ModernGhana

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ModernGhana
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Type of site
General news and information
Available inEnglish
OwnerRoger Agambire Agana (80 percent) [1]
Andrew Young Bawa (10 percent) [1]
Niibi Sowah (10 percent)
Founder(s) Bright Owusu
URL modernghana.com
LaunchedAugust 3, 2005;17 years ago (2005-08-03) [2]
Current statusOnline

ModernGhana is a Ghanaian online media portal that has been in operation since 2005. [1] The site covers news, politics, business, sports, entertainment and opinions. It is owned [3] by Modern Ghana Media Communication Ltd., a privately owned Ghanaian company. [4]

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History

Modernghana.com was officially launched on August 3, 2005 [1] [5] in Amsterdam by Bright Owusu, a young Ghanaian [6] who saw the need to bring news closer to Ghanaians in the diaspora. It initially started as a news aggregator and later evolved to a producer of original content. [7] The news platform is also the first ever Ghanaian website that aggregated all Ghanaian local radio stations online. [8]

The site started innovations that became the standard for upcoming Ghanaian news websites. It has evolved over the years to include video content (ModernGhana TV) [9] that covers a wide range of topics including interviews with the news makers, public and private organizations, business enterprises, topical political issues, personalities in the entertainment and lifestyle industry and voice pops on both social and national issues of News values.

ModernGhana editor Emmanuel Ajarfor Abugri [10] was arrested together with Emmanuel Britwum, a reporter, by Ghana's National Security operatives on Thursday June 27, 2019 in what was described as a secret operation. The news outlet's offices were raided during the arrest and working equipment including laptops, mobile phones and a tablet were seized. They arrested were detained for days and interrogated on an opinion piece the website published that was authored by one Constance Kwabeng about the National Security Minister Albert Kan-Dapaah. [11]

The National Security Secretariat accused the arrested staff of ModernGhana of Cybercrime but Mr. Abugri on his release said he was physically assaulted and his privacy violated by the forceful seizure of some of his electronic gadgets. Passwords to his personal gadgets were forcefully taken from him by the National Security personnel and accessed without his consent. Ajarfor and his reporter were put before court but the State subsequently withdrew the charges proffered against them. [12]

Emmanuel Ajarfor later sued the National Security Coordinator, Joshua Kyeremeh; the Inspector General of Police, David Asante-Apeatu; and the Attorney General, Gloria Akuffo for violating his Human rights. [13] Ajarfor's lawyers sought him damages. To date, Ajarfor's two cellphones, tablet and laptop are still with the National Security. As at March 2021 the case was still in court.

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "ModernGhana". ghana.mom-gmr.org.
  2. ↑ "ModernGhana.com WHOIS, DNS, & Domain Info - DomainTools". whois.domaintools.com. Retrieved April 8, 2021.
  3. ↑ "Ownership" . Retrieved March 18, 2021.
  4. ↑ "ModernGhana" . Retrieved March 18, 2021.
  5. ↑ "commencement" . Retrieved March 18, 2021.
  6. ↑ "ModernGhana founder on BBC News" . Retrieved March 18, 2021.
  7. ↑ "ModernGhana in 2005 via web archive". Archived from the original on 2005-11-30. Retrieved March 18, 2021.
  8. ↑ "Ghanaian radios on ModernGhana" . Retrieved March 18, 2021.
  9. ↑ "ModernGhana TV" . Retrieved March 18, 2021.
  10. ↑ "ModernGhana's Emmanuel Abugri" . Retrieved March 18, 2021.
  11. ↑ "ModernGhana's staff arrested" . Retrieved March 18, 2021.
  12. ↑ "court clears ModernGhana" . Retrieved March 19, 2021.
  13. ↑ "counter suit" . Retrieved March 18, 2021.


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