Author: Kingsford Arhin
From Accra
Asamoah Gyan pulls a surprise at Ebony’s memorial
Black Stars captain, Asamoah Gyan, has donated boxes of water to support the programme.
Ghanaians from all over the country have come together to partake in the one-week memorial service for the late Dancehall and Afrobeats diva, Ebony Reigns.
The memorial service is currently underway at the St. Martin De Porres School in Dansoman, Accra.
The young female Artist passed on at age 20. She was involved in a motor accident, a week ago while returning to Accra after visiting her mother in Sunyani in the Brong Ahafo.
The one-week celebration of dancehall musician Ebony is currently ongoing at Dansoman in the nation’s capital, Accra.
Many musicians, actors and actresses had been to the family house of the late musician to mourn with them.
Big names and legends in the Entertainment industry – Kofi Adjorlolo, Grace Omaboe ‘ Maame Dokono’ – have also paid their respects.
Minister for Communications Ursula Owusu-Ekuful and Tourism and Creative Arts Minister Catherine Afeku came together as the foremost government delegation.
Also present were the Founder and President of the Worldwide Miracle Outreach, Dr. Lawrence Tetteh and ace sports journalist, Patrick Osei Agyemang, popularly known as Countryman Songo.
Despite not present at the memorial service, Black Stars captain, Asamoah Gyan, has donated boxes of water to support the programme.
He also provided supported with the services of his live band (Asa Band) to provide music at the venue.
I am not a racist – Donald Trump
President Trump has denied that he is racist, after a row broke out over his alleged use of the word “shithole” to describe African nations.
Mr Trump reportedly used the term last week during a bipartisan Oval Office meeting on immigration reform.
He has now told reporters: “I am not a racist. I’m the least racist person you have ever interviewed.”
It is the first time the president has responded directly to the racism accusations.
He made the denial to White House press pool reporters at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach on Sunday night.
The row broke out after lawmakers from both parties visited the president on Thursday to work on a proposal for a bipartisan immigration deal.
In recent weeks the Trump administration has been withdrawing Temporary Protected Status (TPS) from a number of nationalities currently living in the country.
Reports later emerged in US media that Trump had asked during the meeting: “Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?”
Mr Trump was said to have told them that instead of granting temporary residency to citizens of countries hit by natural disasters, war or epidemics, the US should instead be taking in migrants from countries like Norway.
Accounts suggest that when Mr Trump was told that the largest groups of immigrants with the status were from El Salvador, Honduras and Haiti, the president responded: “Haitians? Do we need more Haitians?”
The president tweeted on Friday morning that the language he used in the meeting was “tough” but disputed the wording of the reports.
He also posted another tweet denying he had insulted Haitians, accusing Democrats of making it up.
But Senator Dick Durbin stood by claims, and said that Mr Trump had used “hate-filled, vile and racist” language during the meeting.
Several senior Republican lawmakers at the meeting, including Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, have said they do not recall Mr Trump making the remark.
But another Republican senator who was there, Lindsey Graham, did not deny the comments were made.
“Following comments by the president, I said my piece directly to him yesterday. The president and all those attending the meeting know what I said and how I feel,” he said.
House Speaker Paul Ryan, a senior Republican, said that Donald Trump’s immigration comments were “very unfortunate” and “unhelpful”.
Asked on Sunday on whether he thought the comments had made it harder to achieve any immigration deal, Mr Trump responded: “Have you seen what various senators said about my comments? They weren’t made.”
The African Union on Friday demanded that the US president apologise after the alleged comments, expressing their “shock, dismay and outrage” at the “clearly racist” remarks.
The UN human rights spokesman, Rupert Colville, told a Geneva news briefing: “There is no other word one can use but racist. You cannot dismiss entire countries and continents as ‘shitholes’.”
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) accused the president of falling “deeper and deeper into the rabbit hole of racism and xenophobia”.
Several Democratic representatives have said they intend to skip the president’s State of the Union address later this month over the comments, accusing the president of racism.
Source: BBC
Sarkodie replies Donald Trump’s ‘shithole’ commentpulse.com.ghJan 15, 2018 12:00 PMSarkodie goes hard at fellow rappers (as usual), claiming to be the King of Ghana rap music and then going after American president, Donald Trump.
Ghanaian rapper Sarkodie is the latest artiste to jump on the instrumentals of Drake’s “KMT” song featuring Giggs.
In the 2:43 minutes freestyle, Sarkodie goes hard at fellow rappers (as usual), claiming to be the King of Ghana rap music and then going after American president, Donald Trump.
Even though majority of Ghanaians have been blunt on the issue and condemned Trump for his unsavory comment, Sarkodie was sensitive with his choice of words in “KMT” freestyle.
“Donald Trump se y3n man no y3 shithole….but wo nni talent…y3 ka a, wo nni talent,”
Sarkodie called him out.
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I Was Totally Relieved After Amidu’s Appointment – Kokofu
Former Member of Parliament [MP] for Bantama constituency, Henry Kwabena Kokofu has applauded President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo for appointing Martin Alamisi Amidu as the country’s first Special Prosecutor.
According to him he knows Martin Amidu to be a no nonsense man and believe he will work tirelessly and flawlessly based on the mandate given to him without sparing anybody who falls victim to the law as well as not considering their political party colours.
“Martin Amidu is the type who voluntarily and always brings to the public domain any corrupt scandal he comes across especially persons of public institutions, therefore he is the right person to occupy such an office”, he said.
Speaking on UTV’s ‘Adekye Nsroma’ programme, Henry Kokofu said “I was pleased President Akufo-Addo made the right and perfect choice by nominating Martin Amidu as Special Prosecutor, frankly my heart was filled with joy and my headache at the time relieved as soon as the President mentioned the nominated Special Prosecutor”.
“I just felt like a problem troubling me for years has been relieved of my head”, he added.
Kwabena Kokofu urged members of the National Democratic Congress [NDC] to keep quiet as they watch the office of the Special Prosecutor do their work.
Source: Elizabeth Semiheva Bedi/
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Senators who didn’t recall Trump using vulgarity backtrack
By Darlene Superville | AP
January 15, 2018 at 2:29 PM
FILE – In this Dec. 2, 2016, file photo, Sen. David Perdue, R-Ga., walks to the elevator for a meeting with President-elect Donald Trump at Trump Tower, in New York. Casting a cloud over already tenuous negotiations, President Donald Trump said Sunday, Jan. 14, 2018, that Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, a program that protects immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children and live here illegally is “probably dead” and blamed Democrats, days before some government functions would start shutting down unless a deal is reached. Perdue said “the potential is there” for a deal to protect the “Dreamers” but that Democrats needed to get serious. (Evan Vucci/AP)
PALM BEACH, Fla. — Two Republican senators who had said they did not recall President Donald Trump using a vulgarity to describe African countries backtracked Sunday and challenged other senators’ descriptions of the remark.
Trump has been accused of using the word “shithole” to describe African countries during an Oval Office meeting Thursday with a bipartisan group of six senators in which the president also questioned the need to admit more Haitians to the U.S., according to people briefed on the conversation but not authorized to describe it publicly. Trump also said in the meeting that he would prefer immigrants from countries like Norway instead.
The White House has not denied that Trump uttered the word “shithole,” though Trump has pushed back on some depictions of the meeting.
Georgia Sen. David Perdue and Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton had issued a statement on Friday saying they “do not recall the President saying those comments specifically.”
Perdue on Sunday described as a “gross misrepresentation” reports that Trump used the vulgarity. He said Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois and Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina were mistaken in indicating that was the case. All four senators were at the meeting.
“I am telling you that he did not use that word. And I’m telling you it’s a gross misrepresentation,” Perdue said on ABC’s “This Week.”
Cotton said he “didn’t hear” the word used — “and I was sitting no further away from Donald Trump than Dick Durbin was,” Cotton told CBS’ “Face the Nation.”
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Associated Press writer Jonathan Lemire contributed to this report.
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Road accidents claims 210 lives in Ogun – FRSC
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By Abiodun Lawal
Abeokuta – The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in Ogun said on Saturday that 210 persons lost their lives with several others injured in various auto crashes across the state in 2017.
The FRSC Sector Commander in the state, Mr Clement Oladele, made the disclosure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abeokuta.
Oladele, who stated that 365 crashes were recorded in the state during the period, explained that the figure had reduced compared to 270 deaths in 386 crashes recorded in 2016.
He noted that the the rate of road traffic crashes had reduced by 4.7 per cent during the period compared to previous year.
According to the sector commander, a greater percentage of the accidents were due to speeding, break failure, usage of mobile phone while driving, wrongful overtaking and tyre burst.
The FRSC boss advised motorists to be cautious and avoid traveling when visibility is blurred.
Oladele said the advice became necessary as intense haze had reduced visibility, especially in the early mornings and late evenings.
He enjoined motorists to drive cautiously, obey traffic regulations and follow instructions from FRSC patrol teams and other traffic agencies.
“The FRSC will continue to intensify effort at sensitising motorists at different motor parks on safe driving and dangers involved in not obeying traffic rules and regulations.
“Road safety is a collective responsibility of all and sundry,’’ he said. (NAN)
SAD! A Military Man At The Flagstaff House Shot By An Armed Robber At Tema For …
According to a report published by mynewsgh.com, Sergeant George Boakye was shot multiple times by yet unknown assailants attempting to steal his government owned Land Cruiser vehicle with plate number CR 1341 near the Accra abattoir in Community 19.
Police say they were notified that the same vehicle was involved in an accident in Community 19, but that upon visiting the scene it was surmised that the vehicle was actually stolen at the said location.
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According to the police, Sergeant George Boakye was shot multiple times by the assailants in their attempt to hijack the vehicle, and was later rushed to 37 Military Hospital good Samaritans. He later died while receiving medical treatment at the facility.
The report says that Sergeant Boakye’s identity was unknown until an official ID bearing service number 193294 Sergeant Boakye of the Ghana Armed Forces stating that he was attached to the office of the President was found that his identity was known.
Sergeant George Boakye’s body is currently being kept at the Military hospital awaiting an autopsy to be undertaken.
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