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Emmanuel Kwame Amoh is an Online Editor with the current affairs team at Media General, operators of TV3 Ghana, editors.3news.com and more. Email: emmanuel.amoh@editors.3news.com
Vatican-based Cardinal Peter Appiah Turkson has written to Pope Francis not to continue to serve as Prefect of the Dicastery for the Promotion of Integral Human Development, multiple sources say. The Ghanaian was appointed the first head of the Dicastery by Pope Francis in 2016. Before then, he was
Telecommunications giants MTN and AirtelTigo have agreed to revise downwards charges on person-to-person electronic transfers in the face of the impending Electronic Transactions Levy (E-Levy). The two telecom companies are expected to reduce the fees charged customers by up to 25 percent "depending
The First Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Joseph Osei-Owusu, has explained that he does not lose his status as a Member of Parliament whenever he presides over proceedings in the House. He said that is the privilege the two deputy speakers have over a substantive Speaker of Parliament. He observed tha
The West African Network for Peacebuilding (WANEP) has expressed concerns over recent political upheavals in the West Africa sub-region and the failure by leadership of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to review the 2001 Supplementary Protocol on Democracy and Good Governance a
Australians are mourning a "horrific" national tragedy after five children were killed in a bouncy castle accident, PM Scott Morrison has said. The children fell about 10m (32ft) after a wind blew the castle skywards at a Tasmania school fair on Thursday. Police identified the victims as 11-year-old
The Ashanti Regional Command of the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) has dispelled claims by the victims of the Abuakwa Maakro fire that response to their distress calls was not on time. The Command said it took just seven minutes for them to arrive at the scene and start the fight against the spr
Scores of people are currently displaced at Abuakwa Maakro in the Atwima Nwabiagya Municipality of the Ashanti Region after fire swept through their houses. Eight shops were also not spared by Thursday night's inferno. The real cause of fire is not immediately known although an eyewitness told wordp
Speaker of Parliament Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin is proposing that the Minister of Finance, Kenneth Nana Yaw Ofori-Atta, returns to the House with an amended statement of government's financial policy for 2022. The statement, he said on Thursday, December 16 when he returned to assume the Speaker
Five persons have died in an accident that occurred at Akim Anyinasin junction in the Eastern Region. The accident involving three vehicles occurred on Thursday morning. Information from the Eastern Regional Public Relations Officer, DSP Ebenezer Tetteh, indicates a yet-to-be identified suspect driv
Think tank Africa Centre for Retirement Research (ACRR) is calling for an increase in the minimum pension of GH¢300 from next year. According to its post-retirement income survey conducted in October, 2020, eight out of 10 retirees in Ghana rely on social security payouts as their main source of liv
About 80 percent of the population of nearly to 100,000 in the Nzema East Municipal Assembly in the Western Region are without police security. Residents, particularly, in the northern part of the Municipality sometimes have to travel for more than 80 kilometers before they can assess police service
The Member of Parliament for Ketu South Constituency, Abla Dzifa Gomashie, says nothing shows that the recent decision by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to keep Ghana's land borders closed is based on science. The National Democratic Congress (NDC) MP insists that the decision is purely fuell
The Nigerian government has approved a 20% salary increase for police officers. President Muhammadu Buhari had promised a pay increase in the wake of mass protests, known as the #EndSars, against police brutality last year. Police Affairs Minister Muhammad Maigari Dingyadi told reporters after a cab
France is tightening Covid restrictions for travellers arriving from the UK, as the government in Paris tries to slow the spread of the Omicron variant. The French prime minister's office said that from Saturday all non-residents would have to give a compelling reason for travelling to France. All a
The Inspector General of Police, Dr George Akuffo Dampare, has visited families and colleagues of two officers who met their untimely demise in a shoot-out with armed robbers in Zuarungu in the Bolgatanga East District of the Upper East Region Wednesday night. Constables Emmanuel Akowuah and Adam Su
