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🇬🇭 Happy 69th Independence Day, Ghana! 🌍 From the first sub-Saharan nation to break free in 1957 to becoming the Gateway to Africa, they've carried that same pioneering spirit onto the pitch. 🏆 The Black Stars lit up the continent: - 4x AFCON Champions (1963, 1965, 1978, 1982) – joint-third most in history. 🥈 5 heartbreaking runner-up finishes (most ever) 🌍 Historic quarter-final run at the 2010 World Cup – the closest Ghana came to a semi-final. 🇬🇭 Ghana doesn't just play football – they define African football pride. 🌟 Here's to more glory, more Black Stars shining bright and a future as unstoppable as your independence spirit! #GhanaAt69

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The President of BF is undoubtedly doing an excellent job and enjoys strong popularity, particularly among young people. This is precisely why it is concerning to see so much clearly false content circulating about his work. Videos filmed in Asia, in unmistakably mountainous settings, are being presented as if they were from BF. Those who share such material seem not to realize that messages framed as praise can, in fact, undermine credibility. Or perhaps they do realize it and are acting intentionally.

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1. I was totally perplexed to read that a retired Wing Commander (equivalent to a Lieutenant Colonel in the army branch) of the Ghana Air Force says that the 4 Harbin Z-9EH helicopters, one of which tragically crashed last week, were DONATIONS from China to Ghana. 2. No disrespect to the retired senior officer, but this information is INCORRECT. I'm only motivated to post this because the claim appears to be circulating widely in mainstream media. 3. Ghana bought and paid for the helicopters from CATIC, a major Chinese defence contractor. CATIC is actually busily pursuing more deals in Ghana now. It wants to sell major platforms to the Ghana Navy. (Analysts feel that the Navy is behind on its procurement plans compared to the other services leading to smart brokers pushing their luck in the bid to cut deals.) And last year, CATIC asked Ghana to sign a maintenance and overhaul deal for both the helicopters and the Air Force's fixed-wing attack planes. 4. Ghana got the money to pay CATIC for the 4 helicopters from a $3 billion China Development Bank (CDB) loan signed in 2011. The loan was meant to be disbursed in two fat tranches. Twelve separate credit facilities covering 12 major projects were identified for the two tranches. Not all projects could be delivered after the loan was capped following a disagreement over how much collateral in oil was required. 5. The helicopter deal was in Tranche B of the deal, under the $150 million "ICT surveillance" component. (Interestingly, Tranche B projects were executed ahead of Tranche A.) Ghana Gas was the entity designated as the notional beneficiary. The helicopters were meant to be used to monitor oil & gas infrastructure in the Western enclave, covering fields and installations to pipelines as well as processing plants. 6. Though the specific cost of each helicopter was not disclosed, it can be deduced by subtracting the Huawei component of the project that they must have cost roughly $11 million each. Important to note, however, that the cost on delivery would normally depend on the customisation specs as agreed with the Ghana Air Force. 7. The original thinking was that live feed from helicopters and other aerial vehicles would be integrated into a central console for round-the-clock monitoring of Ghana's petroleum. That vision was somehow aborted. No one has asked why, and no answers have been offered. 8. In the Air Force, 2 Squadron is normally tasked with VVIP transport. However, 2 Squadron, to the best of my knowledge, has no helicopters. 3 Squadron has thus become increasingly responsible for VVIP transport where helicopters are required. However, none of the MI-17, Agusta/Bell, and Z-9 crafts in the Ghana Air Force fleet are VVIP configured. This is something that I suspect will come up during the expert inquiry. 9. The Nigerian Air Force, for instance, has a strict protocol for VVIP-configuration when buying helicopters. Example: the AW101 Mk 641 helicopters delivered by Augusta in 2014. 10. Saying all the above does not, however, suggest in any way that Ghana got the helicopters as a gift or that they were not customised for field deployment. It only raises a few questions about whether the crashed helicopter was customised for the VVIP transport use case. It is not being suggested that lack of VVIP customisation implies a safety limitation. However, it is usually understood that VVIP configuration would entail a higher than usual standard. 11. I don't know why the Wing Commander thinks the helicopters were gifts. Maybe because Ghana is paying through a loan facility provided by the Chinese government? Well, that does not make it a gift. Ghana has had to deliver thousands of barrels of oil every quarter or so from its share of production in our oilfields to Unipec for loan service purposes since 2015. China is not Santa Claus. 12. I have attached extracts from Parliamentary records for our colleagues in the media who may want to correct the impression.

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Atomistic Mechanism Underlying the Regulation of the GPA1 G Protein Signaling Pathway Mediated by the Gibberellin A1 Phytohormone Binding to the GCR1 Plant G-Protein-Coupled Receptor pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac… @Caarango3 #JCIM Vol65 Issue11 #compchem

Steering oxygen-centred radicals with ground-state ene-reductases for enantioselective intermolecular hydroalkoxylations bit.ly/44qVCQU

#HighlightOfTheWeek Trajectory of peptide exhibiting multiple folding and unfolding events. #compchem pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

A paper that I shared the first co-authorship just got 2,000 citations I won't lie; it feels good :-) scholar.google.com/citations?user…