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Armah Ashitey announces decision to lead NDC
May 11, 2021
Nii ArmahAshitey, a former Greater Accra Regional Minister has announced his decision to lead the National Democratic Congress (NDC) as its National Chairman.
He underscored fasting was one of the five pillars of Islam that the Quran prescribed for all Muslims who are matured and healthy enough to do so, and an act of worship.
Nii Ashitey made the disclosure in Accra on Saturday when he paid a courtesy call on the National Chief Imam, Sheikh Dr Osmanu Nuhu Sharubutu to present an undisclosed amount of money, and cartons of fish in support of this year’s Ramadan fasting.
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The Oyibi Gonten Mantse, Nii Bortey Kofi Frankwa II, has urged the Greater Accra Regional Minister, Mr Henry Quartey, to fulfil his ‘vetting’ promise of granting scholarships to brilliant students who would show interest in studying the Ga language at the highest level.
Nii Frankwa II said the traditional authorities in the entire region had welcomed the promise as they acknowledged that the provision of scholarships would serve as an incentive to compel more students to develop interest in the language. Besides, it would help the students pursue it at the highest level to help produce teachers who would be dedicated to the teaching of the language.
Ishmael Ashitey eyes NPP s Freddie Blay s seat LISTEN
MAY 8, 2021
The immediate past Greater Accra Regional Minister, Ishmael Ashitey says he plans to contest the national chairmanship of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) when the nomination is opened.
Mr Ashitey, in an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA), said that he was consulting with some party elders on his intentions.
He expressed the belief that his neutrality and openness in leadership would help the party to break the eight-year jinx and win the 2024 election.
He said he was capable of leading the NPP into the 2024 general election with a united front to secure a win irrespective of who would become the flagbearer.
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BY: Brig Gen Dan Frimpong (Retd)
Category: Opinion
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In my article last week titled, ‘Prince Philip Goes Home & Culture,’ I wrote on how expensive, wasteful, time-consuming and complicated Ghanaian funerals are, as against the simple funeral of Prince Philip in the UK.
His burial a week after his death is unheard of in Ghana, except in the Moslem community where, depending on the time of death, one is buried either on the same day or the next day.
While generally resonating with me on the need for drastic changes in our expensive/time-consuming funerals, readers asked, who will initiate this deeply-rooted change of handling the dead in Ghana? “Who will bell the cat?”