A comms guy who works all over Africa just picked up another degree. Prince Akpah, a development practitioner, graduated from GIMPA in Accra with a master's in Development Communication. He has been in that field for more than ten years and said he wanted the degree to get better at using communication to drive social change.
He mentioned the program helped him grasp advocacy, research, and how to work with different groups. He plans to use what he learned in his job with civil society groups across the continent. Right now, he works as a lead for a pan-African activist network called Africans Rising and runs content for a major Bitcoin conference. He also founded a PR firm that handles a bunch of well-known African youth awards and...
An old guy just got his master's degree from his own son. Joseph Aheto, who is eighty-one years old, graduated with an MBA from the University of Cape Coast, with the diploma handed to him by the acting head of the school, his son Professor Denis Aheto.
The elder Aheto said it was a big emotional moment for him. He already had a bachelor's degree from back in the seventies, but decided to go back to school because both his sons had become professors, leaving him behind academically. He started the program before his son got the top university job, sticking with it even when younger students in his classes made fun of him. He said he just kept pushing through the ridicule until he finished.
The police chief just gave a bunch of top cops a promotion. The Inspector General, Christian Tetteh Yohuno, bumped up thirteen senior officers at a ceremony, saying it was for their great work and sacrifice. The event happened at the national headquarters.
Yohuno told the crowd this move shows the service rewards real professionalism and grit. He said the whole point is to motivate everyone else to keep up the good work, promising that effort does get noticed. He pushed all officers to stay dedicated, saying being diligent is how you rebuild public trust in the cops. In a separate note, the police service also promised tighter security over the holidays and asked people to report anything shady they see.
A prison is throwing a fashion show with inmates as the models. The Kumasi Central Prison will host its first-ever Prisons Runway Fashion Show later this month, right inside the facility, pushed by the boss there, Deputy Director James Mwinyelle. This fits with a bigger prison reform plan called Think Prisons 360 Degrees and the national arts policy.
Mwinyelle said the point is to show everyone has a talent, and that building skills and self-respect is key to stopping people from coming back to jail. The show will feature inmate models from the women's prison and from all the different convict and remand blocks in the main prison. Big-name local brands like Starladin, Juju Clothings, and House of Kotobre are involved, working directly...
The education minister basically said the kids can't think for themselves. Haruna Iddrisu, Ghana's Education Minister, blamed the terrible recent exam scores on students having weak analysis and application skills. This comes after a public freakout over the WASSCE results, where over half of the 461,736 students got bottom-tier grades in Core Mathematics, the worst performance in nearly a decade.
Iddrisu, who is also the MP for Tamale South, explained that the examiner reports showed students could not handle practical questions or interpret graphs. He also admitted that a tougher crackdown on cheating during the tests played a role in the lower scores. Subjects like Social Studies, English, and Integrated Science also saw big drops...
Some official says drugs are now the biggest danger up north. The Northern Regional Minister, Ali Adolf John, called youth drug abuse the top security threat in the area, saying it wrecks public safety and ruins futures. He made these comments at a big local government meeting in Tamale, even though he said the region is mostly calm thanks to cops and others working together.
To fight this, he told the crowd that a special police team sent by the top cop is now running raids on known drug spots. John asked all the local council bosses, chiefs, and regular people to help the police with tips to lock up dealers, saying they have a duty to save the kids. He also talked about other local issues at the meeting, which had UNICEF and a bunch...
Ghana just slid down a major global peace ranking. The country fell six spots to sixty-first worldwide on the latest Global Peace Index, also dropping from fourth to seventh place in the Sub-Saharan Africa region, pointing to bigger security and governance problems.
In the middle of this, a group called the Universal Friendship Organisation is pushing harder to build peace through community connections. Its president, Samuel Adobah, has spent years on this work, which just got him the Youth Peace Advocacy of the Year award at the Global Peace Ambassadors Awards. The organisers said it was for his steady drive to create unity and social change. In his own statement, Adobah said everyone has to help build lasting peace, especially with...
This TikToker just started beef with a dancehall legend's kid. One Kevin, the same vlogger who got advice from Vybz Kartel about leaving Bounty Killer alone, recently went after the veteran artist's son, Major Myjah. The vlogger's video claimed Bounty was not even trying with his own son, pointing to another artist, Foota Hype, as being more supportive, and dissing Bounty's musical output.
Myjah hit back hard in his own clips. He defended his dad, saying Bounty Killer put him on stage many times and that he has his own successful career. He listed writing songs for major stars like Chris Brown, Usher, and Miguel as proof. Myjah told the vlogger to get off TikTok and find a real purpose, demanding he stop using the family name. He also...
Top officials and a bishop spent Christmas talking politics and corruption. President Museveni, through his ICT minister Joyce Ssebugwawo, told a service at Namirembe Cathedral that people breaking election laws need to stop, so voters can pick leaders without being scared. The bishop there, Moses Banja, went harder, calling out ongoing bloodshed, rights abuses, corruption, and land grabs as stuff wrecking the country's peace.
The Bishop said you cannot have a calm nation with all that injustice floating around, pointing out that even churches are not safe from land thieves anymore. The Kabaka's message, delivered by his Lukiiko speaker, Patrick Mugumbule, told the electoral body to control the process and limit crazy campaign...
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