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Written By Elochukwu Nicholas Ohagi, For Family Writers Press International. The fear of being taken, denied job, killed or imprisoned have kept lots of people away from speaking out against the state-sponsored terrorism being perpetrated in Nigeria. Of a truth, this time is really a dangerous time to speak out against evil; this is why many known outspoken voices have either remained mute or joined the oppressors by supporting them. Countless times, I have been admonished by people whose only interest is to see no harm come to me, to desist from writing to expose the atrocities and evils going on in Nigeria. According to them, many people in this country have been framed and imprisoned or even assassinated simply because they spoke out against evil. The Nigeria government who seem to share same ideology with the terrorists is tacitly using Boko Haram terrorists, ISWAP and Fulani herdsmen to wipe off Christian communities in the North. If care is not taken, in two years time, ther...

Am amazed at the level of hypocrisy we  show mo st time s when i s sue s curb up in our  society , if we can remember not quite long  set of young naive  student were  seen on video talking about  sex and the n ext thing that they have been  sent out the boarding house for talking about  sex, what i s wrong when people talk about  sex? Sex education for a  secondary  school child mostly occurs in the way we talk about body parts and body functions, how we teach children to care for, respect and protect their bodies, and when we prepare our children for puberty. Choosing the right age to answer questions such as ‘Where do I come from?’ and ‘What is sex?’ is more about how comfortable your family feels talking about such topics, rather than there being a perfect time. Many children will have asked the question by the time they reach school. By  senior high   , they will have a keen interest and will ha...

THE DIRECTOR GENERAL BEREAU OF NATIONAL INVESTIGATION HEADQUARTER S ACCRA. Dear Sir, PETITION TO INVESTIGATE SEIZED AND MOVABLE LOGISTICS BY THE INTER-MINISTERIAL COMMITTEE ON ILLEGAL MINING (IMCIM) I write as a citizen of the Republic of Ghana and an Auctioneer (tasked to cart movable, seized and available logistics into safe keeping by IMCIM) to your high office as the Director General of the Bureau of National Investigation (BNI), to cause a swift and steady investigation over the alleged missing 500 excavators, kilos of gold and some auxiliary logistics which were seized by Galamstop-an operational wing of the Inter-Ministerial Committee on illegal Mining (hereinafter referred to as IMCIM), likewise the entire team members of Operation Vanguard. In the letter and spirit of the policy framework by theofficial entity (IMCIM) tasked to eliminate the fight against illegal mining otherwise known in the common parlance as “Galamsey”, I was contracted by IMCIM to cart...

Some members of the Ghana Pentecostal and Charismatic Council The Ghana Pentecostal and Charismatic Council (GPCC) has called on the security agencies to investigate and bring to justice the culprits involved in the disappearance of some excavators seized from illegal miners (galamseyers) as well as some 400 rickshaws (aboboyas). In a communiqué issued by the GPCC after deliberations at the 2020 Conference of Heads of Churches and Organisations held at the Pentecost Convention Centre, Gomoa Fetteh from 4 to 7 February 2020, the Council noted “with concern, the unearthing of certain corruption-related cases recently”. “We take particular note of the missing 500 excavators [and] the missing 400 tricycles”. “We call on the security agencies to conduct serious investigations into these scandals and to bring to justice anybody found culpable”, the Council said.   Missing excavators  Just recently, the Minister of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovations (...

It is no more news that the United Kingdom, has finally exited the European Union after all. This took place on Friday 31st January 2020 through the instrumentality of BREXIT Document with the British Prime Minister, Mr. Boris Johnson, promising fellow citizens of a new dawn from the shackles of over forty years of political bondage with the European Union bloc. It is therefore important to clearly bring to the notice of the international community at this point, that the British government has totally lost the argument via this singular development, on the much mouthed argument on the indivisibility of Nigeria. If the citizens of the United Kingdom have overwhelmingly registered their need of getting out from a presumably peaceful political entity like the European Union, it then becomes just an issue of simple moral justice/fairness that the global community expects the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), to place a demand for their exit from the relentless blood sucking, forced...

                                                                                                                                                                          The Inter-Party Resistance against the New Voter Register has presented a petition to the Jubilee House as they demonstrated through some streets of Accra today. The petition to the presidency would mean that the current and former presidents of the country have been informed of their reasons to protest the decision by the EC to compile a new register. Today’s demonstration comes in the wa...

Former Presidents of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan, and Olusegun Obasanjo, met at the ongoing World Summit 2020, focused on ways to ensuring peace around the world. In a tweet on Tuesday, Jonathan expressed his delight at meeting with Obasanjo. Jonathan served as the President of Nigeria from 2010 to 2015, while Obasanjo served as Military Head of State from 1976 to 1979, and later as President of Nigeria from 1999 to 2007 Announcing their meeting, Jonathan tweeted: “I was delighted to meet His Excellency, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, at the ongoing World Summit 2020, in Seoul, South Korea, where we joined Leaders from across the world to make a case for lasting peace, interdependence, and shared values among the world’s peoples and nations.” Recall, that Jonathan jetted out of the country on Friday, to attend the 2020 Global Peace Summit. The former President had visited his successor, President Muhammad Buhari, to brief him about the Summit, on Thursday, during the close...

Great move. I'm very happy how swiftly government has released a statement that the special prosecutor is going to "promptly" investigate the Airbus corruption scandal. Many criminals in the previous government are walking free and making noise in this country. They must be brought to justice. However, I will also like to remind the government that, this airbus issue is not an opportunity to cover up all the scandals happening currently. 600.000 liters of fuel evaporated in t his country, no one released a statement to that effect. Four hundred aboboyaa (tricycles) went through the full process of evolution, developed wings and flew to the land of the unknown. Five hundred excavators have vamoosed into thin air without anybody noticing. To steal an excavator you need an articulator truck and men directing the driver; masa bra bra bra yet no one in any assembly where the excavators were supposed to be kept knows how they vanished. According to H...

Lawyer Philip Addison, the lead counsel for the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the 2012 election petition case, has been caught up in a nasty criminal case, involving a client by name, Francis Tachie Menson, who is currently before the Police Criminal Investigation Department (CID) over issues related to forgery of documents. Francis Tachie Menson, described as having an interesting records in the US, is been investigated by the Documentation and Visa Fraud Unit of the CID, for altering documents belonging to a company called, Merlin Gaming Ghana Limited, operators of an SMS lottery. The Herald’s insider information is that, there is an attempt to have access to US$2 million cash, belonging to the company, which is currently with Stanbic Bank Ghana Limited, through the use of the forged documents, and this is being investigated by the CID’s Documentation and Visa Fraud Unit. Strangely, Lawyer Philip Addison, is reported to have written to Stanbic Bank, posing as the Secretar...

Our attention ha s been drawn to an online publication po s ted by CitiFM attributed to the comment made by Vi s a Honorable Deputy Information Minister, Pius Hadzide, that government  will take the Airbu s s candal s eriou s ly and thi s   shown   that the  New Patriotic  Party ha s no iota of s hame  in them and the lea st to talk  should be member s of the NPP. It could  be recalled not long ago that one of the mo s t serious   embarras s ment Ghana ha s ever witne ss wa s carried out by Piu s Hadzide and cleared by the chief clearing  Officer at the flag hou s e. The lea s t to have even come out to s hould be him but a s we all know corruption  ha s no e x piring date and he will face the fact s at the right time. Meanwhile the National Democratic Congre ss i s open for any kind of investigation  becau s e no wrong  wa s committed.