EC Extorting From Media
Access to information during the December 7 elections will now be sold to the media before they can disseminate to the general public. According to the Electoral Commission (EC), it will demand...
Tag: Ghana Journalists Association
Ghana Journalists Reject Fee To Cover Elections
In Ghana, the electoral commission is now requiring journalists to pay a fee to be accredited to cover the presidential and parliamentary elections next month. Journalists are rejecting the...
Ghana’s Peace Not Absolute – Rev. Asante
The Chairman of the National Peace Council, Most Reverend Professor Emmanuel Asante, has downplayed the growing thinking that there is total peace in Ghana as he cautioned Ghanaians not to do...
Anas Floors Dery In Final Showdown
A five-member Supreme Court panel presided over by Justice Julius Ansah, yesterday, in a unanimous decision dismissed an application by embattled High Court Justices Paul Dery, who was challenging...
GBC Gets New Boss
The National Media Commission has appointed Dr Kwame Akuffo Anoff-Ntow as Director General of the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC). He takes over from Major (rtd) Albert Don Chebe, whose tenure...
National Democratic Institute Calls For Holistic Approach To Election 2016
The National Democratic Institute (NDI) has urged the Electoral Commission, political parties, government agencies, civil society and Eminent Persons to remain committed to steps that would enhance...
Meet President Mahamas Anti-Good News Media Cabal
President John Mahama hardly delivers great speeches. It is one sad characteristic of our presidents in recent times. Mr. John Mahama is a good writer, but considering the heavy burden he bears, he...
Meet President Mahama’s Anti-Good News Media Cabal
Stan Dogbe (left) and Wisdom Peter Awuku (right) handle the media at the Presidency President John Mahama hardly delivers great speeches. It is one sad characteristic of our presidents in recent...
Dead Kumasi Journalist Was Threatened In 2013
The popular Kumasi journalist who died in the early hours of Sunday received death threats some three years ago. The threats came after a program on Kessben during which alleged defamatory comments...
Don’t Sacrifice Truth For Political Expediency – Peace Council To Journalists
The National Peace Council (NPC) has called on journalists to go the extra mile to make sure that the truth is never sacrificed under any circumstance for political expediency. Mr. Francis Azuimah,...
8 Universities To Battle At the Newsroom 2016
Eight (8) Universities that run Communication Programmes have registered to participate in this year’s Newsroom Competition organised by Cheetah Communications in collaboration with Ghana...
Mahama’s Government Worst Ever
The Former Ashanti Regional Chairman of Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) Listowel Yesu Bukarson has described the Mahama-led National Democratic Congress (NDC) government as the worst government...
Justice Habib Logoh Partners Dery To Sue Anas & All GJA Executives
Beleaguered High Court judges Mustapha Habib Logoh and Paul Uuter Dery have jointly sued 2016 Journalist of the Year Anas Aremeyaw Anas and the Ghana Journalists Association as well as its executives...
Dery, Logoh Sue GJA Over Anas Award
Embattled judges Justice Paul Uuter Dery and Mustapha Habib Logoh have sued the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) for conferring the Journalist of the Year 2015 award on investigative journalist...
Our Media Landscape
The Ghana Journalists Association just completed a glittering celebration of our best journalists. Amongst the awardees were quite a few of my friends-- Alhaji Abu Issa Monnie, Famous, Ms. Adu etc....
Koti Man In Double-Trouble
He may not be really in any big trouble, if you know what I mean. The famous Haitian-American novelist and short-story writer and Creative Writing professor of New York University (NYU), at least the...
The UN’s SDGs – Who Cares?
A number of happenings over the last few weeks have got me thinking about the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that more than 190 world leaders adopted at the United Nations general assembly...
The Jungle Poor and Our GJA Award
I was in the Department of Communication Studies’ library at the University of Ghana one morning when I got a whatsupp message from my editor Dzifa Bampoh saying, “Gakpo, we need to talk when you...
The UNs SDGs Who Cares?
A number of happenings over the last few weeks have got me thinking about the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that more than 190 world leaders adopted at the United Nations general assembly...
A Savoury Honour Bestowed For A Prurient Act Heraldic Anas Aremeyaw Anas
Thy vows are all broken And light is thy fame I hear thy name spoken And share in its shame George (Lord Byron) “I HATE TO SEE these boys in these rags and masks being given an award for that dirty...