Nkrumah was an opportunist - Ayikoi Otoo.

Former Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Nii Ayikoi Otoo says he will personally spearhead a process to change the recognition bestowed on Dr. Kwame Nkrumah as the Founder of Ghana.
He said the claim that Dr. Nkrumah foundered Ghana was a travesty and naked distortion of Ghana’s history which will be reversed when the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) regains power.
Mr. Ayikoi Otoo said Ghana’s first president was simply an opportunist who rode on the back of the hard work done by leaders of the United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC) to rise to national fame.
The forebears of the NPP foundered the UGCC and invited Dr. Nkrumah to take the position of Secretary but he later broke away from the party to found the Convention People’s Party which ushered Ghana into independence.
There has also been the debate that the Mills administration recognized Dr. Kwame Nkrumah as founder of Ghana - a position the NPP vehemently disagrees with.
Mr. Ayikoi Otoo maintained Nkrumah took advantage of the parameters set by UGCC for his Independence Now campaign.

Romanian King laid to rest in 'air conditioned' coffin.

Thousands of Roma turned out for the funeral of their self-styled King as he was laid to rest in his hometown in Transylvania today.
Florin Cioaba, 58, who had taken to wearing a king's crown as the leader of the minority community, became famous around the globe for arranging a marriage for his 12-year-old daughter.
After watching her storm out of the church to avoid becoming a child bride, 'King' Cioaba became an advocate for education for Roma girls and began preaching that girls should not marry before the age of 16.
This despite the fact that his dutiful daughter Ana-Maria had returned to the church moments later and was indeed married off to a 15-year-old boy of her father's choice.
Cioaba died of a heart attack while on holiday in Turkey last week, and received the sendoff worthy of a royal.
His body was carried in an air-conditioned glass covered coffin down a four mile route in Sibiu, Transylvania.
A banner emblazoned with his crowned visage was draped across an apartment building in his hometown. Stonemasons have been carving his tomb in black marble for the last week.

Danquah deserves no credit for name ‘Ghana’ – Kobby Acheampong

Former Deputy Interior Minister Kobby Acheampong says Dr. Joseph Kwame Kyeretwie Boakye Danquah deserves no praises for the name ‘Ghana’ which replaced the Gold Coast after the British colony gained independence in 1957.
Political historian, Prof. Mike Ocquaye, at a lecture on Friday, to commemorate the 21st anniversary of the main opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) – a progeny of the United Party (UP) – of which Dr. Danquah was a founding father, said “Danquah conceived the idea of calling the independent Gold Coast, ‘Ghana’”.
According to him, “this was formally adopted in Saltpond. It became known to every school child then that our nation would soon become independent; that our leaders were fighting for this; and the name of the new nation would be Ghana”.
The former NPP Presidential Aspirant and ex-Deputy Speaker used Danquah’s role in the renaming of the Gold Coast, to buttress his academic arguments that Ghana’s first President, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah couldn’t have been the sole founder of modern Ghana.

Power sharing will breed corruption – K.B Asante

Retired Diplomat K. B. Asante has said the calls for power-sharing will only breed corruption.
According to him, the calls of elimination of 'winner-takes-all' syndrome "sounds alright but it’s a recipe for disaster, a recipe for sharing corruption."
“I am not happy at all about this sharing power. Eventually you share corruption, that is not what we want, '' he noted.
His concerns come on the back of calls by Chairman of National Democratic Congress (NDC), Dr. Kwabena Adjei and members of the public that political parties do away with the winner takes all syndrome.
Mr. K.B Asante said political parties are there because they have different solutions to the problems of the country.“Let those who have one set of opinion get to one side, but if we are having a unity government it should be for a purpose.''
''Let the parties have definite policies, they should all have a plan’’; he said Ghana is getting polarized because the mindset is ''not correct and we have nothing to think about''.

Akufo-Addo, Mahama really committed to peace – Dr Abu Sakara

Dr. Abu Sakara, Presidential candidate of the Convection People’s Party (CPP), has expressed confidence in President John Dramani Mahama as well as the 2012 Presidential candidate of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), stating categorically that the two leaders are readily committed to maintaining the peace of the country.
Speaking in an interview with Radio Gold, the CPP flagbearer noted that Nana Addo and the President have both tasted the bitter and sweet moments of the nation and would prefer to have their names registered in the country’s history books for good reasons.

To him, both Nana Addo and President Mahama “are people who are deeply committed to the rule of law and democracy in this country. They, themselves, have cited incidences in the past where they have been champions. So…it is not now that they will deny the ultimate rule of the game which is to accept the law of the land as determined by the Supreme Court who are the competent people to determine what is justice.”

TGIF parts ways with Metro TV.

 

Popular family entertainment show "Thank God It's Friday" will no longer be showing on Metro TV.

Kwaku Sintim-Misa announced this on his tweeter handle saying "Sorry folks, TGIF is not longer on Metro: But stay tuned - CHANGE IS COMING. Watch this SPACE".
Kwaku Sintim-Misa "KSM" created what has become one Ghana’s most popular talk shows: Thank God It’s Friday (TGIF).
TGIF was the first broadcast of its kind to fuse serious talk, education and humor. Since its inception, the show has featured gripping stories from entrepreneurial, street vendors, dancing presidents, pioneering scientists, leading artists and many more exciting characters.
"KSM" recently won the Radio and Television Personality Television Entertainment Show Host of the Year (2011) for his work with TGIF.

 

PAC warns BoG Governor over continuous boycott of sittings.

 

Chairman of Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC), Kwaku Agyeman Manu, has cautioned Governor of the Bank of Ghana (BoG), Henry Kofi Wampah over his continuous boycott of the committee's sittings.
The PAC Chairman announced during sitting on Friday that the Governor was pushing the Committee to go against certain conventions it has adopted over the years.
The Committee wants the Governor to answer questions regarding inconsistencies in a loan agreement between the central bank and Ghana Commercial Bank (GCB) which was revealed in the Auditor General’s 2011 report.
The Auditor General's report noted authorities at the country's central bank were operating against its own governing Acts and Regulations relating to contracts it signed with Ghana Commercial Bank.
Joy News' Parliamentary Correspondent, Elton John Brobbey, said the Auditor General's report indicated that on February 19, 2009 the Bank of Ghana under a Memorandum of Understanding(MoU)granted a $25 million and $50 million loan facility to Ghana Commercial Bank.

Samia: My father founded Ghana, period!

 
The Chairperson of the Convention People’s Party (CPP), Samia Nkrumah has insisted that her father, Ghana’s first president, Dr Kwame Nkrumah is the original founder of modern day Ghana.

She, however, conceded that some other individuals played roles in the eventual liberation of Ghana from colonial rule.
The former lawmaker’s comment was in reaction to assertions by former presidential candidate of the main opposition NPP Prof Mike Ocquye that forebears of the NPP deserved better credit for the founding of Ghana.
According to Prof Ocquaye, people like J.B Dankquah and other members of the UGCC were the main brains behind the founding of modern day Ghana.
He disagreed with claims that only Dr. Kwame Nkrumah deserves credit for Ghana's founding.