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Hi everyone,
Thank you to everyone who has already contributed towards the dialysis treatment of 16y.o Rita . Together, we’ve raised GH₵3,000—enough to cover four sessions, which will keep her going for about two weeks.
She actually requires three dialysis sessions a week, at GH₵700 per session. Her mother explains in the video that the family can no longer afford the treatment and is considering herbal remedies instead.
We urgently need more support to help her continue dialysis. If you can contribute, please do. Every cedi brings her closer to another session of treatment.
Please donate via +233552712924, Emmanuel Raphael Samani
Thank you ❤️
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Government takes GH¢60 of every GH¢100 the TraffiTech-GH traffic cameras earn. The private partner, NTMEL, keeps GH¢40.
The deal: GH¢77.73m, 11 years, running to December 2033. NTMEL's shareholders put in another €550,000 in November 2024 to keep things moving.
#TraffiTechGH
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Hi everyone,
A 16 y.o JHS graduate is in dire need of financial support to continue her dialysis treatment.
Her father is considering stopping the treatment because the family can no longer afford it and are thinking of turning to herbal treatment instead.
I’m appealing to anyone who can help support her treatment. No contribution is too small. Please send contributions via momo number:
+233552712924
Emmanuel Raphael Samani.
Please help share.
Same for our obsession with tolling. For a developing economy in dire need of funds for capital projects, there's absolutely no sense in bringing in a private entity to help with tolling. Levy the fuel & generate almost 100% of funds needed to maintain roads & construct new ones
I genuinely didn't see this coming! 😳
As someone who advocates for technology and public policies that improve lives, this Traffitech-GH revelation has changed how I look at the initiative.
Ghana's Ministry of Finance reports that 40% of traffic fine revenue is earmarked for a private company, Nationwide Traffic Management and Enforcement Ltd (NTMEL), while the government receives 60%.
And who owns NTMEL?
• Frank Osei, Ghanaian entrepreneur: 60%
• Sensys Gatso, Swedish traffic technology company: 40%. The contract runs for 11 years, from December 2022 to December 2033, with an estimated project investment of GH¢77.73 million.
I've always supported technology that makes our roads safer. But this raises serious questions for me.
If a private operator earns more when motorists commit more offences, how do we ensure road safety remains the priority, not revenue generation?
What happens to poorly marked roads, missing speed-limit signs and unclear school zones?
I'm not against Traffitech. I'm questioning the incentives behind its implementation.
Are we building a safer road network or a revenue-generating enforcement system?
Ghanaians deserve transparency on this arrangement.
ghanaguardian.com/ghanas-sms…
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Writing this in my personal capacity, but I have been flying these types of aircraft for more than 20 years, with over 8,000 hours, and have reasonable familiarity with how the charter world operates. I feel compelled to post after seeing commentary about the Lear 60 crash, from missile strikes to DEI to critiquing this poor woman’s final radio calls.
That last part is what I find most troubling. She was the second-in-command (SIC), and while she was empowered to point out mistakes as part of good crew resource management, she was doing her job, communicating with ATC right to the end in a terrifying situation. She likely knew before many of those calls that she was going to die. I have heard final calls from friends, from military pilots with thousands of hours in fighter aircraft, and they are just as heartbreaking because they know the end is approaching.
I understand the public interest given the footage and audio. But you do not know the aircraft’s maintenance history, whether there was a structural failure, if any failure was induced by turbulence, overspeed, or overcontrol, or everything happening in that cockpit. I am sure weather will be part of the investigation, but beyond that, it is speculation. The charter industry routinely hires commercial pilots very early in their careers to gain experience alongside an ATP-qualified captain before they move up to the airlines. She would still have the appropriate training, qualifications, and checkouts by an FAA examiner or designee.
Let people investigate, learn, and share the facts. Be respectful to those who perished and the families who carry their memories. God bless them and their loved ones.
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AN OPEN NOTE TO ALL RELEVANT AUTHORITIES IN GHANA
RE: UNCONTROLLED HAWKER ENCROACHMENT ON THE TROTRO LANE AT LAPAZ – AN URGENT ROAD SAFETY CONCERN
To the Ministry of Roads and Highways, Ministry of the Interior, Greater Accra Regional Coordinating Council, Accra Metropolitan Assembly, Ghana Police Service, Motor Traffic and Transport Department (MTTD), National Road Safety Authority and all relevant authorities:
For years, hawkers at Lapaz have continued to occupy an increasingly large portion of the trotro lane, gradually turning a designated traffic space into a trading area. Successive governments have come and gone, yet this situation remains largely unaddressed.
The question is simple: How long will law enforcement look on while a serious road safety concern continues to develop? Must we wait for an avoidable accident, injuries or loss of lives before decisive action is taken?
The encroachment obstructs traffic, creates unnecessary congestion and exposes drivers, passengers, pedestrians and the hawkers themselves to danger.
As Ghana approaches its 70th Independence Anniversary in March 2027, it is time to demonstrate that discipline, respect for public spaces and enforcement of our laws are not merely things we talk about but values we practise.
We therefore call on the relevant authorities to:
Immediately address the encroachment on the trotro lane at Lapaz.
Activate and sustain law enforcement to restore the road to its intended purpose.
Ensure that hawkers are directed to appropriate designated trading spaces.
Introduce regular monitoring to prevent a recurrence of this situation.
This is not a campaign against people’s livelihoods. It is a call for responsible urban management, public safety and respect for the rights of all road users.
Ghana’s 70 years of independence should be an opportunity to restore discipline and order, not continue to normalise lawlessness in our public spaces.
Let us act before tragedy strikes. Lapaz deserves better, and road safety must not be negotiable.
THE TIME TO ACT IS NOW!
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Before Traffitech went live, we challenged the Police to fix some of the logical glitches. We pleaded with them not to succumb to katanomics.
Of course, they won't listen. But all the same, we have decided to document the issues for posterity.
brightsimons.com/2026/11/tra…
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We’ve got to start from somewhere. After some time we can appeal as a people and have some of the limits adjusted. That be how we dey do am. Sometimes you need one foot in the door before the other can follow.
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Another November is here.
Another chance for you, your family and your business to stay protected.
Enjoy a Peaceful Month.
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Ten million people have watched a comedian accidentally destroy the entire TED talk industry.
He filmed the talk once at TEDxNewYork in 2014 and openly admitted he had nothing to say.
Speaking coaches charge $5,000 to teach the exact tricks he used in 6 minutes to say nothing at all.
His name is Will Stephen. He is a comedian from Late Night with Seth Meyers who was invited to give a real TED talk and used it to prove the format is a costume anyone can wear.
Every TED speaker opens with a question, tells a personal story, cites a scientist, and shows a chart. Stephen did all four in six minutes with zero content.
His entire formula fits on a napkin.
Gesture with both hands. Ask the audience a question anyone can answer. Tell a mildly embarrassing story so they say aww. Point to a stranger on a slide and call them important. Flash a chart of random numbers. Wear glasses with no lenses. The audience will think you are brilliant.
That last trick alone has probably cost the public speaking coaching industry a hundred million dollars in sessions clients should have skipped.
"If you watched me on YouTube with the sound off, you would think I was a genius."
That is Will Stephen on the TED stage, three minutes into the talk he was paid to give. He wasn't lying.
Executives pay $15,000 for a keynote coach and still open with a joke the room never laughs at. Founders rehearse their pitch for weeks and still sound like Stephen at minute four, saying "wagga wah, gabba gabba" with authority.
The talk is free on YouTube. The method is written across every TED speaker's playbook for ten years.
Stephen still writes for Seth Meyers. Almost none of the ten million viewers have stopped nodding at empty slides since.
The formula is free. The willingness to actually say something before your next keynote, pitch, or townhall is the entire edge.
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Friends, fellow travelers, bystanders.
Courtesy of the FT, I wrote recently about the "Ananse Effect" (see link in thread.)
For those with a little exposure to Ananse's Afro-Caribbean folklore tradition, you may remember a story about the wily spider trying and failing to hoard all the world's knowledge in a gourd to hide on a tree.
The current AI giants have been picking up from where Ananse left off.
Anthropic came under fire for buying millions of book, milking the knowledge, and destroying them. In some cases, certain books disappeared forever.
Amazon’s VGT3 book operation, which was exposed by a tracking device planted by 404 Media, did the same at the LAS8 warehouse in Vegas.
Then there is the Ravel's Caselaw Access Project that digitalised 40,000 law-report volumes into a machine-readable collection. Nice, except that, as was later exposed, Ravel Law financed the work in return years of commercial EXCLUSIVITY.
BookCorpus, Books3, LAION, YFCC100M, MegaFace, and many of the big knowledgebases from which the popular AI products have sprung from bear the marks of much piracy, heisting, and the various features of "plunder-hoards".
Clearly, the AI overlords are determined to control all knowledge and dispense it in drips to us their poor serfs and supplicants.
In my FT piece, I argue that art and culture may be the last bastion of defence against this mindset. And if defiance works in that realm, the seeds of resistance may then spread more widely.
Mind you, I am not against AI. I think it an incredibly fascinating new source of power in the world. But new forms of power rarely play nice with human agency. So, those of us on Team Human must be sly as serpents when faced with these grasping spiders.
We must actively work to shape a kind of AI that elevates human performance in actual creation, which is a fundamentally social process, rather than consign humans into mere verifiers, tuners, and steerers.
I call this ideology the "Social Edge," and the Ananse Effect is the best summary of the opposing logic, the logic we are up against.
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The course has not changed and will never change, we stand where the facts belong.
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Yea, cos nations built wealth off empathetic vibes
If the political elite of Ghana were to have 10% of Vice Pres. Jane Naana's empathy for the poor, this country would be like Singapore in 10 years' time... - Kwame Pianim (Member, Presidential Advisory Group on the Economy)
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