NIA gets $115 million for new 'Ghanacards'

Dr Josiah Alfred Mills Cobbah — Executive Secretary of the NIA Source: Starrfmonline

"The National Identification Authority (NIA) has successfully negotiated a $115 million facility from Exim China to undertake a fresh registration of all Ghanaians under an “expanded registration project”.

According to a Daily Graphic report, about GH¢21,621,075 was spent on the previous mass registration and card distribution exercises.

However, NIA has successfully negotiated a $115 million facility from Exim China, which is awaiting approval by the Cabinet and Parliament to undertake the new project."...read more

Source: starrfmonline.com/

This is shocking, I don't really get why this is necessary.

Are the old I.D. cards responsible for Ghana's inability to produce enough food to feed the itself?
Or did the old I.D. cards contribute to energy problem?

There are more pressing issues for the government to focus on.

Who comes up  with these ideas anyway?

Vice Presidents commissions toilet

The Vice President, Kwesi Bekoe Amissah-Arthur, has become subject of ridicule on social media for commissioning a public toilet in a fishing community in Accra. - Infoboxdaily.com

The vice president noted that the introduction of the facility into the coun­try had come as a welcome relief to households that are still battling with the provision of public places of convenience for tenants, adding that it would reduce or eliminate the rampant defecating along beaches and other places. - myjoyonline.com

This means that our leaders have a lot of time on their hands

Sources

Infoboxdaily.com
myjoyonline.com

Suspected Ebola test proves negative in Dominase

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"The two health staff who were quarantined after a man died at the Dominase SDA Hospital of symptoms similar to Ebola, have been released after news reached them tests on the blood sample of the deceased proved negative.

The unnamed staff who had primary contacts with the 26-year-old man when he first visited the facility days before, were detained Tuesday, September 23, 2014. The 26-year-old Pusiga man was said to have bled excessively through the anus and his mouth...."

".....they refused to attend to him because there were no protective gear for them to put on before attending to the patient"..... read more

Source
myjoyonline.com

Suspected ebola case at Bekwai to be tested at KNUST

Picture: Dailystar

Authorities at the Bekwai Municipal hospital have submitted blood samples of a man suspected to have died from the deadly Ebola virus to the Center for Tropical Medicine at the Kwame Nkrumah University.

Ghana has tested several suspected ebola cases all of which have proved negative.

Starr News checks at the Bekwai hospital reveals that authorities directed its officers not to go close to the deceased following fears of a possible Ebola case.

Officials say the hospital is not equipped with Personal Protective Equipment to handle suspected cases of the deadly Ebola Virus. - starrfmonline.com

Now every illness is being suspected of being Ebola. I have a heard about how Ebola is even killing those who are NOT infected. 

There is a man in Monrovia, Liberia who took his sick mother (who didn't show any symptoms of Ebola) to hospital (the Redemption Hospital) only to be turned away because the hospital didn't take Ebola patients, so he took his mother to another hospital (the ELWA Hospital) but he was told they only took Ebola patients...click here to read full story. After series to attempts his mother later died, the most interesting thing was, his mother was buried as though she had Ebola.-  KCRA

Sources:
starrfmonline.com
KCRA

ECG Low Shedding Time Table is Out

ECG has released a time table for its load shedding exercise which commences today.

Click here for the time table from myjoyonline.com

Source: myjoyonline

Cure For Ebola Virus Found In Ghana?

Accra based Jerusalem Pentecostal Church, Bishop Prophet Laud Sowatey Lomotey, source: modernghana.com

According to modernghana.com, the 65-year-old founder of Accra based Jerusalem Pentecostal Church, Bishop Prophet Laud Sowatey Lomotey, ... claims he got the revelation on how to cure Ebola when he decided to commit to prayers to ask God for directions in view of the current outbreak ... the process involves just a mixture of leaves and vegetables... 

“God has revealed the cure to me and it is very simple. He has asked me to meet the appropriate people and tell them to take action but am reluctant. I told God I don’t want fame so I cannot do it, then God asked me two serious questions which I wasn’t able to answer.

“Do you want to wait for Ebola to hit Ghana before you try the medicine? Will you be able to apply the medicine alone from border to border?”

He calls on state institutions to get in touch with him for divine directions as to how to prevent the Ebola virus from entering Ghana and also how to cure it completely...read more

Source:
www.modernghana.com

Maybe we shouldn't be quick to disregard his findings, ... the country should put him to the test. 

ECG's Board Chairman, Oteng Gyasi, Resigns

Mr. Tony Oteng Gyasi confirmed to Joy Business Friday that reasons for his resignation are personal.

However, sources say the industrialist (who is also the Managing Director of Tropical Cables and Conductors Limited) cited health reasons as grounds for his resignation.

He was appointed a year ago in September 2013 to turn around the ECG, a power distributor that has largely been bedeviled with inefficiency- mjoyonline.

He tendered in his resignation letter last week but the President was yet to respond to it. His resignation comes at a time when the power sector is going through challenges. - myghanaonline

Longer Blackouts Starting Thursday - Joy News

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I got this info from the Joy Fm website, I hope we aren't slowly but surely going back to the stone-age. 



Consumers have been asked to brace themselves for longer hours of blackouts starting Thursday morning as the Electricity Company of Ghana is forced to shed a record estimated 500 megawatts of electricity.

Following an abrupt cut in the supply of gas from Nigeria, the Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Grid Company, William Amuna told Joy News, Ghana will from today begin shutting down all gas powered thermal plants across the country.

“We are now relying on the gas stored in the pipeline and as we deplete: that means we will have to shut down those plants. It is important that we go into serious conservation of energy”, he said. - Joy News. Click Here to Read more

I think we need a course on How to light your house without electricity. The country has great inventors like Asidu Abudu, Dr. Kwadwo Safo  and others,...they can be sponsored to conduct research into alternative energy sources for the country. 

I wonder where I could get cheap high quality solar panels to buy. 

Romance Scam Originated from Ghana Led Man to Suicide

This is a sad news item I came across about a man from Yonker, New York who was driven into committing suicide due to an internet romance scam, the perpetrators are believed to be from Ghana.

'I saw him sitting in a chair with a bullet in his head,' Circelli's son Peter revealed at the time.

The family found piles of Western Union transaction records for $300 transfers to Ghana, a country in West Africa widely known for its romance and riches scams.'- Dailymail

He made a series of payments to her, amounting to a few hundred dollars at a time, but which eventually mounted up to $50,000. In order to make the payments to an account in Ghana, Circelli took out loans, credit cards in his son's name, and stopped making the mortgage payments on his home, which eventually went into foreclosure. "He lost everything. He was so ashamed that he killed himself."- nytimes

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The face of a hundred catfish: Model Yuliana Avalos is suing Match.com for $1.5 billion because hundreds of users have used her pictures in their profiles without her consent. Above, a picture of the website. - Dailymail

I believe depression from loosing his wife drove him to all this.

Read more:

When looks do kill:....

Florida model who sued Match.com says photos of her on site led to man’s suicide

Yuliana Avalos has argued in a lawsuit against Match.com that photos of her were posted without her permission on the site as part of a scam that drove a man to commit suicide.

Suspected Ebola Case in Ghana Investigated

Screenshot: GBC

Reports of a Nigerian man who was rushed to the hospital for a possible Ebola infection went viral, Sunday. Media reports suggested that health officials at the hospital deserted their posts over fear of contracting the disease.- myghanaonline

The Head of Disease Surveillance at the Ghana Health Service, Dr Badu Sakordie has confirmed investigations are underway into a suspected case of Ebola. Reports say a suspected Ebola patient, who is a Nigerian, sought medical attention at the Achimota hospital in Accra after battling fever for a while. - GBC

But StarrFMonline.com sources at the hospital say the blood sample of the patient tested negative for Ebola. StarrFMonline.com can confirm that the said patient has been discharged. According to our sources, the patient was rather suffering from Pharyngitis and not Ebola. - myghanaonline


Read more:
Ghana investigates alleged suspected case of Ebola - gbcghana.com
Ghana still Ebola-free as latest suspected case proves negative - myghanaonline.com

11 People Fleeing Ebola Virus Arrive In Ghana

This Ebola issue to me feels like a bad dream, I pray I awake soon from it.

Screenshot: wpmedia

 Eleven people fleeing the Ebola Virus in Sierra Leone recently arrived in Ghana. The eleven include nine Ghanaians, one Zimbabwean and a driver whose nationality is not yet known.They arrived at the border post in the Upper East Region. The eleven were screened at the border and have been sent to the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital to be quarantined for further observation and examination.- GBC

Click here for full story ( and soundbite) http://www.gbcghana.com/1.1841992

Screenshot: Dailymail

The latest outbreak of Ebola is the most severe since the disease was discovered in 1976. So far the disease has spread from a village in Guinea to Sierra Leone, Liberia and Nigeria - Dailymail



Related news

Suspected Case of Ebola in Ghana Investigated
Ghana investigates alleged suspected case of Ebola - GBC
Ghana still Ebola-free as latest suspected case proves negative - myghanaonline.com

May God continue to shield us

Policeman Caught Camera Begging for Money [VIDEO]

A policeman was recorded begging for money.

Here is the interaction between the policeman and the occupants of the vehicle:

Female passenger [speaking in twi]: ....The issue is, we are not caring any money on us unless we go to the ATM.

Police: So how much do you have for my supper? ... Supper is all I want”

Female Passenger: ...We can get you gh₵5.

The police officer snatches the money and allows the driver to drive on. The Police Service has declined to name the officer in question. However, the Police Public Affairs Department, DCOP David Ampah Benin has stated that there is an on-going investigation into the matter.

Source: Joy News

ECG to releases load shedding timetable on Thursday

From tv3network;

The Managing Director of the Company William Hutton Mensah of ECG, hinted that they will release a guide to the current power-rationing exercise on Thursday, September 18, 2014

Due to circumstances such as maintenance work on some major plants, water reduction in at Akosombo Dam and the Bui hydroelectric dam not been fully operational, the country is at the moment shedding between 200 megawatts and 250 megawatts of energy.

The VRA has, however, assured that the situation will stabilize by the end of the month.

Soure: Tv3network.com

In times like these, investing in a personal power source sounds like a good idea. The government should probably subsidize the cost of solar panels and maybe organize science fair programmes to allow inventors to exhibit ideas to aid resolve this power crisis. What do you think?

Click here for some interesting Ghanaian Innovations

Elephants invade Upper East village; kills one

One person is feared dead as elephants invade Garu Timpani, a community in the Upper East Region, Friday.

An eyewitness told Joy News about eight (8) elephants entered the town and crushed mud houses and killed Issiku Tangari.

"As at now the body is just covered. They [elephants] stepped on him [Tangari] and all his intestines have been removed. He has been destryoed as if they used cutlass to cut him…The body has been destroyed”, the eyewitness told Joy News.

Residents are reportedly fleeing the area in fear.

Although the residents of Garu Timpani say they are unsure where the animals may be coming from, the eyewitness said he suspects they may have come from Nyakpanduri or Paga – all close to Ghana’s border with neighboring Burkina Faso.

Source: Joy News

Bukom Banku’s wife initiated as fetish priestess returns from sacred forest

Local boxer, Braimah Kamoko may have taken his enigma to a brand new level after revealing to Allsports.com.gh his excitement at the impending arrival on Friday of his fetish priestess wife, Amoah Woyoo known in the fetish realm as Ohua Broni.

Kamoko’s wife has been in traditional incarceration in the sacred forest at Bortianor, near Accra over the past four months taking tutorials and final initiation into the fetish priesthood and will be outdoored and commissioned to begin full work as fetish priestess.
“I’m delighted because of all the problems I’ve gone through since she left, I’m delighted that finally my wife is coming and I know the powers will come plenty. From now on, any opponent that comes near me for a fight I will use my wife’s powers to kill him in the ring,” the boxer told Allsports.com.gh.

According to Ga traditions, she has powers to perform fetish duties including healing the sick and offering protection to her beloved, chief among them Bukom Banku himself who confessed he misses her greatly.

“I am, therefore, begging the promoter of my upcoming fight, McDon Atitsogbe to bring coffin and ambulance to ringside because what is going to happen to John Napari is untold. I will beat him mercilessly,” Banku warned.

“I’m pleading with all my fans including President Mahama and Sports Minister Mahama Ayariga to come and support me to welcome my wife home. We’ll even use the powers to support John Mahama to win the 2016 elections,” Banku said.

Source: myjoyonline.com