication of the book will be resisted.

“Prof. Ahwoi and thise supporting the slanderous and treacherous book are served notice that any attempt to misrepresent the facts behind the tru story of the Revolution and the NDC party to our people will be fiercely resisted,” Aboadakpi said in a press statement.

Rawlings himself has reacted furiously to claims in the book and he has threatened to deal with the “callous agenda of bile from the likes of Kwamena Ahwoi.”

Dr. Omane Boamah, Felix Kwakye Ofusu and Okudzeto Ablakwa have also issued public statements, which contradict Prof. Naana Jane Opoku Agyemang’s assertion in the book’s foreword that accounts in the book were delivered with honesty and transparency.

Indeed, many have wondered why Prof. Naana Jane would edit and endorse a book which appears to cast her party’s founder, Jerry Rawlings in bad light, as well as exposes deep secrets within her party.

She may have been involved in the work of the book before her nomination as running mate of John Mahama, but many have interpreted her starring role in the makibg of the book as a sign of her closeness with the Ahwoi’s, and thus part of the grand anti-Rawlings, and perhaps anti volta scheme in the NDC.

Source: Daily Mail

Kweku Baako shares perspective on squeezing of ‘Bede Ziedeng’s balls’

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Kweku Baako shares perspective on squeezing of ‘Bede Ziedeng’s balls’

Abdul Malik Kweku Baako says he feels vindicated following Prof. Kwamena Ahwoi’s confirmation of Jerry Rawlings squeezing the balls of Bede Ziedeng.

According to the Editor-in-Chief of the New Crusading Guide newspaper, when the incident occurred and he reported it, some persons in the then administration denied the incident ever happened.

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Baako, who was discussing Prof Ahwoi’s ‘Working with Rawlings’ book on Peace FM Wednesday said, “As for the Bede Ziedeng […..] incident, it’s an old story and we even joked with it but some people said it was a lie, now I’m happy it has been confirmed.”

“Bede was always quiet so people said it was not true but this book has confirmed it,” an ‘excited’ Kweku Baako noted.

The incident was described by Prof. Kwamena Ahwoi as the “Abobo Ntohwe affair” to wit “the Crusher of Testicles Affair”.

“As Bede tells it when Rawlings and his entourage got to the entrance [of a rally grounds in Koforidua] and the crowd surged forward to acknowledge their hero, Rawlings got hold of his [Zeideng’s] testicles and squeezed them hard, so hard that he [Zeideng] believes he fainted,” the book claimed.

Source: www.ghanaweb.com

Asiedu Nketia clashes with soldiers over voters registration

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Asiedu Nketia clashes with soldiers over voters registration

The General Secretary of the opposition NDC party, Johnson Asiedu Nketia has clashed with military personnel stationed at Banda in the Bono Region over the soldiers’ refusal to allow some residents to register in the ongoing voters’ registration exercise.

In a video available to Kasapafmonline.com, the NDC Scribe is seen angrily exchanging words with the soldiers who had blocked the road to stop busloads of people from accessing registration centres.

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It is unclear where the people were being bused from.

The NDC has had cause to complain over what they say is the use of military personnel to intimidate some legitimate Ghanaians from registering on the basis that they’re foreigners being bused from border towns into Ghana.

Former President John Dramani Mahama in a Facebook post on Saturday berated President Akufo-Addo for using Executive Power to foment ethnic discrimination and abuse.

“The road President Akufo-Addo is taking our beautiful country through, using the military and party thugs to stop people from exercising their right to register and vote in the upcoming December elections, is dangerous and unacceptable,” the NDC Flagbearer said.

 

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