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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
The confirmation of Municipal and District Chief Executive nominees for the Savannah Region is set to begin today, Thursday, September 30. The Region has seven administrative MDAs, comprising five Districts and two Municipal Assemblies. Bole, Sawla-Tuna-Kalba, North Gonja, North East Gonja and Centr
A Police Constable, formerly of the Regional Operations Department of the Savannah Regional Police Command, Ernest Newton Dwamena, has died whilst on official duty at Buipe. He died after a truck driver lost control of his vehicle and crashed him on the spot. The incident happened on Wednesday, Sept
There is tension brewing within the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) executives at Essikado Ketan Constituency in the Western Region over party membership registration. Some aggrieved polling station executives and members of the NPP in Kojokrom, Kingdom Hall 1 Centre at Kingdom ( A070501) and anoth
The Savannah Regional Executive Committee of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) has slated Friday, October 1 for its regional delegates' conference. In a statement issued by the regional Communications Director, Mohammed Issah, the conference is scheduled to take place at Daboya in the North Gonja
Members at the Effia Kwesimintsim Municipal Assembly (EKMA) have unanimously confirmed President Nana Akufo-Addo’s nominee for Chief Executive Kojo Acquah. He polled 20 votes, representing 100 percent. The Effia Kwesimintsim Municipal Assembly has 20 assembly members and all of them were present at
The Director General of the Ghana Aids Commission (GAC), Kyeremeh Atuahene, has raised concerns about the bill seeking to criminalise homosexuality in all its forms in Ghana. Mr Atuahene said the Promotion of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill, in its current form, poses a lo
The Ghana School Feeding Programme (GSFP) has described as "palpably false, frivolous, unfounded and malicious" claims that the current leadership is corrupt. "It was only calculated to tarnish the image of the leadership of GSFP and bring the name of the secretariat into disrepute," a newspaper rej
A member of the ministerial committee of inquiry set up to probe the circumstances that led to the June 29 deadly disturbances in Ejura in the Ashanti Region has dared critics of the 55-page report to take them on if they find a disconnect in the findings, conclusions and recommendations. Dr Vladimi
The Nigerian government says it has suspended the passports of more than 2,000 Nigerians accused of violating Covid-prevention protocols after returning from abroad. Dr Mukhtar Mohammed, who sits on the president's Covid committee, said that the passports would remain suspended for a year. As the co
Boxing legend Manny Pacquiao has announced his retirement from the sport to focus on his political career. The multi-division world champion, who is a senator in his native Philippines, has already announced his intention to run for president in the country's 2022 elections. The 42-year-old's final
The Ghana School Feeding Programme (GSFP) with support from the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Ghana has held a day’s stakeholder consultative workshop to comprehensively review the draft Operational Manual for the implementation of the programme. The objective of the workshop was to ensure
The Ghanaian Cedi continues to show remarkable strength against major currencies, especially the US Dollar, the latest report released by Bank of Ghana indicates. According to the latest Monetary Policy Report by the Bank of Ghana, the Cedi has shown a cumulative year-to-date depreciation of 1.7 per
The Upper East Regional Command of the Ghana Police Service has arrested two suspected armed robbers alleged to have been involved in a robbery incident on Monday, December 28, 2020 at Bukere, a suburb of Bolgatanga, the regional capital. According to a police statement issued on Tuesday, September
Ghana’s immediate past Deputy Ambassador to China, Dr Charles Dwamena, who is also aspiring to be the National Treasurer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has appealed to party members to support the executive of the party at all levels in a bid to build a stronger rank to "break the 8". Addressing
A member of the committee of inquiry set up by the Minister of Interior to probe the Ejura disturbances of Tuesday, June 29 and the circumstances leading to them has expressed shock at the reaction its final report is provoking. Dr Vladimir Antwi Danso insists that the committee's task was not to fi
