Kwami Ahiabenu,II Knowledge Chief

• Mr Kwami Ahiabenu (2nd left), a member of the Civil Society Platform on IMF Bailout, addressing journalists at the press conference. Those with him are Mr Joseph Winful (left), Chairman of the Civil Society Platform on IMF Bailout, and Dr Mohammed Amin Adam (right), Executive Director, Africa Centre for Energy Policy. Picture: EDNA ADUSERWAA The Executive Director of the Africa Centre for Energy Policy, Dr Mohammed Amin Adam, who made the call, said the proposed law should spell out the limits of government borrowing and spending as well as the sanctions for going beyond the limits. That, he said, would ensure fiscal discipline in government borrowing and spending, as there would be sanctions for any breach of the provisions in the law. Dr Adam was speaking at a media dialogue organised by the Civil Society (CS) Platform on the International Monetary Fund (IMF) bailout in Accra yesterday. The dialogue was to build a partnership between the media and civil society org...

By Kwami Ahiabenu, II. 28 th July, 2015. News business started in Ghana, then Gold Coast, when The Gold Coast Gazette and Commercial Intelligencer, was born in1822-25 by Sir Charles MacCarthy, governor of the British Gold Coast settlements. Along came broadcasting on 31st July 1935 when Gold Coast Broadcasting System was commissioned. Over time media in Ghana has bloomed with a plethora of news outlets, booming social media and mobile channels providing countless news opportunities to growing audience base.  According to National Communications Authority (NCA) Ghana, as at 2015 there are 58 registered television stations in Ghana, 390 radio stations are registered and a projected 40 newspapers.  The rapid growth and falling costs of new digital technologies and tools has opened the door for new opportunities in news delivery in particular and journalism as a whole. Formerly, internet access was glued to computers but in present times, we are going through a ...