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20 years ago, I was studying abroad at the @UnivofGh. Like spaceflight, it was a positive, life-changing, perspective-deepening experience. Seeing the beauty of Ghana from space reminds me of the amazing people I met there and how in exploring the world, we learn about ourselves.
Congrats 🎉🍾 @garyalsmith .. keep going🫶🏽
Chale some news:
Delighted to share that I am in 🇪🇸 Madrid for the next week or so as part of the @Olympics global TV commentary team for the ongoing Dakar Youth Olympic Games.
This has been cooking for a minute. Excited that it is here! (1/2)
Gifty Andoh Appiah retweeted
At #CHOGM2026, Prime Minister Andy Burnham met President John Dramani Mahama to discuss trade, investment and collaboration between the UK and Ghana.
Full readout : PM meeting with Ghanaian President John Dramani Mahama: 3 November 2026 - GOV.UK
Suspension, okay. But @GhPoliceService pls listen to his comments and look into his assertions about rape and people who have done it!
And this is how sexual predatory slips away without proper investigation and is perpetuated... by all means investigations should be evidence-led but it shouldn’t rely on the victims and their families! The state should aggressively pursue!
This matter… even more interesting if you live outside your home country..🙂 we should do a small research on it Gary
Yes, the name thing is real, @asemota.
Narrated this story before: before my face became popular, my name got me into rooms where they assumed i was a (middle-aged) white man.
Around 2008, I was very close to changing my first names to my Ghanaian names. This was shortly after Ghana@50, when a surge of nationalism was sweeping through the country and names like Adom, Nhyira, Dromo, Dzormo, etc were becoming popular and lots of folks were switching to their local names.
The owner of the station where I did my national service suggested to me that because I was looking at an international journalism career, it was best if I kept all my English names. I thought it was nonsense, because I didnt why/what my name had to do with anything if my work was good. And I knew my work was good.
After interesting back and forth within the family, we decided to follow his advice. (RIP, Big Jay 🙏🏿)
And, boy, was he right.
The next 3-4 years were crucial. When the explosion of Facebook, Twitter, StumbleUpon, Tumbler, Blogger meant the major international media needed social-media digital ninjas to populate their new media, I was ready.
However... I consistently had several editors of international publications admitting they initially thought I was some white dude. The implication was not lost on me; I knew what they meant.
Because I made my name as a writer long before radio/TV, the credibility made transitioning easy, so I did not have trouble being accepted on international TV and radio.
But I have often wondered if they'd have taken a chance on my work had they met me with all my Ghanaian names in the beginning...
You made a huge impact on journalism @amanpour and on my own journalism. Deep admiration 🥰🥰. I hope life is kind to you in your future endeavors.
Gifty Andoh Appiah retweeted
US President Donald Trump says new White House press secretary Katie Zacharia should "reconsider" job days after starting role
Follow live bbc.in/4s5MBrO
Gifty Andoh Appiah retweeted
Elon Musk has unveiled a new sports car with acrobatic capabilities, developed by his companies Tesla and SpaceX - but is it really a flying car?
The car is equipped with thrusters and a suction system, allowing it to drive upside down and hover to landing.
🔗 trib.al/UTaWyrV
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He wasn’t sent to prison because of a lenient plea deal offered by then-Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price.
In 2023, after Price took office on a platform of reducing incarceration, her office offered a deal that dropped the attempted-murder charge and one poisoning count. Xu pleaded no contest to a single felony poisoning count.
A probation officer’s recommendation treating it as a first offense, noting Xu was highly educated, employed, and living with his wife and children, and expressing hope he would use a “second chance.”
The victim eventually stopping her opposition to the plea (described as worn down by the process). A defense toxicologist’s report disputing long-term health effects, which limited restitution to about $7,000 instead of the nearly $500,000 sought.
Price was later recalled by voters, in part over criticisms of her lenient plea deals
Wow!
A Berkeley chemical engineer who suffered years of unexplained illness discovered through a spy camera from Amazon that her coworker, David Xu, was poisoning her food and water with cadmium, a toxic heavy metal for nearly 18 months between 2017 and 2019. The victim experienced significant health problems and at times required emergency care at a hospital. Newly released video shows Xu appearing to put a substance in her water bottle in 2019.
Xu was arrested that year and charged with attempted murder and two counts of poisoning, offenses that could have sent him to prison for life. But under a plea deal, the attempted murder charge and one poisoning count were dropped. Xu pleaded no contest to one felony poisoning charge and received two years of probation, with credit for one day served. He completed probation in March and is now seeking to have his felony conviction dismissed.
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I grew up on the cattle grazing fields of Asutsuare Junction in the Shai Osudoku District of the Greater Accra Region.
As the last born and only child in the family to be lucky enough to be enrolled in school, my options were limited.
Lawyer? Hell no!!! Not in this village. – at Accra, Ghana
😞 so sad. So sad. 🕊️
A solemn atmosphere filled the Charismatic Evangelistic Ministry (CEM Rehoboth Temple) in North Legon today, September 19, 2026, as family members, friends, Central University students, and sympathizers converged to bid their final farewell to law student Ivan Baidoo.
The late second-year law student died following an August 27 incident on the Tema Motorway involving a police patrol officer while traveling as a pillion passenger on a commercial motorcycle.
#3NewsGH #TV3GH