IS CITIZEN JOURNALISM A THREAT OR CHALLENGE TO PROFESSIONAL JOURNALISTS

Citizen Journalism as the name implies can also be termed as public, participatory, Democratic, and Guerrilla or Street Journalism. This therefore makes Citizen Journalism the collecting, gathering, reporting and dissemination of news information by the ordinary person.

Citizen Journalism should not be confused with Community, Civic and Collaborative Journalism which have to do with Professional journalist.

            ELECTORAL COMMISSION ENSURE REGISTRATION IS DONE PROPERLY

As the biometric registration commences on the 24 of March after the long debate regarding it from political parties, it has become very relevant for the electoral commission to ensure that registration goes through the right process as anything short of that will ignite unnecessary fire.

Taxi drivers in Accra should be made to wear a uniform with their names and the emblem of the GPRTU on it and also a form of identity and other details of the driver and the Taxi made available in the car.

Taxi drivers and Taxis in the Capital should all belong to a particular union or stations as done at the Airport, which will make identifying them very easy when something goes wrong. In the quest to ensure this, certain materials like ID cards, station name, type of car etc should all be available in the car so passengers can take note of while in the taxi.

RECKLESSNESS OF OKADA OPERATORS

Some members of the public have expressed concern over the recklessness of commercial motor operators popularly known as"Okada".These cyclists now operate mostly  around the Mallam-Kasoa road at the peak hours of the mornigs.

The concern of the public stems from the fact that,these Okada operators forget the fact that,walkways are meant for pedestrians.