A shudder went through the Ghanaian media community with the news that the Graphic Communication Group was contemplating going private after 60 years as a state-owned enterprise.
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The Executive Director of Salt and Light Ministries, Rev Dr Joyce Rosalind Aryee, has been awarded an Honorary Doctor of Science degree (honoris causa) by the University of Health and Allied Sciences (UHAS) in recognition of her positive impact on public health, through her work as a passionate advocate of sustainable mining.
Since 1857 when the Bannerman brothers (Charles and Edmund) blazed the trail by starting the first indigenous newspaper, Accra Herald, which was followed by others like Hutton Brew’s (1875) ‘Gold Coast Times ‘Ashanti Pioneer’ Kwame Nkrumah’s ‘ Accra Evening News’ (1948) and ‘Morning Telegraph’ (1949) to mention but a few, the media has incredibly discharged its role of educating and informing its audience while at the same time performing its watchdog role amidst harassments and intimidation by various governments.
"A thief who takes his loot to Las Vegas and successfully bets the stolen money is not entitled to a discount on the sentence by using his Las Vegas winnings to pay back what he stole." The above quote were the chilling words of Judge Lewis Kaplan at the sentencing hearing in Manhattan of Sam Bankman-Fried on March 28.
