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By:brightwebtv.com /nana asare barimah     On Monday, 16th March 2020, the Ministry of Information engaged key media umbrella bodies and the various medical associations in the country to streamline communication of the novel coronavirus. Media umbrella bodies like the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA), the Ghana Independent Broadcasters Association (GIBA) …

  By;brightwebtv/nana asare barimah Speaker of Ghana’s Parliament Mike Oquaye The Speaker of Parliament, Professor Mike Oquaye has threatened to cause the withdrawal of accreditation for the media in Parliament for failing to cover the debate on President Akufo-Addo’s State of the Nation Address. Journalists in Parliament on Tuesday stepped …

By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah     President Nana Akufo-Addo has appealed to the Media Coalition Against Illegal Mining to continue to support government’s fight against galamsey, regardless of the challenges associated with the fight. Since assuming office in 2016, the Akufo-Addo-led administration began a fight to curb illegal mining. Almost 4,000 …

By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah Pastor Mensah Otabil is of the opinion that those who post photos of the food they eat and the new clothes they’ve bought on social media have low thinking capacity. Preaching on the theme ‘Hunger for Excellence’ last Sunday at the ICGC Christ Temple located in Accra, …

By;BRIGHTWEBTV/NANA ASARE BARIMAH Former president John Mahama has bemoaned the growing phenomenon of fake news which he believes could threaten the integrity of the country’s democracy. The National Democratic Congress (NDC) flagbearer cited instances where his social media handles have been altered to churn misleading information or what he described …

By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah Minister of Communications, Mrs Ursula Owusu-Ekuful The Minister of Communications, Mrs Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, has announced that Ghana would soon criminalise the sharing of inappropriate content on social media platforms. Addressing stakeholders on the second day of the National week celebration of the Cyber Security Awareness Month 2019 …

  By ; brightwebtv/nana asare barimah   A Deputy Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, Mr. Augustine Collins Ntim, has advised the media to support the education and public sensitization on the upcoming referendum on the election of Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives (MMDCEs). It follows concerns raised by …

  by;brightwebtv/nana asare barimah     Prof Boniface Igbeneghu of UNILAG Reports from the media in Nigeria indicate that Prof Boniface Igbeneghu of the University of Lagos (UNILAG) who was recently secretly videoed in a BBC documentary soliciting sexual intimacy from an undercover journalist who posed as a 17-year-old minor …

By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah   A video in which the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament for the Gomoa East Constituency, Hon Kojo Asemanyi engaging in  ‘atopa’ has hit social media. The lawmaker was among thousands of residents who joined in the chiefs and people of Gomoa Fetteh to celebrate …

By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah       Some persons affiliated to online news portal, Modernghana.com, have been arrested for allegedly plotting to launch cyber attacks on the systems of other media houses. The arrests followed a tip-off that a group affiliated to has been engaged in some cybercrime activities targetted at …