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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
Some 500 traders who lost their goods in the Oda Market fire incident have received GH¢2,000 interest-free loans each to return to business. The Microfinance and Small Loans Centre (MASLOC) Chief Executive Officer, Abibata Shanni Mahama Zakariah, urged the traders to repay the loans after the stipul
A group of visually impaired camp-bed weavers in the Upper West Region are appealing to government and philanthropists to get them a permanent site in order to protect members against road accidents. Members of the group are compelled to street-hawk with their beds under very dangerous conditions on
Deputy Minister of Lands and Natural Resources in charge of Mining George Mireku Duker has assured that government will continue to monitor and ensure that mineral revenues are used to the benefit of communities affected by mining. He decries instances where mineral revenues are used for recurrent e
Economic and social activities in several communities in the Ayensuano District of the Eastern Region have come to a halt due to floods, resulting in the overflow of a river in Suhum. The only road that links communities in the District - the Aboabo road in Amanase - has, therefore, been destroyed.
The Association of Oil Marketing Companies (AOMCs) has hinted that fuel prices would continue to increase in the country because the factors that affect petroleum products have not changed. The Association said the trend around this time in the year continues to increase globally and domestically be
Vax has been chosen as the word of the year by lexicographers at the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). Words related to vaccines have spiked in frequency in 2021 due to Covid, with double-vaxxed, unvaxxed and anti-vaxxer all seeing a surge in use. OED senior editor Fiona McPherson says vax was an obv
One of the beneficiaries of the Nation Builders Corp (NABCo) has expressed frustration as to the way forward after the expiration of the programme on Sunday, October 31. The programme was introduced in May, 2018 by the government as a stop-gap measure to solve the graduate unemployment conundrum in
Leadership of the University of Ghana branch of the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) is calling on the Dean of Students and management, by extension, to probe the clash between students of Commonwealth Hall and Mensah Sarbah Hall and take punitive measures against those found culpable
The Juaben Traditional Council has clarified issues to do with a widely reported incident of some Assembly members kneeling to apologise to the Omanhene, Nana Otuo Siriboe II, for apparently voting against the President's District Chief Executive nominee. In a rejoinder issued on Sunday, October 31
Ghanaian hiplife artiste Lord Paper has disclosed that he has friends who are gay and that he is not in the position to choose someone's sexual preference. Eight Ghanaian Parliamentarians have drafted a bill seeking the legislature's approval for the criminalization of LGBTQ+ in the country. There i
The police have described as untrue reports that some officers were at the Believers’ House of Prayer Ministries in Madina on SUnday, October 31 to pick up Member of Parliament Francis-Xavier Sosu for interrogation. In a statement issued on Sunday, the police said any plain-clothed personnel found o
The Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) Commission has expressed regret over the recent expulsion of its Representative in Mali. The transitional authorities on Monday, October 25 expelled Hamidou Boly for actions said to be "incompatible to his status". He was given a 3-day ultimatum
Extinction Rebellion activists have marched through Edinburgh in solidarity with protests taking place across the world during the COP26 climate summit. The demonstrators walked through the city to a rally at the Scottish Parliament at Holyrood. Among those who addressed the crowd was Monicah Kamand
Those close to ex-Liberian President Charles Taylor are pressing for his constitutional benefits which, the family says, have not been paid by the authorities since he stepped down under pressure and went into exile in Nigeria in 2003. Taylor, 73, is serving a 50-year jail sentence in the UK for sup
Boris Johnson and French President Emmanuel Macron remain at loggerheads in the ongoing dispute over permits for fishing boats. On Sunday, the leaders met to discuss tensions and the UK government said it was "up to France" to step back from threats over port access. But Mr Macron said the ball was
